trump knew about the release of the hacked documents, national committee emails ahead of time, and the answer is yes. emily: our executive editor who covers financial investigations, we spoke with her on wednesday. >> according to him, roger stone called the office and trump's assistant put them on speakerphone. roger stone then said he had

and we put her in charge of the rnc, republican national committee. ronna mcdaniel.

was to receive stolen information -- information stolen from the russians by the democratic national committee as part of the russian government attempt to help trump in the election. that's the way the e-mail inviting them to the meeting put

crimes committed by people associated with the clinton campaign come up with the democratic national committee, with gps and other people and those things for all intensive purposes, have been ignored. certainly ignored by mueller and ignored thus far by the department of justice. as victoria said, nobody knows what he has done or doing most of us think jeff sessions appointed him it was a head fake. sean, the thing that is really changing, now we know, not only rational collusion to fusion gps and in my sick sky and all of that. but now, we know that ukrainian officials deeply involved in trying to help hillary clinton through this and we also know the current united states ambassador, marie jovanovich has bad mouth the president of the united states to ukrainian officials and has told them not to listen or worry about trump policy because he is going to be impeached. this woman needs to be called home to the united states for consultation. >> sean: so we know now the new transcripts show. i want to ask you this and everybody else, we know there are transcripts, john hoover, harwich. i don't

and we put her in charge of the rnc, republican national committee. ronna mcdaniel.

i believe if the hillary clinton campaign, the democratic national committee funds christopher steele you should talk about john mccain. >> goes through john mccain and gives him false pretenses of the information that he has, it's wrong. >> so john mccain gave it to the fbi -- >> he had to know it was political -- he would not have had anything to do with it. >> the fbi already had the information. james comey getting hands on the dossier from john mccain did nothing in the investigation. >> right. they entered it in court and never told the court it was politically funded research by hillary clinton. >> the misdirection here, the shiny object of the dossier in relation to how the president is treating john mccain -- again, i'm genuinely surprised, congressman, that you brought it up as a member of the armed services committee. >> john, perhaps you should look at the tape. >> i saw it. i watched it. i read the president -- i know very well. >> you're aware he mentioned the dossier. >> i am. >> you are aware, so don't be surprised i'm bringing it up in the context of the comments. >>

this is a democratic national committee issue. fox's fight is with the dnc, not the media. so many d.c. reporters were supporting fox about going on fox. there was a kind of -- i don't know what that was about. >> if you think -- it reflected someone in fox's response. they said the dnc is banning chris wallace and brett. they made it personable. in that case it's not about solidarity. they're helping out their friends which i think is understandable. i also think that's part of it. the other thing is they're not making the separation between it's possible to have media solidarity and in this context say i don't have to advocate for fox news to be a debate partner for the dnc. i think it's important to make sure -- >> as i say, my view of this is tactic tactical. the dnc can pick its forum. tactic cli, i think they're blowing it. >> we'll find out after the election. quick break here and then more on some of the fall out from the new yorker article. we'll talking to the congressman who wants records about possible interference from the doj. that's coming up after a quick br

we are hearing that the white house and the trump reelection campaign and republican national committee have been getting ready for this day. the day where we actually find out some of what is in that report. they are thinking it is going to exonerate the president, but they have come up with language for a lot of contingency plans. it is not just going to be black or white. we might see something that says other people close to the president did something wrong even though they are not being indicted. they have all sorts of talking points ready to go when we find out what is in the mullah report. host: we know the president yesterday at mar-a-lago. he golfed with kid rock. he seemed to be pretty comfortable. guest: one of my colleagues is in florida with him and heard the same thing. in,as not supposed to stop there was a republican fundraiser. we were not sure if he was going to go. he did go and talk to little bit. lindsey graham was giving a speech. the president seemed to be in good spirits. he introduced lindsey graham. mar-a-lago,own at it is a place where he is surrounded by peo

that is the -- that is exact posture for the republican national committee and the party to take. i'm delighted my hats off to ronna mcdaniel, shows more guts, loyalty and intelligence than any so-called leader on capitol hill. >> she has done a great job, he will crush anyone that wants to run against him. lou: it is a unnecessary burden for him. >> his party -- much better to have a free run. 20 something odd democrats on the other side, he will take them all too. lou: can the kus kushner legal m with the statement, abby loyal, the attorney for kushner, in 2018, white house -- can we put that up, full screen. i'm told we can. but it takes longer than i would like. 2018, white house security clearance officials affirm this mr. kushner clea clearance was handled in regular process, no pressure from anyone, and says that was conveyed to media at the time, new stories if act rats do not change that was affirmed at the time that is sickening to me lawyer bs. >> it is and president has right to clear anyone he wants to clear, he is the decision maker, jared has served this president e

of the house of january 3, 2019 of the following individual on the part of the house to the national committee on vital and health statistics for a term of four years. the clerk: dr. vicky m. maze of los angeles, california. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 2-b of house resolution 208, the house now stands adjourned until 2:00 p.m. on thursday, march 21, announcer: congress is in recess all this week. nancy pelosi says next week the .ouse will vote on the veto that vote is scheduled for tuesday, march 26 per you can see it live here. when the senate returns, they will continue debate on judicial nominations. later senators will begin debate on the green new deal. ,he senate returns to session and live coverage continues. once tv was simply three giant networks, and then in 1979, a small network with an unusual name rolled out an idea. let viewers decide on their own what was important to them. c-span open the doors to washington policymaking for all to see, wringing you content from congress and beyond. in the age of power to the people, this was true people power. in the 40 years,

we formed the national democratic redistricting committee in january of 2017. all with an aim to make our democracy more fair. and to have representatives who more reflect the desires of the people who put them in office. i think that president obama's exactly correct. we have a system now in too many places where politicians are picking their voters as opposed to citizens choosing who their representatives are going to be. i've been going around the country trying to -- a multiprong strategy at doing away with this problem of gerrymandering. one of the things i know that governor schwarzenegger and i agree on is that this idea of independent commissions, to select -- to actually draw the line, is actually one of the better ways in which it can be done. there's a very successful system that they have in california, in arizona as well, five states, that a choice was put before the voters in five states just last year and in every state, the citizens decided that that's something that they wanted to do. at the ndrc, we're also supporting candidates who will stand

. >> the national committee woman of the republican national committee for california said it's time to move on. >> we are never going to get those two years back as a country. he is never going to get it back. hope hicks and michael caputo and americans who were spied on will never get their time back and attorney's fees back. there is no justice for those people. >> democratic lawmakers asked for the attorney general to testify before congress and explain his interpretation of the report. >> we know that the congress has a different constitutional responsibility both in terms of oversight, overseeing all of this and investigation. we will have to do both. >> now according to the mueller report, 19 lawyers assisted by a team of 40 fbi agents and analysts and forensic accountants worked in the findings of this conclusion. abc 7 news. >> thanks to you. former fbi director james comey who headed the russia investigation before being fired by president trump tweeted this not long after the mueller news broke today. a photo of him gazing up at what appears to be redwood trees and wrote o

weekend, wikileaks released nearly 20,000 e-mails sent and received by members of democratic national committeemeras captured stone on august 8th, telling an audience in southern florida about his connection with assange. >> i have communicated with assange. on october 7th, the day of the infamous "access hollywood" tape. >> a massive document dump from wikileaks of what appears to be hacked e-mails from clinton's campaign, john podesta's g-mail account. >> according to his indictment, he received a message from the campaign official saying well-done. >> since 2016, roger stone denied speaking directly with julian assange. >> there is no suggestion or any court documents that roger stone was directly in touch with assange. >> stone may have had direct dealings with julian assange. that's not mutually exclusive. the central question whether the russians conspire with trump or with his campaign or officials on that campaign interfere in our election. >> stone has joined the growing list of trump's associates. george papadopoulos, a foreign policy of the campaign convicted o f lying to the fbi. he

units. >> a lot of people have asked me documents, national committee emails ahead of time, and thewer is yes. kelly is our executive editor who covers these investigations. we spoke with her on wednesday. >> according to him, roger stone called the office and trumps assistant put them on speakerphone. roger stone then said he had talked to julian assange of wikileaks and this dump is coming. the julian assange has said he never spoke to roger stone. once again, we are caught up in a what could be the truth here? i will point out it is often the truth there is a go-between. whether someone else who represents assange remains a question and if somebody is even telling the truth, if indeed that is what he said. roger stone himself is operating under a gag order by a judge to we are not hearing him him. but it is one of several tantalizing things coming out of this testimony. emily: let's talk about the other tantalizing things. much of it reiterated his opening testimony, but what are the new and most significant revelations? >> i have to be honest, for prosecutors, there is nothing r

it is clearly not a priority for stevenson or the democratic national committee at this time. why?ocratic party at this time? where do they win elections? >> may be remnants of roosevelt's coalition from the 1930s -- >> absolutely. >> -- and something else the advertisement pointed out, look back to 1931. look 20 years ago when the republicans did that thing. i feel like in the modern era 20 years ago as a different environment. so it is trying to harken back to decision-making of the past few decades. >> excellent. kayla? >> i was going to say, you can see the contrast between the democratic party and they are continually asking people to look back at what we have done. not even what stevenson has done, necessarily, but what other democrats have done and linking the party together. just that because he is a democrat he will be as successful as past democrats. whereas, with ike's campaign, it was looking to the future. they didn't really have a great past in recent years to look back to that they would want to advertise, so they had to push past that and you can see that contrast h

conference confirming that there will be a national service for the victims they will be a national committee and a city of us. how then order for new zealand is together to give there and acknowledge the terrorist attacks on friday that will absolutely be the case that what we want to ensure is that we allow the time and the spice the families to be i would have buried the loved ones i keeping in mind that some have not yet received their loved ones in so i can soon was that this friday might not have allowed some of that proces on the east side to be completed that was that's the decision that's why it will not be this week. ok for more let's go now to paul sperling vice chancellor of the college of social sciences at mass university in auckland is an expert on right wing extremism in new zealand thanks so much for joining us this morning the government's moving toward stricter gun control laws do you think that's the best way forward to prevent future terrorist attacks. well that's one of the issues that they need to address going forward because they can somebody in an urban area like thi

elizabeth: coming up, the republican national committee really going after bernie sanders hard over what now this: sanders, we told you how he was pushing hard to nationalize and have the government control many major industries back in the '70s? we have even more on that story. you won't believe what's happening there. that's coming up. >>> plus, alexandria ocasio-cortez's approval ratings are plunging. >> she faces opposition to her green new deal, and it's from an unlikely corner, it's the afl-cio, the labor unions who usually vote democratic. that story coming up. ♪ ♪ ng it's best to make you everybody else... ♪ ♪ means to fight the hardest battle, which any human being can fight and never stop. does this sound dismal? it isn't. ♪ ♪ it's the most wonderful life on earth. ♪ ♪ but i can tell you liberty mutual customized my it's the most wonderful life on earth. car insurance so i only pay for what i need. oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no... only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ want more from your entejust say teach me more. into your xfinity voice remote to d

the democratic national committee who are bribing their way into the system when the candidates are touting kind offa level playing field, it doesn't make sense. hypocritical. >> hannity: why it is differentf if a parent builds a building or is a legacy and they get a leg up? why is it ok? >> it's not illegal. that's the difference. you still have to make good grades hopefully. you still have to work your way in i know kids who have had buildings named after them and they didn't get in. so this is criminal. it's bribery. they think they're above the law and the worst part, sean, that's what they're teaching their kids is acceptable in this lifetime and it's not. >> hannity: and look at harvard's endowment, $37 billion in donations! crazy. all right. pam thank you. emily, thank you. all right, our villain of the day, well, i'm going to tell you something, it'll make you agree with donald trump's veto decision today. so outrageous. we'll get to the viewer mail also ahead. these folks, they don't have time to go to the post office they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get

that this now discredited dossier that was paid for by the hillary campaign and the democratic national committee was ever used as evidence, before the fiser court is absolutely wrong. the fact that the court was not informed is even a further deception. i serve on the intelligence committee, we asked them to take up this issue. i absolutely believe -- >> sean: where are the fiser court judges? my experience in life, congressman, is i never, ever dare think of lying to a judge. i would never go into a courtroom and not say, yes, you're honor, yes, sir, no, sir, yes, ma'am, thank you, ma'am. you're going to go lie and purposefully withhold information? i don't think if i'm a judge that's going over very well in my life. >> it goes to discrediting even the fisa court process. there is no one else who have a voice for the citizen in this instance, the american citizen, who was going to -- had surveillance, and in this process, the judge is supposed to be told all information both against and for the issuance of the order and hearing this, there is critical information that's kept from the judge. it'

the democrat national committee paid for this big dossier -- the one thing you saw from michael cohen'stestimony who is going to jail for lying but let him bring -- but let us have him come back before congress so he can now tell the truth. dossier was given to bruce's wife who work for fusion gps. adam schmidt needs to recuse himself from this investigation needs to recuse himself from this investigation. there is no reason why he should be part of this and leading this investigation. we shall be calling for his recusal from this investigation. let me ask you about the republican side of the aisle. will president trump run unopposed in the gop primary and what do you do if john kasich or larry hogan say they are going to jump in? >> it is fine for them to jump in and lose. the president has 93% approval , the country is booming, jobs are coming back in the wages are up. the military is strengthened. veterans are taking care of. trade deals are stronger. rule of law judges have been put at every level of the court including at the supreme court with kavanaugh and gorsuch. what would any

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the democratic national committee will do it and republican national committee will do and pretty nutty fringe groups will figure this out and they will start doing it. i just think this requires a lot of thought. what's the limit that an individual campaign could receive because i know there is a limit? 50% ofgren: the limit is the average amount of the top 20 more expensive winning campaigns from the prior election. so in 2018, that would have been roughly a 4.5 million dollar per candidate limit. going back to your example, i don't know if that would happen or not. but if you had -- you need to have $50,000 with 200 and below. only going to get to the max anyhow. and the point is, since we are trying to wean people off from reliance from big bucks' people, the person who writes a $200 check who is a billionaire. i mean the point is you will not be able to have undue influence because you have provided big bucks to a candidate. mr. cole: count me as a skeptic. not only will the parties organize these members of the committee nims, there are candidates that raise money. you are going t

is the democratic party or republican national committee with you or against you? atty. gen. holder: the democratic national committee is with us. i can't say that every democrat is with us. there will be some democrats, 80% in democratic districts that might have that number of democratic voters will go down to 50%, 48%. something along those lines. from my perspective, that's a good thing. we don't need to have all these -- all of these super-majority republican or democratic districts. some of them will naturally be that way based on where people live and all of that. but what we have now is an unnatural system. we have a district in virginia only contiguous when the river is at high tide. really? they had one in pennsylvania that was called donald duck kicking goofy. the two figures were only connected by the foot of donald duck hitting goofy. these things are drawn in such a way that you are preserving the safety of a seat or maybe of a particular person at the expense of the people. you know, the strength of the parties, it seems to me, ought to be based on the ideas th

. >> what nixon wants him to do is take over as the chairman of the republican national committee.s is not considered to be a promotion. >> what goes dwlur mind in that moment when you're expecting the world and instead you're essentially given the grunt job? >> this was a tireless job. this was a thankless job. he was going to be gone for many hundreds of days doing his part as the republican party chair, not necessarily doing his job as george bush family man. >> barbara does not think this is a job he should take. she advises him against it. she thinks other people will see this as being a demotion. for george bush it's an inner conflict because he's been raised as the sun of dottie and prescott bush to do his duty. >> only six weeks earlier prescott bush died at 77 years old. >> my grandfather, prescott bush, gampy, was a senator from connecticut. he commanded respect. but he also was respectful. >> he was a great man. the right person to go to for advice or to share your thoughts or worries. he was wonderful. a wonderful listener. the man with a lust for life. >> prescott bush

>> and former congressman beto o'rourke storms iowa over the weekend this as the republican national committee trolls the 2020 candidate in a twitter attack. >>> good morning, everyone. it's monday, march 18th. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf. we begin with the very latest on the horrific attack on two new zealand mosques. officials say 50 people are now confirm dead and several more remain in critical condition following friday's shootings at the masjid al noor and linwood mosques. thousands of people paid tribute to victims at makeshift materials around new zealand leaving candles, flowers and notes of unity. authorities say the suspect a 28-year-old australian national whom we are not naming likely acted alone and has been charged with murder. additional charges are expected. new zealand prime minister jacinda ardern said the suspect had a firearms license and legally purchased the five guns used. they said the government discussed gun regulation at a meeting earlier today adding quote there will be changes in our gun laws. the suspect streamed part of th

you're going to hear this language continuously, harris, from the president, the republican national committee, and other pro-republican groups trying to paint most of these democrat supporting things like medicare for all and green new deal as extremist and alarmist. you're going to hear that language over and over, harris. >> harris: i don't want to miss the point, because the president is on the ground down florida. he took marine one from west palm beach where he was, at mar-a-lago, and now he is in an area -- so we've been told, it's called canal point. it is separated about 40 miles of sugar cane and a lot of farmland from where he was in mar-a-lago. the reason i bring that up is because it's a farming community where a lot of the people are living below the poverty line. the president shining a light on some of those who could use a boost. also, magnifying the fact that where you are seeing economic numbers go up for wage increases, it's among the low and middle class. we learn that today in statistics. >> good points, good points. also he needs to shore up his base with farmers, as wel

that thethat amazing, democrat national committee paid for this fake dossier -- the one thing you saw from michael cohen's testimony yesterday, michael cohen, who's going to jail for lying, but let's bring him back in front of congress because we think you'll suddenly tell the truth, but he did say he never went to prom, which is such a huge part of that fake dossier -- who never went to prague, which is such a huge part of that fake dossier. the story not being talked about right now is adam schiff needs to recuse himself from this investigation. [applause] adam schiff had a private meeting with the head of fusion gps, did not disclose it to the committee. there's no reason why he should be part of this and leading this investigation. we should all be calling for his recusal from this investigation. >> let me ask you about the republican side of the aisle, democratic party -- primary going on, but will president trump run unopposed and what do you do if john kasich or larry hogan say, i'm jumping in? >> they have the right to jump in and lose. that is fine. they will lose horribly. t

take folks on a journey from when all of this started with that first hack of the democratic national committee digitally. we go into russia to these troll factories actively trying to spread misinformation during the campaign and to the firing of james comey and the special counsel's investigation. and it is not over. we talk about what comes next both on capitol hill and another courts. >> you can watch our special the mueller report a turning point sunny tonight at 10:00 right here on kpix5. >>> michael avenatti appeared in court facing his own charges. here in california he's accused the bank and wire fraud. he embezzled $1.6 million of a clients settlement money to pay for his own expenses and debt. in new york he faces federal extortion charges. he is accused of threatening nike and demanded more than $20 million in payments. they say he claim to have evidence of employees funneling illegal payments the top high school basketball prospects and their families. >> a suit and tie does not mask the fact that at its core this was an old-fashioned shakedown. avenatti they could face up to 50 ye

holder: the democratic national committee is with us. i can't say that every democrat is necessarily with us. there will be some democrats, who are in 80% democratic districts, that might have that number of democratic percentage go down to 50%, 48%, something along those lines. from my perspective, that is a good thing. they don't need all these super majority republican or democratic districts. some of them will naturally be that way on the basis of where that. live, things like but what we have now is an unnatural system. redistricting in virginia is on the contiguous for example, where a river is an high tide. really? they had one in pennsylvania duckwas donald kicking goofy. these two districts that were on the connected by a foot. the district are drawn in such a way that you are preserving the safety of the seat and maybe a particular person at the expense of the people. the strength of a party, it seems to me, ought to be based on the ideas the party has. let's make this a battle of ideas, of ideologies, as opposed to su who has

the republican national committee, which is doing the opposition research part of the trump re-electionndidates, especially trying to grab them in small settings, remote settings where they may get less coverage stocking up that footage, trying to especially highlight proposals or ideas that in the general election campaign could be used to make them seem liberal extreme. >> mike, i also know you have a scoop about a possible future stop on trump's post-mueller victory lap. what are you learning? >> so we're seeing here on msnbc president trump's victory lap up on capitol hill, described as exuberant. we see the president now trying to go whole hog, take out the affordable care act. axios has learned that the president is open to the idea of attending this year's white house correspondents association dinner. >> oh, interesting. >> yes. so this is -- apparently the president is thinking about it. nothing has been decided. of course, the first two years of his presidency he boycotted it and we're told now that he hasn't said no, not clear how serious he is about it, but, of course, this

let's bring in xochitl hinojosa, communications director for the democratic national committee.ood to see you today. if enthusiasm is down, what do you do to change that among democratic voters? >> harris, as you know, i think generally when it comes to polling this far out it is really hard to tell what's going to happen in a general election. what you saw in 2018 is that democrats, when it came to enthusiasm, that polling wasn't necessarily up until closer to the election. and we won the election. if you are looking at pulling this far out, jeb bush would have been the republican nominee and have a question would have won the presidency. so i would be wary of polling this far out, but i think what you are seeing is momentum with the democrats when it comes to grassroots fund-raising. you've seen all of the major candidates, and many candidates have a record number in terms of fund-raising but also a number of people, new contributors, contributing to their campaigns. >> harris: xochitl, how do ideas like growing the supreme court to maybe 15 justices and lowering the voting ag

the democratic national committee citing a report in the "new yorker" about the mutually helpful relationship between fox and the trump white house. the story includes new details about fox news essentially catching and killing the stormy daniels story before the election to protect mr. trump. and candidate trump being tipped off about debate questions. >> democratic party chairman tom perez says fox news is, quote, not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate. the network saying it hopes the dnc will reconsider. president trump weighed in, democrats just blocked fox news from holding a debate. good. i think i'll do the same thing with the fake news networks and the radical left democrats in general election debates. noting the president on his own cannot prevent the debates, those are set up by a commission jointly sponsored by the republican and democratic parties. >>> martha mcsally revealing she was raped while serving in the air force. the arizona republican speaking at a senate hearing wednesday on sexual assault in the military. mcsally the first american woman to fly in combat

>> isn't that amazing that the democratic national committee paid for this fake dossier?he one thing you saw from michael cohen's testimony yesterday, michael cohen, who is going to jail for lying, but bring him in front of congress because we think he will tell the truth. he did say he never went to prague, which was a huge part of the dossier, that went to bruce orr whose wife worked for fusion gps. the story that's not talked about right now is adam schiff needs to recuse himself from this investigation. adam schiff had a private meeting with glen simpson, the head of fusion gps. he didn't disclose it to the committee. there's no reason why he should be leading this investigation. we should all be calling for his recusal from this investigation. >> let me ask you about the republican side of the aisle. you think about there's a democratic primary going on. will president trump run unopposed in the gop primary? what do you do if john kasich or larry hogan say, i'm jumping in? >> they have the right to jump in and lose. they will lose horribly. the president has 93% appr

the democratic national committee? : christopher steele was a long-time asset of many governments. am i six. >> darrell: he is still for a foreign national. >> lisa: one, we have the fisa investigation that's coming a prepotential bees. hopefully that answers a lot of questions. we still need to get to the y and the how that we know president trump -- the fbi has not been seemingly dishonest about this. >> harris: i'm going to have to cut in couple if you get to the white house by the president, we know, is meeting of benjamin netanyahu. the premise of israel. we saw their words earlier today, and not a meeting of in the oval office. a few questions from reporters. let's watch. >> reporter: mr. president, did this turn out to not be a witch hunt after all? do you think robert mueller today -- >> president trump: it lasted a long time, we are glad it's over. it's 100% the way it should have been. i wish it could have gone a lot quicker, a lot sooner. there are a lot of people out there who have done some very, very evil

they're accused of hacking and stealing the democratic national committee and clinton campaign emailsree days later, at his summit with the russian president in helsinki downplays the evidence that russia interfered in the election. >> i have president puti he said, "it's not russia." i will say this: i don't see any reason why it would be. i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. >> reporter: throughout the mueller investigation, t qre are repeatstions about when-- and why-- various ummbers of the campaign and white house met with people connected to the russian government. ioattorney general jeff se, former advisors carter page and george papadopoulos, former campaign chairman paul manafort, tional security advisor michael flynn, longtime trump confidant roger stone, longtime fixer, michael cohen, who negotiated with the russian government to create a trump tower in moscow, andven the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, and the president's son, donald trump jr. took a heting with a russian lawyer because she said s "dirt" on hill

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democratic national committee say the first democratic presidential debates will take place in miami june 26th and 27th appear they will be crowded. >>> a new poll shows undeclared former vice president joe biden holding a double tkpeupblg digit lead over the rest democratic hopefuls with 29% of the support. bernie sanders comes in second. beto o'rourke is in third. california senator kamala harris follows. pete butteegieg and elizabeth warren are tied at fifth place. >>> president trump appeared at a campaign style rally in michigan where he celebrated the findings of the special counsel's report. it was the president's first public appearance since robert mule are submitted his report. he told the crowd cha mile the report found no collusion on the part of his campaign, it was the, quote, greatest hoax in the history our country. >> you know, it is interesting, robert mueller was a god to them until he said there was no collusion. they don't like him so much right now. >> democrats continue to push for the release of the entire report. they gave attorney general william barr a dead

knew that roger stone was talking with julian assange about a wikileaks drop on democratic national committee emails. i will explain each in a few moments. i'm providing the committee with several documents and these include a copy of a check mr. trump wrote from his personal bank account after he became president to reimburse me for the hush money payments i made to cover up his affair with an adult film star and to prevent damage to his campaign. copies of financial statements from 2011, 2012, and 2013 that he gave to such institutions as deutsche bank. a copy of an article with mr. trump's handwriting that reported on the auction of a portrait of himself. that he arranged for the bitter at a time -- and reimbursed the dder with the picture now hanging from one of his country clubs and copies of letters i wrote an mr. trump's direction that threatened his high school, colleges, and the college board not to release his grades or sat scores. i hope my appearance here today, my guilty plea, and work with law enforcement agencies are steps along a path of redemption that will restore faith in m

she's at the republican national committee. think in some ways they're trying to stack the deck so that the president gets easily renominated. and i don't worry. i could care less, to tell you the truth. and when i look up at michigan, of course, they lost everything. maybe she should spend a little more time in michigan. look, i know her. she is fine. it doesn't bother me. >> thank you very much, governor. >> thank you. >> and i appreciate your time. >> yep. >> and speaking of 2020, beto o'rourke announced he has made up his mind, and leyla santiago is "outfront." >> when will you make that announcement? >> soon. >> reporter: former congressman beto o'rourke says he's reached a decision about a run for the white house after setting a timeline during an interview with oprah winfrey. >> have you given yourself a deadline? i'm serious about that. have you given yourself? >> and the serious answer is really soon. it is really soon, before the end of this month. >> weeks later, with a big smile, he tells us -- >> i'm going to be ma

[laughter] >> melissa: we got fallout as the democratic national committee boris fox news and the channelfrom hosting any primary debates. a top journalism group slamming the decision. rightly so. we will break down with howard kurtz next. ♪ ♪ >> melissa: new reaction to the democratic national committee's announcement barring fox news channel from hosting any of the 2020 presidential primary debates. now everyone from president trump to a top journalism group is weighing in. fox news media analyst and host of media buzz, howard kurtz, joins us live now with more on this. hi, how we! >> high there. i can't say i'm surprised by the decision on the prime rate debates but i agree with many of the prominent journalists who are writing that this is a missed opportunity for the democrats to reach a broader audience. i think the chairman tom peretz is kind of using this 11,000 word new yorker article about fox and trump as a fig leaf. bill simmons saying, we can put that up, "we hope the dnc will reconsider its decision to bar chris wallace, bret baier, and martha maccallum -- all of whom anybod