i think donald trump is beatable.d to beat an incumbent president, particularly with the current campaign finance laws in which an incumbent president can raise unlimited money. the last incumbent not in the federal funding system to lose wa herbert hoover and he had a bad year. but it's ominous. if the democrats get their act together and coalesce behind a really good ticket, they should be able to win this race. but i do think, looking at polls now, trying to predict what's going to happen november 2020, is not very useful. >> and stewart, we do know historically that when an incumbent president is challenged in the primaries within his own party, that incumbent president never wins re-election, every single time it's happened. >> yeah, it's interesting. if you sort of drill down, whether or not that's a leading or trailing indicator. the fact that there is a primary, an indication of a larger weakness, and that's why he loses? or the fact that he's in a primary why he loses? the reality is the primaries have proven

trump: thank you. it is great to be joined by a number of champions for america's veterans, including secretary of education betsy devos. betsy? betsy, doing a great job. deputy v.a. secretary james byrne. james, thank you. great job. a man who has really done a great job, i do not know if the -- if he is appreciated. sometimes it does not work out that way. he has done an incredible job. your-- if he state is doing phel business. i went to take all of the credit, but i cannot because he has done a lot. he has been a truly great governor, matt bevin. thank you, matt. kentucky has had record numbers , it is the best year they have ever had in just about any category. it is a really incredible thing. and a man that i just watched on television, he is so good. you can do television for me anytime you want. congressman thomas massie, where is thomas? good job. thomas, say hello to our friends back in washington. that was a good job. i just watched you. i cannot come to kentucky without also praising the ex

trump: is there anything better than a trump rally? >> no. mr.: what about a sleepy joe biden rally? [booing] mr. trump: some beauties. [laughter] i sort of hope it is him. i don't mind any of them. you got pocahontas is rising. [booing] mr. trump: you got kamala, kamala is falling. [crowd booing] mr. trump: you got beto. [crowd booing] mr. trump: beto is like gone. but we will see what happens, you know, whoever it is, i don't know it matters but different, different people. i think sleepy joe may be able to limp across the finish line. but today they announced that they are going to cut way back on his appearances because he is such a disaster, they are going to have fewer appearances. you've heard that, right? they are going to cut back on his appearances. could you believe it? if i ever did that, it would be over. the fake news would get us, but we don't let them get us because it is fake. and today the deputy editor of the new york times was demoted. isn't that beautiful? [crowd booing] [applause and cheers] mr. trump: all the news that is n

melania trump's bets. 8-1. trump to marry -- this is real stuff.t is 50-1. and melania trump to run for president against trump in 2020 is 200-1. other bets. trump convicted by the senate in his first material. 16-1. trump impeached by the house in his first material. 3-1. trump opens area 51 to the public in first material. 2-1. france will ask for the statue of liberty back. 200-1. and finally, trump narcissism specials betting odds. trump to have a u.s. navy ship named after him. 7-1. to have a u.s. military base named after him. 12-1. trump to publish precise dimensions of his hands on twitter. 50-1. okay. the interesting thing is going back to the betting odds. that right now, odds still have trump as 50/50 in vegas. >> there's the power of incumbency. i would say to go back to the silly ones, do they have bachelor trump in the white house. that work remarkable theater. we think we're in a remarkable theater now? imagine that. >> you say that in jest. we all know that trump is into producing a reality show. that would be a show. even as we wat

if donald trump gave that answer on a tv game show, even trump voters would know that donald trump is going to lose that game show. everyone at the g7 is reading the polls in the united states that give them every reason to hope that donald trump will only be attending one more g7 meeting. and they know that the next president to attend the g7 meeting after donald trump will never say that the solution to anything is "the right whatever." leading off our discussion tonight, ambassador wendy sherman, secretary of state for political affairs and msnbc global affairs contributor, and an msnbc political analyst. wendy sherman, there is so much to react to in this g7 weekend. i leave it open to you to take your pick. >> it's really as i sort of said half tongue in cheek a doozy. they treated him, the other leaders, with kid gloves because they didn't want to agitate as what they perceive as really a child who could throw a temper tantrum at any moment. your whole riff on tariffs is so true, lawrence, because the president only looks -- even though he said in his press conference today he d

president trump: where? >> ukraine. president trump: we're looking at ukraine now. i was going to meet with the new president but because of the fact we have this really massive hurricane coming in, i had to cancel my trip to poland where i was going to meet the president of ukraine among other things. mike pence is going to poland and taking my place and will be a great job. it will be a beautiful weekend and celebration of the past and mike pence will do a great job. i felt it was important i stay here. and we'll be up at camp david working hard. we have a lot of things happening with respect to that hurricane. we have to be very careful. it could be one of the biggest that we've seen. so far it's looking not good, i have to be honest with you. >> what about china? >> dividing the trip to poland and germany? president trump: i'll be going to poland at a later date. we have a great relationship with poland and we'll be doing that and angela merkel invited me to go to germany so at some point we'll be setting that up. [inaudible question] president trump: i don't wa

supreme court be trump appointees, just those appointed by trump. court. i don't hear a lot of democrats talking about that. i didn't hear any of the democrats during the debates talk once about the supreme court. in fact. but, you know, as you lay out, joe, there are certainly a number of pickup opportunities for democrats in the senate. i think it gets a little hard because you have states like alabama where you have senator doug jones who is going to have a really tough fight there. and states that are kind of on the bubble. north carolina. it's going to be hard to knock off tom tillis though he is a vulnerable guy. susan collins as well. that will be a really tough race. it really is where republicans from what i'm hearing are putting all of their resources. it is their firewall especially if they lose the presidency. >> all right. thanks so much for being with us. we always appreciate it. >> thanks, joe. >>> coming up, another run-in between the trump administration, civil rights, and the supreme court. we'll explain the latest headline. heliad

[indiscernible] president trump: that is ok. i don't mind. the tweet is a repeat of what i heard over the news. i know his house was robbed, and i thought that was too bad. that was not meant as a wiseguy tweet. his house was robbed, and it came over the news at a certain moment last night. >> [indiscernible] president trump: china, number one -- you have to understand, we are so far behind, we have been treated so badly. i blame our leaders, our past trade representatives. they have done a horrible job. china, we can't just make an even with china. we have to make a much better deal with china, because they have an unfair playing field, and i am turning it around. we are getting 25% of $250 billion. now we will be getting 10% of probably close to $350 billion. that is a lot of money. china has to do a lot of things to turn it around, but you will be seeing -- it goes on september 1. frankly, if they don't do them, i can increase it substantially. if i wanted to, i could increase it to a much higher number. >> [indiscernible] president trump:

when he got elected i tried to do the good trump/bad trump thing. give him a pat on the back when he did something good, attack him when he did something bad. i'm on conservative talk show radio, all they want to hear is the seanty b hannity bad. the guy walks on water. to be honest, i didn't pay that much attention to him. i thought he would make a few jokes and that was it. but every time he opened his mouth and he lied and he lost me for sure at helsinki when he stood in front of the world and said i'm with putin, he's my friend, i don't like my intelligence community. that was it and i have never, ever gone back. >> what do you think the best and most effective way, because the idea of his fitness -- >> he's nuts. nuts. >> the truth is that whether people say it disparagingly or affectionately, anyone who comes in contact with him comes away saying he's crazy but this is a hard story to cover and hard attack to make. what are sort of your proof points? >> he's a psychopath, he lies every time he opens his mouth, he's the big of the narcissist we

this is just six things. >> trump store, ground level. trump cafe, ground level. but i will say, if you're thirsty for a coffee, it's easy to figure out where starbucks is. >> level two. >> the trump building includes five floors of retail. unless you spend a very, very long time in the lobby or wade through a mountain of public records, it is not easy to find out who takes the elevators to the office floors and 39 stories of luxury condos above. that's always been the case even before he was president. >> they're not being transparent about who is doing business here. >> donald trump's potential conflict of interests begin with his clients and tenants. dan alexander and his team have been piecing that information together. >> it's a business with a lot of tentacles. and everywhere you look you find conflicts. >> how do you do it? how do you figure out with donald trump has conflicts of interest that strike at the heart of american democracy. >> donald trump has to list, hey, i own this skyscraper. but he doesn't have to say anything about how the actual business

trump: maybe neutral. reporter: [indiscernible] the democrats are calling your supporters the white nationalists. does that help you? pres. trump: i don't like it when they do it. i am not any of those things. i think it's a disgrace. i think it shows how desperate the democrats are. right now, i'm working with the democrats on meaningful background checks. that's a big thing. hopefully we can do something. i don't want to focus too much on that. i will say this. for them to throw out the race word, racist, racist, racist -- that is all they use. to anybody. they called nancy pelosi racist. she is not a racist. they call anybody racist when they run out of cards. i am winning in the polls. they are desperate. they have lousy candidates. they have bad candidates. i watched the debates. i mean, i looked -- well, joe biden can't answer a simple question. something is going wrong with him. the only thing is, a lot of people think that he was the one that wanted bob mueller to testify. because it made joe look

he said i've never seen -- they have trump banners and trump hats and trump buttons.] pres. trump: true. in this great congressman said, i don't know, but i can tell you one thing, if the rest of the country is voting like tennessee is voting, you are going to win by a lot. and we won. and we won by a lot. [cheering] pres. trump: our nation is stronger today than ever before. [cheering] pres. trump: we have the number one economy on earth. no economy is close. [cheering] rebuilding: we are the awesome might of the united states military, and soon it will be stronger, relatively speaking, than at any time in our history. and when we took over, it was depleted. [cheering] pres. trump: we took over a depleted military. it is not depleted anymore, i can tell you that. our spirit is strong, our stride is back, and our stand is clear. we are finally putting america first. it is about time. [cheering] [chanting "usa!"] pres. trump: we have created 6 million new jobs since election day. more than 7 million americans have been lifted off of food stamps. [cheering] and they are

trump, president trump represented the change that we all wanted.t could have been anybody's name. but they could not have done what mr. trump, president trump has done. say that i appreciate c-span and thank you very much. host: thank you for the call. -- youou can see as a can see as this plays out, the play words that the president would say be unto terms, you can follow him on twitter. good morning, but there'll. -- good morning, darrell. caller: it was the democratic party in the 1970's that seemed to be the advocate for freedom of speech. now it seems like the democratic party is the one who wants to stop any freedom of speech. they restrict who comes to speak on their campuses of the universities. it is the republican party who is -- it almost seems like the democratic party has become the party of -- kind of like the hitler's youth. i can see the day where there were -- where there will be book burnings. also, it's, you can't get straight news anymore. there is no walter cronkite anymore. you have to listen to both sides and come up with the

trump. 54% prefer a democratic party nominee with a strong chance of beating donald trump. 39% prefer a democratic party nominee who shares their positions on major issues. in that poll, joe biden continues to lead the democratic field with 29% of the vote. that is up 7 points since june -- since june and that cnn poll. the poll does not show significant gains for any other candidate. bernie sanders is at 15%. that's up 1 point. elizabeth warren is at 14%. that's down 1 point. kamala harris is down 5% and that's down 12 points since june. pete buttigieg is at 5%. that's just up 1 point. and beto o'rourke is still at 3% with no change since june. no other candidate gets more than 2% of the vote in that poll. there is good polling news for democrats in senate races also. in arizona, a new poll shows the incumbent republican senator martha mcsally not only running below 35 below 50%, which in itself would be a very bad indicator for any incumbent, but it shows her running likely behind her demo

using trump's own language.eighing in on things that the justice department actually has no role in. the one that i want to think about as we have this conversation about whether barr should be the guy who is investigating the buck stops with him on ep seen in obstruction, epstein, anything else. >> who gets to claim immunity, who gets to claim executive privilege. there's nothing that there justice won't do seemingly to protect the president. the thing i wanted to bring attention to mark stern at late wrote about this last week, it was an extraordinary friend of the court brief that was filed in a lawsuit going on right now in washington, d.c. the house oversight committee is trying to get hold of trump's financial records from the past eight years from an accounting firm. district court judge said absolutely, no reason they can't see it. this is part of oversight. it went up to the federal appeals court. the district -- the d.c. circuit court of appeals. panel heard it. over they're making a decision and here'

this is the crown jewel of the donald trump empire. >> this is where he made his mark. >> trump towers the home base for donald trump and his sprawling real estate portfolio. this iconic building has served both for his popular reality show that aired on nbc "the apprentice" and as the launchpad for the most improbable campaign to succeed. look at all the different windows. who's paying what money to where inside that building? this is trump international? >> yep. hotel and tower. so there are apartments here, but it is also a hotel. >> i've never heard of one person that stayed in that hotel. >> saudis have stayed there. and not just any saudis. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, officials traveling with crown prince mohammed bin salman stayed at the trump international for five days following a white house visit in march 2018. >> there was a letter by the general manager saying the saudis have helped us with our bottom line. but just because you might see the trump name on a building doesn't mean donald trump owns it. >> so every single one of these have the trump name on i

we don't work for donald trump.ry day americans and so we have a constitutional responsibility to be as a check and balance on an out-of-control executive branch. we are undertaking a lawful constitutional legislative oversight responsibilitieses. bill barr is rewriting the constitution claiming we have no legitimate purpose. the constitution is our legitimate purpose. >> uh-huh. and that lays out sort of battle in the courts. then you have the specific issue of mr. bill barr. dal la lithwick is a legal scholar, an independent expert, not a part of your democratic team but she has argued here on "the beat" there is a problem with how mr. barr's carrying out his role. take a look. >> it feels like barr sort of leaping in front of the president yet again and saying first and foremost, my interest is not the justice department or the united states people. it's protecting this president. >> win or lose, the courts are ultimately going to decide and it could go to the supreme court which we just heard from in a different

when he first got elected, i tried to do the whole good trump, bad trump thing. it became pretty clear to me that the man basically lies every time he opens his mouth. i think the guy stokes bigotry. i think he stokes racism. but i think it's all about trump. i don't think he's a racist. it's just all, whatever benefits donald trump, that's all i care about. >> and walsh was elected to congress in 2010 as part of the tea party movement. he served one term. he has a history of incendiary remarks himself, including calling president obama a muslim, enemy and traitor, and during that interview he apologized for that. >> i said some ugly things about president obama that i regret. >> do you believe he's a muslim. >> no, and i've apologized for that. we have a guy in the white house who's never apologized for anything he has done or said. i think it's a weakness not to apologize. i helped create trump. there's no doubt about that. the personal ugly politics. i regret that, and i'm sorry for that. >> and coming up on "morning joe," former congressman joe walsh will be

he liked trump. i came in and he said, sir -- he is a great veteran -- he said sir, i have cancer, and sir, i went into the vet. they were very late. they had problems. i am not living them, but they gave me the right to go out and have a great cancer surgeon. he had his operation. you look much better than you did three years ago, al, much better, much better. [cheers and applause] trump: v.a. choice, right, al? v.a. choice. thank you for your loyalty. he has been to every rally i have ever gave in new hampshire, right in the beginning. i got so tired of looking at him. he would always be here. now, look at him. he is sitting and -- very good. that's good. i appreciate that story. i appreciate -- v.a. choice just makes sense, right? doesn't it make sense? we have achieved record funding for the united states military, $716 billion, $700 billion, and $738 billion, and it is almost completely rebuilt, including -- and we hope to god we never have to use it -- we have the finest, most powerful nuclear

and i speak to people all the time, trump supporters and people who don't like trump.upporters i've spoken to it's all about them the economy. and for them they say they don't agree with his racist policies and his racist rhetoric and his rhetoric towards media, but yet for them it's not affecting them personally. like you see these children -- children that are being held in these camps, these children that are crying for their parents. that's not what america is supposed to be about. it's not what we think of when we think about america. but when we look at the history of america and understand america has been pulling children from their parents since the slavery days, and this is not something donald trump started, but this is something has obviously gotten worse under donald trump and the rhetoric is getting worse from the president of the united states. and it's not just reverberating around the country, don, but it's reverberating around the whole globe. so what the president does sets precedent and reverberates throughout the world. >> the administration pulled

medieval -- >> especially trump's wall. and pointed and black. >> yes. and the wall is symbolic and will reveal he hasn't been able to accomplish anything. i want to go back to the pardon power and make a wonky point about it. >> please. >> the reason he lofves the pardon power is kind of a mistake, it's one of the reimmediatette powers the president has. it was a mistake of the founders. they didn't want to do anything kingly. and would i argue of all of these constitutional forum, the pardon power should be constitutionally remedied, the way congress approves nominees the president makes, congress should have to approve pardons the president makes. it should not be an unremediated power. >> i was going to talk about i president who doesn't read his peb should be so obsessed with a wall but you're smarter be so i think we should stay there. if you look at pardons and who he gave them to, george w. bush did not pardon scooter libby. donald trump, i'm not sure if he ever met him, did. he doesn't even view it the way the relu

trump: no. what happens is china devalues their currency, and china is polling money out, and that will pay for the tariffs. i don't say that with all with china, they are very highly sophisticated, but so are we. more than anybody would understand. all you have to do is ask china. all you have to do is ask china. let me just explain. so, china is devaluing their currency and they are also pouring money in. their currency is going to hell. but there are also pouring money in. and that will totally pay for the tariffs. the tariffs are not being paid for by our people, it is being paid for by china, because of the evaluation, and because they are pumping money and. thank you. >> [reporter's question indiscernible] pres. trump: well, you interviewed the wrong farmer, number one. number two, any amount china takes out is made up by the billions of dollars we are taking in. remember this, our country is taking in billions of dollars from china. we never took in $.10 from china, and out of that many b

trump's casino economy. this week's ominous storm warnings from the bond markets, china, and germany show a looming recession or maybe worse. are trump's erratic trade grenades equivalent to what he did to his casinos in the '90s? >> come to the casino in atlantic city. it's more than a hotel. it's a resort. how about this? it's got action, it's got night life, the whole deal. it's too much. it's too much, isn't it? i like that. you're gonna love it. >> and that was just one of his six bankruptcies. jonathan lemire, is a $39 hotel room in vegas a precursor to the $4 billion in debt, one of the many things along with the trade wars, all of a sudden china and germany showing signs of softening and the market starting to crater? >> right. the whole deal for this president is the economy. he and his team are banked on th banking on that. granted of course he inherited a strong economy from president obama, it was already on the rise. for most measures, the economy has been pretty good during president trump's te

president trump: maybe. denmark is not set in stone going there but if i did i certainly would talk about it but not top on the list. [inaudible question] president trump: we haven't gotten there yet. first we have to find out if they have any interest. they're losing almost $700 million carrying it. it's a him tremendous amount of money. we'll see what happens. [inaudible question] president trump: fox is a lot different than it used to be, i can tell you that. juan williams, then they have the wonderful woman that gave hillary clinton the questions. that was a terrible thing. then all of a sudden she's working for fox. what is she doing working for fox? fox has changed and my worse polls have always been from fox. something is going on at fox right now and i'm not happy with it. i don't know what's happening with fox but when they have a juan williams who never said a positive thing and yet when i show up at the fox building, sir, can i have a picture with you? and he was 100% nice. you never asked me for

but donald trump doesn't get it. what this president doesn't understand is that, like every other nation on earth, we are unable to define what constitutes american by religion, by ethnicity, or by tribe. you can't do it. america is an idea. an idea stronger than any army. bigger than any ocean. more powerful than any dictator or tyrant. it gives hope to the most desperate people on earth. it is not only are our values that are under assault, our democracy is as well. a free press, an independent judiciary, a legislature that is a coequal branch of government. these are the guardrails. [applause] mr. biden: these are the guardrails of our democracy. they are written into our constitution. and if you have noticed, for the last two plus years, they have been under attack. phrases like "fake news." "enemy of the people." they are no joke. they are insidious. they are corrosive. just look around the world. the worst despots are using now trump's language to justify their own abuses of power. trump is trying to weaken our

to trump.ally people who would know better. in other words, derangement goes both ways. >> it's a brilliant insight. we could name friends and former republican allies that -- whose views were consistent with ours for the past 30 to 40 years who now have been overcome by trump derangement syndrome. and now are acting like they never did before donald trump won the nomination in 2016. in fact, look at the words of lindsey graham before trump won the nomination. said that he was crazy, said that donald trump would destroy the republican party. that he would destroy america. and then look what he said after. you can look at what mike pence was quietly saying before hand to people saying he would destroy the republican party and then what he said after. mike pompeo talked about donald trump being an autocratic straw man. mike pompeo has been most affected by trump derangement syndrome and tom, this is what i don't understand. donald trump is going to leave washington at some point. and this derange

how does it look to beat trump?you know, i'm hearing things on the ground that nobody else is hearing or talking about. i say to democrats and independents, because i want to enlarge the electorate in the republican primary. i say if you don't like mr. trump, come on, vote against him twice. vote for me, bill weld in the republican primary. you can be sure that vote comes directly out of donald trump's hide, and then go back to being an independent or a democrat and vote whoever you want in the final election. i assume you're going to vote against trump again. i'm getting real traction with that in new hampshire and elsewhere. it's not showing up in the polls because no one's going to poll the democrats to say how are you going to vote in the republican primary. but my strategy in new hampshire and else is to enlarge that electorate in the republican party, in the republican primary and have it not just be the party bosses and the party leaders in each state party who are installed there by trump, by definition. >>

president trump: [inaudible] >> [inaudible] president trump: it depends on the deal we work out on theital tax. we're negotiating right now. >> [inaudible] president trump: i'm not going to tell you what i'm willing to do. but iran has a chance to really build themselves up to be a great nation, greater than before. but they have to stop terrorism. that is your number one nation of terror. not in the last year and a half, two years, because they can't spend like they used to spend. they took president obama's $150 billion and dolled it out to terrorists. i think they're going to change. i do. i hope that's true. >> can you speak about a trade deal with japan? many are saying -- can you ensure [inaudible] you have toump: understand he's a friend of mine. in this world, is one of my closest friends. they trade us millions and millions of cars. they have for many years. they're essentially not taxed. so, they send them in from japan. they're essentially not taxed. the first thing i said to japan, you have to move car companies into the united states. and they did. many car companies are n

trump tariffs are bringing. what is your plan to stop china cheating us. what's your plan to stop china beating us? these trump tariffs are the first thing in 50 years that have got china's attention and they are reshaping the global economy to america's advantage. all that would be put at risk by this man. on the defining issue of our age, the democrats seem hell bent on nominating someone for president who is totally compromised by our greatest enemy china. joe biden took over a billion dollars in prescribes from the chinese regime in the form of payments to biden family businesses. in 2016 we saw the true genius of this country. america elected as president the only person who was prepared to confront th the greatest challe. president trump is not just the real populist. he's the successful populist. where he followed con economics and tax cuts and deregulation, the results have been great, especially for working americans. but where he has followed his own instincts on trade and china, the results have been

president trump: i do, i do. the question was, do i see a connection between hong kong and what's going on with the tray talks? i think it -- trade talks? i think if it weren't for the tray talks, honk -- trade talks, hong kong would be in much more trouble. it puts us in a bad position if there is not a humane weight of handling the problem -- way of handling the problem. i let them know, handle it in a humane fashion. i do believe that because of what i am doing with trade, that is very much keeping down the temperature in hong kong. i think by really a lot, because china wants to make a deal. i actually think china has to make a deal, but that is holding it down in hong kong. you understand that, right? >> [indiscernible] president trump: i think it was automatic. i don't say fire or not fire. i think she had a bad night. it was unfortunate. drinking.he was the whole thing was very unfortunate and i think the press is very dishonest because it was supposed to be off the record. but still, you don't say things

and so people saw that, and the sort of absurdity of donald trump, i mean, donald trump as president? it just sounded absurd. this is a reality tv star president. americans wouldn't want that. not after we were the country that produced obama. and i think people just couldn't fathom that that many americans, 62 million people, would choose that over progress. but michael moore, i was on with michael moore on realtime, and i recount the story, and i'm sitting between him and tony schwartz, and he predicted donald trump is going to win. i can't believe it, i'm a data girl, democrats should be able to build on what barack obama did in 2012 and one. and michael moore said something interesting, he said a lot of white americans look at that eight years of obama, and they say, okay, great. next we're going to have a woman president. we're told now we have to have hillary. then the gay president, the latino president, where does it stop? so in their mind, the forward march of progress is a backward march for them. the sense that the country is being lost and sliding away is deep-seeded and r

trump: say it? reporter: do you want powell to resign? pres. trump: do i want him to resign? let me put it this way, if he did, i would not stop him. reporter: [inaudible] pres. trump: he is a very good competitor, but we are going to win. reporter: [inaudible] the foreign aid cuts? pres. trump: they are going to be -- rather than renegotiating everything again, i'm going to do the way i just said. we will be distributing that money differently. reporter: [inaudible] denmark? pres. trump: she's a wonderful woman, we had a great conversation. we have a very good relationship with denmark, and we agreed to speak later. she was very nice. she put a call in and i appreciated it very much. reporter: how far are you willing to push china? pres. trump: china has been hurting our country for 30 years with the money they have been taking out. other presidents should have done something about it, and a long time ago -- whether it was clinton, or bush, or obama -- any of them. they should have done something about it, and they didn't. i'm doing it. i have no choice, because we are not g

of trump enterprises. and congress one question needs to be addressed by the investigative committee why did trump fire james komi. why do you believe you were fired. so i don't know for sure i believe the prick think the president at his word that i was fired because of the russian versification something about the way i was conducting it the president felt created pressure on him they wanted to relieve he was asking for something and i was refusing to give it. and fact early in his term trump asked to speak to komi in private. there was a meeting at the white house a one on one meeting between trump and call me call me must have had his antenna up because he felt like something was wrong because as soon as he was done that meeting he wrote up these memos. after meeting with trump call me sat in his car and wrote down what was discussed the meeting was about general fled the advisor who had lied about his contacts with russia trump said he hoped komi come let the matter go. i hope you can let this go now

something that still upsets trump. extrapolate from ratcliffe's qualifications for the job, what his white house -- what this white house occupant is really looking for in the next director of national intelligence. it might say things like must be willing to attack special counsel robert mueller, must want to settle trump's scores for the russia investigation. or as the economist put it, donald trump wants a loyalist as america's top intelligence official. r and it might end sooner than we think. trump says he's got a short list in his pocket with three names on it and he'll be mulling it this weekend while you pay for his vacay at his golf resort in new jersey. the director of national intelligence, senator mark warner said the president should nominate someone with a deep knowledge of the intelligence community with respect for the hard work they do and be able to speak truth to power when necessary. joining us now is senator ron wyden. when the president tweeted he was withdrawing the nomination today, senator wide

trump as a moral quality is transactional.'s no evidence he cares about the state of israel or jewish people. this is for electoral purposes. >> gabe, we never can say we know what's in someone's heart or not in their heart, it's an amazing thing you see people scrambling around trying to figure out some way to give trump an out when he's engaged in obviously anti-semitic trope and came out i meant what i said, you're not being loyal to israel if you vote for a democrat. it's like he's not just not -- he's not just missed the exit ramp but driving straight into a brick wall. >> how often over the last five years of donald trump as serious international political figure have we seen him actually take that exit ramp. he doesn't do that. he always doubles down regardless of the substance we're talking about and this is part of a pattern he has of trafficking. >> don't worry, we'll get to that. >> basically the point here is that he got to this via a roundabout way. he was trying to make an electoral point, turning it around on tl

trump: thank you.merica's toughest, loudest patriots, the incredible veterans of amvets. we love our veterans. amvets. thank you very much. you are special people. you fought courageously for our country, and now my administration is fighting courageously for you. that is for sure. haveou know we accomplished a lot, we have done a lot, and one of the things we have done is you get that medical care quickly now when you go into those doctors, and you used to have to wait for weeks and weeks and weeks, and you do not wait anymore. you go out and see a private doctor, we pay the bill, and people are really happy about it. the vets are very happy about this. veteran's choice, you have been trying to get that for 44 years, they say, 44 years. probably earlier than that, but at least 44 years that we know of, and you got it, so congratulations. hopefully you do not have to use it too often, because you are going to feel great, ok? every veteran here today across our land, thank you for your noble an incredib

trump escalated the trade war that mr. trump initiated. the president flirting a big with authoritarianism with this tweet directed at america's business community. our great american companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to china. the result of the president's tweets, the dow plunged more than 600 points as the president headed off to france for his g7 meeting with world leaders, already nervously eyeing a slowsi slowing world economy. donald trump came into office promising to discard traditional alliances and practices. for better or worse, he's delivered on that promise. now real questions are being raised about whether the united states can be counted on to provide the leadership the world has come to expect from it since the end of the second world war. >> getting a lot of money in tariffs. >> reporter: as president trump meets with u.s. allies anxious about a slowing global economy, his own volatility is raising questions about his ability to manage the world's largest one. the president is rat

trump: that is a trump talking point. you approve one thing and then another thing, and then all of a sudden you are on the slope, and nobody has any legal protection. we have the second amendment. let me tell you this. we have a second amendment, and it will remain strong. pres. trump: go ahead. are you worried about the potential reimburses -- reemergence of isis? a certain point, russia, afghanistan, iran, turkey, they will have to fight their battles. we wiped out the caliphate 100%. i did it in record time. but at a certain point, all of these other countries, where isis is around, they have been decimated, badly decimated. all of these countries will have to fight them, because do we want to stay there for another 19 years? i do not think so. at a certain point, other countries including russia, iran, turkey, and iraq, pakistan, and india. india is right there. they are not fighting it, we are fighting it. pakistan is right next door, they are fighting it, very little. it is not fair. the united states, we are 7000

trump: yes, i am. reporter: you are? pres. trump: yes, i am. yes, i am. reporter: since the mueller hearing, 168 house democrats so they want to launch a house inquiry. pres. trump: no one has mentioned this question to me. until last night it was not even mentioned in the debate. people are already thinking it is a hoax. you know it is a hoax, right? nobody has mentioned it to me. one thing i will say that you haven't covered, two days ago, a highly respected judge in the southern district of new york , in manhattan, came out with the decision on the whole russia hoax and he said exactly that. it is a hoax. you want to read the decision. this is a decision by a judge who is highly respected, appointed by bill clinton. he said it is a hoax. this was a case brought by the democrats against me, and nobody wants to talk about it because it is fake news. reporter: what did you tell putin about the imf treaty? pres. trump: we did not discuss the imf. mostly we discussed the forest fires in siberia. i said we have the greatest equipment. we have large sections

she says being the anti-trump is simply not enough. >> it's not enough to be not trump. a country that elects donald trump is a country in serious trouble. >> joining me, msnbc national political correspondent steve kornacki, democratic strategist, distinguished lecturer from new york, basil smith. what have you taken from the poll numbers? what's stiin there? >> this monmouth poll, he is a point behind. probably the best for bernie sanders all year, tied for first place on the democratic side. there are other indications he might be in decline. obviously the question it raises, what will other polls show, will they replicate what we see in monmouth, will this prove to be an outlier. when you look inside the numbers, you see reasons why biden's in trouble. number one, it is ideological with liberal voters, warren not surprisingly in first, sanders in second. you look at moderate conservative voters, this is a strong base of support i did logically for biden. still leads, but running in this poll 22% and we have talked about an age divide on the democratic side, over 50 y

never trump.t, what about bernie sanders, what about kamala harris' attacks -- look, if we really believe that this is an existential crisis of government, if we really believe that donald trump is a threat to our constitutional order, you know, that the only remedy to this is voting then, you know, you put policy aside. you don't say it's an existential crisis but i can only treat it that way if i get universal health care or a lower tax rate, that is stuff we can fight about all of that stuff a year from now, two years from now when in is all over. i've had it with the what aboutism arguments they were mostly coming from the right. i'm one of the people that has basically said -- i do think the president has gotten worse. i mean to some extent all kidding aside i'm kind of concerned about the president. because he seems like he has become, you know, that this is getting to him in some way. he's becoming unstable. >> what do you mean by this, this is getting to him? >> just the pressure of govern

we should defeat donald trump and end this practice. >> reporter: there was far less talk about trump than obama, which infuriated rahm emanuel, the first chief of staff in the obama white house. he said democrats need to wake up. i would not treat the obama years as something to be air-brushed out of the his torrie. talking to rahm emanuel and several others, they say they should be building on the legacy, and picking it apart is short-sighted. people close to the former president say he isn't bothered, but say he is concerned at what he views as unrealistic proposals from some democratic candidates. after all 12rks years ago he represented a shift from the clinton era, so he's not bothered by that, but i am told he's concerned about this entire discussion, and his advisers are as well. >>> let's get more on this. national press secretary for the kamala harris 2020 campaign, ian sams joins us. >> hi, wolf. >> as you know, she larged some sharp attacks on joe biden last night. does she respect joe biden? >> yes, absolutely. >> can senator harris guarantee she'll support 3w50iden if he

here trump's under water by 7 points. finally there are white women with a high school degree, okay? in 2016 they went for trump by almost 30 points. now he only has a 4-point edge. look at that. and for all the talk about how the trump ledge is about the nonworking white class, these men work for the same companies and face a challenge or worse like men without a degree. they also have watched loved ones succumb to opioid addictions, all the same issues and trump is barely holding on there. that's the state of play right now. trump thinks he can run this strategy that cleaves the country into two chunks where he gets 40 plus%. he thinks he can win and govern with that 40 plus percent. and it is a wild test of american mechanics to see if that is going to work a second time. remember the things trump does to consolidate his base also alienates people. they announced they were endorsing trump's re-election, one of their board members jennifer horn decided it was too much for her. and she was telling "the washington post,"