i think once i have had to deal with steven miller on stories. people have a lot of opinions about him. again, professional, polite. he is actually someone i did a profile on him. not revealing any sources. but one thing that was reported to me, everyone in the white house, even people who disagreed with all of his views, just really liked him as a person. and you know i kept on trying to get someone to say well explain this to me again how you find him so charming. but he is someone who is widely liked within the white house and one thing people really respected about him, which i think is true and not particularly common in this white house and that he is incredibly loyal to the president. that's in short supply of this white house and he doesn't always agree on the president with all of his views. but you would never see steven miller in this white house freelancing, going out saying his personal views on immigration. if trump agreed on x, y, z, even though he would try to pull the president back. he would accept his decision. he would not lea

out of it and now we're hearing hearing from the treasury secretary steven miller that the u.s. is looking at rejoining the t p p i mean why would they do that given all of trump's talk about just what a bad deal it was for the us. yes well trump has two different constituencies he's trying to balance his populist constituency does not like trade deals they see free trade as a real threat to their livelihoods and that's one of the reasons why he got so much support from working class voters white working class voters on the other hand there's the business community which love the president's tax bill and which is inclined to support this president well they are very much in favor of free trade deal and they're concerned over the fact that without the united states participation china could become the most powerful trading influence in the world and they could set the rules of world trade i think they're getting through to the president with their complaints that we better be part of this deal we're going to lose our influence in the world it is great as always to get your though

trump's inauguration when many jobs were unfilled and steve bannon was writing executive orders with steven millerthe disast disasterous travel ban. >>> joining us now is democratic senator tammy baldwin. good to see you. >> good toe see you. you worry about the already chaotic white house. >> certainly we have seen even with him at the white house a lot of different positions taken by our president on critical issues. people are talking a lot about the tariff issue. what's important to me is that we get the policy right. and because gary cohn's departure, let me start there. i actually agree with the president's intent. we need a level playing field for our workers. we need to crack down on countries that cheat like china. it is a set of tools that can be used, but they need to be targeted. that's where i hope the president will end when he announces the specifics behind his earlier announcement. i think canada should be exempt but the other thing i would tell you is that i really think that basic first step ought to be by america policies if we care about protecting american workers from the che

and the two people who are genius at this are steven miller who's a policy advisor and vice presidentence. if you watch them in public, they are always on message, they're always praising the leader and they're never critical even in smaller gatherings off of tv. that's huge. two is if you work on an esoteric topic. so if you're working on an economic issue that's not tax cuts or if you're the energy secretary and working on energy issues the president doesn't care about he's just not paying attention to you as long as you keep a low profile you're fine. obviously he protects his daughter and son-in-law but there's people like hope hicks who left yesterday who really do become like family to the president and they are untouchable internally. >> we've talked about how jared kushner could be on his way out because of his business dealings, because of his lack of security clearance but it seems to me because of your reportering that you don't think that would happen that the president would ask his daughter and son-in-law to leave the white house and head back to new york. >> you never k

the moderates inside of the white house, who's there, peter navarro, steven miller, that has real political consequence, it also has a consequence for kushner and his wife. where do they fit now in this west wing run by a nonideological chief of staff. >> we should probably add in addition the name kudlow, in addition to navarro has surfaced tonight as a potential replacement for mr. cohn. people come and go so quickly around here. thank you to our leadoff panel. >>> coming up for us, new trump comments on russian meddling and developments in the mueller investigation. >>> if it's tuesday, it must be election day somewhere, it is in texas. we have a late live report tonight from steve kornacki, when the 11th hour rolls along on a tuesday evening. you know what's awesome? gig-speed internet. you know what's not awesome? when only certain people can get it. let's fix that. let's give this guy gig- really? and these kids, and these guys, him, ah. oh hello. that lady, these houses! yes, yes and yes. and don't forget about them. uh huh, sure. still yes! xfinity delivers gig speed to more homes t

prong one was to build this populist nationalist movement with jeff sessions, steven miller, people likerm, government accountability institute that produced the clinton cashbook and would essentially dig up dirt on hillary clinton that would impede her from becoming president. the third prong was the cambridge prong, to develop data techniques and technologies, especially around perfesuasion that would cause voters to fall in line with this movement. this is the very phrases coming out of donald trump's mouth are phrases that bannon and cambridge had been testing. >> would it be insane to then ask if bannon had any idea, you know, what was taking place within this company that he was running? >> the answer to the question is i don't know exactly. bannon isn't somebody who would involve himself, i don't think, in the particulars of data collection and how it was scraped off of facebook. he is more of a big picture guy. >> he knew it was happening? >> he would certainly know. bannon has been obsessed with facebook as long as i've known him. six, seven years, he was talking about the power

we're seeing people like peter navarro and steven miller in the white house with more nationali nationali nationalist tendencies who seem to have the president's ear. >> what does it mean for jared and ivanka? >> they're still in the white house. their time, however, could be short. we've heard reporting that there could be an exit this year, perhaps to new york to head the re-election campaign. >> jonathan lemire, good to see you in person. kelly o'donnell, jake sherman, and josh earnest. guys, have a good wednesday. it's wednesday. next up, a porn star is suing the president of the united states and it wasn't even our top story. welcome to 2018. >> her lawsuit states that she had an intimate relationship with the president. did she have a sexual relationship with the president? >> yes. >>> welcome back. porn star stormy daniels is suing president trump. daniels, whose real name is stephanie, saying her nondisclosure agreement is invalid because donald trump never signed it. a dal her lawyer now says trump must have known about. >> there's no question the president knew about it at the t

press reports that there was a memorandum that was reportedly composed by president trump and steven miller that referenced president trump's communications with director comey. of course, the committee from democrats perspective wants to subpoena the white house to produce all responsive documents but is it a bit of a cognitive leap to say you believe that there are essentially recordings? >> yeah, and again, i have to leave it at that just because, a, we're not given the opportunity to pursue those -- that other documented evidence but i'll stand with the statement. we believe the evidence is there and need the opportunity to pursue it and it's one element of many other bodies of evidence out there that would help us understand exactly what took place -- >> why say there's a good faith reason to believe instead of we've not been able to for close the possibility of? it's really casting this insinuation out there that this exists when it sounds like what you're really saying, you haven't been able to fully determine if this exists but it's a concern that you have. i mean those are two diff

he said they were saying who would leave first, steven miller, his speech writer or melania? fact that many have -- or thought their relationship has soured the last few months. earlier in the day president trump made news of a different variety down at his florida estate in mar-a-lago. he was speaking to republican donors where he openly mused how much he admired chinese president and he has gotten rid of term limits in his office. take a listen to what he said. clearly you heard the laughs in the room. that was a bit after jovial affair but that comment has drawn critics, clearly, because having to do that would rip up the constitution that president trump swore to protect. but it all kinds of gets at president trump's admiration for autocrats. he has said in the past how much he admires president xi and he golfed at a golf course that bears his name, a significant milestone for a president who has spent almost 25% of his time at a golf course, 25% of days if he's in office at a golf course that bears his name. >> dan, we appreciate it. thank you. >>> joining us to talk abo

the moderates inside of the white house, who's there, peter navarro, steven miller, that has real political consequence, it also has a consequence for kushner and his wife. where do they fit now in this west wing run by a nonideological chief of staff. >> we should probably add in addition the name kudlow, in addition to navarro has surfaced tonight as a potential replacement for mr. cohn. people come and go so quickly around here. thank you to our leadoff panel. >>> coming up for us, new trump comments on russian meddling and developments in the mueller investigation. >>> if it's tuesday, it must be election day somewhere, it is in texas. we have a late live report tonight from steve kornacki, when the 11th hour rolls along on a tuesday evening. you walked together. you built your home again. my dna showed that i'm native american, and connected me to cousins who taught me about our tribe. my name is joseph reece, and this is my ancestrydna story. now with 10 million new family connections made every day. order your kit at ancestrydna.com so allstate is giving us money back on our bill. we

steven miller was with the campaign, one of the first campaign employees. and dan scavino, the social media director, who was one trump's caddie. those are really the only people left who have a history and understanding of this president. >> shannon quickly, on that point, the concern is hope hicks was really someone who helped to monitor the president's sometimes tweets that didn't wind up getting sent out. he monitored -- she monitored his relationship with the press to some extent. and now he's losing that. what could the impact of that be for the president politically speaking? >> well, there is concern among his allies that it could be destabilizing. it was a similar concern we heard over the summer when keith schiller, his longtime bodyguard, left. i should also note that hope hicks provided a very important role to jared kushner and ivanka trump also. she was someone they trusted. in the early days, hope was the one who helped manage ivanka's image, her public relations, who served as a sort of gatekeeper to ivanka and hope really got her entry into

he said why -- steven miller or melania and the audience what -- ahh and he said i won't tell you what said. well she said behave. and just -- whoa, how interesting is that. with donald trump, a lot of times, what he is thinking is what comes out of his mouth an it is the most interesting thing to watch. >> if you are married, even if you know certain things and i'm not saying they are in this marriage. but there -- everything is not okay. no one wants to see that on tv. >> nobody wants to hear that. >> and humiliated and have it drag on and just be reminded of it. and yes, it would be humiliating. >> and it would be. this -- it goes back to this trump week. there is a theory of the case about the political impact. that the democrats have of these days which is it is why a connor lamb who is a prosecutor who is doing well. and democrats want no drama candidates. that there is a drama exhaustion with some voters at some point. do you buy that alfonso? >> no. i think with trump he thrives on drama. >> he does. but do voters get worn out by it. >> i don't think so. the trump loyalists if

he said they were saying who would leave first, steven miller, his speech writer or melania, his wife. a fact or reports that their relationship has soured the last few months. earlier in the day president trump made news of a different variety down at his florida estate in mar-a-lago. he would like to do what chinese president xi jinping did and get rid of term lamimits in his country. take a listen to what he said. >> reporter: those comments drew criticism, as well as laughs. but it's all part of president trump's love really for authoritarians while overlooking some of their human rights and other abuses. >> it's not the first time we have seen that. thank you, dan, very much. >>> cnn political analyst julian zeleny is with us now as well as cnn national security analyst samantha and cnn international correspondent will ripley. >> we are following up on the comments the president made regarding china and its leadership there. you're there. you know this is not a laughing matter. >> reporter: yeah. this is clearly, even though no official response from the chinese government, they

only people who believe in his agenda are the steven millers of the world. those are the wrong people we want in the white house. >> that makes it a happy hunting ground for journalists. >> it does. you've never had a leakyer administration. >> what does it tell you about the quality of the administration? >> there are a lot of mediocrities in the white house. >> this is a rough jury. i have to respect. i do respect this jury. it is tough and coming in in i would say in a geet attitude. they're guilty. thank you ashley parker, michael schmidt was on the phone. i thought he was on a ship to shore phone. peter baker, eugene robinson and david jolly. the legal battle between adult film star stormy daniels and donald trump. she says the nondisclosure agreement she signed isn't valid because the president didn't sign it. do trump and his attorney have a fighting chance to keep her quiet? that's ahead. plus, more new details about the russian investigation as robert mueller's investigators digging into secret meetings between trump allies in the say shell islands.

huckabee sanders who is a pathological liar to kellyanne conway who talked about alternative facts to steven miller and his white nationalism. this is nothing that should surprise us tonight one year into this administration. this president has not treated confidential information and classified information with the fidelity that past presidents have. and at the end of the day, on a day when we are facing new threats from russia, when we are facing evolving threats from north korea, facing an evolving middle east crisis, we have a president who does not understand the significance of the powers he holds as commander in chief. >> david's talking about carelessness and carelessness obviously was the critique you saw from the president there. there's also the question from jared kushner if there was something more than carelessness. marcy wheeler is a national security journalist and wrote this piece, mueller appears to be assessing whether kushner was actually serving the interests of his family and foreign governments. do you think he has criminal exposure at this moment? >> i think he has a lot of

panetta just said, serious moment, just sitting around the conference table with jared kushner and steven millert people who really know what's going on. >> the stakes are enormous, the stakes right now on the korean peninsula, nuclear tension major crisis. >> absolutely. you have to imagine there is going to be a great steel of sta teeingic president on the president not only how does he respond, but if there is a meeting at some time in the future, how does the president address that. leon panetta was talking how important it is for the president to have firm talking points, thought out talking points going into any meeting with kim jong-un in north korea. and this president is not someone who sticks to talking points. that's something he's troubled with in meetings with republican leaders of congress. you have to imagine it would be incredibly difficult for him to do that in a meeting like this. >> only moments away from now. we'll stand by for that. we'll be right back. e grandpa. and if you have heart failure, entrusting your heart to entresto may help. entresto is a heart failure medicine

my reaction just on a joke level, i don't think it makes a ton of sense because no one things steven millerthe white house, so where's the joke? >> fair enough. >> stronger reaction is as a person, one of the things that when we were writing jokes for president obama, we would only write jokes that included michelle obama if it was making the president the butt of the joke, not because it was a political strategy, but because he's a decent human being and that's what you do to a person who's there, you've asked to be there, they are the person you love and you have them there to watch you deliver a comedy monologue. you don't humiliate them in public. that's the same thing any of us would do with our significant other. as a piece of behavior it's pretty gross and as a joke it wasn't that much better. >> jason, i'll read one more to you. fair points overall. another one about jared kushner, jason, before i get started i want to apologize for arriving a little bit late. you know, we were late tonight because jared could not get through security. they are making light of the fact that jared ku

would see sort of more of the old hands, people who have been there from the beginning, folks like steven miller and sarah huckabee sanders hay would be stepping in -- they would be stepping in here. but look right now there are reports that jared and ivanka are being pushed out by kelly even at the president's behest. we don't know if those are true or not. if you are jared or ivanka you have to be looking around for allies. we've already seen hope hicks leave. so they don't have allies at a moment they desperately need them. connell: another question to get even further ahead of ourselves, when you are having a speculative conversation like that, but the other request is once you get to that point, who comes next? i mean who replaces some of these people that leave? is it kind of a brain drain or talent search? is that a real problem do you think this administration faces for the rest of the year and further on than that? >> we have definitely seen significant attrition coming out of the west wing. a lot of folks have hung it up after a year for one reason or another. connell: yeah. >> what we

steven miller. keep that on your agenda. he went on to say there are others who are believed to have known about the trump tower meeting prior to it taking place who have asked to meet with the house intelligence committee but have not yet done so. >>> there is another scandal rocking the administration back home. the domestic scandal facing this white house involves allegations of an extramarital affair and hush money and a secret restraining order but it is real legal and potential implications. so come with me and let's follow the money on this discussion. this all revolves around the alleged relationship between then businessman and reality tv star donald trump and adult film actress stormy daniels. these two allegedly engaged in an affair in 2006, shortly after melania trump gave birth to the son barron and nbc news that the president's personal lawyer michael cohen obtained a restraining order in arbitration telling daniels -- that is not her real name -- but she could face legal penalties if she speaks about the relat

and steven miller is described by hard conservatives like lindsey graham as being outside of the mainstream of normal thought. peter navarro, who has spearheaded this tariff idea is described as whacka do but some people. well outside of the mainstream. whether you like gary cohn, some people thought he was a democrat or represented republican establishment views. he was well within the mainstream but these people are being purged from the white house. >> what is striking is not only the chaos and dysfunction which is at historic levels but what i really am struck by is just the level of incompetence almost beyond belief. donald trump is not the first president to come into office full of uberis thinking he was the smartest guy in the room and intoxicated by political victory. most presidents get over that. most figure out there is a difference between campaigning, which is demonizing and dividing and governing. which is building coalition and getting stuff done. >> sadly they are quite opposite. they are not the same thing. >> and this president after a year has shown no evidence that he u

kellyanne conway, steven miller.hat, it's a new set of people. >> katie, thank you as always. you can read it on nbc news.com. so much more to get to this morning from this grab bag of news. big developments from big players in the trump white house. packed 8:00 a.m. hour is just moments away. stay with us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ 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. ybut today, you're ready to try something new. son: "dad?" son: "mom would be proud." with blue apron, any night is a chance to see what cooking can do. at bp, everyone on an offshore rig depends on one another. that's why entire teams train together in simulators, to know exactly what to do before they have to do it. because safety is never being satisfied. and always working to be better. hesumatra reserve told in the time it takes to brew your cup. let's g

steven miller, is still embedded in the white house and writing donald trump's speeches and policy.e is an eidealogue. b b what would happen if donald trump fired him? >> they said, if you fire sessions, we have a disaster times ten compared to thome. you are knocking everyone down on what appears to be destruction. we have so much turmoil. we have seen nothing get done. we just talked about, what do we do against russia moving forward? there is no plan. i think jason is right. the idealogue pursuing his agenda makes me very nervous. >> you have a special counsel examining trump's apparent efforts to oust session. people telling the post a key area of interest is one of those efforts. >> for those horrified by jeff session's entire world view, he seems to be the thing, he and rod rosenstein, that are standing between the u.s. and a complete constitutional crisis regarding the mueller probe. >> if donald trump says, i'm just going to fire jeff sessions, we don't know who he could pick next. we have no idea how the department of justice will respond. we don't know if jeff sessions bei

he mentioned it's a long list, rings priebus, steven miller, k.t.arland, sean spicer, kellyanne conway, family members, on and on and on. let me tell you who this shrill for russia doesn't want. he doesn't want hillary clinton. he didn't say we should subpoena hillary clinton even though it was the hillary clinton campaign that laundered money through a law firm in this fusion g.p.s. to do, what? to corroborate and collude with the russians with their phony dossier. why is that that, mr. schiff? sings we know they colluded. he didn't ask the former head of the d.j. where that that money come from the money they laundered through that law firm to fusion gps to the russians. that's something he doesn't want to talk about. steve: 21 page document that mr. schiff has put out. that's going to be the road map that the democrats are going to follow right up to the election. brian: right. my hope is in two weeks we get something from the senate which will be a little bit less partisan and then soon robert mueller, dare i say, wrap things up which would marg

there was no one doing anything except for jared kushner and steven miller. >> they are still there.the tariffs? >> it sounds like nothing but they have the power to do something. the president is not going to take away his own authority. he said congress has the final say. let's use some partisan scrambling here. >> it will be embarrassing for those who have taken such a hard stance on tariffs. they don't believe they could do anything legislatively. put the tariffs in place and put it back afterwards once he is calmed down and try to get them to walk them back. >> they don't believe they can change his mind at this point. he wants to do it on on the gary cohn front, i just got an e-mail from somebody who said this loss is different and it's going to hurt. >> wow. brian, there are some people that have been saying, you know, it's just trump being trump, he was just blowing off steam, he may not even follow through with it at the end of the day. a lot of people lost a lot of money on wall street yesterday. but more importantly, maybe you can speak to this from london, it seems that e

check the president's power, barring stalin, calling the press the enemy of the people or having steven milleralk show saying the president's authority is not to be questioned, if he hadn't questioned federal judges that ruled against him, republican federal judges that ruled on against him suggesting that they didn't have the authority, perhaps then the comments like this would just pass by. but the man is clearly not joking. even if people in the room were laughing nervously, this is a man who, even his allies on capitol hill will admit he does not have respect for constitutional norms because he does not understand constitutional norms. >> that's right. sometimes, look, maybe he was joking a little bit, but sometimes jokes reveal a real truth. and the truth about his view of the presidency, of the constitution, of the rule of law is that he is first and foremost above all of those. he has no respect for the other branches of government, for judges, as you point out, for even people inside his own executive branch that try to check his power. and it's not just that he's -- you know, people w

steven breyer said they use these to train miller.ot a medical expert but i know who is and it's not the people the video gamers put out. you need to know more about the case. the data is so overwhelming. when i was a kid nobody buckled seat belt all just fine. the seat belt unbuckled died. but all the ones that died -- >> laura: kids have predispositions to this. >> yeah. >> laura: maybe they have a trigger inside of them, they steep themselves. >> one more ingredient to it great book inside the mind of a teen killer. the new factor in every single indicates, the new factor, the fact that violent crime is down is not true. >> laura: are they using these in army ranger training do they do simulation. >> we do it with law enforcement and video training. you don't see it in ranger school but integral part of our training make killing response part of training. we have to do it. healthy people have to be trained to do and the video games do the same things to the kids. >> laura: ben, what i think about this, science or not, for young chi