for trump.here are over 200 counties that voted for obama twice and switched to trump. that something again that gets to the point that people are less ideological than we in washington think. >> it's per pocketbook issues that drives a lot of these areas of people you're visiting and people you're talking to. >> people like the fact that trump was an outsider. they weren't necessarily voting as a republican. they saw him on as independent. a lot of people voted who were lifelong democrats voted for trump and then the rest of the ticket they voted democrat down the line. >> from warren, michigan on our line for others, robert, hi there. >> caller: hello. thank you for talking to me. i noticed that in the documentary that you were talking about earlier that trump made a lot of promispromises, including about health care, that he was not going to, you know, use the thing about the prior conditions, health conditions and then we find out that millions of people could be dropped from the health carr

trump and president trump -- candidate trump and president trump.as candidate trump doesn't count. didn't people vote for candidate trump because they wanted that guy to be president trump? that's like saying, no, when i promised to be faithful, that was wedding steve. i'm husband steve now. you can't trust what wedding steve said. he was just looking to smash. ( laughter ) this isn't the first time trump pulled the multiple personality thing. remember the pussy grabbing leak? >> it's locker room tock. >> he was in private with another guy doing what guys do. >> everyone knows trump likes women and uses this kind of talk. >> locker room talk. >> guy talk. >> bad boy talk. >> trevor: no, it's not. a bad boy is someone who wears a leather jacket to prom. that's a bad boy. this is the guy who got suspended for grabbing the prom queen's downstairs crown. there's a difference. but fine, let's go with that. pussy grab greatgate didn't counted because it was locker room trump. what about when he trolls the nation on twitter? >> what goes on on twitter is n

wouldn't it be funny if everyone in trump's campaign was talking to the russians except trump? laughter ) but only because the russians didn't trust him. ( laughter ) they're like -- (russian accent) whatever you do, don't tell him. don't tell him. ( laughter ) it may be a new week but most of us are dealing with fallout of national buffoon's european invasion. ( laughter ) it's true, last week was president trump's first international trip. when someone travels, there is often a way you can look at one body part and that can tell you everything you need to know. maybe you know they went skiing because they have a goggle tan omplet you know they went to jamaica because of the white gold corn rows. or you can do the same thing with donald trump by focusing on his hands, we can learn everything we need to about his first international trip. let's follow adventures in our new segment "international hand stuff." ( applause ) ♪ ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: president trump's first stop was saudi arabia. i don't know about you, but i was waiting for him to spark an international

trump came and prepared to do things. i am not pro-trump. i'm anti-trump as to many of his actions.e came in prepared and his people did indeed act as though they were going to be in office in a month . host: at the bottom of all of these investigations is the fact that intelligence officials say russia attempted to meddle in the u.s. election. caller: we don't know that for certain. now, we have a group claiming the man who was killed in washington, d.c. was the one that was communicating with wikileaks. he was in the dnc employment in some way or another. were not certain of anything. you don't start an investigation until there is a crime. we have a deputy attorney general who is out of control. he says that the hillary investigation was flawed because had no authority to be a prosecutor of course, he had no authority. use an investigator. he cannot be dubbed a prosecutor by queen loretta lynch who refused to do her job. what "the newar york times" reported about president trump and his meeting with russian officials. it says -- mr. trump added, "i'm not under investigation. " jo

trump. and they will soon be touching the soil of saudi arabia. and i doo believe that we are seeing, if i'm not mistaken -- it's yet to be confirmed. i believe we're seeing the saudi king about to greet donald trump in person. >> very happy to see you. >> the king of saudi arabia. nic robertson was just telling us, an older gentleman. and nic was thinking he wouldn't come out in the sweltering heat. there it is, the symbolism. he did. he greeted donald trump right at the bottom of the steps of air force one. the king of saudi arabia, the president, the new president of the united states. a handshake. first few words. going to be interesting to see how this plays out. to comment on this are nic robertson and jeremy diamond, both of them covering the trip, first overseas trip of the u.s. president abroad. nic, it's interesting to watch these pictures. you were telling me about when barack obama was here. and it was a different picture from what we're seeing here. >> it was. none of the fanfar

from obama to trump. i felt over the years that the white republicans on the local level and those different organizations have always overlooked the poor white people. i live in mississippi, i see the poor white people that i hear. they never really had a voice for them. i don't know it's because of upper class white republicans who are ashamed to even acknowledge that there are poor white people. if you watched news, television or anything over the years, you never would have thought there's ever been a poor white person in america ever. they were here and they were hurting really bad. i feel like they felt trump gave them a voice. because they didn't have the upper class republicans on local level in different positions to speak out like you have maybe the black people may say, we need more public schools we need more for this. they never had that. a face was never put where you said, poor. they never put a white face to poor people. you come up out, you have the rich that speaking out for them. some m

i think a lot of people correctly want trump out. i what trump out.ut i want to republicans, the billionaire class, and the security state out of power. how do we accomplish that? in addition to the watergate as a memory from the nixon-era, there's another relevant educational memory we should draw upon when the nixon-era. it was during nixon's regime and the white house that we had one of the most historic eras a social and political and workers movement. it was when nixon was in the white house we had the environment protection agency formed from the occupational safety and health act was passed, the supreme court landmark decision of roe v. wade was decided, and the vietnam war was ended. none of this was because of nixon in any way. he was a misogynist, racist, right-wing president. it was because movements were drawing the conclusion that it is time to really build on her own independent strength. i think we can do that right now as well. in relation to call me, i would say that it --comey, i was a it is indicative of the instability of his admin

how close are they getting to trump? >> chris, nbc news has confirmed a white house official is under investigation. our sources are not naming this person. and do you know what else we don't know, chris, we don't know if it's related directly to russia collusion or about some other business activity. what we're seeing is once you turn a bunch of fbi agents loose on international businessmen, they're not going to ignore other crimes that they discover. so we have not seen any public evidence of collusion with russia, but what we've seen is mike flynn with his turkish lobbying, we've seen paul manafort with a series of real estate transactions that have come under question, and so it could be that the fbi is looking at other conduct that may or may not be illegal that have been engaged in by trump and his associates. i want to go back to the timeline you mentioned. when you talk about people in the u.s. government, when they meet with russians, they are very careful how they handle those meetings. they are running at amer

obama warned trump but he wouldn't listen, though i'm not surprised trump doesn't listen to women orlack people. no one knows how deep the russia-trump tie goes. what we do know is every single time the subject of russia comes up, trump gets nervous and you can tell he's nervous because he tweets -- a lot. that's basically his tell. like, if you're ever playing poker with trump, check his twitter. that's all you've got to do. i raise but i only have ten deuce, he's going to fold! #bluffing, so much bluffing! ( laughter ) donald trump didn't just tweet, this russia thing got to him so much he even changed his twitter banner to "his own tweets." yeah. which is the lamest thing a twitter person can do, let's be honest. that's worse than liking your own tweet, worse than retweeting your own tweet, worse than following scot scott baio, worsd all those things. so congratulations, sally yates you did to trump what north korea, syria and even james comey couldn't do, you got trump shook in his one safe space, and that's, um -- how would i put this -- sad! ( laughter ) we'll be right back! (

it is time they do it under trump.hey will only do it if we the people put pressure on congress to say no weapon sales to the present regime of saudi i arabi. amy: and the fact that these precision guided weapons that president obama, under enormous eace activistsm p and others for selling this to saudi arabia, finally stopped -- the fact that trump has resumed these weapons? >> yes, he has resumed those weapons will stop again, congress could stop it. you will also probably beginning -- greenlightght where the majority of humanitarian aid comes in. the humanitarian community says that will be catastrophic, so i think once again, we have to put the pressure on congress to say no greenlight for the invasion of that port will step in fact, what we do need is an emphasis on going back to the negotiating table, find a political solution to this crisis in yemen, which is the furthest thing from what president trump wants to do because you could see from his trip to saudi arabia that t this is all about encircling iran, and

worse for donald trump. michael cohen made the article much more disgusting, so how did michael cohen make the situation much worse for president trump by refusing to comply with the senate intelligence committee's request for document. well, after michael cohen refused to comply with the request for documents last week, the members of the senate intelligence committee voted unanimously all republicans, all democrats voted to empower the chairman and the vice chairman of the committee to issue subpoenas completely at their discretion, without checking with the full membership of the committee, that is very unusual for committee. normally it requires the vote for the full committee to issue even a single subpoena. but, thanks to donald trump's personal lawyer, issuing subpoenas to the president, issuing subpoenas to the president's children, to everyone in the white house and everyone who worked in the trump campaign, just became much much quicker and easier. now, everything that i've just said or any one of

it's trump central."on was increasingly on the attack, going after trump's opponents one by one. >> the reason that i quit breitbart is because they were working so closely with trump. when a news outlet decides that it is more important to maintain close ties with a particular candidate or politician than it is to maintain the integrity of their journalists, that's no longer a journalistic organization. it is now a propaganda platform. >> narrator: during that time, six breitbart staff members resigned. >> i just realized, i don't want to be a part of this anymore, and i think that there were a lot of reporters who didn't sign up to be the voice of the trump campaign. if i wanted to be involved with a specific presidential campaign, i would, i would have gone and done so. >> narrator: while bannon worked from the embassy, stephen miller signed on to trump's campaign as a senior policy adviser and speechwriter. >> donald j. trump, ladies and gentlemen, is going to stand up to the bullies and fight for you

trump and mr. comey.hey also highlight some of the dialogue that went on between these two gentleman saying "i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, letting guy, io." he is a good hope you can let this go. "i agree replied only, he is a good guy." there is more to the story and we will reach fortunes of it this morning -- four should -- fortunes -- portions of it this morning. (202) 748-8000 for democrats, (202) 748-8001 for republicans, .ndependents, (202) 748-8002 the story prompted a response from the white house. well the president has expressed his view that mr. flynn was a decent man who served our country he has never asked mr. comey or anyone else to end any investigation including the investigation involving general flynn. this is not a truthful or at portrayal ofurate the conversation between the president and mr. comey. the story gives a little bit of a background to the meeting. here is more from the times, saying "despite the conversation the investigation of mr. flynn has conti

and to you think it has anything to do with the fact that president trump as the twin trump towers i his symbol? -- istanbul? >> i don't know -- no, probably not. this is much more disturbing. i think it has more to do with the fact that he has an open and consistent and ration for authoritarian leaders. keep in mind, he is also invited to the white house, though fortunately so far it is not scheduled, and meeting with libyan president duterte who has presided over in less than a year and office, the actual visual killing of over 7 -- extrtrajudicial killing of over 7000 people on the streets of the philippines. jovialitybackslapping that scott referred to with the russssian leaderers seems to bea pattern with a authoritarian leaders in general. responsible american president might come in a low-profile way, talk to president erdogan about our mutual national security urgent interest in syria and in the region, but raise open and serious concerns about the human rights teacher rating -- deteriorating human rights situation and the loss of democracy in turkey, and no one should hold t

he is denying he had contact with trump associates or trump campaign.believe that his denial is credible or does it seem clear to you that he does appear in these communications is he may have been involved in this somehow? >> i have to go with what he told us in an e-mail that he totally denied having any contacts. the only thing you can point out is that obviously he's ukranian and there were very senior people in the trump campaign including paul manafort who served as mr. trump's campaign manager for a period of time who have ties to ukraine. that's about all i can say in terms of this denial. >> one of the things we've been sort of trying to track over time is whether or not the white house explanation and story for what happened here makes sense given the other corroborateble facts we know in the world. the vice president obviously denied at one point there were any contacts between the trump campaign and russia. he denied that he had any knowledge of mike flynn having contacts with foreign vernments. lied to mike pence about mike flynn's discussi

ofin the 100 plus short days the trump administration, there have been many things donald trump has done that have been inacing and even heinous, but don't think there are many things that he is done that you could say were shocking given the things he promised to do during the campaign, as well as who he revealed himself to be inh during the campaign and the decade preceding that. this, however, is the only word you can think of for it is shocking. aside from the fact how rare it is for presidents to fire fbi director's -- something typically tolerated only the most extreme circumstances when there are serious ethical is use that have arisen about the director's behavior -- for him just two weeks after james comey made huge news by announcing he was overseeing a criminal investigation into the trump campaign's potential collusion with russia, on top of which there have been very recent developments in that case of subpoenas being issued to close trump aides, it is incredibly -- it is stunning they would be so indifferent to the obvious appearance that this is about nothing more than tru

, melania trump to his left. business together in saudi arabia. is that a commonality that saudi families see with president trump when we see in the contingent he has taken there, his daughter, ivanka, is with him. his son-in-law, jared kushner, also his senior adviser, is will w him. is there a commonality that they share that saudis are focusing on? >> there say commonality but i don't think it's one that you want to highlight. we're not talking about a great example of democracy when it comes to saudi arabia. women are still fighting for the right to drive, still fighting for the right to vote in saudi arabia, and you notice ivanka trump is not wearing a head scarf, which is something that a lot of foreign dignitaries and their spouses don't necessarily have to abide by but in saudi arabia women are legally required not only to have a male guardian for simple things a lowed to travel or seek medical attention but they also have to be covered from head to toe so interesting note neither melania or ivanka are h

even for president trump who has been known to shock people, president trump fired fbi director james comey just hours ago. first the official version of what happened according to the white house is that fundamentally this was done on the recommendation of deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. he was just confirmed by the senate 94-6 at the end of april. he was in charge of the investigation into russian interference in the u.s. election because attorney general jeff sessions was not forthcoming about his meetings with the russian ambassador and recused himself. so rosenstein came into the job. he looked at comey's behavior relating to the clinton e-mail investigation last year. he found it wrong, he found it deeply troubling and he recommended that since comey has refused to admit his errors he should be fired. he recommended that to jeff sessions and passed it on to president trump. end of story according to the white house. here are the problems according to those who are skeptical of this decision and this president. president trump shares exactly zero of rosenstein's concerns

>> no, because trump is still trump, and you'll notice, steve, that things were relatively calm on the white house front these past nine days when trump was away. and there sure were bad stories that came out from the white house perspective on russia. but you didn't have the kind of self-inflicted wounds that come from trump's responding to this bad news or just trying to get out front of it. ruth was talking about how difficult it is with the legislative agenda. i mean at every step, trump has already stepped all over these efforts from the very first rollout of the ahca, trump right before that tweeted about obama tapping his wires in trump tower, and that just stomped all over any momentum that the house would have been able to build. so now what you have is two countervailing impulses again. you have the professional staff and the lawyers trying to bring things under control to be able to answer back against the russia probe. a lot of folks lawyering up, including president trump. and then you have this other impulse, which has donald trump potentially bringing back in folks like

trump did not do that. the only time he went overseas, he went there at the time for his family, his son and daughter were at that point very involved in that construction project and that was for the campaign. we haven't really seen president trump interacted with world leaders on the foreign stage. as i said earlier, there is a basis in a lot of these relationships. but i think when you're here the leaders in each of these countries are really looking at the task at hand right now. and i think that's important. i think on israel front we are looking at a lot of reporting that nbc itself has done that says information that was discussed with the foreign prime minister earlier last week was intelligence from israel. and i think that's important when you look at that meeting because that sharing of classified information is one of the key pieces of the united states alliance with a lot of these other conaddress. and that intelligence sharing is critical to homeland security and things of that nature. so you

all three fired by president trump. president trump's firing of director comey made history. not since watergate on the evening of october 20, 1973, a saturday, known affectionately as the sat did i night massacre -- as the saturday night massacre, has the president dismissed an official in -- in its 109-year history, only one f.b.i. director had been fired. f.b.i. director william sessions was dismissed for serious ethical violations. the f.b.i. at that time was not investigating the clinton administration. i've had my disagreements with director comey, judgments he's made, statements he's made. i'm not exactly his greatest fan. but i didn't question his competence when it came to investigating. i never called on him to be fired. there are so many questions that need to be answered. why was director comey fired now, just as the f.b.i. investigation of the russian interference in the presidential campaign seemed to be reaching a critical point? today white house spokesperson sara huckabee sanders said that the president has been considering firing comey, quote, since the day

what did the trump transition and the early trump administration tell you about your fate as a u.s. or the fate of u.s. attorneys generally in the new administration? >> well, we never spoke directly to the new administration. but we were -- we knew those conversations were taking place. we had heard that the transition team was recommending that we be permitted to stay in place to assure an orderly transition. and then as you just said before you went to commercial on the tuesday before the inauguration, a conference call was convened with all the united states attorneys to let us know that we would not in fact be asked to eleave precipitously. we would ask that we would be permitted to stay until of course we wanted to leave on our other own or until some succession plan was put into effect. >> they told you that on the 17th. was there any subsequent direction that that advice or that plan had changed? >> no, nothing at all. and obviously, before that time, some number of my colleagues had left on their own. some continued to go. i myself was planning to leave probably about now,

donald trump jr.ng this is now considered to be acceptable discourse by the left, molly. >> who is saying it's acceptable discourse? >> don trump jr. >> who is saying it's even discourse? i have a hard time bringing myself to care about something like this. i think it just speaks to the need to see themselves as a victim that they have, that they are constantly being persecuted. >> the trumps you're talking about. >> the trump people are constantly having to point to the elites who are looking down on them. of course, comedians and celebrities say dumb stuff and do dumb stuff and violence is not appropriate, but i just don't think that that's the source of president trump's problems. >> david? >> i think we've got much bigger issues to focus on than kathy griffin. >> jen, do you want to weigh in at all? >> agree with david. >> i do want to ask you, david, because there's a lot of speculation in the press about president trump maybe bringing you on board, which we would oppose because we like having yo

tell me one at those networks is pro trump. >> and the objective is not to be pro trump-- opinion people, too. >> there's a distinction, there's a-- >> i'm asking you to say one name. pick a name. >> i could give you the name of jake tapper, a respected journalist. >> amg. >> and he covers the fact. >> i will not give you credit of jake tapper. eric: jake tapper is an amazing journalist and not a pro trump voice. >> he's not supposed to be he's supposed to be a journalist. >>,. eric: i'm asking you to give me a pro trump voice. >> journalists aren't supposed to be pro or anti-trump supposed to report the facts as they have it and look at any jake tapper-- >> how about john lennon-- >> richard, they've been out to get donald trump and they have made it a point to not even give like a honeymoon period to president trump, and instead, goes straight to-- >> what richard said, the american people weighed in anyway. eric: i have a lot more, this is going to be a hot show. we have a lot more. more of my sit-down interview with president trump, what he says about building the border wall and how

melania trump. two of them together toured saint peter's basilica. then maurn will elania trump wi visiting a children's hospital owned by the vatican. the president has diplomatic meetings. he'll meet with the italian president and prime minister all of this before the two of them hop back on to air force one and head over to brussels for those meetings with nato leaders tomorrow. >>> let's talk about where this trip shift from here. it's so much about style. it might shift to substance as we go to g7 and nato, so many photo ops. how will this trip change beginning today and later tomorrow. >> reporter: the tone does change because remember this foreign trip was originally scheduled around the nato meeting, around the g7 and then president trump and his advisers decided to add a tour of major religions on to the beginning. that's why we saw him in riyadh, in israel and now here at the vatican. that shift we're now getting into diplomatic meetings with world leaders and more stains. you could see, f

trump initiated the call. what we published was a philippine government document, classified philippine government document. so this was the transcript that duterte's people made of his call with trump. the reason i emphasize that is because after we published this, matt drudge put it at the top of drudge report. we had an enormous surge in traffic from many people who are supporters of donald trump. drudge gotarded in bombarded with a boycott campaign from trump supporters who are saying, whoever leaked this should be prosecuted for treason. in the journalist who published this should be put in prison, which echoes what we know trump has sort of suggested in meetings most recently to james comey right before he fired him. this was not a a u.s. government document. people were saying, this is proof that obama left the white house bugged. it is like they don't understand the basic fact of went to foreign leaders are speaking, there are two sides of the conversation, so there we have it, the phone conversation -

trump only cares trump. he does not care about this country. care about the republican party. so the sooner they realize that, the better. >> rick? >> ari, i have a political rule that i'm starting to develop. i think it's pretty solid. i think we're starting to see enough of it retrospect and coming forward. everything trump touches, dies. at some point, if you're his best friend, at some point, you will be thrown under the bus. >> that's true. >> you're the rock star of trump world, you will be thrown under the bus. everything trump touches, dies. well, maybe not. but i don't even want to think about that. >> nancy? >> yes. >> i think it's a point of political rhetoric, there have been a lot of political deaths. the first campaign manager, the second campaign manager, paul manafort, flynn there is a lot of political deaths. >> right. >> you're up. >> god willing it's only worked in the realm of politics. but the other point is elijah cummings here, john conyers were compelled to ask whether these recordings exist. >> i know. that's the other

there was also candidate donald trump and then president donald trump. candidate trump who is criticized for islam phobic tones during the campaign. the question here is with this speech, how important is this speech? a speech written by steven miller, a man who is also criticized by many as harboring islam phobic views. how important will this speech be and what is expected there in saudi? >> well, something that the white house recognizes has to be carefully calibrated, respectful is how national security adviser h.r. mcmaster characterized how the speech will be. it is a big ask for anyone who has been so critical of the faith to come to that faith and preach a message to all those muslims about islam. i've been asking saudis here why they think that president trump can be trusted. what he can deliver and how can he come here and give that kind of message with the background he has. this is what i heard. >> maybe he make apologize for all muslim what he says about islam. >> i like it -- >> why? >> because he make everything different. >> what do you w

we saw what trump did.he colluded with that evidence. >> that's the issue going back to the original point. when do you say when? how long do you allow these investigations to continue? the process is about what, it's about the fact that our democracy was challenged, our elections were challenged. because russia interfered. that's what people are forgetting. that takes precedent. it's not about how long. it's about getting to the bottom because that affects 2018 and -- >> russia has been interfering or wanting to interfere -- >> is it right? >> i'm not saying it's right. all i'm asking for is consistency. i was in the 1984 reagan campaign. after the soviet union -- wait. after the soviet union fell and a british reporter for the financial times or one of the papers got into the archives. there was a letter from ted kennedy trying to arrange a deal with gorbachev to damage the reagan campaign. where was the big investigation? in other words, if we're going -- >> jeffrey, that did not dominate the 1984 campai

trump: i don't think you need it. i mean, honestly, whatever's going to do the best. >> but it's congress that would make the decision on whether or not an independent counsel is needed in this case. mr. trump also caused controversy this week when he tweeted, and mr. comey tweeted to the press he better hope there are no tapes of the conversations. the white house has failed to elaborate on that this weekend. but we are told by senator mark warner if those tapes do indeed exist, congress wants them. julie. julie: very interesting. what more do we know about north korea's missile launch? was it successful? it appears to have been. south korea's reporting that this launch went about 435 miles. if that's true, it would be considered a success. a pentagon official confirms the fox news that north korea launched some type of ballistic missile that official says the u.s. pacific command and strategic command are still satisfying. if this initial reporting bears out, this would be kim jong-un's fifth attempt at the ballisti

trump presidency. then george washington university law school professor jonathan turley on the firing of james comey by president trump. president trump: he was not doing a good job, very simple. he was not doing a good job. host: that was president trump's reaction on why he decided to fire james comey, reporting this morning includes the fact while this decision was made on monday, it was the white house chief strategist, steve bannon, who questioned if the timing was right. also "the washington post" reporting this morning that the man behind the memo that started the process, steve rosenstein, who just got the job of deputy attorney general, threatened to resign over reports of how he was being perceived in this firing. there are other aspects this morning about the firing of the f.b.i. director, james comey, including what it does for that investigation at the f.b.i. over russia and the 2016 election. we're going to talk about all those aspects this morning, and we want to hear from you. here's h

>> well, president trump and prior to that private citizen trump seemed to say things that were usefull now, without any regard to history or consequences. now that he's president, people are keeping book on the kinds of things he's saying, has said, and they are contradictory. now, erin, i have no idea what the truth is, but that's why we've got these multiple investigations on. the criminal one over at the fbi, but frankly the one that might be more important for the welfare of america are the investigations in the house and senate intelligence committees, because they're going to paint the whole picture. you know, some things might be very important to this story that don't reach the level of crimes. but still need to be known by the american people. >> all right, thank you very much. an important endorsement, i think, to explain to people why those investigations are important now that we do have a special prosecutor. thank you, general hayden. >>> next, h.r. mcmaster should stop enabling trump and quit to save face. that's what my next guest is saying about a man he has known for

since donald trump seems determined to think of no one except donald trump. first, last, and every moment in between. elizabeth warren gets tonight's last word. you can see our entire interview with elizabeth warren on our website. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> tonight, the president is apparently lawyering up. donald trump expected to retain a private attorney to represent him in the russia investigation. >>> also, the cia's concerns. the former director shares his worries from 2016 about the russian contacts with the campaign. >>> while michael flynn is taking the fifth with the senate committee, now the senate committee has subpoenaed his company. and companies can't take the fifth. "the 11th hour" begins now. good evening once again from our headquarters here in new york. day 124 of the trump administration, and the president is hiring a lawyer. it comes less than a week after the department of justice appointed a special counsel to oversee the fbi russia investatn. sources familiar with the decision tell nbc news president trump is

if america is winning and president trump is making america great again. >> president trump: i'm donaldrump and i approve this message. >> jesse: cnn very upset with that at they won't air it because of the phrase "fake news," why do you think cnn is so sensitive to that charge? >> dana: one of the things that president trump says, may be cnn's counter punching, who can blame them? >> jesse: do you like the ad? >> dana: no, not really. i think he has had some good successes i wouldn't call it a tax plan, a one pager is not an actual plan but it's a great opening bid. i think they had some stumbles in the first 25 days and had a great two-thirds after that or three quarters if i'm doing my math right. in this case, everybody wins. if trump wins because were talking about it that were going after the media and that helps him as his face and who watches this show and it cnn wins because were talking about cnn, they could say look how principled we are we didn't do it. >> jesse: do you think cnn does win? it seemed like they were in on the joke and now they are the blood of the joke and the

president trump has proposed eliminating the estate tax in tax reform. yet the trump budget assumes that the government will take in more than $300 billion in estate taxes over the next ten years. in other words, part of the budget says, we're getting rid of the estate tax. part of the budget says, $300 billion that the estate tax brings in is counted to balancing the budget. never seen anything like it. if an accountant did this, moises -- i don't know accounting standards in detail -- but they'd be kicked out of the accounting professional. in short, as benjamin appl applm points out, president trump is proposing to balance the budget in part by simultaneously increasing estate taxation and eliminating estate taxation. let me read that. this is a reporter for "the new york times." not some politician of a political party. quote, president trump is proposing to balance the federal budget, in part, by simultaneously increasing estate taxation and eliminating estate taxation. the goal, the nerve, the fact facts-be-darned attitude in this budget is appalli

how are trump supporters taking this, or are they just ride or die?, there's two version of trump supporters. one is the core base. the most important thing to know about those people is this is all white noise at this point. most trump supporters tell me they are not watching, they are not reading, they are not engaging with this and i think we've got to look at why. for many of those people they voted for trump because the thought of having hillary clinton as president was unimaginable to them. you know, they saw her as corrupt. so they are looking at a lot of paralithium ion cells now, and just like all of us can come up with a list of the top ten things that have happened in the past 24 hours, they have a long list of things that they believe hillary clinton did which are either not reported or reported but not investigated or investigated but not really prosecuted, and they look at all of that and it's on that list, benghazi and the clinton foundation and loretta talking to bill and -- and humaees laptop and private e-mail server and i can go on

one of the things he claimed in this book, "trump nation," was that donald trump wasn't a billionaire. timothy o'brien's book said that trump wasn't worth even $1 billion. he was closer to $250 million in terms of his net worth. d you know, like who would be mad about that, right? once you're at 250 million nar, i think we can all agree you're spectacularly rich and who cares if you're that rich or even richer than that, right? who cares? but donald trump really cared a lot about that, cared so much that he sued timothy o'brien for that book, specifically for saying in that book that donald trump wasn't a billionaire. and you know, it was clever. in the event that trump wasn't a billionaire, he came up with a way to solve that problem with that lawsuit because he sued timothy o'brien over that book for $5 billion in damages, which is hilarious. and what resulted was a ridiculous lawsuit. that was basically a suit in which trump tried to prove his net worth, tried to prove that he was a multibillionaire and that gave rise to the famous definition where trump claimed that his net worth

trump. tonight we look at how investigators continue to bore down on donald trump even as he poses with the pope and goes to impressive meetings in europe. look, we know this is a serious business. this russian deal of trump's, the fbi is on the case, the former cia director just said he doesn't like the looks of it. and we now have a special counsel gearing up and trump himself is starting to lawyer up. well, tonight i want to find out what we already know and how we can know what the country now needs to know about how trump and his campaign could have been in cahoots with the russians during last year's election. well, yesterday as i said, former cia director john brennan testified. he became aware of numerous trump associates who had made contact with russian actors that we now know includes michael flynn, paul manafort, carter page, roger stone, jeff sessions, and trump's own son-in-law, jared kushner. further, as trump -- appears to engage in a pattern of obstructive behavior, former n