executive tim o'brien and tasha bertran and our assistant general and washington post columnist, harry littman. everyone thank you for being here. tom, do we know if the new york a.g. or the manhattan d.a. are looking into any of these allegations that lanny davis suggested they look into. >> most of what mr. davis described on msnbc have been laid out in court on documents to last august and detailing in that ma michael cohen pleaded guilty of the kind of the structure of the payment where it came from. the checks is certainly something helpful to look at. we get specifics with respect to the date as you reference, katy. as far as these payments occurring and this involving the trump campaign or the candidate himself. michael cohen directly implicated the president in that. since this is already public and the district attorney's office and the attorney general's office would already have the

emily: tim o'brien joining us now as well. m, of course, you have reported on the president extensively and even before he was president. this whole investigation is something that has become of great interest for the president, even when not asked questions about it, he is talking about this investigation. is going toimagine the presidents had right now personally? tim: i am not sure. i think this explains why he has been tweeting so actively and aggressively over the past week. he has tended historically to get engaged with twitter when things are coming down the line legally. we now know that this probably explains a lot of his tweeting since last monday. i don't think anyone can say anything definitively until we know the contents of the report. i think that will take more time than i think people have anticipated. bill barr will have to make a decision about how much of this is publicly available in terms of releasing it. national security and legal concerns will inform that decision. i think members of congress will want

still with us, tim o'brien, david jolly. so, tim, we've been talking about this moment that may arrive tomorrow. for all we know trump may be expecting a guy named veto. but how consequential will this be? after all, it's the republican u.s. senate? >> well, i think it's actually a seminole moment because it's the first time we're seeing his own party standing up on something extremely important to him and saying no. and i think one of the stories thus far in the trump administration is where has the gop been around reigning trump in when he's actually not done good conservative things around policy or his public statements? they've been absent. and i think part of this is an obvious struggle inside the party itself between the populist wing and traditional wing. but at some point the party has to take a stand on what they think the governance is. he's reaching into congress and essentially taking the power of the purse out of their hands. and that's a core constitutional principle that should remain with the congress. again,

and tim o'brien, executive editor of bloomberg. an msnbc contributor. he's been reporting on donald trump literally for decades. he wrote a book about donald trump that got him sued by donald trump and tim o'brien won that lawsuit. donny, the checks. seeing this change where you have -- you go from the two signatures of allen weissleberg and donald trump jr. and suddenly no one's willing to sign these checks anymore after a special prosecutor's announced and we see one signature on the checks, donald trump. >> yeah. i think you lay it out perfectly. and i think what's interesting is that weissleberg, and we talked last time tim and i were on, about how he's going to be such a key figure. he was the guy doing everything. so it's fascinating that all of a sudden trump is signing his own checks. and one other thing about trump and checks. trump does not like to pay money. people know who work for trump in new york over the years. >> yeah. >> very hard to collect for anything. here now all of a sudden donald trump amidst his daily presidential routines is w

tim o'brien and michael steele remain with us. remember moon ms.s and the expression dark side of the moon because they would pass on the dark side of the moon and lose communications with the mother planet. i've been saying once this mueller report is over o, we may be in for dark side of the moon with just house democrats to make up the absence of noise. what is this president, who you have written about and chronicled so closely going to be like? >> i think he's go to be a lot like he's been this past week. he's existing in the same void that the rest of the country is. there's been a lot of anticipation about when will the mueller report land and what will it contain? there's a lot of loose speculation on that. even when with it does land, bill barr doesn't have to do anything. >> no time constraints. >> i suspect adam schiff and jerry nadler aren't going to let him sit on it too long. and there's going to be another round of speculation and every time president trump fills that void by las out. and trump using these moments a

tim o'brien is joining us.column, the time that donald trump filed a huge insurance claim. give us the details on why this is true insight into what is coming next. hurricanes came through florida in 2005, donald trump has a resort there and he filed and received about $18.3 million in insurance. which is small portion of that went back into his resort itself. he was asked about this in litigation and he could not say whether or not the property had been damaged. and other reporters who went there to look at the property said there were no signs of real damage, so the question was what were the insurance proceeds for, that was a lot of money coming into his pocket that appeared to be used for something other than repairing his resort. vonnie: the reason this is important, first of all the president said he hadn't reviewed any of this and did not know much about it -- he might've been allowed to handle the money that way. letters, they span a huge variety of business dealings, of donald trump's organization and

tim o'brien is executive editor of "bloomberg opinion". i want to start with phil. know we've all been overwhelmed by the mueller report four-page summary from barr that there was no crime that he can find by a reasonable doubt. imagine if the history books are closed on this and it says trump had a lot of dealings back and forth with the russian oligarchs and putin, he was offering oplot -- much better u.s. policy on sanctions on everything else. oh, he's going to back them on their grab of ukrain or grab for ukrain. and they couldn't prove criminality and that's the end of the conversation. it seems some of the republican party would say wait a minute, do i agree with adam schiff who says is this okay the president was playing ball, to use an american phrase. you do this, i'll do that? is this story over becausia can't prove an actual crime in the courts? >> the story's not over because mueller, according to the letter from bill barr saying he didn't have enough evidence to charge a crime here. but that doesn't mean no evidence exists. and we can surmise there mus

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>> still with us, tim o'brien and rick wilson as the president almost as if watching rick was quoting rick back to rick. that was from tonight's rally and, rick, there was this on health care. we'll talk about this on the other side. >> we have a chance of killing obamacare. we almost did it but somebody unfortunately surprised us with thumbs down, but we'll do it a different way. i said it the other day, the republican party will become the party of great health care. it's good. it's important. >> so note buried in the middle there, nice drive-by hit on john mccain. rick, what is going on with -- this rattled a lot of republicans this week with the president raising health care again. we are 19 months away from the entire house of representatives being up for election. >> every republican recognized after the polling came out -- before the 2018 elections the decision to go after repealing obamacare had reached its selling point. it was no longer the popular political move. only by the miracle of trump could it become popular with american voters but everybody and every poll, every fo

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tim o'brien is the executive editor at bloomberg opinion.l us the story, why is this president -- it may be a rational reason for this, crazy like a fox reason. does he hear the foot step final report coming and he's trying to put out the word in his crazy way that everything that is catching him in the act of collusion, obstruction, whatever, is all part of a conspiracy to get him from the time he was born? that's basically what he's pushing. your thoughts? >> as you noted in the top of the program, chris, everything old is new again. this is not new behavior by the president. he's been trying to undermine the integrity of the investigation of the people prosecuting it since it began. and i think it's because he's concerned about the possible outcomes that all of this entails to his family, his business, his administration, the transition team, the inauguration. there's not any part of his life as a politician or businessman that this investigation doesn't touch. typically when he's gone on a spree on twitter, slagging everyone in the inves

executive editor for bloomberg opinion tim o'brien's back and anna palmer, senior washington correspondent for politico. joyce vance, i have to start with you and picture coming into focus from folks like yourself who are helping us understand that a nonconclusion around obstruction does not mean that there was not sufficient evidence of obstructive conduct on the part of the president. >> you know, it's hard to foe what it means, nicolle. and that's why it's so important that the department of justice release as much of special counsel mueller's report as they can, because there's no way for the public to have confidence or to understand what's going on. for bob mueller to take this extraordinary step and say he's not making a charging decision, even though the evidence doesn't exonerate the president, that leaves more questions open than it answers. certainly makes it incumbent upon congress to thoroughly investigate this matter. >> joyce, let me ask you about this flashpoint. mark carollo, maybe not known outside the close mueller watchers in conservative legal circles, he came with may

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>> literally almost nothing. >> is that possibly true, tim o'brien? can that be true? >> no, it's not possibly true. donald, jr., and ivanka got a tour of moscow from felix sater prior to the deal being considered when they were looking for sites to develop. >> remind us who felix is. >> he has organized crime ties. he's a career criminal. >> an ininformant. >> on mob activities in the eastern district of new york. he's a classic thug. he had an office two floors beneath president trump's with a company called bay rock. he went up regularly during the week to talk to trump about deals. >> right. >> the people at the trump organization he spent the most time talking to were ivanka and don, jr., according to other people at bay rock whom i have interviewed. the idea that ivanka is out of the loop is silly. she was on air force one the night the trump team was trying to figure out how to respond to the "new york times" report about the june 2016 meeting in which russians came to trump tower to talk about having dirt on hillary clinton. her story is she took an ambien and

tim o'brien is back with me.aul butler, federal prosecutors and msnbc legal analysts. cynthia, one of the challenges people had with the outcome yesterday was this nonindictment decision. the decision not to indict donald trump, donald trump, jr., ivanka trump, jared kushner, the people who have been players in the muellergate situation. ben wittis wrote on friday that some of the things we know that there is a report, some kind of report as barr describes it quoting the relevant regulation, confidential report describing the prosecution or decisions he reached about the document we know little. barr said he's reviewing the document and may be in a position to advise congress of the conclusions as soon as this weekend. can you explain it in plain english for us? >> first of all, there is a basic form at justice for these decisions. these are the facts. this is the relevant law we looked at. this is who we looked at. these are the defenses and this is the conclusion. >> right. >> if mueller did that it's probably

the tim o'brien is to my right. ir to assume these are not above board, the way that the president was articulating how much money, what his assets were? >> right. we could almost call them comic books. one, at one point, when i was working on the book, i walked over to his office from the "new york times" and met with his accountant who has recently abobeen in the cross hairs of investigators. so we sat down in a conference room and allen has a yellow legal pad out. and he's just going through it on a line by line basis how much all of the trump assets are worth. and they're telling me it's going the add up to $6 billion. we get done with this exercise and it only adds up to 5 billion. and i say, allen, there's $1 billion missing here. and he looks and he says, i'm going to go back to my office and find that other billion. that's the way these guys roll. >> i love it. >> if they can just open a drawer, find a billion here, a billion there. the traction he got out of this was twofold. one, it kept him out of the medi

vonnie: our thanks to tim o'brien. a wonderful column today on "bloomberg opinion."turn to another of those. u.k. prime minister theresa may's cabinet is reportedly pushing her to name a date she will step down ahead of critical votes tonight in the house of commons, including an attempt for parliament to seize control of the proceedings. we are joined now by the editor for bloomberg opinion. good afternoon. we are going to get a vote tonight, 10:00 p.m., which could allow parliament to take control of the process and would lead to indicative votes. is this going to happen, and how is it going to play out? reporter: both sides have promised indicative votes. the government and parliament provide theey will opportunity to vote on options, but indicative votes can be done various ways. you could have a process of elimination which could then be subject to a lot of tactical voting. it will be harder to find the will of parliament that way. or, as some mps are promoting, you could have them ranked. to the first question we are going to hopefully get the answer to tonight

we are lucky that reporter is tim o'brien. he is with us this morning.ember the back and forth whether robert mueller would insist on an interview with the president of the united states. that never materialized and a lingering question as we await the full mueller report. that is why. in that is something phil rucker took a look at. he will join us on "up" as well. >> so am i. i'll be watching. thank you, david. >>> coming up next, oac town hall and the moment she scolded an audience member. the big moment that garnered a headline. the big moment that garnered a headline oh my dr p drop ♪ ♪ make u say oh my god my drop drop ♪ ♪ make you're jaw drop make u say oh my god ♪ ♪ and you never felt this type of emotion ♪ ♪ make you're jaw drop drop say oh my drop drop drop ♪ ♪ make u say oh my god my drop drop ♪ ♪ make you're jaw drop make u say oh my god ♪ (driver) relax, it's just a bug. that's not a bug, that's not a bug! (burke) hit and drone. seen it, covered it. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-b

attorney, bloomberg executive editor from bloomberg opinion, tim o'brien's back. heather mcgee, senior distinguished fellow at the public advocacy group, and former senator claire mccaskill joins us for the very first time at the table. so excited you're here. >> great to be here, nicolle. let's have some fun. >> i think fun will be had. and in washington if he's here, it's always fun, michael steele is back, all lucky for us, msnbc contributors. mimi, let me start with you and what we should expect. what do we not know? we know that they view manafort's contacts with a russian-aligned associate as being at the center of the special counsel's probe into russian collusion. we know they view him as someone likely to commit crimes if he were not in prison, and we know he is so far the one individual to have entered into a cooperation agreement and blown it up himself by lying while signed up as a cooperating witness. >> look, i think there's a lot we don't know about manafort, and hopefully we will find out, although i don't think we'll find it out today in this sent

. >>> thanks to our guests for sticking around with us, tim o'brien and michael steele remain with usose of us who comb gray hair remember the moon missions and the expression "dark side of the moon" because they would pass along the dark side of the moon and lose communications with the mother planet. i've been saying that once this mueller report is over at justice, we may be in for a month of more of the dark side of the moon, crickets, nothing, with just house democrats to make up the absence of noise. what is this president, who you have written about and chronicled to closely going to be like during that? >> he's going to be a lot like he's been this last week. i think, you know, he's existing in the same void that the rest of the country is. there's been a lot of anticipation about when will the mueller report end, and what will it contain. and no one really knows. there's a lot of loose speculation on that. even when it does land, bill barr didn't doesn't have to do anything with it. >> no time constraints. >> i imagine they're not going to let him sit on it very long, but the

ya michal sin door, tim o'brien, executive editor of bloomberg opinion and eddie claude prince tore university professor, carolyn poe liz zi currently representing george papadopoulos. yamiche will, senator graham says this report is not going to go there before it's made public. does this mean the administration is not going to try to block any part of this with executive privilege? >> well, the president at the beginning of this said he thought that the report should be made public but that was before he realized that he was cleared on the collusion charge and than mueller had punted on the issue of obstruction of justice. since then sarah sanders las said maybe there are issues of executive privilege and said maybe we need to try to protect the presidency and the sources by not making this report public. so what you see there is the president still saying yeah, i'm okay with it if it's okay with barr but in reality the white house is already hinting they're willing to walk back the president's initial claims. the sources i've been talking to in the white house say they haven't seen the muel

. >>> thanks to our guests for sticking around with us, tim o'brien and michael steele remain with us side of the moon" because they would pass along the dark side of the moon and lose communications with the mother planet. i've been saying that once this mueller report is over at justice, we may be in for a month of more of the dark side of the moon, crickets, nothing, with just house democrats to make up the absence of noise. what is this president, who you have written about and chronicled to closely going to be like during that? >> he's going to be a lot like he's been this last week. i think, you know, he's existing in the same void that the rest of the country is. there's been a lot of anticipation about when will the mueller report end, and what will it contain. and no one really knows. there's a lot of loose speculation on that. even when it does land, bill barr didn't doesn't have to do anything with it. >> no time straighteconstraints >> i imagine they're not going to let him sit on it very long, but there's going to be another round ever speculation. and every time that hap

figliuzzi, former fbi assistant director for counterintelligence, bloomberg opinion executive editor tim o'brien and ring stengel, former undersecretary of state for federal diplomacy at the table. all, lucky for us, msnbc contributors. let me start with you, chuck rosenberg. i'm beginning to think we got it wrong again when it comes to special counsel mueller in that what may be happening is less than a grand finale and more of like a relay race, handing off bataans to various other jurisdictions. is that possible? >> very possible. in fact several relay races. the report he's writing is important because of what he was asked to do to examine russian interference in our election is important. but there's a lot of other stuff going on, nicolle, including the southern district of new york. even when robert mueller and his team finish their report, i am -- and i'm keenly interested in reading it, i am just as keenly focused on federal prosecutors in manhattan, what they're doing. remember, they're not cabined in the same way. they can look broadly and deeply at all sorts of financial misconduct. >

joining me charlie sykes, joe hag hagan, mark thompson, and tim o'brien. joe, i have to go to you first. you visited beto in texas. you spent time with him and his family. i saw him for the first time just a month ago when he sat down with oprah and me and the rest of the people in the audience thought wow, this guy has this dynamic positive energy. did he have it behind closed doors? >> absolutely. in fact it was a little bit jarring for me having -- i've met politicians in my life and there is always a bit of a polle tesch shan thing goi politician thing going on. he was just there on a sunday afternoon, invited me in, did not expect to see me, his guard was down. and he was real. and that was a little bit -- there is a kind of charisma to that, a guy who can be himself without worrying about it. he is out on a high wire, but he likes to have the camera on him and he can be himself. his power over social media is that he can turn the camera on to himself for 36 hours as he once did during a road trip and not worry about, you know, making a mistake. >> is

the tim o'brien would say that is really shocking. he should be embarrassed. that is just dumb.n with gayle king. it was emotional interview. we played over last couple days some of that. this morning cbs airing some of his girlfriends speaking out. listen to this, judge. >> when i was 17, my parents were actually making me, trying me to get me to take photos with him. take sexual videos with him. both of our parents are trying to get money to scam. i'm crying, because you guys don't know the truth. you believe [bleep] is what he is saying this is [bleep] lies for money. steve: what do you think? >> i think these two young women are very connected to r. kelly. they believe in him. they said they love him. and that they didn't have relations with him when they were, you know, in that age group when he could be prosecuted. and they believe in him. very angry with their parents. steve: evidently he was coughing behind the scenes. sneakses in on interview, tries to end the interview. look, if i'm the prosecutor i can't wait to get r. kelly on the stand. this guy will flip out on two

chair, charges that trump will not be able to pardon manafort out of temperature become with me tim o'briennd also this will make him laugh too before the segment is over. and the no collusion thing is so strange that they keep saying it, it is like a nonsequitur. judge amy berman jackson, this is what she said. the no collusion refrain that run through the entire defense memo is unrelated to the matters at hand. so after she said that, then they said no collusion. what is going on? >> well, i wish i was wearing y liar liar pants on fire pen because that's what it is. he should be disbarred for that or censured because he clearly went out and said the exact opposite of what the judge had said. he isn't on trial for murder. he isn't on trial for rape. so you don't go out there and say there is no rape or collusion because it has nothing to do with the charges against him. he was charged with bank and financial crimes. he was charged with other things that had nothing to do with collusion. >> so let's put them up. this is what he was charged with. 16 counts -- this is the manhattan trial, sor

o'brien. then the upgrade of the a.i. chief to the executive management team and eddie que, probably the most powerful executive after tim cook, will get most of the engineering resources and that says that services seem to be key for the company going forward. liz: he's the man. we know that. i agree with you on that. i think it's interesting to hear from that shareholder. she said she's owned it for a long time and that could mean she got in at $17. who knows. back in the late '90s. susan: that would be good. it was above $200 last year, too. let's hope it gets back up there. liz: exactly. good to see you, susan li. we are watching apple but also watching another "a." airlines hitting turbulence. with the closing bell ringing in 47 minutes, and the dow up 99 points, american and delta airlines shares running into turbulence in this final hour of trade, after deutsche bank grabbed the controls and downgraded both to hold. global economic factors could slow demand and make the carriers a risky pick. guess what else got swamped? southwest and united continental. everybody's down, anywhere from under 1% to 2.33%, 3%. >>> u

o'brien. we have the a.i. chief being upgraded to executive management team. arguably the most powerful executive after tim q. he will get more engineering resources overseer for apple. that is the future of the company to keep you stuck and obsessed with your iphone. looks like revenue should be up to $62 billion from services. when i talk about services itunes apple tv and the rest that should be growing. revenue growth for apple next five years. but the main agenda i want to point this out, voting in the board, nominees, eight nominees, bob iger, tim cook, al gore. should be voted in. that is the expectation. back to you. stuart: susan li in coupe -- cupertino. thank you very much indeed. i want to bring in gene munster. gene, will the services business get the stock out of the rut? >> the simple answer is no, in itself it won't but i think this team about investors shifting their view, not just the service sector, only 15% of the revenue growing nicely, call it 20%, this idea of apple becoming more of a staple of tech will get the stock out of its rut. let me illuminate that, this idea, instead of buyi