and ruth marcus is back with us. and ruth, to what senator collins just said there, should she be satisfied if she hears judge kavanaugh say that he believes roe versus wade is settled precedent? >> no. and to quote or somewhat quote bill clinton it somewhat depends on what the meaning of settled is. senator collins was saying last week or the week before that she didn't think justice gorsuch would vote to overrule roe. that was just after justice gorsuch had voted in a 5-4 majority to overrule another 40-plus-year-old precedent. so the wavering senators, and i suspect as they waver they will either -- they will stick together and we'll either see most likely the two of them voting to confirm judge kavanaugh or they'll defect together, not one peeling off and the other one going the other way. but they will hear in what judge kavanaugh says kind of what they want to hear because every nominee gets before the judiciary committee and talks about their respect for precedent and ticks through the various factors that are

i want to read to a piece ruth marcus wrote this week about roe v. wade. of all the potential supreme court nominees the president is considering, the one who seems most inclined to undo kennedy's work, is amy barrett. she has the shortest paper trail, her academic writings are the flashing neon sign, i'll do it. this is already a court that has proved its willingness to overrule in convenient precedence by a single vote, adding barrett would pose a clear and present danger to abortion rights. >>> so, ruth, kind of explain where you're coming from here especially people who may see she's the only woman on the short list. why is she the biggest threat to abortion rights? >> it's important for us to understand that you can be a woman and a pro-choice -- i'm sorry, you can be a woman and oppose abortion rights. and many women do. so -- and it would probably be politically easier for a court majority with a woman on it to overturn roe. the reason i say she's the most likely to do that has to do with two strands of her writings. one talks about the responsibili

another joining us ruth marcus, and daniel goldman, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. all three are msnbc contributo s contributors. donald trump has repeatedly lied in public. it is on the record. we have his statements. we have his contradictions. michael cohen, many would say he's not trustworthy because he worked for donald trump and, i don't know, he sumbly he did things that are not truthful for donald trump. we don't have a lot of on the record lies or falsehoods if you want to use that word, from michael cohen t. on. the only one that i can think of is that he told chris cuomo that he wasn't recording him when he actually was. so in the credibility fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand? >> well, in the credibility fight you have to ask a few questions. one is who has the greater motive to lie here? one of the things we've learned, say, from robert mueller is if you go to him or his investigators with a false story and lie to them, you are going to get in a lot of trouble. so if michael cohe

and thank you robert costa, ruth marcus, and michael steele. we'll be covering this story throughout this hour of course because it's all coming up tonight. the pick, the selection is at 9:00. we may get a leak, though. we might get a scoop. i'll be joining my colleague rachel maddow later on tonight following the president's 9:00 p.m. declaration. coming up next, the president's pick could tilt the court to the right for decades to come. he says 40 to 45 years he wants them to last. so what's at stake for roe v. wade, for gay rights? for more. corporate issues. plus trump's team stirs up -- or steps up its assault on the mueller probe. rudy giuliani now says that the special counsel needs to show evidence that trump committed a crime before the president will agree to an interview. how's that for getting it backwards? it's just talk of course. it's like trump saying i'll give you my tax returns when the audit is over. hmm. when's that audit going to finish? and boy does it work with the base, however. and will the battle over trump's supreme c

joining us now matt miller, ruth marcus and eugene robinson. they are all msnbc contributors. and gene, i want to start with you. the game is up. saying that on january 6th, 2017, the president was shown texts and e-mails from russian military officers gleaned from a top secret source close to vladimir putin showing the vladimir putin had personally ordered the attack on our election process in order to sway the election. >> yeah. >> for the winner of the electoral college, donald trump. donald trump has known this far beyond a reasonable doubt since weeks before he was inaugurated. >> right. and, so, let's be clear. what we are seeing and what we have been seeing is collusion in real-time. >> yes. >> the word collusion is what springs to mind. this was a criminal act and an aggressive act by russia. the president knew about it. the president has colluded in covering it up at the very least. and i hope robert mueller also lets us know whether in fact there was collusion before the fact. but after the fact there definitely has been. it's been going on for a year and a half now.

next, a look at the state of the news media during the trump presidency, with david keene, ruth marcus, and katrina venable. recents held at the american civil liberties conference. ♪ good afternoon. it is a pleasure to welcome you to this luncheon. the topic we are here to discuss is near and dear to my heart. doing inll of you are your home states, here in texas, we've been fighting for racial justice, lgbt equality, reproductive rights, religious liberties and all too often these days immigrant rights. , for 32 years, i worked in the newspaper business. newspaper b i cut my teeth as a reporter in connecticut. where is connecticut out there? good. had we had auto fill, it would have been easier for me to get indicted politicians on the screen every night. but i ended my newspaper career back home in texas not long after rick perry put his arm around my shoulders and told a crowd he was proud i was his home town newspaper editor. cause and effect perhaps. [laughter] so it's obvious the media and the first amendment are things i've dealt with pretty much every day of my adult life. and

ruth marcus.r and associate editor of "the washington post", eugene robertson. let me begin with you. you are our resident putin and russia expert, someone who has courageously taken on vladimir putin at risk to your own safety. what did you think as you watched the president of the united states standing at that news conference yesterday? >> you know, it was remarkable. it was as though they were both doing the same thing, it is just putin is much better at it. he is much better at obfuscation, better lying confrontationally. he is much better at sort of drowning you out with irrelevant information and creating a sense of unreal reality. trump is like an apprentice to him in that sense. >> did you get a sense watching that display yesterday that while mr. trump is much bigger physically than is vladimir putin, he seemed to shrink as he stood next to him. >> i think that's a great description. no, no, it looked like putin was in control. of course, he was in control going in because he stood to wi

the case that these ideas on which the new theory of reference is based was due to a woman named ruth marcus, there is a big controversy over whether the credit for this philosophical revolution had been stolen from the rightful author of these ideas and attributed to crypt key because the profession needed a new genius figure, they needed a new figure in the mold. so, the possibility was raids that a great injustice had been done for this woman, and was a housewife during the years when she came up with these ideas. there rather technical ideas called modal logic, she generalize them to the philosophy of language, so, i examined who should get credit for this and these discovers very closely. they both deserve credit, but clearly another case of a woman who was robbed of the full credit she was due. i am not questioning the genius of crypt key. who is maybe the greatest living philosopher. his father is a rabbi he was born in brooklyn and then the family moved to omaha. his family became friends with warren buffett. he had some money to invest and that grew to like $10000. on the 50 or $70

ruth marcus. you are watching "hardball." so-so pizza? not in this house.e that's no so-so family. that's your family. which is why you didn't grab just any cheese. you picked up new kraft expertly paired mozzarella and parmesan for pizzahyeah! kraft. family greatly. >>> trump watch thursday july 26, 2018. special counsel robert mueller reported to be investigating the president's tweets now as part of an effort to obstruct justice. rudy giuliani retorts the tweets cannot be part of an obstruction of justice case because they are public acts. if you are going to obstruct justice, you do it quietly and secretly, not in public. really? we all and that includes rudy trump carries out in broad daylight. what others dare not, he dares to do and to broadcast. making a racket is his way of striking fears in rivals and under lings alike. makes clear looking at tweets. talk about a pattern of obstruction. part of a broad effort in the beginning to interfere with investigation. intimidation of james comey. pushing comey to let michael flynn off the hook. and then dem

and columnist and deputy page editor with the "washington post" ruth marcus. clinton administration. because there you knew who -- you know, you knew the sides. now, i can tell you, and i'm not alone here, when i get together with family members, we have learned you do not talk politics. for the first time in our lives, we understand that if we are going to be a happy functioning family unit, we don't talk about donald trump. >> it can't be done. >> and people don't defend paul manafort at my dinner table and i don't attack paul manafort at my dinner table. we talk kids and grabbed kndkid that's. >> i think the intensity today is so much more than the intensity of ten years ago or 20 years ago or 30 years ago. we had intense fights then over -- we had enormous family disruption over at our family dinner table, extended family dinner table, over things like during the bush administration, the war in iraq. i was a member of "the washington post" editorial board, which was supportive of the war. and i got a lot of incoming from family members. but this, this is d

. >> let's bring in ruth marcus. same question.be we will get a clue, maybe a perry mason moment. why would a president throw away our sovereignty? >> i go back to our friend's trademark phrase. and i think what we have seen this week is some combination of the two of them. i could not agree with george more which is turning us all into former conservism these tays. about the ignorance and naivete and lack of experience that has been on display. and that as a piece of information for what is going on. hey, guy, i've got a great deal for you, so here is how it is going to work. we interview your guys and you interview our guys. if you have zero understanding of government, maybe that sounds like a good deal. if you have any understanding of government, it is a mess. and the thing that is amazing, is that the president snapped at it and called it an incredible deal. but it took multiple hours and this bizarro press conference. >> george, you know, historic conservative. there was something called, as i recall called the connelly rese

joining me now, eugene robinson and ruth marcus, both from "the washington post." welcome both. this rally, i have to say, i've watched a lot of trump rallies. montana was as though someone had ripped the bandage off. he actually said, you know, at one point, as we showed earlier, get your blank out there and vote. and i know how to be presidential, they'll say i'm not presidential. >> he was right about that, he wasn't being presidential. and in a sense we are inured to that. we are used to the fact that this president is not going to be presidential. but i think there are kind of degrees of unpresidentiality, if i may coin a phrase. last night we saw across the board, if he had a list, greatest offensive hits, from john mccain and george h.w. bush of all people, to elizabeth warren, to the "me too" movement. hello, why are you going there, what is the theory? >> and in fact you mentioned bush 41, john mccain again. and bush 41, ridiculing bush 41, two men in struggling health, one has just lost his wife. take a look at this. >> you know, all the rhetoric you see, the thousand

ruth marcus, steve kornacki, leigh gallagher, thank you. such a great panel. we have to have you on tomorrow. which means i'm going to ask you to stay. chris jansing picks up the coverage. >> thanks so much, joe and mika. i'm chris jansing in for stephanie ruhle this time. unfriend. scrubs mentions of the president from his twitter account just days after publicly distancing himself from trump in a rare interview. a toxic link. two british nationals are in critical condition right now after being exposed to a dangerous poison. >> following the detailed analysis of those samples, we can confirm that the man and woman have been exposed to the nerve agent. >> so how did a nerve agent used against a former russian double agent and his daughter sicken two seemingly innocent people nearly four months later and eight miles away? >> and swinging left. an exclusive look inside one group's mission to flip the house of representatives one district at a time. >> you either lie down or you say i'm going to stand up, i'm going to join with you. >> it takes a village to flip

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ruth marcus, gene robinson, thank you, as always. mike barnicle, see you tomorrow? >> i hope so. >> all right, stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage. >> good morning, everyone, i'm stephanie ruhle with a lot to cover today, starting with the president returning to washington to a nuclear level fallout from his meeting with vladimir putin. his comments defending russia over united states intelligence agencies, are drawing bipartisan rebuke. >> i was very disappointed and saddened. >> it's bewildering, mind-blowing. >> today was a terrible day for the american brand, for the american people and for all of our allies. >> but not everyone thought it went so poorly. >> i thought it was a really amazing time. >> all of this coming on the same day a woman who tried to set up a secret meeting between the two presidents, is interested as a russian agent. >> what will be a foreign politics, especially in relationships with my country? >> and hitting pause. a judge puts a halt on all deportations of reunited migrant families as the administration finally releases its plan to r

shawna thomas, alfonso aguilar and ruth marcus is an msnbc contributor and columnist at "the washington post." so we hit a breaking point. alfonso i'll start with you on pruitt. what did you learn from the fact he doesn't cave often and has caved twice in three weeks. one on the immigration policy where the pictures said a lot and pruitt where aparpparentlya six-month drum beat finally worked. >> it's a tall order that you're asking of us to try to understand, right? i think it's all about himself and the perception that he thinks people have of him. with the separation of families, i frankly don't think that initially that was his idea. i think this is one of those stephen miller, you know, concocted ideas that went wrong, and he had a lot of pressure from inside, from his daughter, from his wife, and i think he realized that he wasn't really looking very well. in the case of pruitt, a lot of conservatives support him. i don't think it was a problem for him initially. he was the only defender of pruitt within the white house. kelly wanted him out, others. >> jim enhoff said he was sort

in a "washington post" column, ruth marcus writes directly to dan coats saying, quote, you said friday that much as with the mumblings of a terrorist attack on the united states before 9/11, the warning lights are rumbling again. how do you continue to serve a president so determined to ignore those flashing lights. with me is msnbc national security analyst and author of "messaging with the enemy", clint watts. clint, this is kind of remarkable. i assume leading principals who went to the white house today involved intelligence officials but there have been attacks on the intelligence community since before donald trump became president, since his presidency. yesterday seemed to turn an interesting corner. his appointee, dan coats, republican of indiana, widely respected, he said to the world he doesn't really believe the information. >> yes. and this is where you start to see institutions' red lights flashing. what if this is the worst case scenario. imagine being in the intelligence agencies today and you've watched your commander-in-chief take the side of your adversary who struck

we've got washington post columnist ruth marcus warning red state democrats if you're up for re-electionter watch out and when you go to oppose trump's pick you may not want to do that. let's listen. >> why would democrats in those red states sort of go on the political suicide mission, why would chuck schumer the leader want them to go on the suicide mission. pay attention. >> i'll give you a reason. >> pay attention to your prospects. >> cortez, because the leadership is going to be trash ed if they let this go by them. liz: that whole gang is wrong. we went through it, mark. let's take this on this idea that red state democrats will be hurt if they vote for trump's pick. there's little evidence showing any politician lost the re-election for how they voted on a supreme court nominee. democrat senator pat layhey voted for john roberts, he's still in office and bill nelson democrats it didn't hurt them voted for john roberts, grassley, ron johnson all held their office when they opposed obama's nominee merit garland. this is a false argument go ahead. i would disagree is that the days o

reporter, uished editor and columnist for "the washington post", ruth marcus with the newspaper for nearly5 years. she graduated were harvard law school. she's currently deputy editorial page editor and for her weekly column has been for the pulitzer prize in commentary. editor and publisher. "the nation." she's written for just about major newspaper in the country and a frequent contributor on television news shows, for her work on behalf of civil liberties she has among ed awards from, others. the new york civil liberties union. the american anti-arab diswims community. and the anti-american arab fund.rimination katrina vanden heuvel. i want to welcome all three of them to the stage now. [ clapping ] [ ♪ ] >> yes, david, we are putting you in the middle. that's a comfortable for you. before we start we want to know about you and your news consumption. i'll ask some questions. all you have to do raise your hand. you can raise your hand multiple times, there's no one answer. place you he first news?every morning for - do you go itter to your local newspapers? well, who said no? how about y

and then marcus scored the winning run and they 16-5. there is this years babe ruth >> the bay area has also been the world cup of rugby. the u.s. played argentina for fifth place to see if the team was down 12-0 or whether it was something where she could go on and when. 33-7 -- 3-7. new ceiling ended up winning that tournament.>>> possible weeklong stretch of really hot weather. importantly, temperatures will be in the upper 90s today and tomorrow. the national weather service has issued a heat advisory for this afternoon. even though humidity levels will be staying relatively low through this heatwave, many of the pacific northwest does not have air conditioning. so that long heatwave will be dangerous. >>> is a similar situation in texas. a dog and dallas is trying to deal with triple dip -- digit temperatures this weekend. the dog was driving his favorite sprinkler into the house. >> groups. >> they shared the photos of their dog entering water in the past. but this particular one has now gone viral. >>> the cost of a major project that connects mission bay to d

next, a look at the state of the news media during the trump presidency, with david keene, ruth marcus, and katrina venable. recents held at the american civil liberties conference. ♪ good afternoon. it is a pleasure to welcome you to this luncheon. the topic we are here to discuss is near and dear to my heart. doing inll of you are your home states, here in texas, we've been fighting for racial justice, lgbt equality,