you have a michael steele, i have a michael steele.y -- >> the magic of tv. thank you, mike. >> thank you. >>> if it's tuesday, president trump is warning there will be violence if republicans lose the midterms. >> good evening, i'm chuck todd here in washington

michael steele, a j.c. watts, a colin powell, a condee rice, they were in the republican movement in 2000s. this is a directional shift when you have a corey stewart, a patrick little as candidates nominated or candidates running under the gop banner. so i think the difficulty for the gop is not only in its leadership optics and in the president's rhetoric, but also the fact that there are no longer any credible african americans in any leadership role anywhere, it seems, in the congress or in the executive branch. it's hard to make up a particularly when you've got a changing landscape in the country not to even mention the lack of latino leaders in the very same party. so you've got to look at this in terms of where it's come from maybe 15 years ago to where it is directionally in the wrong direction if you consider the demographic shifts in the country for the gop. >> fair points. we are just getting started here on "kasie d.c." we're going to take you back live to the streets in washington as some of th

michael steel said that omarosa blocked some of those people from going in. on top of that, ben carson has decided to raise the rent on a lot of poor people looking for federal subsidies. you have jeff sessions looking at ending affirmative action, also looking at extending prison terms. so this is an administration, if you look at it, they were say they're champions of civil rights but people like the naacp say that only in the president's rhetoric and his policies and who he has chosen not to hire, he's not interested in civil rights. >> michael steel, donald trump saying triumphantly that mark burnett called to say there are no tapes. there is something about the claiming that there is no tapes that gives you the feeling that the person that is so excited there are no tapes may be worried that there was some possibility -- >> that there are tapes. >> -- in the years of that show that there might be tapes. >> i think that's the case. look, those sets, people sitting around talking and the back story on these particular tapes in this situation was, you know,

national political oerter heidi przybyla and former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele. joe, get right into it here? >> i'd love to talk to michael quickly as former chairman of the republican party. michael, what -- it's mind-blowing to see john mccain in 2008. >> it is. >> hear all of those people john mccain in 2008 and thens later him as a punchline and a republican party that blindly goes along with such a man who lacks karat to such a degree that he mocks an american hero. >> yes. that to me joe is most disappointing about this. didn't take a rocket scientist to do it for us that john mccain is someone that donald trump does not value. he does not value his service. he does not value his leadership in the senate. he doesn't value the things that john mccain, whether you disagreed with him or agree with him over policy, represents about what we expect of our leaders. the most disappointing part for me, though, is everybody else in the gop that allows this to fester and to continue, who don't speak out and say, while we may have this disagreement with mccain over po

you have a michael steele, i have a michael steele. how are we -- amazing coincidence. >> it's tv all day -- >> the magic of tv. thank you, mike. >> thank you. >>> if it's tuesday, president trump is warning there will be violence if republicans lose the midterms. >> good evening, i'm chuck todd here in washington. welcome to "mtp daily." the last primary election night before the midterms -- sorry, cynthia nixon. the president of the united states is fear mongering claiming there will be violence if the republicans lose the majority. no, you didn't hear that wrong. folks, we've said it before and we'll see it again -- in this environment, you can forget that old saying that all politics is local. because this midterm, all politics is national and then some. and this news is breaking as the first polls tonight close in less than two hours. in a pair of states that will be key battlegrounds not just in the 2018 midterms but also in the 2020 presidential election. tonight we're watching one race with the president totally up ending the f

steele michael, brilliant insights.as always. >>> of course, the moral of that story is, don't stay up and watch the red sox scratch it out late into the night. you're good, joe. >> mike, how long was the eighth inning? like 50 minutes? something like that? >> still going on. >> still going on. >> we're going to pull it out. >> still going on. but something that you know is going to happen. donald trump is going to be echoes of charlottesville in florida, echoes of charlottesville in will be echo charlottesville in georgia and across the country. >> florida is going to be ugly. >> yeah. and now he's already talking about violence. >> yeah. >> think about that. the president of the united states absolutely no evidence. he told you that if democrats win congress, you're going to lose your jobs. if he's not in office, you're going to lose your jobs. the economy is going to collapse. and now he's saying if democrats win, there will be violence in america. that's sick. >>> coming up, donald trump meets with evangelical leade

donna edwards, jeremy peters, susan page, michael steel. this just in, first lady melania trump's parents were sworn in today as new u.n. citizen. their immigration spoke, assuring the public that the first lady's parents did not get any special treatment. >> they have travailed a wonderful journey, like most have, millions have in getting citizenship and waiting the requisite period of time. the application, the process, the interview was no different than anybody else's. >>> and coming up, punishing putin. the white house hitting russia with new sanctions for using a banned chemical weapon against a former russian spy in the uk. we will have russia's angry reaction, coming up next. stay with us. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. your brain changes as you get older. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. are you ready to take your then you need xfinity xfi.? a m

michael steele you are a republican. but you have to distinction of being the only person on the panel who was the leader of the republican party when you were chairman of the republican national committee. as a republican and as an african-american one year later your reflections on what happened in charlottesville and quite frankly what's happened to your party on president trump. >> i'll start with the last thing first. what happened to the party is it's been trump phied or whatever you want to call it. they have not just taken the bottle of kool-aid, they've inserted the iv, that's where they are. they here in that space and there will be ramifications to jennifer's point at the polls tarting in november but there goes to the broader reflection of where we are today. the question is how far have we come? it's out of the legacy of the civil rights movement or struggles we've faced as a nation. so how far have we come? i would dare say not far at all. in fact we have been made to stand still in space and time largely b

political analyst michael steele. with me for the hour, washington examiner white house correspondent gabby. and "new york times" political reporter ken vogel. thanks to all of you for being here. let me read the tweet one more time, then i want your reaction, michael. >> okay. >> president trump calling omarosa a dog, saying when you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the white house, i guess it just doesn't work out. good work by general kelly for quickly firing that dog. the president has referred to mitt romney and other people as a dog, but what does it mean when he uses it in this context? >> it means a lot because it touches on so many things that are stereotypes throughout history, when you're talking about a black female, and using that kind of language. you know, put it up there with referring to maxine waters as dumb and so forth. again, it is how the president talks. it is not something we necessarily should accept from the president. i think we really have to start drawing some l

and michael steele, former rnc chairman. all of them msnbc contributors and analysts. mimi, gates admitting he embezzled this money from manafort, estimates it was in the, quote, hundreds of thousands of dollars. what can the defense do with that kind of admission? >> well, it's not a great admission for the government, you know, it's one thing to put a cooperator on the stand who admits to committing crimes with the defendant he's testifying against. then the government says obviously, you know, the defendant picked this guy, we didn't. the reason he's here on the stand is because he committed crimes with this person and he needs to explain why the defendant is guilty. that's the only way to get that testimony. now you have gates lying to manafort. so manafort is going to use that to say, right, he lied to me, and that's how you know that he also lied about, you know, the tax fraud and the bank fraud. he's the one who was really doing it. i, manafort, didn't know about it. here's why that's not going to work. first of all, as ken said, there's a lot of documentary evi

. >> michael steele, you were also familiar with the campaign. you traveled with john mccain. campaigned for him. >> yeah. >> you were rumored to be in the mix to be a running mate at one point. >> name popped up from time to time. no, i was a great admirer. i like to consider myself a friend of mccain's in that sense. we worked well together. he certainly was extremely helpful to me when i ran for the u.s. senate. he would give me advice from time to time. when i was national chairman, i remember one particular moment where, yet again under fire in the press about something i'd said or done, he saw me and said, just keep going. just keep going. that, to me, was very empowering. he did that. he found ways to empower people because he knew -- or at least had some sense of what those difficult walks could be like. in those difficult walks, particularly in this town, as all the folks a this table know, it's hard to find friends. when jeff is breaking a story on you, it is hard to find a friend sometimes. you know, to come and give you a pat on the back and say, okay, it is just o

for more on all of this, i am joined by gabrielle bruni and michael steele. michael, i want to start with you except that i don't really know where to start. >> there is no place to start. >> this is a favorite son of ohio. this is not a situation where lebron is out there making a political statement of his own volition. he is out there promoting a school for underprivileged children in his home city. >> he's made a commitment of $41 million to this community and helping these kids. i would daresay more than we've ever seen come close from the president in this area, in this space. so to even enter this space the way the president did is insulting in that sense. but then to sort of talk about yet again when it comes to an african-american athlete or in the case of don lemon, someone who is on national television as somehow being less intelligent and stupid, further speaks to how the black community has come to view this president, as someone who looks down on us and who has an attitude about us that is nothing short of racist. and so the fact that melania and

let's bring in michael steel, a former spokesperson for house speaker john boehner and knows exactly s on capitol hill think. he was senior advisor to jeb bush in 2016. the panel is here. michael, i'll start with you. how would you characterize the mood behind the scenes and sort of on capitol hill there on that side of pennsylvania avenue with what's happening in ohio 12 and just suddenly the koch brothers feud this trump? i get the sense that folks are suddenly going, wait a minute, this is the wrong time of the year for these fights to break open like this. >> i would describe the mood as determined and resolute. everyone knew this was going to be a very tough year. everyone knew we were facing historic headwinds. everyone knows that president trump can tweet or say things that aren't always helpful at times that aren't always helpful. but if you look at ohio 12, i think the polls are a lagging indicat indicator. i think the president's visit will goose the support among republicans in that district. and i think that your msnbc colleague, chris matthews, did a tremendous service by

donna edwards, michael steele, benjamin wit tetes, phillip ruc, thank you for all joining. >>> and coming up, there is new reporting today by "the new york times" about a plan donald trump and michael cohen hatched to buy all of the dirt that the "national enquirer" collected on trump since the 1980s. >>> plus, senator john mccain's body scheduled to arrive at andrews air force base in just a few moments. the senator was remembered fondly today by senator vice president joe biden. take a listen. >> john's story is the american story. that's not hyperbole. it sounds like -- it's the american story. grounded in respect and decency. basic fairness. the intolerance through the abuse of power. >> and we will look at how the midterm elections are shaping up. a party wrapping itself around trump. a party wrapping itself around the issue of diversity. >>> and finally, let me finish tonight with the roots of trump's attack the media strategy. a hint, it has something to do with the 1990s. this is "hardball," where the action is. this is not a bed. it's a revolution in sleep. the new sleep number 3

michael steele?nd say to my party get a spine and do the right thing. there's no question that embracing a southern segregationist democrat, i might remind you -- >> this is the republican party embracing a democrat. they love the blame the democrats for segregationists. >> everybody likes to run around and talk about what democrats did, what kkk and segregationists, here's your chance to put up and shut up. >> chuck schumer would love to find things that divide the party. i don't think this is what he intended. >> it's a confederate monument debate in a way. >> it really is. i can't believe the mccain for richard russell thing is going to somehow be controversial. oh, the trump era. mark, donna, michael, thank you very much. happy day after the last big primary. we'll be right back. (man) managing my type 2 diabetes wasn't my top priority. until i held her. i found my tresiba® reason. now i'm doing more to lower my a1c. i take tresiba® once a day. tresiba® controls blood sugar for 24 hours for power

it's my man, michael steel, of the rnc. >> yeah. >> i remember democrats would eke out special election victories in 2010. republicans are eking out a bunch of them. i think wasserman noted it's actually the best record technically on paper. democrats did really well in special elections in 2010. what do you see? >> what i see here is exactly as has been laid out. this is setting itself up very much like it did in 2010 in that the energy is on the ground. the energy is in spots around the country that quite honestly, the national parties don't necessarily really understand how impactful they can be. i mean just as the point you just made, chuck, about looking at those suburbs and the fact that the turnout based on the plus r ratio, you think, okay, the president is coming in, everybody will be fired up and going to go. you've got to cut beneath that. you've got to get below that surface. there is a lack of energy on the republican side that we are not acknowledging, that we're not accounting for when we're looking at the numbers, when we're looking at the ground game and looking at the

michael steele, former chairman of the rnc, and daniel alonzo, former federal prosecutor. robert costa, let me start with you. just what do we know, we say it's the president reigniting this controversy with a tweet over the weekend. what do we know about the context of the tweet? why did he decide to send it, what was his state of mind? what was the stimulus for that? what do you know about it? >> the president didn't make this tweet in a vacuum. he's facing numerous political and legal challenges on the horizon. this week, will his legal team agree to a sit-down with robert mueller and his investigators or not? will mueller issue a subpoena? he knows the manafort trial is ongoing. he's been increasingly frustrated about the news coverage of that whole experience. based on our reporting over the weekend. and so you have a president also seeing the legal spotlight because of what michael cohen's legal team is talking about privately. his son is being brought back into the headlines. it's getting personal for president trump. >> what do you know, robert? do you know anythin

. >> joining us now are michael jackson steele, former chairman of the republican national committee,ichael bechsloz, national historian. michael, let me start with you. what would a john mccain presidency have looked like either in 2000 or 2008? >> that's a very, very good question. >> bechsloz will bail us out if you or i flub it. >> i think it would have been an administration that was tempered by the harsh realities of the time. i think it would have been an administration that would have been far more open in its reach, not just across the aisle but across america to communities that are now marginalized or outright ignored in many instances. i think he would have brought that temperament, talking about his temper, that temperament of statesmanship, discipline, but a sense of hope, a sense of vision, and a sense of the purpose of the country which i think it was a hallmark of his life. it's something that i think was sort of forged in him during those five years as a prisoner of war. his appreciation for not just the strength of this country but the beauty of its people and the p

and msnbc political analyst michael steele and political historian michael beschloss.r, first of all, thank you for being here. >> thank you, andrea. >> this has been such a difficult passage, joyful at times, but overwhelmingly sad, because of the loss of this man, a singular voice in american life, american politics. >> i received a message from jack mccain, his son, who is a graduate of the naval academy and who is serving our country. he said, john, don't be said, you know the old man, he would like us to get back in the good fight. that's how i'll remember him. not that we need to be reminded to get back in the good fight because we're all mccainiacs, but come monday we'll be doing that. >> what is the good fight that john mccain would want you to carry on? >> we're in dark times in this country. i remember the conversation i had with him just after donald trump was elected president. and i was urging him to speak out. and he said, don't worry, boy. i said, we're in dark times. he said, you have no idea how dark. >> and he certainly, even through helsinki, was spe

michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee, that's why he's smiling, i said "former." and shannon pettypiece, white house correspondent for bloomberg. michael, i'm coming right at you. >> yes. >> if you had your old job, other than looking for a new job, if you had your old job as party chairman, how worried would you be tonight? >> you see this? >> you had a full head of hair. >> exactly. it would be like that. i would be very concerned at this stage. we are coming out of the summer, you know, doldrums, if you will, where folks don't pay attention to politics and it's a little bit of a wasteland even though you've got primaries and all that going on. the fact of the matter is, from a party perspective, in terms of setting up the november campaign, you want the kind of momentum that's going to energize your base, get those dollars flowing, and really put in place the messaging that you want to bring it home, right? it connects all those pieces. i call it the messenger, the message, and the money. and that combination is one that works to empower the base to g

we are getting nothing done. >> we are still not getting much done, michael steele. without john mccain, who is going to take up that mantle? is there anybody? >> i don't see anyone on the horizon so far. you would have thought that in the years since the senator gave that speech, that very emphatic call to arms for the senate to return to regular order, to return to a sense of working together, that there would be certainly on my side of the aisle, republicans' side, those who stand with the senator. as we've seen, katy, that was not the case. they shrunk away from the moment, and that is so unfortunate because john mccain gave them a path forward. i think certainly in the passages that we have been playing on this air from his book and from his other comments, he has created those footsteps for those very senators and members of congress, elected officials around the country, to walk in the light that he was holding up that showed a way forward for the nation not along partisan lines, but along the lines in which we could actually get something done. unfortunately,

steele. i like it, michael. >> thank you. >> that's good. because you are a man of steele.her real, clear politics tom bevan joins us now. >> tom, i'm reading this guy, sean t. at rcp, you may know him, but sean wrote last night this tweet which i thought really sort of summarized everybody was freaking out on all the channels over who was going to win this race or who wasn't going to win this race and it was a nail biter. sean tweeted -- i know people don't want to hear this, but at this point it doesn't really matter. ohio 12 shouldn't even be a nail biter for the gop. even with two solid candidates running. talk about the ohio race, whether you agree with your colleague that a nail biter in ohio 12 is a bad sign for republicans generally. >> yeah, look. i agree with sean. let's use the sports analogy since it's columbus, let's say this is like ohio state, okay, they're playing a team they play every year and win by four, five touchdowns. last night they won in overtime by one point. if you're an ohio state fan, you're happy they won but you're saying oh my god, what does

joining me now, charlie sykes, contributing editor at the weekly standard, and michael steele, former gop chairman, both msnbc contributors. charlie, you're in wisconsin, in the heartland. what are people there saying about what we're seeing as dissonance, but perhaps it's working? >> well, this is the definition of cognitive dissonance. it was truly remarkable listening to that briefing yesterday and realizing that what they were saying contradicts what the president was saying, then watch them go out at that rally and once again undermine and undercut that entire message. if the point was to rally the nation behind confronting the russian attack on our democracy, the president clearly cut them off at the knees. now, is it in fact working? i'm not sure. obviously the president's base is still behind him. but i think at this point in the midterm campaigns, we have to ask whether or not these rallies and sort of the bizarre dark forces that he's unleashing at these rallies is actually going to work with those swing voters or those soft republican voters who are going to be determining

that's the problem republicans will find themselves up against in november. >> michael steele, alwaysing something. bill kristol. >> he's a brawler. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> too tough on trump, michael. >> here we go. >>> much more to come. thank you. as we hit the brake here. including a surprise letter boosting tensions with north korea, scrapping plans for mike pompeo's latest visit. >>> secretary of defense james mattis just talked about this. we'll get the sound to you right after the break. ou right after the break. with chantix. i tried cold turkey, i tried the patch. they didn't work for me. i didn't think anything was going to work for me until i tried chantix. chantix, along with support, helps you quit smoking. chantix reduced my urge to smoke. i needed that to quit. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. some people had changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, or suicidal thoughts or actions with chantix. serious side effects may include seizures, new or worse hear

joining me former rnc chairman michael steele and szerlina maxwell.o talk about this with us. before we get into omarosa, i want to talk about the state of race relations in this country. i don't think any of us should find it surprising that the president has intimated comments about the one-year anniversary in charlottesville. after all, we saw what he said yesterday. it seems clear where he stands on this issue. michael, what do you think about him going after the nfl today of all days? >> well, katy, i think not to correct you, i think that was his statement about charlottesville. that's the tweet on the anniversary of charlottesville to continue to play the race politics of the nfl and to go after these athletes who, the last time i checked, as we've beat this horse many times, know have a constitutional right to express their views in that setting. so i think the president did respond to charlottesville through his tweet this morning, and it again is not, you know, a dog whistle or a bullhorn. it's all kinds of noise, but the fact of the matter

michael steel put together a list of african-americans and michael steel said she blocked them? >> of course. you had this contentious battle between a number of black republicans and omarosa. trust me, i was talking to both sides as they were all fighting one another like, okay, what is going on here. at the end of the day you did have her in terms of having an agenda, what she was trying to do, what she was trying to achieve. the bottom line is this here, when you examine this whole deal. you can go back and forth, you can't trust her or listen to sarah huckabee sanders and donald trump. at the end of the day the question becomes do you have a president who is fully aware of these issues and what is it about this administration where they do default to lying? we have the evidence on that. that's not even a dispute. that's not even a debate. so they have to contend with that. so they have a burden of proof to deal with her on this. >> right. >> i don't think it is they default to lying. >> if i'm then, i'm treading carefully. >> what omarosa told us, they actively pursue an age

. >> for more i am joined by michael steele, ron reagan, asia moodie mills and phil rucker for the "washington post." on the general question of this issue, the n word. that is what we say. we don't lake the word. historically, we have no reason to like it. what do you make of that nondefense by sarah huckabee. she didn't deny blankly that he didn't use it. there were people worried about it including people that don't like omarosa. >> she struggled to defend president trump generally against charges of racism. but specifically on that n word tape, it was striking. she of course she hadn't heard the n word, but under the sharp questioning, she could not guarantee. it makes you wonder what is out there. >> ron reagan, we have this guy, part of the penn and teller team from vegas, he said i was in the room. i would say racily and insensitive things. i heard them. i say racially and insensitive things that make me uncomfortable. this isn't something that the white house is ready to defend in a blank form. >> yeah. i have to say this is one of those instances where omarosa is saying things we alre

michael steele, those tariffs are attacks, conservatives will tell you on working class americans, oncey. now, you're going to have to eat this crow and stand in town halls in the second and third quarters of next year to explain why the jobs are lost. >> mike. final note. >> the chief phrase about children, they're in custody. in custody to such an extent in our culture, where's the out rage with this? >> and saying farmers are saying it's okay, we can take these tariff, the hitter that getting, i haven't heard a farmer say that. >> says the guy with a 757 jet. >> and it can be revoked by congress they have a voice to play here if they want to play it. if they hate this trade policies so much, they can do something about it. >> and every day, we see people cowering in the corner, we see someone like the commander who told the truth in front of the senate committee and in front of america. and as long as we have one person telling the truth, every day, getting that news out, we have a chance. >> that does it for us this morning, stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage. >> thanks, mika, jo

. >> i think representative meadows was assaying the fbi knew about these problems with michael steeleer, because bruce ohr told them. the fbi knew well about the problems with christopher steele and his problems, even when it first applied for the fisa warrant to spy on carter page. >> bret: "the washington post" saying the president vented twice saying he might prior sessions in the past couple of weeks. next up, the primaries and the midterms to come, plus one state that could throw everything up in the air before discovering nexium 24hr to treat her frequent heartburn, lucy could only imagine enjoying a slice of pizza. now it's as easy as pie. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? mom: okay we need to get all your school supplies today... school... grade... done. done. hit the snooze button and get low prices on school supplies all summer long. like this case of paper for only $29.99 at office depot officemax. (woman) learned ao play second language. applied to college. applied for a loan. started a bu

it's michael steele. he was a foreign national. but they paid him. if they paid fair market value, that's fine. that's business. they're paying him for that business. that's different than a foreign national giving it to you for free. that's what may be illegal. >> so now you've got a lot of republican lawmakers who were really, you know, striking a delicate balance here, trying to support the president while at the same time be tough on russia. here's what one congressman suggested today. >> the president should be straightforward with the american people about the threat to our election process that russia, or putin in particular, is engaged in ongoing. we're in a position now where we have got to show putin he'll have to pay a steep price if he doesn't stop this interference now. >> jay, isn't it a little late for that? >> the opportunities have been missed a missed in really driving home that message. granted, you know, midterms just a couple months away, maybe it's not too late in terms of circumventing some real trouble, but have the windows of

former spokesman for house speaker boehner and former senior advisor to jeb bush, michael steele. washington correspondent for bbc world news america, katty kay. presidential is historian and msnbc contributor john meacham. in phoenix white house correspondent and long-time capitol hill correspondent kelly o'donnell. and joining us by phone former senior advisor and the host of "deadline white house" on msnbc, nicolle wallace. nicolle, i want to start with you since you spent so much time behind the scenes with somebody who most americans know through their television sets, through the campaigns that he waged through seeing the moments of the past few years. what was john mccain, the man, like behind those closed doors when the cameras were off? who was the man that you knew? >> you know, i think so much of john mccain's person a was consistent with what i saw behind the scenes. what you see is what you get. but what i think the high profile moments in politics we got was all the time he had with his closest friends, joe lieberman, lindsey graham who were by his side in the 2018 c

she joins our all-star panel of susan page, michael steele, msnbc political analyst and of course a former rnc chairman and howard fineman, an nbc news analyst who spent his tuesday in judge ellis' courtroom marveling at paul manafort's wardrobe. anyway, mimi, let me start with you. define obstruction of justice and is it something that has to be done in secret for it to be a crime? >> sure, chuck. i want to answer the second part first. it does not have to be done in secret. the definition of obstruction of justice, there are different prongs of it, depending on whether you're trying to interfere with witnesses or tamper with evidence. it's basically trying to impede an investigation corruptly, with corrupt intent, which simply could mean you're trying to stop an investigation because you don't like that that investigation is zeroing in on you or your close friends, so it can't be -- it has to be for a bad purpose and those would be bad purposes. and that's why this tweet right now looks so incriminating because what's happening -- >> you believe it's very incriminating? you have said you

>> katie: she hired bringing other african-americans into the white house as was suggested by michael steelek stabbing all of them, cutting them down. making sure that she was the only one who got in there her role was not helping the american people. it was to keep everybody out so she was the only one who was there and now she is trying to profit off of it. >> harris: what does it take to survive 15 years in reality television? >> i'm terrified. >> harris: democratic candidate running an ad to become nancy pelosi's bid to become house speaker if democrats are to take the house is it a smart strategy for democrats to distance themselves from party leaders in the mid terms or could it come back to haunt them? we'll break it all down next. >> i will vote against nancy pelosi as speaker. support term limits for party leaders. >> i will vote against nancy pelosi for speaker, support term limits for party leaders. i will work with anyone who do what's best for north carolina. >> melissa: another house democratic candidate this one in north carolina running an ad says she will not support nancy p

. >> it's problematic and this is michael steele, the former republican chairman told this to "the washingtonost." omarosa doing a lot of television. omarosa driving a lot of social media conversation. she's doing trump as well or better than he is. this is his mini me. he created omarosa. gave her license and invited her into the sacred space of the oval office. now after having created this monster that's coming back on him, what's he going to do. >> there's something deeply poetic about this story. day five of omarosa fest, and she is just stealing the trump playbook. the student has surpassed the teacher. maybe it's frankenstein is the better analogy, but like she's dribbling out the information. she's blanketing the air waves, giving us nugget after nugget. of course there are tapes and everybody wants to hear those tapes. she watched how trump taught her how you do publicity. how you do reality tv. how you capture a news cycle. she's now implementing those lessons and burning him and everybody around her in the white house. it's remarkable to watch. >> the question is, well, first quest

former rnc chairman michael steele and aaron and anna back as well.you have this feud with now wit trump after they came out and said we don't love everything he does. donald trump took that personally and is out tweeting again. this could be potentially problematic for republicans, right? >> of course, because there is no real separation between what trump is doing in the party. you have those inside the party like the koch brothers who are like we need to be talking about the substance of policy. we need to be focussed on how we grow out the party. they're going to do the candidates and have fun. >> why, if you're donald trump should you look at that and find it compelling when you've ignored it -- >> why should you find what compelling? because they've been in play long before donald trump has been in play. donald trump is new to this game. koch brothers have been on the ground since the 2010 elections. they have had the effort already in place working with the national party, working with state parties, working with satellite. >> i guess my questi

whether you're talking about the nnc "n" word or the mysterious tape that michael steele is talking about. we have an excellent economy right now on some levels. and this guy is still hovering in the low 40s. because of things like omarosa. because of things like sean spicer. because people are feeling like, you know, i hired this guy -- >> omarosa and sean spicer did not change anyone's votes. >> i do think -- i do. i think they change people's votes who voted for a guy who they thought was not going to get us into this kind of nonsense. they want add presideed a presi just going to do business -- >> what's funny, is merely convinces the president's supporters the opponents of the president's will use any hammer against him, including someone like omarosa, who liberals were condemning in the strongest possible terms. just a few months ago. suddenly becomes a credible -- yet another credible tribute about the awfulness of the president. >> omarosa is complicit in that she now says he's unhinged, unfit. she didn't quit, okay. after charlottesville, this was the one-year anniversary of char

speaking of being the only african-american voice the iormer chairman of the republican nl committee, michael steel said yesterday that he was among the group of pe ale without put togeth list of highly qualifiedca afamerican republicans who worked in previous white houses who were prepared to go to work for donald trump hat tyou blocked any of them from having a job opportunity. >> i find that fascinating because on one hand they say i didn't have any power. i wasn't effective. i couldn't influence what happened in the white hous and then on the other hand they said i have the ability to keep people oute white house. you really can't have it both ways. in fact he committed that list during the transition. i wasn't in the white house yet. i wasn't making decisions, so that really actually undermines reince preebus ability tto actually pugether an effective administration, not me. i wasn't the head of prsoident 58 pel in the white house. and that assertion is kind of an sushed when you think about it.e >> women, the dent's vies on women, you write a number of disturbing things throughout the book, m

everybody is waiting to see will michael steele put out information that trump new about the meeting.ns on their opponent, it was hillary clinton. her campaign, the dnc through a cut-out, a lawyer hired fusion gps who hired michael steele who met with russian intelligence to collect dirt and hillary clinton's campaign spokesman actually said that if he had known about it, he would have gone and met with the russians too and nothing wrong with it. how is it okay for hillary clinton to have pro-actively sought dirt from the russians but the trump campaign met at the russian's request? it's all bad. >> sandra: a lot of tweets. marc thiessen, thank you. >> bill: florida last night, pennsylvania tomorrow, ohio on saturday. president trump is hitting the ground running in his push to get republicans reelected in the mid-terms. karl rove will break it all down. we'll look at the map later this hour. >> sandra: new emails peter strzok was asking to keep his security clearance after joining the mueller team last year. why the group behind the report says the request could be the key to proving

michael cohen also, according to christopher steele and the reports that he accumulated, came up withion that michael cohen was in prague after manafort left the campaign in order to take care of the hackers that had hacked into the democratic national committee and to continue what paul manafort was doing with the russians. if you read the steele report and you substituted stormy daniels for the russians and the hackers, its like he was doing the same thing. he was trying to keep all of this away from donald trump. >> cover-up stories, keep them away, not have them come up. independent of the statement that michael cohen made, jessica, that this was done with the intent of influencing the election, would the hush money payments still be problematic? >> the hush money payments could be problematic for the person who made the payment, which is michael cohen and for -- there's an issue here with respect to the parent company of the "national enquirer," but it might not -- the question was always, what did the president know and when did he know it? and so because michael cohen has said,

other cases -- and then, of course, let's not forget donald trump's lawyer michael cohen is mentioned four times in the steeled porn stars. michael cohen is implicated in the russia case. more water to come and i think we hold on. >> it's got to be the last word. by the way, michael cohen's attorney lanny davis coming up. also stormy daniels' attorney michael avenatti coming up as well. what do they think of all this? we'll be right back. thank you guys. now t-mobile has unlimited for the rest of us. unlimited ways to be you. unlimited ways share with others. unlimited ways to live for the moment. all for as low as 30 bucks a line. unlimited for you. for them. for all. get unlimited for as low at 30 bucks per line for four lines at t-mobile. plaque psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats differently. for psoriasis, 75% clearer skin is achievable, with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and for psoriatic arthritis, otezla is proven to reduce joint swelling, tenderness, and pai

and then, of course, let's not forget donald trump's lawyer, michael cohen is mentioned four times in the steele, he's not just about sex and porn stars, michael cohen is implicated in the russia case. i think there's more water to come. and i think we hold on. >> that's got to be the last word. by the way, michael cohen's attorney lanny davis coming up. also, stormy daniels attorney. michael avenati coming up as well. ♪ meet george jetson. ♪ ♪ his boy elroy. with instant acceleration, electric cars are more fun to drive and more affordable than ever. electric cars are here. plug into the present. introducing zero account fees for brokerage accounts. and zero minimums to open an account. we have fidelity mutual funds with zero minimum investment. and now, only fidelity offers two zero expense ratio index funds directly to investors. because when you invest with fidelity, all those zeros really add up. ♪ so maybe i'll win, saved by zero ♪ all those zeros really add up. rewards me basically aeverywhere.om so why am i hosting a dental convention after party in my vegas suite? because hotels.com let

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so that's interesting and number two it acknowledges that steele's contract was terminated because he had been the source for an article by michael isikoff which was specifically designed to get the word out about this deal dossier so it could be dropped after trump's election apology so many people of color who are cold cliff of course how do you expect tell me the president trying to react to this release he's been claiming this was a political hit job against his come pain from day one. yeah i mean this is. well despite the complete redaction it it does confirm part of trump's narrative that the f.b.i. was colluding with the clinton campaign because we also know that christopher steele had been employed through fusion g.p.s. the opposition research firm in the contract was taken out by perkins koyo which was the law firm of hillary clinton's campaign so this shows a clear case of collusion between the f.b.i. directed by james komi and the clinton campaign and another thing we know is that christopher steele continued supplying information to the f.b.i. after his contract with the f.b.i. was terminated through bruce or an f.b.i