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

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

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

trump: thank you. reporter: [indistinct] pres. trump: ask again? reporter: [indistinct] -- escalated your feud with the four congresswomen. pres. trump: they are very bad for our country. i really think they must hate our country. i think the four congressmen we are talking about -- the congresswomen, what they have said about israel, what they have said about our country, when they talk about discussing people, when they talk the way they talk, when one mentioned that brown people should speak for brown people, muslim people should speak for muslim people, that is not what our country is about. i think they are very bad for our country, very bad for the democrat party. i think you see that. they are pulling the democrats way left. nobody knows how to handle them. i feel they are easy to handle. for me, they are easy to handle, because they are just out there. they are very bad for our country, absolutely. reporter: [indistinct] pres. trump: no, i don't think -- no, no. no racial tensions. there's no racial tension. i had my best numbers recently,

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

thanks to president trump. >>> another former trump administration member reportedly plans to shed light on their time in the white house. detail on who may be penning a new book. >>> president trump and former president jimmy carter escalate their ongoing spat, the latest digs from the former commander in chief. and bill karins is back with another check on the forecast. sh anothechr eck on the forecast. ♪ she's doing it again. (vo) no cover up spray here... it's the irresistibly fresh scent of febreze air effects. cheaper aerosols can cover up odors, burying the smell in a flowery fog. switch to febreze air effects! febreze eliminates even the toughest odors from the air. and it uses an all-natural propellant to leave behind a pleasant scent you'll love. use anywhere odors can spread. freshen up, don't cover up. febreze air effects. they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.com print discounted postage for any letter any package any time right from your computer all the amazing services of the post office only cheaper get our special tv o

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

trump is in a long line. lindsey graham is in a long line of disgraced politicians, like joseph mccarthy, who basically communist baited. and what these politicians do is they tell lies. they tell false hoods to try demonize minorities. or demonize others. whether they be dissidents, political dissidents, or whether they be catholics or juice or african-americans or asian-americans or italians or irish americans. they try to demonize and make them the other. and that's what trump has done. he did it when he started out with mexican americans. he did it with muslims and now with black americans. it is inaccurate. his tweets. it is hypocritical. but most significantly, it is unamerican. it is against our first amendment which embraces protest. >> peter, tonight, omar was greeted with this when she went back to her home state of minnesota. watch. >> welcome home ilhan! welcome home ilhan! >> earlier today she said the president is viewing this, in his words, fascist ideology. is this a lose/lose fight for everyb

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

trump is a racist. he once asked me if i could name a country run by a black person that wasn't a [ bleep ]. this was when barack obama was president of the united states. and while we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in chicago, he commented that only black people could live that way. and he told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid. >> why do you think he wants a political race war? >> i think that he really doesn't know any other way. you know, for many years we fought him from central park five where he tried to get the death penalty for five young black and brown men that were prawn innocent all the way to his own discrimination and people kept saying, well, give him the benefit of the doubt. you know i toured with newt gingrich and others that i've disagreed with, but it was never this kind of racial rancor back and forward. for his own lawyer, who set up meetings with me and trump, to say he was a racist and what he would say in private sho

bikers for trump -- you ever see these guys? the bikers for trump. [applause] they leave them alone. our construction workers, they leave them alone. our law enforcement, they leave them alone. anybody that looks real tough and real nasty, they leave them alone. they only go after somebody that stands there and is not a fighter. nothing wrong with that. and they beat the hell out of them and they pummel him, like what happened two weeks ago. they pummel him. that's the only one they go after. they'll go after that. they say, "is he a fighter? " "no." "let's hit him over the head with sticks and bats." what they do, it's a horrible thing. but hey, they don't do it to many of our people. but they look for the people that aren't the fighters. these dangerous behaviors are the hallmarks of socialism. but socialism cannot survive when people are free to think for themselves. that's why america will never be a socialist country. it's never going to happen. [applause] so, thank you. thank you. because as patriots, we cherish our first amendment. we believe

for trump. thank you. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: that is a lot of signs. do you remember the last election, donald trump will never, ever get the women. we have a tremendous number of women. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we have this tremendous number of women, and during the election night they said what is going on? you know what it is called, suppression. polls are just as fake as the news themselves. but women built 60%, and men will sue me for discrimination now. women fill 60% of all the new jobs created last year. women took 60%. what is wrong with you men? but the radical democrats are trying to destroy all of our country's tremendous achievement and our country's success. unprecedented. we have had unprecedented success. leaders come in from other countries, prime minister's, presidents, kings, queens, dictators sometimes, i hate to say it, dictators, and they all start off by saying mr. president, i would like congratulate you on the economy you created. the greatest anywh

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

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

are they running trump? these are the guys though in all seriousness you want to talk about how ruthless republicans can be. they tried to impeach republican deputy attorney rod rosenstein when they were mad at him. so they are not elegant but they are ruthless. >> they are. what they're playing is the game of keep away. so they want to keep away from the president's doorstep everything that could be the least bit incriminating, the least bit damaging, the least bit destructive to his presidency with respect to the campaign and subsequent. so i look for these individuals, duly named, to go out and be the front line. this is for everything. >> this is war. >> because you've now got the guy have the guy that wrote the report sitting in front of them. and so as best and search and seizure you can do the ultimate takedown of him and discredit him, the better. >> to them, not for the country. joyce vance, what would you advise democrats who will be asking the questions of special counsel mueller to ask? >> you kn

donald trump. after decades of clear evidence of racism, trump clearly knows exactly what he's saying and to whom, and as president he has consistently backed up his racist talk with policy. he's putting real racist policy on the table designed to excite racially anxious white americans and to terrify people who aren't white. so, yes, donald trump is really racist, fini. this weekend trump added to the ledger targeting four black and brown democratic congresswomen, representatives alexandria ocasio-cortez, ilhan omar, ayanna presley and rashida tlaib, to punish them for criticizing his hideous immigration policies, including locking central american men, women and children in crowded cages where they are told to drink water from the toilet. trump pulled the ultimate barbecue becky telling them they don't belong here. trump in a tweet storm told these four american congresswomen to go back to the countries from where they came from. all are born in america. one in the bronx, michigan, chicago, and o

this trump's america. yes, trump, racism, sexism, misogyny all existed before trump. he has done something to this country and you see it with the republican party and has normalized things that should never have been normalized. the reason because he's sitting in the white house and stands behind the podium and he tweets from the residence of the white house. all of this is coming from the president of the united states. listening to karen bass, head of the congressional black caucus. when it comes to black people in america and people of color in america, donald trump is nothing new. that's the thing we have to remember. he's nothing new. especially when i talk to people from jim crow and especially with the birtherism. >> i don't want to skip over this point, when you look at the exit polling, black women were the smallest group, none voted for donald trump. if you ask them after the election, the antidotal evidence was we all knew someone like donald trump. >> exactly. the reason biden does so well in polling, he's being supported by the black community. in his an

who are we looking for, president trump? >> and i spoke to a former counterterror official the last time this was in the news and he said there were no known terrorists that crossed the u.s./mexico border. you would know better than me. >> it's a fallacy, doesn't happen. drug dealers, yes. middle eastern terrorists? no. if you want to plan tactically a law enforcement operation across the country that gets someone hurt, this is how you would do it. you would specifically name the cities you're going to hit, the categories of people you're looking for, which are the over-stays, right, who have paper on them, and then say it's going to happen on sunday. so there are two extremes, one, the rage will result in the sound of crickets and no one's there because they're gone if they heard about it. the other extreme -- boy, i hope i'm wrong -- somebody gets hurt. you have barricaded subjects or armed subjects and now you have to force entry. where are you forcing entry into? churches, shelters, refuge centers? where is that going on

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

today, donald trump's surrender is a big one, and so in true trump style, he had it delivered by someone you've never heard of, deep inside the justice department. kate bailey, whose title is trial attorney, united states department of justice, civil division, federal programs branch. it was her job to announce today that donald trump will not try to defy the constitution and delay the census for the first time in history, and that the census will go forward without donald trump's question about citizenship. she wrote an email saying, we can confirm that the decision has been made to print the 2020 census questionnaire without the citizenship question and that the printer has been instructed to begin the printing process. when donald trump lost in the supreme court last week, he pretended he wasn't giving up. he pretended that he might delay the census, which would be as wildly unconstitutional as donald trump refusing to leave office if he loses the electoral college. and there are people who think that donald trump just might do that, that he's just such a crazy tough guy that he'll ju

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

david pecker, not trump. the fact that there was an intermediary paying her, that scandal house story as scandalous as it was, it was one step removed from trump when it came to who made the hush money payments to shut up a porn model before the election. because it was one step removed from trump himself, because there was this other entity that appears to have paid the money, the story did not make that much of a splash even though it landed three days before the election. we know from documents unsealed in federal court that trump was "pissed " about that story that came out on the day it came out. we know that trump's immediate orbit including hope hicks and michael cohen celebrate and sent text messages after it did not appear to be getting traction. it worked! the gambit to have a third party have the playing off. it worked to keep his election chances intact. that was a criminal scheme. that was a felony to use a big cash payment to benefit the declare it as up. david pecker that fronted the money on t

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

it's not that they are afraid of trump personally, many of them are, they see trump has achieved this sort of super natural connection with the republican base and for a lot of these folks, it's worth remembering in 2018, a lot of moderate suburban based congressional republicans were wiped out. what the party is left with at this point is this disproportionately white working class, urban. >> and evangelical republican base, and these are the members of congress when they go home, they're constituents are crazy about trump, so it's not just a matter of crossing trump, it's a matter of crossing your own constituents which is much more than these members of congress are willing to do. >> i'm a campaign junky and there's a lot in here that i didn't know about the 2016 campaign, even though i covered it every single day. let me read one ted cruz quote and get into more ted cruz issues on this idea of flip-flopping on trump. ted cruz did not endorse the president at the convention in cleveland, he refused to support him and told confidants there was no way in hell he was going to subjugat

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

we deserve trump. we deserve someone who has the courage to say to black america you have nothing to lose because you are already losing. it's true. it's not left or right, democrat or republican, it's about black americans getting off their feet and something that's really wrong. >> it's not because i don't like trump it's because i'm not untethered to the facts, like he is, and apparently like those who do not mind defending him even when he's wrong. it's really not that hard to say that someone is wrong. when you say that no one would want to live in an entire city, it is wrong, it's insulting, and it's not factual. i have family from baltimore, so i actually care what happens to the people there. and when you say, here are all the things that are wrong, but don't talk about our country because if you talk about our country you need to go back somewhere, but i'm going to talk about what's wrong and i'm not even going to introduce some way to help. what you don't do is criticize people who actually a

called trump insiders. i have assembled a group of people who know and knew donald trump well friends foreign business associates and former trump white house insiders to go inside the mine of trump in this pivotal time and let us know where they think we are headed. lots to cover. this is saturday night politics. . >>> thrilled to have everybody watching tonights. thanks for inviting me into your home. a different show tonight. instead of normal brilliant journalists i have, this is a moment in time we all know what happened this week. and other than charlottesville it was the bottom of the trump presidency. scary times i didn't sleep several nights this woke. and i wanted to get people who know trump, friends, exex-friends, business, to really talk very, very kind of like where are we going, how bad can it go? how much of this is something we should be terrified about semi terrified about, the people that know him to really break it down and have some honest discussion. tonight i'm rosa manigault neumann

, trump, trump." >> the trump inspired violence did not stop after election day. remember this guy? that's caesesar sayoc, the maga. he described attending a trump rally as akin to finding a new drug. he believed he was on the frontlines of a war between right and left. it's not like things are just now getting dangerous, thanks to trump's rhetoric. they have been dangerous from the start and they are getting worse. how we respond, according to my next guest will define us forever. we will talk about that, next. forever. we will talk about that, next. let's do it. [ sniffing ] come on. this summer, add a new member to the family. hurry into the mercedes-benz summer event today for exceptional offers. lease the glc 300 suv for just $419 a month at the mercedes-benz summer event. going on now. [ text notification now that you have] new dr. scholl's massaging gel advanced insoles with softer, bouncier gel waves, you'll move over 10% more than before. dr. scholl's. born to move. w...that keep us active every day.... like you, your cells get hungry. feed them... ...wit

in many ways he's like donald trump. in many ways he is not like donald trump. you know, he studied the classics at ox bridge. he's incredibly well read and he understands, you know, he understands philosophy. all those kind of high brow things. the question is whether he understands the kind -- the practical kind of politics and is going to put in the hard work that is needed and also whether he can unite people because he is -- we have a -- we have something you spread on toast called mar might back in the uk and some love it and some hate it. well, that is boris. he is marmite. >> let me go to the another part of the globe. the white house is hosting the prime minister of pakistan and a relationship that's been fraught at times. and in a briefing call the other day, the white house officials said they'd lean on pakistan to show they're committed to, you know, cracking down on -- to the terrorism. they don't want at it to be a host country for that. there's some skepticism in the administration that the terrorist will remain in custody. >> yeah, he's considere

it is called trump insiders. i've assembled a group of people who know and knew trump well. former associates and insiders. lots to cover. this is saturday night politics. thrill to have everybody watching tonight. a very different kind of show tonight. instead of the normal brilliant journalists i have, this is a moment in time. we all know what happened this week other. than charlottesville, it was the bottom of the trump presidency. scary times. i didn't sleep several nights this week. and i wanted to get people who know trump. friends, exfriends, business, to really talk raw about where we're going. how bad kit go? how much of this is something we should be terrified about? semi terrified about? the people who know him, to really have some honest discussions. tonight, the former aide to president trump and author of unhinged. and the former campaign adviser, my good buddy, anthony scaramucci and author. >> you informing one. ? the victims support group. >> we were talking before we got started. trump in the latest tweet said i hardly know the guy. >> how much were you th

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

this is donald trump. of course it's not a dog whistle, it's a bull horn to his most bigoted, racist supporters and we'll just see what happens. so president trump meant most of the day doubling down on those tweets over the weekend. attacking a group of progressive women for being critical of the united states just like the president is constantly critical of the united states. during the event that was supposed to highlight american made products, donald defended his remarks in which he said the four democrats should quote, go back to the crime infested places from which they came. of course when he says that he's talking about cincinnati, and detroit and new york city. later in the day the four congresswomen that president trump attacked in the tirade stood side by side to denounce the comments. here is a little bit of how the day unfolded. >> as far as i'm concerned, if you hate our country, if you're not happy here, you can leave. >> our squad is big. our squad includes any person committed to buildin

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

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

trump or to mr. trump, he's going to like you. he wants to be liked. and i think kim had it right when he said despite being one of the most powerful individuals in the world, he has this amazing insecurity that he looks at everybody and wonders are they helping me or hurting me. if he feels as if they're not helping him, he's going to go after them. look at the terms he used for kim derek. that's not being presidential but it's not surprising from donald trump. >> the ambassador's communication offers a strategy about dealing with the trump administration. talk to anyone you can who might have an ability to contact trump and influence trump including possibly some of the late night friends and rich guys he gets on the phone with because you can't use or expect to use normal white house channels and expect that to work. >> kim was giving practical advice to the british. if you want to make end roads with donald trump, find the different channels that resketive. whether they're late night talk show hoes or influencers or who leaves thoughts in his heads

>> it was trump country. quite frankly, i was treated excellent. >> and the other inmates were trump supporters and viewed you through that lens? >> let's say i had some street cerd. >> if knew how dishonest people would be behaving behind the scenes, i would have done some -- i would have been more careful. >> when you take it all together, what is your interpretation of who was charged and who wasn't? because on obstruction, one of the arguments the trump side will make is there is no co-conspirators on obstruction. mr. mcgahn and others who were caught up and request to commit crimes according to mueller and the court refused them. >> you know, ari, i think what we are forgetting is that bob mueller referred out 14 cases and investigations to various u.s. attorneys offices. i have a hard time believing none of them will bear criminal fruit. i expect to hear some indictments in the future. i don't think we've seen the last of the defendants. so i don't know that we're going to learn much more about that tom

we will now hear the opening remarks of president trump. president trump: thank you very much. i will make a very short statement because we are going to the dmz border, and i will be meeting with chairman kim. i look forward to it very much. i look forward to it very much. we have developed a very good relationship and we understand each other. i do believe he understands me and i may be understand him, and sometimes that can lead to very good things. one to start by just thinking president moon and very importantly, first lady moon. she is a very special woman and spirit. she loves your country very much, as does president moon. we had a great dinner last night together, and spends a large part of the morning discussing lots of different things, including trade and military, frankly, and many other items. just thought i would mention that when we came here, our great ambassador, who arrived last night, our great ambassador, who is here aboutace, who was talking the turmoil going on because of -- there was a vitriol level of vitriol that was happening between north and south a

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

charles: media and trump, we know their relationships suggesting that president trump blinked. that we got nothing for it. >> right. that's false. charles: that xi bought time. he is dealing with other things like the massive protests in hong kong, so that he was able to sort of put this aside, perhaps deal with that. and some other issues, including his economy which continues to seemingly to get a lot worse? >> charles, with your interest in history and programs you've done on chinese history it is important to underline what the real issue is here. the superhawks written books and articles that china is about to collapse. they look at china is weak. look at statistical indicators. look at that china will be on its knees begging for a deal. that is just false. china has a strong economy. they have grown 3 to 4% faster than us for 30 years. they're almost overtaking us. president trump has now said by my count five times, if hillary had been elected president china would surpass america during her terms in office. that is not going to happen on my watch he says. he is not a be

trump is on to something. he is on to this nativist streak that goes back to the 1790s and goes back to the anti-catholic riots of 1844 to the chinese exclusion acts of 1882 to the internment of japanese americans in 1941, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. but we've seen that they go in waves and that we enact these things we are vulnerable to them when we're afraid. and then we look back with shame. and those who supported those measures become discredited by the political system. and, look, there may be some advantage. president trump seems to think so in having people look through politics through the prism of their identity. but i am enough of an op mist about this country and the system to think that this will not at a time of increasingly diverse electorate, younger electorate, that this will pay off in the longer run. in fact, i think it will tarnish a republican party that, you know, i remember when it actually stood for something and had an ideology, and now has become a personality cult around a man w

we turn to former trump trump executive barbara res and an author to boot. thanks for being here. >> my pleasure. >> how does donald trump see when he sees his native new york here this week pass an explicit law to get his state returns. >> yeah, he feels like everyone's after him and that's just another example of oh, my god, the world is closing in on him. is he worried about it? at this point, i don't think so. not yet. i think he thinks his lawyers will protect him. look what he's done. this is dealing with little new york state. i mean, he's managed to avoid subpoenas. he's not listening to the supreme court. he doesn't follow any rules at all. i think he's probably taking this okay for now. >> why do you think he hides his taxes? >> you know, at first i thought well, it had something to do with maybe the charitable contributions that he doesn't make. and then you know, maybe he doesn't make as much money as he says he does. and he's always been that way, years and years and years. but now i'm wondering if it isn't just the financing where that money's

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

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

trump: look. i think robert mueller did a horrible job, both today and with respect to the investigation, but in all fairness to robert mueller, he had nothing to work with. you can be a builder, but if they don't give you you the right materials, you're not going to build a very good building. robert mueller had no material or nothing to work with, obviously he did very poorly today. i don't think anybody, even among the fakers, i don't think anybody would say he did well. i looked at your people, they are saying it was devastating for the democrats and even i will tell you, the two most nauseous and nausiating networks, whose ratings have gone down, way down, even they said this was a really bad day for the democrats. so robert mueller did a poor job, but in all fairness, he had nothing to work with. david. >> do you regret -- [question indiscernible] -- >> pres. trump: look, i saw what he did to people, how he ruined people's lives because they didn't remember a date or something minor, he ruin