steve schmidt, i don't know what it is about him and the paper towels just gets on my last nerve, but it's this lack of humanity is the word that joe scarborough used when he talked about this trip the day after. it's that combined with this inability to view anything without himself as the lead character. >> none of this takes place in a silo. so you look at that interview with mike huckabee. it's notable for how delusional it is that the people were happy, the people in the shelter and it was all in good fun throwing the towels. >> the quote, um, i was having fun, they were having fun. they didn't have power or water. >> and so after charlottesville where we see the death of a young woman by the hands of racist neo-nazis and the collapse of any moral authority in this administration with his equivalence, now we see for the first moment in this administration some 200 some odd days in we see actual americans dying, dying, losing their lives because of the incompetence of this administration. these are our fellow americans in puerto rico. there's literally nothing that could conceivab

joining the conversation is our friend, republican strategist steve schmidt.et me get you in on that and ask you the question. if no one follows those five men and their perhaps divine coincidence they all spoke out in the last week, what happens? >> well, a couple things, nicolle. we don't talk enough about this. the truth is that every day that's passed since donald trump has been inaugurated president of the united states, his coalition has gotten smaller, not larger. he's losing altitude. about a quarter of the republican party is not with him. sometimes it stretches to about 30%. you look at the collapse of independent voters, the unanimity of disapproval among democratic voters. approval level at about 32%. his coalition is shrinking. and as these political parties grow smaller, what tends to happen is they get louder and they become more intense. i ran arnold schwarzenegger's campaign for governor in california. i believe that arnold schwarzenegger will be the last republican who is ever elected to statewide office in that state. so the republican party

general mccaffrey, steve schmidt, thank you. >>> coming up for us, another break. some tough questions from lawmakers and a report citing this massive intelligence failure, possibly. what really happened in niger, in central africa? some answers, when "the 11th hour" continues. ♪ ♪ you nervous? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ when i was too busy with the kids to get a repair estimate. i just snapped a photo and got an estimate in 24 hours. my insurance company definitely doesn't have that... you can leave worry behind when liberty stands with you™ liberty mutual insurance. >>> it's beginning to morph, as we suppress the enemy in the middle east, they're going to move. they're not going to quit. i will say this about the operations, and i can't give the details. they died in defense of america. this war is getting hot in places where it's been cool. and we have to go where the enemy takes as. >> was that scary enough for you? as investigations into the ambush that killed four u.s. soldiers continue, south carolina republican senator lindsey graham today talking about this growing u.s. mili

want to bring in steve schmidt. how do you understand where the president's agenda and the actions he's taken particularly today on iran and the csrs in trying to tear down some of the stuff built before him. >> there is an extraordinary interview with the congressman, and i was -- i applause your restraint from having an aneurysm during it. it is a -- look you've never seen an action by a president purposefully that is going to harm americans. it's go to do real damage to real people. the republican governor of nevada brian sandoval is exactly correct. there are substantial issues with obamacare that you would like to see be made better. but when you are in a hole, stop digging. and so he made the problem materially worse. and so we're looking at an a -- a range of issues. we have a president of the united states talking about a war where to could be estimated as high as a million casualties in the war in the korean peninsula and the achievement of giving to iran the moral high ground in a -- in a agreement with th

we're going to find out what's happening on his terms and nobody else's. >> steve schmidt, who has a way of summing up what is right in front of us. steve, thank you so much for joining us. and for your voice on our broadcast tonight. the last thing before we go this evening, not the most important development from today but certainly a curiosity. today's 12-count indictment of paul manafort alleges that he laundered tens of millions of dollars through foreign entities to enjoy what they called a lavish lifestyle here in the united states. and because a federal indictment can have the effect of a living autopsy of your life, we know what he's alleged to have spent on certain things. like over $900,000 at an antique rug store. like the $600,000 plus spent with a new york antique dealer. and the staggering $1.3 million on clothing. all of it spent at a men's store in new york and another one in beverly hills. again, 1,369,000 and change on menswear. there are other things, not one but three range rovers and a lot of real estate, including a house in suburban virginia outside washington,

the first second i go, oh, i know woody harrelson, he's played steve schmidt. you were lbj.the guy. the worry about will they love me? like an 8-year-old. he's not this big troll, he's this boy. boy-man. and you got him. >> thank you so much. >> when you did it, the nervousness. jennifer jason leigh. >> she's incredible. >> absolutely incredible. >> ladybird. >> you're in a lot of bedroom scenes, not sex scenes -- there's pretty gross scenes in this movie. there's scenes like men do, in bed at night asking their wife, what do you think, how am i doing? you think i'm all right? that's the same thing, lbj. >> that insecurity, that desire to be loved, feeling inloved at times, that came out. i read carrow books but doris goodman's book, that's where i got it. she was close to him, she worked for him, she wrote the biography. she talked about two things i picked out. one was he had this recurring nightmare of being paralyzed. he also had this fear that his mother didn't love him, because she would withhold her love at times. it was conditional. when he wasn't doing the things th

. >> republican strategist steve schmidt letting everyone on "morning joe" know exactly how he felt.rply criticizing vice president mike pence's decision to walk out of an nfl game in protest in his home state of indiana. the vice president tweeting that he and president trump "will not dignify any event that disrepresents 0 your soldiers, our flag or national anthem." president trump praised the move. joining me now is a former press secretary to vice president pence at the white house and now part of the expand -- from your perspective, was it always intended to leave that abruptly? >> he would have always had to have left before the end of the game. they can't stay for security reasons and with the crowd leaving. this was absolutely something on the vice president's calendar for a very long period of time. all words steve schmidt used this morning on "morning joe" i would say more apply to him because there was additional reporting saying the colts knew there was no additional security. it was a minimal footprint. >> no magnetometers for fans. >> they go through the normal footbal

and also with us, steve schmidt. general, you're always a good support about this.ean to put you on the spot. i know it's a small community of retired and active four-star generals. but are we allowed to disagree with you? do you get any at home? >> i don't encourage it personally, brian, but when it comes to the serious question -- by the way, i was a retired four star working in the clinton administration, in the white house. ran a 200-person agency. took some serious shots out of the political system, so general kelly obviously is subject not just as a white house chief of staff but as a serving military officer to being questioned by the media, by the congress, by the court system. of course. you know, it's a democracy under the rule of law. >> but it sounded there briefly like there was a desire for us to be a country where people don't disagree with generals. and i think you've gone to war against a couple of those in your lifetime. >> yeah. no, that was a foolish statement on the part of the white house press secretary. it's a ridiculous way. look, there's be

i'm trying to do this in fewer words than we gave steve schmidt. can you talk about this dynamic of intensity not equalizing broadness. >> the first is that this is to the point being made. this is a longer term trend of the republican base rebelling against republican establishment. we saw it first erupt with the tea party movement in 2009, 2010. this is a continuation of that. what bannon is doing that's smart politically is he sort of seized that mantel as breitbart shaped the flow of that. bannon seized upon this thing that became trumpism and this is my tool by which i'll take out the republican establishment, even though he's never demonstrated he can take anyone out in politics. >> stop, stop, stop. it's a brilliant point. bannon has never won anything except the accidental victory of donald trump. >> that's right. >> his only victory he lost by 3 million votes. >> it's not nothing but kellyanne conway was the campaign manager. but bannon has never won. is it the trump base's belief in this populism? is it their tolerance of white supremacy?

steve schmidt. >> senator, good morning. bob corker, a man serious, sober, not given hyperbole has talked openly about this administration, worrying about the president's capacity to start world war iii. we have the secretary of state talking about the negotiations will continue until the first bombs drop. how concerned are you and how legitimate do you find senator corker's criticism behaviorally of the administration? how worried are you? >> let me say, first, that i'm a friend of bob corker's. i think he's an excellent senator and a great leader of the formulations committee, and he knows a great deal. i don't think the twitter war between him and the president is productive, and i'd like to see them get back to working on the iran legislation, for example. but there's no doubt that this president's been extremely unconventional in his approach, and that has caused more chaos than i think is good for our country and for our relationship with both our allies and our enemies. i would urge the president to remember that ever

steve schmidt, let's -- i'm going to ask you to go there.s. >> of course he is. >> this is the senate of the chairman of foreign relations committee. he knows what's going on in the white house and around the world, and he is deeply concerned. fair? >> whether he said it or not, the entire interview he demonstrates he questions his fitness as commander in chief. and manifestly so. when we consider the president's loose talk about nuclear weapons, about war on the korean peninsula, we should stop for a second and think about this. we have 40,000 troops in japan, roughly. 28,000 in korea. there are 12,000 ar titillery pieces that are ranged on the city of seoul. they believe they can deliver 500,000 of artillery and mortars in the first hour of the war. there are 230,000 u.s. military dependents in south korea. when you look at the response in puerto rico, i think there's very serious reason to be concerned about our country's capacity to safely air lift the americans out of harm's way. when you look at the behavior across this administration,

this afternoon on nicolle wallace's program just before 5:00 eastern time one of our colleagues steve schmidt talked about the stakes and what he's calling the possibility of the second korean war. let's listen. >> what we're talking about here is something of a war of a different magnitude. the estimates are on the korean peninsula there would be a million casualties on the first day. there'll be more dead americans in the first five minutes of a second korean war than there have been killed total casualties in the last 17 years of war in afghanistan and iraq. we've had no discussion in this country about the casualties, about what a second korean war looks like, the current size of the u.s. military. would we need to have a draft in the united states to augment forces? because when you activate all of our forces including reserve and national guard components it may be the case we don't have enough people for the second korean war. and so i think that there's a real lack of imagination and clearly a lack of imagination in washington, d.c. among all of those senators who were cheering like s

moments from today's programming that got our attention, as he often does, republican strategist steve schmidt earlier this afternoon with nicole wallace reminding us of the stakes. also today, secretary of defense james mattis said that although diplomacy is, of course, the preferred course of action right now, the role of the u.s. army must be preparedness. >> now, what does the future hold? neither you nor i can say. so, there's one thing the u.s. army can do, and that is you have got to be ready to ensure that we have military options that our president can employ if needed. we currently -- we currently are in a diplomatically led effort. >> well, with us tonight sue mi terry, former analyst at the cia and former national security council director for korea, japan and oceanic affairs. and retired four-star u.s. general barry mccaffery, battle field commander in the persian gulf, now a msnbc analyst. general, i'll start with you. where will our current policy, if nothing changes, where will our current policy with the north lead us? >> i think, brian, inescapably, we are sliding toward war.

>> it is true, what's important here is you have somebody like nicolle wallace and steve schmidt sittinghy do we care democrats are to blame? these two are people who couldn't organize a parade for obama in 2008. they've gone from losers of 08 to defending the losers of 2016, and, if a journalist wants to know why, not only if the democrats paid, which they did, and want to ask why and what they were trying do here? liz: tim graham, good to see you, come back, we love having you on. >> thanks. >> toy maker fisher-price issuing a recall. also makes baby seats, it's recalling 63,000 baby seats. the consumer product safety commission saying it's received three dozen reports about these seats, called the smoothing motion seats that they overheat. one report is about a fire from its motor. no injuries reported yet but watch out, the recall is on. next up, jfk assassination files from the government, they've been secret, now they're about to be released. that's according to the white house. president trump authorized this. we'll bring you the details when they're out. >>> kellogg's latest cere

steve schmidt, a former campaign -- mccain adviser tweeted when you're forced to deny you called yourere's a 100% chance you called him a moron." senator santorum, can this relationship be saved? between tillerson and trump? >> donald trump is an interesting character. i mean, i always find that the people that are closest to the president, the people that he really has invested his time and energy and guys like a jeff sessions he gets much more offended when they offend him and do things that he doesn't like than people he's not close to. he actually tolerates people that are not close to him or he doesn't really have that kind of relationship, much better than he does people that he has that trust with. i would say in an odd way the fact that he and rex are not buddies and tillerson is not in the inner circle probably allows him to survive much more than someone close to him had done this. >> governor, are you worried about who comes next if rex tillerson steps down? that it might be a john bolton type? or somebody who is more -- >> oh, my god. >> that was awesome. >> that would be

steve schmidt, former mccain adviser tweeted, when you're forced to deny you called the president a morononference, there is a 100% chance you called him a moron. senator santorum, can this relationship be saved? between tillerson and trump? >> you know, donald trump is an interesting character. i always find that the people that are closest to the president, the people that he really has invested his time and energy and guys like jeff sessions, he gets much more offended when they offend him, when they do things that he doesn't like than people that he's not close to. and he actually tolerates people that are not close to him, or doesn't really have that kind of relationship. much better than he does people that so i would say in an odd way tillerson is not in the inner circle probably allows him to survive than if someone was much more close to him and dies. >> are you worried if tillerson steps down that it might be a john bolton type -- >> that would be awesome? >> i think tillerson will not last beyond the end of the month, really. i don't see how he can do his job in the borld. the

maxwell and steve schmidt. appreciate you being here. i don't know if i'll sleep better. now to chuck todd and "mtp daily." >> hello, nicolle. >>> if it's wednesday, the republican civil war is anything but civil. tonight, the fallout from the flake/corker one-two punch. >> okay, look, they have to do their thing. we have great unity. >> what are the two sides of this divided party really fighting about? >>> plus, revelations on the russia dossier. >> i think it's very sad what they've done with this fake dossier. >> what's more important? what's in it or who paid for it? >>> and senators continue to man answers on the deadly niger ambush. the ranking democrat on the armed services committee joins me as well. this is "mtp daily," and it starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm chuck todd here in washington. welcome to "mtp daily." in case you didn't notice, one heck of a fight going on now inside the republican party. folks, the fight is looking more and more like a rivalry between a hammer and nail. a pair of retiring senators, bob corker, jeff flake, dramatically blasted

my thanks to steve schmidt, harry ford, "mtp daily" starts right now with the fabulous katie tur in for chuck. >> with a panel like that i will always be watching. nicolle, thank you very much. >>> if it is monday, don't cross bob corker. tonight -- senator corker uncorked. the retiring chairman of the senate foreign relations committee sounds off on the president. and what he says is a pact to world war iii. >>> plus, protesting anthem protests. how vice president pence's dramatic departure from this week's colts game is fueling controversy. >> it's the height of hypocrisy to say they can take their action but that the vice president of the united states doesn't van equal right. >>> and hitting the wall on a daca deal. how president trump's latest demands to build a southern wall could tear down a bipartisan push to protect so-called dreamers. >>> this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> good evening and welcome to "mtp daily." i'm katie tur in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to what is very influential republican is comparing to a reality tv show. that's right. a republica

msnbc contributor steve schmidt reacted to this reporting, saying folks in d.c.e severity of the tensions. >> they'll be more dead americans in the first five minutes of a second korean war than there has been killed total casualties in the last 17 years of war. i think that there's a real lack of imagination and clearly a lack of imagination in washington, d.c. about the possibility for a real tragedy caused by reckless actions by this president of the united states. >> nbc news foreign correspondent keir simmons is in seoul, south korea, after spending time in north korea. what is at stake in mattis' visit? when we hear about this nbc reporting that diplomatic talks are simply not happening, no one is answering the phone on the other side of the line, that is worrisome. >> deeply worrisome. what's at stake is are we on the edge of a war. the tension is high here. there are three u.s. carrier groups in the region. the -- well, it is very, very difficult and i think what you just heard sums it up, which is the possibility of a war that very quickly would see larg

. >> they are denying there was any problem between rex tillerson and donald trump, but as steve schmidtn then it's pretty good you called the president a moron. i'm not going deny. when you're forced to deny that you called the president a moron in a news conference there's 100% chance you called him a moron. if in that press conference you don't call, you don't deny calling the president a moron. >> i want to ask you. you spent a few years in politics. when somebody says i'll not dignify a statement or it's beneath me, that's also 100% also. there's not much of a question there. i would love to see -- there's a two hour gap from 6:00 in the morning time that the nbc story broke and 8:00 a.m. until trump hit the road where he was in the white house pacing andcly was trying to calm him down. and the problem trump has he has kind of stuck with tillerson. supposedly a suicide fact they mnuchkin and mattis if one goes they all go. so they are struck with each other for a while. tillerson is a ceo his entire life and very hard for a ceo to subordinate to another ceo. particularly when one is

here was steve schmidt chief strategist on hbo friday neither. >> the founding fathers, though.s a ak50 of them. steve: is that true? it is harder to buy cough medicine than it is an ak-47 or 50 of them? >> no. and you would have to buy cough medicine that is really old. pre1986 is how old that would be. and then you would have to get law enforcement approval and spend $50,000, and that's just completely inaccurate. and he's not speaking on a position of experience, so i'm not sure why he's chiming in on the law here. but, no, you have to be able to go through many, many steps to be able to do that. but really quickly on the historicalness, in fact, our founding fathers were aware of it, the continental congress was getting ready to purchase a fully automatic firearm but they were prohibited only because of cost. not because of desire. so people picked up a book and understand the history of firearms, maybe they wouldn't make such silly arguments on live television. steve: i haven't heard those stories before. dana loesch from the nra, thank you so much for joining us from dalla

week, this much talk about a ban -- this quickly -- is a new sound in washington.i'm emily schmidt, reporting. (steve) (steve) daca recipients who are attending college in california have somenew protection against the trump administration's move to end the daca program. at san jose state university, students and faculty alike welcomed the governor's signature on ab-21... legislation that will ensure daca recipients won't lose their financial aid while they are in limbo. university president mary papazian (pah- pah-zee-en) said the contributions of the dreamers are well documented and widely felt on campus. student body president ariadna manzo said some of her fellow daca recipients are living in fear and so are their parents. (steve) (steve) one member of the california faculty association said that worriesabout whether daca will survive is having a chilling effect on moral and attendance. (steve) a group of conservative uc berkeley students has filed a complaint with the department of justice... claiming their civil rights were violated by the school. students say they were forced to cancel "free s

schmidt with us for a few more minutes. his website, uscca.com if you want to check them out on twitter. steve is in way in washington, d.c., life independents. good morning. >> caller: good morning and thank you for c-span. i am so grateful for the outstanding programming that you provide. you're just mentioned that there is an emotional or knee-jerk reaction when tragedies happen involving gun violence such as sandy hook and the las vegas shooter with stephen paddock, dylann roof in south carolina. i like to know if your guest has lost a loved one directly affected by the violence if his response would be so cavalier. also i would like to point out that an independent study by the uk has indicated that in present bias amongst people of caller in the united states of america shows that they are more likely to have been fatally shot as a result of an apparent threat or perception that they were armed and dangerous. look at the 12-year-old young african-american boy, tamir rice, in ohio as a very tragic example. so i'd be interested in knowing if your guest would have certain insights for afric

(steve) however, that willingness centers on one very specific issue -- bump-fire stocks. emily schmidtort from washington. the sound of firing bullets sunday was so jarring, so different, washington couldn't help but take notice.rep. paul ryan / -r- house speaker: look i didn't even know what they were until this week, and i'm an avid sportsman.house speaker paul ryan is talking about congressional action on what made those bullets fire so quickly -- bump-fire stocks, a legal gun modification which makes legal semi-automatic guns fire almost like a banned automatic weapon.rep. paul ryan / house speaker: clearly that's something we need to look into. other republicans agree.sen. jeff flake / -r- arizona: yeah, there are going to be some hearings.sen. tom cotton / -r arkansas: i'd be willing to entertain those.democrats tout a chance for rare cooperation.rep. nancy pelosi / -d- minority leader: certainly the public pressure in terms of bump stock is such that we would pass it if they bring it to the floor.rep. david cicilline / -d- rhode island: it think it would be a great moment to sho

schmidt with us for just a few more minutes. you can check them out on uscca.r at steveod morning. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span, i'm so grateful for the outstanding you provide.hat -- you're quite welcome. your guest mentioned that there s an emotional or knee-jerk reaction when fatal tragedies happen involving gun violence, as sandy hook and the las paddock oter, stephen and south carolina, i'd like to has had a r guest loved one directly affected by if his response would be so cavalier. also, i would like to point out independent study by the that bias dicated amongst people of color in the nited states of america shows they are more likely to have result ofly shot as a an apparent thet or perception that they were armed and dangerous. look at the 12-year-old young in ohio, erican boy very tragic example. knowing interested in if your guest would have certain african americans who may be concealed carry threat olders and the they particularly face as being perceived as armed and dangerous? host: the question. -- well would be very stated and articulated q