our friend rick wilson describes the situation a little more vividly in a piece titled, this isn't the manman theory, this is the madman president. rick writes, the asylum in the bedlam of 1600 pennsylvania. the inmate is the president of the united states. instead of managing this dangerous patient, the staff sings his praises and encourages his worst behaviors. rick wilson himself joins us to start off the conversation, republican strategist and author of the beautifully titled "every trump touches dies." also joining us white house political reporter nancy cook, and rick stengel, who worked in president obama's state department and former managing editor of "time" magazine. jerry glaude and former aide to the george w. bush white house and state department, elise jordan. thank you guys for being here on this day of reverberations and reckonings. rick wilson, i want to start with you since we ended with you in that intro. the number of times we talked about trump seeming his mental state was worsening, his dementia was encroaching, that he lost his mind, lost his grip, we have been t

rick wilson, thank you for your time tonight. bringing your "a" game to bill maher friday night because the president accidentally watched last week's show as you may know. so you never know. rick wilson, our thanks. >> he'll watch. >> that is our broadcast on a tuesday night. thank you so much for being here with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> take in by the way billions and billions of dollars in tariffs are coming in, and china is paying for it, not our people. >> donald trump gives up the game on a key issue. >> we're going just this season, just in case some of the tariffs would have an impact on u.s. customs. >> tonight new recession warnings, and new concern about the trump economy. the white house defends its plan to curb legal immigration with a suggested edit on the statue of liberty. >> give me your tire and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge. >>> plus new reporting on the mad scramble in the department

rick wilson, thank you for your time tonight. your "a" game to bill maher friday night because the president accidentally watched last week's show as you may know. so you never know. rick wilson, our thanks. >> he'll watch. >> that is our broadcast on a tuesday night. thank you so much for being here with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. ♪ >>> more fallout after the death of jeffrey epstein. today, federal investigators are expected to visit the jail before he died. it come as midnew questions about whether the guard assigned to watch epstein were sleeping on duty. >>> plus, fallout at the airports after days of demonstrations in hong kong. pro-democracy protesters clash with police. >>> and president trump imposing new tariffs on china. what it means for the impending trade war and how markets are responding. >>> good morning, everybody. it is wednesday, august 14th. i'm

rick wilson, thank you for your time tonight.ame to bill maher friday night because the president accidentally watched last week's show as you may know. so you never know. rick wilson, our thanks. >> he'll watch. >> that is our broadcast on a tuesday night. thank you so much for being here with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> stacey abrams is going to be our guest this hour for the interview. i'm so looking forward to talking with her. stacey abrams gave the democratic response to trump's state of the union this year. she very, very, very narrowly lost the georgia governor's race last fall in a race that was marred by lots and lots of election difficulties and irregularities in the voting process. stacey abrams is widely seen as one of the most attractive vice presidential nominees for the democratic party this year. there has also been a lot of speculation that she might run for president herself. she is signaling today that she is not going to run for president, but that's because she has oth

and rick wilson, a republican strategist and a columnist at the daily beast. welcome to both of you. thank you for being with us. danielle, what do you make of it? at some point whether it's 9,000 or 12,000 or 20,000, which i'm sure it will get to, what do you make of it? because i feel like after the first 10 you put yourself into the bucket of not being able to be trusted. >> i mean, the reality is that after the president was inaugurated "psychology today" put out an article called "the 11 signs, warning signs of gaslighting." this president's gaslighting is a strategy. he does it on purpose. it's to keep us off kilter. it's to make us believe that there is nothing truthful. so he tells you one lie after the other and you start to become numb to it. that's what's happening. and so we don't question all of the things that he says. he starts his political career with birtherism. it turns into an entire movement. now he retweets conspiracies about the clintons. and epstein and it doesn't even make front-page news. the whole idea is that he builds this uneasine

. >> leading off our discussion, rick wilson, a contributor to the "daily beast." the author of everything trump touches dies. rene graham, columnist for "the boston globe." rene, i want to begin with where the president stands tonight on the eve of his departure tomorrow night for a g7 summit. with the world wondering about the mental health of the president of the united states. >> you know, i have to tell you, lauren, i can't help but think if the president were a building for the sake of public safety he would be torn down. what we've witnessed these last few days, and these days have felt like a month, you know, from these sort of delusions of grand you're, comparing himself to gods, to insulting jewish voters with this anti-semitic trope, there is just no limit. you add to that the one ace in the hole that trump has always had, the economy. and the fact that the economy is in trouble, i think it's really -- i think that's really weighing on him. part of it is he looking for any distraction to take people's attention away from what is happening with the econom

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. >> rick wilson. >> rick wilson, sorry. republican strategist.m, james, no one survives a close proximity to president trump like survives in the sense of reputation or ultimately he turns on everybody just as you know now with scaramucci. >> who has been hurt the most of this administration, who came out with the least amount of damage. i think it's generally acknowledged general mattis got out there with the least amount of damage. think of the people that's been ruined, wrecked, disgraced, embarrassed, you name it. you know, but my point is, they knew this going in. he's not one bit worse today than he was the day he was elected. i mean, you can't be a birther, there is no explanation for birtherism that doesn't -- that does not willing to exploit racism. i'd be careful calling someone a racist but clearly, he doesn't mind exploiting it. there is no other explanation for being a birther. you knew that coming out of the chute. i don't buy this he's getting any worse. he's always been horrific. i don't think he can go any lower than the place he

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. >> i want to bring in now nia love, rick wilson. rick is the authorize of "everything trump touches dies." okay. so here we go. good evening. mia, i don't have to tell you the powerful role that fox news has essentially -- has there. they're essentially state-run tv for this administration. how troubled are you that so many of the president's supporters are being told that there is no problem in this country when it comes to white supremacy? >> well, if anybody says that white supremacists doesn't exist, they're lying. they're intellectually lying, they're lying do you, and i think it's unfortunate to hear someone who has such a responsibility to get information out. look, he's not -- we're not telling people to be afraid to go hide somewhere, but you have to be able to look at it, face it head-on and that's the only way that it's going to go away. you can't run away from it. and i'm hoping all of my colleagues that are out there, my former colleagues, people that i know who are good people. i have worked closely with. to stand up an

rick wilson, gloria borger, thanks for the hearty conversation, you two. i appreciate it. >>> coming up next, two more mass shooting threats stopped in what has been a series of arrests since the back to back attacks in el paso and dayton. this time a hotel and school were the potential targets and governor jay inslee drops out of the presidential race, whether his singular focus may have changed the 2020 conversation at all. and just in to cnn, the trump white house getting major backlash for a proposal to regulate what it believes is censorship on social media. this is all coming from inside this administration. stay right here. you're watching cnn. announcer: only fidelity offers four zero expense ratio index funds directly to investors. and we have zero account fees for brokerage accounts. at fidelity those zeros really add up. ♪ maybe i'll win ♪ saved by zero the first survivor of alzis out there.ase and the alzheimer's association is going to make it happen. but we won't get there without you. join the fight with the alzheimer's association. [horn ho

rick wilson as well. author of "everything trump touches dies." good evening to you.in 2018/2019 were less than previously reported by half a million. not the news the white house needs right now. >> certainly isn't, don, and i think what we're seeing now with the president's lashing out and blaming the media and trying to preemptively get out there and excuse away the poor decisions of the trade war, the deficit and debt blowout of the tax bill and the other mistakes he's made in the last couple of years, i think that preemption's not going to work. i don't think people are going to buy it. largely because this is a man who claimed to have some sort of magic secret sauce on the economy, and just the media being skeptical about it or reporting the actual facts of the global economy is not sufficient for his hand waving to work on everybody. >> i'm so glad you said that. when i read that, i'm going to end up i'm sure in a montage on conservative media saying the media is taking glee and whatever. we're not taking glee on reporting bad news about the economy. it's our j

. >> danielle moodie-mills, rick wilson, thanks to both of you for joining me tonight 37 that is aunl for this evening. >> tonight, two years to the day after that nazi march and the deadly violence in charlottesville, the president has called out for stoking racialism from the very top and for endorsing socialists on the lowest rung of society while he continues to complain about being a racist. >>> jeffrey epstein, a man who knew a lot, had a lot of big name friends, as the president spreads a conspiracy theory, others ask how this could have happened to a famous inmate in a federal facility. >>> and the list that was once considered sacred and the new fear of the innocent victims of the trump administration. "the 11th hour" gets underway on a monday night. good evening once again as we start a new week from our nbc news headquarters in new york. day 409 of the trump administration. two years ago was massive violence and taking lives. the president characterized it this way. >> you had some very bad people in that group. but you also had people who were very fine people on both side

. >> rick wilson, a republican strategist who we have on the show wrote a book called everything trump touches, dies. and i think, i think that's a really interesting title. it reminds me of rogue and x-men. everything she touches sucks the life's blood out of you and kills you. do you ever worry about it? >> the thing is it is not just the people she kissed who die. it is people who go against her. and there areal people who have already destroyed themselves because they have so gone after trump that they themselves, it blows back up. they've gone down to his level. >> i'm not going against him. i am not the resistance. i said this the first night after he was elected. i think it was the next day. because remember, the next day, a little too late. there were marches in all the streets. people were like, wait, no, we care. a day after it mattered. and i think what i said at the top, we're not, this is not the resistance. this is alternative programming. because could i foresee like the madness. and the heart break associated with that guy being in a very important moral position. and s

. >> rick wilson, a republican strategist we have on the show, everything trump touches dies. >> yes.actually think -- i think it's a really interesting title. it sort of reminds me of rogue and x men, everything she touches sucks the lifeblood out of you and kills you. do you ever worry about that? >> about what? >> the thing about rogue is it's not just people that she kissed who die. it's people who go against her, and there are many people who have already destroyed themselves because they've so gone after trump that they themselves, it blows back -- they've gone down to his level -- >> i'm not going against him. i am not the resistance. i said this i think the first night after he was elected. i think it was the next day, because there were like -- remember there were -- the next dy, a little too late, there were marches in all the streets. people are like wait, no, we care. a day after it mattered. and i think what i said at the top of the monologue, we're not the re -- this is not the resistance, this is alternative programming because i could foresee the madness and the heart

rick wilson, our thanks. >> he'll watch. >> that is our broadcast on a tuesday night. thank you so much for being here with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> take in by the way billions and billions of dollars in tariffs are coming in, and china is paying for it, not our people. >> donald trump gives up the game on a key issue. >> we're going just this season, just in case some of the tariffs would have an impact on u.s. customs. >> tonight new recession warnings, and new concern about the trump economy. the white house defends its plan to curb legal immigration with a suggested edit on the statue of liberty. >> give me your tire and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge. >>> plus new reporting on the mad scramble in the department of homeland security to combat white supremacy in the wake of el paso. >>> and what we're learning from new state by state polling that does not paint a pretty picture for the president in 2020. "all in" starts now. >> good evening fro

rick wilson a republican strategist. with me now jim schultz a former trump white house attorney, appreciate you both being here. you wrote a book about this very thing. i mentioned it last night because it's always in my mind because i think the title is so fascinating. the idea everything trump touches dies, nobody really survives with reputation in tact and the president's good grace, their interaction with trump ultimately turns out in career death or with the president turning on them. >> sure, anderson it's a pattern that's repeated and repeated and repeated. you know, when i wrote the title of the book, i thought this is a kind of principle that seems to be applying. it's to the point where it's basically like a natural law and it will always happen no matter who they are, no matter how secure they think they are unless their last name is trump, eventually he'll turn on everyone. he'll get board or restless or angry or they will say something with independent thought or get this idea they are against him and it's

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from the center for american congress action fund and author of "everything trump touches dies," rick wilsonve to start with you. these are not funny people but when rosenstein talks about the 25thant, ha, ha, he was being silly and funny, it was sarcasm, stupid reporters. and when trump talks about pardoned, which was played, there's more where that came from. he loves the pardon as much as he loves the helicopter, he's ha, ha joking. >> this is a man with zero sense of humor because he has zero interspegs. he's not kidding or joking of the he's looking for short cuts to circumvent the law. the constitution, whatever it is, to do something as a political stunt to feed his base because they have to see their wall get built. they're desperate to have the wall built. trump knows that's the single thing in his administration that most of the people on the lower end of his scale understand. they understand they're going to get their wall and mexico's going to pay for it. they're not and now they're probably not getting a wall. they're getting a fence and trump is nervous about that. it's a promi

. >> danielle moodie-mills, rick wilson, thanks to both of you for joining me tonight 37 that is aunl for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, ali. thanks very much. i appreciate it. good evening to you at home. lots to get to tonight. it has been a busy news day. mondays in august are not supposed to be busy news days like by definition. this is supposed to be sleepy time. but those rules don't apply anymore. in particular the trump administration has been busy apparently leading up to today so they could simultaneously launch two new hugely controversial things. one of them is a proposed rule change that will gut the endangered species act. the other one is a proposed rule change to make sure that immigrants don't get let into this country unless they have lots of money. give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. they're not explicitly going out of their way to exclude people who are tired or huddled. but poor apparently is definitely no longer part of the equation as far as the trump admini

rick wilson, our thanks. >> he'll watch. >> that is our broadcast on a tuesday night. thank you so much for being here with us. good night from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. >>> stacey abrams is going to be our guest this hour for the interview. i'm so looking forward to talking with her. stacey abrams gave the democratic response to trump's state of the union this year. she very, very, very narrowly lost the georgia governor's race last fall in a race that was marred by lots and lots of election difficulties and irregularities in the voting process. stacey abrams is widely seen as one of the most attractive vice presidential nominees for the democratic party this year. there has also been a lot of speculation that she might run for president herself. she is signaling today that she is not going to run for president, but that's because she has other things in mind. she's going to be joining us here live in just a moment. >>> we got lots of feedback from viewers last night and today about a story we did in the back half of last night's show where our guest

. >> rick wilson and i used to fight on fwiter as well. fighting with me on twitter is the best way to get booked on the show. >> it's all good. we have to come together now because this is a serious national and international crisis. i just want to restate and emphasize to your viewers, he tweeted yesterday that president xi, the president of china and jerome powell, which one is a greater enemy to the united states. we can't have somebody running the free world, representing us at the g7 and organizing the government who is acting like this. james fallows, i'm surprised mitch mcconnell, kevin mccarthy, i'm surprised these guys have not come out yet. i do predict that will happen. this is a descent into madness. i said this two weeks ago into jonathan swan. we're in the first couple of episodes of the hbo series, he's melting down. they're trying to figure out if they can cover it up or they have to clean it up. now we're moving into clean-up mode. i'm optimistic about this. >> let me stop you right there. you wrote an op-ed which i have

. >> so mika, as rick wilson says, everything that trump touches die, the reverse of that is also truerump criticizes thrives so thank you. >> kind of a strange thing. >>> coming up, he's not watching. he can't stop sometimes. >>> amid growing pressure, some congressional republicans are starting to voice support for gun reform measures, including red flag laws. we'll talk to senator chris murphy of connecticut who's been pushing for tougher gun legislation ever since newtown back in 2012. >>> also this morning, senator and 2020 candidate, amy klobuchar joins the conversation. she says lawmakers must take on the national rifle association. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. you'reat wching "morning joe." we'll be right back. johnson & jn is a baby company. but we're also a company that controls hiv, fights cancer, repairs shattered bones, relieves depression, restores heart rhythms, helps you back from strokes, and keeps you healthy your whole life. from the day you're born we never stop taking care of you. dprevagen is the number onemild memopharmacist-recommendedng?