during the campaign he repeatedly said the judge in the trump university case had a conflict because of his mexican heritage. >> the judge, who happens to be, we believe, mexican... >> reporter: and mr. trump and his team tried to discredit plaintiffs who were former students in the case. when we discussed trump university with the trump organization attorney in 2015, he brought folders bearing the names of former students critical of the defunct program, but now the stakes couldn't be higher, and he's trying to discredit the special counsel. a fellow republican who was praised by none other than neutropenia who tweeted that mueller's reputation is impeccable for honesty and integrity. in a 2007 book, mr. trump wrote that he loves getting even. the white house maintains the president has the power to fire mueller at any point. the special counsel's office declined to comment. anthony? >> mason: julianna goldman, thanks. members of congress have a member for the president: don't antagonize the special counsel. you can regret it. here's nancy cordes. >> it would prompt a fighter storm.

originally you guys were looking into trump university because you just wanted him to take away the nameit colleges generally and there were problems with for-profit colleges ripping people off actually. we've sued the federal department of education for trying to remove rules that would protect students from being ripped off by for-profit colleges a couple of weeks ago. and we were looking at for-profit colleges and there was trump university hanging out there, like, with a neon sign on it, saying "fraud here." and we attempted to negotiate a settlement, that failed. and so, in the summer of 2013, we sued him. and that's when our relationship took a turn for the worst. [ laughter ] >> seth: yeah. he has mentioned you on twitter a couple of times. not very kindly. here's one. "lightweight a.g. eric schneiderman is perhaps the most incompetent, least respected a.g. in the us. he's a total joke." [ light laughter ] lightweight a.g. schneiderman -- he used your twitter handle that time. that's very nice -- he wanted to make sure you saw it. just got his ass kicked by trump. [ laughter ] and

thirty six thousand people have already proven that i mean you had twenty thousand people at trump universityi don't know if any of them got you know anything back under this one because they had their own lawsuit they got twenty four million bucks from trump but but betsy de vos is saying no no we don't want you to be able to just when i mean time assuming we're just talking about getting your damn tuition back from an institution that explicitly defrauded you why why does betsy divide us saying no to this first and foremost i've always said on the show the trumpet ministration there was an example of it i believe two weeks ago when when we were talking of a different department they should not be delaying lawfully implemented either laws or regulations that were sort of on the train and you know already fully along the way of being implemented that shouldn't be you shouldn't slow it down if it was it was perfectly rightfully done within the administrative process the bigger point on for profit colleges is the their problem is that they weren't pete putting people on a track to actually. gra

these the sort of mind set i think that bannon brought to trump's universe. >> rose: how powerful ishe in the whitehouse today. >> not as powerful as he wants to be, that's for sure. bannon really is a propagandist at heart and he is very good at messaging, at stoking the worries and fears of the electorate. galvanizing a certain kind of dispossessed voter who hasn't felt like had a place in american politics maybe over the last 10, 20 years. that's a real talent and i think that helped get donald trump elected. but you need an entirely different set of skills when you wind up in the whitehouse. the problem that steve bannon had and the problem that donald trump had is both of them only have one speed. this kind of need to dominate their opponent, to kind of come in throwing hey makers and being as aggressive as you can. a couple weeks into the administration, or into the transition, they were going to pursue a shock and awe strategy that was going to blow up the washington establishment and impose trump's stamp on the american government the same way he put a stamp on a trump buildi

the chest and doubling down, and that's the sort of mindset, i think, that bannon brought to trump's universe. >> rose: how powerful is he in the white house today? >> not as powerful as he once was, that's for sure. >> rose: what happened? well, bannon really is a propagandist at heart, and he's very good at messaging, at stoking the worries and fears of the electorate. you know, and galvanizing a certain kind of dispossessed voter who hasn't felt like they've had a place in american politics maybe over the last 1020 years. that's a real talent, and i think that helped get donald trump elected. but you need an entirely different set of skills when you wind up in the white house, and the problem that steve bannon had and the problem that donald trump had is both of them only have one speed, this kind of need to dominate their opponents, to kind of come in, throwing haymakers and be as aggressive as you can. bannon told me a couple of weeks into the transition that they were going to pursue a shock and awe strategy that was going to blow up the washington establishment and impose trump's stamp

mark: and there were divisions within the trump white house, the trump universe about whether to come clean immediately, to draw it out. robert: what were those decisions? you must have seen it up close working on the story for the "times." mark: without getting too much into who was talking to whom about what to do, but there were some who advocated that there was -- that the best thing to do would be to sort of produce the email, talk about what the story's about, what the meeting's about and not have it drag out because it looks incriminating. >> and the backdrop of all of this is donald trump is basically the world's worst client, he is not a lawyer's dream. we have reporting that his legal team goes to the white house and they tell him, whatever you do, mr. president, just don't mention this and they have not yet arrived back at their law office when he has tweeted about the subject they told him not to mention. he's also someone who, when you're under legal investigation or facing legal problems, you need to compartmentalize and he'll be in a meeting about immigration or water p

trump? see previous answer. in the nontrump us universeif trump -- nontrump universe, if it fails it would clobber him. that's what happened to clinton when his health care plan failed a year later, they lost the congress, the democrats. once again, this i think is really something we've never seen before, because donald trump is not seen as a legislative master, not keen on the details, in fact we've had republicans where they're polite in saying he doesn't know much or care much that's in the bill. he said give me something i'll sign it. so if it were to fail who do the trump folks blame? the president or do they blame the congressional leadership. that's where i think the fallout will happen. >> sreenivasan: jeff greenfield, thanks very much. >> sreenivasan: the state department is calling for the release of a u.s. citizen sentenced today by iran to ten years in prison. chinese-born xiyue wang is a 37- year-old princeton university graduate student who's been in custody for 11 months. he had openly been doing research in iran's national

and remember, as the founder of trump university, he's an expert on phony deals. ( laughter ) ( applause piano riff ) trump claimed he can prove it's bogus because "i have witnesses. you know, i went there with phil ruffin." now, i thought phil ruffin was the arch nemesis of mcgruff the crime dog. "i'll get you, ruffin!" ( laughter ) but it turns out, he's a casino owner friend of trump's. let's take a look at this upstanding character witness they call phil ruffin-- oh, they totally did it. yeah. yeah, they did it. now, the wildest accusations in that dossier have never been confirmed. but as far as i know, nobody has tried. here's the reason why. the media said it's too salacious for us to look into. but it's the only part we care about or talk about, the pee pee tape! pee pee tape! pee pee tape! pee pee tape! there was one man brave enough to go to moscow and check it out. he has two thumbs. ( cheers and applause ) jim? >> stephen: moscow. the heart of mother russia. the source of the greatest political turmoil to afflict the highest echelons of the united states government in a gener

trump university. a lot of times, you have to be very comfortable in trusting what the man said. >> errol louis, rebecca berg, thank you very much. >> i want to show you live pictures we're getting, look at this out of hong kong right now. fireworks over victoria harbor there. hong kong marking the 20th year anniversary. and angry over chinese control over that city. china's president xi jinping saying hong kong is, quote, non-negotiable. but what a celebration that is, my goodness. >>> all right. coming up there was a small plane that crashes on one of the busiest highways in california. >> yeah, yeah, mov move back fre plane. >> just breathe, just breathe, okay. >> the frightening moment as that plane crash landed in the middle of traffic. >>> plus, doctors describing that deadly shooting at a new york city hospital, called a war zone. live updates from new york. >>> and finally, an arrest in the case of a missing chinese grad student. the news from investigators is not good, however. what they're te

represented him in the trump university fraud fiasco. where trump ended up paying out $25 million. he represented trump in an effort to keep secret to proceedings of one of the trump divorces. he was the one who wrote to the "the new york times" threatening to sue the times for publishing interviews of women who said they had been sexually assaulted or harassed by president trump. you might remember president trump threatened to sue every one of those women as well as the "the new york times." he never did sue any of the women or the "the new york times" but the threat to sue the sometimes came from marc kazowitz. marc kazowitz is a long time trump lawyer but now he's been shipped down to washington to become the lead lawyer for the president in the most serious national security foreign influence scandal to ever hit this presidency or any other american presidency. and last night at almost exactly this time on this show i mentioned that we might be seeing signs of some problems brewing, a little shakiness at the top of the president's legal defense team. first was this reporting f

president trump's own trump university was investigated by the federal government and eventually shutter multiple lawsuits. marcos is banking on the attorney general being success tl with their lawsuit. >> i think it's good to give us a chance. you know? some type of hope. >> i'll continue to follow this. and i'll keep you posted as things change. >> sad way to end it up for a lot of people. >> really. >> michael, thank you. >>> coming up, he's 85 years old and relying on eight wheels to get him down one of san francisco's steepest streets. find out why next. >>> a live look over san francisco from our camera on top of mount sutro. you can see the fog. spencer will be back with the forecast ♪ ♪ award winning interface. award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90. the most awarded luxury suv of the century. visit your volvo dealer today and get up to $4,500 in allowances. >>> that was the launch of the traditional firework rocket marking the running of the bulls festival. the bull runs begin in pamplona tomorrow. it's extremely dangerous. dozens of people are hurt each y

a lot of -- we've singled profilew of the highest soho is one trump and miss universe package. coverage partly because donald trump went to moscow and played it up. vonnie: it's the 2013 miss took placegeant that in moscow. also looking at the the sale of russiana mansion to a oligarch back in 2008. >> right now, we're all aware what the president said yesterday about the investigation. russia.rays beyond all these transactions is a direct line. logical line into russian involvement or some connection derivedan business through russia. trump's lawyer just gave a response. ready some of the things we described in our story indicate that the special counsel has gone beyond the mandate that he was given in may was taken on this task. given a vague mandate. >> there will be some gamesmanship on a side. to trump's counsel, they want the narrowest interpretation possible whereas from this, mueller is not taking the narrowest interpretation. are focused on russia related money. vonnie: what might special for?el mueller be looking what will be a red flag in any of these transactions? >

so much, they spent money to go to trump university to learn business and then the business went oute customer who is sued it went from originally loving him so much that they were paying for it to suing him because they felt he was a con. is that a predicate for some plurality of what some trump voters might feel? >> there are two sides of trumps that appeal to people. one is pragmatic. he's a businessman. he gets things done. if he goes into office, he's not going to behave like other politicians. the other side was the emotional side, that somehow he spoke to people who feel alienated from our political discourse, people who feel ignored by the coastal media and the coastal elites. and so both of these dynamics were there before he came into office. what i have noticed is that since he's been in office, there hasn't been a lot of pragmatic progress. he hasn't behaved like a businessman who just wants to get things done. and so what ends up happening is that supporters i find are more likely now to connect to the emotional side of it. and the attacks, of course, make it even less l

president trump's own trump university was investigated by the federal government and eventually shut down after multiple lawsuits. marcos is banking on the attorney general being success tl with their lawsuit. >> i think it's good to give us a chance. you know? some type of hope. >> i'll continue to follow this. and i'll keep you posted as things change. >> sad way to end it up for a lot of people. >> really. >> michael, thank you. >>> coming up, he's 85 years old and relying on eight wheels to get him down one of san francisco's steepest streets. find out why next. >>> a live look over san francisco from our camera on top of mount sutro. you can see the fog. spencer will be back with the forecast that includes who are these people? the energy conscious people among us say small actions can add up to something... humongous. a little thing here. a little thing there. starts to feel like a badge maybe millions can wear. who are all these caretakers, advocates too? turns out, it's californians it's me and it's you. don't stop now, it's easy to add to the routine. join energy upgrade cal

they've been cases in which like with trump university after defrauding students for many years and claimingg to fight in all the way, he just gives up, surrenders. >> >> hands them $25 million and makes it go away. you cannot reach a civil money settlement to make any of this go away. >> which is why i think he is pursuing the extra judicial actions. he is deeply frustrated he can't pick up a wand and make robert mueller disappear. and so in lieu of that it appears they're going to try to smear mueller and his reputation. and they're going to try to find any powers neck in the executive branch that will extricate themselves from this. but they're in a very tough position. >> but the closest thing the president has to the magic wand is the pardon power. that is the only, as ron knows, the only absolute power the president has. this is a president who believed that all of his powers were absolute, legislative he can make it happen easily. the only things that's absolute power is the pardon. that's what he is thinking tonight. when you have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis, the unpredicta

marc kazowitz, a new york lawyer who has represented the president on previous things like the trump university law case and keeping mr. trump's divorce records secret. one of the many things that happened in today's news is that marc kasowitz was either demoted from his leeld role or he's left the legal team all together. it's not entirely clear. but now apparently leading the president's representation on matters related to russia is john dowd, a washington, d.c. lawyer who is like mr. kasowitz, also known for having a hot temper. now, you might remember last night on this show we had bloomberg news reporter, investigative reporter greg ferrell here. greg ferrell and a colleague yesterday reported for bloomberg this seemingly very important story. you see the head line, mueller expands probe to trump business transactions. the reason i say this was a seemingly very important story is in part because of the freak out it seems to have occasions in the white house. that bloomberg article came out yesterday, mid morning. updated a couple of times during the day but initially came out med morning

marc kazowitz, a new york lawyer who has represented the president on previous things like the trump university keeping mr. trump's divorce records secret. one of the many things that happened in today's news is that marc kasowitz was either demoted from his leading role or he's left the legal team all together. it's not entirely clear. but now apparently leading the president's representation on matters related to russia is

marc kasowitz a new york lawyer who has represented the president on previous things like the trump universityeping mr. trump's divorce records secret. one of the many things that happened in today's news is that marc kasowitz was either demoted from his lead role on the president's legal team, or he's

trump. university. [ laughter and applause ] you de-serve. and you.ughter ] guys, it's the end of another crazy week and since there's too much to talk about, instead of giving you a full week in review, we put together a a little montage that focuses on the key words used this week. it's something we call "this week in words." hope you enjoy this. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ wow, whoa wow whoa, whoa, whoa white house ♪ ♪ drama very confused that an fbi director has been removed ♪ ♪ the president he specifically stated you're fired fired, fired, fired ♪ ♪ terminated it's insane off the charts crazy donald trump uses ♪ ♪ the phrase he made famous you're fired go he's running the country ♪ ♪ like his reality show conflict candle repercussions ♪ ♪ you only want to talk about russia, russia, russia trump and russia no collusion ♪ ♪ it's hard to avoid the conclusion that the president's decision was related ♪ ♪ the president is being investigated sean spicer will be bombarded ♪ ♪ believe me we are just getting started ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: be

trump's lies. host: thanks for the call. "fortune" magazine, has drumped creeded global leadership to china? there was a changing of the guard, columbia university economist charged that in pulling the u.s. support out of the paris accord, president trump was not only forfeiting global leadership, but leading america right out of the civilized world. in the "l.a. times," tracy wilkinson saw the president's withdrawal from the climate deal as the most concrete sign yet that america has -- of his america first foreign policy has begun to disrupt the global order that ultimately could cede u.s. in its dominant role to china. david sanger saying the climate decision was a strategic gift to the chinese who are egg eager to fill the void on everything from selling the rules of trade and environmental standards to financing the frain structure project to give beijing that influence. back to your calls. michelle on the republican line in maryland, good morning, michelle. caller: hi, good morning. mr. trump has taken the united states' reputation and dug a commole buried it. he has made everybody look like idiots. his leadership skills are for the billio

trump, jr. back to the miss universe pageant providing a connection between donald trump and this russian oligarch that is connected to vladimir putin. it is a connect web. >> the attorney denies they are anyway connected to the kremlin, just want to point that ought and denied that either men had a meeting with the russian prosecutor which is what goldstone indicated in that e-mail so on the record they're publicly denying it. we have news on the special counsel robert mueller investigation what can you tell us about that. >> my colleagues here telling me tonight in light of this e-mail and preiously undisclosed meeting special counsel robert mueller will investigate that meeting and e-mails involved. it is interesting that the special counsel didn't know about this meeting until very recently and the source was a refiling of jared kushner's security clearance form fs86 the first time he filed listed no meetings and then file ltd again listed some of them and then resubmitted with meeting, and that's how the special prosecutor is in charge of finding out about this meeting via that refiled securi

. >> who went to trump university. >> i'm sure he's -- >> let me go back to the other important story that the president is arguing, that everybody does this, every politician would take this meeting. that often happens in domestic politics. it's extraordinary rare like a government like the russians would come forward like this. but we don't know if any other president accepted it. it has been widely reported that something similar happened in the all gore campaign. they went to the fbi. same with john f. kennedy's campaign in 1960. they turned it away. they didn't take it. there is nothing i can point to -- >> yes, there is. >> michael reagan wrote a column saying president carter himself in 1980 sent arm and hammer to the russian embassy to speak to the russians about doing something to encourage the jewish vote. >> that may be true and that's a good point if there is accurate. i don't know any other place that's been reported. >> but the notion you mentioned before about just trying to appeal to the base, i mean, i get it from a political standpoint. that's politics, which is, you

it's part of the pro-trump media universe, shows on fox, websites and "the national enquirer" is a big part of this pro-trump media universe. if we take what scarborough and brzezinski are charging on face value, this is the president saying call me, grovel, tell me you like me, it tell me you'll be nice to me, and i will get rid of some bad news for you. that's very disturbing. it's not the first time there have been charges of this white house trying to neuter or silence critical voices. >> again, we don't know if he did this. let's be fair about this. it's an allegation. >> at the time he told his colleagues including the head of nbc news pr, he started showing the text messages so there is some contemporaneous. >> we have not seen that. they have not released that. >> we've been asking all day and haven't gotten any. >> are they going to release it and should they release it. it does remind me of something he allegedly said to director comey and i don't want to paraphrase and get it wrong but something about i've been good to you on that thing you talked about and sort of the trans

the son of aras agaralov, billionaire russian oligarch, friend of putin, and sponsor of trump's 2013 miss universe pageant. trump even appeared in one of emin agaralov's videos -- >> emin, let's get with it. you're always late. you're just another pretty face. i'm really tired of you. you're fired. ♪ ♪ note i ♪ ♪ in another night we would be together ♪ ♪ this would last forever ( cheers and applause ) i got swept up. i did not know the fall of western democracy had such a phat beat. ( laughter ) speaking of which, president trump spent much of last week in germany for the g20 summit. it's a big deal, and world leaders work on their g20 agendas for months. but the day before the conference, the president was reportedly "remarkably unprepared" and had "no set agenda and was just going to talk about whatever is on his mind at the moment." in fact, the white house was so unprepared, they waited too long to book accommodations, leaving him with no hotel room for the g20. oh, mr. hotel-man without a hotel! how ironic! ( laughter ) ( applause ) just go to airbnb! almost like mr. billionaire repeatedly de

holders that invested in trump casinos, all these contractors, the people who signed up for trump universityone after another. political parties, he was in the reform party, then he was a republican, then he was a democrat, now he's a republican again. where is the loyalty here? i think it all runs in one direction. >> is this just politics, though? is anyone in politics when push comes to shove truly loyal? isn't everything based on self-interest or furthering a political agenda? >> well, in politics, there is a sense of loyalty. you stick with a party. you stick with commitments. and in the places where i've worked in albany and washington, d.c., the highest praise you can give to a politician is that that person is a straight shooter. yeah, sometimes people fall off the loyalty wagon. but in general you just don't see the kind of behavior, the kind of massive dishonesty and disloyalty we see with donald trump. >> it is fascinating, michael, i mean, in an interview just yesterday, or two days ago, it all runs together now, trump questioned sessions saying like it wasn't really so much a lo

he is the one that did trump university. his role has been significantly downsized in favor of the guy you see there, mark sekulow everyone is familiar, he's been out there. but john dowd and two very experienced hands in washington, d.c., and very well known. you're going to have sekulow everywhere still. you'll see him out there in the communication's role. sekulow and dowd outside. they're working this as people who have that attorney/client privilege. but a big change still. it shows you how seriously the president is taking this that he has that team of heavy hitters. >> chris jansing on the white house north lawn. we'll see you later today, this afternoon, chris, when you're on the air. >>> carol, back to you now. walk us through why there is this public push now to start to try to undercut or discredit bob mueller's investigation rather than letting this play out behind closed doors. aapparently, the white house feels this behooves them to get out there and talk about mueller. >> so, i think this is the president sort

of these e-mails, because i want to understand the events in moscow in 2013 when trump went there for the miss universe in fact, you know there was talk then of him, a business deal, a trump tower in moscow. it was kind of dismissed as something that never got off the ground. in fact, there was a lot more to that than was commonly understood. first of all, the trump organization and the agalarovs signed a letter of intent to construct the trump tower in moscow. donald trump jr. was put in charge of the project. ivanka trump flew over to moscow in 2014 to scout sites for the trump tower with eminute agalarof and there is a picture confirming what goldstone told me. but most significantly, goldstone said why the tower project collapsed, and it happened in 2015 when the russian economy took a downturn because of the imposition of sanctions by the u.s. and the eu over russia's intervention in ukraine. and i think when you see that, you begin to understand, number one, trump's hostility or interest in lifting sanctions. it was those sanctions that screwed up his business deal in russia. and number two, when

. >> moscow is going to get >> reporter: but helped bring president trump's 2013, miss universe pageant to moscow. >> unholy alliance between the oligarchs, criminal elements and government. awe former assistant director of the fbi. >> it is not illegal to meet with them. you have to be careful about meeting with them you. could be a dupe or frying to use you. they always have an agenda. >> the president's son is the fourth trump campaign representative to admit to previously undisclosed contacts with russian nationals. he joins former national security adviser michael flynn. attorney general jeff sessions. and, jared kushner. as recently as february, the february had denied that there were any russian contacts during the election. >> no, nobody that i know of. >> this new revelation, houfrg has caught the attention of congress. mark warner is the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee. >> this is the first time the public has seen clear evidence that senior level officials of the trump campaign melt with potentially an agent of a foreign government to try to obtain informati