adding her voice to our discussion is jennifer rueben at "the washington post" and msnbc contributor. congressm congressman, i want your reaction to what the president said today. he said i think i'd take it. what he was talking about was help from a foreign power or a foreign national to win re-election. >> it was astonishing. i movie, he contradicted not only his fbi director but today in our intelligence hearing even fox contributor andrew mccarthy said he wouldn't take such a meeting with a hostile foreign power. another thing that he said is he thinks every congressman does this type of thing. i can say for a fact, i have not yet met a single member of congress who would accept opposition research from a foreign power, not even from norway which he talked about in that interview. but this is all ludicrous. >> congressman, what about republican members of the house? their president tonight said they would all be willing to do this. do you expect them to come forward and say no, we don't do this? >> well, again, i haven't met a republican member of congress who privately or publicl

rueben, i'll handle it. please tell -- i would like. >> president yee: time is up.speaker. >> good afternoon, board of supervisors. i have heard that you are working on the chinatown after rose pak. i do object to it. i know that the congress has passed house of representatives, [inaudible] i was so shocked because it's terrible to believe that -- government, i believe -- and make this decision, for sure they have got evidence to -- but in my heart i have question mark, is that true? in 2017, my friend visited me from china. we have more than 40 years of friendship he is a doctor. both his assistant and brother-in-law work in university. it is an affiliate hospital. he say he's -- leader of the hospital. i ask you i heard that the chinese hospital, from the fellow practitioners and transferred it to the patients. i said, is that true? he said yes. i said that's horrible. it's human life. stop it. he said no, this is the [inaudible] obey the order from the head. i said, something more and -- there is a name -- refutable evidence. >> president yee: thank you. next spe

. >> i'm joined now by jennifer rueben, "washington post," opinion writer, he's also an msnbc political. always good to have you, jennifer if the what yo doh you make of the president's remarks there? how do you think they'll play with hispanic voters? >> i don't think they'll play very well and i think the challenge for the democrats is to take the antagonism that the hispanic community feels towards president trump and turn that vote out. we saw it a little bit in 2018. we saw it in texas, for example, with beto o'rourke. so trump's game may be to try to allay that anxiety or to try to suppress or deter people from getting to the polls. i don't think he's going to actually win people over. i think democrats challenge, as it always is, is to turn their people out. and there's plenty of reason for them to do it. and there's also economic reason do it. and that goes back to some of those bread and butter issues that democrats i think are going to have to stress not only to turn out hispanic voters, really any voter at all. >> i want to play another clip here from the president's conversa

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jennifer rueben -- and brain klaas, the author of "the despot's apprentice." thanks to you three for joining us. rick, kristin made the point at the end, that the president gets republican support or being tough on immigration and at the border. he gets a little less support on the tariffs on china. but there was really a shot across the bow earlier this week including by mitch mcconnell who said don't do this mexico thing without talking to us first. >> that's because mitch mcconnell'ses that tariffs are always an economic disaster. they're always a tax on americans and they always hurt american consumers. he also realizes that there are three economists in the whole country who believe the same thing donald trump believes about tariffs. they all work for him. they're all morons. and so there was a very clear signal from mcconnell and a very clear signal from other members of the senate that this was a line they weren't going to cross, they weren't going to tank the economy because donald trump believes in some esoteric 17th century trade model that doesn't e

or rueben noida is head of mission for sea and research operations with sea watch international joins us now via skype and so obviously it's very fortunate that hundreds of migrants have been rescued but then your operations have been monitoring dainties in the mediterranean some of them have gone missing with people. feared to have drowned tell us what you have been seeing in recent days. what we have seen in recent day is we are reaching the good weather periods off to some of that means that a lot of people trying to escape watch but i'm going to be right at the moment i mean there's 5 ongoing in tripoli and as a lot of people try to escape the role of top jury and prosecution in the camps of libya so there is a lot of crossings in recent days we have faith that the tradition that is also new to us. and. the way that we have a lot of poets now. making the crossing all the way to the marquee star so on and nearly reaching matalon to do so so that more that new pattern we haven't seen in the last months however as abrupt than with the is that the dinghies they are trying to escape an

i want to bring in the former senior adviser to hillary clinton, msnbc jennifer rueben, and with me here jason johnson, politics editor at the root as well as msnbc contributor. felipe, i want to start with you because you've been in that position that joe biden was in, somebody who was working with the front runner. i don't know, think you can make an argument for that exchange on race being the most important exchange of the night on a couple levels. one, this is an issue that democrats have to talk about and that it most directly affects their most loyal constituency. i think it brings up a generational divide that you saw and talked about. what's your take on what you saw last night? >> i'm not going to make the argument that it wasn't, you know, particular look at politics of the democratic primary, you're talking about a big impact of african mramerica throughout. so you're not going to do well without them. the question is whether joe biden lostny support last night. ironically we're focussing on how kamala harris actually dominated both taking control of the stage in general, bot

eugene scott, adrian elrod and jennifer rueben join us once again.tiptoeing up to a line. we're not exactly sure at what the point we're going to cross it or what that's going to look like, but there have been a lot of concerns. chuck schumer we played earlier in the program saying he's worried we're going to bumble into something. you've focused on this topic quite a bit. what are the warning signs here, and what in your view should be the administration's next step? >> i think there are warning signs. i think when they start trying to make a connection between al qaeda which is a sunni radical group and iran, which is a radical shia country, and they're not citing any specific evidence, that smasks iraq. that was the argument that dick cheney and others used that somehow that they were sheltering al qaeda people in iraq and that somehow justified the iraq war. when you have that kind of repeat, you know, history doesn't repeat it just rhymes, that's a rhyme. another one is they are beginning to cite the original authorization for use of force as pe

kim rueben is a fellow at the brookings tax policy center and director of the -- at urban. next to her is joseph bishop henchman, he's executive vice president of the tax -- nick johnson is a senior vice president at the state fiscal policy at the center on budget and policy priorities. we're going to have an informal conversation among ourselves for a while and then we'll turn it over to you for some questions. let me start with john. i wonder if you could give us an overview of state revenues for this budget year. >> thanks, howard. the wordy would use is very improved. we have states revenue growth for the year we're in and last year as a back-to-back are the best that we've seen since just prior to the great recession. and so -- but there's a story behind that that makes it more unusual than past good times. that has to do with the interactivity of the tax cut and jobs act and the timing of personal income tax person income tax is about 45% of our money. personal income tax is a very important stream of revenue. so last year we finished fiscal '18 with personal income t