mitt won't take [ bleep ]. vote mitt romney for senate. paid for by me against me.ight, that makes sense. i don't know itch that makes sense. have you been watching the olympic games? [ cheers and applause ] you are not going to believe this there is a new doping scandal developing right now involves the russians. i know always the last ones, you expect. but, russian curler guy named alexander crushanitski, a real person under investigation for alleged use of a banned substance while curling. of all of the sports to cheat in. the one where you sweep. i mean who juices to the get bet art that. if my housekeeper started doing steroids. i wouldn't ban her, i would give her a raise. [ applause ] but this guy -- and his wife, his partner, won a bronze medal in mixed doubles competition might have to give it back. curling should be the one sport where it is okay to take drugs. doesn't really. to commit years of your life to playing shuffleboard on ice you have to be high in the first place, right. unfortunate leap i cannot bring you footage of the curling event in questio

in 2012 mitt romney said this. >> russia is not a friendly character on the world stage.our number one geopolitical foe. they fight ever cause for the world's worst actors. >> christopher steele wrote the memo about mitt romney in november of 2016 when president-elect trump was considering mitt romney for secretary of state. at one point taking him to dinner. instead president trump chose a secretary of state who had no experience in government but experience being as nice as possible to russia. vladimir putin had awarded rex tillerson russia's order of friendship when he was running exxon mobile. the new yorker notes that congress imposed additional sanctions on russia in retaliation for its interference, but trump and tillerson resisted enacting them. the state department has been given $120 million to fight russian meddling and it spent zero, according to the new yorker trump is expected to have discussed his deal with mitt romney with the special prosecutor's investigators. joining us now betsy wood rough an msnbc contributor and back with us is mike murphy. mike, in

lou: mitt romney at theis. of his campaign for the senate from the great state of utah trying apparently to shake his rhino label ahead of the med terms telling voters at a recent event that he's a bigger immigration hawk than president trump. the senate candidate now saying daca recipients shouldn't be allowed to stay in the country illegally, contradicting comments he made during his failed 2012 presidential run. joining us tonight, charlie hurt. great to have you with us. >> great to be with you, lou. lou: the campaign is on. and romney is evolving before our eyes. >> yeah. it just goes to show, man, these politicians, they will say absolutely anything. you can't believe a word out of their mouths. and it's why at the end of the day donald trump beat all of them, all 20-plus of them in 2016 and came out victo victorit the end because he was the one guy who sounded like he wasn't always lying. lou: and romney is always attacking trump or, as you say, lying. let's turn to the comments yesterday where he said,

when mitt gets to the senate he will fit right in.e i'm donald trump, and i strongly support mitt romneyena people of utah and stand up to me. >> donald trump is a phony. a fraud. he is playing the members of the american public for suckers. >> unlike spineless paul ryan and cowardly mitch mcconnell, mitt romney has the the guts to condemn my disgusting behavior. >> the bullying. the greed. the showing off. absurd third grade theatrics. >> mitt will expose my lies and empty promises. >> his promises are as worthless as the degree from trump ty >> and point out my frightening mental deficiencieart.[ blgreat country. paid for by me against me. al mak sense.ga mes?cheers and applause ] you are not going to believe this there is a new doping scandal deve involves the russi ct.named nder invesgaon forle geuse of a banned substance while curling. of all of the sports to cheat in. the one u sweep. i mean who juices to the get bet art that. if my housekeeper started doing steroids. i wouldn't ban her, i would give her a raise. [ applause ] but this guy -- and his wife, his partner, won a bro in

lou: mitt romney weigh in today on daca. i love this.as going to move to the right of president trump saying that they should be -- shouldn't be allowed. not all daca as he put it, recipients should be in the state. your reaction. >> well i've watched romney for a long long time and i've watched him switch positions about 8,000 times. and i think the reality is president trump ought to realize if he gets elected to the senate in utah he's not going to be a friend. he's going to be a john mccain type of republican. lou: oh man. >> he just is. that's the reality of it. lou: just the thought of it. >> at this point in time when trump has cleared the field for him, you would think he would keep his mouth shut and be supportive of the president. lou: you don't think he's grateful enough? >> he's never been grateful. we have to elect republicans who are going to support the president's program. lou: a little late in utah to make that recommendation. >> unfortunately. lou: that will give them two senators who don't ware to cooperate with the pr

. >> for the senate race, will you be supporting mitt romney? >> sure. mitt romney is a good man. i'm glad he has decides to run for the senate. we need mitt romney in the senate. we need an independent voice, somebody who will enter the senate chamber with immediate gravitas, and someone who can work across the aisle and actually, i think, create a whole new power center in the senate. think that'sday desperately needed. >> how tends are you that republicans could lose your seat in november? >> that is a concern. i think what happened in pennsylvania just yesterday is still happening issue guess -- should be a big wakeup call for republicans. i think once again, we are testing the limits of trumpism. we're realizing that you can only drill down on the base so far. that we have to appeal to a broader electorate and if you can't win a race in a plus-20 trump district, then it's really going to be tough to win in purple states. >> how was president trump able to win over the republican base so quickly do you think, and what role did social media play in this? >> it prized me. i've w

back in 2012 it went for mitt ramny by 11 points. we're looking at these races, halle, republicans are still optimistic about their chances. they believe what is happening over at the administration with the white house they're able to separate they're members from, whether it's will hurd down in the 23rd district or few down in the 21st. this is what willa had to tell us about her vote here today. when you see what the administration is going through, does that make you any more inclined to voetd democrat based off what is happening in the white house? >> no i still wouldn't vote democrat i would find another republican that i line up better than trump. i wouldn't change my whole mind set to democrat, no. >> reporter: melissa said, halle she's sympathetic to immigrant and she also wants to see tighter gun control. at the same time she said she's here putting her ballot for republicans and every sbng of doing so despite what traffreas on the ballot. >> have fun down in texas. >>> steve kornacki is at the big board. it's not just the

president said and maybe what he did, certainly since were talking about words here, when he looked at mitt romney and said a certain decade wants its foreign policy back about russia, he told us a lot about where his blind side would be in this issue. i think it's fair to take a look at how president obama really dealt with this, may be talked as he dealt with and talked about a lot of different things on foreign policy that didn't work out for him. we've got to move on. i want to come back to this issue at some point but for now, president trump is pushing back on reports that he's having trouble finding legal representation in the russia investigation. the president tweeted this.

i i think the work enables mitt go to feed his family but it's not exactly his dream job. that's i had enough to do as a ten sniff i certainly wouldn't work on roofs if i were to fall off i would look after my wife and the children i wouldn't wish it just might this on anyone. taney is studying forestry he'd like to become a forest warden in a national park his attitude towards working on roofs is more relaxed because he's not forced to do it. for which i'll decide in my own good time whether it's to do this all go into forestry i just want to be able to feed my family and money and buy clothes as long as i have money coming in it doesn't really matter what i do. if. i don't buy the choli g.'s big day has arrived the bride market is held on a sunday in late summer the tension of family are leaving to pick up maria their niece. then they all set off for buch of a monastery in the run up the mountains fifty kilometers away. the annual bride fair is held on a parking area at the foot of the monastery an iconic site for the bulgarian orthodox church but beforehand everyone che

they did not want mitt romney. that of course, in turn, implies that russia did want rex tillerson. who was the person we all ended up with. we'll talk in just a moment with jane mayor. she's here live and we'll talk with gardener harris this hour. he has his own scoop today on what rex 'till tillerson has be delivering since trump instilled him in that job for whatever reason. in addition to the whole sale disassembly of the u.s. state department, tillerson has taken in $120 million that congress basically forced on the state department to fight off russian incursions under tillerson's leadership, the state department spent precisely zero dollars of that $120 million appropriation on trying to fend off the russians. so again, we got gardener harris from "the times" and jane mayor from "the new yorker." in terms of other stories we're watching tonight, today brought a strange spectacle of another trump campaign advisor playing walking around in his bathroom i'm too nuts to be in real trouble card. it was sam, a trump advisor through august 2015. he's been talking to reporters every

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. >>> during the 2016 campaign, donald trump and mitt romney went to war with each other. >> mitt isiled. he failed horribly. that was a race that absolutely should have been won. and i don't know what happened to him. >> he creates scapegoats in muslims and mexican immigrants. he calls for the use of torture. this is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss. >> poor mitt romney. poor mitt. i have a saw that's worth more money than he is. >> donald trump is a phony, a fraud. his promises are as worthless as a degree from trump university. >> and he walks like a penguin onto the stage. do you ever see -- like a penguin. >> well, they seem to be on better footing now that romney is running for the senate in utah. during a question and answer session yesterday, romney played up his relationship with trump saying the president has endorsed me in this race. he respects people who speak their mind because now and then as you know, if he says something i think is wrong i'll point it out and an romney added i won't be afraid to stand up to trump should the president

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bush administration he was also senior advisor to the presidential campaigns of mitt romney and scott walker it's always good having him with us ok first robert so many things happen with this administration this news every other minute the director of the national security agency admiral mike rogers recently told congress that the troubled ministration is not doing enough to counter russia's efforts to cyber meddle in elections that i know you know mike what do you make of that look at how the russians have been our adversaries for a long time you know i grew up in an age where you know we thought we'd go to war with russia someday that didn't happen which was great then the cold war ended but the russians have kept up their their efforts against the united states have never given up they were active during the obama years are going to be active during the trump years and we have to be vigilant we have to push back against vladimir putin and russian aggression against our allies in europe but also their attempts to meddle in our elections that's just something we can't we can't allow

timing was really interesting, because the memo is the very end of november 2016 and at that point, mittnd of hanging by a thread about whether or not he would be chosen as secretary of state by trump, and he was having dinners with trump, he was making statements where he was saying i'm loyal to you, i think you now a great leader after having been critical of him during the campaign, so he was almost groveling, really, and after the end of this process which was kind of embarrassingly prolonged, really, finally on december 13th, trump named somebody else, he named rex tillerson, who is kind of a surprise to everybody. and you know, it may be that this is just talk in the kremlin and it's not really based on anything, but tillerson really did turn out to be a choice who was considered acceptable to the kremlin in a way that mitt romney was not. >> let's talk about the fact the clinton campaign, even though they had commissioned the dossier, never knew steele had gone to the fbi which was part of the reason the fbi was already investigating, as we later learned, because of what had happe

i'm a good friend of mitt romney. i encourage him to run.on't think he is going out of his way to criticize the president. but he will certainly not shy away from doing it. he will come to the senate with immediate, you know, credentials and gravitas. he is a effective and needed voice. >> looking back on your career there's been an elevation. and you were very much considered an idea log when you came to congress. there were votes on spending where flake appeared almost alone in the roster of no votes. >> right. >> do you look back at that with any -- any nuanced analysis, would you say, gee, i wish i would have done something differently. >> i'm still a lonely end of votes here. i mentioned one in the bock with regard to the bailout. >> the tarp. >> right. >> to prop up wall street after the collapse of lehman brothers in 2008. >> that was an example of me hoping yes and voting no. >> which i had the luxury of doing that. >> a lot of people do that. >> hoping yes but you want to do to pass. you just didn't want your name on it. >> that's r

another report that the kremlin had intervened to block mitt romney as secretary of state.isten to this, the memo said that the kremlin, through unspecified channels, had asked trump to appoint someone who would be prepared to lift ukraine-related sanctions and who would cooperate on security issues of interest to russia, such as the conflict in syria. how far fetched is that from your experience? romney wasn't ultimately chosen, it ended up being rex tillerson, somebody who through exxon had deep ties to russia. >> that's right. it's not surprising that the kremlin would have a preference and that they would not like mitt romney. remember, he said during his presidential campaign that russia was the number one g geopolitical foe. and people at the time thought he was out of touch, but it turns out he was prescient. so it's not surprising that he would say no, but what is surprising that the administration would take their concerns seriously and pass over someone like this in favor of someone like rex tillerson, who has very little experience with government and has -- his

i'm bet mitt romney could use an orthopedic these days.rawling back to donald trump has got to be hard on the knees. any good proctologist could help dean heller with the pain caused by sitting on the fence, so when we democrats are fighting for health care, we're fighting for our colleagues and all americans. of course my fights are on behalf of the people of delaware, regardless of party. that's why i've travelled across my state from top to bottom, which took 20 minutes. and i paid $96 in tolls. [ laughter ] you know, delaware's slogan used to be small wonder, which oddly was also my team nickname in high school wrestling. and because we're small, sometimes we feel overlooked, under appreciated. i mean, in the tax bill, kevin, seriously, why do the virgin islands get so much love? what about little delaware? we naught we wethought we were favorite tax shelter. we are proud of our traditions in delaware. after every election day, we literally bury the hatchet in a proud tradition called return day, where candidates get into a horse drawn

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moscow trying to block mitt romney becoming secretary of state, instead favoring someone that would be more favorable to russia. what have you heard about that? >> well, that's something that our committee should be looking at, but we know that mitt romney was not chosen and somebody who received the friendship order, the order of friendship from vladimir putin was chosen. so, you know, look, christopher steele has been attacked and attacked and attacked, but not a single piece of his dossier through our investigation has been disproved. we should seek to either prove it or disprove it, but right now our investigation is all but shut down. and again, that's not answering to our responsibility to understand what happened and protect our democracy. >> have you heard of that, though, before this article came out. had that come up with your committee? >> i can't say yes or no as to the details of our investigation, katy. i hope that a full transcript comes forward, but i hope that that means that we listen to every witness and as some of your earlier panelists said, we reviewed every do

claiming they actually stopped mitt romney from doing the job of secretary of state.hich begs the question, who is stopping rex tillerson? [laughter] i'm here tell thursday, don't forget to tip your waiters, the feel is excellent. what a crazy year at has been. so many unexpected things, totally ahistorical, unprecedented. of course, i'm talking about the eagles winning the super bowl. [applause] the super bowl, a time when americans across the country pick a team to root for, even if it is kind of between two teams they hate and they just pick the one they hate little bit less. kind of like the 2016 election. i think the political landscape has changed so much in the eight here's i have been here. remember way back in 2010, when my republican opponents, christine o'donnell come out was a tea party member who admitted she had doubled in witchcraft? i am not a witch, she said. i flew right off to the united states senate. [laughter] unlike the donald, i am actually a beneficiary of a witch hunt. [laughter] it's funny now that i think about it, they're actually where pe

he campaigned much more like a ronald reagan in that aspect than like a paul ryan or a mitt romney. >> let's go to joe, who is in georgia, republican. frequent caller here on the washington journal. always a very enthusiastic republican. hi, joe. >> caller: hey, gretta. i love c-span. been calling y'all for 30 years. love the network. i've never been so fired up in my life. as you know donald trump, i'm a strong trump person, i was a strong reagan person. trump has just appointed larry kudlow as chief economic adviser. kudlow is fantastic. steve morris, his business partner, they wrote the great trump tax cuts and david purdue, the great senator from georgia is helping him. i've never been so fired up in my life. i predict the republicans will win the midterm elections by a land slide and trump will be re-elected with the biggest landslide in history. >> joe, you say that because of the tax cuts? >> caller: yeah, i love the tax cuts. i'm a -- i've been a stock market investor of 50 years, and, boy, my stocks have done great. i'm so fired up, i haven't been able to sleep the last two n

got its origins back in 2012 when the obama campaign funneled payments to fusion to dig up dirt on mitt romney. a quote from the book: it's become standard practice. that and other revelations on president trump, james comey and vladimir putin are all in the new book. it's called: michael joins me now. thanks for joining us. it's interesting to look back at that sort of circle of payments that existed in the obama campaign to dig up stuff on mitt romney. it was the same circle they revisited when it time for the clinton campaign to get involved. >> as the quote makes clear, this is standard practice in american politics. you have both parties who you have an army of researchers who dig up dirt on the other side. it's been a longstanding practice and one that a lot of people have criticized that the payments to those research firms are disguised usually as payments to law firms or other outside consultants. so, we shed a little light on it in the case of fusion gps, but they are not unusual. let's make that clear. both sides do this. both sides are not forthcoming about the money they pa

and that is what i mitt to doing everything i can to achieve. with that mr. president, i yield the floor. monday on c-span coverage we will have supreme court decision that struck down the civilling rights act of 1875 a federal law that granted all people access to public accommodation like train and theaters regardless of race. justice john marshall known at the great center cast lone vote in opposition to eclipse legacy of the majority opinion. explore this case in the high courts ruling with danielle holly backer dean of howard university law school and peter attorney and commission of civil rights. watch landmark cases live monday, at the 9 eastern on c-span.org, or listen with a free c-span radio app and for background on each case while you watch, order your copy of the landmark cases companion book, it is available for 8.59 at c-span/landmark cases for additional resource, there's a link on our qbs to national constitution centers distractive constitution. this weekend c-span city tour take you to shawnee, oklahoma the growth feeled by railroad industr

but it's not what mitt romney did. it's not what john kerry did. it's not what al gore did. if her goal is to help the party and help us understand how to get white working class men and women back in the midwest, this is not helpful to that cause. >> chris: as marie said, she should go away. i assume you would like to see her keep talking until november. >> he she can stay as long as she wants. as long as the democrats have hillary clinton sucking out all the oxygen in the room, then the enthusiasm gap which is the intangible in the races, it shrinks. it fires up republicans. when they hear hillary clinton and nancy pelosi, it reminds them why they have to fight to get more republicans elected. >> chris: karl, at least two democratic sean tores running for -- senators running for re-election in red states, claire mccaskill in missouri heidi heightcamp in north a nor, distanced themselves from clinton as fast as they could. could those comments really hurt democrats running in red states that donald trump won? >> they have hurt and they will continue to hurt. they're represe

they were doing op research on mitt romney and funneled it through the same law firm. we have all the details. former senior obama state department official victoria newland started the process for the fbi to talk to former british spy christopher steele. and steele what we learned doubted if the most salacious details and claims in his dossier about donald trump were even true. tonight we also exposed the anatomy of the russia lie and how democrats in the media created one of the biggest hoax in american history. they've been caught red-handed after the house intel committee concluded there's no evidence of trump russia collusion. and rex tillerson is out as the secretary of state. mike pompeo is in and the democrats interesting are threatening to block the first woman nominated to be the cia director. why? because of her history of being tough on terrorists. ed henry has a full report. that's all in tonight's breaking news opening monologue. all right. president trump's key campaign promise, build that wall, takes a major step forward today. the president toured bord

they voted for mitt romney. they voted for president trump. they voted for tim murphy, the incumbent who had a lead. what he's been able to do is to take those elements and combine them together, both union leaders and the workers. the workers really moved away from the democratic party and helped these other republicans carry the district. >> melissa: so for democrats there's a lot to learn from this race and how it's been run. on the republican side, you see the republican candidate making himself very close to president trump. and even stealing some of his tactics with brand were or name-calling, depending how you look at it. connor the chameleon. lamb the sham. he's taking everything from president trump's playbook, right? >> and it doesn't seem to have he's going to this event and that event linking himself very closely to the president. and typically you might think that would work. but the difference is not so much what he's done. the difference has been what lamb has done as we've been articulating with the grass roots effort. here's s

talked circulating the kremlin had intervened to block trump's initial choice of secretary of state mitt romney. and that the kremlin through unspecified channels had asked trump to appoint someone who would be prepared to lift ukraine-related sanctions and who would cooperate on security issues. the job ultimately went to rex tillerson, who had literally been awarded the order of friendship by vladimir putin himself. with me now republican strategist steve schmidt and adam davidson. before we get to that story about the steele dossier and the way in which the mueller investigation is taking shape, i'm just curious your reaction watching a former associate of the president's doing doh what -- sam nunberg do what he has done all day on national television. >> your mouth just hangs open. you can't believe these were the people who were in approximate positions to the president of the united states. it's just extraordinary. and this "new yorker" story today just in the depth of its reporting is extraordinary. certainly the notion that the russians vetoed mitt romney as the secretary of stat

her analog in this is not mitt romney, people who almost won.nalog is michael dukakis, took the award for worst democratic nominee. dukakis wasn't running a around talking about what a victim he was. regardless of gender, democrats, everybody would have said you have to go away, this is not helping. i don't know what she wants. but if the democrats want to maximize their opportunities this fall, somebody better give it to her. >> dana: in the past, before cell phones and all, you could have gone to targeted districts where her presence may have helped. what happens now is no matter where any of us go it becomes big international news. if she's going to be in the press talking about her elections, and relitigating that, that is going -- she's going to continue to lead the news. >> the damage the clintons of done to the democratic party becomes uncalculable in 20 years. their success thrilled democrats in the 1990s. the hangover of that, what they inherited is truly, truly damaging. republicans were able to say to jeb bush no, no, we don't want to

poor mitt romney had a small cayman islands career. built his career, made himself financially independent. and they railed on him for his cayman islands account. then they started these negative campaign advertisements that he gave a woman cancer in the middle of michigan. this is what happens in our society, in our politics. you can dislike the president. he is a very good campaign strategist. the decision not to put out is very complicated tax structure and system was probably a good one because it took off the table all of that negativity. >> yeah. but what about truth and transparency to people? are we too dumb to figure out his taxes? >> you have his taxes in. >> no. i would have had experts go over it and outline any issues. >> the people voted. >> they didn't have full information. >> warts and all. >> we're steep in investigation largely looking at exactly -- >> they had full information that they didn't have full information. >> they had full information that they didn't have full information? >> that's exactly right. >> i do