people who know donald trump jr. know the trumps say that this is something that donald trump jr.er about. keep in mind at this point ivanka and jared kushner have been brought into the campaign, donald trump jr. is not part of the campaign and he's eager to show his father that he too can help with the campaign of the that's one reason why he organizes this meeting, he brings people in from the campaign to try to do this and if you talk to people who are close to jared kushner, people close to paul manafort they describe themselves being a little suspicious as to why donald trump jr. is doing this after all he's not formally in the campaign, they've always been suspicion as to who he might have told about this. they don't buy the story essentially that he has been telling and certainly donald trump jr. is not explaining it. one of the interesting parts of this is going to be whether robert mueller and the fbi and the technology that, you know, their investigators have, whether they're able to decipher using phone company records where that phone call came from, whether that block

trump tower meeting. i have a simple minded view if you go to the trouble of lying to congress or to investigators or putting out fake, phony press releases about meetings you were in, there's something that happened at the meetings that you're not too happy to have come out. >> you're saying even if the available information about the meeting doesn't seem all that terrible, the response to it could be itself telling, which is sort of an investigator's sixth sense. you mentioned eric prince. here's eric prince talking about all this. >> i was on a business meeting back in january. in the seychelles. i had gone to see guys from the middle east i had done business with before. they said there's this russian guy we have done business with in the past. you should meet him, so i met him in a bar. chattered for 20 or 30 minutes. and that was that. >> the flip side to all of this is that the trump folks and eric prince lie about all kinds of stuff, including little stuff. >> yes. you don't know what to make of i

pleased to be here. >> jeff bezos, amazon.com ceo. >> donald trump jr. >> ivanka trump. >> eric trump>> welcome. they're open for business. critics say he will do for america what he did for the trump organization. critics say we may be witnessing the reverse, using american power and taxpayer dollars to bail out the trump organization one last time. joined by liz plank and ben clemens, former prosecutor and chief legal counsel to governor deval patrick. ben, is this a problem? >> well, it's more than a problem, ari. and it is more than a conflict of interest. it is a blatant violation of the constitution at a minimum. there may be criminality as well. more information is needed to know whether there's criminality. unquestionably, the latest dealing with the flip flop on what the commerce department did with respect to -- within 70 hours of trump getting the benefit, his organization getting the benefit of a half billion dollars in loans from china is just a straightforward ee mol ments violation. >> you're saying barring gifts from foreign governments. what makes it a gift than a con

it's not about what questions mueller puts to trump or what lawyered up answers trump gives back. it's most likely to be what his former associates will say about him. and that display already happened. and that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. all in with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in." >> in the end it is not only what we do, but how we do it. >> the clearest window yet into the russia probe. and signs that mueller already has evidence of collusion. >> russian collusion. give me a break. >> what it means for the future of the investigation. and trump's curious new stands on obstruction of justice. >> i did you a great favor when i fired this guy. >> then. >> they can't even resist leaking their own drafts. >> house republicans draft articles after impeachment for the deputy attorney general. >> i think they should understand by now the department of justice is not going be extorted. >> plus, two of scott pruitt's top aides quit amid growing ethics investigation. and trump's former doctor says he was raided by trump's long-type bodyguard. >>

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trump: congratulations to you all. four years ago, each of you make the most important decision of your lives. you chose the path of hard work, sweat, and sacrifice. you chose the life of honor, courage, and commitment. you chose to serve the nation and defend our great american flag. you chose the navy, blue and gold, from the first moments of induction day, through a grueling six weeks of plebe summer, you endured and you persevered. and then the rest of the brigade returned, and the real test began. you developed morally, mentally, and physically. you poured yourself into military tactics, navigation, ethics, and engineering. and when hard work was not enough, like generations before you, you gathered your pennies and sought favor from the all just -- to come [laughter] [applause] pres. trump: all-powerful. a little bit different. others worked hard for their demerits. so today, in keeping with tradition, i declare that all midshipmen on restriction for minor offenses, you are hereby absolved. [applause] pres. trump

enter donald trump.al, and he loves this world of lavish living and money. and it would not be outside the realm of possibility that they saw a man that finally would play on their field to where gifts, emoluments, money, bribes would actually work. >> and jeremy, when you pull all these threads of the story together in the daily mail in your reporting and elsewhere, on it so far, if this is substantiated, what you're seeing is a qataris and kuwaitis thinking exactly the way malcolm just described and kind of rushing to get in there to figure out how do we deal with these people and who do we have to pay what to deal with these people. >> well, what you have when you talk about such transactional, you know, exchanges is that it's not just about getting something in exchange for something. it can also be about being punished for not fulfilling on something. and the trump administration turned around at the top level, basically president trump, the country's position on qatar in the spring and summer of 20

she likes what trump's doing.rant, she tells me unpredictability can be a positive since it keeps opponents guessing. >> and i think that it is a good thing to not know, you know, because sometimes the best defense is not knowing what the offense is. >> reporter: back at the gas station, i asked owner chris if he ever worries that trump's words could go too far and maybe lead to war. >> that does worry me a little bit, the war part of it, he does come across a little harsh sometimes, but like i said, he says what everyone else was probably thinking, you know? >> reporter: the reason trump voters don't have a problem with how trump sees the world is because many of them see it the very same way. erin, as i always do, i finished by asking the voters if they would vote for president trump again. lately i've been noticing a trend. the answer is still yes, but then some voters say that could depend on who is running against him. erin? >> all right. thank you very much, martin. that's the crucial question, right? no one

ivanka trump? i would get on my charger and go right into their offices with a lance if they go after ivanka. >> and then he goes on to explain why ivanka is off limits and trump's son-in-law jared kushner is fair game. >> what about his son-in-law? >> i guess jared is a fine man. you know that. but men are, you know, disposable. but a fine woman like ivanka, come on. >> i think some would argue that is a misogynistic, perhaps even sexist comment. phil, let me first start with you, if i may. what do you make of the idea that a senior adviser to the president, regardless of the fact that it is his daughter, should be off limits to the special counsel? >> well, you know, ivanka trump is the president's daughter, but she's chosen to take a job at the white house. she works on the white house staff. she's a senior adviser, as you just put it. she should be sort of fair game in this investigation just like any other staff member at the white house. and i don't think the mueller team would view her any d

, proximity the meeting was one floor from donald trump and proximity with donald trump and donald trump much they talked about the campaign for a year. so it's hard to believe he didn't know. >> when donald trump jr. said i didn't want to bother him with it, this is someone we heard talking on the "access hollywood" bus, we see him spending his entire weekends playing golf, this is a guy who publically, donald trump, has all the time in the world to discuss all the trivial things that cross anyone's mind close to him, the credibility of i didn't want to bother the big guy with anything as small as this is rather strained in this situation. >> sure. look, you played the clip before of the comment trump made right after this meeting is being set up, which he says he's going to give a speech about some very interesting information about the clintons. and this is right after the e-mail trail shows that rob goldstone is promising the russians meeting at trump tower is going to have some very incriminating information from kremlin files about hillary clinton. so the parallel in the comments t

trump's legal team. and while the questions themselves are fairly broad they could represent a legal minefield for a president known to stretch the truth. today, in an attempt to distort the news in his favor, president trump incorrectly claimed that none of the questions related to potential collusion with russia. "so disgraceful that the questions concerning the russia witch hunt were leaked to the media. no questions on collusion. oh, i see, you have a made up phony crime collusion that never existed." well on that point, however, the president's mistaken a review of the 49 questions made public today shows at least 14 of them relate to the potential collusion with russia during the campaign. and while those questions don't reveal what kind of evidence the special counsel might already have, there's one in particular that's receiving a lot of attention. mueller wants to ask trump "what knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign including by paul manafort to russia about potential assistan

trump: at 2:00 a.m.arly this morning, and by the way, i got back to the white house at 4:30 a.m., and somebody said "oh, that is ok, we can cancel indiana tonight." [crowd booing] pres. trump: i said, "you don't know the people of indiana. i don't have the courage to cancel." [cheers] but at 2:30 in the morning, i had the incredible honor of greeting three great americans who had been held in north korea, and we welcomed them back home the proper way. [applause] pres. trump: and on june 12 in singapore, i will be meeting with kim jong-un to pursue a future of peace and security for the world, the whole world. [applause] pres. trump: the relationship is good. but you remember, everybody in the fake news is saying "he is going to get us into a nuclear war. he is going to get us into a nuclear war." [crowd booing] pres. trump: you know what gets you into nuclear wars and what you know what gets you into other wars? weakness. weakness. [applause] pres. trump: the relationship is good, and hopefully for all o

on trump's campaign? >> no, they were not. they were spying -- a term i don't particularly like -- on what the russians were doing. were the russians infiltrating trying to gain leverage and influence which ways they do. >> why doesn't he like that he should be happy. >> he should be. judge jeanine: if ever you weren't sure who to believe, i'll make this happy for you. the obama administration was so determined to get hillary clinton elected and donald trump defeated that they let hillary skate on her illegal activity and created a narrative on donald trump. a false predicate, a fake dossier paid for by hillary clinton, the dnc and the fbi to get a court order to spy on the trump campaign. they were allowed to spy for a year. they kept it closed. only the highest levels of the fbi. not the field office. they planned insurance their girl hillary didn't win. they leaked information harmful to donald trump to the press. it was the head of the fbi at the behest of james clapper who privately told the presiden

trump. the times said donald trump jr.esponded approveingly according to a person with knowledge of the meeting. the times adds, quote, after mr. trump was elected. mr. nader paid mr. zamel a large sum of money, described by one associate up to $2 million. donald trump jr.'s attorney released this statement. prior to 2016 election, donald trump jr. recalls a meeting with erik prince, george nay der, they pitched him on a social media platform, he was not interested in. erik prince's roll in arranging the meeting contradicts his testimony to the house committee in a way that sure looks like perjury. togeth according to the transcript he had this exchange. aside from writing these papers donating, supporting in a -- mr. prince, yard sign in myrd -- my yard. mr. rooney, so there was no other formal communications or contact with the pain? mr. prince correct. joining us now the co-author of the new book how to rig an election to be published tomorrow. and david frum is back with us. brian your reading of this. >> it speaks to

trump. >> michael was drawn to him, his personality, his brashness, his approach to life. >> i think they both defined themselves by what they wear, drive, what they can buy and sell. >> will that admiration and loyalty be enough to protect the president? >> i just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys, good man. >> attorney/client privilege is not a magic wind. if he is helping you commit a crime. it's a story with one explosive revelation after another. >> raising all sorts of new questions. >> >> he said he would take a bullet for the president. when he said it, he sounded like he meant it. >>> hello. welcome to a special edition of "headliners." in a political landscape full of colorful characters michael cohen stands out. he leapt to the front page with plot twists worthy of a legal thriller. how did he get here? >> breaking news. it's a bombshell. >> tonight, a dramatic fbi raid at the new york office and hotel room of michael cohen. >> cohen at the cent

trump. it is a very straightforward road map through things that are known here, interesting new revelation that paul manafort actually reached out to russia to see how it could work with the campaign, but the heart of this is taking the contradictory and inexplicable things that donald trump himself has said over the course of the past year and laying them out in a very straightforward, very factual way in a way that clearly president trump couldn't possibly explain. >> ruth marcus, also harvard law school graduate, so we have a full team here, the firm of kline, rubin and marcus. >> we get to argue who gets to have their name go first. >> we'll work that out. we have to do it alphabetical, i guess. ruth, i want to point out the various things here, the number of questions in here that exist only because of mistakes donald trump has publically made are quite stunning. he's being asked about tweets that he gave, he's being asked about statements he made in public interviews on subjects that

trump is right. i read these things about foreign-policy, the europeans are going to stand up to trump. no they aren't. they are going to find a way to deal with him. europeans -- what have they done? i don't want to give them too much credit. [laughter] >> in terms of policy, i think the party has changed more than trump has. there was already a big fight on immigration inside the party. if you want to look at the future and see how that can be sympathized -- someone like tom cotton, who is a little more of a hawk on immigration without the temperament problems of trump. but what is happening to the republican party? is it shrinking so badly? that is why i think you should read this issue of "the weekly standard." ben schapiro does a good job of laying this out. they focused on policy, policy, policy, and voters under 40 are pretty appalled by the erotic temperament for my moral character and they are fleeing the party. -- erratic temperament and immoral character and they are fleeing the party. is

the trump agenda.m an outsider like trump. he beat to sitting congressman. this was a really bad night for sitting members of congress who are running for higher races. two lost.diana, on, but did not break 50% of the vote. amy: tim murphy, let's go back to west virginia and talk about the pro-marijuana, pro--- pro-coal democrat who voted for trump -- and now regrets it. he won the democratic primary fowest virginia's congressnanal se. >> we haven't d d anyby inin washininon, d.c., iquite metime that has oxley fought r the third conessional distctct. we h havit. we are a state that is bro. w'reot realla ststat we arar a coolly. everything we ha in the state has been sent t to makother people millionaires and billionaires. amy: tim murphy come your comment? >> at first glance, he looks like a unicorn in democratic does she got elected to a seat that donald trump carried with like 70% of the vote in 2016. riding a significant wave and was virginia and across the country. he was at the vanguard of the tea

that's great for trump.s purpose in life at the moment is not to be a substantive lawyer for trump. it's to smear mueller, cast doubt over the investigation and harden the polarization and partisanship and frankly to rally the troops around trump. the bet is that by the time mueller wraps this up and puts his report out and congress has to deal with it, that the republican party will almost entirely rally around donald trump. >> let's go with this theory. >> instinctively, it makes perfect sense. >> i would say after we've gone through the access would tape, it's clear that the threshold of crap they're willing to take is about 100%. they'll take it all, his supporters no matter what he says about sex or lifestyle behavior or personal character, they don't care as long as he's on the right sides of their issues. weren't they smart to -- let's talk about stormy instead of russia. giuliani like a big magnet. let's talk about me, giuliani, which is what you're talking about and stormy because that's better than

donald trump jr. and a russia lawyer with ties to the kremlin. senate judiciary committee released thousands of pages of testimony about the meeting today from donald trump jr. and others who have come before them. among the headlines here, donald trump jr. was anxious for opposition research or dirt on hillary clinton. but meeting attendees said no valuable information was provided. donald trump jr. said he didn't recall telling his father about the meeting, but as nbc news points out, trump jr. was, quote, grilled about a phone call he made to a blocked number during the planning stages of the trump tower meeting, but said he didn't remember who he spoke with. asked whether his father used a blocked number, trump jr. said i don't know. this as the senate intelligence committee released a report today that backs the conclusion from intelligence officials that russia interfered in the 2016 election with the goal of helping donald trump. and finally, shannon pettypiece of bloomberg is reporting today t

but trump is right. read these things about foreign policy, about the europeans, them really standing up to trump. no they aren't. they are not going to stand up to trump. they will find a way to deal with him. a --uropeans have done what have they done? i don't want to get them too much credit. >> john? >> in terms of policy i think the republican party has changed trump more than trump has changed the party. look to theto future, immigration, seeing it how that is set aside by someone heterodoxy, i think the long-term question is -- is there a coalition of voters? you are need to read this issue of the weekly standard. typically, trump, his supporters over 65 say that we lost that character fight with bill clinton, focus on policy and voters under the age of 40 are pretty appalled by the erratic temperament and moral character and are fleeing the party. going to happen in 2018 and 2020? because wenapback are so polarized over policy and eventually people, the parties will reshape? i don't know, we don'

trump and mr.ned on, wants loyalty, and the loyalty has to be almost abject. it's for that reason i think mr. trump -- mr. pence threw a switch and said, i know what i'm signing on for. i'm going to do it. that doesn't make it any more pleasant. >> to make your point, a few low lights of mike pence's tenure as vice president to date. he flew into indiana only to walk out of a football game after several athletes net during the national anthem. it appeared to be a premeditated stunt according to a nbc reporter who was outside the stadium with pence's team. a staffer told that reporter the vice president meant to question part the game early. i asked pence to leave the stadium if any -- pence went out of his way to praise former maricopa county sheriff joe arpaio, who was convicted of criminal contempt of court and later pashdenned by trump. pence called him a tireless champion of strong borders and the rule of law. just yesterday, pence called for an immediate end to the investigation of russian col

. >> brand-new polls in and trump's popularity is soaring. not donald trump. "the lead" starts right now. >>> breaking news. poll showing most people think are going well in trump's america but other numbers get really stormy after that. president trump unleashing on the russia investigation suggesting legal action against the special counsel team. as any lawyer rudy giuliani suggests he might stop talking about taking the fifth. didn't he say once if you plead the fifth you are definitely guilty, and after the headlines, melania trump has her moment. the first lady launching her platform devoted to stopping cyber bullying and encouraging kindness. has she met her husband? >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome to the lead and we begin with breaking news in our politics lead and brand-new cnn poll numbers revealing americans perception of the donald trump presidency and they look pretty locked in while also becoming increasingly newanced below the s -- surface, 41% approve of the job and 53% disapprove. that is about the same as the end of march.

this story could connect the trump business from moscow to the president's personal life, whether trump has been on the hook the powerful features in the russian government. the very essence of the mueller investigation. avenotti posted an executive summary of his research late today. his report lists a number of allegations abc news has not yet been able to verify. the oligarch in question, he deposited the money into an account used to repeat to pay off stormy daniels. he was sanctioned last mont by trump's treasury department. just four days ago, the "new york times" reported according to people close to the agency, federal agents spopd mr mr. vekselberg, searched his electronic devices ap questioned him. they confront him after he stepped off a private plane about two months ago. the russian billionaire has not been identified as a suspect in the investigation. but the "new york times" report thad vekselberg was present for the president trump inauguration and that 2017 dinner where michael flynn was amongst the guests of honor. nbc could not reach connor comment tonight. we have jo

president trump's lawyer rudy giuliani now says the special counsel robert mueller is told the trump team he'll follow just defense guidance which says a sitting president of the united states cannot be indicted. our chief political correspondent dana bash has more. you just got off the phone. you just spoke with rudy giuliani. >> it's been an open question whether or not the mueller team if they find there's evidence, enough so that they really think the president did something critically wrong. whether they would challenge those justice department guidelines and challenge something that's never been tested in the courts which is can you indict a sitting president. as you said, rudy giuliani told me that the mueller team has informed the trump legal team that they have concluded that they will not do that in any way shape or form. they will follow justice department guidelines. this is something that has been in place. it's been the tradition basically since the nixon time. the first time the office of legal counsel and the justice department stated flatly that a president is just t

trump, that donald trump's too stupid to sit across the table from him? because it seems to me, that's what everybody is saying. if i were donald trump, i would make sure i proved to them that i was not that dumb. >> rudy is not going to tell him he's that dumb. rudy will back him. >> there is no way that donald trump can sit in front of mueller and plead the fifth. i don't think that is politically viable. but willie, you are suggesting what all of donald trump's lawyers have suggested all along, that donald trump is just not smart enough to sit in front of robert mueller, and not be abused. >> well i didn't quite put it that way. but what i do know is that donald trump thinks he can talk himself out of anything. he spent his entire life doing that he think his charm trumps all. if you'll forgive the pun and that's not going to work with somebody like bob mueller who is armed with months and perhaps years' worth of facts and information about what he thinks donald trump may have done in terms of colluding with russia or obstructing justice after the fact

donald trump closed that deal. he could win out the access hollywood tape and lives you told trump that he could win after the access hollywood tape and lives grabbing women by the pussy. what made you so sure that voters wouldn't reject the president on on august 13th when he stepped in and took the job as ceo? you know he's 16 points down is down. i said to 100%, metaphysical certitude you will win. if you focus on the handful of messages about the american working man and woman in our country. on billy bush weekend where people were losing their heads and running around and you know were going to have mike pence and condi rice run as a ticket and trump's got to drop out of the race. paul ryan says i take back my my support of donald trump, and everybody is bailing out i said look, as we went around this thing, i said you still have 100% certainty you're going to win. he got up say don't give me a hundred percent, tell me what the real numbers are. they‘ re fighting for their country. trump had talked about grabb

trump in 2006. but three people close to the matter said mr. trump knew that mr. cohen had succeeded in keeping the allegations from becoming public at the time the president denied it. the president has spent the last several hours speaking out, in particular going into damage control mode trying to clean up comments that rudy giuliani made this week about trump reimbursing michael cohen. >> i'll tell you what. rudy is a great guy, but he just started a day ago. but he really has his heart into it. he's working hard. he's learning the subject matter, and he's going to be issuing a statement too. but he is a great guy. he knows it's a witch hunt. that's what he knows. he'll get his facts straight. i will tell you this. when rudy made the statements -- rudy's great, but rudy had just started and he wasn't totally familiar with every -- you know, with everything. and rudy -- we love rudy. he's a special guy. what he really understands is that this is a witch hunt. when he made certain statements, he just started yesterday, so that's it. >> just in case you need a re

>> of course the issue isn't personal dislike of trump, but whether donald trump wants to work with his republican party in control of the judiciary committee to actually get votes on that bill. we will be watching that does it for our show. i'll see you back to you 6:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow. "hardball" with chris matthews starts now. >>> the iceberg cometh. let's play "hardball." >> good evening. i'm chris matthews from miami. with rudy giuliani at the helm of the president's legal defense team, donald trump is on all-out war footing against the special counsel's russia probe. a new report in "the washington post" today illustrates the alarming degree to which the president is consumed by this investigation. which the authors describe as a steaming locomotive. quote, the mueller operation, like the former marine commander who leads it is secret and methodical. ten blocks wisconsin in the white house, president trump combats the probe with bluster, disarray and defiance as he scrambles for survival. according to "the washington post," the probe has been a near constant distraction for

, but trump backed renacci. host: has governor kasich gotten involved in this contest at all? guest: not really. his campaign operatives are getting but generally tired, some consultants. there are some more moderate republicans or anti-trump republicans behind him. host: a lot of the national headlines are focused on today's primaries being a test to president trump's influence. how popular is president trump in ohio? guest: he has done reasonably well here compared with other states. he won by eight percentage points here in ohio, which is kind of a lot. there are a lot of working-class democrats who are still saying, you know, give him a chance, and , in the republicans primary here in ohio, we have seen the republicans trying to be as close to him as possible, generally speaking. he is still relatively popular here. what house races will you be focusing on today as he watched the primary results come in? guest: i think the most exciting one of the 12 district, a central ohio district, and it has a special el

things with the knowledge of donald trump, the only one that can deny that is trump, which leads to trump or say something under oath or is left unanswered and that's a very dangerous position for the president. >> and it seems like donald trump himself may realize that. my thanks to my panel. >>> up ahead, when all the evidence is in, how will we know what bob mueller has found? we'll give you the legal map. >>> and everything could hinge on rod rosenstein when our special edition of "the beat" will continue. the big surprise was we're not german at all. 52% of my dna comes from scotland and ireland. so, i traded in my lederhosen for a kilt. ancestry has many paths to discovering your story. get started for free at ancestry.com. dad! hiding when i was supposed to be quitting. i thought, i should try something that works. i should try nicorette. nicorette mini relieves sudden cravings fast. anytime. anywhere. nicorette mini. you know why. we know how. one picky customer shouldn't take all your time. need something printed? the business advisors at office depot can assist with exactly what

what is it that they didn't understand about the trump voter and the trump base regarding donald trump. >> i think he didn't understand that it's very hard for people in certain circles on the east and the west to understand the way the average voter thanks. my home contractor, working class person said to me, i don't care what he says, i just care about what he does and i think that sums up the way people in the working-class think. they have to be judged by results. if a carpenter puts a nail into a strut and it's crooked, he could be fired. i hired professor can spout off about anything and they're not hold accountable. these people understand results and that's we see with donald trump. >> i see your point. that was great in your book. let's talk about palm beach. it was alien to me, but you write that behind the hedges, the game that palm beach plays, their scams, murders, jealousy, bigotry and occasionally generosity to make the tv shows look like nursery tales. talk about how donald trump came in tomorrow largo and his whole personality, how he took that place. >> this is typica

and know and have said things like they know more about the trump campaign than anybody on the trump campaign. >> how scary is that? >> they have texting that he did not only at 3:00 and before and after, and it refreshes the memory. so, this transcript of don junior doesn't add up to much. it's good spin, you're right. it can make people say wow, sounds like a nothing burger. >> and we just got this statement from donald trump jr., i appreciate the inquiry into the judiciary. the public can say for five hours i answered every committee and was forthcoming. i once again thank chairman grassley and finestein as well as others for their courtesy and professionalism. i just want to remind the audience again, don junior answered i don't remember when asked if he spoke to his father, president donald trump about the russian investigation. so you can decide whether you believe that is or is not forth right. seth, i want to ask you about the development around the sean spicer, short-term volunteer. paul manafort a former judge in d.c. denied that it's exceeding his authority. what's that me

and stand up to donald trump.r, you can trust me to do what's right- because i always have. admitting this that has done what we've done in the first year and a half. wages for the first time in many, many years are finally going up. we passed the largest tax cuts and reform in american history. the ms-13 lover, nancy pelosi. she loves ms-13. can you imagine? in the end, mexico's going to pay for the wall. i'm just telling you. >> we, last night the president of mexico responded to that last claim tweeting president trump, no, mexico will never pay for a wall, not now, not ever it, sincerely mexico. parentheses, all of us. dana milbank thinks we should use a different term than lies. that's coming up next with the "hardball" roundtable. it comes when your insurance company says they'll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do? drive three-quarters of a car? now if you had liberty mutual new car replacement™, you'd get your whole car back. i guess they don't want you drivi

you know how trump is, trump will be -- trump is focussed on slates and i'm sure it has annoyed him tove heard that he's not welcome at the funeral. it's also the case of trump being as narcissistic as he is, he would rather be playing golf that day. so he will console himself with the notion, i didn't want to go to that thing anyhow. >> this story coincides with the leaks and the president calling his own staff traitors for leaking and part of the concerns about leaking is what's going on with the pence operation and what might they be leaking? >> the irony of donald trump calling people cowards and traitors for leaking is pretty strong. this is a guy who's been talking to the press for the last 30 years, sometimes under his own name, sometimes john baron or what have you. it appears from the reporting, everyone in trump world leaks. at some level i think the pence operation has been a little more tightly held and there are a bunch of pence people marbled throughout the white house. it's not just nick ayers, you have mark short, his experience on capitol hill was as mike pence's staff

trump fans might say -- trump supporters would say this shows that president trump does what he says.aid he would withdraw and he does that and now north korea sees that. others say, especially a lot of people in the diplomatic community, how is north korea supposed to agree to bide by an agreement when the united states show its willingness to withdraw from the agreement they made. >> at will. it is a very valid concern. foeb folks look at north korea and kim jong-un is holding on to his nuclear weapons or lack thereoff because that is in the -- because that is their mode of survival. and so he saw what happened in libya when gadhafi gave up his nuclear weapons and then he was no longer with us. so i really think that this is a -- this is dangerous territory for the white house. i want to say one thing about young people. in hard a poll of young americans every year and in the most recent poll, democrats and republicans and independents notes they are more fearful than ever for this country. the decisions like this coming from the white house are reasons why young people across the b

trump jr.'s russia t testimony has been released. meanwhile, bob mueller has a new subpoena out. word of that hitting tonight. it hit an operative that worked for trump adviser, roger stone. that would be enough news, but there's actually more. "the new york times" with a huge story out right now with on how the russia probe began, why the fbi named it after a rolling stone lyric, and how they were helped by a potential informant with links deep inside the trump campaign. but it's also alt. >> we begin with donald trump admitting he is behind the payment to stormy daniels, which means he admitting about lying about it. this is bad for trump. so why is this happening? well, there are two big reasons. one has been all over your tv. the relentless tormenting of president trump by stormy daniels and her lawyer, michael avenatti. now, look, lawyers are not like regular people. they don't need to be liked or popular. in fact, a lawyer's willingness to be disliked in service to their client is a key f

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higher than donald trump's margin in key states that trump won.ink that was a factor in trump's victory and that the left or the resistance, or whatever you want to call it -- have to be careful about uniting going forward? >> that's nonsense. political scapegoating by the democratic party. and the shenanigans in florida, and the 5-4 decision by the supreme court and gore losing his home state of tennessee, they blamed the green party and me for that, giving these delusions of grandeur. all people have an equal right to run for election. and running for election is the full use of the first amendment. speech, petition the government, assembly. and if you tell a third-party not to run or to get out of the race, you're telling them to shut up and i -- >> i would try to debate you, but you're a very good debater, so i have to be careful. but it would seem that you're trying to move it to a first amendment claim and say the government would be sanctioning this. no one's suggesting that. i'm asking you whether the democrats and the resistance which is

close to the trump campaign. there's multiple e-mails to that effect. so this would appear to be, at a minimum, an effort by the fbi to track all the russian efforts to penetrate the trump organization, the trump campaign, in 2016. and certainly the overtures of mr. torshin would be front and center in that. >> michael isikoff thanks very much. great reporting at yahoo news. appreciating you joining us. and joining us is david jones, coauthor of "russian roulettero and joining us is danny si val lis. >> lots of ties stretching back to 2013. those who have been following this and your reporting know that's the year of the moscow miss universe pageant. why is this important to the story? >> we do go into more details in the book. what we've seen over the course of the campaign, and even before, are multiple russian efforts to make contact with american conservatives and with the trump campaign. they try with george papadopoulos, with carter page, with michael flynn, and we see early here this predating the campaign

and if donald trump jr. appeared to answer unequivocally, no, i know nothing about it, i was not involved, then he may have presented false testimony. i want to be very careful what i say here, but it sounds entirely possible. and if they're asking him to come back, they're giving him another opportunity, maybe not out of the goodness of their hearts but maybe because they want to see just how far he'll go to try and avoid trouble. or if he'll just take responsibility or what he'll do when confronted with those same questions again. >> yeah. go on. >> i was just going to say, joy in this one segment, take a look here. we've talked about torshin, trump jr. and victor vekselberg. for those at home, this can be vexing keeping things in your head. but the bottom line remains, russia attacked the united states and while that was going on, the trump campaign tried to collude with moscow. they had secret contacts with putin and putin's office which certainly encouraged putin. then they denied that any of this was h

client donald trump in a couple of weeks. i repeat rudy guiliani talking to everyone except apparently donald trump. we'll i'm sure have more on that and discussion of a potential interview with bob mueller. that does it for "the beat." "hardball" with chris matthews starts now. >>> how scared is trump? this scared. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm chris math you ooze in boston. the bbc is reporting according to sources in kiev, trump fix ter michael cohen received $400,000 for setting up a meeting with president trump and the ukrainian press poroshenko. we have not verified that report. faced with the evidence on trump's web of eastern promises, the president himself is setting up what appears to be a fifth amendment strategy not answering robert mueller's questions on the ground his answers would tend to incriminate him and claim that as justification for taking the fifth which trump himself associated with gangsters but also on the political ground now that the mueller investigation is out to get him. indeed, presi

trump junior's reaction. he was crushingly disappointed according to the transcripts after realizing that the russians didn't really have much to offer. now, his son is saying clearly i did not discuss this meeting with my father. that's very interesting, because while he wasn't under oath in this interview, it's a crime to lie to congress. >> the public if they read them will know everything that happened in that meeting in june of 2016. >> they'll only know what we've been told, and that's all we know. >> are you satisfied? do you know the whole story now? >> i'm satisfied that we got a lot of collaboration by different people that were there, and they seemed to draw the same conclusions. >> the extent to which the trump organization is communicating with the russians, do you think the release of the transscripts answer the questions? >> well, we have put out some information today as well of what the democratic side has been doing. and so the answer to your question would be yes. >> overnight north korea's

dump on trump . i think he has actually done a very good job policy wise and getting things past that are important. that are important. on the other hand, the leaking at the white house today is so much greater than i have ever seen before, and i have covered white house is back to gerald ford, a very nice man, by the way. 41, andworked with bush there was some but nothing like this. when there is this much leaking, it is poison, and trump said he is going to stop it. other presidents said they were going to stop it you they all failed. and i am afraid trump will, too. covers theprobably white house more than anyone, writing for the daily. what is it like to deal with them? how much do they stab each other in the back? mike: yes, that is sort of a big question and sort of defines the white house, not the administration, but the white house, the way it works. i heard a lot particularly at the beginning of the white house when i started covering it. sentiment,ople, this and i heard it from one particu

i don't think he says trump -- what trump says. but i do think that he showed poor judgment in actions in 2016 and i also disagree with them on stuff like criminal justice sysm thatat we shouldn't use the word mass incarceration because make itit is people who run prisons feel bad. >> go ahead, matt. >> hi, sarah, my question is this, around country there are literally tens of thousands or more people in official positions to carry out government policies and who would be affected by orders that trump might give and during the campaign, and since then he's discussed manypolis and practices that would violate national law, international law, someme of those have been knockd out in the courts, other have not been proposed, as anthropologist, what advice would youee give those of us who want to organize so that people in those positions who have taken oaths that will uphold the law. how can we increase the chance that when push comes to shove that those people will actually refuse orders and -- and do the right thing. >> now, that's a