for trump.ou. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: that is a lot of signs. do you remember the last election, donald trump will never, ever get the women. we have a tremendous number of women. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we have this tremendous number of women, and during the election night they said what is going on? you know what it is called, suppression. polls are just as fake as the news themselves. but women built 60%, and men will sue me for discrimination now. women fill 60% of all the new jobs created last year. women took 60%. what is wrong with you men? but the radical democrats are trying to destroy all of our country's tremendous achievement and our country's success. unprecedented. we have had unprecedented success. leaders come in from other countries, prime minister's, presidents, kings, queens, dictators sometimes, i hate to say it, dictators, and they all start off by saying mr. president, i would like congratulate you on the economy you created. the greatest anywhere in t

he was the donald trump of american politics before donald trump became donald trump of american politicians. the right wing of politics doesn't need two donald trumps. no one really cares what rush limbaugh says. not even rush limbaugh. the latest crazy thing that rush limbaugh says nowadays never makes it into the american news media because it's not as crazy as what the president of the united states said every day. including what the president said tonight. rush limbaugh had to give up many of his beliefs to become the faithful trump follower that he is and he confessed publicly that they were never beliefs at all. he didn't believe all that stuff he was saying. stuff that he and other republicans were lying about what they believed. he actually said that on his radio show and at the end of this hour, pulitzer prize winning columnist will join us about what donald trump has done not just to the republican party, but to our politics and whether the damage can be repaired. when donald trump won the presidential nomination, this week he said that the damage the presidency of donald trump ha

donald trump. >>> hello. i'm ari melber. on wednesday, bob mueller will give his highly anticipated testimony before congress. mueller is only speaking under subpoena. he already said the report is his testimony. we have gone through all 448 pag pages, scouring the report. in this hour, we present an in-depth look at the mueller report. >>> i'm speaking out today because our investigation is complete. >> special counsel robert mueller made his first and what he hoped were his last remarks into his probe into russian meddling, potential obstruction and the mueller report. >> we chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself. >> mueller resisted demands to testify before congress until two congressional subpoenas compelled them to agree. he will appear on wednesday. mueller's testimony comes in the shadow of the first person to see the long awaited report. trump attorney general william barr, who took the unusual step of summarizing mueller's report weeks before it was released and again

trump. those briefings conveniently leaked to the press. resulting in the publication of the dossier and launching thousands of false press stories based on the word of a foreign exspy. one who admitted he was desperate that trump lose the election and who was eventually fired as an fbi source for leaking to the press. after comey himself was fired by his own admission, he leaked derogatory information on president trump to the press for the specific purpose and successfully so, of engineering the appointment of a special counsel who sits here before us today. the fbi investigation was marred by further corruption and business zar abuses. top doj officials whose wife worked on fusion gps anti-trump -- fed information even after the fbi fired steele. the top fbi investigator and his lover, another top fbi official constantly texted about how much they hated trump and wanted to stop him from being elected. and the entire investigation was open based not on intelligence but on a tip from a fore

trump. and he took questions, he tried to get to all of the questions and answer them, and we'll see if trump was convinced by this performance. but he is certainly hanging on the ropes. trump publicly said he's standing with him but behind the scenes it's much more tenuous than his public proclamation of support for acosta. so we can have our fact checks of what he said, but trump is probably watching for the style he presented, did he look strong? did he look like he could keep fighting? and we'll see. >> robert, you agree with that assessment? >> the president knows congress, house democrats want to call the secretary up to capitol hill to get answers, and it won't be an interview and it won't be a press conference. it will be hostile house democrats taking on him and his record as an attorney. this was his opportunity, as annie said, to set the record straight. i have a few sources around the president i was checking in with text message before this program. one of them texted the world?

do enough protecting of donald trump, nor enough going after trump's enemies. mean, look at the bang-up job the new attorney general is doing. he's investigating the intelligence community itself. looking for evidence that they were all totally wrong about russia trying to help trump in 2016. now that is loyalty. when trump announced in may that he was granting the attorney general authority to selectively make public any classified information that he wants to, dan coats pushed back, warning about the consequences. coats said the intelligence community would continue providing, quote, apolitical intelligence to the president. we can't have that. so now coats is out and the president is ready to finally have someone at the top of the intelligence community who thinks the investigation into trump is a sham. >> americans need to know this, as they listen to the democrats and socialists on the other side of the aisle, as they do dramatic readings from this report, that volume ii of this report was not authorized under the law to be written. it was written to a leg

to the trump tower deal? >> i can't speak to that. >> i yield back, chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. director mueller, you've been asked many times this afternoon about collusion, obstruction of justice and impeachment and the steele dossier. i don't think your answers are going to change if i ask you about those questions. so i'm going to ask about a couple of press stories. a lot of what the american people have received about this have been on press stories. some of that has been wrong. some of those press stories have been accurate. april 13, 2018, mcclatchy reported that you had evidence michael cohen made a secret trip to prague during the 2016 presidential election. i think he told one of the committees here in congress that was incorrect. is that story true? >> i can't go into it. >> got you. on october 31, 2016, slate published a report suggesting that a server at trump tower was secretly communicating with russia's alpha bank and i quote, akin to what criminal syndicates do. do you know if that

, not a martyred trump. an impeachment would give them a martyred trump. >> and an acquitted trump. >> exactly. it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. >> how high will nancy pelosi let that number go. you know she counts. will she corral 150, as long as it's not 218? >> let me just say if you look at the vote when al green put forward his last impeachment vote, it got 66 votes to move forward this time 95. and there are, i think, 86, 87 democrats who are already on record of starting an impeachment proceeding. and i think after the mueller testimony next week, that number is bound to go higher. >> is this a defense by nancy? did she say i'll let you have all the joy of saying you want to impeach, but it ain't going to happen. >> could she send any more signals that she doesn't want to it happen? my fear i think is for the base of the party and for all those activists out there, people you want knocking on doors and being enthusiastic, you will dampen their enthusiasm by not going head-on at this president. an

trump told mr.n one of the calls after the congressman appeared on fox new that's did not preclude him from enkurcouragin his allies. it's hard to know who's running who. are they running trump in his tweets? these are the guys though, in all seriousness, want to talk about how ruthless republicans can be, they tried to impeach republican deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. so they're not elegant but they are ruthless. >> they are. what they're playing is the game of keepaway. they want to keep away from the president's doorstep everything 245 can be the least bint crimm nating, the least bit damaging, the least bit destructive to his presidency and in perspective to the campaign and subsequent. i look forward to these individuals dully named to go out and be the front line. this is for everything. >> this is war. >> this is war. you now have the guy who wrote the report sitting in front of them. so as best and as much you can do the ultimate takedown of him and discredit him, the better. >> to

trump. that may have something to do with trump's half-hearted, half attempt at a half-step backwards. trump asked about the chant back saying, i was not happy with it. i disagree with it. but since they just repeatedly repeated something he's been saying now loudly and proudly for five years, it's unclear to me what exactly he's even pretending to distance himself from. and as we've said every day this week, as we've come on the air, it's easy to stare at the trees and ignore the forest but it's worth reminding ourselves how far from normal trump's conduct is from an american leader. >> those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow citizens to take out their anger don't represent the best of america, they represent the worst of human kind and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior. >> i can't trust obama. i have read about him. and he's not -- he's an arab. he's not -- >> no. >> no? >> no, ma'am. he's a decent family man, citizen that i just happen to have disagreements with o

president trump: go ahead. ms. cameron: my dad died. president trump: ooh. ms. cameron: and my mom too. president trump: when did your dad die? ms. cameron: [inaudible] home. president trump: that's too bad. ms. cameron: and my mom too. president trump: and you loved them both, right? ms. cameron: yes. president trump: that's good. and they're proud of you, you know? they're looking down right now, because you're in the oval office. this is the big stuff, right? you're in the oval office, and they're looking down on you and they see gold, right? that's gold. ms. cameron: yes. president trump: that's really something. and they're very proud of you, right? ms. cameron: thank you. president trump: so, congratulations. ms. cameron: thanks. president trump: who would like to say? would you like to say something? anybody? on your great victory? mrs. pence: well, i think you should tell about your special accomplishment. mr. millett: on behalf of special olympics [inaudible] -- we have 15 total. we're [inaudible] to be here in this great room. it's a great honor and pr

we don't believe donald trump. other republican who voted not to condemn the president but voted in effect to condemn themselves, they did that, they voted to condemn themselves in history as actively complicit in the president's racism. before the vote the president tweeted "those tweets were not racist. i don't have a racist bone in my body. the so-called vote to be taken is a democratic con game. republicans should not show weakness and fall into their trap." i don't know why the president capitalizes the "r" in the word "racist" the way religious people capitalize the letter "g" in "god" out of reverence for that word. is it donald trump's reverence for the word "racist?" is that what he is signaling to racists with that upper case "r" for "racist?" is that what he's doing? every republican showed weakness and fell into donald trump's racist trap today except those four republicans who voted against donald trump's racism. why is it always the bones? why do racists always talk about their bones, as in i don't ha

trump found it amusing. he would say look at those kids, they're holding hands, they are so in love. he had a nickname for his wife, mother. donald trump that was the funniest thing ever. hence was always calling his wife's mother, karen. donald trump gets a call from mike pence, pence is beside himself. he's very upset and agitated. he tells trump in a brief phone call, you need to apologize. it needs to be sincere. i'm going back to indiana, we need to pray and think, i will be off the campaign trail for a couple of days. donald trump hangs up and he says, oh boy, mother is not going to like this. [laughter] a long excavation, sorry. [laughter] >> it was worth it. >> i feel like with mike pence, you reserved, you said as a whole, i think the word you used was up seen. why did you view him so harshly? >> a couple of things. history would judge all of these individuals. i'm just one, small voice in a chorus that is coming. i think it's one thing to accommodate someone on policy grounds, it's one thing to rec

. >> including donald trump. >> including donald trump. and then kavanaugh just decided and was coached to basically blow up and like chew the scenery as we say in the theater, right, to just act basically. perform his outrage and that turned everything, as if it changed somehow the truth of what we had seen the day before. it's a very sad moment in our democracy that the media is creating these rules and being played by donald trump in a lot of ways. >> you're an expert in disinformation. russian disinformation. but we're consuming a lot of it. i don't know if everyone even knows they are. your thoughts on -- just pick up on where heather took us. >> i mean, he's the master of disinformation, donald trump. the same way putin weaponized greefrance in russia and isis weaponiz weaponize grievance among muslims. i remember a mythical time called "tthe '60s, which not everyone remembers here around the table. and the demonstrations for ford increased it. i would be dismayed if there were not more demonstrations. it r

donald trump knew about jeffrey epstein and what donald trump called the younger side. terrific guy. that's what jeffrey epstein was to donald trump. to this day donald trump has not said a negative word about jeffrey epstein. donald trump has attacked the leaders of countries that are the strongest allies and attacked congressman justin amash this weekend for leaving the republican party. donald trump attacked elizabeth warren, chuck schumer, attacked me. he attacked hundreds and hundreds and thousands of people and never once said a single negative word about jeffrey epstein, not one word. jeffrey epstein does did not see it coming when his private plane took off from paris. >> epstein was arrested this past saturday evening at the airport aboard his private jet that had just landed from paris, france. >> contemporaneous with the arrest from epstein, agents executed a search warrant on his mansion in new york city. they recovered and seize and that was a search pursuant to a valid warrant and agent seized evidence including nude photographs of what appear to be undera

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trump. those briefings conveniently leaked to the press. resulting in the publication of the dossier and launching thousands of false press stories based on the word of a foreign exspy. one who admitted he was desperate that trump lose the election and who was eventually fired as an fbi source for leaking to the press. after comey himself was fired by his own admission, he leaked derogatory information on president trump to the press for the specific purpose and successfully so, of engineering the appointment of a special counsel who sits here before us today. the fbi investigation was marred by further corruption and business zar abuses. top doj officials whose wife worked on fusion gps anti-trump -- fed information even after the fbi fired steele. the top fbi investigator and his lover, another top fbi official constantly texted about how much they hated trump and wanted to stop him from being elected. and the entire investigation was open based not on intelligence but on a tip from a fore

trump. to enrich himself.i interviewed two people in this book we know donald trump very well who made it very clear. he didn't think he would win. he ran twice before as marketing stunts. in one case to enhance contract negotiations with nbc. when he finally ran in earnest, it was a large part put himself on the biggest global marketing stage ever. so that he could impress the kremlin to get his long desired moscow trump tower, so that he could sell more apartments around the world. so that he could get a. donald trump was never as rich as he claimed to be. so donald trump understood the way to make money, big money, was to get on that stage. when he won, it was a price to him and everyone else but then he realized. you know what? i can make money doing this. ... in his sense he is now i'm president; out in i looks like he has an opportunity to make money. his kids -- his son-in-law, jared kushner, and his daughter made over $100 million just off his hotels. while serving, for free, with no salary, at his adv

trump: thank you. reporter: [indistinct] pres. trump: ask again? i really think they must hate our country. i think the four congressmen we are talking about -- congresswomen, what they have said about israel, what they have said about our country, when they talk about discussing people, when they talk the way they talk, when one mentioned that brown people should speak for brown people, muslim people should speak for muslim people, that is not what our country is about. i think they are very bad for our country, very bad for the democrat party. i think you see that. they are pulling the democrats we left. nobody knows how to handle them. -- way left. nobody knows how to handle them. they are very bad for our country, absolutely. tensions. there's no racial tension. i had my best numbers recently and it is because of the economy and what i have done for the african americans. african americans are doing better than they have ever done in our country. we are creating numbers. look at the poverty numbers, look at some many different unemployment numb

trump.entage did you think they wanted tougher immigration laws in my state? i think it was almost 70%. my state. everybody knows that we're having these problems because we don't enforce our immigration laws. we love immigrants in my state. we are an immigration state. when venezuela has problems, where do they come? they come to florida. when columbia and resilience have problems, they come to our state, we love immigration. i suspect you need to tell donald trump that because that is not the message he gives to american people today. here is what is frustrating to me. why don't we do the things that solve the problems? why don't we secure our borders? no, i understand what you're saying. why don't we say, you know what? we love immigrants because we do. but let's have an immigration policy that actually works. then you can bring both parties, both parties need to have done this. they sit here and solve problems. you keep saying solve the problems, be practical, make deals with top isn't b

he did what donald trump does.wants to further divide the democratic party. >> distract and divide. >> this is a short-term gain for the president. it is not going to expand his base and get to 50%. there is a reason he is the only president in american history sinced at vent of polling to never get to 50%. this is exactly why. >> this is where we begin. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." it is monday, july 15. along with joe and me, we have msnbc contributor, and white house reporter and professor at princeton university. former u.s. senator, now nbc news and msnbc political analyst and contributor. great to have you all on board this morning. we'll get to that racist tro p everyo e in a moment. how poorly he's doing compared to praesident obama in the 2012 cycle. found his approval at 45%. disapproval at 52%. comparatively in july 2011, obama had 47% approval and 48% disapproval. general election matchups, trump loses handily to biden by nine points. 51 to 42. sanders bests by seven points. 50-43. senator

from the trump inauguration.t was -- there was a lot of strange things about the trump inauguration. the inauguration of president trump somehow managed to be one of the smallest and least ambitious inaugurals ever, while simultaneously costing more than both of the obama inaugurations combined, blowing the record for most money spent on an inaugural out of the water. there was the, like, you know, not totally top flight entertainment that still in inexplicably cost millions and millions of dollars. there were the empty bleachers along the parade route. there was the weird fight over the factually much smaller crowd size of trump's inaugural versus president obama's inaugural and the president ordering various people within the federal government that they should tell lies about that. the whole thing had a lot weird about it, from day one. and the finances of the inaugural committee continue to be shrouded in quite a lot of mystery. how did they spend over $100 million on that? there are reportedly not one or two

donald trump jr.what you say, i love it and let's meet. donald trump jr. showed up for the purpose of receiving disparaging information about hillary clinton. it's incredibly unpatriotic. >> as with so much with the trump campaign, you have questions about intent. was this an inept campaign leaning toward corruption. for many americans who read the report, the answers to that question are blurry. >> but the revelations found on pages 50 and 51 are clear. and couldn't be more alarm iing. russian hackers didn't just attempt to sway public opinion, in 2016 they tried to influence the results of local elections by penetrating voting systems. >> the gru also targeted private technology firms responsible for manufacturing and administering election-related software and hardware such as voter registration software and electronic polling stations. >> it take it is down to a local level and suggests a capability. it clearly would have been far more serious than anything else. >> beyond identifying evidence, mu

in o other words, just simply evaluating trump as a political undermining whatt potentiaial opening trumpoulde openingg up for the korean people. that is to say, trump may h have his own interest or calculations for why he is pursuing this kind korea in with north particular in this case, it might be for self grand iceman or photo ops, as many of the quotes you presented just now, but regardless of what i is individual interest might be, i think it presents a particular opportunity in this moment where we can actually carry out a concrete peace process. and in that sense, what senator about sanders mentioned about the importance of the work ahead after this kind of symbolic opening is really important. and on that note, i i think it s important in mention -- to mention that president trump spspecifically targeted and askd stephen begin to basically rally the state department and his staff to pursue do tell negotiations with the north korean counterpart in order to make the steps, set the foundation for the peace ahead. i think it is important to see this for what it is, whichch is that it

trump, and the first navy of the united dates, melania trump -- the united states, melania trump.ail to teh [applause] [chanting "usa"] [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] pres. trump: hello, america, hello. [cheers and applause] the first lady and i wish each and every one of you a happy independence day on this truly historic fourth of july. today, we come together as one nation with this very special salute to america. we celebrate our history, our people, and the heroes who proudly defend our flag, the brave men and women of the united states military. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we are pleased to have with us vice president mike pence and his wonderful wife karen. [cheers and applause] we are also joined by many hard-working members of congress. acting secretary of defense mark esper, and many other members of my cabinet, and also the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff gerald joe dunford. thank you. thank you. thank you. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: lieutenant general of the national guard and distinguished leaders representing each branch of the unite

donald trump jr. took this meeting, of course we investigated that, george papadopoulos came back and told the campaign they had emails, of course we investigated that, the president of the united states is tweeting, it's giving hope or a boost to illegal activity. i love wikileaks, what else does wiki leaks have. of course we would look into that, knowing they're a hostile actor. this is where he's been the most passionate, we did this for a reason, we had every right to do it, because the republicans are trying to say, you shouldn't have been here to begin with. >> to go back to the clarification that director mueller made about why they did not indict president trump, that's something the democrats had gotten excited about, they thought that this was big news. >> for good reason, and we all noted at the lunch break, because the idea that there was proof of a crime committed by the president, and the only reason it was not prosecuted by robert mueller is because of the justice department decision yo

trump.nd, second, a russian intelligence service conducted computer int esion operations againities, employees and volunteers working on the clinton campaign. translation, russia used the internet to fool american voters and hacatrs to attack demo computer networks. brangham: according to mueller's rept, the russian campaign began in mid-2014. that's when the employees of what's known as the internet research agency first ce to the u.s. to gather the material that they would later use in their elaborate social media postings. this is the ira's headquarters a. in st. petersburg, rus desjardins: by the end of 2016, the russians had set up fake social media accounts that reached millions of voters aimed at promoting trump o dividing americans.th branghamrussians created fake hashtags, like #kidsfortrump. they bought thousands of online ads. they impersonated u.s. citizens and set up real political rallies, like a 2015 confederate rally in hston. they made posters like this one of "miners for tr

trump. and that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in" right now with joy reid sitting in for chris hayes. >>> tonight on "all in" -- >> so the first note that i want to tell children across this country is that no matter what the president says, this country belongs to you. >> four freshmen congresswomen respond to racist attacks from the president. >> it is time for us to stop allowing this president to make a mockery out of our constitution. >>> tonight, the political firestorm over donald trump's racist politics and policy. >> does it concern you that many people saw that tweet as racist and that white nationalist groups are finding common cause with you on that point? >> it doesn't concern me because many people agree with me. >>> and how democratic leadership is responding to the president's attacks. >> weak minds and leaders challenge loyalty to our country in order to avoid challenging and debating the policy. >>> then -- >> we all know that aoc and this crowd are a

so it wasn't like we were all cool with donald trump. we were nothing with donald trump. it was like if i guy walked in here right now and was the head of the circus at madison square garden, you know, i might like him or not like him but nobody took him that seriously. you would say to him, oh, can i have that seat or something. donald trump was not a player. nobody was running to him if they were running to office in new york saying i need your endorsement. nobody was saying i need a photograph with you. he was not that kind of figure until birtherism. >> i want to say to you, karine, i think as i look at -- we know trump is a master of distraction, right? >> yep. >> he likes to, he gets in these fights to make you look away from whatever the more important thing is we should be looking at. he went after the squad. he regards them as he sees from his point of view, he looks at them and says they're divisive of the democratic party. there was a fight between him and pelosi. maybe i could drive a wedge in the democratic parties. he looks at sharpton, who has been a contro

but trump made more than an unforced error. he went something i think that everybody said was wrong in his tweet. so it backfires on him, too. the average american is enjoying their summer and saying what a fight in washington. trump has gone over the top. omar has gone over the top. everybody is over the top. they're going to get more disgusted. >> laura: congressman scalise? >> if you think this country is so bad -- by the way, the comments that they made, the squad, have been so anti-american, anti-semitic, they made factual misstatements. what they said today about people that are coming across the border having to drink out of toilets. that's not even happening. they say this stuff. these are the same people. aoc just a few days ago was calling nancy pelosi a racist. >> laura: did trump step on that message? i think there's a methodology here. but a lot of people texting me, they were at each other's throats and now they're together. is it not better for the republicans for aoc plus three to be the core of the party? we sa

they don't want trump alone.are succeeding. >> richard clark gets tonight's last word. the new book is the fifth domain. there is more to talk about. not just about our election but the russian attacks and other attacks on companies and on our severals. you have to come back and fill us in on the rest. that is tonight's "last word." the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. >> tonight donald trump by deploying old racist troeps seems to have done what the democrats failed at, uniting the opposition party after trump told four dually elected members of the united states congress to go back where they came from. the incumbent president also makes clear that themes like division, fear and race will be at the forefront of his 2020 reelection effort. he says he's not concerned because a lot of people agree with him and love it. and that sound you heard rising up from our republican elected representatives in washington and beyond really wasn't much at all. while this may seem like new territory for america, donald

trump's inaugural.ut rolling tanks into washington, d.c. as part of the inaugural parade. they required tanks, missile launchers and who else do you got? during the transfer the power, a member of trump's transition team floated the idea of including tanks and missile launchers in the parade. the source said they were legit thinking red square-north korea-style parade. that quote from a trump transition source. this is a source involved in the inaugural planning. sounding the alarm. you have to know this is happening. they want freaking missile launchers and tanks, you guys. they are seriously trying to do that. when the "huffington post" asked about these plans to use military equipment in trump's inaugural, a trump aide refused to address the matter on the record, but offered a vehement offer the record denial. we were never considering that. the reporter stuck with that story. she filed a freedom of information act request, smartly, not with the white house because you can't foil the white house, but

trump loses.y, a fantastic november 4th, 2020 "the new york times" headline, not so much. even if trump loses, he's not planning on leaving. >> 2026 i will be here. maybe they'll extend to ten. we ran one time and we're 1 and 0 and now we're going to have a second time. and maybe if we really like it a lot and if things keep going like they're going we'll go and we'll do what we have to do, a three year and four and five. we knew he -- i don't want to say. >> they tell you what they're going to do. he's telling us. and everybody i know that knows trump personally says in his mind he's never leaving. and you go, wow, it doesn't work that way. simple scenario, election comes in he's losing, he claims fraud and says there's 100,000 legals who voted for him, and all of a sudden and a day or two later mitch mcconnell issues a press release saying he recognizes the president's serious concerns about election integrity. lindsey graham gets up there and says democrats are attacking our democracy. at this

i think the challenge for the trump campaign is donald trump himself.that he is is just used to dividing and not adding. playing this kind of us versus them politics, which i think the country is hopefully very tired of. >> and jonathan, it seemed the president, his campaign this weekend was he doesn't want to leave a single possible racist vote for him behind. >> yeah. i mean, it's stunning that a man who burst onto the national political scene by questioning the citizenship of the first african-american president, who announced his campaign on june 16th, 2015 by saying within the first two minutes that mexicans were rapists, the idea that there were more stones to unturn is incredible. so this weekend it was just bizarre and bananas. i don't know how else to describe it, lawrence. >> neera tanden and jonathan capehart, really appreciate it. >>> mitch mcconnell had to go to the house floor. it wasn't legislation, it was comments that upset him. and it was not something president trump said. president trump said i have the power to lower my blood sugar

trump. in this email, donald trump jr. is being told that the russian government wants to pass along information which would hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> now, trump junior's response to that email is slide three. he said, and i quote, if it is what you say, i love it. especially later in the summer. then donald junior invited senior campaign officials paul manafort and jared kushner to the meeting. did he not? >> he did. >> this email exchange is evidence of an offer of illegal assistance. is it not? >> i cannot adopt that characterization. >> isn't it against the law for a presidential campaign to accept anything of value from a foreign government? >> generally speaking, yes, but generally the cases are unique. >> you say in page 184 volume i that the federal campaign finance law broadly prohibits foreign nationals from making contributions, et cetera. and then you say that foreign nationals may not make a contribution or donation of money or anything of value. it says

that president trump is.ut to the extent he represented something different, the idea that we were unhappy with the way the system worked, he in fact does sort of represent the beginning of a wave that crested about 20-some years later. and he did it from outside of the system. he tried to do it as an independent. he got 19% of the vote, as you pointed out, but we learned the limits of being independent in a two-party country. donald trump learned from that. he ran for president first in 2000 on a reform party ticket. that was the party that ross perot left behind before he dropped out. but then he learned the lesson from that. lessons you can't actually beat the system from outside. so he beat it from inside. what donald trump did was rather than trying to create a third party is he kind of took over one of the existing parties, in this case the republicans, and he used that to kind of, you know, overturn the existing order in washington. so yeah, there is a lot of similarities. you point out the protectioni

from donald trump.to go back and punch him in the face. i mean, the truth is, is this guy is bad for this country. gregg: punch him in the face, president of the united states. yes, punch him in the face. tester of montana. classy guy. and, of course, host joe scarborough completely ignored the comment. wake up, joe. but it's the just the new way of the left. there's a new poll, pew research center finding 91% of democrats believe the way politicians speak and their political differences could result in violence compared to 61% of republicans. wow. joining me now to talk about it, gina loudon, author, member of president trump's media advisory board and new co-chair of women for trump. gina, good to see you, thanks very much. >> great to see you, gregg, thank you. gregg: so here you have today aoc saying of the president, and i'll quote, his violent rhetoric end dangers millions -- endangers millions of americans. and, of course, the media ran with that all day long. you've got jon tester, u.s. senator,

the who is donald trump. who signed the what, which is the checks, from inside the oval office, right? we saw some of those checks reprinted in "the new york times." and they've been reported on by other news organizations. >> we saw at least one while he was in the oval office he signed. now we need to know about the others. but also as an investigator, i want to know did he fully direct, understand, concur with these payments each and every time? did he understand the level to which they might pose a violation of law? that is what is going to come out if i think this is where the judge is going. when he says there's national importance to releasing this material, that we need to see it, we need to know, that's what i'm thinking we're going to see, connections to this president and possibly even from the money coming from some foreign entity that actually is supporting the president. >> glenn kirschner, your thoughts on these developments and what we might expect tomorrow. >> nicolle, i went back to the judg

trump: you go ahead. reporter: [indiscernible] are you going to restore any package for afghanistan? pres. trump: we are paying $3.2 billion for afghanistan as aid. the problem is afghanistan was not doing anything for us. in going against us. andnd they were subversive going against us. i ended that about a year and a half ago -- the $1.3 billion. i think we have a better relationship with pakistan right now than we did when we were paying that money. but all of that can come back depending on what we work out. we're working out things that are very important. i consider this very important. we are working out things that are very, very important, and at the end of a very short time, we will have a great relationship with pakistan. and we should. it is a great country. i have many friends from pakistan, living in new york, i have a lot of pakistani friends. i will tell you that. they are great people, smart, tough, they are tough, no question about that. reporter: [indiscernible] pres. trump: i am not go

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trump and jeffrey epstein. through a mutual appreciation of wealth, women, and years of occupying adjacent real estate in palm beach and on page six, the lives of the two men routinely intersected for decades. if those days if you didn't know trump or epstein, you were a nobody, said a long time harvard university professor who later served on mr. epstein's defense team when he was charged with unlawful sex with minors in '06. peter, this is, indeed, more proof the president lived the life he lived as a civilian to the fullest before we even thought of donald trump in the realm of the presidency. >> yeah. we tend to forget that. we tend to forget what kind of a swinging lifestyle in effect he had. he went on howard stern and bragged about his exploits with women, and he obviously is on his third wife, and he was not the traditional model of a president or a future president working out. that's never stopped him in political life. he's managed to do what other politicians have not been able to do and sort of mov

kellyanne conway defended parscale, then trump went nuts and left the room. >> donald trump has never been a touchy feely kind of guy. he's not an i feel your pain kind of president. is this why or does it have to be more part of his personality? >> he's long been a germophobe. i talked to a person who used to work for him, jack o'donnell at the trump casino in atlantic city, and he said trump wasn't very good with customers because they would try to shake his hand on the casino floor, and trump would basically brush them off. if you're a businessman, people want to shake, especially donald trump's hand, who was a celebrity back in the day. >> daniel litman, thank you for your time this morning. >>> billionaire convicted sex offender, jeffrey epstein was arrested in connection with what law enforcement say is federal sex trafficking allegations. according to three law enforcement officials, the arrest which was part of a joint nypd and fbi investigation stems from incidents spanning from 2002 to 2005. epstein had flown from paris to new york where he was arrested in teterboro, new jer