there's something wrong with him, michael steele? >> complete and total out of touch with anything close to reality if you think western liberalism is the west coast of -- >> the liberals in the west? >> the liberals in the west coast. >> this interview was laughable. this president, i have to give him some cred on this when tucker asked him, what do you want to do about it? i don't know. what am i supposed to do about people living on the street? it plays to this narrative, you mentioned the base, it plays to this idea, reinforcing the idea of us versus them. starting the conversation with, you were just in osaka in tokyo and the streets were clean and people -- there was no graffiti. >> he said no one was peeing -- maybe something is wrong with tucker carlson. maybe i'm worried about the wrong dude. >> we have an issue with folks who live on the streets and cities battle with that every single day. a lot of folks, just because -- do it because that's what they want to do. that's how they want to live, their lifestyle. there are peo

i'm going to come to you first here at the table, michael steele.s pairing, the most unlikely pairing shows that in normal politics, you and i are friends. >> yeah. >> we don't agree on anything i'm sure politically. >> right. >> there was a time when you could be the chief pugilist against president obama and still be friends with lots of democrats, which you are. >> yeah. >> donald trump has brought this new thing in where he goes after not just any congressman, but the nicest congressman and also baltimore. you used to be lieutenant governor of maryland. your thoughts? >> this was a zero-sum calculation by the president in that for anybody else other than him, there was no benefit to this. we just go down this rabbit hole and just get lost in it which is the way he likes us to play. for the communities that are affected by what he says, you sit in stunned silence, which is why it was so important for people to stand up and speak and say something in that moment. the deafening silence from members of my own party who you all know, and i hate doing

podcast, michael steele. and in london, washington anchor for bbc world news north america caddie kaye. not waking up early there. >> not waking up early. jonathan, before we launch into everything else, really quickly, what's the headline out of acosta's press conference yesterday as it pertains to donald trump? did he help himself at all with his audience of one or did he dig his hole only that much deeper? >> well, acosta is the latest example of a person that's associated with this president who doesn't apologize. there was no i'm sorry. there was no expression of regret. this wasn't the fiery performance that we saw from now justice kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings, but there certainly was some defiance here. what we have heard is the president was relatively pleased with how yesterday went. white house aides signaled to the president that they thought did he well. people are rallying around him on the republican side. but will come to play here is how this plays with the media over the next co

ron: michael steele is a good friend of mine and we have discussed this many times over the past twoears. he believes thiss deliberate. don't know what is in the president's heart. i could never presume to know what is -- what is in his hearts. -- his heart. certainly for me, the optics of this look bad. rst he started off by insulting congressman john lewis, a civil rights icon. then we talk about the infamous sq color.r black women of and now mr. cummings. you start to say, is this a pattern? is there something more deliberate or is this coincidental? i do not believe in politics that anything is coincidental. laura: the president is trying to expand his base. what is the political risk rticularly in terms of independent voters? ron: i think the risk is a strong one. who wins elections in america? it is the independent voters. those folks from key swing states. the people who say -- who voted for president obama who decided to vote for mr. trump are saying after eight years of the firstpr blacident, is this what we need in america today? laura: as you keep pointing out, republ pres

jill wine-banks is a former prosecutor and michael steele. michael steele, let me start with you. hours of the hearing this week. >> i did. >> but that moment, i said it was a loud statement spoken quietly. people were straining at times to hear what the special counsel had to say. did it stand out to you? >> i thought it stood out. there were a number of those moments that stood out. i have to admit i got caught myself getting caught up in the sort of presentation of what mueller was saying and not really saying, okay, step back from the soundi of it, listen t the words and what he's saying. that was one of those moments where it's very clear that -- the other one being did you exonerate the president? no. you can't get more concise than that. and so i think that what the american people have to do now is to begin with the help of other institutions, whether it's the congress, whether it's third-party organizations which are themselves going out and replaying moments like this for the american people, condensing it down, so we get past all the stuff that was a distraction in term

and msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele is here. pulitzer prize winning columnist and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson joins us. former chief of staff to the dccc and for hillary clinton's presidential candidate, adrienne elrod. she's an msnbc contributor. great group to have with us this morning. what's on tap for today? ten candidates for president square off tonight including bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. they're among the front-runners right now, but still trailing joe biden by a wide margin. we're going to dig deep into the latest polling and what's going on with the candidates. plus two developments from capitol hill. the senate fails to block arm sales to saudi arabia and more house democrats back the push for impeachment. we'll run both those stories and fact checking the president's pick for the nation's top spy job. what exactly was john ratcliffe talking about when he said he'd put terrorists in prison? like what did he mean? we'll go through that. but weeks of president trump's sound and fury have don

. >> joining me now, two strategists, michael steele on the republican side, and joe payne on the democratic side. michael, let me go to you first. how does the president and his chief of staff justify such a blatant, dehumanizing, racist, rant against a district which is basically middle class? barely a majority black. because the representative of that district chairs the oversight committee and has to deal with a plethora of issues, including the things that are a concern to many people of color around the country, but also would deal with oversight situations such as whether russians are interfering with our elections and such as other items that makes the president uncomfortable, if not outright unethical. >> sure. i think we could all crack one open and have a discussion of the merits of charm city. two things are going on here. one, the president doesn't like oversight. he doesn't believe that congress has a constitutional role to hold him accountable when he and his administration break the rules. there's also the fact that his path to re-election lies in exacerbating the divide betw

i'm joined by eugene robinson and michael steele, former spokesman to house speaker john boehner. think these are subtle and they're direct and ethnic. racial, if you will. why is trump doing it? >> trump is doing it because he has one election left and the only way to win that election is to recreate the narrow path by ginning up outstanding support, oversupport, unprecedented support among older white voters in the industrial midwest states. he believes these attacks, these politics of resentment does that. the problem for the rest of the gop is two-fold. one, they're getting viv sected on national television trying to defend this stuff when it's indefensible. they have to win elections after 2020. >> is trump the only guy that can get away with this kind of talk? >> of course. >> why does he get away with it? >> trump is massively popular with the base of the republican party. that's not changing. so the reality that these other elected republicans deal with. >> gene, your cold assessment? >> kind of domestic real public or whatever. it's astounding, really. where are these prin

claire mccaskill, peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times," and michael steele, former rnc chairman and former lieutenant governor of maryland. michael, i have to start with you. what are your feelings as a republican all of your life about hearing a republican president talk the way he is about people of color? >> it's disgusting. it's not part of our history. it's not what we've stood for. it is not based on the founding of this party. it's championing of the freedom of african slaves, putting in place the mechanisms, the structures inside and outside of government to help those transition to economic opportunity here in this country. it is not the party of reagan. it is not the party of kemp when the leader of that party says the things that this president has said about a great city, the city of our national anthem, the star spangled banner, the city that wears very proudly the scars of the growth of this country, the troubles that we see in inner cities in this country, but also the hope of this country. so it is very disturbing, chris. but as the president

so he does have to prove he's more ready for this. >> but just to say what michael steele says.ple listen to her. so it's a little bit different when bob gates who's a little bit older than aoc is making those comments. >> you know, former head of the cia, dude, you've got no juice. we've got this six-month member of congress much more juice than you do, sorry. [ laughter ] >> and she gets us talking about it. and i think that's why leader pelosi is really trying to corral her caucus and saying it's not back in the olden days when we didn't have social media and twitter. your words carry a lot more weight now. >> can i bring up the donkey in the room? >> biden? >> no. it's connected to the busing conversation. it's connected to is he -- he has got to perform at a different level in july, james. >> he has to look like he can still swing at that fastball. other candidates have faced this problem before when they were younger. ronald reagan seemed really old in he was in his 60s. he had to kind of put on a show to show people that he was physically vibrant, whether that's going out

i am joined by michael steele.vernment experience who also ran the republican party in a different era. >> it's good to see you, aere. >> what do you think is important on the policy side? donald trump talks this way and then what is he doing running the country? >> well, they are very much two different things in some respects. but there is the sort of the reinforcement of that hot rhetoric through some of the policies as you noted from immigration to health care to other issues that really impact people day in and day out. as we heard during the big debate on the tax cut, that a lot of the people who would not benefit from this tax cut interestingly enough were people who fervently support the president. so in one twisted sense, a lot of this hot rhetoric that seems to be aimed at you know minorities men and women of color, seems to have as equally if not sometimes disproportionate impact on the very consumers of trumpism that support him. so that for me is a very interesting sort of narrative to watch play out,

michael steele, think about it.osi her entire life has been attacked for being too progressive, being too liberal. people -- you know, members in modern districts have been asked for years, will you vote for nancy pelosi as speaker of the house and now nancy is the middle ground. she's the one that's bringing people back because she understands she's speaker of the house. because a lot of moderate democrats in virginia, in california, in georgia, in michigan -- across the country a lot of moderates barely won their races against republicans. and that's what made nancy pelosi speaker of the house. >> well, it's very interesting, joe. this was almost a flash back back to the chairmanship of howard dean who broadened the reach of the party, recognized that heck, we have democrats who can be competitive and win in places like north carolina and virginia and south carolina and elsewhere. and so she sort of latched on to that. she let her candidates run the races they needed to run in the districts where she found them. s

former chairman of the rnc, michael steele and joy reid, host of "a.m. joy" here on msnbc and author of the brand-new book "the man who sold america: trump and the unraveling of the american story," which bewill get to later in the hour. joy, i have always been concerned and i said it on the show before, going back to 2016 not one of the six republicans who ran against trump, not hillary clinton, ever figured out how address and combat the asymmetry running against someone like donald trump. >> absolutely. the campaign assumed the american voter could sort it out. you have to remember if you read the mueller report, the first half of it describes to what eventually mounts to a voter suppression machine, in which they injected anti-hillary memes, the super predder ovator she wrote the crime bill or supported the crime bill. it's not to get people to vote for donald trump, it's to get them to not vote. suppress themselves. and it doesn't just start with the debates. this happened in january. the minute she launched a slew of online activity accusing her of

let me bring in michael steele for john boehner and donna edwards.lieve that joe biden is simply not up to the task with grappling with these issues? >> first of all, i think it's too early in the campaign to tell who is up to the task of grappling with those issues or being president of the united states. >> do you think cory booker not to say what he said? >> i do think joe biden has to do a reset on his campaign when it comes to having a conversation about race, injustice, about the criminal justice system and about his record. i think there are other candidates who have to answer questions about their record on some of these issues as well. i mean, we have seen the difficulty, for example, that mayor pete buttigieg has had on the campaign trail when it comes to race. but, you know, for democrats, i don't know that this is the end of a conversation that we want to have within the democratic party, especially when you have the challenges of a president of the united states who every single day either says something that's racist or miss only tpheuf

. >>> joining us the professor from university of texas and msnbc contributor and michael steele, msnbc political analyst and tim o'brien, bloomberg opinion and msnbc contributor. not that long ago i heard a lot of pundits saying maybe harris hor warren can be a vp for somebody. i heard somebody on one of the campaigns, maybe one of the guys can be a vp for me. you have a lot of experience. how do they capitalize on that momentum. how do they not say early on i had a surge but it went away. >> it's about the substance. both of these women are very well accomplished and well-known in their states of california and massachusetts. in the debate stage they had the opportunity to really introduce themselves to the rest of the krer. the country said, hey, you know what, i like what i'm seeing. country. it doesn't matter what i'm seeing man or woman, i like the substance. we celebrated 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment being passed. 100 years ago most women could not vote and fast forward we see two women surging with the potential to become the democratic nominee. we're at a pivotal poi

one of the things said also by michael steele was he offered the president an invitation to come to baltimore, to walk the streets of baltimore with the people, the proud people who live here and see this community is as proud as any in the country. they said of course this community has its difficulties, its challenges. that is not unlike many communities across the country. they would like the president to come here and to stand with them and to watch and to see people and to see how they are trying to make their community even better than what it is. hallie? >> rehema ellis, thank you. the reverend al sharpton, we will that for you in a minute. >>> new details about the horrific shooting at a food festival south of san francisco overnight. at least three people have been killed in gilroy, california and 15 hurt after somebody opened fire at the famous garlic festival. federal law enforcement officials confirmed his name. san tina will hell. . this is steven romarw phaeumero old. he had gone with his mother and grandmother, who survived the shooting. >> he had his whole life to live. he was

. >> reporter: former chairman michael steele revit l sharpton came to congressman cummings defense in baltimore this morning.>> he has a particular venom for blacks and people of color. >> reporter: the president insists his tweets are not racist pointing out senator bernie sanders wants described baltimore as like a third world country. this weekend cummings told cbs news i will not be distracted from doing everything that i can't uplift the lives of the people in baltimore. as chairman of the house recite committee congressman cummings is leading several investigations, looking into the trump administration actions, the president finances. acting white house chief of staff nick mulvaney says the president tweets are his way of fighting back. >> does the president become biblically? absolutely. we have seen this reaction from him before and he will again because he pushes back any fights back when he feel ck. what mr. cummings said was wrong. truck cummings and border protection detention facilities during a recent congressional oversight hearing. >> a child sitting in their own fece

governor larry hogan says they are, quote, outrageous, but former maryland mayor michael steele wants more an apology from president trump. >> the streets and neighborhoods are ready for you.wa folk to talk to you so just show up. put the tweet down, brother, and show up. >> bndrnie sa is also pushing aick agt the president. the presint said sanders should be labeled aci ra for equating baltimore to a third world country.we >> will dig into that now about bernie sander and his response to the president. he says that his comments about baltimore were taken out of context.r senato sanders said ed this in 2015 following the violent riots over the death of freddie degree stand police cuody. he noticed the damage and poverty in one nehborhood saying people who were walking m there not realize they were in a third world country. >>> senator sander will take part in tonight's democratic debate. this is th t second time candidates will meet. this time it will happen in detroit. tonight's debate wl be the first of two and includes senator sanders and elizabeth warren and the rest you see re. o

michael steele and joy reid, mostly, thanks to you for watching.e wallace. >>> off and running. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. last week's democratic presidential debate in miami marked the first milestone in the long road toward the 2020 presidential election. the debate was packed with standup moments and offered voters a glimpse of who could one day face donald trump. take a look. >> vice president biden, it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two united states senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this

michael steele, former rnc chairman. jeremy peters, politics editor for "the new york times" and former deputy national security adviser for president obama. thank you, all. it's a great quartet to try to figure this thing out. michael, is this strategy to say he is going to go to north carolina and repeat all these attacks on these four women congresswomen, or did he make a stupid mistake and he is trying to find some advantage in it? >> no, it's not stupid. it may be stupid but it's not stupid in the sense oops, i didn't mean to say that. what trump does in moments like this, it gives him an outlet to vent exactly what he feels and what he thinks about these women when he sees them. they cause in him something that's visceral, and he responds to that. and he is using 1950s language, communism and social -- no one is talking about this. they all failed. communism doesn't exist. >> is this about ideology or ethnicity? >> oh, both. that's the beauty of it. he intertwines them both. it is about ideology because to his base

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former maryland lieutenant governor michael steele wants more than an apology from president trump. >> streets are ready for you. the neighborhoods ar ready for you. folks want to talk to you. just show up. put the tweet dn and show up. >> bernie sanders is also pushing back against the president. mr. trump said sanders should be labeled a racist for equating baltimore to a ird world country when he was running for president. >>> rising tennis star coco gauff is one of the most talked about tennis players in the world, and we've got her this week. all week she is in d.c. playing in the city open at rock creek park. there she is. tonight ahead of doubles match. this is gauff's first u.s. appearance since beating venus williams at wimbledon, advancing to the quarterfinals at the all england club earlier this month. for young tennis fans she's become a role model. >> no matter how old you are, your ethnicity, your gender, it don't matt r, thatyou can do anything you want if you put your mind to it. >> at just 15 she's a role model. gauff wonig tonht's doubles match and will play in the s

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we heard michael steele there criticizing the president over these racist remarks. it seems as if the president, himself, is very much digging in. >> reporter: it's great to see you. the president is leaning in. faced with charges of racism. he's projecting. he's saying i'm not racist. elijah cummings is the racist. he's also trying to bring the reverend al sharpton into this entire thing. the president is escalating these attacks. two weekends ago the president was attacking the four congresswomen of color. just this past weekend the president is attacking the well regarded head of the oversight committee. the president in his tweets try to paint baltimore as some rat infested hellscape. the average income is higher than the district jim jordan represents. the president was hosting a meeting of his wonderful inner city pastors. the white house hasn't given us an update. it was supposed to be closed press. we have gotten no update just who was invited or what they potentially talking about. i texted a handful of the pastors but it would appear and we'll have to wait

governor larry hogan says they re outrageous and former maryland lieutenant governor michael steele wantsre than an apology from president trump. >> the streets and neighborhoods are ready for you. folks want to talk to you so just show up. put the tweet down, brother, and show up. >> bernie sander is alsong pushi back against the president. the president said sander should be labeled a racist for equating baltimore to a third world country. sanders says those comments about baltimore were taken out of context. senator sanders said ed this in 2015 following the violent rerts ovhe death of freddie degree and police custody. he noticed the damage and poverty in one neighborhood lkying people who were waing ot there may nealize they were were not in a third world country. >>> s part in tonight's democratic debate. this is the second time the candidates running for president will meet and this time it happens in detroit. tonight's debate will be the nd first of two ancludes the following. on night two, here is who we will see. >> > anyone who drives in thison regi knows commuting by car can f

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msnbc political analyst and moderator, of course, of "washington week" on pbs on friday nights, michael steele, former chair of the republican party and nbc political analyst and former democratic congresswoman donna edwards all joining us today. peter baker, let me go first to you. you wrote extensively this weekend on the president and race, his long history. we've all been covering this. let's talk about the strategy. he is escalating it today. we heard him say friday he's sorry about the chants and acknowledging he wouldn't do it again. the vice president saying he wouldn't do that again, wouldn't let people do it without calling them out. then sunday morning he was off to the races and today even more. >> strategy for 2020 is to make sure that voters see a choice between him and what he's going to portray as the socialist wing of the democratic party. that no matter how much they don't like him, americans should be wary of democrats that will turn america into, in effect, another venezuela. by making it a race-based argument, he deattracted from the ideological argument, in which there is

and msnbc political analyst and former chairman of the republican national committee michael steele is columnist and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson joins us. former chief of staff to the dccc and for hillary clinton's presidential candidate, adrienne elrod. she's an msnbc contributor. great group to have with us this morning. what's on tap for today? ten candidates for president square off tonight including bernie sanders and elizabeth warren. they're among the front-runners right now, but still trailing joe biden by a wide margin. we're going to dig deep into the latest polling and what's going on with the candidates. plus two developments from capitol hill. the senate fails to block arm sales to saudi arabia and more house democrats back the

our lead-off discussion on a thursday night, franco ordonez, white house correspondent for npr, michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee and former u.s. attorney joyce vance who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. welcome to all of you. franco, let's start with you. this executive order that the president has put forth tonight actually changes nothing materially. >> right. that's absolutely right. i mean, they basically instructed the federal government to do what the federal government's already doing, which is rather humorous. but that's trump, but that was the point. the point was to really go through the motions, stir up a lot of dust around this, feign hurt and anger and charging ahead and then wind up exactly where you knew you were going to be two weeks ago or at least the day the supreme court came out with its decision. having, you know, barr come out and sort of give the legal matter on all of this, sort of the cherry on top. but ali, this was all pretty much sort of the setup for what will come possibly this weekend, even though from what i'm hearing,

at this administration -- and i want to say this expressly to mary young and michael steele and al sharpton, who today called out the president and said let president trump put his money where his mouth is. well, boys and girl, i have a message for you, president trump has given $16 billion in 2018 alone to elijah cummings' district in federal grants. we have given more money in homeless funds to baltimore in the last administration. we have given more money and community development grants than the last administration to baltimore. my question to you guys is this, what are you actually doing with the money so that it benefits residents in the community for once instead of deep pocket crooked politicians? >> sandra: will get into more of that with our next two guests coming up. the case is avidly being made by supporters of the president and members of his party that this president has very good for minority communities when you look at the very low on employment rates. >> absolutely. americans are sick and tired of being put last by politicians who took an oath to put them first. i am in o

. >> in the run-up to the 2010 midterms, republicans like then national committee chairman michael steeleosi. >> fire pelosi! >> the power center at that time wasn't with barack obama, it was on capitol hill. it was manifest in the leadership of nancy pelosi as speaker of the house and her ability to at that time corral the votes she needed to get obamacare, the affordable care act, passed. >> pelosi has grown into a power-hungry -- >> republicans across the country joined this with a barrage of increasingly vitriolic political ads, even portraying pelosi as a witch. >> i'm going to throw a little water on politicians who say one thing and do another, like nancy pelosi. >> come election day, it appeared the strategy worked. in a crushing blow, democrats lost 63 seats in the house. giving republicans majority control. >> she became a representation of all those politicians out there that weren't doing their job and weren't meeting the expectation of the people. and then had the arrogance to come at you and say -- >> for pelosi it was a low point in a long career of highs. amid calls to ste

michael steele, who was the former chairman of his party, the republican party, and i to show a bipartisan meeting to deal with the fact that black homeowners are dealing with a decrease in being able to keep their home. this is s was scheduled a month ago. we just happened to be going after he picked a fight with the congressman there. he sees i'm going to baltimore and assumes i'm leading a protest from baltimore to the white house, which i might do. and he goes into this whole tirade against me because he knows his base is not going to say wait a minute, you asked reverend al to come to the white house and he wouldn't come. you used to go to his conventions. all elijah cummings all of a sudden becomes the worst thing in the world. if you have a man that would say that the president of the united states at the time, a deliberate, thoughtful man named barack obama was not even born here, there's nothing he won't do. the real question is why republicans are not standing up. the real question is not why was al sharpton involved this morning? where was governor hogan, the republican governme

michael steel of the republican national committee. kamala harris making her first trip to iowa during the debate. vaughan, since polls showed her with a bit of boost, he is tracking her in des moines. vaughan, what have you got? >> reporter: yeah. hallie, the polls that have come out in recent days showed increase in the standings anywhere from seven percentage points to 13 percentage points putting her behind joe biden. this is an opportunity for kamala harris. what she did this in that debate was showed a willingness to draw contrast between her and others. in that debate it was joe biden. it was about more than race, more than bussing. go back to deportation policy of the obama administration. she was willing to exact contrast between her and joe biden. what was seen was an introduction to kamala harris but also a willingness to be open to a candidate that was willing to take on other democrats in this field. she will be here three days. she will then head to new orleans, south carolina for two days. and i think what this will also

michael steele and joy reid, mostly, thanks to you for watching. i'm nicolle wallace. >>> off and running. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris matthews in washington. last week's democratic presidential debate in miami marked the first milestone in the long road toward the 2020 presidential election. the debate was packed with standup moments and offered voters a glimpse of who could one day face donald trump. take a look. >> vice president biden, it was hurtful to hear you talk about the reputations of two united states senators who built their reputations and career on the segregation of race in this country. and it was not only that, but you also worked with them to oppose bussing. >> the reason that they're separating these little children from their families is that they're using section 1325 of that act which criminalizes coming across the border to incarcerate the parents and then separate them. some of us on this stage have called to end that section, to terminate it. some, like congressman o'rourke, have not. and i want to chall

reporter: and right: former republican national chairman and former maryld lieutenant governor michael steele. >> mr. president, your reprehensible comments are like water off a duck's back when it comes to this community. it just washes over them. >> reporter: this, after the esident fired off over a dozen weekend tweets criticizing maryland congressmanjah cummings and his baltimore-area district. he called cummings a "brutal bully" and said his district is onsidered the worst in t u.s.a." adding "the district," which includes part of baltimore and its suburbs is "a ding, rat and rodent inf bted mess." "ttimore sun" defended its city with an op ed blasting the president as "returning to an old standby using the most emotional and bigoted of arguments." the paper also pointed to pride points, like baltimore's inner harbor, and johns hopkins hospital.en the most rf.b.i. crime statistics showed baltimore with the nation's highest murder rate and second-highest violent crime rate. but, cumming's district also hag above avrates of college education and home prices-- and is the second-wealthiest b

there's an anecdote in your book where your talk about michael steele, the former chairman and how thehes were scripted jokes about birtherism. saying no way do you not understand where a black man goes out and make fun of where another black man was born, not going to happen that. was in the either years ago. >> this is why it's so important for us to understand how this book is not meant to hold up a mirror to donald trump or even just to the republican party. it's meant to hold up a mirror to all of us and to a political culture that produced donald trump. as much as we want to lay all of this disunity and this disruption and polarization, as much as we want to lay it as trump's doorstep, it's a huge mistake. he's going to come and go. presidency is a transient office and he will not be the president forever but these forces will still be there. i think we all need to begin to reckon with how we pick up the pieces and where we go from here in terms of restoring some of these basic and really fundamentally foundationally important institutions that keep government operative and frank

>> sharpton is set to speak with members of the media later t way alongh michael steele. that has seemed to irritate the president who this morning says sharpton is simply showing up to complain and accusing him of hating white people and police officers. sharpton has respo, pointi out in, 20 the president said he respected sharpton's work. much more to come on this story. >> another heaine out of the white e president's top intellie official set h to leaveis post in the coming weeks. andrea mitchell joins us with more on that. >> good morning. another big shake-up and another cabinet vaccy on the national security team with the president announcing that the director of national intelligence leading all 17 intelligence agencies is p't. president trum national intelligence director dan coats is out. the president announcing coats' depatcher of twitter, saying he'll nominate texas republican congressman john ratcliffe to replace him. coatsat for his gre service to our country. despite that statement, the president and coats have been at odds for at least a year after mr. ol

i was watching msnbc and i saw michael steele. he said this happens all the time.hen trump says a lot of people are telling me, the next thing out of his mouth is made up. he does not say the truth about anything. you see these pictures down there with people wearing masks over their faces, that's horrible. they are in horrible conditions. the reason they don't want to give more money for more feds, they don't want this to go on. host: president trump was asked by reporters about the conditions that some of the migrant detention camps. here's what president trump has to say. [video clip] -- comeommon illegally in illegally and then it's crowded. they are clean, they do a good job, they do a great job. they are crowded because the democrats won't give us any relief from these loopholes. we have asylum that is so bad. many of them are incredible, really well-run. trained tool did not be doctors and nurses and train to bedid not doctors and nurses and janitors. host: let's talk to bradley, calling from arkansas on the republican line. good morning. caller: thank you f

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same time though, we do see some prominent republicans maryland governor and former rnc chairman michael steeleg that, this is too much. they should take away some of the personality of this argument to focus on issues. stuart: i don't get that i really do not get that. the performance of baltimore in recent years, in the last 20 or 30 years, that is just not acceptable. for the president to point it out is very acceptable. where do you stand on this? >> i think what is interesting about this attack right now, unlike the ones that he made with, against "the squad" is that he was able, with that argument to make them the face of the democrat ibb party. he is trying to do somebody here with representative chairman cummings, pointing to what has happened in balt more and arguing this is the type of failed policies that you know, the american public would return to if they don't elect him again for a second term. that is going to be his argument and i think it is going to be the challenge of democrats on stage to neat to meet it, to show a different economic policy with different out comes to count

steele to cooperate. fox news reported that a key witness outside the fbi and justice department had agreed to talk to the inspector general michaelorowitz at the 11th hour and that it now appears to be steele. reuters broke news that he was interviewed in the u.k. in june by three lawyers from the inspector general's office andye as we reported on your show last night, these late-breaking developments required some witnesses to be reinterviewed to deconflict their accounts. citing another potentially significant detail that steele was apparently interviewed twice rby investigators working for special counsel robert mueller in september 2017. the nearly 500 page report makes no direct reference to the so-called steele dossier used to secure the surveillance warrant for trump campaign aide. dossier instead, steele reporting, or steele report, which has the effect of minimizing the fact that democrats paid for the opposition research used by the fbi and doj to secure thates surveillance warrant in october 2016 and then they used it again to secure multiple ir renewals, sean. >> sean: unbelievable.o now we know why the inspector gene

michael, you guys tied. do not forget to check out those charts and check out alix steel on "commodities edge" at 1:00 easternrom bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i'm david westin. welcome to "balance of power," where the world of politics meets the world of business. washington. donnanfree today, shawn on the on-again, off-again u.s. trade talks to kevin cirilli on top and imminent deal on the budget and the debt ceiling, and paul gordon on reports the ecb may changing its approach to inflation. let's start with you in washington. itthought that they g20 from -- g20 summit with president xi and president trump getting together they would turn things around. have they? shawn: they've put things on pause and now the sides are trying to figure out how to restart negotiations. steven mnuchin, robert lighthizer, and their chinese counterparts are expected to speak later today to try to figure out how they can get talks started again. we are expecting secretary mnuchin

with reuters, first to report that the former british spy christopher steele has not been interviewed by the inspector general michaelorowitz as part of his investigation. fox news was first to report on friday that a key witness outside the fbi and the doj had come forward to the inspector general and that now appears to be christopher steel christopher steele. our contact report that christopher steele was very concerned he would "get thrown under the bus" into alleged surveillance abuse during the 2016 campaign. i think it's worth nosing don't like noting that if you look at the mueller report there are no references to the dossier. they referred to as reporting is just that, reporting, or reports. that has the effect of minimizing the fact that it was opposition research that was paid for by the democrats, harris. >> harris: that's a fascinating point you're making there. changing the wording so people would have a different reaction to what's actually a dossier. >> it sounds very journalistic when you read it, but it was not that. >> harris: catherine herridge, thank you very much. a growing sense of sure done.

steele. we will also bring you some good news for lieutenant general a michael flynn, and his battle againstt with bob mueller. next wednesday, the captain of the witch hunt himself, well, he is scheduled to appear before congress in his first and only public hearing.