michael steele also here with us, as well. when he was the head of the republican party. >> yeah -- >> you're still a young man. >> i appreciate that. no, really, i mean, the fact that this weekend, there was a lot of talk about all the very big federal things that he did, as vice president, president, cia, but what i took note of is what he did at a very critical time for the country, as chairman of the republican national committee, when watergate is breaking out all around him, he steered that ship. he made sure that the party survived beyond that presidency, and, you know, it spoke to his leadership in so many ways. leadership that we really wouldn't really begin to appreciate until now. >> and actually, at the last cabinet meeting of richard nixon, when everyone was dodging the issue, will nixon stay or go, george bush, as chairman of the republican party, said to nix objection nixon, in front of all these other cabinet members, i think you should resign. made nixon furious. >> what's fascinating, george h.w. bush didn't

please know that helping us in our coverage is the former republican party chairman michael steele, ourt team and became an anchor of a broadcast every afternoon, we have a tendency to treat you as just a part of our broadcast team. one, of course, you are not. of course, for you, this was your former boss and long-time friend talking today. and this family is a family you know well, this politically dynastic, prominent american family. so, with that in mind, my friend who is not like all the others here, your views on today? >> you know, i watched a cathedral full of tend r tender-hearted giants. i watched the former president of the world watching was a president but he was a broken hearted son. i watched the former secretary of state jim baker who when the 41st president's pastor from houston talked about how jim baker rubbed the feet of president george h.w. bush as he slipped away, broke down and cried. so for me, as a, you know, i was a 29-year-old press staffer when i met or started working in the white house. i was younger than. i worked for jeb bush when i met the 41st presiden

michael steele. carrie dan, and cornell belcher. welcome. it seems like for us to say boy, 2019 is going to be wild. 2020, and we're still recovering from the mess that is the post election massacre. what have we learned from that that tells us how crazy 2019 is going to be? >> i think first, 20181 going to continue into 2019. now -- >> there's no stopping? . >> no. now that democrats control the house of representatives, these investigations are only going to expand into the president and so that is also going to be caught up in the presidential election, and the primary. and so i don't think we're going to see a clear division. i think we're going to see more of the same of what we've already seen only it's going to escalate. >> michael steele, previous presidents when they've had a midterm setback acknowledged it. this one did not. how much harder does that make it for congressional republicans to recalibrate? >> i think every previous president has said some humility in accepting a midterm loss. this president knows one mode, forward, at

michael steele?know, they can pick about this or talk about that, but the one constant thread was that idea that concept of family, faith, the country. putting service for others above self, and in these times, it is a particular challenge and yet still an opportunity for a lot of public officials today. he has left the path forward and given many, many of us in government service and private sector service a path of how you lead, how you lead in tough times and make tough decisions. >> and of course, the implicit contrast inescapably from what we saw in the pew of the presidents yesterday as the doors opened, and gabe guterres, i am not sure that you can speak, because you are so close to where the casket is going to be carried. and what can you observe there? >> it is a very emotional servi service, and we will pause as the casket comes out, and certainly, is some of the musical renditions that we heard from the oak ridge boys and the "amazing grace" and so many amazing moments here as we pay tribu

soledad: michael steele and doug thornell. nice to have you guys.ood to be with you. >> coming up next -- [phone ringing] >> are you tired of those spam calls? congress is. is a crackdown on the way? this is a fight. not to the finish. but to the beginning. a fight that can only be won, if we stand together for one cause. him. expert care for every new beginning. soledad: now to our weekly segment we like to call, "we're paying attention even if you're too busy." have you been getting more of those automated robo-calls recently? you're not alone. according to a new survey from a consumer research group here in washington, d.c., more than half of all americans say they get a robocall at least once a day and 40% say they get multiple calls everyday. you can blame technology, which has made it cheap and easy to send those calls. congress has noticed the increase, too. senators dianne feinstein from california, richard blumenthal from connecticut, and amy klobuchar from minnesota have introduced a new bill hoping to put illegal robocallers out of busine

michael steele, paul cane, peter baker, thank you all very much for a great discussion. really appreciate it. >>> now to our other breaking news story, president trump is preparing to withdraw a significant number of troops from syria. a short time ago he tweeted, quote, we have defeated isis in syria. my only reason for being there during the trump presidency. republican lindsey graham unhappy with the news to say the least. the south carolina senator issued this statement. quote, if these media reports are true, it will be an obama-like mistake made by the trump administration. an american withdrawal at this time would be a big win for isis, iran, bashar al assad of syria and russia. moments ago, press secretary sarah sanders issued a new statement saying the u.s., quote, stands ready to reengage whenever necessary. richard engel is on this story for us. richard, how many troops do we have in syria, first of all, and what are they contributing to in the mission? what are we going to lose by having them pull out? >> so there are at any given time about 2,000 u.s. forces

should we be pretty rattled right now, michael steel? a little rattled. >> i know i am. >> this feels like we had -- we had one source tell reporters, it feels like the wheels are coming off. and i know we've said that before -- >> every week feels like the worse week except the week to come. but in this case there is a last days of watergate sort of feel to the chaos -- kais -- the chaos coming from the white house. >> i thought the mueller report would cause this moment. and ironically it is i guess ann coulter. when did he lose it here. because all of this is some weird -- >> i think -- >> there will be documentaries on these 48 hours. >> as i said before, i think being lectured to by the likes of laura ingraham and rush limbaugh and ann colter was unsettling, questioning his man hood so to speak. and it is a matter of global world view and donald trump is retreating into himself. only donald trump could administer a coup to himself and that is what he's done. >> yeah, that is an -- look, there were people put around him, i think that

that there is an email chain going back and showing the fbi and the administration knew that michael steelehe press prior to the fbi, going to the f i s a, a violation of rules and procedures for the investigation. and supposedly comey is part of the email chain as head of the fbi. he knew that and still allowed his department to go forward with request for a warrant with a tainted document and his own office saying there are problems with this dossier, he has a lot to reckon with when he told congress they fired michael steele after this came out. if that is the case he lied to congress and there's a reason he asked not to be brought before congress to have this testimony. heather: it is interesting to see if he will be treated equally when it comes to lying to congress and that takes us to manafort and cohen. memos expected to be released from special counsel mueller regarding both of them. what will come out of those? >> neither one of them, manafort did not lie to congress. what he has been convicted of is something he did 12 years ago, well before anything about being part of the trump

here's what michael steele had to say. >> his job isn't protecting donald trump. his job is protecting the senate majority in 2020. up until now going into 2016, protecting the majority and protecting the president did not diverge. we may see a point in these coming months where senator mcconnell's priorities do not line up with the president's priorities and preferences. >> how realistic is that because of course we know that republicans just got wiped out when it comes to the house of representatives. at least 40 seats it looks like they're going to lose on that front. when it came to the senate, they actually. >> i think we're already seeing a little bit of diversion in the past few weeks. the white house really wants the and it was in they want that done before everyone leaves for a holiday break. mitch mcconnell, meanwhile, is very focused on confirming judges. that's how he wants to spend the next few weeks because he sees that as part of the republican making sure the judicial system is stabbed with sfrt judges, making sure the cabinet members can get confi

michael steele, first of all, you work for the bush family.reflections and i think we can read a little bit of that, as well. also, this stands in stark contrast to what we heard from president trump at his own r.n.c accept tense. >> it was almost every case the direct opposite. the characteristics the president laid out in that speech are in so many ways the opposite of what president trump is and espoused and that's a sad thing for our country and i think that president bush, his example should remind us you can be good as well as great. i think that too many people, democrats under president clinton, many republicans under president trump have gotten in the habit of defending their guy no matter what transgressions because they are on that team and there is something greater than that. there is something about love of country and responsibility to it that president h.w. bush embodied and i hope we never ever lose. >> and i mean, president bush basically said that there, john, who says, for some reason people say we can't be these things, we

. >> michael steel previous presidents when they've had a midterm set back acknowledged it. this one did not. how much harder does that make it for congressional republicans to recalibrate? >> i think every previous president said some reality and humility in accepting a midterm loss. this president only knows one mode, forward, attack, offense. as kneehe feels more threatened is fighting like a cornered badger. i think that will only get worse when he faces democrats in charge of house committees in next year. >> he seems to be oblivious to what happened in november. >> i think it's almost ten million more votes in the popular vote. >> nearly a nine-point advantage. >> that's a large margin. you go into it looking at republicans losing, suburbs in way they haven't lost before and democrats winni innin inning co educated whi ed white women in they haven't. if republicans can't compete in the suburbs around philadelphia, they can't win. i think the blue wall is being rebuilt because of the she nan begins of this president. >> it's republican voters did not see -- about half o

joining us to talk about it is michael steele, anna and jeff are back with me.ming on. >> we have some additions to the administration. we also have some potential changes with john kelly. our reporting as we made a bunch of calls, days ahead john kelly is out, nick ayers probably going to end up replacing him. >> you know, this has been sort of the long bleed on kelly, but i think you can get past that and look at who's coming in, and nick ayers is a political operative. he's not run a government agency. he's had no government elected or otherwise experience in that regard. >> i had somebody say to me ayers is not coming on to run china policy. he's coming on to focus on the 2020 re-election. >> that's where i was going to. this is a political move. >> i got there before you. >> donald trump -- i know. donald trump will continue to run the white house the way donald trump wants to run the white house, and nick aiers wil coordinate. >> the thing that is more interesting to me looking ahead, nick ayers is not the guy who's going to say hey, let's get with democra

joining me on set, michael steel, former spokesman for john boehner and senior former advise to jeb bushpanel. hi guys. >> hi. >> michael, senate ma jojority leader says i don't think it's going to come to a shutdown. i think lawmakers will go able to avoid it. here's the question. how? >> i don't think they can. look, the first rule that they shut down is the side that loses it is the side that seems to be rooting for a shutdown. so you always say you're going to avoid it. you always say you're doing everything possible to keep the government open. ultimately this is the last time republicans will have control of the house in the president's first term. democrats have no insentive to give on this. and we're looking at an irreconcilable differences going into the holiday. >> you have complaints about the fact that there is this two week extension. they say we could have finished it already. we've been negotiating all weekend. i don't know why i would have this going into december 21st. we know what we have to do. let's get it done so we can go home for the holidays. >> i that i if democr

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michael steele, wow. i interviewed him for over an hour.hat was the only time he said those words, i have to be careful because of what i know about the investigation from the time starting at his election and going through my firing. the only answer, the only thing he wouldn't answer was whether or not donald trump wasn't a potential target for blackmail. >> i think that's the crux of what sort of feeds this story line for mueller is connecting all those dots. everyone who is a player, the 14 that have been identified and many others potentially out there who are still going to be named, indicted or charged in some way. it just tells you how deep this really is and how much donald trump really should be afraid of what this means for not just his administration but for him personally. he seems to think, mike and i were talking about this earlier. he seems to think all this ends when mueller sends out his report. you've got state charges, probably additional federal charges that could come from this. and it all hinges on how he did business.

sam stein is with us and msnbc analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele and "new york times" reporter michael schmidt is with us along with willie geist up in new york. willie is in new york and we're in washington this morning because we had an amazing event last night that we were honored to be a part of. >> it was great. >> it was the 35th anniversary of the national democratic institution, the 35th annual event that they have. of course, the institute was inspied by ronald reagan's 1982 westminster speech and there were tribute toes john mccain and kofi annen. madeleine madeleine allbright is behind the whole thing and got us to engage. you say susan rice there. my brother mark was there and we were honored to be a part of it. the theme of the nights was reaffirming democracy here and around the world and mdi does so much to try and continue that effort. so important. >> really does. really does. and caddie, the theme of it, again, for 35 years they've been bringing -- you know, sort of trotting out the reagan westminster speech and talking about the

you know, michael steele, thank you. tom nim coals thanks so much. charlie, can you stay with us?ou on the other side of this because i'm not so sure that there is a going back to the republican party. i'm not so sure that those conservative principles will ever be welcomed in the republican party. i'm going to ask you where those of us wandering in the wilderness should go. >>> one last story here. remember last year when donald trump relied on rudy giuliani for his expertise on cybersecurity? keep a straight face, gentlemen. fast forward to last week when rudy banged out a tweet that accidentally formed a link to a website, a quick thinking trump critic then bought that vacant domain, writing in large letters on the new site, quote, donald j. trump is a traitor to our country. so if you clicked on giuliani's tweet, that's what you got. well, now giuliani is accusing twitter of allowing someone to invade his text. >> come on, grandpa. >> hey, rude, that's not how it works. >> somebody said that this should be read in grandpa simpson's voice. >> while suggesting, rudy did, that th

. >> the sources you identify in the book is michael steele, author of the infamous dossier and does he secretly went to the post in 2016 when he was trying to get the word out about some of his findings he met with a couple of reporters he elaborated on his dossier and of course some of the things have proven true and others haven't been substantiated at least not yet. what do you think of it overall? >> in its most accurate and sweeping assertions and conclusions there is the more narrow you get and the more you figure out if it is on the mark. the first memo that he writes this part of the collection that we call the dossier talks about russia waging a campaign with a goal of helping to elect donald trump he is writing way before we've reached that conclusion so he is way ahead. the thing people remember the most vividly about the dossier is the idea that there is a ta tape. we literally spent weeks and months trying to run down. there's an assumption that the payments that were needed in the campaign and there were reporters all over the place to figure out if he was already ther

mueller's team was -- and the president saying he would be proud to adrian el rod, peter emerson, and michael steeler advisers to jeb bush, i don't know, guys, do we even have anything to talk about here? adrian, what do you think is the biggest problem for the president? >> or in general? >> of those, let's just keep it to this week, the things that happened this week. >> i think the biggest problem was michael cohen. you can see the president is very nervous about cooperating with the team. i think he's very concerned that he has perhaps more information on him, and he can't decide if cohen is his fix-it guy or his attorney. he seems to waver back and forth, especially with the interview with fox news, and of course other times he's made it clear that cohen is his attorney, but the requestion is does it impact the base and do anything to him. >> i'm curious of your take on this, peter, and the reaction to the idea being raised by some, including jennifer rubin, that this was the president's worst week in office. >> well, actually, as with every week, the first big problem is trump himself, who lon

. >> michael steele, thank you very much. michael beschloss, thank you. our msnbc coverage will continue right now with ari melber. i hand the baton to you, sir. >> thank you, chuck todd. good evening to you at home. we're going to continue this special coverage. this tribute continues in the u.s. capitol rotunda to former president george h.w. bush. we have seen family members departed. vips are still playing their respects and members of congress filing out of this commemoration. and so while we have a lot to get to later in the hour, we continue this coverage and begin with a panel that can reflect on what we're witnessing. greetings to each of you. bill, your reflections, much as been said today about this man's record, about his public service, about the obvious contrast to the current president. when you look at this proceeding, continuing here, which is up on our screen, what is on your finmind? >> i think about a generation that's passing or has passed of people who did serve the country in military service and so many other ways. i came to washin

. >> he also professed not to know much about michael steele and the dossier that he produced during course of campaign that was -- of the campaign. that was so anti-trump, even though this guy was an fbi source the director of the fbi seem to know almost nothing about him. >> right which is really interesting. and something else he said was that, you know, it wasn't the funding and he didn't -- he said funding behind dossier wasn't important that it was just that they knew that it was a politically -- politically funded document they said it didn't matter where it came from when they were using this dossier as part of the launch in to the investigation. of course that's been at the source of the controversy over whether or not there was political bias in the beginning stages of the investigation, into the trump investigation over the russia collusion question. >> there was a lot of news out of the mueller or investigation which, you know, touches on what director comey and fbi were looking into. but sean spicer was on fox and friends this morning. saying that, you know, so far it is

>> i'm joined now by political analyst michael steel. here with me is gabby and nbc news national political reporter jonathan allen so it could be a big deal. it could be not. nancy and chuck are in the drivers seat. i don't think he anticipated he would be in this position. i find it ironic he is meeting with nancy and chuck and not ryan and mcconnel. >> so need 60 votes in the senate on this. >> clearly he understands. it goes to something i have said far long time. he will work sitting across from him. >> do you read his tweets this morning? she like hey, maybe back off of this. >> he knows she not going to get it. the number will probably be 3 billion. >> i am hearing she extremely dug in on this issue. one said that 65% of republicans don't want him to compromise. >> those numbers are probably right. they probably don't want him to budge. >> and 63 don't want him to budge at all on the $5 billion figure. this is is something we are willing to go to the map for. once he gets in that setting he sort of deviates from his original plan.

michael steele who i haven't seen in ages. tim o'brien, executive editor at bloomberg opinion. in man knows trump. ken, unlike the rest of us who were at holiday parties this weekend, you were working. now he's saying it's a sell pim private transaction. at the very least, there ain't nothing simple with that. he's saying it's okay. >> a simple transaction with a porn star. in fairness, that is the defense. this is a complicated law that's difficult to prove. the fact that he lied, that's what prosecutors call consciousness of guilt. now saying this was designed to cover up these affairs. that's the very definition of a campaign expenditure. it's not a slam dunk case. you have to prove criminal intent. he would clearly be in the cross hairs of the southern district prosecutors. now the question is, you know, will they wait until he leaves office to bring this case. >> against his consciousness of guilt, you're a criminal or just sleazy. clearly that is a whole lot different than this is. in the eyes of the law, what is the big difference in what happens here? i believe the fec

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joining us now, eliza collins, emily tish and former spokesman for michael steel.e get your reaction to the decision. a "wall street journal" poll found that health care is at the top of the list when it comes to what voters want in terms of policy changes. how will friday's decision play out in all of this? >> i think politically it should definitely be putting republicans on edge certainly. it was a very prominent issue in 2018. it drove a lot of voters decision. a lot of independent voters decisions to ultimately come out and vote for democrats. when no matter how you fflt abo -- felt about the law, it is the law. it is part of our health care system. if it is struck down, it would mean 130 million with pre-existing conditions may be turned down to health care. it would mean cuts to tax credits for nine million people who are getting credits to the marketplace. it would be actually really devastating for a lot of americans in their health care and the fact that republicans are still standing up and saying this is a great idea, let's keep going, what a political

. >> i'm joined by michael steele on the television. the former chairman of the republican national committee. michael, we've played the clip already at least once so far, one of the defining moments in george h.w. bush's political career and presidency was that decision in 1990 to go back on his read my lips no new taxes pledge and it caused at the moment a civil war, the number two republican in the house at the time leading a volt against grg h.w. bush on the floor of the house and cutting a deal with democrats and raising taxes. a generation, how does that look? >> a lot of people look back and say you was kind of right to do that. the reason was the president put the country above the politics. he understood what the pledge meant. he made the pledge in the political moment but, you know, he also recognized hey, i got to look out for everyone in this country and do what i have to do as president to make sure that we're physically sound and secure and his judgment led him to reverse his decision. you remember he was flying high and th

. >> what source do you identify in the book as michael steele, the author of the infamous dossier. he secretly went to the "washington post" in september 2016 when he was trying to get word out about some findings and you met with a couple reporters for two hours. i don't think you were one of them, but two of your colleagues and he elaborated on the dossier some of the things in the dossier are proven true than other elements haven't been substantiated, at least not yet. what do you think of the dossier overall? >> i think overall in its broadest-- most accurate and broadest most sweeping assertions and conclusions and the more narrow you get the more particular you get the harder it is to figure out whether it's on the mark. so, the very first memo that he writes is that it's now part of this collection of memos we call a dossier says russia israel waging a campaign to interfere hoping to elect donald trump your keys writing that wave before we are before the cia even reach that conclusion so he's way ahead now. you know, the thing i think people remember the most typically about

joining me, katty kay, former democratic congresswoman of maryland, donna edwards and michael steele, have to ask you, donna, i don't know much. i hear about it once in a while. i generally think american elections are clean, in other words, your votes get counted, generally. we don't have rigging like trump talks about and some new democracies have it. this looks like the old stuff, you know, typing in -- send me a ballot and you get the ballot and the next day someone shows up and says, you got your ballot. if it's got the wrong information or the wrong votes, they throw it in the trash can. if it hasn't been filled out, they fill it out for their guy and they cash it in and put it into the system. >> well, you know, you talk to plenty of voters, and i have, who don't like to file absentee ballots because they're afraid of exactly that. keep in mind that the elections are conducted county by county and then the state. and so, you could see that it -- that if someone were nefarious, it would be easy to manipulate. here, you have real evidence. people saying, i was paid to do "x" and

carol lee, national political reporter, howard fineman and michael steele, former rnc chairman and current msnbc political analyst. mr. rosenberg, i want to start with whether the president has been accused of committing a crime by the federal government. because i feel like that's a bit unclear. members of the united states congress aren't necessarily ready to believe the president's been -- been found to have committed a crime. how would you describe it? >> he's certainly not been accused, chuck, at least not formally. he's absolutely been implicated, both by mr. cohen who was sentenced today and by that non-prosecution agreement with ami, david pecker's company, right? in both the ami case and with respect to cohen, they said that the president of the united states directed that illegal payments be made to women to obtain their silence so accused? no. implicated? absolutely. >> if they say national enquirer, they knew they were doing it in conjunction with the election. the president keeps insisting he may not have been or at least some of his defenders, that he may not have been famili

michael steele is the former chairman of the national committee.o be the lieutenant governor of the great state of maryland, which we can see right here. >> yes, we can, i'm loving the view. >> while an appallingly young man, you too remember the old days of this party and the old ways of presidencies that were named after bushes. >> yeah, absolutely. you know, my first association with the bush family goes back to when i was state party chairman and had spent time trying to build the party and found a friend in dora bush. and she reached out and wanted to help me in my effort. got me introduced to the members of the family. what was stunning about it was the willingness of president bush to be so supportive of a state party chairman. and i know a lot of folks talk about the big -- really big things and important things he did as cia director and vice president and president, et cetera, u.n. -- i mean ambassador to china. but the work he did as national chairman, holding the party together at a very critical time during watergate, people gloss over

you hired howard dean, michael steele and a couple of ministers of australia and germany where are the fights in your view in terms of the legalization of cannabis >> i think europe is where we'll see the most growth over the shortest time period we'll see the number of countries in europe go from 15 to 28 in terms of legalization of medical cannabis. i think we'll see -- likely see a country like mexico which came very close to legalizing use through the judicial branch of their government a few weeks ago. they could be the third country. new zealand announced yesterday there will be a referendum to legalize cannabis for adult use in 2020. it's hard to predict where the battles take place countries are legalizing united kingd united kingdom legalized while it feels like it's progressing quickly, the velocity of change outside of north america is much faster in my opinion than inside of north america. >> yeah. brendan, always great to speak with you thank you. >> thank you so much for having me. >> brendan kennedy, the ceo of tilray up right now by 18%. >> wow. >>> all right. the fed's

. >> i've been watching ben stiller on snl playing michael cohen. >> blue steel. >> that's on sunday.bout this yesterday. straight out of hollywood. a man found an old wallet in a storage unit and it was shocked to discover after doing digging it belonged to diane keaton. turns out she lost it five decades ago. gadi schwartz has the in credible story. >> reporter: it didn't look much at first. a forgotten memento in a storage locker, won in an auction. >> a time capsule. that's what it was. >> reporter: but then he saw this face. >> i'm looking through the pictures and the pictures kind of look familiar. >> reporter: he thought he recognized it from ""the godfather"." >> he did? >> reporter: yeah, but the name diane hall didn't ring any bells until he found this, an actor equity card with the stage name diane keaton years before she landed her oscar winning role of annie hall. >> if it has my name on it i guess it's mine. >> reporter: he tried reaching out to the star and had no luck until she saw this story, tweeting, this is the craziest story. thank you. >> don't lose it. >> report

this is from michael steele, long time republican advisor. it is entirely possible it gets worse, not better. that is available online. randy is next from kentucky, supporting the government shutdown. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you. i voted for president trump because of what he said and how he was going to spend my money. i pay a lot of taxes money. the money we pay in taxes to be spent the way he said he was going to spend it. we agreed with that premise. we agreed with the reasoning for doing that. that is what we would like. if our money is not spent the way we vote people in to spend it, what kind of government to we have? what good is our form of government? tell me. that is basically what it is, shut it down and keep it down. get the whole money he said he was going to get. get the whole amount of money that we were promised when we voted for him. this is not on us. this is just what we wanted. willing to pay for that as taxpayers, then give us what we want and what we voted for. host: thank you for the call. another sto

michael cohen into court, establish his cooperation. he's facing sentencing. but those 70 hours were about a lot more than lying to congress you can bet. the kristopher steele dossier which lead out this alleged russia conspiracy to interfere in the election asserts that michael cohen was a key liaison between the russian government and trump campaign. and then he traveled to europe and met with russian officials in that endeavor. he has always denied that adamantly. but a lot of things in that dossier have proven out over time as this investigation has gone forward, and you can bet that prosecutors are grilling cohen about everything to do with any knowledge that he has about russian collusion and any other matters and potentially obstruction of justice as well. >> just to keep things clear and simple here, let's go back to manafort for a second here, jill. manafort's legal team is speaking with the president's legal team as well. >> they have been and probably still are. that was one of the reasons that there was tension between the manafort and the prosecutors and maybe one of the reasons that the deal fell apart. but i also want collusion, which of cour

steele dossier. this is more information. this meeting in prague in the adam tuss yea. >> flynn, manafort, michael cohen all mention the steele dossier. cohen is singled out as the linchpin of the contact. whatever it is that he knows, whatever he's telling has to be high level. barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney of michigan. thank you very much for your time. i appreciate it. >> thanks, joy. >> thank you. much more to get here tonight. we are going to talk with a key democrat on the house intelligence committee who just one week from tonight will be in the majority. stay with us. your home improvement "to-do list" still isn't "to-done". but hey, at least you still have time to get the ford vehicle you've always wanted. just get to the final days of our holiday sales event. see you sometime between now and january 2nd. so you can end your year on a high note. ford. built for the holidays. it's time to get our best offers of the season. - with tripadvisor finding the right hotel at the lowest price is as easy as dates, deals, done. going on a work trip? dates, deals, done. destination wedding? dates, deals, done. because wi

there is a lot of unconfirmed explosive stuff in the steele dossier, right out of a bond movie. michael cohen denied it all the night the dossier came out, and he has kept on denying it. #fake news he wrote. i've never been to prague in my life he tweeted, alongside a photograph of his passport. cohen also went on tv. >> in the report posted on buzzfeed, it claims that trump's lawyer michael cohen met with kremlin representatives in prague of august of 2016. one small little itsy bitsy problem, michael cohen has never been to prague, ever. wait a minute, am i allowed to look? i don't want to joke about it, because it's serious in your life. >> it's very serious in my life. >> this is your passport. >> yes, it is. >> let's go back to yesterday. you got called by? >> mr. trump. >> and mr. trump asked you? >> were you ever in prague? >> and your answer? >> never. >> in your whole life? >> i've never been in prague. >> and he wanted to see your passport? >> he said michael, i really need to know. i said mr. trump, i have never been to prague. he said okay. do you want to see my passport? i

a good example was when the chief investigative reporter for yahoo news michael isikoff made a bombshell out of the infamous steel dossier that was a big one remember with the p. tape aka the golden shower compromise with plenty of alleged collusion evidence back in january two thousand and seven seeing hours and hours of airtime on these steel memos bombarded t.v. screens to tell the world a story of collusion plus its thanks to the dossier for one that the f.b.i. secured a warrant to spy on donald trump's advisor pretty serious stuff the dossier was full of claims that could have been seen as good collusion or proof the most notable alleging donald trump's former attorney michael cohen traveled to prague to fix and coordinate all that campaign scheming together with russia and the so-called was perhaps part of it too with the most bizarre claims that russian security services had blackmailed trump with recordings of his dirty deeds. in a moscow hotel this wasn't just something that randomly came from donald trump the president pretty much repeated a crucial statement by the author of the dossier himself reveale

former national security advisor michael flynn faced earlier today in federal court has christopher steele or anyone associated with his commented on the discrepancies within the dossier and that some of the sort of. accusations has he taken any responsibility for that or said anything not really he kind of pushed back on on answering certain questions in regard to that now the senate committee did refer steel because the reason that the f.b.i. was able to get the warrant for example to listen and to wiretap. on was a page on the foreign policy adviser to trumpet her page was because of these dossiers in these articles and steal lie to the f.b.i. and said that he had not had contact with the coffin of the reporters which turns out clearly is not true so he was one of the first to initiate this whole rush to get investigation now is coming out and saying that a lot of the details in the report aren't accurate but again standing by what he said that there's something there that there is some sort of collusion but not being i think completely transparent about what. i mean these are mean we'r

michael cohen to point the finger at the president on trump tower are likely going to be disappointed because there is nothing in here that points to that. similarly, you remember the sensational allegations in the steele dossier that michael cohen flew to prague to meet with russians about communications during the campaign. he adamantly denied that, repeatedly denied that, including under oath before the senate and the house, and he is not charged with lying about that. >> that's not just a matter of his word. he has documentary evidence, travel manifests and repeats and contemporaneous communications that show where he was and when. that's why that's not there. in terms of the other matters, another thing in this is what the president knew about wikileaks and whether or not somebody had told him and whether or not michael cohen was there. >> that's part of the ongoing investigation into roger stone, yes. >> i think you have a couple avenues you have to look at here. neal, help me out here. maybe it is not in here because cohen couldn't put it there. or maybe when michael cohen has to be solely relied on as a source or something they got shoddy. and if it's not something that they could triangulate w

isikoff said things that trump did not quote, in broad strokes, christopher steele was onto something. i'm joined by michael isikoff, co-author of "russian roulette." michael, have you, in fact, utterly and completely cleared the president and his campaign of any wrongdoing having to do with russia whatsoever? >> no. and, in fact, i think i made clear in the interview that the president was quoting that there are serious matters, and that the steele dossier was onto them, that there was a major russian effort to interfere in our election. that it included extensive outreach to cultivate members of the trump campaign. there were multiple contacts between the trump campaign and people associated with the kremlin that were never disclosed to the public. all of that, you know, was true, is true and will be true when we're done. what i did say is that some of the specific allegations, some of the more sensational allegations in the steele dossier have not borne out, at least no evidence has come forward to corroborate them. and in some respects the credibility of some of the specific allegations has gotten weake