sam stein, long-time political journalist, politics editor for the daily beast. and ranado, a former federal prosecutor who wrote this piece for politico that got our attention today, titled, how to read bob mueller's hand. he is currently a lawyer in private practice, we should add. good evening and welcome to you all. >>> sam stein -- >> yes. >> -- if manafort gets indicted, that will leave a mark. that will get our attention. >> that definitely will leave a mark. of course, he's not the big fish, right? he is a fish, he's a big fish, but he's not the big fish. and what this is all leading up to or so it seems is to build enough pressure points on paul manafort so that he will ultimately turn on donald trump. the incredible assessment of what they think about paul manafort's -- they think he will destroy evidence. they feel his only avenue is to turn on the guy who asked him to chair the campaign. >> carolyn, what aspect of your newspaper reporting is most important and is most important for us not to ignore? >> it's all the right stuff. but what really makes a

now reporter sam stein at the daily beast reported it was not apparently a one-off.und another one. joining us sam stein, politics editor for the daily beast. it's great to see you. >> hey, rachel. great being here. >> can you walk us through what you found, please? >> okay. this was a peculiar case because it wasn't the greatest feat of investigative journalism. this guy, julio gonzalez who is the ceo of engineer tax services. it's a specialty tax firm that bill itself as the largest specialty tax firm in america boasted in a public press release put on pr web that he had hosted a white house summit on tax reform. and that white house summit featured top administration officials as well as a top economic advisers to the vice president as well as a top rnc official as well as the u.s. treasurer where they talked about interests that are directly impacting his own business. now this was odd because he posted this himself. he was boasting about hosting this meeting. what was even odder, though, it wasn't paid for by the white house apparently. what he said was that his

. >> joining us now, sam stein, politics editor of "the month. >> joining us now sam stein and betsey woodrow. tell us about the "daily beast" reporting today especially this story in florida? >> so what we knew prior to today was that russia created these fake facebook accounts to try and hold these rallies among other things their doing to spread fake news. what we're learning today is these rallies had an impact. they put together more than 17 or so flash mobs across the state of florida. in certain cases it was very clear, there was evidence to show that trump supporters and perhaps just interested people in and around florida intended these rallies. in one case a trump county campaign chairwoman ended up sharing a post from a flash mob herself. so it is the first direct evidence that an attempt to influence the election in this case disguised as big patriotic, had an influence. >> betsey, these goes to that thing that's been talked about since the election is did the russians have any effect on the actual voting outcome? and that was initially interpreted as did they reach into a

. >> joining us now, sam stein, politics editor of "the daily beast" and contributor. >>> as far as backlast winter, we raised concerns that the russians were using social media platforms like facebook and twitter to both advertise, create fake accounts to try to drive stories. we've increasingly seen to try and drive people out to rallies and other events. facebook at first, this is kind of disappointing, blew off those notions and said this wasn't happening. we know for a fact it has been happening. i think there's a lot more questions to be answered, and that's why we're going to have that public hearing come next month. >> joining us now sam stein and betsey woodrow. had an influence. >> betsey, these goes to that thing that's been talked about since the election is did the russians have any effect on the actual voting outcome? and that was initially interpreted as did they reach into any voting machines and tamper with them, as if that was the only way they could have an impact. if they're part of a campaign and part of building enthusiasm over time, part of what they were doing in

sam stein is politics editor at "the daily beast" and naomi. let's start with north korea.t was one of the access of evils that george bush talked about. additional sanctions, i just don't know how anybody thinks a little more of this incremental war is going to work, economic war is going to work. >> well, what are the other options is the question. every president prior to trump has been hamstrung here too. you can do a military option, you can do a diplomatic option, you can try to find something in between. and sanctions is basically the primary tool that you have in the something in between zone. the problem that trump has is that sanctions have to be a means to an end. the means to an end is some sort of agreement that would take away north korea's nuclear capability or pause it or something of the sort. the template for that is the iran deal. >> yes. >> we know that donald trump obviously thinks the iran deal was an embarrassment to the united states. so he has to find a way to be as much carrots as sticks or at least some carrots in addition to sticks. right now it'

. >> diane feinstein speaking about what they're about to do today, and this as susan page and sam stein join me. we have learned that twitter may be more complicit or more abused by the russians than facebook, even. twitter may have been more of a vehicle that the russians used, susan. >> that's true for facebook, the $100,000 worth of ads. i think it's entirely likely there were a lot more aspects through the way facebook was used. and now twitter, and the ability of twitter to try to stir up racial resentments and other problems. the social unrest in this country is quite remarkable. that was a tool of the russians. this is something we'll be talking about for months and months. >> the latest reporting, for instance, posts about black lives matter, sam, were used, were sent specifically to people in ferguson and baltimore where there was unrest over police interactions and violence in between police and citizens and that that helped stir up or potentially stir up some of the protesting. >> what's confounded investigators on the hill about this is the level of sophistication in which t

last night sam stein tweeted this controversy best saying if tom price were a stock, tom price would all his shares three weeks ago. a leopard doesn't change its stripes. actually, a leopard doesn't have stripes so whatever. that's it for me. for this hour. don't miss "velshi and ruehl" tomorrow. we'll be breaking down what those health care proposals mean for you. "deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. the competence, leadership and capacity for empathy of america's first reality television star president are being tested this afternoon. seemingly incapable of separating his own image and ego from the appraisals of the ongoing suffering of the people of puerto rico. president trump lashed out at media coverage of the federal response to hurricane maria. writing on twitter, fema and first responders are doing a great job in puerto rico. massive food and water delivered. docks and

let's get the inside scoop from sam stein, daily beast editor and ashley parker, washington post whitemsnbc contributor. ashley, you've been writing a lot about bannon. this was bannon unplugged, bannon as many of us have never seen him. you've been covering him throughout the campaign and during his white house tenure. what is -- what is the impact of bannon on the outside compared to bannon on the inside? >> well, that's a good question. i mean, it is certainly been on the outside is a little more bannon unleashed. he was never sort of, as he even said in that interview, a government employee. he chafed at the suit and the tie and some of the restrictions. so, i think two things. first of all, the one thing is you always have more power inside the white house than outside the white house. there's just no two ways about it. that said, bannon is sort of freed and liberated to push the agenda that he and the president share at times but is sometimes tough to push from inside the white house. we hear him talking about primary senate republicans. that's something i have to say, i heard hi

jeremy peters is a reporter with the "new york times" and an msnbc contributor, sam stein is politics editor with "the daily beast." gentlemen, thank you so much for being here. i want to pick up a little bit on where kelly left off there, and, sam, you are sort of the democratic whisperer in many ways. you've covered them for a long time. talk about nancy pelosi the democratic caucus. where is the risk here for them in doing this kind of a deal with the president? >> there's not much risk depending of course on what the final deal is, right? the risk they do run is that the dreamers themselves, the daca recipients, have long said they shouldn't be used as bargaining chips. so if the perception comes out that their status is being done in exchange for a border wall or in this case that won't happen, in this case some enhanced security measures, there will be some blowback within the immigration community about how these peoples' futures and their legality in the united states was used as a political bargaining chip. but, if they are to enshrine daca protections into law and if they we

last night sam stein tweeted this controversy best saying if tom price were a stock, tom price would have sold all his shares three weeks ago. a leopard doesn't change its stripes. actually, a leopard doesn't have stripes so whatever. that's it for me. for this hour. don't miss "velshi and ruehl" tomorrow. we'll be breaking down what those health care proposals mean for you. "deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. the competence, leadership and capacity for empathy of america's first reality television star president are being tested this afternoon. seemingly incapable of separating his own image and ego from the appraisals of the ongoing suffering of the people of puerto rico. president trump lashed out at media coverage of the federal response to hurricane maria. writing on twitter, fema and first responders are doing a great job in puerto rico. massive food and water delivered. docks and electric grid dead. locals trying really hard to help but many have lost their homes. military is now on site, and i will be there tu

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