thank you very much, ashley parker, heidi ab-michelle goldberg. coming up, has vladimir kara-murza putin finally gone too far? i vladimir like i tanya? russia is obsessed with hacking our election systems and now our power grids. it looks like putin was behind the murder of a spy on british soil. he knows he can get away with it, that trump won't push back. those are facts. plus the other scandal encroa encroaching on the oval office, the attorney for stormy daniels now says she's physically threatened to keep quiet about anything she had to do with donald trump. back to the white house, to plug the holes, trump is plucking people out of the fox news green room. to him, the real experts on this planet are the people who show up on television especially on fox. the experts. finally let me finish tonight with trump watch. this is "hardball," where the action is. ♪ "never been in love" by cobra starship feat. iconapop ♪ woo! yeah! it's good! it's refreshing. ♪ this is what our version of financial planning looks like. tomorrow is important, but she's

with me michelle goldberg, and jason candor and eddie glaude. explain -- i thought the column was fascinating. >> thank you. >> what's the main idea? >> the main idea is that there's a lot of debate about did cambridge analytica really work. was it just like steve bannon himself, high-tech snake oil and all a big scam and their vaunted psychographic targeting, did that matter. i think that's what orthgonal to the fact that we have these people that cheated not in only normal ways but in ways that i, who consider myself one of trump's more vitriolic critics, would not have imagined. one of the things that's difficult in understanding trump is that you have to constantly expand your imaginative grasp of human villainy. you have to constantly think that like, wow, people will actually do this? and once you realize what they're capable of and what they're willing to do, it makes some of the scandals around trump, i think you see them in a different light. so it matters that he has these people who are out there talking about kind of framing their po

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i want to bring in michelle goldberg who observed here a few days ago political and consumer unrest inth josh bower who argued in business insider, they are taking more left leaning stances and tara who is an expert in marketing and communications and i want to return to the point. it's been so fascinating to watch this play out. in which political power in this country is tilted towards older, more conservative, particularly rural americans, consumer power in this country, the things that brands care about, the kinds of people are younger, more diverse and more urban and nothing is more clear what politicians are doing post parkland. >> i don't think the natural place to turn to for gun control is big corporations but -- >> i agree. yes, that's not the solution. >> people are making it a consumer issue because they are shutout of the process because nra has such a lock on the government despite the way people are forced to turn to whatever avenues of influence are open, which in this case are sort of consumer power, it's not ideal and then it creates a situation where gun owners feel

and as michelle goldberg writes, quote, increasingly the people supposed to be the adults in the room aren't in the room anymore. the self styled grown ups are for the most part being replaced by lackys. one reporter from "the washington post," national political reporter for nbc news, michelle goldberg columnist for the "new york times" and from florida. great group to talk about this. ashley, you guys at the post, and at the times, are amazingly able to get into lt thought process in the white house. these people seem to be turbulent to tell the news how bad it is. >> the thing is in this white house, right now west wing aides and advisers don't know what's going on. they are doing what we are doing, trying to figure out who is in, who is out, what does this mean, what will the president do next. so even been some white house aisds who will call reporters to ask what are we hearing because our information is potentially good as theirs. >> what about john kelly saying it apparently somewhat off the record but not successfully so, commented to that the president is causing this by ask

i want to bring in michelle goldberg who observed here a few days ago political and consumer unrest intry with josh bower who argued in business insider, they are taking more left leaning stances and tara who is an expert in marketing and communications and i want to return to the point. it's been so fascinating to watch this play out. in which political power in this country is tilted towards older, more conservative, particularly rural americans, consumer power in this country, the things that brands care about, the kinds of people they're trying to get to be customers are younger, more diverse and more urban. and nothing is more clear what politicians are doing post parkland. >> i don't think the natural place to turn to for gun control is big corporations but -- >> i agree. yes, that's not the solution. >> people are making it a consumer issue because they are shutout of the process because nra has such a lock on the government despite the way people are forced to turn to whatever avenues of influence are open, which in this case are sort of consumer power, it's not ideal and then

i want to read you something michelle goldberg wrote today in "the new york times." she writes, since the beginning of this nightmare administration we've been assured via well placed anonymous sources a few sober trust worthy people in the white house were checking donald trump's instinct and most erratic whims. they present themselves as guardians of american democracy rather than collaboratored in the undoing. the people who were supposed to be the adults in the room aren't in the room any more. i've heard from kelly's defenders that he is still one of the adults who says no, as ashley has reported. i've also heard from the wing, which is more aligned with jared and ivanka and the family, that he is not deferential enough to the president. what ashley said, that he says no too much, that he goes to the hill and says the president isn't informed on that issue. that he has tried to play president himself. what do you think when you see all of this sort of unraveling chaos and the fact that it's in perpetual motion? >> well, i mean, the president came in saying, i'm

michelle goldberg writes, as this drama unfolds, it's becoming clear, for all its sordid details it's a campaign finance scandal, a transparency scandal, and potentially part of an ongoing national security scandal. it's salacious and obsurd, but we should take it seriously. i'm pleased to be joined by the author of the piece, michelle gold brk. you raise a lot of good points in this op-ed, and i have seen that criticism from people about the reporting of this story, that it seems that it's just another sex scandal, two consenting adults. we should let it be. you think it's more than that, right? >> that's a lot of people's reaction, including a lot of people who really dislike trump. that was their reaction when it first broke. that was sort of my reaction. with any other president, you would imagine that paying off a porn star in the final days of the presidential campaign would be a big scandal, but when this emerged in january, i think most people sort of shrugged. you know, for those of us, for people who love trump, they have already -- this is baked into his persona. for people

. >> michelle goldberg, josh, tara thanks for joining me tonight. that's great. that is "all in" see you monday. now, here is rachel. >>> happy friday. this has been a wild week of news particularly from our nation's capital. you can go snow blind trying to look at any given piece what is happening inside the beltway these past few days but while we're following the chaos at the white house and congress and mushrooming indictments and the russia investigation and gun controversy and all the rest of it, very different and every bit as urgent news has continued to develop half way around the world. north korea and the kim dynasty have been a national security headache for america and american presidents since the end of the korean war but north korea's pursuit of weapons means they are on the verge of being not just a headache but a real global threat and it is not clear that any american president has had a terrific answer for this problem. over the past couple weeks, we've seen this current president impose more sanctions, which he then followed by sending his da

i want to put out what michelle goldberg wrote friday. it is becoming clear for all the details it isn't a sex scandal, a campaign finance scandal, transparency scandal and potentially part of an ongoing national security scandal. it's salacious but we should take it seriously. matt bai, is she right? >> you know how i am. it makes me uncomfortable. look, we spent the last three decades as an industry saying we don't care about your sex life, we care when your hypocrisy. you tell us how moral you are, then we find out how immoral you are. he's bragged about his sex life, likening it to vietnam. trying to evade the diseases during the '70s. i have enough reasons -- i have enough reasons on policy and on behavior to be unsettled deeply by this presidency. i don't really need this one. >> i think it's a bigger story than that. i think there is plenty of hypocrisy going around, number one, the president is lying about the stormy daniels affair. he had sarah sanders come out and tell a story that made no sense. and then -- >> he's lying every

. >> michelle goldberg, josh, tara thanks for joining me tonight. that's great. that is "all in" see you monday. >>> we, the jury, find the defendant guilty. >> you actually think they read the wrong verdict. >> you feel so alone and hopeless. >> it's like a shot in the chest. >> despair to hope. darkness to light. a fight for freedom. >> what happened to this teenager could happen to any one of our children. everyone should stand up and take notice. >> at 18, he was arrested for murder. adamant he was innocent. >> there was no physical evidence to tie him to the crime. >> i had nothing to do with this. i swear to god. >> what could have possibly led to this? >> you stabbed her, didn't you? >> why would he confess to something he didn't do? >> why would he? what really happened during that police interrogation? >> the evidence shows you were there. i can't lie about the evidence. >> i can't lie to you about this but the officer is lying about lying. >> an extraordinary look inside the interview room. >> if you don't talk i can't keep you from the worst. >> i was

i want to bring in curt bardella and markay and michelle goldberg.he president said i like chaos, it really is good. the question everyone keeps asking is, who is going to be the next to leave? steve miller or melania, that is terrible but you love me, honey. i won't tell you what she said. the president, michelle all joking aside talking about the stacked turnover there. all of the chaos something to joke about or dangerous what's happening inside the white house? >> of course it's dangerous, it's extremely dangerous. we have a president whose even his allies agree is unstable and on the verge of starting a trade war on the spur of the moment because he had a bad day which is scary, although thank god it's a trade war and not a war-war. that performance last night was sort of disgraceful for establishment journalists to be joking around with this man who is so hostile to our profession, who is so you know -- who is so violently opposes the tenants of a free press. none of this is a laughing matter, not even a laughing matter to humiliate his long su

michelle goldberg is "the new york times" columnist writing about the scandal.'ll quote a little from that piece. what the post is reporting is that michael cohen interceded in 2011 to prevent stormy daniels from disclosing things about her affair with the president. >> michael cohen prides himself on being a thuggish fixer, compared himself to radon van, a show time show about a violent fixer who operates at the far edges of the law. so the fact that he's out there intimidating women is not really that shocking. what i think is interesting is what it tells us about the question of why the president is fighting this so hard. because stormy daniels has already given her interview to "60 minutes," and that will air out with the president and the outcome of these legal proceedings. why put fuel on the story by threatening a $20 million lawsuit against a private sit sechb by starting a legal proceeding that could end up with him being deposed about not just his sex life but the various financial shenanigans he's engaged in to cover it up. why not let her talk? what'

michelle goldberg is a columnist in the "new york times," ali velshi co-host of "velshi and ruhle," adamfrom the new yorker. cohn was this sort of ultraestablishment person who had the politics of wall street very much so. he was in there to kind of do the wall street stuff and now he's gone and there's a question of what is the vacuum going to be filled with. >> it is hard to convey how extremely outside of any economic mainstream someone like peter na rare row and some of the other people around trump are. there is no conversation happening. these are not people who. from agriculture or from manufacturing as opposed to ball street. >> or people who are critics of the kind of current global world trade order from within the profession engaged in those debates. peter navarro, literally with his help i tried to find one other economist who agrees with him on any of his trade theories. i couldn't finds a single one if you can even articulate what his theories are. it's very trouble smooth criticism of the world trade order is real. for decades, economists said if you have unfettered trade,

michelle goldberg is a columnist for the "new york times," noelle nikpour a republican strategist andically know from news day. not surprisingly, i don't have a good idea of what happened here and why it happened. there's a couple of theorys and suggestions out there. shulkin saying look, this was about a scheme to privatize the va. you had this scathing inspector general's report sitting out there about shulkin and the cost of his trip to europe with his wife. you've got that. you've got trump's tendency to make sporadic decisions. was this more about shulkin or more about trump wanting jackson? >> it's hard to discern what it's actually about. we have a sense the white house aides are not ready to answer all the questions about ronny jackson and his qualifications. he's a doctor and active duty member of the armed forces. what qualifies him to run a troubled and large agency. where does he stand on privatizing health care for veterans. >> it does seem, michelle, in some ways this is consistent with what we know about trump and his style. in other ways putting it somebody like jackso

"give us the ballot, the modern struggle for voting rights in america," christina greer and michelle goldberg op-ed columnist for the "new york times." ari, you tweeted about the census question as a threat to american democracy and connected it to a lot of reporting you've done on voting rights. what's the connection? >> the connection is that the census really forms the basis for voting and the core infrastructure of our democracy. it forms the basis for how many congressional seats and electoral votes states receive. it forms the basis for how congressional districts and state districts are drawn. so if the census is corrupted, if the census is rigged our entire democracy is corrupted and rigged as a result. that's why the citizenship question on the census and the larger threat to the census more broadly are such a threat to democracy because they impact every single facet of our democracy. >> it's zero sum. there will be 435 members of the house and 538 electoral votes. if illinois new york and california lose population because you don't count the folks that are undocumented, they're go

i want to put out what michelle goldberg wrote.'s not really a sex scandal and potentially part of an ongoing national security scandal. it's salacious and absurd but we should take it seriously. >> i don't think so. you know how i am on stuff like this. this makes me uncomfortable. we have spent the last three decades saying, we don't care about your sex life. we care about your hypocrisy. you are telling us how moral you are. we catch you being immoral. donald trump is not guilty of hypocrisy. he has been all over the place saying he has affairs. he bragged about his sex life, likening it to vietnam. >> my gosh. >> trying to evade diseases during the sex. >> saying, i don't have a problem with -- >> look, i have enough reasons on policy and on behavior to be unsettled deeply by this presidency. i don't need this. >> i think there is plenty of hypocrisy going around. the president is lying about the stormy daniels affair. he had sarah sanders come out and tell a story that really made no sense. >> lying every day about important s

>> michelle goldberg, josh, tara thanks for joining me tonight. that's great. >> that does it for "all in." >>> good evening. it's friday night. i am in for lawrence o'donnell. unglued. that is donald trump's current condition at least according to an inside source who just spoke to nbc news. and while many may say donald trump's presidency isn't exactly known for being very glued together to begin with, this week's chaos has been pretty intense even grading on any kind of, say, trump curve. think about the new reports that the mueller probe is now eyeing jared kushner and whether his debt and business issues drove any foreign policy corruption inside the trump white house. mueller's team asking witnesses about kushner's efforts to secure financing for his family's real estate properties. discussions during the transition from individuals from qatar, turkey, russia, china and the uae. we have more on that tonight. plus which country says it has evidence on kushner. right now i want to begin with our top story and that's the way that bob mueller's

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michelle goldberg from the new york times and michael steel, former rnc chairman and an msnbc politicalst. i'm happy about the panel today. paul manafort, facing a lot of charges. big question has been why is paul manafort not pleading guilty to one of the charges and trying to make a plea deal. you have legal analysts out there who say there is no way he can avoid jail time. so what has been floating out there until today? well is he expecting a presidential pardon. then this "times" story comes out so he is expecting a presidential pardon because it was floated to his lawyer last year. >> that is the part we don't know. but it does appear that way. that manafort is looking for that pardon. i believe as we've discussed before, that part of it is he is refusing to cooperate with mueller. he also -- when rick gates announced that he pled -- pleaded guilty a few months ago and suggested that he would, mueller lit him up in a statement. suggesting he couldn't believe -- i'm sorry manafort lit him up in a statement. that said how could you do this. we're innocent and suggesting his own clie

let me bring in the panel, nbc news special correspondent, tom brokaw, michelle goldberg and john podhoretz. tom, i'll give you first crack. roger didn't crack. >> roger has been at this a long time and he relishes his role, which is always on the perimeter. it's almost never been right next to the seat of power. you can tell by his style that he's very well read in on what he wants to say and how he wants to say it but he is for the most part an agent for roger and not for anyone else, but he loves all the attention. you know, the fact is that there's a pretty long record at this point that he was always a disrupter in one fashion or another for the people that he believed in and he's always believed in people on the right. he's the man who has a tattoo of richard nixon on his back and people have to keep that in mind as well. and he did that, i always believed, just so he'd get more attention for himself. >> you know, michelle, i will say the thing i took away from the interview is how he defined wikileaks, because mueller is going in a specific place. mueller is going to treat wikileaks

alcindor, former national security council spokesperson ned price, "new york times" columnist michelle goldberg and "washington post" white house reporter ashley parker. thank you all. yamiche, let's start with bolton. i think we'll talk more about him in the second block and that was the shocker. in terms of long-term impact, he may be the most fraught because he has a history. well, let's go back to the axis of evil. they knocked off the first one under w, they got two more to go. that would be north korea and iran. so he has an agenda this guy. it's war. your thoughts? >> well, there's so many people that supported donald trump mainly because they didn't want him to be an interventionist president, they didn't want him to be getting into war with other countries and here he goes and adds someone as a national security advisor who still thinks the war in iraq was a good idea, who's written articles about offensively attacking north korea and he had to actually make the promise he wouldn't get america into war just to get the job so that doesn't bode well for where he is. however, president tr