orrin hatch, i think, is frustrated. he's usually a good man, but i guess he's frustrated because the american people believe what's been drummed into the head of republicans. repeal it, repeal it, repeal it. let's move on. there are ways we could make things better. >> you've caused quite a stir. let me get your reaction to this. you caused a stir. there was a vote in the senate of 69-29. you were one of the 29 who voted against him. i want to give you a chance to explain what you meant by that t t. >> that was right wing radio who never really tells the truth distorting what i had said. what i said is this, that barack obama had nominated, i think as early as 2013, two people for this seat. and our republican senators from south carolina blocked them with holding of the blue slip, which has been a tradition. so this seat and two people no, ma'am we need the bench to have real diversity. the president's record in nominating people of the law. and the fact they held up two people for so long and now want to get their fel

but i don't always think of orrin hatch with that. so, what are you thinking when you hear him say that? >> first of all it's a sat day in american politics when it's an ad homonym attack. you can can have your own opinion but not your own facts. affordable care act has been a pretty good success. coverage in terms of number of people uninsured dropped from 18% to under 11%. health care inflation has come down and the number of hospital acquired conditions has gone down. when the republicans repeal the individual mandate the projections are that premiums are going to go up, 18% on average and that the number of americans who are going to be uninsured is going to increase. i ask you, which policy is dumber, one that increases premiums and gets more people uninsured or one that gets people insured and brings health care costs down? the affordable care act has been a big success. >> it's worth noting, and certainly i wouldn't want to just take your word for it. when you do look at the kaiser family survey you see it's the most popular it

. >> now, wolf, orrin hatch said that he does not support legislati legislation. also john cornyn observe texas. the republican who is majority ill when. he said he does not think they should attach any bill to frequent special counsel to this must-pass spending bill. he thinks he should lay out the attacks. it does not make essential to do anything legislatively. right now, republicans are concerned about what they're doing but not ready to take them on quite yet. >> all right. thanks for that. joining us now, a key member of the house intelligence committee. democratic congressman joakim castro. do you believe the president is setting the stage for mueller's firing? >> i think it is quite likely that he is. i believe for a while that he could be setting the stage to arrange for bob mueller to be fired. >> the president's lawyer said he is not discussing it, not contemplating it. you don't buy it. >> i don't. if you look at what the president has. it is clear that he has become veriage fated the investigation is still open. pits getting closer to the inner circle

>> it strikes me that orrin hatch and bob corker and trey gowdy yesterday and heard from jeff flake on what's the one thing they all have on common, they're retiring. they're leaving. yes, you mentioned john cornyn and paul ryan put out a paper statement. the strongest language is from those leaving. i'm curious what the political cost might be? >> there's no question. there has been a proposal going back to last summer to pass legislation protecting the special counsel, making it difficult for the president to fire him. that proposal gained essentially no traction. it was introduced at a moment when the president was privately calling republican senators, telling them you have to shut down the senate intelligence committee investigation, privately calling them, giving them every reason to think it was important to protect the special counsel. it's not a place they've been willing to go so far and comes down to not wanting to antagonize this guy. they don't know how the president will respond. >> michael, when we look if something were to pass and alex makes the point the president has

orrin's background was elsewhere. neither of them really knew the industry.nd they weren't sure if the company would survive. >> we lost people. we shut the offices. we had no money. >> but they saw a glim mer of hope. >> we had a link called customer support. obviously i was sitting there because we were just, like, two, three people. we just started. i think our clients, our members interpreted this name to customer clinical support or therapy support. and i started getting hundreds of e-mails telling me about their clinical issues. >> when we said, okay. so we know that people feel very open and very willing to share everything in writing, why don't with do a form of two people. we tested it. >> after redoing the platform, they rebooted the company and quickly got traction with the one-on-one model. a therapist paired with a single client. via text. usually on a smartphone. >> if you were to come into my office and sit down, it would feel probably a little bit formal. if you're on your computer or on your app and you're at home and you're in your comfort z

people in congress like orrin hatch are calling this a tax. trump can do this without a congressional okay. >> china only accounts for 3% of our steel imports. charles: gillian, when a targeted tariff on china, brazil, anyone that's helping them get around the rules, would that be acceptable to the "wall street journal"? >> i wouldn't speak for my entire board. but we are a free trade publication. charles: when an industry is supported by their government is it free trade? >> canada buys our imports. we export steel to them. that's one place where there may be trade retaliation. charles: you guys can put me down. i don't believe there will can a trade war over all of this. but we'll get the details next week. i don't think we'll have a beef with canada on this. but nafta is waiting in the wings. president trump's planned tariffs driving down the stocks. the market generating warnings about this trade war. people are talking about our economy imploding. first it was higher interest rates and the federal reserve. i have two strong minnated smart

therefore i will be joining later today with senator orrin hatch and others in introducing the stop school violence act. if passesse soft by federal gras to do some important things that would have been helpful in this case. strengthen school security, infrastructure of the school, provide school training for everyone, and ministers, teachers and even students people treated by threats into report them. something that would be helpful siis the creation of a school threat assessment intervention teamea and a successful programn los angeles that does this. that is a team that coordinates between law enforcement and other state agencies and school district and the like where they are all talking to each other aboutnc students and former students that may pose a threat of violence and intervened for the act. a second issue we identified is that even in law-enforcement school administrators and family members believe that an individual poses a risk of committing an act of violence and they have very few options to prevent them from purchasing any gun are taking the guns away that they already h

you have got members of republican leadership, mitch mcconnell, orrin hatch, paul ryan. they are opposed to what the president is doing. they want disciplinarying actions on countries like chain today who overproduce steel and subsidize the price with their fund. they want that to be dealt with, but they don't think tariffs are the appropriate step. charles: i want the bring in our panel now with more on this developing story. beverly, halberg. major news. tam are you not a surprise per se. the timing, however, considering gary cohn arranged a meeting thursday with the ceos of companies that use steel to try to persuade president trump away from the tariffs with key trading partners like canada. tammy: those meetings could be set in general as things are moving along in the white house. but it seems he made up his mind a little while ago. there was a story that mr. cohn was sitting in a chair in the oval office sort of being ignored. about cohn is a democrat. former president of goldman sachs. he was a sign of the globalist dynamic and the swamp in a lot of ways. a lot o

orrin hatch will talk about that coming up. also, arkansas governor mike huckabee is more.erman cain is joining us and stuart varney weighing in as well. all that coming up this morn. first, house republicans have finally unveiled their whopping $1.3 trillion spending bill ahead of the looming government shutdown. president trump endorsed the bill last night. he tweeted this, $1.6 billion to start wall on southern border, rest will be forth hadcoming. most importantly, got $700 billion to rebuild the military, $716 billion next year, most ever of. had to waste money on democratic give-aways in order to take care of military pay increase and new equipment. the funding measure needs to make it through the house rules committee before a floor vote. some conservative members in the chamber not happy with this bill. too much money. >> we continue to fund sanctuary cities. we continue to fund planned parenthood. we don't build the wall but yet we put money in for a tunnel. the last time i checked, when the president was campaigning, he wasn't campaigning for a tunnel between new

orrin hatch said it would be the stupidest thing he could do to fire mueller. you heard about the senate's upheaval. jeff flake said it is a big red line. that's a lot of words. what do you think would happen? >> here's the problem. it is great that a few republicans are coming out and that's a good thing and i'm glad they're doing it. five or six. where's the leadership? where's paul ryan? mitch mcconnell? trump is testing the waters. he is trying to see how far can everything? right now the leadership is allowing him to go pretty far. they are being silent. they're ones who should be in front of the camera saying no, this is red line. you cannot cross this. one more thing. on the framing. i don't know how anybody could be framing donald trump when some of the top officials have already pleaded guilty to a federal investigation. so it just seems kind of crazy. >> don't you think the democrats could do more? it will need democratic votes the pass. and in the senate where you need 60 votes anyway. they could insist on a vote. on an amendment. probably not legall

orrin hatch and bob corker have in common? >> they're leaving congress. >> yes, hello. a lot of these people. flake, corker, hatch, they're leaving. easy for them. >> free to speak. >> easy for them to say. ryan put out a statement saying over the weekend, mcconnell ought to -- i mean mueller ought to stay there. but mcconnell and other republicans, i think they're kind of waiting. i think they're afraid. they don't want to do anything right now. these are not profiles in courage here. and i think you're right. if you had a vote, if you did have a vote you would know where the republicans are. i don't think that's trump's strategy, but it would be interesting to see how they line up. >> david, what do you think about that? >> well, let's remind ourselves here that it's not as if the president is clear about whether there's actual guilt behind these allegations or not. if he is actually innocent of all the things the special counsel is investigating, then i think senator hatch is correct, that this is the stupidest thing he can

want to bring up with you paul, good to see you, one of the things adam touched on, comments from orrin hatch. hatch is questioning if we're in an economic position to fight china, to do this, to start the battle with china. do you think we are? >> i agree with him. it is a fact that china has more to lose in a trade war with us than we do with them. and so it's really, really important that we get this right. for so long free traders and globals like myself who really believe in free trade, we negotiated for decades. and then after we do the negotiations we have ignored unfair trade practices. we ignore when people cheat. we now have to go back and say enough is enough. we're losing too many jobs and those people who were the victims of our trade policies, they roted in the last election. lauren: right. >> they let us know what's going on. lauren: we have to undertake these tariffs in such away, paul, where we also protect consumers. look, we love our cheap goods. we really do. that are made in china that come from china. we have to do this in a way that we can protect american jobs an

clearly orrin hatch shared an opinion. who are the winners?inners are the domestic producers of these two products, steel and aluminum. the tariffs essentially make imported products more, you get to charge more and make more money. the losers are the people who buy those products because they have to pay more money. so this is not a win-win. it's a win-lose. for everybody who wins on one side, somebody has to lose on the other side. >> going forward, can the president unilaterally impose these tariffs, or does he need to get approval to do it? >> he can unilaterally do most of the what he says he wants to do. it gets complicated if this escalates into on going retaliations and so forth. that gets complicated. it involves the world trade organization, appeals by other countries, can the united states do this? that drags on for months, sometimes years. at the end of the rode it leads to the question is it plausible the united states could withdraw from the world trade organization. that's many months in the future and that's sort of a spun-off

that first impulse to sex it up for broadway and almost immediately all of us, david chrome kroemer orrin and we said we're not going to do that. if we don't that, it won't have the emotional impact and we made the right move. >> how much of you is in this play, this musical compared to the other works you've done. >> i'm glad you asked that. this is really me. i've made albums, i've made five albums and when i make them i feel like that's a personal expression, i say what i want to say. when this came along i wasn't sure this would happen but it did. i was able to say what i wanted to say in every song. this feels like one of my albums to me. an album i made with the best musicians i could find. >> your mother is jewish and your father is lebanese catholic. >> this was my first visit to my father visiting his father. we were on our way to the mountain where my grandfather was in this cab and there was a very exotic -- i don't like using that word -- pungent new flavor of music coming from the radio in the cab and i asked my father to ask the cab driver what it was, the scales and the rhy

senator orrin hatch says the tariffs are a "tax hike the american people cannot afford."nd the house speaker, paul ryan, is urging the white house not to advance with this plan. so why is the president so keen? my guest today, lawrence summers, knows a lot about the economics of all of this and, of course, the presidential decision making that goes into these kinds of big issues. he served as treasury secretary for bill clinton and as director of the white house national economic counsel in the obama administration and is joining me right here. welcome to the program. >> good to be with you. >> is this the beginning of a trade war or is it not as significant as some people are saying? >> there's real risks that this will set off a cycle of escalation and response that could usher in a new major stretch of protectionism at a moment when the global economy seemed like it was coming into the groove this could be enough to knock it off and out of that groove. >> who are the biggest losers? i mean, he has vowed to protect the most vulnerable american workers. but we're hearing

the "new york times" sued for the release of the documents that show republican utah senator orrin hatch's staff requested the boundary change to bears ears and grand staircase- escalante. the request highlighted oil and gas sights on the land that could be leased with profits helping to fund utah's schools. president trump had said the rationale for reducing the monuments' boundaries was because previous administrations were guilty of a "massive bderal land grab," nause of fossil fuel opportunities. russian president vl putin says he can't say whether alleged meddling in the 2016ct u.s. en broke any russian laws. he with nbc's megyn kelly about last month's indictment of thirteen russian nationals and three russian firms for conspiring to, in part, aid th donald trump campaign. >> ( translated s has to go through official channels, not through the press or yelling and hollering in the united states conivess. >> sreenan: the interview comes in the midst of esssia's own prential campaign, where putin is running for his fourth term as president. he fes no significant opposition in the march8

when it makes me worried like orrin hatch are we in a position to fight them.'re not now, we never will be. neil: john dowd the president's lead attorney quit today. that accelerates selling. we since come back. but as a guy who helps investors invest in an environment like this, to say it is volatile is understatement. that the vix shot up 20%. it did. but it does remind you we're not out of the crazy woods yet here, are we? >> we're not. we were spoiled last year. i tell many people last year could have been the best ever in the market not because it was up a lot but zero volatility. the sun was shining, birds were singing and market went up. we are reminded this year of volatility. these wild swings are mostly on headlines, mostly on speculation, mostly on emotions. neil: anything, if, the mueller investigation, anything that looks not going the president's way even appearance of it they sell off. >> right. neil: when mueller first went after the russian entities. the market sell-off. when we heard only russian and not american entities the market came back.

states trump one in two thousand and sixteen and pick up three and here's three now though in utah orrin hatch retires mitt romney is likely to keep that seat. republican in arizona where polls say toss up could a growing hispanic population flip that seat blue there's been some buzz about bob corker reconsidering retirement thad cochran leaving for health reasons opens up a couple of seats in mississippi match your sense of the senate. well i think the senate's going to be much more of a difficult climb than the house you know if you want to talk about coattails specifically i can tell you in the seven special elections we've had since last year seventy six are in heavy red states and democrats have over performed by an average of sixteen points i don't think the president could have coattails unless there negative it's certainly not worked out but i think that because of what ed said the democrats are more vulnerable because we're the seats are physically geographically for us to hold on to them so i think that's a problem but again i think there's going to be a democratic surge but th

orrin's background was in marketing. roni recently completed her masters degree in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. neither of them knew the industry and weren't sure if the company would survive. >> we lost people, we had no money. >> but they saw a glimmer of hope in a very unlikely place. >> we had a link called customer support. and obviously, i was sitting there because we were just, like, two, three people. we just started. i think our clients, our members interpreted this name to customer clinical support or therapy support. and i started getting hundreds of e-mails telling me about their clinical issue. >> we said, okay, we know that people feel very open and very willing to share everything. so i'm thinking, why don't we do it with two people. we tested it immediately. >> after rebooting the company, they quickly got traction with the one-on-one model. a therapist paired with a single client via text, usually on a smartphone. >> if you were to come into my office and sit down, it would feel probably a little bi

i want to play a bite from senator orrin hatch. here's his reaction tonight. >> whoever advised him on this is -- ought to be reprimanded. in all honesty, it's not going to happen. it's going to cause higher prices and make us left competitive in the world marketplace. >> there's been a lot of backlash domestically and internationally. these announcements don't come into next week. do you think they still happen? >> i think that all details haven't been released yet and obviously unlike senator hatch, i represent industrial america. and here we have republic steel, us steel, alcoa,the list goes on. and we understand the delicate nature of tariffs but we know america hasn't had a trade balance in over a quarter century. right now, over 700 workers in ohio have been pink slipped unless something happens soon. we know we have to resurrect this steel industry in our country to give it a fair trade level playing field. the president is inching towards that. we look forward to the details. but i can tell you what we don't want is an amer

you spoke with marco rubio and orrin hatch. >> stop act proposed by sen.arco rubio, will come into law because it has bipartisan support, solving an immediate issue. heather: take me back to the day this happened on valentine's day. where were you? >> the adjacent building. i heard some of the pops, registered as shots. heather: you hit in a closet with classmates for how long? >> two hours. heather: did you have any idea what was going on? >> we were getting constant updates. we were figuring out what was happening. we knew the name nikolas cruz 20 minutes in. >> did you know him? >> i didn't know him. i sat next to him for years. he was always an outcast, even an outcast among the outcast. of the 20 what about the victims? >> i knew one girl, helena ramsey, she was in my class last year, the nicest person. heather: what happens? she was in that building. in terms of moving forward you came up with this apps. tell us about the apps. emotional support as well. >> it is necessary to have emotional support. as a school system we didn't have that. we allow st

kelly and you didn't have anywhere else to go and now you are you being mentioned as a replacement for orrin>> i come to worker day it's an honor and pruf to serve this great president. my job every day is to help the president put men and women to work in high-paid jobs. that's all i have done. i keep my head down and stay on task. tomorrow will be a good day for america. my office works on a lot of things. we have the "buy america" plan and we are doing a great job across the bureaucracies. i'm doing great stuff with the president and vice president on the defense industry industrial base. and stump we'll talk about that, too. charles: all the buzz has been on the palace intrigue at the white house and the guessing game over president obama's tariff policies. our economy has become a juggernaut. the abc number 235,000. wall street was looking for 180,000. wages surged almost 3%. that could be a problem. but we want to find out if this is good for the stock market. liz, we may be going too good gang busters, but at least we are going gang busters. >> what a relief that is. we put so many pe

. >> orrin hatch said it's going to be a huge tax on american citizens and it's going to discombobulater economy here. that's a technical term, discombobulate american economy. but he said it's going to be bad for the economy. >> well, sure, the folks that have gained the system, that benefit from all of this chinese dumping will get hurt. but the american workers, the folks who punch the clocks, that are the forgotten men and women that donald trump is talking about, they will benefit and that's why this action matter. >> finally somebody stands up to china. a great segment. coming >> laura: family friends and the world a worse fate gave her respects to billy graham in the world today. more than 200 glass attended including president trump and vice president mike pence. he died last month at age 99 after a lifetime of spreading the gospel to hundreds of millions of people in person and of course over the airwaves. but it was not billy graham's vein that was celebrated, it was message and example. his son franklin evoked his father spirit this way. speak of the world with all of its pol

has complained in a letter to republican senator orrin hatch he can't get meetings with anyone in the trump white house, cabinet secretaries or members of congress. if that's true, why would he be shut out? >> no doubt, if i'm in the administration, the last person i want to see on mikhail enradar is the ambassador to russia from the united states. >> they say the claim is not true, a white house official telling cnn he's met with senior security councilmembers several times throughout the year and they have encouraged others to meet with him. this official olympiapoints outs access jon huntsman had not been granted in moscow. wolf? >> thank you. >>> coming up, more breaking news. an ally to trump's campaign says he was detained and questioned as part of robert mueller's investigation. -if you told me a year ago where i'd be right now... aah! ...i would have said you were crazy. but so began the year of me. i discovered the true meaning of paperless discounts... and the indescribable rush of saving drivers an average of $620. why does fear feel so good? i fell in love three times -- o

on the chairman of the senate finance committee especially when it happens to be republican senator orrin hatch of utah. >> frankly we don't win by assessing tariffs. i don't know who's advising him but i have a good idea. the fact the matter is it is the wrong advise. >> it is impossible to know what next week will bring from this white house but earlier today in this very same studio on this network, former cia, chief john brennan, shared this. >> it is no secret to anybody that donald trump is very ill prepared and unexperienced in terms of dealing with matters ahead of state needs to do with. i think this is now coming to -- we really have rough borders ahead. >> that gets your attention. for more, let's bring in your panelists and our msnbc's analyst, julia ainsley and peter from the great state of florida. peter, i would like to begin with you, mar-a-lago rules are now in effect. by that, we mean the president enters the warm baths of family friends and fayipaying guests w forms the tabloid and back donald trump can sometime informing his twitter habits. >> he's not staying the whol

running for the senate for the wonderful state of utah, make a great senator, worthy successor to orrin, has my f support.d endorsement. which is interesting because, as the you may recall exactly two years ago, mitt romney did something that, rarely its done in modern american politics. he broke with his party. went full force fondidate at the type. years ago, , muslims, mexicans, disabled i would not have accepted his endorsement. trump in 2012. now that trump endorsed romney for senator, romne want to guess? thank you, mr. president for the support. i hope that over the course of the campaign i earn the support and endorsement. when mitt gets to the senate he will fit right in.e i'm donald trump, and i strongly support mitt romney for sena 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 expo

that is what orrin hatch has said. they have to make a harder sell. they are actually negating the policies by doing this. >> they have to try to argue the 1930s economic policies is fit for the modern world when it really is not. we know economics says this is not going to be good for the market. no one will win here. i think what is really frustrating and something that is not being pointed out that this is incredibly disingenuous for the republicans. they are not mock nancy pelosi for crumbs and send wilbur ross on cable television and make a joke about a can of soup will go up by a dime and a pack of beer is this expensive. those tariffs will hurt people in job growth on the lower end of the spectrum and people doing the shopping for the home. >> it is people and what they buy every day. it is the very people who looked at president trump to help with jobs and economy are the people who get hit first. wilbur ross used the example of the $35,000 car. a lot of people in america have a hard time affording a $35,000 car. >> a tad tone deaf. humor was

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however, there were a few holdouts, including yours and your colleague from utah senator orrin hatch. what was -- what is the disagreement? what was the disagreement within the committee? what were the problems? why? who on earth at this moment is trying to keep mandatory minimums as having as much as a role in the system as they do and why? >> without speaking for any one colleague, i usually try to avoid being anyone else's spokesman. >> so senatorial. >> but i can speak certainly in generalities about those in my party who express opposition. one of the things i hear from my republican colleagues is i don't believe we have an overincarceration problem. some of them will go so far to say if anything we have an underincarceration problem. i don't find that persuasive at all. >> they say he we should have one in three prisoners? >> perhaps. or maybe all of us should be in there in a sense. i don't know. not all of them feel that way. others will take a more nuanced approach and say i could support this, but i want additional reforms in there. if you could throw in mens rea reform, req

you want to spring on the senate of the chair finance committee, especially when it happens to be orrin hatch of utah. >> the people will have to pay these tariffs, it will be the american citizens. we don't win by assessing tariffs. >> you see how that went. it is impossible to know what this will bring next being. but on this very network, john brennan shared this. >> it is no secret to anybody that donald trump was unprepared and head of state. i think this is coming to roost. if we have somebody in the oval office who is unstable, inemppt and unethical. we have rough waters ahead. >> that gets your attention. for more, let's bring in the lead-off panel. peter baker for the "new york times", and an msnbc political analyst. julia ainslie, national security and justice reporter, and david jolly, a former gop member of congress. peter, i would like the begin with you. while stating clearly, mar-a-lago ruse will. >> reporter: in effect. by we mean the president enters the warm bath of family, friends and paying guests who form back drop and can sometimes inform his thinking and his twitt

orrin hatch and bob corker and jeff flake.is the strongest voice warning the president not to do this that is not running for re-election. >> joining us this morning is david drucker from "the washington examiner." what does the personal attorney with deep state inclinatioincli what does this signal to you? >> the interesting thing is whether or not president trump will deploy mr. digenova out in the media other berating the investigation. as we saw this past weekend, going after mr. mueller personally. there is nothing wrong with defending himself. it is the manner in which the president goes about that which is problematic. at least for republicans running for re-election. >> you are right about that. david, you say the president confirming house republicans worst fears about the depth of the mid term woes. how so? >> for republicans to be what are historical or traditional mid term head winds. when your party is in control of the white house and you are running in congress, you will have head winds. that is how it works. th

. >> orrin hatch said it's going to be a huge tax on american citizens and it's going to discombobulateeconomy here. that's a technical term, discombobulate american economy. but he said it's going to be bad for the economy. >> well, sure, the folks that have gained the system, that benefit from all of this chinese dumping will get hurt. but the american workers, the folks who punch the clocks, that are the forgotten men and women that donald trump is talking about, they will benefit and that's why this action matter. >> finally somebody stands up to china. a great segment. coming up, a final farewell to billy graham. stop dancing around the pain that's keeping you awake. advil pm gives tossing and turning a rest and silences aches and pains. fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer with advil pm. fall asleep faster, stay ♪sleep longer ♪ (vo) you can pass down a subaru forester. but you get to keep the memories. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. (avo) get 0% apr financing on all new 2018 subaru forester models. now through april 2nd. >> laura: family friends and the world a worse

so people like lindsey graham and bob corker and even folks like orrin hatch. he didn't use the words constitutional crisis, but a number of republicans, not just democrats, republicans out lighted the words constitutional crisis. and the media ran with that. along with the cambridge analyticca issue. charles: some are saying the president shouldn't lash out at robert mueller, let this thing run its course. it's generally acknowledged mccabe was fired by a.g. jeff sessions at the request of the inspector general at the fbi. >> it is undeniable that president trump and his team have cooperate with the mueller investigation in unprecedented ways. 37 witnesses, 1.4 million pages of documents from the campaign. this idea he's going to fire bob mueller and create a constitutional crisis is a fake story. the media is acting irresponsibly when they can move markets with a fake news story. they have extraordinary power in make up stories with no basis in truth. charles: i think the media likes the market turmoil. the amount of coverage point way up versus the amount of

others like senator orrin hatch said they don't support special protection for the special counsel but he adds, firing mueller would be the stupidest thing that president could ever do. team coverage night with chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge about the firing of andrew mccabe, ellison barber. we begin with chief national correspondent ed henry on an aggressive new addition to the presidents legal team. >> breaking tonight, i've spoken to people close to the president who are worried that while the obstruction of justice phase with special counsel robert mueller's probe might be petering out, now this more aggressive approach with mueller by the president and his legal team could spark a whole new round of combat that actually reignite the investigation. one week after the president tweeted he was happy with his legal team, he has now hired the top attorney joseph didn't about, someone with a reputation in part because he served as an independent counsel probing whether or not the george h.w. bush white house broke any laws when officials got caughtport file. joe dig

. >> orrin hatch said it's going to be a huge tax on american citizens and it's going to discombobulate of our economy here. that's a technical term, discombobulate american economy. but he said it's going to be bad for the economy. >> well, sure, the folks that have gained the system, that benefit from all of this chinese dumping will get hurt. but the american workers, the folks who punch the clocks, that are the forgotten men and women that donald trump is talking about, they will benefit and that's why this action matter. >> finally somebody stands up to china. a great segment. a great segment. coming you were pushed out of your homeland, but you could never be broken. you walked together. you built your home again. my dna showed that i'm native american, and connected me to cousins who taught me about our tribe. my name is joseph reece, and this is my ancestrydna story. now with 10 million new family connections made every day. order your kit at ancestrydna.com you know what's not awesome? gig-speed internet. when only certain people can get it. let's fix that. let's give this guy

the president has been tweeting and said among other things -- so senator orrin hatch is one of many republicans who disagree with what the president is doing to protect the steel industry with tariffs. here's what orrin hatch had to say. >> it's going to turn around and bite the american citizens with much higher taxes, much higher costs, and it's going to discombobulate our whole international trading system, so i'm very upset about it, as you can see. reporter: now, the president even when he was just a candidate, was making this an issue and talked about the need to negotiate fair trade deals for the united states among the partners he wants to do that with is china. the chinese issued a statement about the coming tariffs and they said, quote, what an extremely stupid move, a desperate attempt by trump to pander to his voters which we think counters to america first pledge. the u.s. is setting a very, very bad example. this is the man who leads the chinese iron and steel association, and you get the commerce secretary wilbur ross who was just on with stuart varney who said, look,

running for the senate for the wonderful state of utah, make a great senator, worthy successor to orrin, has my full support. and endorsement. which is interesting because, as the you may recall, almost exactly two years ago, mitt romney did something that, rarely its done in modern american politics. he broke with his party. went full force for donald trump. candidate at the type. if trump said four years ago, the things he says about kkk, muslims, mexicans, disabled i would not have accepted his endorsement. trump endorsed romney over obama in 2012. now that trump endorsed romney for senator, romney said anyone want to guess? thank you, mr. president for the support. i hope that over the course of the campaign i earn the support and endorsement. when mitt gets to the senate he will fit right in. not only, not only, is the president supporting mitt romney on twitter he is putting the full weight of his office into ads for him on television too. >> my fellow americans, i'm donald trump, and i strongly support mitt romney for senate. mitt will fight hard for the people of utah and stand

senator orrin hatch and representative kevin brady.g a letter to ask to reconsider and brady saying this morning that he thinks trump's approach is the problem here. >> where we're at in a lot of republicans in the house is, look, mr. president, go after the bad actors. we're with you. protect the good ones because that protects our jobs. so we're going to keep having that discussion with him. >> not all republicans agree on this. i talked with senator shelby from alabama. he says if trump is playing the long game here and it works, he doesn't see a problem with this strategy. >> i don't know if it's the wrong way to go. what is wrong or right is what works. we'll see if it works. if it doesn't work, it's the wrong way to go. sometimes you have to get people's attention. we're losing out in the trade war. let's be honest. the question is, is it our fault or the trade fault or because countries are dumping steel and aluminum on this country to detriment of our own people? we need to figure this out. this is a good tart to start. >> trac

and today ah republican senator orrin hatch also criticized the president's move. >> i am deeply disappointed in the decision to impose global tariffs to address a problem caused by china, tariffs or taxes. so i am concerned about the harm that this action would impose on american manufacturers and families. >> brangham: still the president found support in unlikely places. demoeaiccrch>>de i lsc vucerr ys administration is taking strong acti to t a better deal on china, because china has stolen and extorted the intellectual property of american companies for years without repercussion. our intellectual property ares. our family jew >> brangham: the list of chinesl products that nder these tariffs will be made avail in 15 days.able until then all eyes are on how china might respond. >> woodruf william will be ck with a deeper dive on alls, of tfter the news summary. worries about a trade war sent wall street into a deep dive of its own. the dow jones industrial average plunged 724 points, nearly%, to close below 23,96 the nasdaq fell 178 points, and e s&p 500 slumped 68. a massivspending bill

we're getting statements from people like finance committee chairman orrin hatch. he shade this is tax hike on american people. they don't need it. i encourage the president to carefully consider of raising the cost of steel and aluminum. >> a lot of republicans and conservatives have been saying this is a tax. canadians hate it. >> auto dealers don't like it. >> the european unions hate it. american consumers may be for it, but when the cost of the car goes up 15%, i guess -- >> depends. >> shepard: we don't know what will happen. that's the problem here. isn't it? it's the uncertainty. the markets don't know what this means. it's reacting in the negative. it's not going to be great news for a lot of companies and it's going to rebound with higher prices. we haven't seen inflation. that's what you're seeing in the markets, fear. >> shepard: is there something that could stablize this? what kind of thing -- >> guess what? we're not going to be doing the tariffs. >> shepard: he could. yesterday he said collect the guns and then says go due process. that will get wal

you had the thsenate finance chairman orrin hatch saying he disagreed with the tariffs senator mccaine same thing. and senator jeff flake saying that he believed these tariffs would spark a trade war and saying he would draft and introduce legislation to nullify the tariffs and urges his colleagues to pass it before this exercise in protectionism inflicts more damage on the economy. we'll see whether congress has those tools to actually effect that nullification and whether enough people in flake's party support him in that effort >> so this is fascinating about whether we're likely to see more carve outs and it resting on whether the likes of the eu orrya pan are willing to impose their own tariffs on other nations. it points to the fact that there could have been a more thought-through process to begin with either way, what do we expect the fallout to be if those extra carve-outs are not forthcoming clearly all these countries are allies and it will cause friction with some important international partners >> regardless of where each individual country stans on ttan tariffs, you the

utah senator orrin hatch who you'll remember not too long ago said that president trump could go down in history as the greatest president ever has urged president trump don't do it. listen here. >> i'm very surprised that he's had very bad advice from somebody down there, to -- people will have to pay these tariffs are the american citizens. frankly we don't win by assessing tariffs that basically come back to bite us. >> the president has been pushing this idea for a long time all the way back to the campaign saying that he needs to do it in order to preserve american companies and american jobs. he also needs to do it in the name of national security. you get into a war with the supplier like china, where are you going to get your steel from? well, it could come from canada. the president's allies are castigating the idea of tariffs. listen to what marcy captor said. >> we don't want to wait for the steel industry collapse as happened to the auto industry. we can't afford to have the aluminum industry collapse in this country. >> the white house has not worked out the nuts and bolt

orrin hatcher in the senate says it's no tax reform.y said, look, we're trying to help you, bottom line, voter. if anything goes up on. how can they not campaign on the economy when there will be these prices? >> it could in the short term help republican candidate. >>> up next, president trump has a friendly chat with the nra. will it change his tough policies on guns? most pills don't finish the job because they don't relieve nasal congestion. flonase allergy relief is different. flonase relieves sneezing, itchy, watery eyes and a runny nose, plus nasal congestion, which pills don't. flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. most pills only block one. and 6 is greater than 1. start your day with flonase for more complete allergy relief. flonase. this changes everything. yourbut as you get older,thing. it naturally begins to change, causing a lack of sharpness, or even trouble with recall. thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory. the secret is an ingredient originally discovered..

. >>> just in, senator orrin hatch now apologizing for this comment that he made about those who support the stupidest dumb ass bill that i've ever seen. now some of you may have loved it. if you do, you are one of the stoop he haddest dumb ass people i've ever met. >> the republican says in part that he made a poorly word joke and it was not reflective of his actual feelings. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> they say blood is thicker than water so jared kushner and ivanka trump have nothing to worry about. "the lead" starts now. a new report says president trump is urging his chief of staff to show ivanka trump and jared kushner the door. while telling them to their faces that he wants them to stick around. and this is not even the most troubling white house story of the week. now that vladimir putin is trotting out his brand new nuclear missile that he says cannot be stopped, are we on the brink of a

and senators orrin hatch and ben sass flat out rejethed tcted th proposal. >> i love the president. think he's done a terrific job up to now. this could turn him the other way. whoever advised him on this ought to be reprimanded. it's not going to help america. it's going to cause higher prices around here and make us less competitive. >> if you own a steel mill, today was great for you. if you consume steel and every american family that bought something at the store that had metal in it, today is a bad day for you. there will be retaliatory tariffs against the farmers and ranchers and producers and the workers of america. this is lefty economic policy and we've tried it a whole bunch of times and every time american families have suffered. >>> and this morning, it appears another key members of trump administration may be leaving. h.r. mcmaster, the president's national security adviser is the latest news that comes out of the white house that finds itself on the defensive. kristen welker has the details. >>> with the white house already in turmoil, five people familiar with the d

president trump when he came to office and had the backing of conservative republicans like mike lee, orrin hatch and utah. >> shannon: ed henry with the latest details. thank you. isn't huber enough? to some g.o.p. lawmakers believe a second special counsel is what is going to take to get to the bottom of what has happened at the fbi and doj? let's ask one of them. let's pick a new york republican congressman peter king, who sits on the house homeland security committee. great happy with us tonight. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: what do you make it weird for me attorney general today? you heard the reporting that chairman bob goodlatte and trey gowdy have said is a step in that direction, they want a second special counsel. what do you think? >> i have been opposed to special counsel's however i feel that it's one situation where it's warranted. i still believe that. i will not underestimate what the attorney general has done. probably in the same position as trey gowdy. this is a significant step. it doesn't show that the attorney general's continuing criminal prosecution here. a cri