"new york times" chief white house reporter peter baker got an early copy of the book.writes, president obama expressed rare self-doubt, wondering whether he had misjudged his own influence on american history, asking his staffers, what if we were wrong? joining me now is peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times" and msnbc political analyst, and msnbc national political reporter carol lee who also covered the obama white house. peter, the book, it seems like, at least, really pulls back the curtain and shows us what it was like, the outward appearance of obama in that time was total calm and still, confidence. but it sounds like he was really grappling with his own legacy and what he had done for eight years. >> i think that's exactly right. he was stoic in the public sphere. we didn't really get to see his own personal reaction to this election, an election that in some ways was a repudiation of things he had done. it meant the public elected somebody who was his exact opposite, who was planning to undo the things he had done as president. s

here to talk about it, peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times" and an msnbc political analyst. jackie kaumz, white house editor. and matthew nussbaum, white house reporter for politico. peter, is this potentially a case of misdirected anger at congress, say, for not funding the signature program of the campaign? >> yeah, it's interesting. you heard him talk about this at the rally tonight. you've heard him talk about this a lot in recent weeks, his frustration that congress hasn't come forward with more money for the wall and for other border security measures. his frustration that his own department of homeland security in his view has not been tough enough. his own sense that the borders are porous. the numbers of crossings had come down substantially when he took office, but they've been going up again the last few months and that has frustrated him. now, kirstjen nielsen, of course, shares a lot of his views about how important it is to close the borders, but she has become the focus of his ire as we've seen in recent days and particularly in that cabinet

. >>> also with us this morning, chief white house correspondent for the new york times peter baker, political writer for the new york times and msnbc political analyst nick confessorry and in washington, nbc news national political reporter heidi przybyla. a lot to get to. rudy unravelled more over the weekend, if it's possible, joe. >> he really did. not only did he unravel more spitting, standing secretary of state, on prepared remarks, and seemed completely out of control, we have to remember this is a man that the white house worked furiously to get as secretary of state even though they were admitting privately during the transition that rudy giuliani had lost quite a few steps. he would fall asleep in the middle of meetings actually five minutes into meetings and his head would be rested on his chest, that he wasn't completely all there. those are the words of donald trump and those around him back two years ago. now we have a man known as america's mayor, a man who did some pretty extraordinary things in new york, was viewed favorably by so many in the days after 9/11, john h

peter baker chief white house correspondent for "the new york times" back with us tonight. also back with us jill wine-banks assistant and former watergate counsel. watching that kind of slap jawed, if they have mueller limited to two categories, the questions for them, collusion and obstruction, that's like saying you've got a tornado to agree to death and destruction only. what does that mean? >> well, i think you were right when you said in the beginning that this has all come down to a lot of p.r., and you have an unanswered accusations from giuliani that mueller cannot and must not answer because he's acting appropriately. so, giuliani can say whatever he wants. and then he can say, and see how unfair it was? they didn't want to agree to that. they said they would and then they wouldn't. i don't believe they are going to agree to limit it to two things, but also in giuliani's statement, he actually basically admitted that there is a good case for obstruction. he said, oh, i'm fine with collusion because there's no collusion. but obstruction, that's a matter of interpre

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peter baker, you wrote in the main bar piece about this whole analysis piece. it seems to me it's the cochran method. if it looks bad for your client, shift the question with the jury over to what do you think of the la police in the case and robert mueller in this case, focus the attention at least of trump's people away from whether he did include with the russians or did obstruct justice to whether you like the justice department. if you like the federal government, and most of his people don't like the federal government. that's a pretty good place to put your focus. your thoughts? >> i think you're right. he's trying to shift focus away from his own conduct to that of investigators. what happened yesterday is fascinating. for a year, he has been attacking the investigation from time to time putting open pressure on the justice department to either open politically charged investigations or close them. yesterday is the first time at the really met with people who are running these investigations for his justice department and fbi and force them to agree toe

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peter baker? i'm frightened by his tweets on north korea at this point. shouldn't we be?he doesn't know what he's doing. >> seriously? it's evidence, ee's everyday, >> look at this, for some reason siri is the deep state. >> your phone just starts recording. >> it only happens when i i start saying things i never want it to hear. >> then it starts recording like nobody was touching it. that's weird. anyhow -- >> so anyway, okay. come on. >> drunk driver. >> it's donald trump. >> peter baker, we've had the tweets back and forth. where are we right now as it pertains to negotiations and is donald trump moving forward to wait to act non? >> there's so many hazards on the trail to singapore it may not come off but one of the questions raised by the tweet you just said is i want things to go across the border but not until after signing. what does that mean? does that mean he's willing, for instance, to ease up on the economic sanctions on the promise of denuclearization as opposed to delivering? at what point along the road would you deliver benefits to north korea in exchang

peter baker, first to you. is there any evidence at all that the mueller team who are known as elite prosecutors are partisan democrats and would be meddling in the midterms? >> this is part of president trump's defense against investigators. this team and robert mueller who was appointed by rod rosenstein who was a republican and is using the fbi led by chris wray who is a republican. are there people on robert mueller's team that are democrats? yes. have they contributed money to hillary clinton's campaign in the past? yes yes. you're not to consider people's individual, personal, political background in choosing prosecutors. i think robert mueller has shown long history what he is interested in mostly is conducting a professional investigation. this is an effort by the president to make them look like partisan figures than neutral investigators. >> there's been a lot of twitter traffic today robert costa as well. one says sorry i've got to start focused my energy on north korea, bad trade deals va choice and

. >> let's get the inside scoop from peter baker, a chief white house correspondent for "the new york" and kimberly atkins. peter, first of all, this attack, this pressure on the postmaster general, according to "the washington post," they had three sources saying there were separate meetings repeatedly telling the postmaster general that she had to increase the bulk rates on amazon. the only president that one can think of that we know about to use the office of the presidency to go after a single business or so-called enemy is in the days of richard nixon. >> yeah. that's very -- obviously what makes this troubling is the idea that it's connected to complaints that he has about the coverage of him by "the washington post." now, there are many -- there may be issues whether amazon does or does not have the best deal possible. certainly its competitors have feelings about that. but nobody thinks outside of the white house that president trump enters this with clean hands, that he doesn't have a particular motivation here. that's the real question here, would he be concerned about the

chief white house correspondent for the new york times peter baker.today, susan page and moderator of "washington week" on pbs, robert costa. >> this is big. this is big. so mika -- i don't know what's wrong with mika, why she's acting the way she is. we're not going to have her read the script on jeff sessions quite yet. >> i really want to. >> i'm curious on what you got on what happened yesterday with abc, roseanne. president's nonresponse and basically america's overwhelming response that there are still lines in the age of trump. >> well, it was a stone cold racist comment. it wasn't a joke. it was mean spirited. it was vile. abc knew this about her going in. and what they tried -- >> it's okay to take a chance, right? >> they were trying to contain her. i do know that from insiders there. >> you wouldn't be in business with her. >> no. >> you would not be in business. you wouldn't be in business. none of us would be in business with her. but they said, hey, we want to be in business with this person because they can make a buck. they can monetiz

peter baker, talk about the challenge that folks like mike pompeo and john bolton and secretary mattis have in navigating parts of the world that really do require a little bit more context, a little bit more knowledge of the history of the leaders that came before. how do they navigate around that in this white house? >> yeah, no, it's a great question. look, most of these people have not had the kind of experience dealing with north korea that ambassador richardson has had, that ambassador chris hill had under bush, that a number of others have had. john bolton has known it from his perch as a u.n. ambassador and certainly played a role in the bush administration, and that actually soured him on the idea of negotiations with north korea. he came away with his experiences thinking that the north koreans are not genuine. you can't trust them, when they're going to simply string you along with false promises and try to cheat behind your back. so he came into this experience as the national security adviser for trump pretty jaundiced about the whole thing. he didn't believe this diplomat

peter baker, let me start with you. you and your colleagues have been on this all day ahead of the announcement. the last story i read on this, you've included the joint statement from president macron of france, prime minister theresa may of britain and angela merkel of germany urging iran to continue to meet its own obligations under the deal despite the america withdrawal. you quote them, we encourage iran to show restraint in response to the decision by the u.s. it sounds like we have a real policy dispute and split now with some of our closest allies. thanch >> we have a big schism with the biggest allies we have in europe on one of the most important issues to them and the united states. they're saying that they're still in this deal just because president trump has gotten out and they want to find a way to salvage it with iran. despite the statement, it's going to be hard for europe to do. american sanctions will force european banks, european companies to pull out of iran. they have a choice between doing busine

peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times." jonathan lemire, white house reporter for the associated press. and because we need a lawyer and a damn good one, barbara mcquade is back with us, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. all are msnbc analysts. jonathan, since we dropped your name, we know rudy's feelings about trump. what are trump's feelings about rudy, do we think? >> at this moment, he does appreciate -- >> at 11:07 eastern -- >> ask me again at 11:09. at this moment he does appreciate that the president -- that the former mayor is sort of an attack dog in the media, that he is out there. he's grabbing headlines. he's defending him. >> that he is. >> he's defending him, and he's taking a much more aggressive tact than some of his other lawyers have done. that said, as our reporting indicates, he's also growing frustrated. we saw those video clips there. pretty muddled answers suggesting that the president couldn't be trusted to tell the truth about the russia probe if he sat down with mueller. s

joining our conversation tonight, peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times." we've asked jonathan lemire to stick around and join us as well. so, peter, it has been five days, and based on your knowledge of this institution and this president, provided you don't have direct knowledge, does this kind of order come from the top because some days it feels like nothing else would explain the lack of an apology to john mccain. >> yeah, no. i think that's exactly right. it's been five days as you say, and in five days it will be ten, and ten days after that it will be 20. i don't think we should expect that to change. i think this is a president who has made very clear long before becoming president that he doesn't believe in apologies. he thinks apologizing is a weakness. he particularly doesn't favor the idea of apologizing given what he and other republicans have seen -- have said, it was president obama's habit of apologizing too much. so i think that he's made very clear to the staff that that's not something that they should do even though there are, of cour

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. >> peter baker what is the value of mike pence if you're donald trump?that's a great question. look, there are two kinds of vice presidents, those accused of out for themselves and nursing their own ambitions they are not serving the president who picked them and those who are slavishly loyal and he decided to be the ladder. seemed ultimate loyal. despite his own history of his views and i think he's calculated that he wants to inherit the trump base and back kaj. for trump, you get validation and somebody to flatter you. that means something to this president and the two of them stayed tightly wound together as a team that will last as the tensions of these coming months emerge. we'll see. there's a lot of big thipgs coming up that might test. >> it it is worth tuning in until our last segment on the broadcast. we are going to hear out steef schmitt on this. really appreciate the conversation tonight. coming up with us, with three americans back on u.s. soil. the president on the world stage. hn's symptoms are holding you back, and your current treatmen

. >> let's get the inside scoop from peter baker. where are you on this continuing feud?well, look, michael cohen wants to pick apart this report in order to question the credibility of the overall message. in fact, whatever the e details that might be mistaken is michael avenatti talked about there, we had confirmation from at&t that they paid michael cohen in other words to gain his insights into trump. we know a number of others have been confirmed. the vast majority does seem to be bearing out. the question being did he sell access to the president or did he simply sell his knowledge of the president. >> michael cohen calling people and saying i can help get you some inside access. it's not illegal especially after the supreme court decision on governor mcdonald from virginia. >> it's not illegal. it's not unusual. there's a whole industry in washington voting to that. we don't know if he was lobbying in way that triggered that. we don't know was president trump aware of whoo he was doing and did president trump benefit from what he was doing? those are the questions

this is peter baker from "the new york times" has a review and some interesting details.w president obama reacted in the wake of president trump's election with president obama wondering out laid aides, maybe this is what people want. i've got the economy setup well for him. no facts, no consequences. they can just have a cartoon. he added that we are about to find out just how resilient those institutions are at home and around the world. >> a last point is one that institutions and the rest of the world, we are going to find out how resilient they are because donald trump has tested them. again he has tested them through conduct. it's different than any other president including richard nixon. wave never had a president appeal to the lowest common denominator in terms of who we are as a people. who incredibly day after day after day makes no attempt to appeal to our better natures, to our higher selves, to policies and our higher selves. >> and a president who is so unrelenting on his assault on the rule of law and the justice department. this was something richard nixo

peter baker is a chief white house correspondent for the "new york times," and jake sherman is a seniorriter for politico. garrett i do want to start with you. what are they talking about? or what were they talking about? >> sorry, we're getting a little bit of chaos around me right now, the president did stop by the cameras, and we got a clap and a wave. we asked him if he thinks the white house should apologize to john mccain. the about or someone operating his twitter account tweeted about dick fisher running in a primary today, we know that was something both the white house and senators expected to talk about today, i suspect that the president's tweets about the chinese phone companies zte which alarmed some senators here on capitol hill, the john mccain question is very much an open one, and has been on the minds of many up here. but i do think it's unlikely that any senator would challenge the president for an apology or anything of that nature because they simply don't believe they'll get one. >> we saw that clap and wave as you described it, rolling over you talking, garrett,

it's -- i mean, peter baker -- >> ben rhodes' book. >> and peter has an incredible lens and perspective. >> most interesting article of the day. go out and read it. >> for sure all of you should. >> and the facebook. >> we have rewritten the too much this show several times to accommodator to all of the breaking news this. hour, president trump will be leaving texas. once again the president is surrounded by controversial headlines. today the president caused a stir before he left washington, starting with a tweet on former fbi director james comey. then flexing his clemensy powers by issuing another pardon and suggesting more are coming, then triggering a trade war, after slapping tariffs against american allies. now, just within the past two hours, the white house is calling for the cancellation of tv host samantha bee who said this about the president's daughter on her show, full frontal. quote, you know, ivanka, that's a beautiful photo of you and your child. but let me just say, one mother to another, do something about your dad's immigration practices. you if he c you feckless, an

joining me now is peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times" and the msnbcyst. peter, you have been writing about the book and what you learned from it. there's a moment where you write about the conversation that then president obama had with officials after that oval office meeting. quote, afterward, in obama called a few aides to the oval office to ruminate on the encounter. he peddles bull, mr. rhodes answered. that character has always been part of the american story. you can see it right back to some of the characters in "huck "huckleberry finn." talk to us about those first days of november 2016. >> we have not seen much of the inside account of what mr. trump talked about. he is a restrained individual. there was more of a window when he explain ed that the public chose his successor and deny in his rebirth into the united states in racially charged politics, the kind that president obama had hoped to process what it all meant. at one point, he said, maybe i came along 10 to 20 years too early. that's an interesting portrait of a president trying to

peter baker in the "new york times" captured it best saying a president who so often decries fake news is now decrying fake news and is expressing outraj at the the "new york times" for reporting on a press briefing according to the white house rules. whether or not the president knew that briefing occurred, who knows, but that tweet is off the mark. >> gmy thanks to the three of you. i really appreciate it. we got some video just a few moments ago of josh holt, who jeff mentioned a few minutes ago, that american who had been in venezuela, making his way to an airplane in caracas. he's with bob corker, who has been instrumental in securing the release of him in venezuela. he is going to make his way back to the u.s. the president tweeting earlier today he's going to the white house at 7:00 eastern time. of course coverage of that will be right here on msnbc. the strategy behind the president's branding of the fbi informant he claims spied on his campaign, that's coming up. i'm really into this car, but how do i know if i'm getting a good deal? i tell truecar my zip and which car i want

peter baker of "the new york times" summed up today's sudden shift from president trump, writing, quote, the president's comments were the latest head-spinning twist in a diplomatic dance that has played out unlike any in recent years. nbc news reports the president was eager to cancel the summit before north korea could and that key allies were not given advance notice of the cancellation. meanwhile, earlier today at the naval academy commencement, the president said america is being respected again. >> and our country has regained the respect that we used to have long ago abroad. yes, they're respecting us again. yes, america is back. >> here with us now, ken thomas, white house reporter for the associated press. josh gerstein, senior white house reporter for politico. and susan glasser is back with us. ken, let me start with you. the president saying this could still happen. this could still happen on june 12th. is that a realistic possibility right now? >> it's certainly possible. it seems like nothing is ever really dead in this white house. you know, they were certainly disappoint

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the summit has been scrapped and it's "the new york times'" peter baker notes, administration full of collapse of the trump/kim summit before it even happened seems like the least surprising news yet. good morning, it's friday, may 25th. with us here in washington, we have former chief of staff at the c.i.a. and department o

mill justice and security analyst for msnbc and former chief spokesman for the justice department, peter baker, of the "new york times" and msnbc political analyst. great to have you all here on-set. peter, within the last, i don't know, 48 hours give or take. you had rudy giuliani issue what's was, i guess, sort of a retraction or correction, at the behest of the president. but then he goes on tv. he talks about maybe hush money for some other women who are not stormy daniels. he talks about potentially the fifth amendment against incrimination. this is -- wasn't he brought in to smooth waters with robert mueller and improve communication to the outside world? >> i think brought into, to be on television. president trump has shown repeatedly, he likes people who you see it on television battling on his behalf. being tough on some of these issues and decided last words weren't doing that. ty cobb preached cooperation with the special counsel. >> sitting back and listening to legal analyst after legal analyst after legal analyst including some quoted in your newspaper saying he's digging the pr

"the new york times" peter baker writes this is the latest example of a president losing control of hispast few days have offered a head spinning series of revelations that conflicted with the version of events mr. trump and his associates had previously provided. baker adds the shifting statements also illustrated starkly why some of the president's lawyers have urged him not to submit to an interview by the special counsel robert mueller. let's bring in the "hardball" roundtable. erica warner, a congressional reporter for "the washington post." adolfo franco, a republican strategist and rnc surrogate. and jason johnson is a politics editor, and he is the editor at the root.com. adolfo for the defense, what do you make -- >> why start with me? >> because you're fun and the fact of the matter is you're going to be in the barrel again tonight. what is this about? are they just roughing their way to truth here? i think the president's still denying two key factors. one, he didn't order the payment of the hush money for the woman he was involved with. and, two, it had nothing to do with an

"the new york times" peter baker writes this is the latest example of a president losing control of hisst few days have offered a series of revelations that conflicted with the version of events mr. trump and his associates had previously provided." he adds the shifting statements illustrated why some of the president's lawyers have urned him not to submit to the an interview by robert muler. let's bring in the roundtable. arab ca warner from "the washington post," adolpho franco, rnc surrogate. and jason johnson is a politics editoren is the editor at the root.com and political contributor. adolph foe for the defense what do you make of this rudy thing. >> start with me. >> you're fun. you're in the barrel again tonight. what is this about. >> are they roughing their way to the truth here? i think the president is still denying two key factors. he didn't order the payment of the hush money for the woman he was involved with, and two it had nothing to do with an election. he claims both right now. >> a couple things. first of all, it had nothing to do with the election. no, it doesn't m

we know the clinton white house also tried to and the president himself peter baker had a great storyhe new york times" replaying everything that happened where bill clinton finally in his own words went after ken starr to discredit that investigation. it is part of the same playbook with more trumpian language that casts aspersions everywhere. but goes back to that same central point to discredit this investigation because every time there is a new plea, every time there is a new indictment, he has to discredit it so he can advance politically. >> if that is the case, mayor, how do you counter that? >> well, you know, as john adams said, facts are just stubborn things and the number of people as doug mentioned, number of people who have been indicted or other people who are cooperating with mr. mueller's probe, i don't know that mr. trump is going to be able to slip and slide out of this one as he has in the past. this is a much more serious situation involving international espionage with the russians attacking our election. mr. trump or his son having russians into trump tower. and

peter baker, "new york times" chief white house correspondent. also an msnbc political analyst. ambassador hill, start with you. you said something to the "new york times" that caught my attention. caught the attention of a number of folks as well. quoted in the "times," this is a possible serious threat. what makes you think so? >> well, first of all, there was the comment the north korean made a couple of weeks ago and then just yesterday two other comments, which suggest that they're not quite prepared to strip to their underwear and have the u.s. do nothing in response. so i think what happened was, the secretary of state went to pyongyang and the north koreans as they do asked for ankzs eyan and the secretary of state made clear we won't give sanctions relief. the whole mantra from the trump administration. all of those foolish people in the past, played like fiddles because they offered sanctions relief in return for something the north koreans were doing. so i think the problem is, the north koreans think that we expect them to do something while we just say things, like

the summit has been scrapped and it's "the new york times'" peter baker notes, administration full of surprises, the collapse of the trump/kim summit before it even happened seems like the least surprising news yet. good morning, it's friday, may 25th. with us here in washington, we have former chief of staff at the c.i.a. and department of defense, nbc news national security analyst jeremy bash. washington anchor for bbc world news america, katty kay, former chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele and nbc news national political reporter heidi przybilla. and in new york the president of the council on foreign relations, richard haass. mika is finishing up her daughter's college graduation events. but a big congratulations to amelia. who is now a graduate of johns hopkins university. >> hey. >> so big day. >>> plus more big family news. jack scarborough turns ten years old today. happy birthday, jack. he's in double digits now, that's very big. hey, richard haass, let me start with you. let's just before we get into all the details the meeting -- that was going t

may hold the record for the most e-mails in the shortest period of time to her lover peter strzok and attorney bakerter s still there? what a total mess. our country has to get back to business. joining us is republican congressmachine andy biggs, congressman, good to see you. let's start with what is going on in the fbi and justice department. this has become in my opinion, a horrible tragedy. but it is also an infuriating level of corruption that is allowed to stand in the fbi and top leadership of the fbi and the department of justice. and one has no idea in the world why jeff sessions is still the attorney general. and rod rosenstein. obviously so corrupt can conflicted along with the man he put in the job, bob muller severely conflicted. >> you have the stench from the swamp that is wafted and sitting there. peter strzok, he flaunted every rule of the fbi and he's somehow in the hr department. they figure he knows how to get around the rules he is the guy to have there. it is a tra vesty. and rod rosenstein, he's supposed to be overseeing bob muller's special investigation and he's conflicted.

love bird lisa page along with comey ally james baker resigned from the f.b.i. is peter strok next? and gina haspel has offered to withdraw her nomination after being lambasted for being too tough on terrorists. we'll tell you why she is a true hero. and we show you melania trump's "be best" campaign from earlier today. and breaking news about the liberal attorney general who may be in big trouble tonight. but first an important breaking news opening monologue. ♪ >> sean: tonight we start with what is shaping up to be a horrible bad five days for robert mueller and the office of special counsel. this out-of-control witch hunt suffered two massive major blows. on friday in what was the single biggest beat-down i have ever seen in my life, a federal judge utterly rebuked the special counsel and his investigation, slamming its political motivations and