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peter baker, i want to go to you. one thing that stood out to me was his focus on the repatriation of american soldiers killed in the korean war and the commitments that were made at the singapore meeting. we know the president himself, according to reporting in "the washington post," has been very frustrated by the progress or lack thereof out of those singapore discussions. have there been delays on the repatriation of those remains? where does it stand? >> that's obviously not started yet. it's something that would take time even under the best of circumstances. the problem i think is he sort of suggested right away this is going to begin without delay. it's a more complicated issue obviously. this goes back 70 years. it's a fraught topic. it's something very sensitive for a lot of american families. obviously, the north koreans, you know, recognize this is a reasonable bargaining chip for them. they can use this as a way to get what they want. they have, in fact, as we've mentioned earlier, there was a bad meeting
peter baker, i want to go to you. one thing that stood out to me was his focus on the repatriation of american soldiers killed in the korean war and the commitments that were made at the singapore meeting. we know the president himself, according to reporting in "the washington post," has been very frustrated by the progress or lack thereof out of those singapore discussions. have there been delays on the repatriation of those remains? where does it stand? >> that's obviously...
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tell peter baker, get to work on your tick to be. >> peter baker, do you have anything to add to that? you're on the receiving end of a lot of your tick tocks. you'll have the answer at the end of the day. >> hans is a great assignment editor. we'll try to get these answers. it's exactly right. what was the precipitating event, what was the hammer that finally fell. my colleagues who have been reporting on this stuff a long time came out with the story shortly before this dropped about, you know, a scheduler who was fired because she questioned deletions from his schedule that she thought might be illegal. that's just one more drip, drip, drip of all of these investigations that were coming on. but you can imagine inside the white house, there was a feeling that this is just not going to end until they finally pull the plug. we'll have to get working on that tick tock, hans, as soon as we know. >> go ahead. hans. >> was he wearing tactical pants? that's your lead. he buckled his tactical pants. >> it's bleak. >> somebody with tactical pants in washington. >> let me add as long as we'r
tell peter baker, get to work on your tick to be. >> peter baker, do you have anything to add to that? you're on the receiving end of a lot of your tick tocks. you'll have the answer at the end of the day. >> hans is a great assignment editor. we'll try to get these answers. it's exactly right. what was the precipitating event, what was the hammer that finally fell. my colleagues who have been reporting on this stuff a long time came out with the story shortly before this dropped...
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peter baker, ashley parker and jeremy bash. coming up for us, a delay in the trial of paul manafort and the feds have 11 more audio tapes, it turns out, seized in the raid of trump's former lawyer, michael cohen, by the fbi. the president's all capital letters warping and other than a giant sdrak giant distraction, what might it mean? a monday night on a new week. back after this. ♪ go your own way copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way, with anoro." ♪ go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators that work together to significantly improve lung function all day and all night. anoro is not for asthma. it contains a type of medicine that increases risk of death in people with asthma. the risk is unknown in copd. anoro won't replace rescue inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than once a day. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition, high blood pressure, glaucoma, prostate, bladder, or urinary problems. these may worsen with anoro. call your doctor i
peter baker, ashley parker and jeremy bash. coming up for us, a delay in the trial of paul manafort and the feds have 11 more audio tapes, it turns out, seized in the raid of trump's former lawyer, michael cohen, by the fbi. the president's all capital letters warping and other than a giant sdrak giant distraction, what might it mean? a monday night on a new week. back after this. ♪ go your own way copd tries to say, "go this way." i say, "i'll go my own way, with anoro."...
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on capitol hill, jeffrey smith, former general counsel at the cia, and msnbc political analyst peter baker, chief white house correspondent at "the new york times." good to see all of you. peter alexander, the mood of the senior staff at the white house today, are they in a bunker mentality? are they trying to brush this off as just another controversy? something you pointed out this morning, peter, the white house updating the president's schedule, they removed the daily intelligence briefing he normally starts his workday with. >> reporter: chris, the latter was interesting. the public schedule originally put out by the white house said that he would have an intelligence briefing today. this would have been significant because it would have been the first opportunity for leaders of the u.s. intelligence agencies to, if they chose, confront the president personally about his comments, effectively putting equal weight on their word versus vladimir putin's on russia's interference in the election. but yesterday, as you noted, that was removed from the president's schedule, we can't say why,
on capitol hill, jeffrey smith, former general counsel at the cia, and msnbc political analyst peter baker, chief white house correspondent at "the new york times." good to see all of you. peter alexander, the mood of the senior staff at the white house today, are they in a bunker mentality? are they trying to brush this off as just another controversy? something you pointed out this morning, peter, the white house updating the president's schedule, they removed the daily intelligence...
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peter baker from "the new york times" is here again. peter, i want your reaction to that. sent this to me within the last hour that there is no condemnation of russia, no mention of vladimir putin. for a president who's been criticized from the very start not being critical enough of putin, this seems like a pretty mild response, once again. >> and remember, he expelled russian diplomats a couple of months ago in collaboration with britain and europe but did so quite reluctantly. made clear to his aides that he was unhappy he was being forced into doing it. he did not make a very strong public statement himself about this episode involving sergei skripal, the former russian spy, who was originally poisoned as part of this now seemingly continuing episode. and it does raise the questions that michael was talking about, why not. why would this be something that wouldn't deserve a more fulsome response by the united states. it hards to imagine a foreign power being accused of what amounts to an act of war on an ally's soil. >> here's a good way to think of it. this is from bi
peter baker from "the new york times" is here again. peter, i want your reaction to that. sent this to me within the last hour that there is no condemnation of russia, no mention of vladimir putin. for a president who's been criticized from the very start not being critical enough of putin, this seems like a pretty mild response, once again. >> and remember, he expelled russian diplomats a couple of months ago in collaboration with britain and europe but did so quite...
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peter baker, you get the last word tonight. donald trump helo'd back to white house. one of the questions he ignored being shouted was any response to being called a traitor? now, of all the things we have discussed in the trump presidency so far, that's new territory. that's a question he hasn't heard shouted at him before. howl that go over? >> won't go over well, obviously. one of the sources of that is john brennan, whose interview you played earlier. he's been fixated on him for some time. using twitter tweets to attack him all the time, calling him a hack. it was funny, because before that when he worked at the cia for republican and democratic candidates, he was a pretty cautious guy. he didn't get out on the fence. he's been radicalized. career government official who spent a lifetime defending the country and policy, what they are seeing is something they can't believe. they're trying to put it in a prism they can understand. it's because even's trying to figure out why would he do this? why would he behave that way in i have been coming to the white house an
peter baker, you get the last word tonight. donald trump helo'd back to white house. one of the questions he ignored being shouted was any response to being called a traitor? now, of all the things we have discussed in the trump presidency so far, that's new territory. that's a question he hasn't heard shouted at him before. howl that go over? >> won't go over well, obviously. one of the sources of that is john brennan, whose interview you played earlier. he's been fixated on him for some...
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peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the "the new york times" and animist nbc political analyst. any carny for politico, and kimberley atkins, and an msnbc contributor. >> the racial slur, the pocahontas thing continues. the u.s. is signatory. the president criticized the me too movement in his criticism of elizabeth warren. these rallies tend to go off the rails. this one was spectacular. >> it's surprising to hear him bring up the me too movement. the president doesn't have a lot of holding himself back, and it's not a subject that's helpful to him given there are more than half a dozen women who have accused him of sexual misconduct and more. so to hear him bring up that subject when he is part of it, was a surprising turn. the attacks on pocahontas, liz loving it. i think the democrats are all like waiting for their turn to be trump's winuata that day. and the attacks on the nfl, the white house officials have explained this is his 2020 strategy and mid-term strategy to run on culture wars. that part of it was kind of the trump play book. but to bring up me too especially on
peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the "the new york times" and animist nbc political analyst. any carny for politico, and kimberley atkins, and an msnbc contributor. >> the racial slur, the pocahontas thing continues. the u.s. is signatory. the president criticized the me too movement in his criticism of elizabeth warren. these rallies tend to go off the rails. this one was spectacular. >> it's surprising to hear him bring up the me too movement. the...
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. >> joining me now, nbc justice correspondent pete williams, msnbc analyst peter baker, and msnbc supreme court contributor tom goldstein, co-founder and publisher of scotus blog. pete, you broke this story. let's talk about the choice and how they're going to follow up, the strategy for following up on the first impression they made last night with the rollout. >> it's all moving at hyperspeed. justice kennedy announced his intention to retire on june 26th and here we have a nominee already making the rounds. one thing that's going to be different this time is that senators will be around in august and september. normally the senate would be out of town for that. but they're going to be around, working on legislation. so there will be a lot more doors to knock on. i would think the confirmation hearing, maybe early september, something like that. but you sketched out the challenge that the republicans have, which is to hold their own votes, and maybe if necessary pick up a democrat or two to get him confirmed. >> and let's talk about the politics of this, peter baker, the decision that t
. >> joining me now, nbc justice correspondent pete williams, msnbc analyst peter baker, and msnbc supreme court contributor tom goldstein, co-founder and publisher of scotus blog. pete, you broke this story. let's talk about the choice and how they're going to follow up, the strategy for following up on the first impression they made last night with the rollout. >> it's all moving at hyperspeed. justice kennedy announced his intention to retire on june 26th and here we have a...
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joining me now, peter baker, "new york times" correspondent, harry litman, former deputy assistant attorneyral during the clinton administration, and msnbc's katy tur who spoke with michael cohen's lawyer lanny davis. katy, let me go to you first. what is lanny davis saying to you about this and how does he explain the ethical questions about clearly michael cohen secretly taping a conversation with a then-client in person? it wasn't a phone conversation. i know it's a one-consent state, new york, so it's not a legal issue, but it's an ethical issue, isn't it chemical. >> here's what i know about how this recording was made. michael cohen went into doesn't's offidoesn'nald trump's office, they had a number of issues to discuss regarding the campaign. lanny davis cannot say anything -- or cannot speak to the ethical problems that arise with michael cohen recording his client. but those close to michael cohen have told me that this is just what he did. he made it a habit to record all of the meetings he had for record-taking purposes, for note-taking purposes, and to a degree, to cover his ow
joining me now, peter baker, "new york times" correspondent, harry litman, former deputy assistant attorneyral during the clinton administration, and msnbc's katy tur who spoke with michael cohen's lawyer lanny davis. katy, let me go to you first. what is lanny davis saying to you about this and how does he explain the ethical questions about clearly michael cohen secretly taping a conversation with a then-client in person? it wasn't a phone conversation. i know it's a one-consent...
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here to react are peter baker, robert costa, frank sigluzi, and with us at the table, jonathan lemaire. let me start with you. first of all, congrats on the courage award. we've been watching that clip over and over again. but just on the breaking news this afternoon, that the president met with his national security team this morning. it's a flagrant lie and shameless lie to say he had to pull a transcript to pull what he said. the reaction was instant. he couldn't have even been in the motorcade before his staff would have gone to him and say that landed with a thud you siding with vladamir putin over dan coats and the intelligence community. so what gives with the web of lies he tried to weave today? >> that excuse defies all believability, because even if he did misspeak in that one sentence, to take that as fact means you had to ignore the rest of the press conference. >> and i worked on the white house staff for a president that actually misspoke, never to side with vladamir putin, but he did misspeak. you tell them the minute they walk off the set. someone like donald trump, a s
here to react are peter baker, robert costa, frank sigluzi, and with us at the table, jonathan lemaire. let me start with you. first of all, congrats on the courage award. we've been watching that clip over and over again. but just on the breaking news this afternoon, that the president met with his national security team this morning. it's a flagrant lie and shameless lie to say he had to pull a transcript to pull what he said. the reaction was instant. he couldn't have even been in the...
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see how that ends up. >> thank you peter baker, eric swalwell, and joyce vance. could another president get away from what donald trump does all the time. ban ishes reporters from press events. attacks his own justice department. and at what point does america say enough, buddy. trump is in the midwest today where in some states approval is under water. and the deadline to reunite migrant families is only hours away now. more than 700 families still don't know when or if they will see their loved ones. ivanka and jarred are not headed back to new york any time soon. this is "hardball." where the action is. the chili pepper sweat-out. not cool. freezing away fat cells with coolsculpting? now that's cool! coolsculpting safely freezes and removes fat cells with little or no downtime. and no surgery. results and patient experience may vary. some common side effects include temporary numbness, discomfort,and swelling. ask your doctor if coolsculpting is right for you and visit coolsculpting.com today for your chance to win a free treatment. >>> we have been warned for
see how that ends up. >> thank you peter baker, eric swalwell, and joyce vance. could another president get away from what donald trump does all the time. ban ishes reporters from press events. attacks his own justice department. and at what point does america say enough, buddy. trump is in the midwest today where in some states approval is under water. and the deadline to reunite migrant families is only hours away now. more than 700 families still don't know when or if they will see...
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. >> peter baker is chief white house correspondent for the "new york times" and ashley parker for "the washington post" and jeremy bash who happenings to be former counsel to the house intelligence committee. because you are the former fed, i would like to begin with you. why do we offer security clearances to former very senior ranking intelligence officials including, but not limited to our former cia directors once they left office? >> it's to benefit the country. it's to benefit the current occupants of the leadership offices so they can call their predecessors and consult on complex and difficult issue that is the current holders may be facing. it's done to support the country. what's crazy about this move by the president is that if he were to strip them of security clearances, it wouldn't hurt the former officials at all. most of them are doing things unrelated. it would hurt the currency agencies and it's part of a long practice dating back when he went to the cia and used the memorial wall through doubting the intelligence assessments and attacks on the agencies through this w
. >> peter baker is chief white house correspondent for the "new york times" and ashley parker for "the washington post" and jeremy bash who happenings to be former counsel to the house intelligence committee. because you are the former fed, i would like to begin with you. why do we offer security clearances to former very senior ranking intelligence officials including, but not limited to our former cia directors once they left office? >> it's to benefit the...
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bush and executive producer of the circus on showtime, mark mckennan and peter baker.ull house. most important question, when is the circus coming back? >> labor day. nothing is going on now. >> putting that show together as you proved in your last season you got to do it right up to the last second because the entire story may change. >> we produce a documentary every week. when i first pitched it to people monthly no we have to be in the cockpit. we don't put anything later on sunday and showtime sees the show sunday morning, the final show. in this news environment amazing even by friday stuff we shoot monday and tuesday seem ancient. >> you have great wing men and wing women. >> alex wagner has been great. >> labor day. let's start this hour with that hearing on capitol hill. it was the first time senators have had a chance to question the secretary of state since both the singapore and helsinki summits. the nearly three hour hearing included several tense back and forth exchanges between pompeo and senators from both sides of the aisle. >> has the president told y
bush and executive producer of the circus on showtime, mark mckennan and peter baker.ull house. most important question, when is the circus coming back? >> labor day. nothing is going on now. >> putting that show together as you proved in your last season you got to do it right up to the last second because the entire story may change. >> we produce a documentary every week. when i first pitched it to people monthly no we have to be in the cockpit. we don't put anything later...
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well, with that let's introduce our leadoff panel on a wednesday night, peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times," ashley parker, white house reporter for "the washington post" and jackie coms. good evening. peter, you've been around awhile. how seismic was today and what is your damage assessment to nato as of the time of this conversation? >> well, it's hard to remember a moment quite like this. it's not that the issues that president trump are raising are not issues that have been out there before. in fact, they have, president obama, president bush, certainly pushed the nato allies to spend more on their own defense. if it was under president obama they came up with the target of 2% and supposed to meet it by 2024 but neath of them ever sort of did it in your face kind of way that president trump does it. neither one of them went into a nato summit clearly intending to sort of go on the attack the way president trump did today. and the way president trump did today literally in advance of a meeting that he will have with russia's president in just a few
well, with that let's introduce our leadoff panel on a wednesday night, peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times," ashley parker, white house reporter for "the washington post" and jackie coms. good evening. peter, you've been around awhile. how seismic was today and what is your damage assessment to nato as of the time of this conversation? >> well, it's hard to remember a moment quite like this. it's not that the issues that president...
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. >> joining me now is peter baker in washington see it, chief correspondent and from moscow, contributor as well. july 27, 2016, this date, your colleague michael schmidt writing a fine piece about what happened then. the spear-phishing at its known began in earnest. what do we know about the coincidence of these two events on that date? >> it is rather extraordinary. we don't that it necessarily means anything, but prosecutors in their indictment did not draw attention to this coincidence in an explicit way but it's interesting. what happened, on that day you saw the clip you just played of then candidate trump saying i hope you find the 30,000 missing hillary clinton e-mails. said it around 10:30 that day. according to the indictment the same day russian hackers for the first time tried to penetrate the domain used by e-mail accounts from hillary clinton's personal office, the very same day. the indictment didn't say what time it happened but happened amp hours. using that phrase, after hours, because it would seem to be making a point. to stay that the president, future president said
. >> joining me now is peter baker in washington see it, chief correspondent and from moscow, contributor as well. july 27, 2016, this date, your colleague michael schmidt writing a fine piece about what happened then. the spear-phishing at its known began in earnest. what do we know about the coincidence of these two events on that date? >> it is rather extraordinary. we don't that it necessarily means anything, but prosecutors in their indictment did not draw attention to this...
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let's get the inside scoop from peter baker, "new york times" correspondent, and jonathan lemire, associatedporter and msnbc analyst. peter, first to you, i've seen candidates take advantage of their kids. is that tongue in cheek? i hope it is. "you're fired"? "bedtime stories"? >> it's a great question. he's wrapped himself, obviously, in the president's endorsement. what we see in this president is something we haven't seen even in your 40 years, andrea, as far back as you go, all the presidents you've seen, i don't think we've seen many incumbent presidents who weigh in on interparty raises. >> it was the dictum of ronald reagan, thou shalt not get involved in primary races. and so far it's working. >> it does work, he's tweeted out an endorsement of one candidate over another and the race turns out that way. whether it was that tweet or not, we don't know. maybe in some cases he was just getting on board to something that was already going to happen. but many in the republican party think he's a king maker in these nomination battles. >> now we hear that john kelly has a new lease on lif
let's get the inside scoop from peter baker, "new york times" correspondent, and jonathan lemire, associatedporter and msnbc analyst. peter, first to you, i've seen candidates take advantage of their kids. is that tongue in cheek? i hope it is. "you're fired"? "bedtime stories"? >> it's a great question. he's wrapped himself, obviously, in the president's endorsement. what we see in this president is something we haven't seen even in your 40 years, andrea, as...
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peter baker, thank you both for joining us as well. let's turn to dean millbank and charlie psyches, con tributing editor with the weekly standard and an msnbc contributor. dana, let me start with you. we asked the question will trump's 2016 playbook work in 2018. there's a school of thought out there that the nature of midterm elections means it can't. the midterm election almost invariably goes against the president's party. there's a sort of buyer's remorse phenomenon. we've seen an energized democratic base out there. what is your sense of that. do you think trump can override the historical factors and the energy we see on the democratic side? is there something you can do to galvanize an equal reaction on his seed. >> i don't think so, steve. we have to say everything is utterly unpredictable. it seems to me the president is going back to the well, trying to appeal to the lowest common denominator does not work in this situation. the left is more motivated than it has been, that it conceivably really could be for -- it is impossi
peter baker, thank you both for joining us as well. let's turn to dean millbank and charlie psyches, con tributing editor with the weekly standard and an msnbc contributor. dana, let me start with you. we asked the question will trump's 2016 playbook work in 2018. there's a school of thought out there that the nature of midterm elections means it can't. the midterm election almost invariably goes against the president's party. there's a sort of buyer's remorse phenomenon. we've seen an...
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thank you, bobby ghosh, thank you, peter baker.sident trump stunned the national intelligence community again today by saying he takes putintion word over theirs when it comes to russian int veerns in our election. how are american intelligence officials going to react to that baby? we'll ask the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee straight ahead. this is "hardball," where the action is. something you should know. there's a serious virus out there that 1 in 30 boomers has, yet most don't even know it. a virus that's been almost forgotten. it's hepatitis c. hep c can hide in the body for years without symptoms. left untreated it can lead to liver damage, even liver cancer. the only way to know if you have hep c is to ask your healthcare provider for the simple blood test. if you have hep c, it can be cured. for us, it's time to get tested. it's the only way to know for sure. for us, it's time to get tested. [music playing] across the country, we walk. carrying flowers that signify why we want to end alzheimer's disease
thank you, bobby ghosh, thank you, peter baker.sident trump stunned the national intelligence community again today by saying he takes putintion word over theirs when it comes to russian int veerns in our election. how are american intelligence officials going to react to that baby? we'll ask the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee straight ahead. this is "hardball," where the action is. something you should know. there's a serious virus out there that 1 in 30 boomers...
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robert: joining metonight from washington, peter baker of "the new york times,"ay tausche of cnbc andatty kay fromor bbc's world news america. thank you so much for being here tonight. all of you great reporters much butet's start with catty. you think of the president there in the u.k. and he's confronting the special relationship, a long-standing relationship but also rattling e rhythm at the same time. what's been the consequence for the prime minister? katty: he couldn't have waded into a moreentive domestic political issue at a more sensitive timehan he did today. president trump was fiercely critical in that sun interview of the way that theresa may has handled the brexit negotiations and also said that ift she w ahead with a new plan she's just unveiled for brexit then america wouldn't be able to sign a trade deal twi united kingdom. this isn't just being ruled to your host when you turn up for dinner. this that is traditional impl stations for the prime minister. there have been times during this week where we didn't know if tresa may was going to survive to remain minister. s
robert: joining metonight from washington, peter baker of "the new york times,"ay tausche of cnbc andatty kay fromor bbc's world news america. thank you so much for being here tonight. all of you great reporters much butet's start with catty. you think of the president there in the u.k. and he's confronting the special relationship, a long-standing relationship but also rattling e rhythm at the same time. what's been the consequence for the prime minister? katty: he couldn't have...
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coming up at the top of the hour, and let's bring into our conversation peter baker. r, as we see the president of the united states entering to meet with vladimir putin, a meeting, that, of course, many foreign policy analysts and experts suggested he not -- he not undertake, there's a heck of a set up to that. the president of the united states has spent this weekend in interviews when asked who america's biggest foe was, the first name off of his lips was the european union. then he congratulated vladimir putin. he called the indictments on friday, called them part of a witch-hunt. those indictments that proved, though, what dan coates the head of america's intel agency called an attempt to undermine american democracy daily. so you attack the eu, you congratulated putin, and he also, of course, called the press in stalin's terminology, enemy of the people. not exactly a lead up to a summit that any of the previous 44 presidents would undertake. what's at stake here and what concerns the world leaders rightly have? >> yeah. it's an extraordinary thing. in the tweet
coming up at the top of the hour, and let's bring into our conversation peter baker. r, as we see the president of the united states entering to meet with vladimir putin, a meeting, that, of course, many foreign policy analysts and experts suggested he not -- he not undertake, there's a heck of a set up to that. the president of the united states has spent this weekend in interviews when asked who america's biggest foe was, the first name off of his lips was the european union. then he...
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peter baker we have been having a bit of fun potentially dismissing the threat to pull security clearances as a potential shiny object. not everyone took it that way today. there was a violent reaction to it by someone we both know, we learned long ago, if you stick around long enough, you get to know everyone. here is steve schmidt on this network earlier. >> this is a very dangerous day for american democracy, this is the move of an autocrat, not an american president. this president is continuing abuse of power, his authoritarian instinct at full use and it's alarming. >> not a mincer of words, steve shall had michmidt that gave up membership in the republican party. >> they want to chill those people that are critical. the president is tired of hearing those on this network and others criticizing the government. he is sending a message, i can hit back more than you can hit me. if you are aaccusing me of treason, i have something to go after you. it sends a chill after democrats and republicans, people that don't remember anything quite like this in the post watergate era. i cannot reme
peter baker we have been having a bit of fun potentially dismissing the threat to pull security clearances as a potential shiny object. not everyone took it that way today. there was a violent reaction to it by someone we both know, we learned long ago, if you stick around long enough, you get to know everyone. here is steve schmidt on this network earlier. >> this is a very dangerous day for american democracy, this is the move of an autocrat, not an american president. this president is...
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. >> on those word, let's bring in peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the "new york times." harry litman with us in the studio. and kill -- kimberly atkins. welcome to you all. harry, home field advantage must have some advantage. >> not the man. he's really a classic washington insider. he knows everyone in town on both sides of the aisle. >> literally born there and raised in the suburbs. >> well respected, genial, likable, et cetera. about his jurisprudence, he has an aggressive view of certain parts of the constitution, especially executive power, what kind of things the president can and can't do. and -- and this is going to be hard for democrats to try to explain to the american people, but he wants to shrink the sort of administrative state, the alphabet soup of the epa, et cetera that have so much to do with people's lives on the ground and that he thinks have had too much power basically since the new deal. what about the notion of this guy, when he gets to the supreme court, could be handed the case of the trump presidency, in effect, pulling himself out of the c
. >> on those word, let's bring in peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the "new york times." harry litman with us in the studio. and kill -- kimberly atkins. welcome to you all. harry, home field advantage must have some advantage. >> not the man. he's really a classic washington insider. he knows everyone in town on both sides of the aisle. >> literally born there and raised in the suburbs. >> well respected, genial, likable, et cetera. about his...
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. >> let's bring in peter baker, harry littman, and kimberly atkins. welcome to you all. harry, home field advantage must have some advantage. so, we'll begin with you. what stands out to you about this nominee, what should the folks watching at home know about this man and his jurisprudence? >> about the man, he's really a classic washington insider. he knows everyone in town. on both sides of the aisle. >> born there and raised in the suburbs. >> well-respected, genial, likable, et cetera. about his jurisprudence, he has an aggressive view of certain parts of the constitution, especially executive power. what kind of things the president can and can't do. and, this is going to be hard for democrats to try to explain to the american people, but he wants to shrink the administrative state. the alphabet soup of epa, eoc, et cetera, that have so much to do with people's lives on the ground. and that he thinks have had too much power, basically, since the new deal. >> and let's go right after this, what will become, we're living in an era where people assume the fix is in. i
. >> let's bring in peter baker, harry littman, and kimberly atkins. welcome to you all. harry, home field advantage must have some advantage. so, we'll begin with you. what stands out to you about this nominee, what should the folks watching at home know about this man and his jurisprudence? >> about the man, he's really a classic washington insider. he knows everyone in town. on both sides of the aisle. >> born there and raised in the suburbs. >> well-respected,...
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decades since the very beginning when the "washington post" decided to send me and my husband, peter baker, to moscow, and it was mike mcfaul, a stanford professor at the time, who was a very generous tutor in all things russia and has continued to be someone i've talked with and learned from even during his sort of unlikely tour as a high-level political adviser to barack obama on russia. so i happened to reach mike by telephone minutes after that statement was released by the white house. he hadn't heard it yet so i read it out loud to him. he was driving in the car to the airport. i said, well, you know, what do you think about this? and, you know, he was sort of silent for a second. he said, that's not really much of a defense of us, is it? i mean, you know, there's a lot of other things. i said, well, listen, my article's going to talk about the fact that even people inside the u.s. government don't seem to know what was agreed upon in helsinki on monday, and he made the point that i think is an important point, which is, look, this conversation about him, about ambassador mcfaul and
decades since the very beginning when the "washington post" decided to send me and my husband, peter baker, to moscow, and it was mike mcfaul, a stanford professor at the time, who was a very generous tutor in all things russia and has continued to be someone i've talked with and learned from even during his sort of unlikely tour as a high-level political adviser to barack obama on russia. so i happened to reach mike by telephone minutes after that statement was released by the white...
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the russian government coordinated its on all this i'm joined by peter baker and chief white house correspondent for the "new york times," vivian sal amo and evan mcmullin, former cia operative in 2016, independent presidential candidate. peter, let me get your perspective on these documents. what do they exactly tell us about why the fbi sought this secret fisa warrant against carter page? >> well, the first problem with these documents, of course, is that you look through the 412 pages, and an awful lot of it is blacked out, redacted, in order to protect sources and methods and other exemptions are allowed in order to take that information out. so we don't learn some things that we could learn from it, if we had a full copy of the document. broadly speaking, i think what we learned from it is a lot of what we had already heard, if you put the democratic and republican memos together that they released earlier in the year, describing this, which is to say that the fbi did rely on the steele dossier, at least one element of its request to the court for a fisa warrant. it did disclose to the cour
the russian government coordinated its on all this i'm joined by peter baker and chief white house correspondent for the "new york times," vivian sal amo and evan mcmullin, former cia operative in 2016, independent presidential candidate. peter, let me get your perspective on these documents. what do they exactly tell us about why the fbi sought this secret fisa warrant against carter page? >> well, the first problem with these documents, of course, is that you look through the...
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peter baker is the chief white house correspondent for "the new york times" and an msnbc political analyst. robert cost a reporter for "the washington post." and also is white house reporter for the daily beast. peter, this reporting that there was a meeting from "the new york times" prior it donald trump's inauguration where he was showed evidence, he was shown text messages, he was shown highly classified evidence that it was vladimir putin who ordered the hacking, yet he has gone out and doubted it multiple times since then. >> well, what's remarkable, of course, is that meeting was led by holdovers from the obama administration. so the extent that whatever suspicions he had about it might have been based on politics, that would be one thing. what you see is all of their successors agree. they were appointed by president trump including christopher wray, the fbi director, dan coats, the director of national intelligence, mike pompeo when he was cia director and presumably his successor said the same thing. all of the people that donald trump has apointed to lead the intelligence agencie
peter baker is the chief white house correspondent for "the new york times" and an msnbc political analyst. robert cost a reporter for "the washington post." and also is white house reporter for the daily beast. peter, this reporting that there was a meeting from "the new york times" prior it donald trump's inauguration where he was showed evidence, he was shown text messages, he was shown highly classified evidence that it was vladimir putin who ordered the...
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but i would imagine and peter baker pointed this out earlier that the russians probably had some sort device in that room. who knows if we did as well. i mean, maybe no one had a listening device, but it would be hard to believe given how the russians operate. is there any concern out there that they may have a record of it and we do not? is there is a scenario where anybody in our government should be meeting alone with somebody like vladimir putin? >> absolutely not. look, one-on-one meetings between presidents are exceedingly strikingly rare. president obama as far as i know had one true one-on-one during his presidency. and in fact it was with vladimir putin. so he could deliver a very carefully scripted and choreographed message about russia's meddling in our election. there were no other meetings like this for a very simple reason. it is a terrible idea. it is a terrible idea because the meeting is left to interpretation. and unfortunately what we've seen with president trump and the russians, they will use everything they have on him and there have been allegations about what t
but i would imagine and peter baker pointed this out earlier that the russians probably had some sort device in that room. who knows if we did as well. i mean, maybe no one had a listening device, but it would be hard to believe given how the russians operate. is there any concern out there that they may have a record of it and we do not? is there is a scenario where anybody in our government should be meeting alone with somebody like vladimir putin? >> absolutely not. look, one-on-one...
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just a few moments ago "the new york times" peter baker tweeted this. buzz at the u.s. courthouse in d.c., bret cavanaugh spotted leaving in a black sedan accompanied by four suvs presumed to be secret service. there's a lot of this. we don't know what that means, whether it means it's him or not. >> you don't know and as you mentioned, the president is all about putting on a show. he loves the suspense. he wants to have the surprise, so who knows. there has been a lot of folks following judge kavanaugh aroun around. they brought him in on a military transport plane. there's a lot of cloak and dagger that happens before they get here. i have gotten emails from people close to this thing over the last four or five days in each time he's picked kavanaugh, he's picked barrett. if maybe the president was still making up his mind but i think until that person is standing next to the president we really don't know. >> bret: not a done deal. a lot of the left has tried to galvanize to try to say we need to stop whoever the nominee is. if you the attacks on leonard leo, who lef
just a few moments ago "the new york times" peter baker tweeted this. buzz at the u.s. courthouse in d.c., bret cavanaugh spotted leaving in a black sedan accompanied by four suvs presumed to be secret service. there's a lot of this. we don't know what that means, whether it means it's him or not. >> you don't know and as you mentioned, the president is all about putting on a show. he loves the suspense. he wants to have the surprise, so who knows. there has been a lot of folks...
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peter baker writing that all of the years of vetting, grooming, lobbying, list making by conservativeeaders and republican appointees drifting to the left, have arguably come down to this moment, where they stand on the precipice appointing a fifth justice who they hope will at last establish a bench for my committed to their principles. they have been pushing back for 30 years and this was a big soht in the right direction, says the president of a conservative activist group. he says it will be the first time we can really say we have a conservative core, really the first time since the 1930's. your thoughts on the supreme court pick. for democrats (202) 748-8000, for republicans (202) 748-8001, and all others (202) 748-8002/ we will start in atlanta with james on the democrat line. caller: we need to start looking at the constitution itself. document that is subject to arbitrary and capricious decisions. it is obsolete now. this is a political party, democrats -- is democrats don't push back on the senate with everything you have, black for thosenot go out representatives. effect, t
peter baker writing that all of the years of vetting, grooming, lobbying, list making by conservativeeaders and republican appointees drifting to the left, have arguably come down to this moment, where they stand on the precipice appointing a fifth justice who they hope will at last establish a bench for my committed to their principles. they have been pushing back for 30 years and this was a big soht in the right direction, says the president of a conservative activist group. he says it will...
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a hollywood set to show her how wonderful society was, and in fact, peter, sorry, peter, thank you for that, steve bakerere! if there are any cartoonists watching, we would look forward to a reaction to that! i do not have is with him, she is the prime minister and she has to get a deal done. he isa and she has to get a deal done. he is a brexit zealot and always has been, and! is a brexit zealot and always has been, and i really don't have sympathy with his view that it is an establishment elite going against the boys of the people. she says, we are —— going against the voice of the people. we are leaving. this idea of a conspiracy and betrayal is just the zealotry talking. it is, the vote was purely, do we leave or don't we leave? everyone puts into that vote what they want to put into it. to be fair, every politician of foresight start my precisely, it's a bit like a verse of a religious text, people are trying to work out something that was written thousands of years ago and its significance to modern day. it was only two years ago, but it feels like thousands of years ago! we could do with the wisd
a hollywood set to show her how wonderful society was, and in fact, peter, sorry, peter, thank you for that, steve bakerere! if there are any cartoonists watching, we would look forward to a reaction to that! i do not have is with him, she is the prime minister and she has to get a deal done. he isa and she has to get a deal done. he is a brexit zealot and always has been, and! is a brexit zealot and always has been, and i really don't have sympathy with his view that it is an establishment...
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kennedy: mike baker thank you so much. petertrzok and lisa page are set to testify on capitol hill this week. president trump is claiming the fbi loved birds are getting cold birdie feet. i will break it down in my monologue. it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same. but while some push high commission investment products, fisher investments avoids them. some advisers have hidden and layered fees. fisher investments never does. and while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. maybe that's why most of our clients come from other money managers. fisher investments. clearly better money management. and now you know.ed- jardiance is the only type 2 diabetes pill proven to both reduce the risk of cardiovascular death for adults who have type 2 diabetes and heart disease... ...and lower a1c, with diet and exercise. jardiance can cause serious side effects including dehydration. this may cause
kennedy: mike baker thank you so much. petertrzok and lisa page are set to testify on capitol hill this week. president trump is claiming the fbi loved birds are getting cold birdie feet. i will break it down in my monologue. it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same. but while some push high commission investment products, fisher investments avoids them. some advisers have hidden and layered fees. fisher investments never does. and while some advisers are happy to...
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kennedy: mike baker thank you so much. petertrzok and lisa page are set to testify on capitol hill this week. president trump is claiming the fbi loved birds are getting cold birdie feet. i will break it down in my monologue. nick was born to move. 3 toddlers won't stop him. and neither will lower back pain. because at a dr. scholl's kiosk he got a recommendation for our custom fit orthotic to relieve his foot, knee, or lower back pain, from being on his feet. dr. scholl's. born to move. and now you know.ed- jardiance is the only type 2 diabetes pill proven to both reduce the risk of cardiovascular death for adults who have type 2 diabetes and heart disease... ...and lower a1c, with diet and exercise. jardiance can cause serious side effects including dehydration. this may cause you to feel dizzy, faint, or lightheaded, or weak upon standing. ketoacidosis is a serious side effect that may be fatal. symptoms include nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, tiredness, and trouble breathing. stop taking jardiance and call your doctor right
kennedy: mike baker thank you so much. petertrzok and lisa page are set to testify on capitol hill this week. president trump is claiming the fbi loved birds are getting cold birdie feet. i will break it down in my monologue. nick was born to move. 3 toddlers won't stop him. and neither will lower back pain. because at a dr. scholl's kiosk he got a recommendation for our custom fit orthotic to relieve his foot, knee, or lower back pain, from being on his feet. dr. scholl's. born to move. and...
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james baker former chief counsel was demoted and left the f.b.i. lisa page left the f.b.i. peterhe f.b.i. when have you ever seen six key people in a federal agency that ran the two most important investigations, when have you ever seen that happen? this is what we're dealing with and we're trying to get answers and they keep slow walking us for a year. >> sandra: we saw a heated exchange between the two of you at that hearing in june. where you pressed rod rosenstein for answers and asked why you aren't getting them. are you hearing anything from his camp? >> the other thing, it is not just jim jordan. is house of representatives took a vote three weeks ago today and said a majority of the house said you aren't getting us the information we're entitled to as a separate and equal branch of government required to do oversight. you aren't giving us that information and the house of representatives voted and said get us the information. >> bill: another story i want to ask you about that has nothing to do with politics. apparently you answered some questions this week about an inves
james baker former chief counsel was demoted and left the f.b.i. lisa page left the f.b.i. peterhe f.b.i. when have you ever seen six key people in a federal agency that ran the two most important investigations, when have you ever seen that happen? this is what we're dealing with and we're trying to get answers and they keep slow walking us for a year. >> sandra: we saw a heated exchange between the two of you at that hearing in june. where you pressed rod rosenstein for answers and...