mara gay, and michael steele. michael, i'm going to start with you on this one. i'm going to consider you were a former investment banker and you were part of wall street. >> oh, boy. >> the dow closing 600 points down, dropping 600 points. is this just a fluctuation in the market sore this a predictor of more long-term downturn? >> well, you know, i think it can be both. trump trump, things he does have a big effect one way or another. don't forget, after he was elected, everybody thought the market was going to collapse, and instead it went from 17,000 to 26,000 when it hit its peak a couple of weeks ago. and now it's fallen off again, because his rhetoric has heated up again. he has issues with the mueller report. he has issues with congress, as you just outlined. sop there are definitely problems in the real economy, driven by i don't want to get too technical, but people mispricing risks and the fed keeping interest rates too low for too long. just when jerome powell started to raise interest rates, what happened? trump jawboned him down, and once again peop

michael steele, we'll start with you.think these proposals will help warren break through to specifically black voters? >> that is what she is hoping. it is hard to have a strategy, historically, where you don't compete seriously in the first two states of iowa and new hampshire. i think what we're looking at here is senator warren has to get past bernie sanders and has to surpass bernie sanders in new hampshire and that will be the sling shot that sends her addressing the policy concerns that many voters have. >> "washington post" writing about broken promises of the past as they consider the 2020 presidential campaign and the "post" points to disappointment of some black voters quote from their reporting. all too often we see candidates go to south carolina and lecture black folks about racism, that's a textbook definition of preaching to the choir. >> we know about racism. >> so they say, give us some real policy proposals. what do you make of this? >> i think that's where this democratic primary is going, i think that

joining me, former republican committee chairman michael steele, and nbc analyst jonathan lemire.has to be over the moon over these numbers. >> that's right, this is a streak of really good economic news that the white house is reveling in. we've seen a number of white house officials on the white house lawn today touting them including larry kudlow and sarah sanders. the sustained economic growth which, let's note, began under barack obama, but has certainly not slowed down under this president and it's frustrating to his advisers that he can't stay focused on this, when this is his best argument. democrats recognize this too, inherently it's tough to beat any incumbent when the economy is this good. >> indeed. and michael steele, the last time we had jobs numbers, an unemployment rate this low, americans were landing on the moon for the first time. that's something that kevin hassett pointed out from the white house today. and he's absolutely right. now, they're going to say -- the president's already going to say that this is all him, and as jonathan just pointed out, he inheri

to peter baker, michael steele, to stephanie ruhle, tough stuff tonight. thank you for starting off our conversation. coming up for us, mr. rosenstein, former number two man at justice. tonight publicly criticizes a former fbi director as the president takes aim at his own choice for current fbi director. we'll explain all of it. and later, the alleged sabotage of several tankers near the persian gulf. it adds to growing concerns this administration is heading toward military conflict of some sort with iran. as we say, what could go wrong? "the 11th hour" is just getting started with watchful eyes on a monday night. here's one you guys will like. show me making it. oh! i got one. the best of amy poehler. amy, maybe we could use the voice remote to search for something that you're not in. show me parks and rec. from netflix to prime video to live tv, xfinity lets you find your favorites with the emmy award-winning x1 voice remote. show me the best of amy poehler, again. this time around... now that's simple, easy, awesome. experience the entertainment you l

peter alexander, steve israel, michael steel, former press secretary to john boehner. welcome all. first to you, peter alexander. the president is doubling down or his staff is and he is on twitter against congress. >> reporter: you're exactly right. you said it. e ca he calls them the do nothing party. they don't control the senate so it won't do anywhere. they have made a lot of advances as it relates to guns, campaign, finance reform and other issues. on these key issues he is trying to win the messaging battle saying i'm the one trying to fight on behalf of the american people. s sarah sanders came out and said it's a complete lie that democrat ks s can do two things one. what struck me is we heard the president say if you're going to keep investigating there won't be any deals. today the president's counselor kellyanne conway appeared to walk that back entirely. she said to us that they are, the white house, is willing to work on immigration, on infrastructure, on all of these topics. there's a lot of confusion right now about whether that's possible. the white house, sarah sa

michael steele. a panel to fit the events of the day. kelly, let me start with you. kind of walk us through how we got to this moment because, of course, it started in a meeting where democrats were trying to decide whether to move forward with impeachment of the president. speaker pelosi came out. she called what the president has been doing a cover-up. then of course she doubled down on those very comments just a few hours later. take a look. >> the fact is in plain sight in the public domain, this president is obstructing justice and he has engaged in a cover-up, and that could be an impeachable offense. >> to be measured in terms of where we came from to this point today. the fact that the speaker is senning this kind of a clear signal seems to be about a couple of things, first, it was a message to the white house clearly heard and it set off big-time consequences. also important to fellow democrats who have been restless and passionate about the potential pathways towards impeachment and there had been some rumblings and really kind of a spike, i think, would b

. >> on that note, here for our leadoff discussion, peter baker, michael steel, former chairman of the republican national committee and stephanie ruhle, host of the 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. hours here on msnbc. welcome to you all. peter, i put you in this role at least once a week on this broadcast and tonight i am forced to ask you again where does this presidency stand? what is it we are looking at as of tonight? >> when you read off the list of stories you just did you feel like you're caught in the middle of a hurricane. in washington we have a name for it it's called monday. this presidency, time and time again, you just see so many things happening all at once, it's hard to get your head around any one thing. we're in a tariff war with china, a shooting war with iran, obviously in a political war between the president and the congress. and, you know, how do you sort of settle which of these things is the most important thing to follow? it's -- it's bewildering and perplexing for policymakers as well as journalists who are trying to get their thumbs on what this presidency is all

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that's what this letter is about and what their whole posture is about. >> michael steele, it seems as if it, you know, in the letter they're angry at mueller, presented evidence that they didn't use. so you think, oh, you would have preferred -- obviously if he attempted to charge him with obstruction, they would have said, hey, the olc memo says we can't do this. it's weird. they want impeachment. they seem to want this. why? i think this is -- >> oh, because -- >> be careful what you -- i know what they think. >> yeah. >> i think they think the democrats don't have the guts to do it. >> well, it doesn't matter whether or not they have the guts to do it. the backstop is the united states senate. you can impeach him all day long but you can't convict. and here's the thing. the drama is in the act. the drama is -- that's the thing where you're sitting in front of your television with the popcorn. that's what trump wants to play. reel the democrats into this space. i firmly believe the president is wholly comfortable with the idea of being impeached because it plays his ultimate card fo

michael steele, former rnc chair and doug thornell. what did you think of steny hoyer's description of the darkened windows, couldn't see outside there. they walked into a trap. >> oh, completely. it was an ambush. the president is disingenuous thereowiatinnarrating, and thought i was going to my happy place. >> no chair for the president. never was going to happen. >> in about half an hour's time before the president walked in and he was late, the entire thing was scrambled. they decided to do the press conference. the president notified his aids that he wanted to do it. there was some division among aides about that and scrambled the whole thing and he never intended to, from that point forward, he never intended to have the meeting. that's according to reporting by my post colleagues and then he walks in, sees hoyer and everybody else and they realized almost immediately, that realization in his retelling, they realized what was about to happen. >> carol, what did you pick up? >> in some ways, this is the go-to move. he gets in a bo

and michael steele, do you remember the backlash when he tried to give me a name and tweeting about me bleeding badly from the facelift. literally the backlash was from around the world, democrats and republicans, people from all walks of life. he got pummelled for that. there is, quite frankly, there are certain differences for gender politically that are hard for women, there are also things you can't do and he just courthoused that line politically, don't you think? >> i do. and i i thit interesting how donald trump deals with women of influence and women in power. and they represent two different battle front. certainly someone like yourself and others in the media space who have a following very much like at president, who have a voice very much like the president represent a particular type of challenge, but then, which he thinks he owns because he's been in that space the the longest. then he moves into this new space in politics where he's confronted by a woman with equal stature, just behind the vice presidency who gives as good as he dishes out. and that's the part that donal

eugene scott and michael steel former adviser to jeb bush and john boehner.ant to first, i want to get to our impeachment debate a bit. i want to go to the last time the president threatened the border. let me put up number four. he said if mexico doesn't immediately stop, this is march 29th, doesn't immediately stop ul immigrati immigration through our southern border, i will be closing the border next week. that was march 29th. next week happened on april 5th and here was his response. >> because mexico has been absolutely terrific for the last four days. they are a ppprehended everybod. yesterday they apprehended 1400 people. the day before it was 1,000. if they apprehends people at their southern boarder where they don't have to walk through, that's a big home run. we can handle it from there. >> this is why people think this is a bluff. >> he is suggesting his tweets made a significant change. in part because of collaborations between mex aico and the united states. the president knows he has to continue this hard line proeapph to immigration. since he's

joining me now is jim kessler, cofounder of the centrist think tank skp , and michael steele. you have president trump throwing around the impeachment word like it's every day vocabulary. speaker pelosi treads carefully around the world like maybe it's cursed. isn't that the exact opposite of what you would expect and where does that leave us? >> yeah, so look, there's people in both parties talking about impeachment, nancy pelosi doesn't want to see this happen. i think she feels and accurately so that impeachment helps donald trump. it doesn't hurt donald trump, and it probably helps republicans in the midterms so, you know, you've got donald trump trying to goad democrats into impeachment that he thinks will help him politically and help him in 2020. >> yesterday, democrats who want to start impeachment or at least an inquiry immediately are in contrast to those pumping the brakes. they all made their cases on the sunday shows. i want to play a little bit of it. >> this is not about the 2020 election, it's about doing what's right now for our country. this is going to be a

anne gearan, michael steele and maria teresa kumar are back with us as well.s to talk about from those last couple of interviews. let me start with what we heard from mark lauder. your reaction, michael. >> it reminds me of the fundamental weirdness of the trump era. this is the president's personal attorney is making a fact-finding trip to dig up opposition research on one of his opponents in ukraine, and he told "the new york times" that. like this is just fundamentally odd, and i don't think it's unusual that the president's campaign can't really comment on it because this is -- >> well, they sure commented. it wasn't they didn't comment. they said we're good with it. >> giuliani talked to the president and did what he wanted him to do. >> this is what's interesting is that he could also have simply set an email to the ukrainians saying, please investigate. this is all theatrics on the president's part, recognizing that we're going to talk about it and we're going to all of a sudden have the suspicion around biden even if we don't find anything on biden. th

anyhow, we're back with jonathan lamir and michael steele.t for "the washington post," karen tumulty and host of snapchat's good luck america and "vanity fair" contributor, peter hanby. peter's latest piece for the magazine is entitled "this is do or die. joe biden's electability argument is how democrats lose elections. and in it, he writes, biden is popular and famous among democrats, but primary voters are open to something different and want to hear more about the other candidates. biden can still win and should be treated as the front-runner. but he has nowhere to go but down. be sure to remember clinton was beating obama by 20 points a month before she finished third in iowa. electability is only a condition of the moment. nothing about the term is predictive. it is always subject to change. at this point, four years ago, the least electable person on the planet had not even taken his escalator ride down to the lobby of trump tower. today, he is president of the united states. so if biden can surf this moment all the way to november 202

you know a lot a lurch but in fact people like michael steele believe still dream of a supernational europe which had been rejected by many many states even by germany if you look at the position of germany it is opposite to my core but i think that the is a big blow for michael and he will have a lot of difficult is let's say to have these is ideas to go through in this new parliament but it will be very also very difficult to find a compromise because of this. you know parliament well let's talk about your country and talk it a bit more about. popular right now but given his own popularity and i suppose you could say that marine le pen could have actually done better to try and capitalized on his popularity or not as she did well really. yes in fact i think that. you know le pen won but some pool said that she should have won by let's say a big margin a bigger margin like it had been done in fact i think that you know a lot of french who are let's say. respond to those is my call of feel to bar you know national prompts the rally so i think that in fact. this vote has been let's sa

secretary of state michael steele and on monday i called on him to employ diplomacy rather than issued threats when it comes to challenging situations. well after that decision by iran is quite simple now for the signatories of the twenty fifteen agreement do they back the u.s. or do they back iran. ok for now ok partridge at r.t. and london thanks very much for bringing us up to speed there. right so that is where the decision makers stand at this point let's see where it might lead us we can talk to shabbir has an ali who's a political commentator welcome to r.t. could have you with us is iran in any position to be making any demands like this sixty day deadline if it's also threatening to pull out of the deal that it agreed to. and i think we have to look at the situation from a wider perspective iran has from the beginning from the day that very sleepy it was signed been faithful to it it has abided by its commitments from day one where it is america and i'll get to be europe have failed to do so i mean america the moment j. c.p.o. it was signed it lifted a whole load of sanctions

you know michael steele who used to be lieutenant lieutenant governor of my home state of maryland on other networks and like i've never saw him make a valid point about anything ever and he has like a 10 year career now well it feels like a lot of the political discussion on network you know cable news networks all that with the you know with bringing these guys like just who are saying smaller cia former state politicians i see the need because they're supposed to bring in expertise level like you would say have a former n.b.a. player on if you're going to. you know blood is just you make a good point brett is in many of these guys now clouding yeah because he's making a great point because there are people that i mean they're not like related to network so we see people like larry wilkerson who's a great truth teller who's been in those positions who will call out the establishment maybe see 5 percent of these generals cia guys who end up on the mainstream networks and you only see about 5 percent of them ever actually standing up to what the status quo is they're just giving the s

. >>> welcome back, we have stephanie cutter, and michael steel, former rnc chairman.tart with my reporter pal, but stephanie you speak a lot to pelosi, and i know you know how they think on this. the pressure has been increased. essentially a long time republican, is saying -- he didn't say it was a report to congress. >> i have admired her leadership skills for a long time. i think he is is continuing to do what he is does best. letting public opinion build, keep her caucus together. they had two great court victories and opening the doors of inform you. >> if there was a majority for impeachment would he is already be for it? in her caucus? if tr is -- he is is speaking for the majority, it is a silent majority but it is there. >> that's fair, but i think that he is has the virtue of taking the long view on this and having had historical witnessed how impeachments playout. i think unless you continue to build the public case, it is very difficult to bring the american people along with you. that being said, it will be a political problem if they don't exercise their

. >> michael steele, the president is at 45 or 46%. is it resilient or not enough?y resilient. it is proven resilient in the face of gaffes, misstatements, statements of fact. john mccain stuff. it's been incredibly resilient -- >> can it grow? >> it's a pretty hard floor and he grows by subtraction. he grows by taking votes away from the democratic nominee. he can't get a mandate by himself, but he can make the other guy unacceptable, or other woman. >> heidi, donna and michael, thank you. >>> up ahead, my interview with bridget kelly. >>> plus, why i'm obsessed with a swarm of bees. obsessed with a swarm of bees. you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical trials to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. what is that? uh mine, why? it's just that it's... lavender. yes it is, it's for men but i like the smell of it laughs ♪ you're having one more bite no! one more bite! ♪ kraft. for the win win. >

. >> michael steele, do you think this president in any way could push a serious immigration proposalngress? >> absolutely. i mean, we always say only nixon could go to china because of his anti-china days. trump has cast iron credibility with the base of the republican issue on border security so, yes, he has the opportunity if he chooses to seize, it to get a big, good deal on immigration. this is a -- this is dead on arrival obviously, but it is a sign of progress that the president is willing to take cidcism from the right of the right and do something that's a little more center right. >> hand here is the president of the united states. so we are going to listen to his speech on immigration here in the rose garden. >> thank you very much, everybody. please, thank you. thank you very much. we're here on this very beautiful spring day in the rose garden to unveil our plan to create a fair, modern and lawful system of immigration for the united states, and it's about time. [ applause ] >> if adopted, our plan will transform america's immigration system into the pride of our nation a

. >> joining me now, we welcome michael steele, krysta salta-sanderson and jamaal simmons. thank you for being here. it's great to have you. this, kristen, let's just -- you are the pollster among us. joe biden's poll numbers. this president we know is driven by poll numbers. does that explain why he's so focused on the vice president even while he's overseas? >> there's two theories to this, he sees poll numbers showing joe bide ing probably ahead of him. perhaps by significant margins in these blue wall states. at least that's what the public polling is showing. he's getting the message that joe biden is formidable in these states. that's theory number one, theory number two is that he would relish to be up against biden. recall that in 2016, lots of the republican candidates who are second and third tier could never get oxygen because trump dominating the oxygen. he can deprive the entire rest of the entire democratic field of oxygen, letting joe biden set it up as if this had is already the general election, it's already here. and he can run a similar playbook against b

michael steel and stephanie brown james, thanks to you. >>> still ahead, a fresh launch from north koreaor president trump's friendship with the country's dictator and we'll get a report from seoul, south carolina and tonight at 7:00 eastern here -- 8:00 p.m. eastern rather here a special evening edition of "am joy" and that will set the stage tor "saturday night politics zt with donny deutsche and his one-on-one with pete buttigieg. g ♪ ♪ g applebee's bigger, bolder grill combos. now that's eatin good in the neighborhood. it's been a long time since andrew dusted off his dancing shoes. luckily denture breath will be the least of his worries. because he uses polident 4 in 1 cleaning system to kill 99.99% of odor causing bacteria. polident. clean. fresh. and confident. today, life-changing technology from abbott is helping hunt them down at their source. because the faster we can identify new viruses, the faster we can get to stopping them. the most personal technology, is technology with the power to change your life. life. to the fullest. >>> a new weapons test conducted out of north ko

michael steel, former chair of the republican party and msnbc political analyst and former senior advisernt obama. president and ceo of the center for american progress. welcome all. first the you, peter baker. the president's view of this. do you think he's welcoming impeachment the way nancy pelosi suggests? there was something in the anger which in he talked about impeachment as a dirty word which seems he always does not want that to be his legacy. is it a combination of the two? >> i think it would be both things. people say he doesn't want to be impeached. she doesn't show it from the fight. he enjoyed the fight. unlike president clinton when ehe was under the threat of impeachment and tried to stay above the fray by talking about only substantive policy issues. president trump gets down in this debate every single day. he brings it up with no one has brought it up with him. i think he did get peeved by robert mueller's appearance. i think it got under his skin. it's one thing to have a 448-page report that most people aren't going to read. it's another thing to have a visual image

, senior fellow with the ethics and policy institute and former aid in the reagan white house, michael steel. brennan is a cool tempered individual, generally. he seems not to be faking his concern here. >> right. look, part of the problem is that william barr, who until he was appointed as attorney general under this president had a sterling reputation and people believed he was acting in good faith. he's now really called that into question. he seems much more willing to do the bidding of trump and to serve trump's political interests rather than sort of the detached position of upholding the rule of law. and so it's reasonable to doubt that he will perform a fair evaluation of whatever evidence he's looking at, that he might cherry pick and release things that will be helpful to the president's case. >> michael, you've been around washington and classification battles happen all the time between government. but giving someone -- i mean, this is the sort of thing, a slug fest between agencies about what can be classified and what can't. giving someone the authority is an enormous deal, rig

marked verified at the very top but the dossier was never verified, frankly, unverifiable because michael steele himself doesn't stand by it. during an interrogatory, we told you about in great britain, that is when we learned that truth. i don't know if anybody is true -- she was under the threat of perjury at that moment. we would expect that he didn't want to tell the truth on that. christopher steele hated then candidate trump. he was willing to do anything to take him down. doj official bruce ohr was one of many that we now know that warned the fbi, warrant the department of justice about steele's hyperpartisan conduct and steele's ties to the trump campaign. well before the october fisa request. there bruce ohr warning came in august of 2016 before the october 2016 fisa application. last week, we learned also, a high-ranking state department official, her name kathleen kavalec, she also issued a direct warning about steele ten days before the fisa request. she passed on the red flags about steele's election rigging efforts, the validity of his work, and she sent it to the fbi and the depar

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joining me here onset, matt bennett and michael steele. so ali and mike on the trail. pete buttigieg. political company is reporting this morning on what they call his black voter problem. and the fact that his audiences are overwhelmingly white. here is how craig phrased it and how the mayor responded. watch. >> he is putting in the work. trying to connect with voters across the country including south carolina, home to a critical primary and critical voting bloc. i've seen a number of your rally, they are fairly that montha homogenous racially speaking. how do you plan to speak to african-american voters? >> part of it is laying out the agenda. it is also about a relationship. it takes a lot of work to make sure people get to know you. >> so what does he need to do to make sure people get to know him? >> he has to do what he's doing. if you don't have a pre-existing relationship with a community, you have to go build one. nd that is true for i would say 90% of the candidates in this race. there is always this pre-sumpt shon that the black vote will track very quickly

michael steele is a former spokesman for speaker john boehner, and marisa theresa kumar is an msnbc contributor. justin amash is ready for impeachment and nancy pulelosi isn't. does that make some members of the democratic base nuts? >> absolutely. one of the reasons people came out in droves in the midterm election is they realized there's something not right in this administration. yes, we need points on the board, yes, we want to pass legislation, but there's a sentiment in the american people that our republic is not right. and this idea that you're going to keep kicking down this can down the road because you're trying to figure out if something is happening. this is not a witch hunt. they have over three dozen indictments of individuals when it comes to trump, five people in prison when it comes to trump. let's get to the bottom of it. there's an appetite by the american people, and what they want is the truth. if anything has been the guiding principle, there's the idea there's patriotism in searching for the truth. >> i said this to you a million times, michael, but nancy pelosi and joh

michael. christopher steele, who as you know, put together that unverified dossier was used to obtain to survey trump campaign officials. this morning, president tweeted this, figure it, i became president of the u.s. one of the most hard-fought consequential elections in the history of our great nation. from long before i ever took office, i was under a sick and unlawful investigation concerning what's become known as the russian hoax. my campaign was being seriously spied upon by intel agencies and democrats, it's never happened before in american history. it's about to be a total scam. a witchhunt that yielded no collusion, no objection. this must never be allowed to happen again. chairman of the senate judiciary committee, he also certain the appropriate insurance foreign and budget committees. >> got a cold, i apologize. >> it's extraordinary that he one. given the fact that you had the american government might, the power of the american government working against him. the d.o.j., fbi, state department and essay. it's pretty extraordinary. you have promised to do a deep dive into the five

wana summers, sam stein and michael steele. welcome all.uote, after a full day of matches, perhaps the biggest star of all, weighing in at 243 pounds, climbed into the sumo ring. he spent the morning determined to put on a show of his own. the president fired off a tweet that in a single social media missive managed to undercut his national security adviser, reaffirm his ties with the democr dictator all while misspelling a name. trump appearance was restrained for a president who became a household name as a reality tv star. often seems to thrive amid and even encourage chaos. gone were his days as a wrestling entertainment personality who in 2007 close lined wwe chairman vince mcman before shaving him bald in a viral pay per view moment. sa sara sander's defense also something else. they are standing behind kim jong-un and trashing the former vice-president of the united states. >> at its most simplistic level, this was the president taking the side of a brutal dictator with nuclear weapons who threatened this country repeatedly over a de

congress that just weeks before the inauguration, the british issued a dire warning to michael flynn about christopher steele's credibility. here with more on that investigative report, john solomon. this is huge. if they were warned, and they were, i understand there might be a note in a safe. little birdies are telling me things. >> that's what they are looking for, a grand hunt is underway to find this memo that came from the british national security advisor, and the date it is believed to be january 12th, 8 days before the inauguration. the same day that the first phis a renewal occurred on carter page. they saw it two years ago. british said they didn't have confidence in the reliability or credibility of christopher steele's evidence in the russia case and that is huge. this is their former man. i think in this case of the brits did communicate this and the note can be found when did the obama administration get that warning? there's no chance that the brits told this to mike flynn and didn't also tell the obama administration. that's not how they work. they did two years of investigation on russia. the

before president trump's inauguration, that the british issued a dire warning to michael flynn about christopher steele's credibility. here with more on that, investigative report, johnor solomon. this is huge, if they were warned, and they were, and i understand there might be a note in a safe. little birdies are telling me things. it's because that is what they are looking for. a grand hunt is underway to find this memo that came from the british national security advisor to the incoming national security advisor, michael flynn, and the trump administration.at the date is believed to be january 12th, 8 days before the inauguration. actually the same day that the fisa, the first fisa renewal on carter page. they held was noted in their hand, saw it two years ago, the british said they do not have confidence in their reliability oror credibility of chris chrise donna christopher steele's evidence of the russia case. this is huge. this is a former man. he was in mi6 man before he was a hillary clinton hit man. i think in this case, if the brits did communicate this, and this now can be found, there are se

steel tariffs, so this may bring new momentum to that. still a question about whether the republican senate would defy donald trump. amanda: michael mckee, thank you so much.

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michael gove. it's feared british steel could go into administration today, unless it receives an emergency governmentke to our news correspondent sarah corker about how the five thousand people whose jobs are at risk will be feeling. it's hard to plan even the immediate future. if you don't know whether you're going to be able to come to work tomorrow. when you start a career on the steelworks, you want it to be a job for life. they provide good training opportunities, it's a decent wage, and it's somewhere that you can really build yourself and build a career. so, when that's all thrown into flux, it's just devastating. there's been a lack of communication, but i think that's due to uncertainty. i think that british steel and greybull are doing what they can to secure a future for scunthorpe, but we just don't know at this stage. and this is a town really built on steel, they've been making steel here for the last 150 years, so it has a huge, huge impact on everyone. notjust those who work here. yes, absolutely, scunthorpe is a steel town. 0ur football team is called the iron. my brother—in—law is a

carve l*ek, the state department employee who we just found out a couple of weeks ago michael -- christopher steeleer before the first fisa warrant was applied for, gave false information to her about a russian consulate that didn't exist, admitted he had been talking to the news media which in the first fisa warrant the f.b.i. said was not happening. and also admitted his bias saying he wanted it out before the election. she gave all of that to the f.b.i. before the fisa warrant was applied for and we're just finding out about it now. i think people are tired of this. they're tired of the stonewalling. barr is the person who has been given the authority to help get to the bottom of it. unless you give that authority to somebody with the power and experience of bill barr people will continue to stone wall. it's a great thing. >> sandra: to your point the attorney general has been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation. that being said, a lot of questions about james comey, clapper, brennan. what does this all mean for them? what should they

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a source telling fox news that i g michael horowitz is focusing on the role of the steele dossier. it's securing its surf advisory surveillance warrant on carter page: attorney general william barr says he has questions about how then president-elect trump was breached on the selacious and unverified material in that dossier. >> in the period of time between election day and the inauguration, did anyone in government or take action to justify their decisions? >> i think there was some very strange developments during that period. that's one of the things we want to look into. >> such as? >> such as the handling of the meeting on january 6, between the intelligence chiefs and the president and the leaking of information subsequent to that meeting. >> what questions do you have about what happened that day? >> again i won't get into it. >> but it's on your mind? >> it's one of the things we need to look at. maria: attorney general barr with bill hammer there joining me is congressman from georgia doug collins the ranking republican and house judiciary committee congressman good to se

ahead of european markets in general michael hughes in london and all of us all it in washington thank you both very much thank you. the planned merger of german steel giants tizen cult and indian competitor tata has fallen through to cope has withdrawn from the deal because it expects the european commission to block its blockade over competition concerns as a results just said it will be cutting six thousand jobs worldwide plan was to merge to support steel unit with tottenham to create europe's second largest senior producer off to oslo mittal the agreement was a fifty fifty joint venture producing annual synergies of up to six hundred million euros for both companies to open tata said they had expected to have generated pro-forma sales of fifteen billion euros. let's go to our frank financial correspondent in frankfurt comment that if that deal falls through appears to have fallen through what does that mean for doesn't cope on tata do they have to look elsewhere for someone to marry. you know if it were so easy it would be great the problem is that there is no one really out there to be married the steel business is a business with extremely hi