trump: she's gone.n it was found that i had more indian blood in me then she did, then it was determined that i had not, but i still had more. that was the end of her 32 years scam on colleges. can you imagine any of those people doing what i am doing? there would be 200 people to show up, if they were president. if they were not, nobody would show up. is that right? [cheers] pres. trump: i have to say, i was saying on the way over -- tell me about the weather. we may have to cancel. are you crazy? can you imagine? i learned this morning they thought you were going to have a big storm, a big, big snowstorm. the people that get it wrong the most are the weather forecasters and the political analyst. [cheers] pres. trump: they said this is a big, big storm. it is going to be hitting green bay. we may have to cancel. i said, like how we are going to cancel -- like hell we are going to cancel. people were standing out 24 hours ago, 32 hours ago, outside. who stood out there for 24 hours? [cheers] pres. trum

trump: she's gone.as found that i had more indian blood in me than she did, then it was determined that i had none, but i still had more. that was the end of her 32 years scam on colleges. can you imagine any of those people doing what i am doing? there would be 200 people to show up, if they were president. if they were not president, nobody would show up. is that right? >> [cheers] pres. trump: i have to say, i was saying on the way over -- tell me about bad weather. we may have to cancel. are you crazy? can you imagine? i learned this morning they thought you were going to have a big snowstorm, a big, big snowstorm. the people that get it wrong the most are the weather forecasters and the political analysts. >> [cheers] [applause] pres. trump: they said this is a big, big storm. it is going to be hitting green bay. we may have to cancel. i said, like hell we are going to cancel. people were standing out 24 hours ago, 32 hours ago, outside. who stood out there for 24 hours? >> [cheers] pres. trump: th

donald trump's ultimate loyalty is only to donald trump.is not to his oath of office or the country. we've been documenting all of the things he is doing that hurt the forgotten man that he promised to be the champion of and who he is actively, aggressively working a against n his administration. cover-up l lie, deny, unless you knonow you did something wrong. amy: glenn, do you think president trump should be impeached over obstruction of justice? you have dom again quitting rather than firing, and president trump fired james comey. do you think, despite you have always said that this is not about collusion? >> no, i don't. the reason is because i think the question was whether he was acting as a president in his right to stop an investigation that he knew was based on false allegations or whether he was tried to cover up his own wrongdoing. once mueller concluded there is no evidence to establish the wrongdoing, i don't think yet a corrupt motive. i think his motive was this investigation is garbage and i'm very open about the fact i want

: trump's produced trump vodka, trump wine.going to be a real wall. it's going to be a trump wall. >> reporter: and this could have been the george washington colonnade. politico reports president trump did approve of the bed in which washington died. trump felt the bedpost and pronounced it a good bed to die in. the good thing about not plastering your name on things s you won't feel the pain of people taking it off, like at these trump place apartments. >> isn't this great? it makes me think of the song "i'm gonna wash that man right out of my hair." ♪ >> reporter: and there's no rush to wash out the guy in the wig. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> thanks for joining us. anderson starts now. >>> good evening. attorney general william barr says the fbi spied on the trump presidential campaign, his department is looking into it. his words, spying did occur. tonight, keeping him honest, given we know there was a duly approved counter intelligence probe under way at the time and there was russian interference in the campaign, what

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trump: very soon. of the things in the new deal is that it is very difficult financially for a company to leave the united states, fire all of its employees, move to mexico or canada. open up a new plant, make a product, sell it in for no tax. we end up with unemployment and nothing but loss and empty factories. it is not happening anymore, folks. not happening anymore. [applause] pres. trump: we have ended the war on american energy and the united states is the number one producer of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world. bigger than russia and bigger than saudi arabia. can you believe that? can you believe that? two years. [cheering] [applause] [chanting "four more years"] pres. trump: thank you very much. we are working on getting pipelines approved in texas that would normally take 15 years to get approved. we are trying to get them approved rapidly. if we do that, we will pick up another 20% to 25%. we already are leading by a lot. in all happened over a short period of time. we have confirmed

when donald trump announced his presidency. the weekly tabloid once known for celebrity gossip began playing an unlikely role in politics. the revealing look behind the pages of the "national enquirer". >> the "national enquirer" is at the checkout aisle all across america. >> powered by its sensational articles, it has become one of the significant poply cases in america. >> the readers are incredibly loyal to it. whatever they publish they will read and believe. >> exploiting tragedy. >> people have more of a fascination with this kind of stuff. detractors say the tabloid is ground zero for fake news. >> they sent me the $30,000 over the wire. >> this was a magazine that frankly, in many respects, should be very respected. >> donald trump's run for the white house inspired a whole new series of covers. >> donald trump weaponized the "national enquirer" in a way that hadn't been done. >> his alleged ally was the "national enquirer" boss. david pecker. >> it's a perfect marriage. it is a marriage made in tabloid heaven. >> i th

trump. >> emily, we just heard neal katyal say he never expected himself to be saying that attorney general william barr is acting in a trumpian way. did you ever can expect to hear neal katyal to say he was acting in a donald trumpian way? when neal and i first talked about the attorney general's first letter about the mueller report, we did it with some hope, we did it as optimistic -- we greeted as optimistically as we could. we've been struggling to find any since then. >> if you go back further in william barr's history when he was in the george h.w. bush administration, he pushed for a very broad theory of executive power. including granting pardons to more people under iran-contra. i think that this faith that barr maybe because he was associated with hw was going to be the sort of moderate force, it's proved to be misguided. i think if you go back and look at his previous writings, including the memo he wrote last summer, they just look like they're setting up more of the kind of rhe

donald trump. >> i noticed donald trump come to the building.er were very friendly. she had an argument with the coworker. who says i will call mr. trump when you have an argument with somebody? and apparently, she did. >> he says after he made repeated complaints to superior's about the housekeeper's treatment of other staff, he was asked to resign from his job. but after he left, he says he could no longer find work as a doorman. >> weeks, months. turns out almost a year i couldn't find a job. >> fearing he had been blacklisted, he contacted a reporter at the nation"national enquire enquirer", thinking the tabloid might be interested in buying his story about trump east alleged affair. >> he says, you get to like $30,000 and you will be referred to as an ex-trump employee. >> as a precondition of payment, ami asked him to sign over the rights to his story in perpetuity. the contract also stipulated that he would be subject to a million dollar lawsuit if he spoke about the rumor. >> i get phone calls on a regular basis that i could never speak

trump: thank you.nd applause] pres. trump: i want to thank chris and wayne. i am thrilled to be here in indiana with the men and women of the n.r.a. you are great american patriots. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: chris, wayne, oliver, i have been following oliver for a long time. great guy. three extraordinary champions for the second amendment. and i am a champion for the second amendment, and so are you. it is not going anywhere. it is under assault. it is under assault, but not when we are here. not even close. i also want to thank our tremendous vice president and indiana's native son, mike pence . he has done a fantastic job. [applause] pres. trump: we are grateful to be joined by a number of terrific leaders from the hoosier state. governor eric holcomb. where is eric? you can't miss eric, he is so big. [applause] pres. trump: thank you, eric. senator todd young, a terrific guy. [applause] pres. trump: thank you, todd. senator mike braun, what a job he is doing. [applause] pres. trump: and re

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and the trump administration. so this declaration about the kinds of harm that can come to the united states when russia builds those kinds of relationships with people associated with u.s. politics particularly when there are surreptitious relationships that is stark stuff at this point given we're seven days out from the redacted mueller report. well, the fight over whether or not that document could be admitted in court was resolved today. that declaration from the former top counter intelligence official at the fbi will be admissible for her sentencing. that means it's possible that we might see that fbi expert actually testify at her sentencing in open court tomorrow. but butina's sentencing hearing is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. in federal district court tomorrow in many d.c. that does it for us tonight. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell." >> kind of surreal in the last hour to see bridget kelly sitting there with you. >> right. >> who investigated bridgegate, better than any of us and mo

trump regards as the most dangerous potential opponent. trump's concerns seemed evident.ed his remarks. the electrical workers and the president tweeted i employed thousands of electrical workers, they will be voting for me. i bought them, i own them. shannon petty piece and mike. ma'am, memory thank you, both. mike, you are the expert. you know, i don't know. to me he's obviously who he is. he is overdoing things with personal space. i haven't noticed it, but all in the pictures, i've seen it in in the television shots. he does it. >> he does it. he said i get it. i understand i have to live in my space. on stage, he can't help it. this is who he is. >> sorry he doing it to make it lighter. hugging that kid around his neck. >> you can hear the advice from staff. his instinct is to do one thing and he tries to make light of it. i was there. he had to come out and apologize. not really. joe biden isn't in the mood to apology, but he knew he had to address it. i can tell you, other campaigns were jumping on this. they thought maybe he had moved beyond it and he brings it up

, trump. >> not a single message, it doesn't involve trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump, trump,rump, trump, trump, trump, trump ( cheers and applause ) ♪ - ♪ i'm goin' down to south park ♪ ♪ gonna have myself a time - ♪ friendly faces everywhere ♪ humble folks without temptation ♪ - ♪ i'm goin' down to south park ♪ ♪ gonna leave my woes behind - ♪ ample parking day or night, people spouting howdy neighbor ♪ - ♪ headin' on up to south park, gonna see if i can't unwind ♪ - ♪ [muffled] - ♪ come on down to south park and meet some friends of mine ♪ - ♪ [muffled] a lot of people say, "i'll believe it when i see it" but i tell you what, they got it backwards. because there are certain things in life you can only see when you first believe

trump: thank you, everybody. pres. trump: thank you, folks. [applause] pres.rump: thank you very much. [applause] ♪ >> you can't always get what you want. >> new jersey democratic senator cory booker officially kicks off his presidential campaign today with a rally in his hometown of newark. watch live coverage starting at 1:00 right here on c-span. is live in, c-span south bend, indiana, where there will be a democratic presidential nomination announcement. live coverage begins sunday afternoon at 2:00 eastern here on c-span. barbara bush has finally had enough. they were out of the white house, she did not need to bite her tongue anymore. that she took offense at it. reporters were at her door asking questions about it, that was not true. that was designed to give nancy reagan some heartburn. she said to nancy reckon, and don't you ever call me again. and she hung up. q&a, usa today never see- you will my diaries. her diaries are capped at the bush library but they are not available for public view until 35 years after death. i understood that and i thought

appointed by president trump. of representatives yesterday to testify on the president's budget proposal for the labor department and we knew he was going to be asked about his days as a federal prosecutor in florida when he made a deal with president trump's billionaire friend jeffrey epstein facing charges of possible sex trafficking and child rape. knowing that that was going to happen, you'd think that alex acosta would have been a little more careful about the labor department's budget for stopping child labor and human trafficking. >> the international labor affairs bureau, ilab, within the department of labor is responsible for combatting exploitive child labor, forced labor and human trafficking, is that correct? >> that is correct. >> so, the smart move for alex acosta would have been to increase the labor department's spending on the ilab piece of their budget. it's a relatively small item in the labor department budget, so a small increase in a small item in the budget would help the labor secretary wit

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always going to be donald trump.t word." "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> tonight, pressure mounting on attorney general william barr to release the mueller report. the doj on defense amidst leaks from the special counsel's office. is there more to what mueller found about obstruction than barr let on? >>> the president does an about-face on his border shutdown threat while battling pressure from democrats to release his tax returns next week. >>> and joe biden today spotted in his

president trump is on the border. we're going to talk to those suing trump. joe biden is raising eyebrows with comments about the 2020 race and a joke about giving hugs. we're going to start with democrats in congress ramping up the pressure with probes into trump's taxes and business dealings. today the president's lawyers told the treasury department that his taxes should not be released to congress, and trump himself claimed the law was on his side. >> oh, i don't know. that's up to whoever handles it. i don't know. hey, i'm under audit, but that's up to whoever it is. from what i understand, the law is 100% on my side. >> so obviously democrats in congress don't agree with that, but in any legal fight they're going to face trump allies in key positions at the irs. reporting the top lawyer at the irs has ties to the trump organization and that putting him in place was a key priority for the president. the probe into trump's finances extending beyond his taxes, though, his accounting firm will reportedly give ten years of trump documents to congress us once

she is someone trump trump who as a supporter, i would be -- she is someone who as a trump supporter, i would be more nervous running against. they can enthuse their base. here is where, the harris had her deer in the headlights moment. in the town hall the other night, she was asked a question about the whole voting rights for felons. you start seeing those little things. you go back to the little moments. like what michael dukakis made that ultimately tanked his candidacy. those clips whether it is, harris or bernie sanders either not having an answer for the boston bombers or advocating the should have voting rights, those are things that when you start talking about the rest of the country, people kind of year that and say that is kind of weird, kind of outside the mainstream. i still think kamala harris has a very formidable candidacy. mayor pete needs to watch his back from his fellow democrats. they are coming after him. host: one more. we will stick to the top five in the latest poll. bento o'rourke. guest: his has been confusing. he put up a good run against ted cruz last yea

trump's presidency into the legitimacy of trump's presidency.so pled guilty to lying to congress. so it is hard to understand yes thinks that congress will give him a break now. he says he has all these e-mails, voicemails, attachments, why didn't he show that to mueller? why didn't the mueller team find it? >> we don't know that's the case, do we? if the sxagts investigators did not see the files, that's malpractice. and it was probably hidden somehow. if they did look at those documents, and now cohen is saying, hey, i may be able to shed some light on this. then i think all mr. cohen is doing is pushing back his report date of may 6 to the bureau prisons. if they did not peruse and go through the 14 million files, i can't believe that's in his computer and his phone, and they find any documents that corroborate, support, and buttress what michael cohen the perjurer says, that's bad news for the president of the united states. >> do you think this could have been a strategy from cohen's lawyers to roll these things out as he got closer and clo

trump: an incredible guy. a friend of mine and all of us for a long time and he's going governorship the one day soon and we are not going to be happy about that at all. phil bryant. [applause] pres. trump: he is a fantastic governor. he built the african-american museum and it is one of the best jobs i have seen in a long time. a lot of money but under budget and ahead of schedule. you don't see that often in government. north dakota governor doug burgum. thank you, doug. [applause] pres. trump: texas attorney general ken paxton. thank you. [applause] pres. trump: washington, d.c. attorney general carl seen. florida's former attorney general pam bondi, respected by everyone. [applause] pres. trump: and they are joined by many faith and law enforcement leaders. we have tremendous numbers of people here today that are strong believers in out only what we are doing, but also faith and faith is a good thing. thing.ook, it is a great i also want to recognize someone you all know well who worked tirelessly on this

mcgahn did not respond to trump on thursday but "the washington post" reports it this way, some trump advisors said privately thursday that they fear trump's ire could prompt mcgahn to speak creating a wave of challenges for the white house. politico reports his inability to move on it is starting to worrisome of the president's allies. they want trump to quote stick to playing up mueller's conclusion that his campaign did not engage in a criminal conspiracy with the russian government. one former trump campaign official described the president's post mueller volley as a complete and utter disaster. a former white house official told politico he needs to channel frozen. quote, he needs to let it go. it's especially not helpful to him but he can't help himself. trump is taking on house democrats running a legal blockade to resist the subpoenas that and request they try to scrutinize his administration. he gave a hint about his battle strategy during this exchange after the midterm elections. >> do you expect that when the democrats take over the chairmanship of these important committe

and that infamous 2016 trump tower meeting between donald trump jr.awyer. >> whether these contacts were sufficiently illicit or not to rise to the level of a criminal conspiracy, they are unquestionably dishonest, unethical, immoral, and unpatriotic. >> reporter: those contacts continued after the election, including incoming national security adviser's call to sergey kislyak about sanctions imposed by president obama. to the fallout of the report continues today, with not only democrats, but also now republican senator mitt romney releasing this statement today after reading through the report, saying, "i am also appalled that among other things, fellow citizens working in the campaign for president welcomed help from russia, including information that had been illegally obtained, that none of them acted to inform american law enforcement. reading the report is a sobering revelation of how far we have strayed from the aspirations and principles of the founders." now, i've been speaking to white house officials who, of course, jake, give a counter vi

what to expect president trump to say? guest: i think it will be a typical trump campaign rally.

he is a trump appointee. democrats will really turn their focus on rosenstein at this point, we haven't had that too much yet. but, as you both pointed out earlier, he did have a role with the attorney general, whom democrats are furious at, over how he's handled the rollout of the report. and other issues related to the investigation. he was part of that decision making to not pursue obstruction of justice charges. right now, democrats obviously are going after barr, they do want to speak to mueller soon. and when they -- do they turn their attention to rosenstein at some point, we'll wait to see. >> i want you to take a listen, jeff, to president trump denying that he told white house counsel don mcgahn to fire special counsel robert mueller, which mcgan testified under oath about to robert mueller and provided contemporaneous notes and a contemporaneous account to his lawyer and he was testifying under threat of perjury. take a listen. >> i never told don mcgahn to fire mueller. if i wanted to fire mueller

every candidate is anti-trump. was the firsten two, forcefully and say the house should come out with articles of impeachment but every candidate is anti-trump. they all want to be him. the question is which candidate is anti-trump vote here's what i bring to the table. former vice president joe biden's plants. a video announcement is expected on wednesday. there was a report that he traveled to charlottesville, for a series of speeches. have you heard in the -- we have not heard anything definitive, have you? >> no. we don't even know where he will bases campaign. it be based in scranton, pennsylvania, his hometown? i think for joe biden, i'm not sure all of the early strategizing really matters in the end. joe biden is jumping in late and will have to post very impressive. the number is all about name recognition. it is difficult to break out of the pack and leap ahead. a remarkable aspect of pete buttigieg's candidacy, that he has succeeded in doing that. the first round of debates are in june and that is a bett

i think it is proof once again that you can't out-trump trump. nielsen did everything to be the secretary that trump demanded including as i was saying in the earlier hour being the face and name of the immoral and cruel family separation policy. this will be a legacy that follows her to whatever her next career will be. this shows to me this is consistent with what happened to i.c.e. head vitello, people emailing me about what's going on from inside the department telling me this is a -- this is a clean-out. that vitello who had shown some concerns about donald trump's closing of the border shall, you know, i don't even want to say threats, last week, and nielsen could not sustain -- could not sustain the trump's approval. what this means for the next round, we don't know in terms of who would be next. kevin is, you know, is fine. he's not -- i mean, fine in the sense that he will be a good -- making the trains run on time, so to speak, with what trump wants. i don't anticipate that he will be the eventual nominee. i'd like to add one more thing

i've seen trump who never apologizes.t biden is the only politician who says he'll stop doing something while doing it. if joe biden was robbing a bank, he would be, like, this is completely inappropriate, i should been doing this. i understand. hand me a bag -- i've learned so much and will do better in the future. ( laughter ) i think joe biden doesn't get it, which is great news because guys who don't get it is one of the most powerful voting blocs in america. moving on, vlad, president of russia and hairless grizzly bear. according to a new report, putin's security team is apparently using a device that scrambles g.p.s. signals wherever he goes. a completely true story. researchers figured this out because they noticed, for example, when president putin was driving near the ocean, all the ships nearby, their g.p.s. systems suddenly told them they were on land 40 miles away. ( laughter ) it just scrambled g.p.s. in the cars nearby, waze started speaking in a russian accent -- (russian accent) next, drive into lake. rec

and to candidate trump. and think about the counter factual. what if they had never done anything and president trump won the election. he would be in a much stronger place than he is today. i think it is in republicans' national interest to stand and say we've got to push back on the russians. we can't allow this to happen again. >> brian, if we use a standard metric of fairness, uniformity, say what if you swapped the candidate and country, how would it play if this broke today, and in that spirit, i want to ask you, i have shown viewers you have a point of view and work for hillary clinton, who was of course targeted, her team targeted, but if it were a different candidate getting help from iran and it was george h bush or clinton bill clinton, how would that play. trump asking people affiliated with the campaign to find the emails, michael flynn recalled he made the request repeatedly. flynn subsequently contacted multiple people in an effort to obtain the emails. this is not a chargeable conspiracy, i h

she helped president trump.e see "the new york timeses" .esterday they had an editorial it implies kristjen nielsen said no. i disagree with that characterization. wayink she helped pave the for a lot of these policies that are continuing. wewe see her replacement was to cacarry out what he calls binary likes -- choice, sort of sophie's choice. these parents travel to bring their children to safety in america are told you have a choice. you can agree to let us take your child w while we detain you while you seek asylum or you can detained the child with you. wewe have heard ababout the hore conditions and these facilities. that is kind of what she opened the gates for host of amy: what about the people who say no? >> i'm glad you brought that up. people say no and the courts and at the local level. in the courts we saw two huge victories. kristjen nielsen was to work with trump's son-in-law and close advisor jared kushner i'm getting mexico to agree to hold people while they were seeking asylum instead of lettin

we were doing trump tower. so it was from '80 to '84 we were building trump tower. time there were about ten people in the organization. that's it. >> he doesn't own a backhoe, a truck or a crane, t a licensing building put my name on your building for "x." >> when i was working for him he owned the building. so no, he didn't do any work. we contracted it out. >> when you hear that he is fighting a congressional subpoena with a counter lawsuit because it's about the release of his financials, does that make sense to you? >> sure. every time he had any problem at all he'd sue immediately and if there was a dispute h liked to be the plaintiff. i'll sue first. he thought that was an advantage. here he was going to be the plaintiff, but the idea was to delay. i think that's what's behind this. maybe avoid getting those financial records out before, you know, the next election comes up. >> what's it like for you? it's been two years plus to watch. i have friends from high school, can't believe i get paid for doing anything. i mean, for you to watch this guy who was in yo

the donald trump tax reform, donald trump and republicans were dishonest about this. that democrats they tried to get democrats involved and couldn't get them solved. that was not true. they designed this process to go around democrats and on the paul ryan point, i want to add one thing. we get into a paul of ryan in this book. i think a lot of people close to him would say his take away was he trashed donald trump throughout the entire 2016 campaign. he didn't endorse him. he was very fervently against trump. we have a chapter called "not a trump guy" about paul ryan. but then donald trump won and paul ryan felt like he had two choices. there was a fork in the road. he could either concede he lost the argument and stay in government and what he thought was keep the government on the rails. he said he didn't want to the just never trump and take his toys home or he could leave. he chose to stay in government. >> but ended up driving the republicans into a defeat in the house of representativeses. we could go on and on about this. thank you very much, jake sherman, ann

trump is like that. he wants a safe race in the white house where i don't hear any words about how the russians helped. it's hurtful to him. do you realize what mick mull vainy is doing? protecting the president from realities because he doesn't want to hurt his feelings. this is the babying of a president. >> this idea that the president surrounded himself with people he feels like he can trust and are loyal to him and he wants to loyalty to shield him from the things he doesn't want to talk about. i think of course one of the most striking things about the mueller report is the idea that he is not guilty of obstruction of justice because he didn't want to carry out the orders. the president has aides around him, trying to protect him. in some ways it's what the white house wants and if you are donald trump and you have to not discuss the things you don't want to discuss. >> that's like putting blinkers on the horse. the daily beast reported in february, trump's campaign was the only one declined the ha

not just trump tower moscow. trump has decades of links with organized crime and very murky sources of funding that raise questions about whether anyone has a tether on him. that hasn't fully been answered. mueller chose not to dig into that. we have several committees in congress looking at this issue, the new york attorney general and southern district of new york. i think what unites this shouldn't be a partisan or ideological issue. it's about good government. it's about transparency at the co-leadership and good public policymaking not corrupted by greed or self-interest. >> you've been sued by trump. i imagine you're not surprised that he took this route as a sitting president of roping his kids in, surprise surprise, and suing the banks so they can't comply. >> also ironically one of the plaintiffs in this case is the trust he set up to ostensibly keep him from conflicts of interest. that entity is suing about disclosures. trump has been doing this since 1973. roy cone taught him how to weapon size the leg

trump. anna: it is pretty stunning when you think about it that right before the election, he is not going to let his members say do what you need to do to win, but he considered making a public announcement that he was not with the president. he was so offended by the hollywood tape and what was happening and mitch mcconnell said don't do that. it felt like that would have been the end of the republican party and it felt like they needed to be with this president because he was going to be the party nominee. host: talk about the relationship between mitch mcconnell and this president. how often do they talk. they spoke a lot and mitch mcconnell went up to trump tower days after the election. early decembers 2016, and convinced the president and discussed with him, his plan for that tradition -- judiciary, how mcconnell was going to work with the white house counsel to control all nominees to the supreme court, lower district courts, federal courts. he wanted to remake the judiciary and mitc

trump. it becomes a test for donald trump's commissioner of the irs who has no legal basis whatsoever for not turning over those tax returns by wednesday of next week as chairman neal has demanded. and so all of the donald trump appoint appointees involved, secretary mnuchin, brend mcintosh, william barr, irs commissioner charles reddick might be staring at donald trump's lawyer's letter right now trying to see if there is any legal hook they can hold on to as an excuse for not complying with very of office v and recognize that the president's lawyer's letter is a legal joke to be dismissed as soon as they read it. maybe. the lawyer's letter says requests for tax returns and return information must have a legitimate legislative purpose. chairman neal's letter says consistent with its authority the committee is considering legislative proposals and conducting oversight related to tax laws the extent to which the irs audits and enforces the federal tax laws against a president. it is necessary

president trump put a trump plaque, president trump plaque on that new piece of construction authorizedthe obama administration and claimed to his voters that that's my wall. that thing right there that you can see through. >> i don't know. it looks like a fence to me, not really a concrete wall, 30 foot high wall. i don't know, my eyes tell me it's a fence, not a wall, but i think is absolutely right. donald trump is a one trick pony. whether it's, you know, 2016, 2018, or 2020 he is going to use like xenophoic appeals, anti-immigrant appeals, calling them animals. that is his -- that's his strength. he's not president of the united states. he is president of his base. now, the good news is that that is not a majority of the country. a majority of the country thinks that what trump is doing is actually morally indefensible and wrong, but he is counting on exciting his base, getting them enthusiastic, riling them up. i do think it's because they're attacking some other group. it's always a politics of subtraction, never addition for him. i think the bottom line of this is he's not growi