donald trump yes stacey that was a rube goldberg opening nobody knows quite what she said but i'm going to start with the donald trump tweet and nobody ever knows quite what he's saying either and that is president xi of china and i are working together to give massive chinese phone companies e.t.e. a way to get back into business fast too many jobs in china last commerce department has been instructed to get it done this is a story highlighting the capricious nature of a us dollar empire remember we've had this exorbitant privilege for the last forty years since one nine hundred seventy one since we went off the gold standard we've had this exorbitant privilege as charles the goals of government pointed out that we were able to basically print money and get free goods from the rest of the world and this worked out quite well for a very long time and led to globalization and a rise in global living standards and now it feels like once we erected one trade barrier one basically barrier by a swift to this financial this dollar financial system a few years ago against iran and at that time

so i am wondering based on what we saw here was rube goldberg a visual comedian? when we say it started as a satarist, did he use his capacity in a humorous way? >> absolutely. he was very funny, very tongue in cheek. he would look at the way men and women have defined roles. he would put his tongue in his cheek and draw cartoons about it. he was particularly concerned about these machines. trained as an engineer, he really felt that machines were in many ways not worth the trouble that they were built to solve and that they were a time dream. so that was a big part of it also. later in life, he became a political cartoonist and won a pulitzer in 1948. he also had concerns about in the 1930s he made antinazi political cartoons which caused some tension for him in his life, some hard times. but he was a committed, smart guy. one of the most amazing things in the exhibition is he did a cover for forbes magazine in 1967 that he was asked to depict the home entertainment of the future. he showed flat screens with the families all gathered around 40 years before we had

donald trump yes stacey that was a rube goldberg opening nobody knows quite what she said but i'm going to start with the donald trump tweet and nobody ever knows quite what he's saying either and that is president xi of china and i are working together to give massive chinese phone companies e.t.e. a way to get back into business fast too many jobs in china last commerce department has been instructed to get it done this is a story highlighting the capricious nature of a us dollar empire remember we've had this exorbitant privilege for the last forty years since one thousand seventy one since we went off the gold standard we've had this exorbitant privilege as charles the goals government pointed out that we were able to basically print money and get free goods from the rest of the world and this worked out quite well for a very long time and led to globalization and a rise in global living standards and now it feels like once we erected one trade barrier one basically barrier by a swift to this financial this dollar financial system a few years ago against iran and at that time our gu

donald trump yes stacey that was a rube goldberg opening nobody knows quite what she said but i'm going to start with the donald trump tweet and nobody ever knows quite what he's saying either and that is president xi of china and i are working together to give massive chinese phone companies e.t.e. a way to get back into business fast too many jobs in china last commerce department has been instructed to get it done this is a story highlighting the capricious nature of a us dollar empire remember we've had this exorbitant privilege for the last forty years as nine hundred seventy one since we went off the gold standard we've had this exorbitant privilege as charles the goals of government pointed out that we were able to basically print money and get free goods from the rest of the world and this worked out quite well for a very long time and led to globalization and a rise in global living standards and now it feels like once we erected one trade barrier one basically barrier by a swift to this financial this dollar financial system a few years ago against iran and at that time our gu

donald trump yes stacey that was a rube goldberg opening nobody knows quite what she said but i'm going to start with the donald trump tweet and nobody ever knows quite what he's saying either and that is president xi of china and i are working together to give massive chinese phone companies e.t.e. a way to get back into business fast too many jobs in china last commerce department has been instructed to get it done this is a story highlighting the capricious nature of a u.s. dollar empire remember we've had this exorbitant privilege for the last forty years since one nine hundred seventy one since we went off the gold standard we've had this exorbitant privilege as charles the goals of government pointed out that we were able to basically print money and get free goods from the rest of the world and this worked out quite well for a very long time and led to globalization and a rise in global living standards and now it feels like once we erected one trade barrier one basically barrier by a swift to this financial this dollar financial system a few years ago against iran and at that ti

jobs back to china it took him back you know he's putting him back he's actually so it is like a rube goldberg machine in that sense and it also reminds me what happens when you have a global economy that is completely tied together just in time delivery like a gordian knot of trade if you try to move one little part with a sanction or a tweak here it affects the entire ecosystem of all global trade but it's not like we're living in the eighteenth century or something where you put something on a ship and takes a few weeks to get to the other side and all going to some of the trade in gold now it's all instant sanely issues especially with block change coming into the mix is instant taney asli settled upon the execution of the trade it's instant settlement no banks even so trump is like wallowing in there like a drunken boris yeltsin liked trying to figure out like. to come here. dog. writing is like completely bamboozled himself is fooling himself and it also reminds me in the u.k. when they have a transportation system set up in different divisions so them that one company is doing the railw

when the news feels like nine separate rube goldberg contraptions that you're trying to work your wayou're a little drunk and it's slippery, we wish we had a lawyer or a firm to speak to, who would make sense of daily developments, because so many of the scandals afflicting this presidency are going to end up playing out in courtrooms and are already playing out in legal offices. so, tonight, to that end, we are going to cross our fingers and reprize something we have only done once/f4 before in the his of this show. it's time for another issue, another addition, another year, of "the rachel maddow show's fake law school." we'll hash out with some great legal minds some of the questions i have about what's going on in these legal battles around the president with the latest revelations about stormy daniels being rooted through the president and what that means, also just trying to understand what kind of legal jeopardy the president and his associates could be in and why they're admitting what they're admitting. danny is nny vsa -- savalas, de lawyer, two former prosecutors here, tha