[cheers and applause] president trump: remember those saying, we have breaking news, donald trump has the state of michigan. michigan, how did that happen? donald trump has won the state of wisconsin, whoa! but earlier in the evening, remember florida, north carolina, south carolina, pennsylvania, all the way up, we ran up the east coast. and you know, the republicans have a tremendous disadvantage in the electoral college, you know that. tremendous disadvantage and to run the whole east coast and then you go with iowa, ohio and all of the different states, it was a great evening, one that a lot of people will never forget. a lot of people. [applause] president trump: not going to forget that evening. and remember they said, there is no path to 270. for months i was hearing that. you know, they are trying to suppress the vote and people are saying i like trump and he loves the second amendment and loves the n.r.a., but let's go to the movies because we can't win because they are trying to suppress the vote. i heard 100 times, there is no route, there is no route to 270. nd we ended up

trump: the n.r.a.tects in our capitals and legislative houses the freedoms that our service members have won for us on those incredible battlefields and has been a tough fight against those who would go so far as to ban private gun ownership entirely. but i am here to deliver you good news. and i can tell you that wayne and chris have been fighting with me long and hard to make sure that we were with you today, not somebody else with an empty podium because believe me, the podium would have been empty. they fought long and hard and i think you folks cannot think -- think them enough. they were with us all the way, right from the beginning. [applause] pres. trump: we have news that you have been waiting for for a long time. the eight year assault on your second amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: you have a true friend and champion in the white house. no longer will federal agencies be coming after law-abiding gun owners. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: n

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>> this is a division between trump supporters and even trump opponents.eople cannot decide if he has a plan, if he has some master plan and master strategy and he's this brilliant tactician or if he really is making it up on the fly. you know, that is something that really is quite a sticking point. people just can't figure out, is he -- among opponents they're asking is he crazy or crazy like a fox? the one trait that all the voters i talked to -- this was surprising because it really was the one universal pick that people agreeupon. they really are ready for this president to stop twting. even trump supporters feel the tweets are destabilizing, especially when it comes to foreign policy, and they would like to see him put down his twitter and to not be tweeting all the time. >> isn't that so funny, to think about -- it's a great social media tool, but i guess the juvenile aspect that it casts on the president, that people think this is a bad reflection on the way he communicates the things that he says about really important issues. certainly what we ha

host: walter, before you go, among the comments from the trump family about president trump's taxes, is there is quote to the pittsburgh tribute from president trump's oldest son, he said releasing the president's return which he said would cover 12,000 pages would distract from his father's message. what do you think about his explanation? caller: the only message that he has is hate. hate and separation, divide and conquer. it's a republican playbook. but the idea that that clown -- go hunt some more endangered species because they are no geniuses. we did not elect iyanla. we did not elect eric. we did not elect these guys to be the new kennedys, if i might facetiously say. the idea that this guy is a fraud. donald trump is not a successful businessman and the russian connections are embedded in those 12,000 pages. host: randy is next from louisiana and an independent. good morning. caller: good morning. thanks for taking my call. well, i got my own problems with taxes much less donald trump. he's got his own problems. and everybody that sits there and jumps up and down about trump

but trump -- that all said, trump makes it even worse.octrinebringing in a and a group of people who are in the process of and are definitely going to commit even more killings of civilians, even more aggression. and that is why it was one of many reasons why it was such a catastrophe that trump and the radical right republicans won him a because it will make it even worse. and the argument you hear going around, especially in some circles on the left, oh, they're all that, they are equally bad, it is insane. given thatponsible now even more people are going to suffer as a result. amy: award-winning investigative journalist allan nairn. we will be back with him in a moment as he discusses his assessment of the trump presidency. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we continue our conversation with award-winning investigative journalist allan nairn, i asked him to talk more about his assessment of the opening months of the trump presidency. >> it is not j

in the trump era.a group on the resistance side and now we'll hear from young activists who say they are energized by one of the biggest political upsets in history. they saw a new leader who could change our politics. christen tate, author of government gone wild. ellie, a future law student who took a semester off school to be a traveling aide on the trump campaign. paul anthony, leader of the new york state young republicans and nicole hart. new events chair of the new york state young republicans. thank you all for being here. let me start out by asking you starting on this side, what is the best thing you think donald trump has done so far as president from a young american perspective? >> so far i would say the most important thing he has done is to order the start of the wall. i think that's very important to secure our border. we need to protect our citizens, and we need to know who is coming in and out of the country. >> yeah. i think he has done the best job in getting people more involved in

no to mexico paying for the trump wall. the president of mexico refused to even discuss it and canceled a trip to washington to meet with the president of the united states. the president of mexico humiliated the president of the united states over a wall. then last week, the trump administration insisted that at least a billion dollars in funding for the wall be included in the spending bill that congress must pass this week. the president's budget director mick mulvaney threatened his former friends in the house of representatives telling them they absolutely had to do it, but republicans cannot pass that spending bill without democratic support in the senate and the democrats said no to the wall. >> i'll caution, if the administration insists on poison pill riders or extraneous funding requests, then our talks could get sidetracked. particularly if the administration demands funding for a border wall. >> that's all it took. so what did donald trump do? did he hang tough and take the fight to chuck schumer? or did he foll

if you measure frum trump's presidency, it is trump zero. >> i also want to do a dive-in on the trump support. whatever the general public thinks, voters that went with trump are sticking by him. 96 % saying the wld voteor him again. 2% saying they regret their te. that true even as the health care proposeat would hurt places where trump voters live. especially elderly and rural americans by taking away key subsidies. >> counties that voted for you, middle class and working class counties would do far less well than more affluent counties. >> these are going to be negotiated. >> trump acknowledging, it is the same with the budget. eliminating tens of millions for rural airports, heating systems, rural farm and business grants and this headline trump budget slams west virginia. that's in newspapers throughout the state. he won there by 41 point. trump's base holding firm in their support. what do you make as someone advising hillary clinton who got more votes but lost in the key areas at this resilient support? >> i think it is not terribly surprising that his hard core base is continu

he doesn't let donald trump finish donald trump's thought. that's the most important sentence in what he just said. i thought it would be easier. i thought it was more of a -- feel free to tweet me your guesses about how he was going to finish that sentence before he decided that he shouldn't finish that sentence. whatever he was going to say, donald trump himself decided he shouldn't say it. it was against donald trump's better judgment. imagine, imagine what it had to be for donald trump to think oh, better not say that. he thought it was going to be more of a what? the president gave that interview yesterday. he knew congress would be gone less than 24 hours later, and he would be stuck with his 100 days of zero legislative accomplishments on the donald trump campaign agenda, which was supposed to be the trump presidency's first year agenda. some of it was supposed to be the trump presidency's first day agenda. but just about all of it was supposed to be the trump presidency's first 100-day agenda. a deadline that the president himself imp

i don't know if you voted for trump, but i decided to give trump a chance. i have been -- i hope you bring one of these issues of. -- these issues up. obama cannot get a partner because he was trying to get so many folks out of prison. trump because i believe he wants to change things. i just think hillary was just a crook. i was a military police officer and stuff. i just don't see which he got away with these females in the and theith these emails fbi has not been able to do anything. we have to give the management and and see what he can do -- we have to give the man a chance and see what he can do. have a blessed day. texaslet's go to houston, with pretoria. -- with victoria. caller: i feel texas with pretoria. like -- [no audio] obama did what he needed to do. if they do not shut the house down, we would have got more things done. we have to get beyond the parties right now. it is about getting people jobs and help people getting jobs right now. people need it. strokeamacare, i had a in 2009 and i cannot talk. i could not get no help. i was under age 60

how is trump doing?hey like trump even though his first actions haven't helped him. his tough immigration talk has made it harder for him to find workers to harvest his crops. and his efforts to replace obamacare which they are on. what do you like about it? >> well, i pay $88 a month for me and my wife where i was like, before obamacare coming in i was paying like 660. >> reporter: obamacare is working so well brandy feels guilty. she says she knows people can't afford their private insurance or can't get insurance at all. she's okay with trump's efforts to replace it. >> it still doesn't make sense to pay so little and still the poor people get nothing. >> reporter: you think you should pay more? >> in other words, yes. >> reporter: in birmingham, another long day for quinton, a cab driver. in the past he voted democratic. in 2016 he voted trump. >> the thing about a business man is it's action and not policy. >> reporter: black trump voters are rare in the south. only about 9%. he's even more rare he'

trump is not doing bannon's will, bannon is doing trumps will. they haven't done anything that the president hasn't talked about in the campaign. reince priebus, on the other hand represents establishment with republicans. i'm disgusted by the leaks coming out of the white house. i understand leaking. i've done a fair amount of it. but when you're leaking to the detriment of your boss and for example a white house staffer said the procedure like a clueless child. the president wearing a bathrobe in the family quarters after hours. which i would hope so because it's pretty drafty. that's not helping the boss. the trying to suck up to reporters. >> host: you think is weekly in? >> those were not trump loyalists. i fear they come from the established republicans who seem to dominate most of the washington and white house staff under reince priebus. it's detrimental. unprofessional and hurting the president. >> host: what will happen because he will have to work with establishment people in the white house with him. they could undercut the entire pre

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he then became part of the trump campaign, became part of the trump administration, the trump administration had to fire him because he didn't fully disclose these contacts with the russians. yet there seems to be no evidence that the trump administration did appropriate due diligence before bringing him into this very senior position, albeit shortly. >> first, the big why here, senator. why do you think genera flynn accepted payments from foreign govtsds after being warned not to? >> well, that goes to a lot of the questions around some of these individuals that have been affiliated with mr. trump's campaign and some with the administration. there seems to be a bit of reckless behavior. in the case of general flynn, you have not only reaching payments from russia, sitting next to vladimir putin at a dinner in moscow that you would know -- he would know that was going to be publicly reported. you've also seen that general flynn was taking payments from turkish interests as well, that only after they were exposed did he go back and retroactively register, so this is a pattern of behavior we'v

we have to see whether donald trump has a measured response. one thing about trump.abe was with him in mar-a-lago, there was a missile test then. that was the first moment i saw donald trump be slightly more measured. >>> he did not come out and react. that shows us someone around donald trump is tempering his overreacting tendencies. >> he said he had to behave about certain comments. when we think about donald trump and you say the good cop/bad cop with tillerson and trump. he gave a warning thursday. look at this. >> there is a chance we could end up having a major, major conflict with north korea. absolutely. >> this would typically send hac hackles flying up. the president of the united states with that statement. >> in a normal situation, yes. >>y? why are we reacting this way? >> the real measure of whether this was perceived to be serious by the market place is to see people streaming out of seoul. that is not happening. at least in the field no matter what donald trump may be trying to convey and the fact he is trying to say we're on the edge of war, potenti

this is donald trump. diplomatic donald trump.s is sort of the equivalent of bush's ranch for xi jinping. democratic ideals have deep roots in modern chinese history. >> which is to say china has a long tradition of democratic sentiment that bubbled up again and again over the last century. it also has a deep tradition photography.nnia throughout history, these two things have collated, at least in modern history. china has a rich tradition of democratic sentiment that keeps returning. amy: we will continue this conversation and post it online at democracynow.org. orville schell is director of the center on u.s.-china relations at the asia society and co-author of "wealth and power: china's long march to the twenty-first century." his recent article in "the wall street journal" is "china's once and future democracy." that does it for our broadcast. democracy now! is looking for feedback from people who appreciate the closed captioning. e-mail your comments to outreach@democracynow.org or mail them to democracy now! p.o. box 693 ne

trump was not among them. she kind of paused and didn't kind of go straight -- she said, okay, i support our president, but i'm going to do what's right for our district. i think that's really telling. these are the kind of districts if the house is going to end up in play in 2018, these are the kind of districts, the kind of candidates we're going to be talking about. it's not going to be those more conservative places that are foregone conclusions for donald. >> brian, one quick thing. i picked up here in this room behind me with all the reporter, if it becomes a runoff, it could be a race. as casey was saying, this is tom price's seat. democrats see this as a target. the guy, the official going after obamacare, the signature act of president obama came from this district and they want to make this whole seat a fight if it's a runoff. >> good point there. first of all, a couple of points here. to casey's point, ask former senator how tricky it is if you're asked about the guy at the top of the ticket. in thi

donald trump often appears on fox which is ironic because fox often appears on donald trump's head. donald trump said he has a great relationship with the blacks. though unless the blacks are a family of white people, i bet he's mistaken. >> oh, the memories. that's a little context for why donald trump may not be there tonight. why did he choose harrisburg, pennsylvania over washington, d.c.? the president arguing this is a place to connect with real americans. he's also using this as a chance to contrast his arguments against what he sees as a main stream media out to get him. a new op-ed hit the washington post within the last hour by the president titled in my first hundred days i ept can my promise to americans. we'll have more on that as well. jacob rascon live at the rally talking to trump supporters and we have a power panel with me in washington as well as from around the country. starting with you, jacob. what are you seeing out there at the rally and the hundred days. is it a mood that feels typical of other rallies or something different? >> reporter: the campaign, maybe

congressman elijah cummings now wants to know what the trump transition and the trump white house new about flynn's failure to properly disclose those payments and when they knew it. today, u.s. congressman cummings accused the mouwhite house of obstructing, threatening to use a subpoena to get documents. >> these guys are playing games. when you see mr. spicer, you can tell him i said that today. they're playing games. they have told us they have documents, and then they said executive privilege. then they said some of them are before the inauguration. if we cannot come to a conclusion there and get the documents, then they'll have to be subpoenaed. >> reacting to questions about flynn's failure to disclose those foreign payments, sean spicer today blamed the obama administration because flynn renewed his security clearance before trump took office. >> are you satisfied with the vetting that was done of general flynn by the transition team before he came on board as the national security adviser? >> the issue is, you know, he was issued a security clearance under the obama administra

i you out to get donald trump? covering, i started donald trump's charitable giving. the local veterans group comes up on the stage and he gives him this huge golf tournament sized check and it says donald j trump foundation on the top and make america great again on the bottom. a $100,000 check and then goes back to his rally. none of them were can i bury donald trump, that is illegal. you're not supposed to be able to use your charity to help with a political campaign. that is money that came out of the 6 million that he said he raised for veterans. that was the impetus going in. trump, but toald just get him for this thing the already told us. we were often looking for evidence that he would tell the truth and we would never find it. how close to the 6 million did he come? how much did he pump in? david: i set out thinking this would be a two or three day story. kali trump campaign manager asked where they gave the $6 million away. of course he must have given the money away. in a day, appen week or a month. after that initial promise that he was going to give the

so eric trump, or donald trump could say that the missile attack proves that donald trump is independent of vladimir putin. he could have advised donald trump to do the missile attack because he then would be able to say that or have one of his sons say that. we don't know the real motivation of that missile attack by the united states. we only know what donald trump says, and donald trump is a repeated proven pathological liar, so we don't know why that missile strike occurred. here is a bit of an interview with fox news that the network released tonight before showing it in its entirety tomorrow. >> when i see people using horrible, horrible chemical weapons, which they agreed not to use under the obama administration, but they violated it. >> they said they got rid of them. >> what i did should have been done by the obama administration a long time before i did it. and you would have had a much better, i think, syria would be a lot better off right now than it has been. >> makes sense. if you think that makes sense, remember that the same donald trump saw chemical weapons used in syri

"conflicts arise in big fortune for the trump duo. a look at ivanka trump and jared kushner. both are now senior government officials. the white house has hosted dozens of chief executives and a handful of world leaders in recent weeks and it is a rare fried crowd, one that has included the top executives of some of the world's most large automobile, pharmaceutical, tech companies. jared kushner has helped create a new office that trump is calling "the white house office of administration." and his wife still benefit financially from the real estate and investment thate and it makes clear the most powerful washington couple is walking on perilous legal and ethical ground, according to several prominent experts on the subject. that story is available online. we go to houston, texas. caller: thank you for c-span. as a mother myself, i would like to say that if one could trump, i'm sure she is a nice woman and a good mother. her kids look happy. my problem is that i don't think she is relatable to the average american woman. we have the have nothings and the have every things an

jesse: do you support what trump did. >> i don't like trump. jesse: so you are okay with a dictator gassing civilians? >> no. jesse: sow you agree with trump. >> yes. jesse: where did you hear that? >> facebook. jesse: do you know hot president of syria is? where is syria? >> on the map? >> in europe? >> africa. >> the northeast? >> like new england? >> i don't know where syria is.. jesse: where are you? >> new york city, 6th ave and 41st. jesse: this is actually 8th ave. russia is angry with the united states for launching attacks against syria. >> it's all about money. jesse: is america on russia's side or syria side. >> america's side. jesse: if trump is colluding with russia why did he strike their biggest ally. >> that was a diversion. that was the best hail mary play you will ever see in your life. jesse: does this change your opinion of donald trump? >> my opinion is pretty steady. >> i'm not a trump supporters but i respect what trump did. jesse: more information on the passenger dragged off the united flight. and "watters >> isis is ma

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trump is barely at 40%. so, yeah, that is historically the lowest we've ever seen in modern time and you can look at that and say, that is a presidency that is in some very unique and some very early peril. that is one possible interpretation here. how about another possible interpretation there? maybe is it possible that the rules have changed, or the rules are different when it comes to donald trump and what these numbers might mean? here's what i mean there. think back to the campaign. think back to the numbers we saw about his approval rating in the campaign, his numbers were historically low. it was unprecedented. we'd never seen, only 35% of people in our poll said he had the temperament to be president. less than 40% said he was qualified. only 40% had a positive opinion of him. we looked at these numbers,lect with these numbers. he did get elected president. he did win the election. he had that core group of supporters. it was just enough. he won the election. so the question becomes, what about that

so again, let's not lose sight of the big picture here, which is trump himself. >> you have donald trump who in another interview in the washington examiner who came out today called the russia story a faux story, made up. and he goes back to the democrats and the election, and using the russia story as a way they lost the election, fake news, but sally yates, who was the acting attorney general during their time when they came into the white house actually went to them, to the white house and warned them that michael flynn was a problem that he was having these dealings with russia that he was not mentioning. is i probable in your view that this is something that donald trump knew nothing about, meaning michael flynn's activities? >> i have no idea what president trump knew, but there are people high up in this administration who obviously know what is going on with the russians and are not disclosing it. and we need to get that information. all the relevant documents concerning flynn and the russians need to be turned over to congress right now. and if they are not turned over congress

you look at the trump style plings, amy cramer, the tea party activist who supports trump, they didn't go anywhere in this race. and gray, bob gray who was supposed to be the guy embracing in this race, he fell apart, so did senator purdue's candidate dan moody. all the trump republicans in this conservative district didn't really embrace trump and do well and they fell away if they were with the president. >> reporter: i asked hand el specifically whether she would improve trump on her list of conservatives that she was emulating. she ticked off a lot of names in georgia. trump was not among them. she kind of paused and said -- ok. i support our president but i'm going to do right for what's oir district. these are the kind of districts, the kind of candidates that we're going to be talking about. it's not going to be those more conservative places. roint one more quick thing. i picked up in this room behind me, this runoff, if it becomes a runoff, it could be a race. as casey was saying, this is tom price's seat. democrats see this as a target. the guy -- the official who's going aft

that's a name that can be very damaging to trump trump.e brand is anti-establishment. and yet he's going up against the genuine anti-establishment members of his own party. if that sticks that could start eroding. >> the idea that donald trump is coming in and cleaning up washington. if now, he allows the tea party to pull the same act on him as they did on eric cantor, saying, no, he's the swamp. we're the ones draining the swamp. doesn't he place himself in a completely untenable position when he wants to do other things like tax cuts? >> yeah, he's put himself in a very difficult position. one of the things we should look at is really who has the leverage and does the freedom caucus have any reason to truly fear donald trump. it was donald trump as the negotiations were going on that capitulated and agreed to the approached health care plan that would drop essential benefits as a way to appease the freedom caucus, and the freedom caucus said we're not down with the program. we're not going to vote for this. he showed his cards, they sme

first trump put him in the epa.icited advice so often that after just four weeks on the job, epa chief pruitt shut him out of many staff meetings according to two senior administration officials who talked to "the washington post." so trump found don benton a new job, putting him in charge of administering the military draft if it's ever needed. he was quietly sworn in yesterday despite what "the seattle times" called his almost perfect track record of failure and interpersonal conflict often resulting in legal or disciplinary action at every public position he's held. >>> as far as my taxes are for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...w love. ensure. always be you. thithis is the new new york.e? think again. we are building new airports all across the state. new roads and bridges. new mass transit. new business friendly environment. new lower taxes. and new university partnerships to grow the businesses of tomorrow today. learn more at esd.ny.gov hi! hey! i've made plans for later in case this date do

and spying on then candidate trump and then president elect trump.nt on for a long time. >> there really is no discuss. andrew mccarthy talks about, who are the investigative arms? if someone were investigating a russian time, would it be the white house doing the investigation? would bit susan rice job? no, it would be the fbi, the nsa or the cia, but it would in no world be susan rice's job. so i think it's pretty important that we understand that millions of americans are caught up in this web of intelligence collection. millions of americans' phone calls are caught up. we can't allow them to look at americans' phone calls without a warrant just because they disagree with us politically. this is very, very dangerous to our republic. >> sean: i really agree. because the issue of privacy. then america becomes a police state. if private confidential information is being revealed and unmasked and leaked, then there is no such thing as privacy. >> i have been asking for reforms to this for a long time. these are the back door searchs many of us are con

trump has said is the policy.e will not stand by like the previous administrations and allow for the north koreans to behave badly. and i think it's being made very clear by the syria action, the dropping of the moab yesterday in afghanistan, that military forces on the table. >> martha: we have been shifting into the region, marked, and you combine that with the increased dialogue between xi of china and president president trump where we have not seen them get in the past. that has to have north korea sitting up and paying attention. the question is how do they respond? >> this is why i'm surprised, actually. president trump made some inroads with the chinese. i'd rather see him capitalize on that and to what the last couple of ministrations haven't been able to do, and that is for the chinese to leverage for the north koreans a little bit. i'm concerned about the bellicose language -- i'm never concerned about the north korean bellicose language in terms of what they are saying. i mean, they are a dangerous cou

trump: we are fighting the fake news. sharyl: yet there seems little doubt that the media is breaking away from its traditional role when it comes to president trump. brian stelter: i get a ton of emails. sharyl: it seems like there has been an unprecedented blurring -- an accepted blurring of the lines between reporters who report the facts and those who then editorialize. howie kurtz: president trump has been obliterated because it is deemed acceptable in many quarters to say negative things about this president, to say sn word. scott thuman: le pen and macron are just the latest presidential candidates who not only are competing against each other, they are also competing against the rising threat of election tampering. are you amazed at what you see every day? the threat? how big it gets? gerome billois: yeah. the threat is growing, that is for sure. scott: what france doesn't want is what continues to plague the trump administration -- investigations and questions over influence. is this election in jeopardy of being

president trump digs coal.o unlock our country's amazing natural resources. not just coal, shale, you name it. lower energy costs more jobs, growth and more opportunity for american families and american businesses. and folks, under president donald trump, we're also going to rebuild america. if you haven't noticed it, the american people elected a builder to be president of the united states. and with his hire american/buy american strategy, we're going to give our nation the best roads, the best bridges, the best highways and airports that america has ever had. thanks to president trump, we're going to have jobs and growth and prosperity like never before. but you know, making america great again isn't just about our economy. it also means standing with those who are protecting our communities, our nation and protecting our way of life. you know, i can tell you, i'm with him every day, president trump has no higher priority than the safety and security of the american people. that's why the president every si

office, donald trump, president, sounding more like donald trump, candidate for president, serving up red meat to his base at the nra. >>> also, north korea's missile test less than 24 hours after trump says we could be in for a major, major conflict. tonight, the trump response. >>> and what may be the single biggest failure of the first 100 days. "the 11th hour" begins now. >>> good evening tonight from washington, d.c. i'm joy reid in -for-brian williams who has the night off. today was day 99 of the trump presidency. trump may have 99 problems but getting the love from his base ain't one. first up, a trip to atlanta for a speech to the national rifle association where trump the president sounded more like trump the candidate serving up that red meat to the crowd. >> november 8th. wasn't that a great evening? do you remember that evening? remember that? and remember they said there is no path to 270. for months i was hearing that. you know, they are trying to suppress the vote. i have a feeling that in the next election you are going to be swamped with candidates. it may be pocahon

trump's social media director took to twitter to summon the power of the trump train to defeet amash in a primary challenge. which might prove a bit tricky because the freedom caucus members were the original anti-government, anti-establishment outsider candidates beloved by the gop base. they specialize in primarying sitting republicans. remember former house majority leader eric cantor? poof. gone. what better way so shore up, than by publicly thwarting the most powerful person in the d.c. environment, the president? probably why amash seemeseemed seemed #unbothered, tweeted, "have merged in into #trumpestablishment, same old agenda. attack conservatives, libertarians and indpeint thinkers." joining me, kristen haglund. national republican consultant kate dawson. msnbc political contributor charlie sykes. all friends of the show. i do find it a bit strange that donald trump and his team -- i guess donald trump is trying to cast the tea party guys as the establishment, when isn't he the establishment? >> it is going to make his life very, very difficult when if comes to midterms bec

breitbart was doing trump before trump.is a reporter talking about the real risk if bannon is either sidelined or fired, and what it looks like the a base that loves breitbart. >> his approval ratings are at about 40 right now. if he kicked steve bannon out of this white house, and i'm not even going to argue policy. i'm going to say realistically, if he kicked steve bannon out of the white house, if gary cohen and dina powell continue to cend, he is going to go down to about 20%. because he is going to lose at least i would say half the base. >> he'll take a hit. >> well, if there is one thing trump doesn't mind is a fight. and i think overriding whatever might happen with -- if bannon leaves, is that to trump, trump is him. it is whatever he says. and, you know, he is a man focused on himself in so many ways. but second in importance to him is family. and family is -- he grew up running in a family business. that's really how he understands the world, how he knows how to run things. the only guy you know is going to be ar

trump in a deep hole. the worst aprufl ratings around the 100 half day mark for my president many modern times. 53% disapprove. and as you see in this chart, no other president has been underwhat e like that. the average rating since truman, 69-19. over time, the ratings drift down. they rarely, if ever, go up. right now, 53% think the president is a strong leader. nearly 6 in 10 doubt hid honesty, temperament, empathy, and judgment. 53% move he's not accomplished that much in this first three months. one big bright spot, no buyer's remorse. 96% of supporters stand by their vote. and get this, if a new election were held trump would even beat hillary clinton in the popular vote. that finding is a flashing red light for democrats. we're going the analyze their predicament today, as well. explore whether a president can governor at home when only his base gives him the benefit of the doubt. and what it means with security threats overseas. will the country stand by a controversial president if crisis hits? w

donald trump says get them out of here, and you vote for donald trump. why vote for donald trump?this is the first time i've ever confsed publicly i've ever voted for him. i've dodged the question for a few months. the alternative was unthinkable. continued presser from the federal government was squeezing us out. the big issue was water. we got no help from washington during the drought. so continuation of what we had was unthinkable. >> reporter: but trump if he takes regulation away, he's also going to take your workers away. how do you agree with that the. >> well, this is where i disagree with him. so we need a solution for the whole country where we can bring people out of the shadows so we don't have this problem. >> well, now you sound like a democrat. you're confusing me. >> well, this is messy. and the farmers aren't in lock step. you get five farmers together, you get five different opinions. so i have no problem voting for the president and disagreeing with him on trade immigration, because i think he's wrong on these issues. >> reporter: he says if the work force goes

it seems to me that the trump campaign -- the trump administration has sort of created its own circular reality here. that doesn't mean that there might not have been improper unmasking. but the fundamental issue is the fundamental issue, which is the russians and what trump did or didn't do with them. >> i think the big story is the reverse of what you said. it's actually the symbiotic partnership to it. the most aggressive print press coverage i've seen since watergate. you got your paper, "the washington post." you have "the new york times" fighting it out with huge contingents of reporters, incredible enterprise, all over the front page, maybe two or three stories a day. i've never seen such aggressiveness. i think that's the other end of leaks. they're getting this story out faster than trump's people are. that's for sure. >> also when you've got our media environment, it's so rapid-fire that once you've gotten up to speed on the story that broke at 1:00, there's a new one at 1:30. >> last night, for example, michael flynn's going to go for immunity blew everything else out around

trump owns the mar a lago club in palm beach. the person says havi art trump. h-a-v-i art trump. okay that sounds like nonsense. almost all the time you get a tip like that it's useless. but this was the perfect situation. i googled that and immediately found a portrait of trump. - this is the famous six foot portrait? - this is another portrait. - a second portrait. - this is the second portrait. the six foot portrait we knew about already. that's the one he paid $20,000 for out of his charity. - out of foundation money. - right. i still never found that one. as a brief aside on that. i think you'll enjoy this. i get a picture of the six foot tall portrait. this was painted by a speed painter in five minutes. trump paid $20,000 for it. it's a picture of trump's face. it's sort of his normal skin tone but done in kind of a neony sort of way. we get a picture of it but we couldn't get the rights to use it. so i'm thinking okay i'll put this into google image search and it'll show me another place. maybe it's hanging on the wall in the background of somebody's prom picture or somet

. >>> good evening, welcome to "a.c. 360" and donald trump 180 today president trump making a 1 180 on so many of the statements he made during the campaign. on nato, saying it was obsolete, then and now. >> nato is obsolete, it's over 67 years old, it is, many countries doesn't cover terrorism, it covers the soviet union, which is no long never existence and nato has to be either be rejiggered, rechanged for the party. >> the secretary general and i had a productive discussion about what more nato can do in the fight against terrorism. i complained about that a long time aago and they made a chang, and now they do fight terrorism. i said it was obsolete, it's no longer obsolete. >> for the record, nato did -- china was a currency manipulator and he was going to call them out. tough talk to a lot of applause during rallies on the campaign trail. let's look then and now. >> reporter: china which has been ripping us off, the greatest abuser in the history of this country, china has been ripping us and i have many friends in china, they agree with me 100%. they can't imagine, they can't e

every chance he gets from trump hotels to trump states to trump government courses.took the opportunity to tout the dessert options offered at his $200,000 membership mar-a-lago club in palm beach, florida. as he described what he was doing at the very moment he received confirmation of the missile launch on syria last week. >> i was sitting at the table. we had finished dinner. we're now having dessert, and we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen. and president xi was enjoying it. >> look at that chocolate cake. it does look delicious. it even has his name on it. but it could be pretty risky ordering a slice if you should ever have the chance and the cash to visit mar-a-lago yourself. why? well, that's thing 2 in 60 seconds. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ termites. we're on the move. hey rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. terminix. defenders of home. and you're about in to hit 'send all' on some embarrassing gas. hey, you bought gas-x®! unlike antacids, gas-x ® relieves pressure and bloating fast. huh, crisis averted. >>> mar-a-lago has the mo

president trump: great job, jay. my administration is working every day to make it easier for manufacturers to build, hire, and grow in america. we're removing job-killing regulations and lifting the burdens on american industry like i would say have never been lifted before. we've done a lot of work over the last 60, 70 days, and i think you're seeing some real production. i think we can say this, mike -- like never before. earlier this week, i signed an executive order to end the war on coal. we had coal miners up at the office. it was an amazing scene. you had very tough, very strong, very powerful men that were crying, actually, and they were crying with happiness. and produce more american energy and more american jobs, which is how i got elected in the first place. we've created the task force in every agency to eliminate wasteful regulations. and today at 3:30 p.m., with the department of commerce, wilbur ross, who will be up, and we're signing two very powerful executive orders. that will be something very im

with trump campaign officials. and carter page is a key way, following this minow, as he swims around with these sharks chasing after him on both sides. >> we're going to talk more about this. after the break, my recent interview with the man or the minow, carl said, this hour at least, carter page, also later, what the president now calls ridiculous, he once called a campaign pledge, a new contract with america, his pledge to get a list of things done in his first 100 days. we'll take a look at that list and what the president is saying now about that list of marking the first 100 days. keeping them honest, ahead. it's league night!? 'saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico! goin' up the country. bowl without me. frank.' i'm going to get nachos. snack bar's closed. gah! ah, ah ah. ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go? ♪ ♪ i'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go? ♪ geico motorcycle, great rates for great rides. >>> our breaking news tonight saying that -- the fbi gathering evidence

how much does donald trump care? he clearly actually genuinely is fae affected by the images he is seeing out of syria. what does he do about it? does he act soon or does he lose momentum and go on to other things and move on? which sadly is the blueprint of the practice that we have seen over the past few years. >> gordon, let's talk about another crisis. north korea. the president has said recently north korea is china's baby. that's the language he used. in other words, it's their problem. today it is front and center as the president of china comes. what do you expect to see from the first meeting? >> we don't expect to see too much, i think, in terms of substance. the white house on tuesday said there was going to be a framework we establish with china. that means they are kicking the can down the road. the real problem is north korea is our problem. within four years, they will make a nuclear warhead to a missile that will hit the lower 48. that will drive the assistance to north korea. things like the ballisti

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