republican national committee michael steele and nbc news national plit reporter heidi przbyla is with us. a lot to talk about. quite a late night for everybody watching the big announcement. we'll get to the president's supreme court pick and his nato trip in a moment. first, the gallup pool shows president trump's approval rating slipped into double digit negative territory as 56% disapprove and 41% approve. this just three weeks after trump received the best marks since the first days of his presidency in mid-june only to have his ratings turned back in a negative direction. this was the same time period that his administration's family separation policy at the

but michael steele, this is not a white house on offense on any front today, is it? >> no, it's not. this is, i think phil put his finger right on the bright shiny object that this all is. you toss it in the air. it will go down a particular rabbit hole, and the hope is the media especially will go down that rabbit hole and focus on this brand-new breakthrough in our trade relationships with the european union. i think as phil said, we need to see what the document actually says. my suspicion is given everything else that the president has said in this area, this is a loosy goosy arrangement. there is no up side for our farmers. and the soybeans, okay, that's great, but they're getting impacted as you know, nicolle, by more than just soybean futures. the fact of the matter is this is one of those moments where the president is being confronted on the domestic front by some serious issues surrounding the ongoing probes into his campaign and the early days of his administration. and this now serves as an opportunity to talk about something else other than that. >> mich

michael steele, former mi-6 agent michael steele. >> there you go.el steele. >> what is going on today? >> according to sean spicer. >> is there a tape, yes or no, michael? >> there's always a tape, baby. there's always a tape. >> michael, thank you very much. have a good weekend. we'll have much more on the michael cohen story just ahead. plus, one of donald trump's longest serving employees with inside knowledge of the trump organization finance reportedly has been ordered before a federal grand jury. more on that when "morning joe" comes right back. (vo) this is not a video game. this is not a screensaver. this is the destruction of a cancer cell by the body's own immune system, thanks to medicine that didn't exist until now. and today can save your life. ♪ ♪ to me, he's, phil micwell, dad.o golfer. so when his joint pain from psoriatic arthritis got really bad, it scared me. and what could that pain mean? joint pain could mean joint damage. enbrel helps relieve joint pain, helps stop irreversible joint damage, and helps skin get clearer. enbrel m

michael steel, i want to go back to the origins of this policy.e trump administration who are being honest and straightforward about where it came from, it was to deter people from doing this. we're going to do this and convince people not to come. this type of policy and its resulted impact is so far from where we were ten years ago when we were talking about republicans and you needed to be actually be able to talk to latino voters if you had any hope for political survival. where the hell are we? >> it's an absolute tragedy. we're in awful place, where a poorly conceived policy has resulted in images of astonishing callus brutality here in the united states which a national shame. and i think the bigger point and larger point is because our institutions, the presidency, the courts and the congress have not successfully grappled with the challenge of securing our border and providing with a sensible and orderly immigration system. it's been 12 years since the last serious attempt or for the beginning of the first modern attempt to rehave our imm

former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. with us this morning. so a lot to talk about. quite a late night for everybody last night watching the big announcement. we will get to the president's supreme court pick and his nato trip in just a moment, but quickly first, the latest gallup weekly tracking poll sos president trump's job approval rating has slipped back down into double digit negative territory as 56% disapprove and 41% approve. this just three weeks after trump received the best marks since the first days of his presidency in mid-june, only to have his ratings turn back in a negative direction. this was the same time period that his administration's family separation policy at the southern border came into public view. we'll get to developments in that story ahead, but those numbers are really staggering. >> i mean really briefly, really, who could have ever imagined ripping children from their mother's breasts at the border -- >> and then lying about it. >> -- and then losing the children and saying you're going t

former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele. ixer michael cohen. >> said he was going to take a bullet for the president. >> no, no, he changed his tune yesterday from unflinching defender of the president. >> take a switch? >> no, he's now wavering. >> a slight slap on the wrist? >> no. >> he won't even take that? >> no. wavering under the threat of federal charges. cohen's comments to abc news, that if given the choice between protecting the president or his own family, quote, my wife, my daughter and my son have my first loyalty. and always will. i put family and country first. "vanity fair" reports that cohen viewed the interview as a way of repositioning himself between trump and prosecutors. this as more than 1.3 million items in cohen's files, seized by investigators in april and reviewed under court order, were turned over to federal prosecutors yesterday. president trump stayed silent about cohen on twitter and the white house stonewalled against questions about cohen's interview. >> is the president worried after his co

he is interviewed by michael steele. >> ronald reagan and donald trump are about 180 degrees apart from each other. yet, here we are in this space. how did you navigate that? we are both reagan conservatives in that regard. was it a little bit of a dance every once in a while? how did you do it? >> with respect to the president, there is no question. he is not traditional, in terms of how he speaks. he also connects to people in a way that most politicians never have. he talks very bluntly in his own style. i don't think he would have won the nomination if it wasn't for that style. there is always this balance with elected officials, they say all of the right things, but they don't necessarily get anything done. in the case of trump, there is a lot of getting things done, but people just don't like the tweets or how he interacts. i'm a results oriented person. i look at how the country is doing, are the people doing better, is the country safer? net net, most people would generally agree that if we can get the right and done for the country, that is a better place than somebody just tal

michael steele? go! welcome back to "kasie dc."d to be back in the neighborhood. it doesn't get any more precious than that. do you write well? yes, i do sir. have you read some of my work? no, but i'm sure you're good at it. here is the thing. i think that this is going to be a lot less drama than folks believe in the end. and i'll tell you one reason why is i think we're going to get gorsuch 2.0. i think the president is going to nominate someone for this seat that is not going to stir, because he ultimately, his political strategy is to get beyond movement so he -- the big name, the big drop will come when the next retiree happens. i think with this one you're going see gorsuch 2.0 which is why the two senators murkowski and collins on the republican side will be in play. and democratic senators who are on the bubble a little bit won't have to worry. they can cast that vote, and their seats will be okay back in their neighborhoods. and then the bigger fight, though, comes in the next round when there is another retirement, becau

everything else is different in this case. >> michael steele would tell you the only thing coming outa suit pocket coming out of the archive is a nice well-placed hankie like he has today. >> you got it. >> there are people who left government being perfectly political in their remarks. look at some of james comey's latest electoral advice, democrats, don't lose your mind and rush to the socialist left. all people who believe in the country's values must vote for democrats this fall. that strikes me as a politically absurd statement. people have all kinds of values about their vote. james comey is firing off like he's in a nice blog comment section. certainly if one believes it or not it shouldn't be the reason for it. what do you think? >> unless there's a regulation or guideline for former individuals at that position that they cannot participate in public discourse because they have access to classified information, you're talking about individuals and their free speech rights. you may not like what mr. comey says or mr. clapper or anyone else has to say. just because they served a

and michael steele, that number is jumping out to me a 17% drop since he became president in his own party in how they viewed the trade deal, and he is seeing them rule them for favorable. >> and so that is going to the point of bill of how it is going to be playing out among the base and the house members and senate members are playing out. you are seeing many step up to the mic saying, wait a minute, now i am beginning to feel it in my backyard and my state and with my small business community, a thnd this is not a good thing, because that cycle, that whole process can turn on a dime when the numbers start to turn against these businesses as it will, because to bill's point, there is a real ramification when you start to drop the tariffs that this president is doing unilaterally and picking up the partners globally who are going to say, okay, you want the play like this, fine, we will do this. and that is going to be sol nevada the households of a lot of households in america, and that is when the base republicans make the noise and the members of the house and the senate begin to

he's interviewed by republican ational committee chairman michael steele. reagan and donald trump are 180 degrees away. we navigate that? dance?a little bit of a how did you do it? to the respect president? and he no question connects to people in a way that iticians never have. he talks mruntly in his own style. in the case of trump there is a ings tun and g th people saying i didn't like this tweet or interaction. are doing ow people better and is the country safer? i would think most people would the that if we can get ight things done for the country. . advocate iowa taxpayer on the senate finance subcommittee to discuss issues and irs operations. his is an hour and five minutes. reform you talk about irs today? i know my ranking member has before long.ement we're going to try to go through this quickly and when it comes time for questions we're going ask fer to him so he can questions

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my thanks to john brennan, michael steele, chuck rosenfield. i'm nicolle wallace.tp daily starts right now with chris jansing in for chuck. >> just another day at the anchor desk for nicolle wallace. and if it's thursday, scott pruitt is out. >>> good evening, i'm c

former white house peace secretary sean spicer recounts his time in trudge, interviewed by michael steel, afterward, weekly interview program with guest hosts. >> welcome sean spicer. how are you doing. >> thank you, michael. i'm doing great. >> congratulation on the new book. "the briefing." quite a read, takes us through interesting chapters in your life. we want to get into that a little bit, i would like to start with the end. you know -- >> that

and with me here, matt miller, ron clay, former chief of staff for al gore and joe biden, and michael steele, former senior adviser to jeb bush and form er speaker john boehner. nice to see you all. matt, let me start with you. we sort of describe this as the president's defiant love of vladamir putin. i'm reminded of a tweet you wrote in 2013, vladamir putin, is he going to miss america, will he be my new best friend? >> the question you asked at the white house was so telling, this friend or foe. it shows the disconnect whether vladamir putin is a friend of the united states, and whether he's a friend of donald trump. i think donald trump doesn't look at this as whether he's a friend of the united states. he doesn't look at vladamir putin's intervention in the u.s. election as an attack on the united states, he looks at it as an attack on hillary clinton and the democratic party and something that helped him. that's why you see him not just refusing to hold vladamir putin accountable, but making excuses, denying the attacks exist, and going to europe and try to drive a wedge through nato.

. >> we are joined by your fourth of july panel, michael steel an analyst and former msnbc chair. chem berly atkins a journalist and john meach him, presidential historian and journalist. author after a great new book him welcome all. happy fourth of july. michael steel, this is a fight going on inside your party there when it comes to defining patriotism. but this is not the first president to wrap himself in the flag and try to own it. but he does it in such a heavy-handed way. >> he does it in a heavy-handed way. but i think the way you set the argument at the begining is what it's all about. it's about him. he sets it in terms of his even presence. you're loyal to him. you are loyal to what his efforts, his words are. and that has begun to take its toll inside the party. i think you find now a number of republicans who are really asking themselves, is this what republicanism is or going to be in the 21st century. has it changed so much that the very things we once stood for, law and order, not with a stick, but respecting the constitution and the principles that come with that

he is interviewed by former republican national committee chairman michael steele. >> ronald reagan and donald trump are about 180 degrees from each other. yet here we are in this space. how did you navigate that? we are both reagan conservatives in that regard. was it a little dance every once in a while? >> with respect to the president himself, there is no question he is nontraditional in terms of how he speaks. he also connects with people in a way most politicians never have. he talks very bluntly in his own style. i don't think he would have won if it weren't for that style. there is this balance with elected officials. they say all the right things and never get anything done. gets all of these things done and people don't like his tweet. i am a result oriented person. is the country safer? i think most people wouldn't generally a great if we -- agree if we can get the right things done for the country, that is better than someone just talking about the right things to get done. >> watch "afterwards" on c-span two's book tv. >> vying for the illinois sixth congressional district

politics the president ands the president" interviewed by former republican national chairman, michael steele. >> and ronald reagan and donald trump are 180 degrees apart from each other, and yet here we are in this space. how did you navigate that? we're both reagan conservatives in that regard. so -- >> that's right. >> a little but of a dance every once in a while honor how did you do it. >> with respect to to president himself, there's no question he is not traditional in terms of how he speaks, but also connects to people in a way that most politicians never have, he talks very bluntly in his own style. but i don't think that he would have won the presidency, wouldn't have won the nomination if it wasn't for that style and there's this balance with elected officials, which is they say all they right things but don't necessarily get anything done and in case of trump there's a lot of, getting all these things done and people are saying i just didn't like this tweet or how he interacted. i'm a results oriented person and look how the country is doing, peep making more money, this country s

michael steele of a side you'll have yet to run a car parts factory that exports to the united states to a mexico's number one industry and like dozens of other prominent industrialists and businessmen he's part of a coalition that publicly supports the presidential candidate for mexico's governing party. the santillan you'll need a former finance minister is a friend of big business and the free markets the end to sis of the populace left wing candidate who's leading in the polls mr the little side your believes he would be disastrous for mexico we had example been in front of his eleven for what was in the kids. what happens after sixty years he went out of money then you know venezuela is i mean our very top story so we don't want that to have an image. and bristol opus of brotherhood is a longtime opponent of so-called savage capitalism and accuses prominent mexican billionaires of belonging to what he calls a power mafia. need is appealing to mexicans to vote for continuity and not for a return to what he describes as the disastrous populism of the past. well in visa elections wh

he is interviewed by michael steele. here we are in this space. how did you navigate that? we are both reagan conservatives. was in a little bit of a dance every once in a while? how did you do it? >> with respect to the president himself, is not traditional in terms of how he speaks and he has his own been a killer. he connects to people to the way politicians never have. i don't think he would have one denomination if it was not for that style. there is always this balance with elected officials. they say all the right things but they do not necessarily get anything done. in the case of trump, he is getting these things done, and people say i don't like how he interacts in these things. i'm a result oriented person. is the country safer, making more money? -net i think most people would generally agree that if we can get the right things done for the country, then that is a better place then talking about the right things to get done. >> watch afterwards sunday night on c-span2's book tv. this august, on american history tv on c-span3, watch our nine part series, 1968, am

michael steele, former rnc chair and msnbc political analyst. ruth marcus, columnist for the "washington post" and an msnbc contributor. a great -- you're the final four for tonight for us. >> oh, boy. >> senator murphy, is there any way this isn't going to become an enormously political decision by your fellow members of the senate? especially from the red states. >> he decided to make this a momentous political moment by outsourcing the decision to the heritage institute and to the federalist society the day that he basically put these right-wing political organizations in charge of selecting the next supreme court justice, who would basically telegraph that the only people on those lists are people who will not only overturn roe versus wade but possibly the right to privacy in grizzle v. connecticut. >> that was the one about birth control pills way back then, right? >> yeah. i just don't think you have to mistake what the agenda is here. the agenda is not just to get rid of roe. it's to go after griswold itself so you can go after contracept

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for more, i am joined by michael steele. jonathan swan and shelby holiday.helby, he campaigned on this kind of rhetoric. we have seen other candidates for office campaign, but usually in office they retreat to the same posture on this. do you have a sense on how far he is willing to go on this? >> no. and that is what is scaring investors, economists. other times, with the paris climate of course, he makes a threat and does it. a lot of people looking at what he is saying and what his posture is. economists say tariff is not the way to go. china can't impose as many tariffs on us, but it has other levers to pull. it can weaken the currency. expect doing business in china, a lot of other ways to get back to the u.s. >> you are describing is a full-fledged trade war. and when it comes to the idea of triggering something of that scale, is there a red line right now? if this administration tries to do x, then we are in a trade war and no walking back from it. >> right now, it is gradual. he is looking at an additional 200 billion tariffs on china. it is a slow r

spicer's book blames the trump dossier on michael steele who is the former head of the republican party. we assume he meant christopher steele, the former british -- >> wouldn't the editors have gone over there? >> you would have thought. apparently more than once in the book. >> fact checking, too. thank you. >>> new at 11:00, los angeles trader's joe manager killed in the standoff died after she was struck by police gun fire. shows an officer arriving and immediately opening fire.fi we have to warn you that that video is disturbing. now, the new police report says that an officer that fired that fatalth shot 27-year-old calfad killed when the suspect crashed the car outside of the store and exchanged gun fire withs offics over the weekend. that suspectop ran into the sto. he surrendered some three hours later and released 50 people. he had shot two women including his grandmother. >>> here's other top stories to follows today. domestic wildfire burning near yosemite is 25% contained. it's burned more than 36,000 acres. a firefighter was killed. six others were injured battling this fi

michael steele, and host of the new podcast. i want you all to take a shot at this.oosevelt thought he could get rid of people, and he couldn't do it. this guy is out there laying down for this guy. the wife is doing it. my husband is great, because he is imitating everything trump is doing. >> roosevelt had to deal with party bosses. there was no base necessarily. today, this is all driven by the base, that's why desantis is where he is. that is why he has popped up. the test for him is how does he translate in the general. that is the test ultimately for donald trump. you can fire up your hard right base for that. now you have to translate that to independence and center right democrats. >> who is the democratic nominee for governor down there? i am having fun with you. i am asking you, takes somebody to beat somebody. beth go ahead. >> to your point, the problem with the strategy is it doesn't work. we saw it in 2010, and 2014. barack obama incredibly popular in his base. and it didn't translate. so it doesn't -- >> it worked for me. >> the fact that trump has bee

he is interviewed by michael steele. we wrap up our prime time programming at 11:00 p.m. with thomas franks look at economic inequalities in cities across the country. 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. >> he is the mexican border corresponded for the news and author of midnight in mexico. among many honors and awards, he has been a visiting fellow at the rockefeller center and the woodrow wilson scholar. he received the maria cores averitt award for his coverage of drug trafficking along the border the

. >> and michael steel, thank you for your reporting of the republican party. >> we got to understand these guys. they don't speak the truth. they look like they are sort of telling the truth and you have to be stupid to believe it is the truth. p putin was confronted with the latest indictment. and how did special counsel mueller happen in yesterday's summit. i think he saw some things. and with the threat to mueller's job growing by the day, will republicans do something to protect his job, mueller's job. and the "hardball" round table weighs in on trump's two step. this stupid explanation of what he blew. it was a wonderful speech done in joe hansberg. and let me finish tonight with trump watch. this is "hardball." rodney -- mastermind of discounts like safe driver, paperless. the list goes on. how about a discount for long lists? gold. mara, you save our customers hundreds for switching almost effortlessly. it's a gift. and jamie. -present. -together we are unstoppable. so, what are we gonna do? ♪ insurance. that's kind of what we do here. ♪ you might be missing something.y health

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michael steele, kimberly atkins as always. kick break for us. when we come back, how the nra made it into the news today and the status of the mueller investigation. >>> we get questions on the witch hunt. when you see this thing going on, and i will tell you it's driven a wedge between us and russia. but it has driven a wedge. they drove a phony wedge. it is a phony witch hunt rigged deal. >> vladimir putin offered to help robert mueller today. he suggested mueller could travel to russia and together they could interview the 12 russian intelligence officers he indicted last week. putin followed up with this. >> did you want president trump to win the election, and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? >> yes, i did. yes, i did. because he talked about bringing the ut-russia relationship back to normal. >> there you have it. with us in new york, former new york district attorney. counselor, thank you for coming back in. let's pretend you are part of the staff assembled by the special council. what stands out to you? what are

. >> a warrant on carter page was supported mostly by a dossier that came from michael steele who was being paid by the democratic party to do opposition research. >> was the surveillance justified? >> no, not at all in my view. >> my take is carter page is more like inspector gadget than jason borne or james bond. trump never met him, never had a conversation with him. i'm sure he's been on the fbi's radar a long time before 2016. we'll never know whether the fbi had enough without the dossier. the unvetted dnc funded dossier, because they included it. and everyone who reads this fisa application sees the amount of reliance they placed on this product -- >> president trump issued his own response writing that they, quote, confirm with little doubt that the department of, quote, justice, and fbi misled the courts. witch hunt, rigged, a scam. >>> first of all, julia, to your earlier point, casting doubt on that, jake tapper came back at carter page who said, look, i was never this. actually you claimed you were. >> he said he was a formal advisor to the kremlin. you can't have it both

michael steele, kimberly atkins as always. kick break for us. when we come back, how the nra made it into the news today and the status of the mueller investigation. >>> we are talking about all these different things driven a and russia and maybe we just knocked down that's wedge. they drove a phony wedge. a phony witch hunt rigged deal. >> vladimir putin offered to help robert muller and suggest heed can travel to russia and interview the 12 russian intelligence officers for hacking the democrats. >> did you want president trump to win the election and did you direct your officials to direct you to do that? >> yes, i did because he talked about bringing the u.s.-russia relationship back to normal. >> there you have it. with us here in new york, former attorney for the southern district of new york. a distinguished fellow and criminal justice at the pace university school school of law. what stands out to you? what are you interested in and what took place today in helsinki? >> there are so many things. i think the biggest thing is they gave tr

i remember when michael steele was damn mere os size requested kicked out of the r mc. the negro act came out. i remember when birth richl was a thing. i remember when there was racism tied to the war on drugs with ronald reagan. i remember all of these thing and what has happened over time, not just in the republican party. because the democrats have blood on their hands too, it's just not equalism we have allowed koe very racism in the surface and now it's overt, that's all that's happening because for years we pretended like covert racism wasn't that thing. we pretended like it was testimony undercover "n" word. we pretended calling people get toe and racism. we cannot continue to say that racism just surfaced. it's been here, this country was built on that. we cannot turn our minds -- competent can't do that. >> go ahead congressman. >> but under trump we have moved from silence and permission -- >> that's fair. >> and that is the change. that is the change we can't accept. >> how do you respond to this? tom reeled off this statistic or this poll in his tag to me. a

white house press secretary sean spicer interviewed by former republican national committee chair michael steele. "after words" is a program with relevant guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest works. >> host: welcome, sean spicer. congratulations on the new book, "the briefing." it takes us through some interesting chapters in your life we want to get into a little bit and i would like to start with the end. [laughter] i thought that was a very powerful way to sort of opening up your narrative is to start at the end because it sets the stage for everything else in an interesting way. the president of the united states turned out to be a much worse challenging job just get just given all the severities of washington and the trump world such as it was. you were the president on the air mouthpiece delivering that message and yet here was anthony who was undefined. you had gone through a sort of crisis of conscience where you had to step back and evaluate for yourself what am i doing here. walk us through that and down that hall to the oval office to have the conversatio

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he is interviewed by michael steele. >> we are both reagan conservatives.t a little bit of a dance every once in a while? how did you do it? >> with respect to the president himself, look, there's no question. he is not traditional. he connects to people in a way that most politicians never have. and he talks very bluntly in his own style. but i don't think he would have won the presidency, the nomination without that style. there's always this balance with elected officials. they say all the right things but they don't get anything done. in the case of drunk, there is a lot of he is getting all of these things done and people don't like the way he tweeted or interactive. doing,at how people are are people making more money, is the country safer? net net, i think most people would generally agree, if we can get the right things done for the country, then that is a better place than someone just talking about the right things to get done. >> watch

former white house peace secretary sean spicer recounts his time in trudge, interviewed by michael steel, afterward, weekly interview program with guest hosts. >> welcome sean spicer. how are you doing. >> thank you, michael. i'm doing great. >> congratulation on the new book. "the briefing." quite a read, takes us through interesting chapters in your life. we want to get into that a little bit, i would like to start with the end. you know -- >> that is how the book starts too. >> i thought that was a very powerful way to open up your narrative. to start at the end. it kind of sets the stage for everything else to come in an interesting way. you are the spokesman for the president of united states, it turned out to be a much more challenging job in many respects, just given all of the verities of washington and trump world. such as it was. you were president's on air mouth piece, delivering that message, yet here was scare scai coming in undefined. you had been through a crisis. you have to step back and evaluate for yourself, what am i doing here? how is this going. you made tough decis

john, alexi, stay with me because just ahead, michael steele and stephanie schriock are going to joine on set. plus, the "kasie dc" back with another live from washington. >>> this morning the president is up against his own deadline. he's given himself a week to term who you will nominate to replace supreme court justice kennedy. plus, new reporting that north korea is pushing ahead with its nuclear program. u.s. intelligence agencies believe the rogue nation is increasing its production of fuel for nuclear weapons at multiple secret sites. thousands of people across the country take to the streets protesting the trump administration's immigration policies. this as president trump praises i.c.e. and border patrol. ♪ >>> good

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he is interviewed by former republican national committee chairman, michael steele. into at 10:00, a look back at the pony express, which used a series of ridees to deliver a letter across the country in ten days. and we wrap up our primetime programming at 11:00 with the university of chicago professor martha nussbaum on the role emotions flay driving our politics. that all happens tonight on book tv on c-span2. television for serious readers. ... it's really nice outside, you made the choice to come in here. we are excited to

. >> joined by our fourth of july panel, mooibl michael steel, msnbc chair and kimberly atkins, a msnbchair and john meacham journalist, author of a great new book. welcome all. happy fourth of july. steel, this is -- this is a fight going on inside your party there defining patriotism. look, this is not the first president that wrapped himself in a flag and own it but he does it in such a heavy-handed way. >> he does it in a heavy-handed way, but i think the way you set the argument at the beginning is how it's all about. it's about him. he sets it in terms of his own presence. you are loyal to him. you are loyal to what his efforts, his words are. and that has begun to take its toll inside the party. i think you finds now a number of republicans who are really asking themselves, is this what republicanism is or going to be in the 21st century? has it changed so much that the very things we once stood for, law and order, not with a stick, but respecting the constitution and the principles that come with that. are we really pro-family, as we've seen over the last few weeks? the struggle

spicr refers to the author of the infamous dossier as michael steele, who is in truth the former chairmanthe republican national committee. >> you know, the irony that a white house spokesperson for this administration can't fact check is not lost on me. it's not lost on anyone here. >> i thought it was maybe a subversive act. >> right, getting back at michael in some way. the other thing i think about him, how these people behave afterwards, it seems like the idea is, you go in the administration, shame yourself, he at an a fellowship at harvard or something like that and write a book about him and go out and promote it. i'm almost nostalgic for sean spicer. in the first couple of months, we could still laugh about this in a yard sort of way, you look at this on "snl" and you laugh, but you're right, sarah huckabee sanders takes this completely seriously and you recognize these people are dangerous. >> it was less sinister. >> yes. >> he was breaking us in for the far more grave and sinister period that followed him. but they've made progress. i mean, i guess what we can't take away is h

michael steele of a side you'll have to rent a car parts factory that exports to the united states to a mexico's number one industry and like dozens of other prominent industrialists and businessmen he's part of a coalition that publicly supports the presidential candidate for mexico's governing party. the sample you'll need a former finance minister is a friend of big business and the free markets. to says of the populous left wing candidate who's leading in the polls mr the little sad your believes he would be disastrous for mexico we've got to separate it from this is the difference rather what wasn't too big it's. what happens after sixty years he went out of money then you know venezuela is i mean our very top story so we don't want that to have an image. and this locus of brotherhood is a longtime opponent of so-called savage capitalism and accuses prominent mexican billionaires of belonging to what he calls a power mafia. everything study. need is appealing to mexicans to vote for continuity and not for a return to what he describes as the disastrous populism of the past and ma

my thanks to john brennan, michael steele, chuck rosenfield. i'm nicolle wallace. mtp daily starts right now with chris jansing in for chuck. >> just another day at the anchor desk for nicolle wallace. and if it's thursday, scott pruitt is out. >>> good evening, i'm chris jansing in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." we begin tonight with breaking news. epa chief scott pruitt has resigned after a shocking number of scandals and controversies simply proved too much, even for an administration that has become rather adept at powering through scandals and controversies. pruitt's ouster is an unbelievable development in that he lasted this long. as scandals piled up, the president continued to dig in, defending pruitt for his work in dismantling epa programs and regulations. as of last week, we counted a total of 15 ongoing federal inquiries into pruitt. there were allegations he abused taxpayer money via personal travel and other expenses. there were the allegations that he used the office in an attempt to enrich himself and his family. there were rep

he is interviewed by a former republican national committee chairman michael steele. donaldld reagan and trump are about 180 degrees apart from each other. and yet, here we are in this space. how did you navigate that? we are both reagan conservatives in that regard.

the warrant on cart supported mostly by a dossier that came from michael steele who was being paid by the democratic party to do opposition research and the dossier was collected i think from russian intelligence services and if you asked the fbi today, how much of the dossier on trump has been verified? almost none of it. >> you say mostly not entirely so therefore was the surveillance justified? >> 0 no not at all in my interview if the dossier is the reason you issued the warrants the a bunch of garbage, the dossier is proven to be a bunch of garbage. >> so the president is correct? >> in my view, that the warrant, the guy is a warrant process needs to be looked at closely by congress, the main reason they issued the warrant was the dossier prepared by mr. steel, they never told the court he was a paid operative of the democratic party. the substance of the dossier to this day is a bunch of garbage. >> i am pressing you on this because you have expressed some concern about the president's skepticism about his own intelligence community and this -- >> this is completely different th

is interviewed by former republican national committee chairman michael steele. >> while reagan at himump are about 180 degrees apart from each other and yet here we are at this space. how did you navigate that? we are both reagan conservatives in that regard. was it a little bit of a dance once in a while or how did you do it? >> with respect to the president himself, look, there's no question he is not traditional entrance of how we speak. he's got his own vernacular but he connects to people in a way that most politicians never have and he talks very bluntly in his own style which i don't think he would've won the presidency or the nomination if it wasn't for that style. i think there's always this balance with elected officials, which is they say all the right things but they don't necessarily get anything done. in the case of trump there's a lot of he's getting all these things than a people are saying i just didn't like this tweet or how we interacted. i am a results oriented person or a look at other countries doing. are people doing better, making more money, is the country saf

he is interviewed by former republican national committee chairman michael steel. >> ronald reagan and donald trump are about 180 degrees apart from each other and yet here we are in this space. how did you navigate that? we are both reagan conservatives in that regard. was it a little bit of a dance every once in a while? how did you do it? >> with respect to the president himself, there is no question he is not traditional in terms of how he speaks. he also connects to people in a way that most politicians never have and he talked very bluntly in his own style. i don't think he would have won the nomination if it wasn't for that style. i think there is always a balance with elected officials which is they say all the right things but don't necessarily get anything done. in the case of trump there is a lot of he is getting things done and he didn't like the tweet. i am a results oriented person. i look at how the country is doing. i think net/net i think most people generally agree that if we can get the right things done for the country then that is a better place than someone just t

politics, the press and the president," interviewed by former republican national committee chairman michael steele. >> about 180 degrees apart from each other yet here we are in this space. how did you navigate that? we're both reagan conservatives in that regard. >> that's right. >> was it a little bit of a, you know, dance every once in a while or how did you do it? >> with respect to the president himself, look, there's no question that he is not traditional in terms of how he speaks. he has his own vernacular but also connects in a way with people that most presidents never have. he talks bluntly in his own style. i don't think he would have won the presidency or the nomination if it wasn't for that style. there's always this balance with elected officials, right? they say all the right things but don't necessarily get anything done. in the case of trump there's a lot of he's getting all these things and people are saying, i didn't like this tweet or i didn't like how he interacted. i'm a results-oriented person. are people doing better? are they making more money? is the country safer? net/ne

he is interviewed by michael steele. here we are, how did you navigate that? we are both reagan conservatives. every once in a while, or how did you do it? to the respect president, there is no question, he is not traditional in how he speaks. he also connects to people in a way that most politicians never have. he talks a very bluntly in his own style. i do not think he would have won the presidency or the nomination if it was not for that style. i think there is always this balance with elected officials which is they say all the right things but they do not get anything done, and in the case of trump, you get things done, and people say i did not like how he interacted. i am a results oriented person, and a look if people are doing better, are they making more money, are they safer? i think most people would agree if we can get the right things done for the country, then that is a better place than someone talking about the right things to get done. >> watch "afterwards" on c-span2 book tv.