trump. >> u.s.edge told cnn that trump had been warned russia could have information on him. that's the damaging information gathered through surveillance that vladimir putin the believed to collect on powerful people. >> was your concern that the russians could have leverage over the president of the united states? >> yes. >> former intelligence chief, james clapper. >> gaining leverage, that's their objective. if they can compromise somebody, they have a term for it, compromise. >> it was our sense, our strong sense that the nation's senior most intelligence officials would not waste the time of the president and the president-elect if it was easy to dismiss information. it was a remarkable step. >> cnn did not reveal the contents of the dossier beyond what he learned from sources because it had not been verified but shortly after cnn broke the story, buzz feed published the entire dossier on the internet. donald trump was furious. >> it's a disgrace. it didn't happen. >> though journalists had no

donald trump jr. went ten years not speaking to his father because of the way his father treated his mother. there is no hint that donald trump was ever troubled by that break in contact with his first set of children with his first wife. he actually bragged about being disinterested in the lives of his children. so it is that man who asked us to believe today that he would have been the super hero of the to stoneman douglas shooting and he would have been doing it for other people's children. before donald trump went into the business of tricking voters to vote for him, he did not pretend to be a super hero. >> i'm not good for medical. in other words if you cut your finger and there's blood pouring out. >> you're gone? >> i'm gone. i'll tell you what happened, i was at mar-a-lago and we had this incredible ball, the red cross ball in palm beach, florida, and you had all these rich people, a man, about 80 years old, a lot of people didn't like him, he fell off the stage. he falls off on his face, hit

[applause] president trump: mexico. [applause] president trump: no, think of it.hing against mexico. we are re-negotiating nafta, i can tell you that. we are renegotiating. [applause] president trump: i've been telling you that for a long time. i've been -- either you renegotiate or you terminate. but we're renegotiating. we'll see what happens. but chrysler, leaving mexico, coming back to motor city with a massive plant. i mean, you haven't heard that in -- how many years would you say, rob? thirty? twenty-five? we're reversing it. and many other companies are coming back and many other car companies are coming back. and a lot of them, which is of most interest to you, are coming back to ohio. [applause] president trump: they're coming back here. right here. and right here in cincinnati, on this very beautiful factory floor, the sheffer corporation announced that every single worker was getting a $1,000 tax cut bonus. you are so generous. thank you. [applause] president trump: congratulations, everybody. that's good. that's good. hardworking, patriotic americans

wine and trump water and trump this and trump that. >> he plugs into the solutions, this beautiful,iful solution that if i don't ask a lot of questions and a lou my name to go on projects, then i'll get paid. >> there are buildings in which he didn't put up a penny but he got a multimillion dollar fee up front that were to have the trump name on them. >> the trump soho is a very, very special building. >> in the case of trump tower soho, the trump organization got 18% ownership of the tower. without investing a ingle dime according to bloomberg news. >> thank you very much, to bay rock. >> the financing for the project was left up to his partner, bay rock group. >> it's a problematic project from top to bottom. >> a lawsuit filed by a former bay rock insider in 2010 accuses bay rock of money laundering and having questionable ties to russia and russian organized the crime. the suit is ongoing and bay rock denies the allegations. >> there's a huh, why would trump ever do business with those guys. >> guys like russian born felix sater, bay rock's key executive. sater's lawyer robert w

and back to donald trump. here's the story, mueller's investigators pressing witnesses on a question that we know the white house fears most. did trump know about the russian email hack against the democrats in advance? and was he in on it? two, the other breaking story right now, top trump aid hope hicks, resigning, she's out, literally a day after she faced trump's investigators. hicks was trump's longest serving aide and mueller proving obstruction, that was an issue hicks had a problem with. as for the statements she made yesterday, they fed these leaks that she admitted telling, quote, white lies sometimes for trump. that news broke because hope hicks was required under law to tell the truth to congress. and it appears that in that setting, and in that sitting, because she's sitting with the investigators. she went heated aahead and did g important. and i want to be clear tonight. it appears that hope hicks did tell the truth about the lies that people had been telling for donald trump when they worked fo

trump: thanks. thank you, fellas. >> the democratic response was given by congressman joe kennedy in massachusetts. this is 15 minutes.

russians on trump's behalf. it was both to undermine our electoral system. and this is said clearly in the indictment, that it was done for the express purpose of helping donald trump and disparaging hillary clinton. there's no doubt now who they wanted to win and who they wanted to lose, when you look at this overlap between the two campaigns, the russian campaign and the official trump campaign, you also have to add in the money part of this, and that's what you alluded to, ari, that it went all the way up to the russian al gaoligarchs, the sam russian oligarchs who are buying trump properties in the united states. the same russian og galigarchs are infiltrating companies that -- it is so well integrated you really couldn't make this up, except in a spy novel. i'll also point to another date, and that is 2013, that's when trump went to russia, he met with oligarchs, the dossier talks about this, he went there, he had meetings with some of the same characters that appear later in that trump tower meeting, that

trump.mmediate, no filter, grammar super optional. in seeing its earth-shaking potential, trump used twitter to communicate only his most important thoughts. thoughts such as "the mar-a-lago club has the best meatloaf in america--tasty." "i have never seen a thin person drinking diet coke." and, of course, "how did you like michelle obama's bangs last night?" with his follower count surging, trump would now harness the power of twitter to fuel his political rise. what started as just asking questions about whether the united states president was born in the united states blossomed into a full-blown run for the white house. and the media awaited each trump tweet like the hungry little bitches they are. - donald trump tonight-- the tweet with his taco bowl... - we got breaking news. donald trump is tweeting something right now. - a twitter tirade. - has he been tweeting again this morning? i just heard. - yes, he has been tweeting again this morning. - i haven't been f-- - i was just told in m

donald trump social media. right? social media as a way of communicating his thoughts directly to us. sometimes in interesting ways as you might expect from a reality television star, he's been great at sort of attaching catch phrases that are negative. fill in the blank. all of you this is like a sing along blank hillary. [inaudible conversations] blank ted. >> right. terms -- failing? [laughter] news. fake. all right we all remember this stuff. that's pretty amazing. what we don't have are -- are the equivalent of the two word phrase blank, health care. blank, infrastructure. right, in other words this is somebody who again, it is a reality tv world. but nonetheless, extremely effective especially in solidifying the base of support as he's already got that's already expanding not all expanding but solidifying and my favorite distinct of the trump is when, you know north korean government for years, they put out these wild statements about how about the evil americans and evil president and all previous presidents ha

donald trump's presidency. because the scandal over donald trump jr.'ian collusion meeting is not going away. in fact, it's getting a little more crowded. - donald trump jr. claims he didn't know who he would be meeting at the june 9th sit down at trump tower, but he asked the campaign's chairman and a top adviser to be there. - get the [bleep] out of here, man. [laughs] yeah, come on. really? really? so some random person shows up at trump tower, the front desk called up to don jr. and he was like, hello? someone's here to see me? oh, boy. send 'em right up. no, i don't wanna know their name. i love surprises! jared, paul, you gotta come see this! no, i don't know who's in the meeting. let's just do it and be legends. - honestly, my takeaway when all of this was going on is that someone has information on our opponent. you know, things are going a million miles an hour. i wanted to hear 'em out and play it out and see what happens, but, you know, people are trying to reach out to you all the time with this. someone sent me an email. i can't help what s

so we're dealing with a trump saga from the man who was supposed to straighten out the trump white house. >> who in the white house is buying that? >> i don't know. as a canadian outsider i don't have the great sources that you at nbc have. but it doesn't seem internally they're taking the claims seriously. >> jonathan what does it say about the white house that the kinds of people that are hired are folks that we learn later to have been accused of pretty violent actions towards their ex-wives? but it's not just rob porter, it's not just sorensen, there are allegations against the man president trump wanted as his labor secretary. and steve bannon has allegations and there were allegations against president trump. >> not saying all these guys are wife beaters but bad hombres attract other bad hombres. if you are going to work for this man and you know that everything he touches turns to dust and every person who comes in contact with him has their reputation suffer. you have to the be an extraordinarily ambitious individual to go work for the president. so he's going to attract a certai

donald trump jr.'s reaction to the memo saying a little sweet revenge in it for him. we played it a few minutes ago. is that premature? >> absolutely premature. obviously, put out a response rebutting the memo and it makes the republicans look pretty bad. we haven't seen the democrats' memo yet. it's far too early for donald trump sdwror say anything of that sort and makes it look very political. >> how about your reaction? >> definitely i agree with erin and think we're seeing a trend whether donald trump jr. or any number of republicans using this to further discredit the fbi and department of justice, shocking for the law and order party to do that. yesterday republican voters showed turning on the fbi in large majoritiemajorities. >> i'm curious, erin. particularly the line seeing this as sweet revenge. for his family. >> yeah. >> that one's -- not, let's say, having been sanctioned by the attorneys. do you think they said to him, go out there and say that? >> no. but when do any of the trumps say

they wanted trump to win. why? and we're back to tim's point, although i would add for conviction under the election laws you don't even need a quo in terms of the quid pro quo you need unlawful interference. gates for manafort is problems for indictment facing manafort. but gates is a guy, as you opened the segment with, transports himself through a very clear continuity of events. when manafort came on in april, gates went with him. when the nra, you were talking about the nra earlier in the broadcast with chris matthews, and when the nra -- when the deputy governor of the russia central bank was looking for an entrance at the nra convention to have dinner with donald trump in may, he settled for second place but rick gates was on the e-mails. at the same time that's happening, george papadopoulos is also sending messages to manafort, who's passing them onto gates about russians want to meet with trump. and papadopoulos at that point knows they have dirt on trump. so there are a series of dots that are going to c

whereas trump is just the opposite. somebody who has never served the community or anybody but himself. he dodged the draft. he did not take part in the anti-war or civil rights movements in the 1960s. he basically devoted his entire life to pursuing wealth and women. and he has shown scant regard for anybody else. he is a classic american arc type, a scammer, discovscoffer would have been pedaling time shares or penny stocks, somebody a jay gatsby like figure, the wizard of oz kind of classic con man arc type. to my mind donald trump is the worst of america. i find it telling and distressing that the republican party chooses to revere donald trump and revial robert mueller. i think they have their values exactly backwards. >> i want mike to weigh in on this. let's put up the quotes. you mentioned a lot of what you said in your article. both men came from families of wealth and attended leading institutions. mueller felt compelled to serve his country during the vietnam war when most of his classmates were avoiding the

they can't drag it back to trump.nkly, if you look at the 6 to 8 other political consultants operating in the ukraine at the same time. it might be interesting to look at their activities. david: i'm assuming you are talking about john podesta. he was involved in ukraine. >> begala, all these big names have had dealings with ukraine. david: you may see -- my own suspicion is mueller just to prove that he's fair mind or whatever, he's going to throw in an indictment of a democrat. who knows. i don't have inside information on that. >> if you want to focus on the obama administration targeting the trump campaign. i think people should set their sights on lisa monaco. the trump administration homeland security director. she appears in the notes and calendar of andy mccabe in may of 2016. if you note back a couple weeks you remember that the text from page saying that andy mccabe and strzok or her boyfriend, that the white house wanted to know everything they were doing. so you have see this contact in may. then in august

trump. is it time to call trump mentally ill? this isn't interest the onion. it's from "the new york times." the press, in encouraging or inciting fanatical hatred does disservice to the public. the president's aim was to bolster public reason and enlightenment. what seems like moral righteousness may be hatred on the challenge to their dominance over public opinion. their freedom to abuse the public mind causes their pride to go and distorts their judgment further. we would like to take a step way from trump, the man, the twe tweeter, the gossip. we want to look at trump, the executive. at the one-year mark, what has the president done in terms of executing his constitutional duties? we have assembled a top-notch panel to try and tackle this. ryan williams, the president of the claremont institute, will be our moderator and he will field questions. speaking first on law enforcement and immigration is john fon tte, senior fellow and director and author of the book called "sovereignty or subm

trump voters turning against donald trump in texas.s now is wendy davis, former texas state senator, and cornell belcher, pollster and nbc analyst. wendy what has happened to donald trump in texas since election day? >> donald trump has been president. >> that will do it. >> people see what it's like to have donald trump as their president. and i think that he is really not in keeping with so many of the values that texans and so many americans hold as well, including the position that he has taken on daca, on the affordable care act, on planned pregnancy, on and on and on. >> and wendy, here he is tweeting to texas republicans to get out there in a primary. it seems like an early alarm for a state like texas for republicans. >> it is an early alarm. and it's a really great sign for us. i tell you, lawrence, i would much rather be sitting where we're sitting right now than where they are sitting right now in the primary. >> cornell where they are sitting right now montana primary. >> texas demographically is probably not what most peop

trump being trump and trying to normalize his behavior. the real tipping point for republicans is once they did that memo, once devin nunes crossed 245 line to do something that had never been done before, they went from trying to be passive quiet cowards to being active participants in the trump narrative. i don't think they can disown that anymore. >> jess and kurt, thank you both. coming up with the nunes memo shaping up to be a loser for trump, will he release the memo bryn by the democrats. just after this break. s. yup, he's gone noseblind. he thinks it smells fine, but his mom smells this... luckily there's febreze fabric refresher for all the things you can't wash. it finds odors trapped in fabrics and washes them away as it dries. and try pluggable febreze to continuously eliminate odors for up to 45 days of freshness. pluggable febreze and fabric refresher. two more ways to breathe happy. >>> release the memo. >> don't worry. 100%. can you imagine. >> yes, sir. >> you can do anything. >> president trump last week after the state

so he understands that though there's a trump hotel and a trump tower, there's not a trump fbi or a trump justice department. >> he did that when donald trump was president. and so did dana boente. let's talk about what a lot of people believe is the ultimate goal of this memo, other than to entertain donald trump and fox news, which is part of the goal. but the other part of the goal, reportedly, is to under mine rod rosenstein so that trump can fire him. jeff sessions just a few hours before this memo was released defended rod rosenstein at an event at the doj. let's listen to that. >> rod and rachel are harvard graduates, experienced lawyers. rod has had 27 years in the department, rachel has had a number of years in the department previously. so they both represent the kind of quality and leadership that we want in the department. >> in your view, harry, is rod rosenstein -- is his job in jeopardy tonight? >> how did the president put it? you tell me? look, it was an agenda here, and by the way, as paul says about these fisa warrants, it's all true and who does all this work, it's the

trump: right, boss?oined sheffer corporation during an apprenticeship six years ago, and now, he is a machinist and a talented one. they like him. nice to be loved. the unpopular ones, you don have to worry about. in addition to his $1000 bonuses, paychecks are bigger because he is paying less taxes. here. you are up i am going to give you a chance like maybe 30 seconds or less, to explain what you are going to do with all of that extra money. in this case, over $1000. [applause] tyler: thank you, mr. president. bonus,e tax cut and the i will be trying to save up money to start a family and eventually get a bigger house. pres. trump: i like that idea. [applause] tyler: i appreciate all your hard work you have been putting in. so i just wanted to say thank you. ,res. trump: i appreciate it tyler. that's beautiful. beautiful job. [applause] pres. trump: thank you, tyler. that's a good guy right there. be --k he will probably i think everyone will be supportive. we need people who are going to do a great jo

to trump.e's particular disappointed in paul ryan. i've been a consistent defender of his good intentions, but after the 17th time saying he knows better, it dawns that he may not. the speaker has provided political cover for a weakening of the constitutional order. he has been used as a tool by loudly insisting he is not a tool. the way ryan is headed history offers two possible verdicts. either he enables an auto crat or he is intimidated by a fool. in the atlantic two who have no history of partisanship coauthored an article saying the best hope of saving the republican party from itself is to vote mindlessly and mechanically against republicans at every opportunity until the party either writes itself or implodes. they point out that they agree with many policy decisions, but that people should vote a straight democratic ticket despite their policy views. they offered this syllogism. one, the gop has become the party of trumpism. two, trumpism is a threat to democratic values and the rule o

president trump for all his rhetoric has not stopped the north korea strategic advance president trump has made no progress with the projection of chinese military strength into the south china sea and has done very little with the chinese influence elsewhere around the globe despite the talk he has made no progress restraining iran from the persian gulf neither has he renegotiated the deal for improved the nuclear deal. president trump has made no progress in the middle east the go stations between the palestinians and the israelis. president trump has neither renegotiated nor terminated nafta but successfully alienated mexico and canada. cap president trump has cast aside america's leadership in terms of -- has failed to address america's overall trade deficit. if you look at those statistics by almost 11 1/2% of the percent of the first nine months of the trump administration, while president trump has been president over the last 12 months, america is standing when -- america's in the world has plummeted. so a few weeks ago shows confidence around the world has plummeted by 75% and

trump. is it time to call trump mentally ill? this isn't from "the onion." it's from "the new york times." [laughter] fanatical hatred does disservice to the public. the aim was to bolster public reason and enlightenment. one fears the opposite. what seems like moral righteousness in the press may be hatred on account of the challenge of their dominance over public opinion. given this poisoned public atmosphere, tonight, we would like to take a step away from trump the man, trump the tweeter, or trump gossip and look at trump the executive wielding executive powers. what has the president done in terms of executing his constitutional duties? we have assembled a top-notch panel today to try to tackle this. first on law enforcement and .mmigration next on the regulatory state will be adam white. and last, we have professor charles cussler who will speak on the president's use of the bully pulpit. john, take it away. john: i'm going to talk about president trump and immigration policy. we could

trump jr., the eldest son of president trump, has arrived in india for a whirlwind tour aimed at selling more than $1 billion worth of luxury apartments being built by the trump organization in partnership with indian developers. trump jr. is also slated to speak at a global business summit, where he and indian prime minister narendra modi are billed as keynote speakers. critics say the trip represents the array of the trump family's conflicts of interest. the trump organization has at least four real estate projects underway in india. former state department official daniel markey, who served d undr president george w. bush, said -- "the idea that the president's son would be going and shilling the president's brand at same time donald trump is president and is managing strategic and foreign relations with india -- that is just bizarre." in israel, seven members of prime minister benjamin netanyahu's circle have been arrested amid a widening series of corruption scandals that tried to bring do

donald trump believes that. he believes that line as written in the indictment of the witch hunt today. donald trump loves that line. and the reason we know he loves it so much is because he tweeted it after the indictment was made public. russia started their anti-u.s. campaign in 2014, long before i announced that i would run for president. so now he believes the witch hunt. russia started the anti-u.s. campaign in 2014. now that he believes the witch hunt, maybe he'll start calling it the russia investigation instead of the witch hunt. now that 13 russians, who are not witches, have actually been indicted. we know that's not going to happen. we know that donald trump has an increasingly limited vocabulary and he'll never get the witch hunt thing you on of his head and he'll never stop lying about what robert mueller's investigation is actually about and what it is accomplishing. in a 37-page indictment filed in district court, robert mueller said that 13 russians have conspired since 2014 to violate laws that

both the white house and trump's communication departme department @realdonald trump on twitter chose not to address the massive conspiracy to defraud the american electoral system instead to say that he and the trump campaign was cleared of all wrongdoing. the fact remains that mueller's investigation is steadily closing in on his inner circle. according to cnn, rick gates, a top trump campaign adviser is set to finalize a plea deal with mueller which would make him the fourth member of trump's team to either plead guilty or be indicted in mueller's russia probe. house intelligence committee congressman eric swalwell joins me now n light of these indictments, what do you make of the president of the united states making no mention of russian interference in his response? >> good morning, joy. do you believe it now? that's what i ask and most americans ask of the president. and if he doesn't, is he siding with russia? because that -- we saw in that indictment that we have the clearest evidence that russia meddled and the evidence is so strong that prosecutors believed they could prove

donald trump jr.ng dinners in two cities, in india for buyers of trump-branded apartments, raising questions of whether he is selling access for the price of a condo. >>> the movie taking the country by storm, "black panther." what this superhero saga means in donald trump's america. we'll discuss all of that. >>> our cnn exclusive reporting on the mueller investigation, cnn justin reporter kara scannell, part of the team that broke the story. what's at the center of what mueller's vest investigating? >> cnn learned the special counsel, robert mueller, is asking questions about jared kushner's personal business dealings during the presidential transition. we're told by people familiar with the investigation that mueller's lawyers are asking about discussions kushner had with potential chinese and qatari investors. this is the first indication mueller wants to know about contacts the president's son-in-law had with foreigners outside of russia. this evolved at 666 fifth avenue in manhattan, which kushn

president trump: a good afternoon. an important subject happening at a critical time and this is a very different schools and we can really get there. but we have to do it. we don't want to wait two weeks, three weeks, four weeks and people sort of forget and we go on and then have another problem. we want to stop the problems from happening. as we continue to mourn the loss of so many precious young lives in parkland, florida, we're determined to turn our grief into action. i really believe that. i think that the people at this table want it. i mean, i see some folks that don't say nice things about me, and that's okay. because if you turn that into this energy, i'll love you. i don't care. we are going to be able to do it. sadly, these horrible mass shootings are nothing new. i asked for just a list -- i mean you look at columbine, colorado. bill clinton was president. virginia tech, george bush. ft. hood, sandy hook, san bernardino, pulse nightclub and so many more. it's ridiculous. so today we're here on a bipartis

trump. >> when donald trump jr.lect your father president, he doesn't say what do you mean? how can that be? he says, "i want to hear this." >> the actual response? >> "if it's what you say, i love it." >> the trump camp's explanations were confusing. >> strange and conflicting responses. >> trump jr. told the the "new york times" it was, quote, a short introducto meeti primarily about russian adoption. cnn reported that president trump helped write the statement while he was flying home from the g-20 summit. >> he weighed in and offered suggestion like any father would do. >> if a misleading statement was put out, the core question is the classic question of intent. were trump administration officials starting with the president himself lying to the public about the nature of his campaign dealings with russia? when the story of the meeting first broke, trump defenders downplayed it. >> i don't know much about it other than it seems to be a big nothing burger. >> this is a massive nothing burger. >> hillary clinton?

rallies and pro trump rallies. they were on both sides. they were just trying to create chaos. that's the bottom line. >> that's right. division and discourse as if we didn't already have enough of that anyway. but the hyperbole that somehow this kind of meddling interference was on the order of 911 or pearl harbor as many of these shameless journalists have been saying, it just shows you how much they've lost their minds, their souls and their hearts. >> what about the fbi. you saw the trump tweet that the fbi was so distracted by some of this russia stuff that they may have lost clues that would have led them to the shooter in florida. >> i certainly think there's an element and truth to that but more broadly, we had a number of problems with the sbi and i believe this goes back to the deep state bureaucrats that date back to the clinton era that are more interested in researching their political opponents than they are acting on tips both of public safety matters like the ones in florida but also, if you think o

the latest, senior trump official rick galgts who once served as donald trump's deputy campaign manager and remained in the trump orbit for many mongs months longer than paul manafort did. he pleaded guilty today to lying to federal investigators and participating in a financial conspiracy with former trump campaign manager paul manafort. manafort's response today, a backhanded swipe at his alleged partner in crime writing, quote, not withstanding that rick gates pled today, i continue to maintain my innocence. i had hoped and expected my business colleague would have had the strength to continue the battle to innocence. for reasons yet to surface he chose do otherwise. this does not alter my commitment to -- defend myself in the charges piled up against me. gates becomes the third trump campaign official to join what one ally describes as team america. gates, along with former national security adviser mike flin and former trump campaign adviser george papadopoulos are now cooperating with the investigation and providing special counsel bob mueller with any and all information includin

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here's trump's response, according to to the "new york times" a russian told phony secrets on trump to the u.s. asking price was $10 million brought down to $1 million to be paid over time. it's all coming out. drain the swamp. >> it all appears if you finish the article that they were trying to do. >> right. so meanwhile the fox is in charge of the hen house. i mean here we are again, another kind of scandalous moment in the trump administration, with, you know, questionable leadership. here's someone, here's donald trump jumping into -- you know, jumping into the fray and started discord, you know, engaging in all kinds of battles, unnecessary battles with the very agency and agencies he should be working with. it's representative of an administration that really is not taking any of this seriously. but that also is giving very little oversight and attention to the real concerns. and instead has decided that this is a political -- you know, there's political capital in turning this into a fight with the very intelligence agencies that are supposed to support, support the white house,

trump? could someone else do you think have, in skillfully a matter exploited these vulnerabilities? >> somebody will. this is going on through the western world. we are seeing a global decline in democracy, belief in democracy and the effectiveness of democracy across the democratic world and in the united states , it happened to express itself in the more right-leaning party but in other countries ask express itself in the more left-leaning parties and a lot of the forces and donald trump you see in part is of the left in england and britain and the candidacy of jeremy corbin , leader of the labor party. in many things that worry me, show up in, the democratic party has been the more beloved party in recent years but one of the themes i stress in the book is that at the most fundamental level are racial, sexual and economic tensions. in sexual tensions i draw special attention to. if you follow the bernie sanders versus hillary clinton timeline, the gender gap between sanders versus clinto

trump and disparaging hillary clinton. among the charges, conspiracy to defraud the united states, the indictment provides a comprehensive blueprint of that conspiracy, detailing exactly how the russians conducted information warfare against this country starting back in 2014. those methods were described today by the justice department official who oversees the special counsel's probe. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> the defendants allegedly kunged what they called information warfare against the united states. they used stolen or fictitious american identities, fraudulent bank accounts and false identification documents. the defendants posed as politically and socially active americans. advocating for and against particular candidates. they established social media pages and groups to communicate with unwitting americans. the russians also recruited and paid real americans to engage in political activities, promote political campaigns and stage political rallies. according to indictment, the americans did not

into trump to plead guilty. this is the fourth guilty plea mueller has obtained. this is a dutch lawyer, his family associated with a putin-linked russian oligarch in that famous trump dossier and he was found guilty of -- it's important for at least three reasons. the first, when people start flipping, things can get a little crazy, rick gates apparently thought at one point that this lawyer was going to help him, and they reached out in 2016, during the campaign about a range of things. so they were working together. but tonight, the guy who was supposed to be helping rick gates is now at least helping built a case against it. we have a little activity here in the newsroom. the second important thing, we all know that donald trump likes to talk about tapes. >> today, early this morning, the serving president said this on twitter. he said, quote, james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. >> but in this case, there isn't a maybe. tonight this guy?

trump junior before the trump tower meeting "ing will never get out." will never get out, she said. that left him with concerns she could be contemplating obstructing justice. late last night, a lawyer to hicks herself denied the allegations saying she never said that and the idea that hope hicks said documents would be concealed or destroyed is completely false. that's what lawyers do. ken delynnian and malcolm nance. it goes back to something we all understood. the clinton family, i always them the roman nofs seemed to move as' family. the son-in-law jared and they brought in the -- i'm sorry, the son jared, the son-in-law and don junior and they all went in with the manafort has all those russian ties to get dirt on hillary clinton, the opponent and had it say we didn't do that because that seems sleazy, maybe illegal. why would they want to the cover that up? why would hope hicks say if she did, we're going to get rid of those e-mails? >> as you said, it looks incriminating. even if it wasn't incriminating. all the evidence we've seen and my reporti

we got together with donald trump. we ran on a joint agenda with donald trump. we are with trump. we already made that choice. >> this is why we are going to win. this is what separates us from the other side. we care about everybody. >> sitting in the audience for trump's first state of the union address was a face paul ryan is getting real familiar with, the iron stash, known as randy brash, challenging ryan for his seat in the first congressional district. he came as a guest of wisconsin congressman. he joins me now. thank you for being here, sir. how did you enjoy the state of the union? give us your 30-second review? >> always a pleasure to be with you, joy. >> thanks. >> it was pretty much what i expected. it was donald trump taking credit for other people's work. he was throwing out some numbers that were coming from president barack obama's time. it was kind of sad. a lot of things. luckily, he can read off the te telepromptor. you tweeted out a partial list of job killing regulations that donald trump has eliminated. you had your own hashtag, ironsotu. clean water rule an

here's donald trump jr.on about whether liberals accuse his father of being a "racist." >> all the rappers, all this, all his african-american friends jesse jackson, al sharpton, pictures with them. we say hi. >> there are pictures and it's true reverend sharpton and trump go back a long ways. as promised earlier, here is rev sharpton's new and exclusive response to donald trump jr. >> i met donald trump marching on him about central park. later he tried to turn democrat and came to a few of our conventions. then he went all the way back right with birtherism. we haven't changed. he changed. what he's changed to become is one who has proposed some of the most racist bigoted policies. when he was talking right, we took pictures with him and welcomed to him to our events. when he went left, we stood up for what was right. is he promoting racism. >> two views there of donald trump's history, long history in new york. we wanted to show that to you. that is our show. "hardball" with chris matthews starts now. >>

president trump listened. he heard the students and families from parkland a week ago and then not 24 hours later, he's at cpac and basically reciting talking points from the nra, so what do we expect today? >> it's a great point, and i think you can expect some discord here. one of the proposals that president trump has put forward is highly controversial, arming some students -- he says those who have been trained -- >> -- firearms -- >> i'm sorry, teachers, yes, an important correction, some highly trained teachers to carry conceal weapons. that's an opinion some of the governors disagree with. including florida's governor rick scott who has been very clear, he wants to see other changes, but not that one. he doesn't think that's the way to solve this crisis. another notable divide, stef, is between the president and the nra. that's on the issue of how old someone should be to buy a weapon like an ar-15. president trump has been advocating to increase the age from 15 to 21. the nra says they don't back that

every story is about attacking trump. at news hits back, organizations and coverage, that extends the news coverage. happens and was true in the campaign, too. he gained hundreds of enemies. even when they were beating up on him, he is dominating the news agenda. that is important, even when you are the president, even when you have that big illegal. -- that big bully pulpit. the russia investigation, he is saying i have been much tougher on russia than obama. look at the facts. talk about twitter and how it has changed the reporting on this president. guest: at 6:00 in the morning, he has already tweeted. i go get a sandwich and get back in the world has changed because he has tweeted. he wants to communicate directly with his people. do i think that sometimes he goes too far, that he should not be giving disparaging that makes -- nicknames to opponents and journalists? he did that with someone on msnbc. sometimes he does it to distract, as i mentioned earlier. but it is not something that will -- kellyanne conway and th

>> he's perfect for trump. just like president trump, devin is a transactional politician and i've seen that throughout his career. he has taken a lot of votes that would benefit himself and his future. and the only other policy he really has is to attack democrats. i know some people in washington, d.c. were surprised by this whole thing when it started last year, because representative nunes, his reputation back there for 14 years was a smart guy, a guy that was making the extra teenlg strategic moves to move up in the ranks in the republican party and had his loyalty rewarded. if you knew him back here in the valley, he has been a flame thrower from day one. and, remarkably, i don't know if you remember, chris, but in 2010, complaining about water allotments from the obama administration, he compared the president to robert mcgabe and hussein. >> that's strong. >> fairly strong. >> betsy -- although, in the central valley, that kind of rhetoric goes over well. you've been talking to folks, betsy, on the hill