they hear about they want more about ok people at all ron so let me go to ron here is you know people voted for the president because he want to he will put a big beautiful wall up ok you see c.n.n. and all of the little cry and oh we saw her. well no. let me go to jesse jesse i need the equal time i need equal time for everyone here ron ok all right let's take the wall as an example here depending on what cable station i go to it's a good idea it's a bad idea but i never really hear experts explain why it's bad why it's good all i hear is no moral preening all the time oh it's moral you know your race is tell me how is the wall good to work how much is it going to cost just how does that change reality how is it part of a larger immigration because i'm for immigration reform this is the stuff i want to know but i never learned any of it go ahead ron yeah and all right let's put the moral argument aside because you know we definitely do not have a consensus there i think it's a morally disgusting idea but that's a moral judgment call so let's look at it economically we don't know exac

ok let me go back to ron and you know ron i don't really learn much from the news ok at all ok and then that goes for c n n m s n b c fox ok i love the jimmy doritos two i love the jimmy door show i learned a lot from you guys but you know what i do learn from the mainstream media as i learn these words like trigger in microaggression and i always find it so curious ok because trump is the cues to being a trigger for this sort of trigger for that but it seems to be the mainstream media is just one huge trigger that goes off once in a while and we go through an entire cycle of people crying and beating their fist and beating their chests and you know how can this happen to our country who is i mean it i just feel you know what are they all dishing for something because i just find it you know where's the news and then i try to change the channel and it's the same thing on the next channel just a different face i mean what is this what corporate culture has gotten down to i mean is it getting to the point what's the oldest man that can cry the loudest now on public airwaves ok this is wha

ron: absolutely, absolutely. the hispanic foundation of silicon valley this year in 2018, i still can't believe i'm saying 2018, but we're now in our 29th year of operation. so, by nonprofit standards and particularly in this valley, who's, you know, seen so many ups and downs in terms of the economy, that's a pretty good--pretty good legacy to have in terms of 28 years of serving the hispanic community and other communities that call silicon valley their homes. robert: yeah. i mean, it's because of the work maybe in public schools, et cetera that make all those common links, right? ron: well, because our number one priority is education excellence and trying to increase the academic performance of latino students, most of our education programs that we fund and we operate are in local public schools. and we serve all students who want to take advantage of our programming, so we estimate that about 10% to 15% of all the students we serve in any given year are of asian background. now in--particularly in san jose,

laura: ron christie, thank you for joining us. ron: great to see you. laura: the president's tough talk the past 24 hours is not confined to domestic feuds. on the international scene, mr. trump had choice words for kim jong-un, claiming that his nuclear button is bigger than the north korean leader's. against the bellicose backdrop, north korea has reopened the diplomatic hotline to the south. our correspondent rupert wingfield-hayes reports from seoul. rupert: on monday, kim jong-un welcomed in the new year with a more conventional display of fireworks than the sort he has been firing off throughout 2017. but anyone who is helping his -- who was hoping his new year message would carry an offer of peace and goodwill was quickly disappointed. "the entire united states is within range of our nuclear weapons," he said, "and the nuclear button is always on my desk. this is reality, not a threat." that was all the excuse president donald trump needed, and as we have come to expect, his response came in a twitter tirade. "north korean leader kim jong-un just

jane: ron christie, thanks for joining me. ron: great to see you. jane: ok, for all the drama in washington, what do president trump's supporters think of him his performance so far? the state of michigan was key to his victory, not having voted republican in almost 30 years. rajini vaidyanathan has returned to detroit to check in on trump supporters she spoke to in the past. rajini: the economic decline in detroit, america's motor city, came to symbolize and america many voters felt had been left behind by politicians. ago,i came here to years -- 2 years ago donald trump was , not even the republican candidate. but it was his win in the michigan primary that eventually propelled him into the white house. i met a man named rich ashby. a union member who signed on to the trump train early on. rich, how are you? >> i'm doing wonderful. rajini: how does he feel a year into the presidency? >> i'm happy with the results with the economy, not that he is the total reason things have been turning around, at least in our region of the country, but he has pla

back to our panel, ron and jay newton small.ke say, is there a prospect of a deal on immigration to protect the dreamers and keep the government open? i don't think so, he said he wished he heard the president be more bipartisan, especially knowing they would need democratic votes, especially if they are going to pass it in the house, about 70, and he wanted more of an olive branch and not insist on the controversial issues like chain migration, like the diversity visa. that i think... those are the issues democrats feel were added on in this deal that were not in the original deals they've been talking about in the last few months. now they're saying, why should we agreed to this new deal? they are further and further apart and what he said tonight didn't get them any closer. jeff fla ke tonight didn't get them any closer. jeff flake saying it was an american carnage bit of the speech, the bit on immigration, and you made the observation it is a hardline section. is that donald trump digging in on the issue that got him elected

of course, back with us david frum and ron klain.in those meetings in the white house, both as a senate staffer and as a white house staffer. >> right. >> what did you make of what we saw there today? >> another sterling episode of the "the apprentice: moron edition." it doesn't read his briefing materials, doesn't have any idea what he was doing, and basically was just trying to put on a show and trying to make it seem that he was at least sane. i think he passed the sanity test perhaps for 55 minutes, but not the presidential test. he doesn't really know what he stands for. he doesn't know the differences between the democrats and the republicans. and, look, the idea he is somehow coming around on immigration to a more compassionate position seems profoundly unlikely to me in light of the fact yesterday he was revoking status for 200,000 salvadorans. it was a nice show in the cabinet room. another reality tv show program, but no presidenting and no progress. >> now let's watch him agree to the position that was absolutely unthinkab

ron, how does this work? you get the guy on the phone. we'd like to come over and talk to you. are you vague at that stage and are you, frankly, amazed when you walk into his office, just him, no lawyer? >> in this certain situation i am. yes, i would be purposely vague. we would like to come talk to you about some matters of mutual interest. can you put us on to your schedule? can you work that out into your schedule? is there a time that's convenient for you? as low-key as i possibly could and see if he's a taker. see if he's interested in that sort of contact, if he's open to it. in the fbi agents' perfect world, there is no attorney in the room. there's nobody else slowing down the questioning, changing the pace, interfering in any appreciable way and in this circumstance, because mr. flynn was not then going to be taken into custody, no reason to read him his rights. this is not a custodial interrogation, not in the fbi office, so you don't really have that concern. it's a great opportunity for the fbi. >> and ron, i know you're not a shrink, but perhaps you are in your pe

please, join us in this next segment as we continue our quest for happiness. >>> i'm ron ron. it has been a great privilege to host mosaic. and as we -- ron swisher, it has been a great privilege to host mosaic. and this design here is unique and i think you said your daughter has done that. >> yeah, she is executive director of attitude healing connection. and she did that design for the -- to show the quest always looking for happiness. >> what are some of the practical methods? now, you make reference to silence. you make reference, of course which we already alluded to, attitude has a lot to do with it. i think of poor john milton in paradise lost he talk bus our minds can determine heaven or hell or hell and heaven. what are some of the ways in which we can i can't she that in our inner life as well as outwardly? >> this goes back to your other question, what is happiness. >> okay. >> and that we in our book discussed different ways for us to actualize happiness. and the main reason is that we are lost. and to actualize our happiness we have to come from our inner peace.

. >>> joining us now, betsy wood rough, ron clane, and john hileman. ron cline, i want to go to this news today about steve bannon cooperating enough with the special prosecutor that they dropped the threat of a subpoena to a grand jury. what is the difference for bannon testifying to a grand jury where his lawyer would not be allowed in the room and have to answer under oath and speaking in this less formal interview context with the prosecutor's office? >> well, i think the difference is obviously it's part of steve bannon's makeup tour with the white house. and i think the difference, as you noted, lawrence, is that his lawyer will be present. and as you discussed a moment ago his lawyer is also the lawyer for the white house counsel. so that means the white houses' lawyer's lawyer will sit in the room when bob mueller asks steve bannon these questions and they'll know what he said, if he said something bad about the president or his son or whatever. so it is an effort by -- i think bannon and his team are trying to get right with the white house, k

in the meantime, let's turn back to ron. want to we're getting reaction from some of these senators who are there inside the room and here's what lindsey graham just tweeted. i'm hopeful my colleagues will find a way to e reopen the government to find a solution on immigration, defense spending and many other important issues. we also just heard from john cornyn, who also is expressing some optimism. he said u schumer wants to give people a chance to chew on it. that's why he didn't want to have a vote tonight. it's better to have a successful vote tomorrow at noon than a failed vote tonight. ron? >> cornyn was one of the most pessimi pessimist, so the shift in tone is noteworthy. you have to be realistic about what you can achieve through it. it is i don't think -- i think the evidence is clear. a shutdown cannot make a president do something he doesn't want to do. it didn't to bill clinton or barack obama. if they are able to get mitch mcconnell to reaffirm the commitment he's already made to jeff flake to get the vote on

you know ron paul.e's the former congressman from the great state of texas, presidential candidate. in 2011 he introduced legislation with congressman barney frank to remove criminal penalties for marijuana use. it's great to have you back, congressman. thanks for being here. why must sessions go? >> well, because he represents something that is so un-american as far as i'm concerned. the war on drugs to me is a war on liberty. i think we overly concentrate on the issue of the drug itself and i concentrate on the issue of freedom of choice, of doing things that are of high risk. we permit high risk all the time. if you look at study of philosophy and religion, that's very risky stuff. there's bad ideas out there. generally we allow people to eat what they want and that is very risky but we do overly concentrate on what people put in their bodies. to me it's an issue of liberty and jeff sessions is not a libertarian. he's not a civil libertarian at all, and the war on drugs is a totally illegal system, a

>> ron, can you hear us? >> yes. >> okay, ron, thanks for talking to us this morning. again, what can you tell us about the conditions you guys are seeing there in the lee high valley this morning? >> well, most of the roads are either wet or in some areas they're starting to get a bit of snow or slush cover on them. it looks like it's going to continue to snow through the morning rush hour. we want them to be alert of that. and if they can delay their start of the day, that would be very good for their benefit and our benefit. and just be careful out there because there's going to be snow through the morning rush hour. >> and especially challenging in the places where it started as rain, right? because you can't get the salt down as you usually would when you're waiting for a snowstorm. >> in some of our areas we did have some conditions overnight so we had to limit the amount of salt used. but it's snowing pretty consistently throughout our region now, and it's starting to accumulate. so we want people to be alert and use our pa website to track conditions and look a

that's an interesting thing because steve bannon for all of the maladies is not a dumb guy. >> and, ron klain, obviously, once again, something we have never seen anything like this, former white house adviser leaving the white house like this and then giving this kind of information about the inside of the white house but it's not just steve bannon. i mean, steve bannon is the headline today. it is every single person working in that white house that michael wolff has access to with something negative to say about this president. >> it is incredible, lawrence. there's a bit of eskimos so exposed to winter they have 23 words for snow. the thing that strikes you in the book n whether it's mnuchin or mcmaster, everyone around trump either calls him dumb or stupid or an idiot. it is like they have 23 different words for moron. i mean, it is astonishing portrait of the president as an idiot, as an incompetent. not by his political foes, not by enemies or people but those closest to him in the white house. and that's what you see when you read the excerpts from this book. >> jonathan, maggie

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ron: he has short up his compliance.e know with certainty that the sec will continue to conduct exams on his firm to make sure it stays compliant. mark: how much money has he raised? they were ambitions for $10 million. we reported asking investors to look up their money. will that prove tricky? will that be to the detriment of attracting money? 3-4t: he's looking to raise $ billion. that's down from $10 million last year -- $10 billion last year. he is still seeking quite a bit of capital, but not as much as he wanted last year. ron: the industry is predicated on absolute performance, not relative performance. worker list of fees, what matters to the investor -- he's had a track record that is long-lived and produced significant amounts for his investors. vonnie: some hedge funds are short nearly secretive -- are extraordinarily secretive. matt: i don't think there will be anything beyond what is in the pipe already. reports are- those private. the kinds of investments he has you will be able to look up in hedge fund fi

let's bring in ron brownstein, he is live in los angeles tonight. and washington examiner commentary writer in washington. good night. good morning, you guys are -- no one is sleeping. >> exactly. >> let's start, let's get both of your instant reactions and your headline from the speech, ron? >> well, i guess my headline is that it is unlikely to have much impact on his presidency. i thought it was a subdued and well written speech that was only loosely connect to the main dynamics that are shaping the public reaction to donald trump and the republican prospects in 291 -- in 2018. he highlighted the strong economy in the sense of many americans that it is improving. on the other hand, there's democrats that believe that at the obama struggled to convince americans that the economy was getting better and that running on a program that all is fine is a problem in a lot of communities. but the big issues that kind of shape, i think, the way that the president is perceived, his temperment and his approach to the job, his volatility and beligerence, he w

ron: it's great to be here. one of the things that i think you learn around here is that there are a lot of things that get repeated and that people will just say, conventional wisdom that has no basis in fact and proven not to be true over and over again and one is the subject of this forum, you will never have peace in the broader middle east until you solve the arab-israeli conflict. and until you do that, you can't do anything else. i never bought into that from the time i got to congress and i think that there are very few members of congress who really think that that view carries water and the trump administration is showing that that view is not the view that represents the reality on the ground in the middle east. it's important to think about what this administration had inherited when they took over. you had a middle east that was in chaos. was flushst regime in with money due to the iranian nuclear deal. there were problems in yemen and funding groups like hezbollah and defacto control of baghdad in

gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate ron let me go to you i mean who is gaslighting whom here and is it a country that's her it's just turned into a a bunch of drama queens because from a distance from my vantage point my perch it's a lot of drama queens out there not saying anything worth much listening to go ahead ron yeah you know here's the thing the media was in bad shape the corporate media in the united states was in very bad shape long before trump came along and they're still in very bad shape now the way the media really gaslights the public has to. they try to make it out like everything was just hunky dory and we had this this perfectly functioning democracy where everybody was happy and then all of the sudden trump came along and disrupted everything well one fact that's not true you know i mean if if trump is frankenstein the media is very much victor. and you know this constant amplification and trump pretty much all of his policies are just general republican policies and i dislike these policies i strongly d

gentlemen crosstalk prose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate ron let me go to you i mean who is gaslighting home here and is that it comes. see that center is just turned into a a bunch of drama queens because from a distance from my vantage point my perch it's a lot of drama queens out there not saying anything worth much listening to go ahead ron yeah you know i'm with a here's the thing the media was in bad shape the corporate media in the united states was in very bad shape long before.

senator ron johnson now taking a different approach. what he now says about texts between two fbi officials. the latest twist in the non conspiracy conspiracy theory. was 34% eastern european. so i went onto ancestry, soon learned that one of our ancestors we thought was italian was eastern european. this is my ancestor who i didn't know about. he looks a little bit like me, yes. ancestry has many paths to discovering your story. get started for free at ancestry.com >>> 4:18. some exerts between lisa page and peter strozk appeared to look like a special prosecutor was moving in. the last thing you need us going in loaded for bear. response? agree agreed. >> the republicans have been using this issue to discredit the fbi. including a text by page suggesting a secret society wc b within the bureau. ron johnson is now backing off ichlt. >> -- backing off. >> senator, the comment of the secret society is in jest? >> it is a possibility. >> a possibility. not exactly strong enough there from the senator. the justice department inspector gene

former fbi assistant director ron hospital today joins me. -- -- ron hofstra joins me. people have said they are meticulous and they are setting perjury traps. is there a difference between the wait president would be intergate or the way people who worked in the white house or campaign are. >> i don't think a huge difference. bob mueller and his team, whether we like their politics or not, these are experienced professionals. they are going to treat the fun it viewee with -- the interviewee with respect for their position. kennedy: however, what are they going for and how do they go about getting it? >> they are going for the truth. kennedy: what do they see as the truth? >> they have i would think by now a wealth of information none of us have seen. that is text message exchanges, email exchanges, phone call records, travel records. interviews of others filling in the gaps. we don't have one idea what mike flynn has shared with that, whether he's giving them something that looks like it's indictable today tore giving them nothing at all. but they know that. the presid

here now, ron hosko, who served in the fbi for 30 years.hank you for being here, welcome back to the program. tonight when you listen to what senator ron johnson says about an informant telling them that there have been these meetings of what was referred to in these texts as a secret society off-site, what do you make of i it? >> martha, the fbi is full of informal networks, many of whom need off-site to have a drink, to have lunch or dinner together, talk about the days and the challenges for tomorrow. i don't make much at all of off-site meetings with small groups, different networks, those exist in every organization, they exist in the fbi. the secret society part is a little bit different. i have not been part of an fbi secret society, even though perhaps some homework for me or knew of me thought i was part of a secret society because senior leadership gets to promote junior leadership or decide that somebody is not going to be promoted, and i think they can be perceived as a secret society. sometimes their deliberations are in secret

that's what ron johnson was doing right there.watts talking about a secret society that was planning -- basically, planning a coup against the president of the united states. asked if he has any more information and he says we'll have to dig into it. i wrote down other things. we have corruption at the highest levels at the fbi. a secret society trying to take down donald trump and i told you already that fox is declaring that war must be declared on the fbi and the justice department. this is breathtaking all because donald trump was called to testify by mueller. i cannot even begin to imagine the danger, not only to the fbi but our law enforcement officers and this country in general. >> it is really fascinating because it is the same techniques of subversion used by authoritarians when they're trying to under mind any sorts of resistance when they have in their power. we are seeing congress taken part in this as well. what we have seen them do with these text messages, for example, they take some to support their stories. they

joining us now, jill winebanks, former assistant special prosecutor, ron klain, former chief of staff of biden and gore. a former senior aide to president obama. he's also a former chief counsel to the senate judiciary committee and jennifer reuben, conservative opinion writer at "the washington post" and msnbc contributor. jill, your interpretation of what you heard the president say today about the cooperation of the special prosecutor. >> well, there are three things that i want to say about that. one, it's not his choice. if he wants to try to evade what he had already promised he can be subpoenaed so he either cooperates which would be politically the smart thing to do or he gets subpoenaed which would be politically very bad for him. he has to appear. he has to testify. he would not be the first president to do that. we interviewed nixon after he resigned. clinton had to testify. ford had to testify. so he's going to have to testify and he may as well do it gracefully instead of making it look even worse for him. >> go ahead, jill. sorry. >> the second thing which is really impo

heather: really, oh, really, ron? >> talk about hypocrisy.st thing is everybody and in some ways rightly attacked ted cruz for being part of government shutdown in 2013, now the senators who represent the military, federal contractors, the senators here from virginia, tim cain who ran for vice president, mike warner are the ones causing the shutdown. it's hurting constituents directly. yet, they are not doing anything to try to lead on the issue. they aren't creating any sort of extension. they aren't trying to get out there and say, listen, we need to make sure our constituents are taken care of. they are out there to undermine president trump, that's not really leading. i not everybody is a fan of the president in northern virginia or dc area, guess what, he's the one trying to keep the government open and that's what they want. heather: you take a look at the hadlines son -- headlines of liberal or mainstream media, they are blaming the democrats, they are saying that they are not the ones working with republicans and causing shutdown. you

so i really think the pressure is on the president. >> there you go, ron. cueing it up for you. the fact is that was what donald trump said in 2013 about a shutdown, that it is the president to blame. >> yeah, i -- you know what, i really can't add anything to that, ali. >> adam, at this point, chuck schumer has not been somebody who has been as prominent on this -- on this national stage in this discussion. obviously politicos know him. people who follow politics know him well. but he has really by the republicans been thrust into the center of this conversation. does he have harry reid's touch? does he have what it takes to keep his caucus, his conference in line? because a few of them did break with him on this vote. does he have what it takes to take this over the finish line and get the deal that the democrats need on daca? >> yes, i think he does. senator schumer has the enormous faith and trust of his democratic caucus. there is no question about that and i'm sure he's going to navigate this deftly as he has done in the past. he was always there with senator reid working

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so i really think the pressure is on the president. >> there you go, ron. the fact is that was what donald trump said in 2013 about a shutdown, that it is the president to blame. >> you know what, i really can't add anything to that, ali. >> adam, at this point, chuck schumer has not been somebody who has been as prominent on this national stage in this discussion. obviously politicos know him, people who follow politics know him well. but he has really, by the republicans, been thrust into the center of this conversation. does he have harry reid's touch? does he have what it takes to keep his caucus, his conference in line because a few of them did break with him on this vote? does he have what it takes to take this over the finish line and get the deal that the democrats need on daca? >> yes, i think he does. senator schumer has the enormous faith and trust of his democratic caucus. there's no question about that. i'm sure that he's going to navigate this deftly as he has done through other difficult situations in the past. he was always the person right

thank you. >> ron, thank you for the update and thanks to the team. i just want to make sure that i am understanding -- when we talk about june 1st for a.c. transit, sfmta will be there ahead of that and looking through the pop-up and the first bus -- i mean we have the five fulton on december 26th, and something in march for meaningful operation and i wanted to see how that all gets tied together with the pop-up and with security and making sure that it's all lining up at the same time. because if i look at the charts there's some gaps and so, you know, i want to make sure that when muni starts running, at least the signage is up and the advertising may not be running at that time, but it's just great to see all of this stuff laid out and i just want to make sure that there are no gaps as we call it a softd opening versus full operation. >> yeah, no, i think that the intent is to make it as active as possible. you know, some of those streams of activity have different -- different things pushing them and different constraints that are independent and

joining us now ron cline, former chief of staff and also former chief counsel. he know it is senate very well as does adam gentleson. he's a former deputy chief of staff. and maria trace kumar is with us. and i want to go to maria first. the possibility of the democrats agreeing to any form of going forward tonight without a solution for daca, how do you see that? >> a win for the american people. the protests of allies such as move on and forward u.s., welcome u.s. and the d.r.e.a.m.ers themselves is a testament to how the majority of american people recognize how daca wasstrategy and you have 1 million people loosing their status every day. and i think the democrats recognize if they do not take care of immigration reform it is going to haunt them come the november elections and that's why they're holding strong. i think it's disappointing that graham is buckling all of a sudden. when folks say the president did not get the funding for the wall, that's not the case. that was part of the bipartisan that graham and durbin presented to the president just last thu