trump: 100%.treet -- and i know all of them, and they are smart -- they have never seen anything like that one before. [laughter] pres. trump: i have called them. has that ever happened? never happens. guy walks in, no experience, no nothing, walks out with $1.5 billion. flies in on air force 2 with his father, the vice president. don't forget, that's when he was vice president. so china gives his son $1.5 billion. how would you like to have joe biden take over negotiations right now with china? i don't think so. [crowd booing] pres. trump: i don't think so. meanwhile, biden allowed china to rip off america for eight years as vice president, and barack obama let him just rob us blind, and we are not doing that anymore. those days are over. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: the bidens got rich, and that is substantiated. while america got robbed. that's what happened. sleepy joe and his friends sold out america. they did not have tough negotiations. i look at these trade deals, and i say, "who the

trump. ♪ ♪ ♪ [cheering] pres. trump: thank you. [cheering] pres. trump: thank you very much., dallas. it's great to be with you tonight. thank you. [cheering] pres. trump: i am thrilled to be here. deep in the heart of texas. [cheering] pres. trump: where we just opened a beautiful new louis vuitton plant. [cheering] pres. trump: but i'm with the freedom loving patriots of the lone star state. [cheering] pres. trump: there has never been a better time to be a proud texan. [cheering] pres. trump: there's never been a better time to be a proud american. there never has. [cheering] pres. trump: so i came from a small town, alvarado, texas. [cheering] pres. trump: we celebrated the incredible revival of american manufacturing and we opened up some beautiful places. i'll tell you, this place is doing great. it created in a very short period of time an extra 1000 jobs for texas. [cheering] pres. trump: since my election, we've created 775,000 new jobs across your state, including 70,000 texas manufacturing jobs. they said those jobs have disappeared, didn't they? [cheering] pres. t

at a trump hotel in florida.nd this time, the resistance was bipartisan. this weekend, republican members of congress let donald trump and his white house staff know that trying to defend his illegal scheme to enrich himself by having the federal government and foreign governments pay him at the same time for the privilege of staying at a trump hotel was just too much to bear even for republican members of congress. when asked today about why he changed his mind about trying to get away with the obviously illegal scheme, the president blamed the democrats only for complaining too much about it. and while he was at it, he mentioned, quote, this phony emoluments clause, end quote. the emoluments clause in the constitution like everything else in the constitution is not phony. for better or worse, the words of the constitution are the words we have to live by in this country. there are things in the constitution that people have disliked from the start, like slavery and a number of other things that were changed thr

a lot of ink has been spilled on the pomp and circumstance of trump donald trump's summits in the ongoingve affair he claims with kim jong-un but what is actually been the result of nearly three years of trump's north korean diplomacy besides stroking his ego? the answer is, nothing. kim continues to fire missiles into the sea of japan, he continues to quietly move up his nuclear stockpile even though freeze on nuclear long-range missile test is temporary and the north koreans are warning they might resume that at the end of the year. meanwhile, we abandoned the south koreans we canceled our joint military exercises we nearly withdrew our troops entirely, kim got international recognition and essentially a free pass to keep building his arsenal in making it more deadly while we weakened all of our regional alliances. america and the world are dramatically less safe right now. all over the world in fact, dictators and would-be dictators are making up stunning records of human rights abuses right now because they know under president trump america will really raise no issue. no protest. go

will hence be removed with trump? pence be removed with trump, will he be impeached with trump? it is all moving very fast. host: he mentioned the vice president in terms of mike pence's conversations with the ukrainian president. here is a look. [video clip] pres. trump: impeachment for that? when you have a wonderful meeting or you have a wonderful phone conversation? that was theally, second conversation. i think you should ask for the first conversation also. i can't believe it. i heard there is a rumor out there that they want the first conversation. it was beautiful, just a perfect conversation. that i think you should do that. i think you should ask for vp pence's conversation because he had a couple of conversations, also. host: what do you suppose president trump was trying to do there in terms of pointing reporters to ask mike pence about that? guest: to me, it looks like he is trying to wrap his arms around him and not let go. no, look, i have heard two interpretations. one is that the official pence- white house version of this is that there is nothing to see here, a

trump fantacists by breaking president trump's neck and killing him. many claim they knew nothing about this video, including donald trump jr., who was at the event where the video was shown. donald trump has not seen the video. that is code for his followers that he really does not condemn the video. when he's telling them he condemns the video without seeing it, he's telling them this is a political thing i need to say about the video, and i hope you watch and think of me this way, especially the thin part. fantasy. so far that is all donald trump has to offer in his defense in the impeachment investigation, and the fantasy is crumbling. donald trump is completely unqualified ambassador to the european union who purchased his ambassadorship to the trump organization has been subpoenaed to testify to the impeachment investigation on thunderstorms, and all indications are, as nbc news is reporting tonight, that he will finally testify by the state department last week. the "washington post" reported over the weekend what to expect in gordon sondland's

trump: so much. hey, folks, the greatest buyer of advertisements in the history of the world, michael lindau, my fellow. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: i have never seen so many ads. i think he is the greatest ad negotiator in history. i told him, i said, "would you do me a favor? all the money we spend on these political campaigns, if i gave some of that money to mike, i think we would have ads every single minute of every single show." i never saw so many. anyways, but the lawless political establishment will try to frame you. they will persecute you. they will swear up and down that they are telling the truth. when nancy pelosi was on television the other day -- [crowd booing] pres. trump: i have to say, i have to say, i was very proud of george stephanopoulos. i was very proud. not often. she said no, no, shifty schiff told the truth when he said that. stephanopoulos said, "no, it was a false statement." and she really believes it, so she either has one of two problems. she's either really st

okay, trump isn't everything. but after betrayal, betrayal, betrayal, i'll take some coarse language. point three, i think you are wrong that hispanics and muslims in this country are put off by this. i think white social justice warriors and college students are put off by it. and my example of that is -- because oh my gosh, they were hysterical about the mexican rapist speech. i often spend christmas in palm beach, i'm going around to christmas parties. this is 2017 after the mexican rapist speech, after all kinds of wild language used by trump, and people had warned me about this, i saw this going to christmas parties in palm beach, someone whose name you all know, i'll tell you afterwards was walking around, they were all shell shocked in palm beach, but one in particular, he just kept going up to people at parties saying, i don't understand. we were all for jeb. but the hispanic help is all for trump. and the reason -- part of that reason, and why i grimaced when i said hispanic, i think hispanic is an invent

donald trump is not.both parties, trump's as well as her own, to rebuke his policy. she's about to lead the house to impeach him, and that does not feel very good for donald trump. and the other thing i would say is that when she says all roads lead to putin, i notice that kevin mccarthy had his head down in that picture as well as the generals. remember that kevin mccarthy is the one who told the republican caucus in private a couple of years ago, i'm convinced that putin pays donald trump. >> yeah. >> i think he recognized the situation as well. >> and is it true -- is it accurate that inside of that meeting, when donald trump said he just wanted to bring the troops home, that the speaker asked him, well, is saudi arabia home? because you're putting more troops in saudi arabia to defend their oil. is that accurate reporting, john? >> yes. >> you know, we have a situation here, tara, where donald trump's interests seem to be primarily financial and sucking up to whatever out democrat he's sort of enthral

trump. well, these aren't rich dudes. so one question is where does the money come from? again, if they've got the goods on giuliani, giuliani might want to make a deal if he's looking at jail time. and, again, he only gets a good deal if he can give up someone higher in the food chain. i think we all know who that person would be. >> and we're probably getting ahead of what's been reported. but mike schmidt, take us through what you reported about the investigation out of the southern district of new york, now including an investigation of rudy giuliani's lobbying work. >> yeah. well, this is, you know, this indictment comes out last week, and we basically are saying that there is more here on giuliani that is being looked at, that his conduct in this is important, and is something that is being examined. it's just another distraction for the president. you saw him sort of struggle to deal with it at the end of last week, basically not committing to giuliani being his lawyer saying -- i gue

the trump family dismisses it as a nonissue. >> someone bought a cheese burger at the trump hotel.t's asinine. >> reporter: still, trump faces multiple lawsuits over whether he's violating the constitution when his business accepts foreign government funds. jared kushner and ivanka trump's roles in the white house opened another potential avenue for foreign influence. last year, china approved more than a dozen trademarks for ivanka trump branded products. the timing, just as the u.s. and china were trying to restart trade talks. and according to "washington post" reporting, officials in at least four countries talked about ways they could manipulate kushner, in part by taking advantage of his complicated business entanglements. the president's sons have insisted their dad isn't swayed by business deals. but the elder trump jumps at every chance to tout his properties on the world stage, even naming his ideal location for the next g7, trump national doral. >> it's a great place. it's got tremendous acreage. it's really -- people are really liking it. plus, it has buildings that hav

trump: thank you. and i'm honored to welcome everybody and these incredibly talented and unbelievable, patriotic, young american leaders. you're going to be the leaders. somebody -- i would be almost willing to bet, maybe even willing to bet -- somebody in that audience, right here, right in front of me, is going to be standing here someday. [cheering] pres. trump: you've got a good shot. you're going to have a good shot. you've done incredible work to get to this position, and i have tremendous respect for it. we're glad to be joined by our terrific vice president, mike pence. [cheering] pres. trump: and many of our cabinet members are here. they wanted to be here. i told a couple of them, "don't have to. don't worry about it. what the heck. these are my friends." they said, "no, we want to be here." so we have a lot of our cabinet members here. and to every young person: you represent america's future. you are the best and the brightest, the bravest and boldest, and someday you are going to be settin

this is not the way trump followers imagine donald trump taking on joe biden. they think donald trump is tough enough to fight face to face. to be a trump voter, supporter is to be to varying degrees a fantasist. some businessmen supporting donald trump might like to live with the fantasy that they just vote to support his giant corporate tax cuts and not his racism, not his vulgar aity. not his rank ignorance. some trump supporters live in a world of complete fantasy about donald trump himself. the fantasy that somehow donald trump will still get mexico to pay for the wall. the fantasy that there will be a wall to pay for. the fantasy that donald trump is smarter than anyone else in politics. the fantasy that donald trump is a tough guy. even though he grew up a spoiled rich kid. the fantasy that donald trump is brave even though he got repeated draft deferments to avoid the war of his era. not once since then ever exhibited a single moment of bravery of any kind in his life. still, the trump fantacists see him as tough and brave and even thin and energetic as

trump. and i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free and i won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today doubt there ain't no i love this land ♪d bless the usa from the lakes of minnesota to the hills of tennessee the plains of kentucky from sea to shining sea from detroit down to houston and new york to l.a. where there's pride in every american heart and it's time we stand and say that i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free and i won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today 'cause there ain't no doubt i love this land god bless the usa and i'm proud to be an american where at least i know i'm free and i won't forget the men who died who gave that right to me and i gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today 'cause there ain't no doubt i love this land usa ♪ess the [cheers and applause] >> usa! usa! usa

trump: was i what? >> [inaudible] pres. trump: china has to do whatever they want. if they want to look into something, they can look into it. if they don't want to look into it, they don't have to. frankly, if china wants to look into something, i think that's great. if they don't, i think that's great. that's up to china. >> [inaudible] pres. trump: trey gowdy is a terrific guy. is a problem where he can't start for another couple of months because of lobbying rules and regulations. you will have to ask about that. i just heard he can't start until after january because of the lobbying rules and regulations. so i don't know. but we will have to see. i have not spoken to him. >> [indiscernible] mr. trump: perhaps the last one, i hope. i hope the last one. of the three i hope it is the last one. we have no soldiers in syria. we have won, we beat isis. we have no soldiers. the last thing i want to do is bring thousands and thousands of soldiers in and defeat everybody again. we have already done that. we have two choices, bringing in the military and defeating everyb

rapport with president trump. that is obvious given all that, the flattering language. >> before being elected president earlier this year, volodymyr zelensky was an actor and comedian. his most notable role was playing a president on tv. he won office in a landslide with a campaign promise to fight corruption and to end ukraine's war with its vastly more powerful neighbor, russia. zelensky knows u.s. military aid is vital to his country, and he's eager for it to continue. i would also like to thank you for your great support in the area of defense. we are ready to continue to cooperate for the next stages. specifically, we are almost ready to buy more javelins from the united states for defense purposes, he says. javelins are shoulder-fired anti-tank missiles ukraine's army needs to fight off russian-backed forces. so far, so normal. talks of bilateral relations and defense. but this is president trump, his response to the request for javelin missiles is personal. one white house official reportedly called it cra

love trump or hate trump, he is a great character.hough he did not agree to talk to me for this book, he tweets all the time so his voice, his unfiltered voice, does emerge in the pages of the story.and the other characters i think also are both on a political level but also a human level very compelling characters. the central conflict really is between comey and trump. i can't imagine two characters who are more congenitally different. i described trump as louche i think that might be a complementary term. [laughter] comey is sometimes criticized for being overly virtuous. they are such polar opposites that i'm amazed they even got to that first dinner without comey either quitting or trump firing him. but there are a number of very important questions that i hope this saga helps to explain in a way that americans will trust. i'm not a political reporter. i'm not a partisan person. i worked for the wall street journal, which most people consider to be a conservative paper. i happily worked at the new york times which a lot of people

so you like trump? no, you hate trump.t like they are not hateful people, but if you are arava public and walking by or ask about trump, you see the true hatred in some of these democrats. rd ladythat the gabba from hawaii congress, she is like the old time democrat. host: tulsi gabbard? caller: yes. host: william is next in massachusetts. independent line. caller: yeah. enjoyam schiff seems to sequencing of events, so the question is when you call a staffer to an office like adam schiff's office, is that staffer an official member of the intel committee? so the whistleblower can share confidential information, it should be with a member of congress who was on the intel committee, so i do not understand how adam schiff who was saying it was all proper protocol, you played the clip where he asked the intel, the dni cheese about proper protocol. f -- dni-- dni fhie chief about proper protocol. so when do you think? host: it might not have been a personal staffer for the couldss's office and it have been a democratic staffer

trump says he is on there, everyone says that in public but we also know what happens with trump's advises the get too much spotlight. >> host: we get lots to cover. what is his relationship with donald trump? >> guest: warm but a little aloof, not very close. i wrote about this in the book and it is still true. trump is close to a different hoosier, stephen hilburn, an insurance magnet from the 90s. they got close when working on casinos in the 90s. he is the man responsible for donald trump's arched hand, fittingly enough the owner of australian gold and according to my sources trump enjoys using australian gold getting products. hilbert is the one who connects mike pence with donald trump in june 2016. they don't have a real relationship before that and it has been tepid ever since. pence is absolutely loyal to donald trump based on everything i have seen but never entirely sure if it runs the other way, if trump is completely oral to him. >> host: the vice president's involvement, the reporting of that, let's hear calls from carol in mills river, north carolina on the republican line.

trump: the whistleblower has been very inaccurate.ower reported a totally different conversation than i had. i released the transcript of my conversation, an exact transcript. the whistleblower did not say that. the whistleblower is either saying untruths, ok? or he didn't know or is making up a story, like shift did. schiff made up the story. when he read what i said, he said i cannot send this because he did nothing wrong. schiff went out and made up a lie. it was a fraudulent story. you know that better than anybody. you are a good lawyer. frankly, he went out and made up a fraudulent story. he then went before the u.s. congress and american people and he reported a fraudulent story. schiff, something should happen to schiff for that. he should not have immunity for that. why should he be given immunity when he goes out and says a story about the president of the united states, what the president said which bears no relationship. in fact, every word was different. i tell you what, i can't believe that a congressman could be that di

in your book you write that everyone around him seem to love donald trump that trump treats his people well and yet he has the highest turnover of staff of any modern and in fact i'll let you also why in fact when they resign or when he fires them he then attacks the yeah i don't like that he's a sloppy steve bannon dumb as a rock rex tillerson iraqi owner as he called her a dog highly unstable not job scaramucci ironic clueless bonehead jerome powell these are the people trump treats his people well you wrote how does that work look i don't like that he does that but i do like how does that fit with. your opinion as it has every description the trump treated people don't seem to treat people i'm saying as the people who are around him love him you know the liars them and then love the many so you know what prompt us he's a c.e.o. if people. use them and that's what a good c.e.o. should do year i'm president i'm pretty sure it is somebody who is able and don't want to go and get rid of 3 and call them a nickname or a dog i'll look that's a different issue how me saying there's an issue

the trump white house, president trump himself and, we are increasingly learning, members of the trump administration are trying to query that or trying to muddy that or trying to essentially undo that declaration by the u.s. government that russia attacked our election to try to benefit trump. that's part of what's going on by this effort by attorney general bill barr. bill barr and the president contacting world leaders to get them to participate in a justice department inquiry that the white house is hoping might essentially exonerate russia for the 2016 election attack. it would undermine the u.s. intelligence community's conclusion that russia carried out that attack. yesterday we got that stunning report from "the washington post" that attorney general bill barr is handling this personally. that's how independent this is from the president's appointees, right? the president's hand-picked attorney general is personally traveling the globe, trying to get foreign governments to give him help in this inquiry into the origins of the russia investigation which the white house hopes wil

trump relented.ons delivered the news. >> good morning. m here today to announce that the program known as daca that s effectuated under the obama administrati is being rescinded. >> jeff sessions makes it pretty clclr they will, in fact, be moving to possibly deport, um,o thousands of people re brought to this country as young children and who know no other home but america. >> thank you very much.a >> it'etty devastating blow to about 800,000 dreamers... >> protests erupting nationwide afthe trp... >> major change in immigration policy announced today... >> and immediately, it's like a bomb goes off in washington. >> immigrants are welcome here!r >> what thident called a case of heart now sparking emotional protests all over the country. >> can't go back home. they can't send me g back ho, because this is my hom >> as the community prayed over them, some broke down in tears. they were all da recipients now filled... >> protesters storming major cities all across the country... >> outrage after the

trump in the united states senate. also tonight, david plouffe from barack obama's campaign will join us tonight with his look at the intersection of impeachment and the presidential campaign. new polling now shows that a solid majority of americans support the impeachment investigation of president trump. >>> on the day when two of his cabinet members became deeply implicated in the presidential impeachment investigation by the house of representatives, donald trump tweeted that one of the chairmen conducting the impeachment investigation, congressman adam schiff, should be arrested for treason. but the president did that in his typically cowardly way of putting a question mark at the end of the trump thought, arrest for treason, question mark. the one thing in this life that we are now guaranteed is that for as long as twitter exists and donald trump exists, donald trump will be tweeting a treason accusation at someone. and it is time for america to take a deep breath about treason, okay? get ready. no one has commit

morrison, president trump told mr. president sondland he was not asking for a quid pro quo, period, but he insisted president zelensky say he's opening investigations of biden and that president zelensky should go to a microphone and he should want to do it himself. here's what he just said in the same room as you all day. here's what he said. >> i was in there for ten hours. i can assure you there was no quid pro quo. >> i mean, at some point in time you can't just say that something is not happening when all of the evidence is right there in front of you. now you know i have a little bit of empathy for my colleague because what could he say? the evidence was clear. the testimony was clear, and so for him to say there was nothing new in a way that's true. we did have the president's chief of staff have a press conference last week and give the perfect example of a quid pro quo, and he told all of us we just have to get over it. you cannot normalize criminal behavior. no one is above the law. >> so i want to ask you on

. >> do i like donald trump? a role model for two of my 16-year-old triplets? was he a role model for my tons? absolutely not. yes, i'm supporting donald trump. i am doing so as enthusiastically as i can even though i think he's a terrible human being. >> donald trump says the other day that if he tells a soldier to commit a war crime, he will just go do it. he said they will do what i tell them to do. he ignored our constitution. we don't need four more years of that. >> but you, mike pompeo, do what he tells you to do. what a difference a few years makes. that was his energy secretary rick perry, the guy in charge of i guess everything because there's not many people left there, including chief of staff mike mulvaney and mike pompeo, all three men subpoenaed or documents of theirs subpoenaed in the ukrainian caper. jeremy, i don't even know what to say. >> well, i wonder whether or not actually, um, senior officials in the cabinet around where the president actually endorsed the ukraine effort that the presiden

is not simply trump, trump's problem. that lying with impunity is, in fact, the culture of the white house. that truth, that old colbert word has become the order of the day. it seems to me when you combine this culture of lying with this deep distrust of government that runs throughout the country, right, it seems that we're in a moment of intense crisis. not just simply with them and all the president's men, but this crisis in terms our democracy as such. because you've got to have trust as the basis, as the foundation for democratic deliberation. when you have folks lying to you day in and day out and folks not trusting what's coming out of their mouths, i don't know how we move to the next stage. >> you know, donny deutsch, we predicted that 2008 for t predicted how 2018 for the house would be bad. mika was talking about how republicans would help them win the senate. but in this case it's so very obvious that the republican brand every day is being tarnished badly by pompeo lying, barr lying, the president lying. all

trump?) >> narrator: miller got close to trump... >> we will build a gldat wall ..ong the southern border. >> narrator: ...jotting ideas... >> mexico!oing to pay for the >> narrator: ...keeping track of the musings... >> anyone who illegally crossesh border will be detained. >> narrator: ...stoking the anger... >> he's going to drive the carse overllegals. >> narrator: ...writing the fragments at became the speeches.ra >> zero toe for criminal iens. zero, zero. >> the polls were brutal for donald trump. clinton leading in every singlen the campaign was in trouble.st, >> ...showhat clinton now has a double-digit lead over trump, 46... >> nationally, he's down by large margins in swing states. >>rump is down in national polls... >> narrato then bannon got a call from the candidate. >> breaking news this morning, donald trump is changing his campaign's...al >> ...inng firebrand conservative breitbart news boss steven bannon as chief executive...w >> he has a brand-mpaign c.e.o., which is a new.

this is trump about trump. i have a little conflict of interest because i have a major, major building. and then he shows that he can count to two. this is -- talk about pattern recognition. this is the pattern. >> he is who he has always been. let's remember that his first reaction -- >> but now people are dying. >> his first reaction was to note that he now had the tallest building in lower manhattan. and also there are real, real world dangerous consequences of this decision here. the president right now in fact is having an event in the white house. he's been fielding questions from reporters in the white house. he was asked whether he was concerned that turkey's assault in syria could lead to the liberation of isis fighters. he says, quote, they are going to be escaping to europe. which he put it as a spin, well, that means they won't be coming to the united states endangering us here. but that is endangering the capitals and cities and towns of our allies there. these isis fighters shouldn't be encouraged

but when push came to shove, trump looks out for donald trump. and, in fact, we have these associates of giuliani who have been indicted. and they've got this weird series of connections. and sometimes giuliani's giants, other times they're helping him with his cases. other times they're donating lots of money to concerns like trump's superpacs and inauguration committee. other times they're broke, they don't have a lot of money. so it's really weird like where these guys are getting this money. it seems extremely nefarious. and if they are that tight with giuliani, and if they're exposed, then a prosecutor is going to say, you want to make a deal? give the stuff on giuliani and then if giuliani gets caught up, prosecutors are going to go to giuliani. you want to make a deal, give us the big guy. >> we're going to stop it. we're going to take a quick commercial break and pay the bills. we'll be right back and continue this conversation next. ♪ work so hard ♪ give it everything you got ♪ strength of a lioness ♪ tough as a knot ♪ rocking the stage

biden 52, trump, 38. quinnipiac, 54, trump, 38. and that is why trump cares so deeply about taking biden down. kaitlan collins is out front at the white house. the subpoena very significant. any response trt white house? have you heard anything yet? >> no. we reached out for comment and they haven't said anything. it just came out a short time ago and we should note the white house was expecting this. democrats signaled as much just a few days ago essentially saying they were sending a warning shot to the white house that they weren't messing around in this impeachment inquiry that they were pursuing and people back here at the white house have a different view of that. they've been arguing that not only are they going to keep their distance and they've been dismissive of these requests so far, but they say that's because democrats didn't vote to hold this formal impeachment inquiry. they're moving forward with nancy pelosi announced last week, but that is not the view here at the white house and that's why right now we've been in

it closed inside of 2 with trump, so it moved towards trump between 12 and 16.ng republicans see, though, is this. the 2018 mid-terms you remember i was standing at this board election night and it was one district after another going from red to blue, flipping for the democrats. you had something in minnesota, you barely had anywhere else on the map in 2018. two districts, two congressional districts that went from blue to red. both of these districts were represented by democrats in congress. republicans managed to win them. this is the iron range, they call it. you're talking about districts with a lot of rural, blue collar white working class to them. these are the areas filled with the types of voters demographically trump has done best with. and that trump effect was very much in effect in the 2018 mid-terms. republicans were getting slaughtered everywhere, not in these parts of minnesota. so that's the opportunity trump and his campaign seek. the story is little more complicated than that, though, because look at this there were also two districts last ye

in your book you write that everyone around him seem to love donald trump that trump treats his people well and yet he has the highest turnover of staff of any modern and in fact i'll let you also why in fact when they resign or when he fires them he then attacks the yeah i don't like that he's a sloppy steve benen dumb as a rock rex tillerson iraqi owner as he called her a dog highly unstable not job scaramucci ironic clueless bonehead jerome powell these are the people trump treats his people well you wrote i was at work look i don't like that he does that but i do like how does that fit with. your opinion as it has every description the trump treated people don't seem to treat as people i'm saying it's the people who are around him love him you know the liars them and then love the many so you know what prompt us he's a c.e.o. if people. use them and that's what a good c.e.o. should do year i'm president i'm pretty sure it is somebody who is able and don't want to go and get rid of 3 and call them a nickname or a dog i'll look that's a different issue how me saying it's an issue it'

[inaudible conversations] >> now welcome back to austin, up next new york times recent book on the trump administration's immigration policies. this is live coverage on book tv on c-span2. >> good afternoon, welcome to today's discussion of an important book called border wars, the president's assault on immigration. my name is carlos sÁnchez and i'm a senior editor with texas monthly magazine and i'm based along the word near the rio grande valley. before we dive into this topic, please remember to silence your cell phones and please share your experience on social media using the #tx book fest. also remember that after this conversation the authors will be signing books in the book-signing tents, two tents over, you can buy the book and get it signed to the next tent, a portion of every book spent supports mission and all courtesy of book people. joining me today are two of the authors of this book, i want to start with my far right, michael, white house correspondent in the washington bureau. police call correspondent before coming to the times in 2010, 18 years writing about local, s

trump doesn't even drink. the other thing he said in the press conference was very important, what we got is a readout and what we say is a summary of the call, which he admitted to. but today he said the great stenographers, word for word, comma for comma, so is there a verbatim transcript or recording of this call or others? he's admitted to this collusion. but if you cop to a crime like this one, and glenn's a prosecutor so he knows this better than me, if you cop to one thing, what you are copping to might be something worse. so is he admitting there's a transcript or audio of this full call, if not other calls, where he's carrying out some of the same behavior or worse? and that further makes it -- it exposes him in the ongoing investigation. sure, he's scared. i will say one other thing too. i will go out on a limb and say while it may not look like republican officials will say as they did with nixon and turn on him, let's be clear, this is a man who took over a party, and many of them resented him at f

president trump's top aide just contradicted president trump, admitting trump pushed a quid pro quo plot, conditioning ukraine funding on a political probe involving the dnc. >> you were directly involved in the decision to withhold funding from ukraine. can you explain to us now definitively why? >> did he also mention to me in the past the corruption related to the dnc server? absolutely. no question about that. but that's it. that's why we held up the money. >> that's why we held up the money for ukraine. that's the president's chief of staff, who also runs the budget office, admitting to the thing trump has denied, that they did condition the money for ukraine on the political probe. this is astounding. this is important. this is rattling the white house tonight and we'll get to all of that. but i want you to see what happened. this quid pro quo bribe has now been admitted in plain sight by the guy in charge of the money. so there are tapes. we have them. and as reporters took in an admission so frank and self-incriminating it seemed more like a perry mason episode than real life, th

donald trump.e's distancing himself but it's always interesting to watch trump do this for the man who demands so much loyalty. as soon as he gets nervous that you're not in his best interest, you're gone. >> does it mean he thinks he can be in trouble himself about they are joined a eed at the hip? >> i think that's right. i would suggest that giuliani has been a liability to the president for quite some time. it's been building recently and now it appears that rudy giuliani is the subject of a criminal investigation, if not the target, and so he has some serious legal jeopardy and the president senses that. it will be awfully difficult for the president even if he pretends not to know him many the m coing days, which i predict will happen. it will be difficult for the president to distance himself in a real way from giuliani. it's too late for that. >> carl, rudy giuliani has changed the entire narrative of his career for donald trump. he was america's mayor. he's now trump's man. that is what he

at trump's golf resort? who gains from the military incurse into nern syria? it's not america. it seems some republicans are asking these same questions. >> you don't hold up foreign aid that we had previously appropriated that you had former formerly. you could call it a i don't understand why nft. >> when america leaves, we create a vacuum. when we create a vacuum, we create chaos. that's what we're seeing right now. >> trump mate have some laurel policies in washington. mcmcconnell slams the trump administration's decision to withdraw from syria calling it a tra steakic backgrounds. can we now ask how much longer until the entire damn breaks. >> leading off are peter wenner. he was an adviser to the past throw republican presidents and ruth marcus, also an msnbc contributor pros at this time. the history impeachment. that was before the g-7 came into the plane. do you have so this confluence of controversies that might be the president's damn? his call in congress? >> i want to say yes but i think for rig

with trump. he, himself, is the leader of this criminal conspiracy to coerce a foreign government to interfere in our election. what's been interesting, though, is every single piece of information not only corroborates that, it just broadens the extent to which this conspiracy brought in other people. so you take gordon sondland, what on earth what he was doing in ukraine policy, anyway? ukraine is not in the european union. what he is is a political person who purchased apparently was the only person willing to go along with this scheme. a lot of career people like ambassador mckinley who testified today, like a career a academic, analyst, like fiona hill who testified, they don't want to go down with this ship. we're seeing a sorting here, career foreign service officers, people looking forward to a lifetime of potentially future public service, don't want to go along covering for this so all the information that's coming out is painting a more damning picture of a criminal conspiracy led by d

and trump.t of paper. ( laughter ) what was a.m.i. getting out of this. >> i follow a trail of clues from harvey weinstein working with a.m.i., and trump working with a.m.i., the practice of catch and kill, during the 2016 election, trump associates worked closely with the "national enquirer" to suppress, for instance, various stories about affairs. there was a doorman at trump tower who claimed to have a story about a trump love child, not clear if the underlying story was accurate, but the transaction where they were paying people to bury the truth or bury a rumor were news and they were potential violations of election law. and ultimately after-- i get lied to a lot in this book, stephen, lied to, lied to, lied to. and a.m.i.said, "no, we didn't publish this stuff because it didn't meet our exacting journalistic standards." and the book reveals a couple of instances including collaboration going after a story including trump and epstein. >> stephen: what's the story between trump and epstein?

a lot of us -- >> jeffrey berman is a trump appointee. >> he's a trump appointee. we're concerned base of the integrity of bill barr. a lot of people are wondering if the southern district is still as independent as it used to be. i don't know, but this picture tells me they're still willing and able to do cases that do threaten not just the lawyer, friend, close associate of the president. for jack sekulow to get on and say is this has nothing to do with trump this morning is laughable, yeah, maybe the words in the dieindictment don't, but obviously this is where the roads were leading. this is the first step, this indictment. not the last step. not because they said they're going to keep on investigating. because any prosecutor who is following the facts and evidence it's going to take them closer and closer to giuliani and this bigger pri eger picture of urik corruption. >> jeff mason, how is this going to affect it when others have gotten too hotdidn't have a lon with them. they were barely working for my campaign. is there a point that the president's relation

schiff's take or trumps words. trump is wrong in saying schiff reported to be reciting actual words. he introduced it saying i'll give you the essence. he suggested that this was his own interpretation. >> thank you for your time. the american people need clarity not parody. we'll be right back. when we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and it's ready to go. our costs for shipping were cut in half. just like that. shipstation. the #1 choice of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get 2 months free. >>> house democrats are hours away from questioning a critical figure in the ukraine scandal. million dollars trump donor and u.s. ambassador to the eu gordon sondland will be grilled over the text messages tha

trump: we just made one of the biggest deals that have been make -- that has been made with china. we have a great deal. hopefully, it will get finished in the next few weeks. a tremendous benefit to our farmers. the financial services. the banking industry. know prettyow you much that we have had a very, very good couple of days with china. it looks like that deal is very much on its way. it will be the largest deal ever made for farmers. $40 billion-$50 billion purchase. it is an incredible deal for farmers. i think they will have to go out and buy more land and bigger tractors. we will hopefully get that done pretty quickly. reporter: our special forces were bombed today. pres. trump: we will take a look at it. we will take a look at it. reporter: [indiscernible] pres. trump: this will go a long time into the future. this is a big buy. $16biggest deal made was billion and this could be $50 billion. thantimes more and bigger any deal ever made for the farmers. reporter: [indiscernible] pre

trump is who he is. but to see republicans going out and saying that that was ok, to say that -- for marco rubio to say, well, as a floridians, selfishly i'm very glad we're going to host this at the doral. republicans know this kind of thing is wrong. you know, it's unconstitutional. it's against he will on the umet clause. thnts the kind of behavior that we want to see out of a republican president, and republicans should be condemning this kind of thing. and that's really the reason that we started, because we just didn't see many republicans standing up for the values that we know they at least iced to hold. host: let me turn to the senior politics reporter for roll call. >> sarah, your group is spending a lot of money on television timentses. tell us, what is your strategy there? who's your audience? who are you trying to convince? sarah: you know, there's a group of republicans that we feel like are the kind of people who will stand up and do the right thing when push comes to shove. even though i'

from republicans over the years, oh, that's just donald being donald, trump being trump. they're not even throwing that defense out there right now but that's clearly was trump was going for today with the helicopter behind him yelling these crimes into the microphone was, i want them to do the that's just trump being trump thing. >> i think it's clear that there are multiple layers of potential cover-up involved in this ukraine scandal, right? but in trump's mind, i think he's he he'sahistorical. he knows a couple of things about watergate. he knows, follow america. also, the worst crime is not the crime itself, it's the cover-up. if you believe that's one of the shibbolets from that experience, you kind of making the claim, it can't be a cover-up if i'm standing in front of you saying it. somehow confessing to it in that overt way, in trump's mind he's dispelling any sense he's covering something up, he has nothing to be ashamed of, saying it over and over again. there are cover-ups but i think there's something in trump's mind, you're right, there's no question that he

the trump presidency. donald trump does business in turkey at trump tower in istanbul and puts the united states interest ahead. bloomberg is reporting donald trump did that in 2017 when he asked then secretary of state rex tillerson to do something tillerson believed is a crime. what donald trump wanted was a favor to both the president of turkey and a favor to rudy giuliani at the same time. bloomberg reports president donald trump pressed then secretary of state rex tillerson to persuade the justice department to drop a criminal case against an iranian turkish gold trader that's a client to rudy giuliani according to three people in the oval office. tillerson refused arguing it would constitution interference in an an going investigation of the trader. according to the people. they said other participants in the oval office were shocked by the request. tillerson immediately repeated objections to the chief of staff john kelly in a hallway conversation outside the oval office emphasizing the request woul

let trump hear you say this. then everything will be okay. >> i don't want to express any lack of interest in that topic. because, but i don't know kurt volker, and there's a lot of psycho analysis that's involved in that. i just want to step back to the beginning of what you were saying, what's happened today, which is the president of the united states went out and has already confessed to this crime but then kind of doubled and tripled down on the crime. to your point, lawrence, he understands now i think that there are no facts and contention here. given that it's now been explained to him since there aro facts in dispute, you can argue process. you can say democrats are in league with the whistle-blower. somehow shichiff is shifty. the only way out for him now is to basically say, yes, i did this thing because it's clear i did. it's okay. and to make the point that it's okay is the best way to make that is just do it again and do it as publicly as possible in the most flaming gratuitous way as you can. and w