bush, and rick tyler, former cruz campaign spokesman. very good morning to the three of you. i'll start with you, rick. what's your reaction to this "new york times" story? >> well, this has been an extraordinary week. although for the trump administration it seems to be par for the course. the julianne giuliani interview was planned by me and the president. it was so good, he went back on fox and friends the following morning and gave what was a really colossal interview. and i think trump watched the coverage all that morning and decided it wasn't going very well. and then he just threw giuliani under the trump bus. then later on backed over him. >> yeah. he did it in a nice way, though. he talked about that a good guy he is, and how much he he likesm and he just started. he is in p.r. mode right now. following this revelation he had been aware of the $130,000 payment to stormy daniel. take a listen. >> everybody knows this is a witch hunt. he started yesterday. he'll get his facts straight. he's a great guy. >> so giuliani releases a statement clarifying his comment about t

bush, and msnbc political analyst, rick tyler, former cruz campaign spokesman. good to see you all with a happy saturday morning to you. rick, i'm going to start with you here. we have the president claiming in a tweet yesterday that democrats are rooting against us in our negotiations with north korea. look, as a republican, do you think that's true? >> no, it's in everybody's interest that we don't come to some sort of conflict in north korea, nuclear or otherwise, or conventional. look, it appears that there's an internal struggle in the white house right now, and it's playing out, publicly, unfortunately, between mike pompeo and john bolton. and bolton seems to be the last person who talked to trump, where he hastily constructed that letter to pull out of the talks. and i think north korea holds all the cards here. now they're trying to marginalize the united states and the term "north america" was very deliberate my the north korea p-- north koreans. they're trying to marginalize trump. look, kim's whole objective here is to get some sort of economic relief,

joining me democratic congressman steve israel, author of the novel "big guns" and rick tyler.olitical analyst. welcome to you both. when referring to turning the hand down was the moment on the sno senate floor when john mccain came back from his sick bed and gave the thumbs down saying to the senate days before we're better than this. we have to get things done. rick tyler, as a republican, watching the president attacking a man who is dying of a fatal form of brain cancer. i just watched the hbo documentary the other night, it's heartbreaking. to see him do that and again today on the white house grounds. he was not at a political rally. after not criticizing him own staff person for that really corrosive thing that she said about john mccain, what is going on with the character of this man? >> the first thing is that the president said there that it cost our country a lot. this country could not pay back john mccain for everything that he's done and went through. not only his service in vietnam being an person prisoner of war, his service in the united states senate and fra

and rick tyler, former cruz campaign spokesman. my saturday morning family. good day to you guys. rick, let's get to you first. this administration is holding this up as an example of an anti-swamp mentality. can it be sold successfully that way? >> well, not really. michael cohen is donald trump's, by all accounts, his personal lawyer and continues to be his personal lawyer. it is remarkable he would be trying to sell influence to at&t, a drug company. he was on the campaign trail with donald trump. he knew what he said. so all of this is just baloney, very disingenuous. what was at&t going to pay for? i could tell you in three sentences how to get at&t's merger do. replace everybody on cnn. i'll send the bill. this is not hard stuff to figure out. >> how about, joe, overall, i think it's a mistake for the white house to push this line about michael cohen's dealings? >> i think it's a mistake. at the end of the day, what happened to drain the swamp? we have all of this evidence. i read in the atlantic it talks about all the people profiteering from having had any kind of relations

we have mike barnicle and msnbc political contributor rick tyler.hair of the department of african-american studies as princeton university. eddie glaude junior and former chief of staff at the c.i.a. and nbc news capitol hill correspondent oh yeah -- host of "kasie d.c." on msnbc, kasie hunt. we're never going to stop doing that, okay? >>> and co-founder and ceo of axios, jim vandehei. i think we'll start right there, we begin with the stunning revelation from president trump's attorney, rudy giuliani. last night, telling fox news, that trump reimbursed his fixer, michael cohen, for that $130,000 hush money payment to porn star stormy daniels. despite president trump's assertion last month that he was unaware of it. >> having something to do with paying some stormy daniels woman $130,000? i mean which is going to turn out to be perfectly legal. that money was not campaign money. sorry, i'm giving you a fact now that you don't know. it's not campaign money. no campaign finance violation. so -- >> they funneled it through the law firm? >> funneled th

. >> rick tyler, i want to talk to you about just what is going on here.he parents. not officially a change in policy in to how we treat children but the effect is that more people are being separated. and this zero tolerance policy clearly is something that the president cares a lot about, but that members of congress are saying, hey, you know, this is not -- we should look at this again. >> he's feeling it now, because a turnaround. earlier today he blamed it on democrats. >> right. >> look, i think -- the policy should be to always keep their children with their parents. sometimes it's appropriate to separate a child from an adult, but -- >> certainly in case of smuggling, or fraud. >> of course. lots of cases, but in terms of someone seeking ally lum with an infant child or minor child, families should stay together. that used to be what the republican party used to stand f for. couple with the fact they lost 1,4700 minors, don't know where they are. went into the system, supposed to keep track to go to their court date and they have no idea where they

. >> all right, let's take a deeper dive with our panel, rick tyler, msnbc political analyst and adrianod, former director of strategic communications for hillary clinton. let me begin with you. realistically, can beto o'rourke turn texas blue? >> probably not. >> why? >> well, because the half -- remember the number half a million, the democrats did very, very well. they've turned out a half million more people than they did in the last midterm election. but the republicans also broke their record and they had 1.5 million. so that's a half million more. ted cruz got 85% of those 1.5 million and beta o'rourke got 61% of the 1 million that showed up for him. there's just a huge numbers gap. the democrats did very well. there's no question about that. he's an attractive candidate. he has raised in the first three months double what cruz has. but cruz got double the votes that beto got in the primary, so it's just an uphill climb. 60% of the votes cast on primary day were cast for republicans. that's actually slightly better than the 2006 year which was a great year for democrats. they had

i want to bring in matt and rick tyler. and reverend mark thompson host of a radio show on sirius xm. matt, to you first, why would mueller threaten a subpoena? >> i think what he's telling the president and his legal team here is they're not going to list ton excuses forever for why the president doesn't want to sit down and talk with him. at some point if he continues to refuse to cooperate with the investigation they're going to treat him like any other who is being questioned, they're going to send him a subpoena. if he challenges the subpoena, ultimately, i think he would lose in court and lose his option. does he want to come down and testify before the grand jury. or does he want to take the fifth amendment and refuse to answer questions about criminal wrongdoing burg his campaign and while he was sitting in the oval office? that's a hard thing to explain to the american people. >> rick what is president trump's legal team's move? the president can possibly continue to say this is a ruse and a hoax and a witch hunt i

and rick tyler, republican strategist. let's walk through this. michael, to you first, is there a chance the summit could be saved, especially since we last heard of a somewhat positive statement from north korea? >> i think so. i think the president may be trying to get a little bit more leverage here. i think what they realized is we were not set up for success. it would have been a win for north koreans to have beautiful pictures coming out with the united states and the north korea meeting and it was dawning on the president that, listen, at best, we were going to get a piece of paper about, you know, getting rid of nuclear weapons years down the road. i think that would have eroded our position on sanctions, vis-a-vis the chinese, who we need -- we need them to apply maximum pressure. so i think they realized this was getting out of hand. let's try and get some leverage and back out of this and maybe put it on for later. >> let's share what lindsey graham said earlier today. it was lindsey graham in the last couple of weeks that was so happy

rick. but tyler schultz says the edison he saw just didn't work. >> was it a sophisticated piece of machineryo. come components would fall off in testing. you had to fish out. doors that wouldn't close. they would get too hot. get too cold. >> when i was there we could not complete any test accurately on the devices that we were manufacturing. >> reporter: doug mechie joined theranos in 2012. his job was to adapt blood tests for the edison. tests which holmes told investors were ready to use on patients. >> but liz beth holmes told walgreen's in 2010 it developed a device capable of running any blood tests from a few drops ricked from a finger in real time and half the cost of traditional labs, was that true? >> no. >> do you think she was lying to walgreen's, i do. >> are you a clinical lab specialist? >> no. >> erika chung out of berkeley with a degree in molecular and cell biology when sunny went to work, she was 22. even the novice lab tech suspected something was very wrong when she saw faulty test results sent to wal green's patients. >> when did you thing i probably shouldn't be doing

rick. >> hi tyler. one basis point higher than where we closed.ens, 2997, one basis point higher the rest of the curve unchanged. last fed meeting, 27th and 28th of march two year eeld note has been climbing yesterday was the first official close above 2.5 for the first time since '58 ten year since last fed meeting darn close to the highs. yield curve, tens at 46. three basis points away from its april low, the flattest since september of '07 the flattest since 2008. the dollar index, everybody is talking about it as they you shhh one week stairway to heaven. it popped in all the right places, when it trade before 9212 where it closed last year it's now at the highest level since december 27. it looks like the twos and the tens for a change, it is moving in lock step with rates and presumably fed actions of the futures. let's go back to sarah >> stairway to heaven on the dollar the markets are certainly waiting on clarity from the fed. investors are sitting on the sidelines. according to the latest survey from the american association of individu

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. >> rick santelli is tracking the action >> hi tyler, i give this auction d as in dog for final demand the largest supply size on that issuance since august of 2013. here are the metrics 2.6, 45 points the big positive of this auction if there is one with the direct bidders which is something we have seen in many auctions 12.3%. dealers take 42.2% which is on the big side and the notion that we had to back it up of a higher yield to move the paper and dutch auction, it was mushy so a d. tomorrow we'll come back with the most important issues of all. 25 billion of 10-yr note total for the week, it will be $73 billion. michelle, back to you. >> rick santelli, one of the junkie auctions is hurting the markets. as we count down on the president's announcement disney and verizon are in negative territory, we'll watch of what's happening with disney and fox and comcast and their earnings after the bell. where are the opportunities if global uncertainty royals the mark disney earnings are on deck after the bell as a multi billion dollars deal we are going to tell you what analysts are hoping

tyler, back to you. >> all right, sir. rick santelli, thank you a rapid update on the american economy. steve liesman is here with the quick details. >> yes we quickly take the data from the day and plug it into the gdp forecast on the street and tell you the effect folks, we are headed for a strong second-quarter rebound. the meeting of seven economists in our cnbc rapid update tracked second quarter growth with today's retail sales and inventories number at 3.6%. >> wow. >> that's exactly the right response there, tyler. >> wow. >> and look at the bounce-back from 2.3 in the first quarter. that remains the same. and the reason is the retail sales number coming in on track but with an upward revision to the prior number clothing was strong. gas was strong and that's important because we had this discussion yesterday consumers did well despite paying more at the gas pump. furniture up strong and nonstore retailers, including internet stores, up 0.6%, continues to capture a lot of the spending by consumers. every indicator suggests the bedrock support will continue to push consumer spend

tyler. >> steve, thank you very much, steve patterson. >> crazy images. >>> all right, to the bond market now rick santelli is tracking the action as alwaysif you look at intraday of 10, doesn't look like a whole lot of action. we did dip in yields, rise in price a bit. 295, unchanged the 25th of april is when we set our high yield of the year, 303. same as the last trading day of the year in 2013 you go to 2011 to find above that the neat thing is these long stretches of tight closes. this is going to be the eighth session, eight sessions, that we're going to settle between 295 and 298 since that april 25th high. if you open up to february, you can see, we had that one stretch in the '80s. the reason i bring it up, we're not moving much. when we do move, it's mostly to the upside of yields and we ignore all the other issues like stocks when they get soft that normally used to give us a bid, pushing rates down the dollar index which, by the way, historically, likes firm rates. you can see on the weekly chart, it's not tearing up recordings but it's moving up and it's taking higher highs along with it as we hover at the best levels since t