trump! trump! trump! trump! donald trump finally draining the swamp of the people he brought to the swamp. president trump is a genius, people. he hires a cabinet full of terrible people, fires them one by one, looks like he's a man of action. drain the swamp! down to the previous levels! drain the swamp! down to the previous levels! it's not as catchy. it's just not as catchy. how big is this story? the national security advisor, fired after just three weeks. who, like, who could've seen this coming? - a red flag was raised late last month by then-acting attorney general sally yates, yates telling the trump white house she believed flynn was potentially vulnerable to russian blackmail. - remember after obama put sanctions on russia for election meddling, all right, to help trump win, you remember that? well, after that, flynn called the russian ambassador and told them not to sanction the u.s. back because trump was gonna cancel america's sanctions after he took office. uh, which is illegal, obviously. i mean,

trump in the office. andk you for your book maybe you could write a victims version of it -- could write a dick and jane version of it. guest: the day after the clinton's campaign, most of the people that i circulate with in washington at my job was just shocked at this happened and nobody really believed until 10:00 p.m. on election night that trump could win. mom.ember talking to my she said how could this happen, you said hillary was going to win. i thought it was important for someone to look back and tell the full inside story of what had really happened. just because i had a close access to people like bannon and trump, going so far back, i thought i could tell the story of the campaign and i thought that the key to understanding what happened in that election was understanding the relationship between donald trump and steve bannon because together, they were able to ride this populist wave the gop nomination against what was thought to be the strongest presidential field on the republican side in a

if you're donald trump, how is donald trump reacting to this? >> i haven't heard from the president today. that i know ev i know that he's been venting about the president. he's saying who does he think he is? one of the things angered trump was this book by the bloomberg reporter, a lot of people close to trump saw as a biography for bannon. bannon was taking credit for the election victory so trump is annoyed with steve bannon and i can imagine him saying, the trump presidency is oh. it is almost laboratory test designed to enrage donald trump. if you were going to craft a sentence to enrage donald trump, it would look a lot like that. >> your interview this week with steve bannon, he didn't know it was an interview, or maybe he did. this was in the american prospect. bannon openly contradicted the president and challenged members of the administration, despite trump's tough talk to north korea, bannon said there's no military solution here. they got us. he said they'i fight every day. despite reports that he tendered his resignation august 7,

. >> how did that donald trump become this donald trump? >> i'd like to punch him in the face, i tell you. >> fascinating evolution. a remarkable story. time now for "why trump won." >> announcer: the following is a cnn special report. [ chanting ] >> excuse me. i can hear all of you over there, thank you. >> do you think wealth corrupts? >> it certainly can corrupt. >> of two things in life, love and work. if you had to choose one, if it was a life or death situation, which one would you choose? >> i would probably choose love. >> you would? >> i think so, yes. >> despite the fact that you spend all your time working, achievi achieving, creating? >> the happiest people tend to be the people that are making a nice income, that really enjoy their life and their family life and not the people of tremendous wealth that are constantly driven to achieve more and more success. you're expected to be a certain kind of a person and maybe you're not necessarily cut out to be that kind of a person. >> how did that donald trump -- >> get out! >> -- bec

blacks for trump. his views are ones that the trump campaign might not want to be associated with. jessica schneider is "outfront." >> reporter: he calls himself michael the black man. >> i love the signs behind me. blacks for trump. i like those signs. >> reporter: but the man behind the sign -- >> i'm about to tell you something. >> reporter: is a controversial conspiracy theorist. he once heckled barack obama in florida. his group saying obama was endorsed by the kkk. >> hold on, everybody. >> reporter: his website that he promotes on his t-shirt spews headlines, race war to kill all black women in america and hillary is the racist. the man whose real name is maurice, has a knack for getting himself up close and personal with the president. he was within feet of donald trump at his victory party on election night. and was hobnobbing with there are governor rick scott in march. the trump campaign isn't responding to questions about how this man always seems to get so close, or if they're concerned ab

why did trump win? and let me remind you as i did at the start that our real question is why did he even get close? donald trump was a totally unconventional candidate. >> i don't know what i said. uh, i don't remember! >> who broke all the rules and did things that would have destroyed anyone else running for president. why did he break through? as we've tried to show you in this hour, america is now divided. divided along four lines, each one reinforcing the other. call them the four cs. the first is capitalism. there was a time when the american economy moved in tandem with its middle class. as the economy grew, so did middle-class employment and wages. but over the last few decades that link has been broken. the economy has been humming along, but it now enriches mostly those with education, training, and capital. the other americans have been left behind. the second divide is about culture. in recent decades we've seen large-scale immigration, african-americans and hispanics rising to a more centra

onto trump. robert: one of the things he says he's going to do now back at his post at breitbart is continue with that strategy of flaming the emotions of the white nationalist far right, which really helped form part of donald trump's base. what i think is really interesting now is what is left at the white house? who fills that vacuum? frankly, it's a lot of former democrats. it's gary cohen, steve mnuchin. it's jared kushner. who i would imagine have a hard time coming up with a policy proposal that's going to work its way through a republican-led congress. molly: as of this air time, steven miller is still there and very influential. he's very much of the same mind, i think. robert: the head speech writer for president trump. >> but if president trump goes too far to the center, if some of those people that you talked about, the gary cohens, affect him too much, he doesn't exactly know how steve bannon is going to use the power that he has with breitbart. how he has a huge, huge voice. and mu

, donald trump's allies. they've made it clear. they don't have much regard for bob mueller. they are very suspicious of this investigation. making all sorts of critical comments. if you're on the case, if you're that special prosecutor, did you read from the tone, from the content of what he said yesterday, would you say this is a guy whole have my back if it comes to it. if you're a prosecutor, how would you read it? >> i think rosenstein has been supportive of mueller. i think yesterday's comments were supportive. he has a job to do. he knows what the job is. i know what job is. he will be allowed to do his job. i think he is supported by that. >> clinton, news here of subpoenas request for records, request for documents, you've been on the investigative side of this. what's your read? it can be very vague in terms of what is in the public square. but from an investigative stachbd point, what's your read on what's going on in terms of the subpoenas? >> yeah, you start with documents and hard evidence. comm

is it plausible or likely that he was writing with the no knowledge of donald trump on donald trump's behalf or would he has a lawyer do this on freelance and tell his boss after. >> it seems rather implausible that cohen was out there doing this on his own. on the other hand we don't have the proof yet. this is the bred crumb of these trail that were watching as we get more and more information drip by drip about what these e-mails show. >> what we hear over and over from the trump organization is that they do things that donald trump orders that is hands on and perhaps if it was a tiny country and a tiny deal or throw away licensing deal, but here is a trump tower in moscow is where it's slated to be. you're now seeking the help of an aide to vladmir putin. not someone you want to trifle with. there's no backsies with putin. you ask for help, you're asking. >> this is a deal that trump and his children had talked about, played up and made a big deal about. that can add one more shred of evidence, perhaps, to what you're pointing toward. >> this comes as there are top democratic inve

michael cohen is trump's longtime lawyer. he does trump's bidding. and here he is, in plain daylight today for the first time everyone can see it, asking the putin government for help in the same year that trump categorically denied any business or political ties in russia. >> we're all over the world. i had nothing to do with russia, folks. i have no dealings with russia. i have no deals in russia. i have no deals that could happen in russia, because we've stayed away. and i have no loans with russia. i have nothing to do with russia. i have no investments in russia. none whatsoever. i don't have property in russia. >> no property in russia. so here's what's different right now. even if that statement by donald trump were true, today's revelation shows it was not for lack of trying. the trump organization wasn't just trying to build a trump tower in moscow, when the project stalled it tried so hard, they wanted to get vladimir putin to help seal this deal. and putin is not known for his charity work. if he does something for you, he expects somethin

or donald trump jr. or jared kushner or michael flynn or paul manafort or any and all of those people or other people working in and around the trump campaign for president, and that is why, as "the wall street journal" is reporting, the special prosecutor is now working with a grand jury to hear evidence about his investigation. that grand jury has subpoena power. the special prosecutor does not. the special prosecutor can ask a grand jury to issue subpoenas for documents that he would like to examine. the special prosecutor can ask a grand jury to issue subpoenas for witnesses to come in and testify to that grand jury under oath. it is the grand jury that technically wields those powers, but they always do so under the guidance of a prosecutor whose requests grand juries usually follow routinely. this grand jury is the single biggest threat ever faced by donald trump or anyone else named trump or married to a trump. when jared kushner is subpoenaed to testify to the grand jury, as he surely will be, he

this is vintage trump. in the late 80s, he got into this very famous brawl with ed koch because ed koch wouldn't zone a huge piece of property for him. so trump went after him in the press, and they had this incredibly great new york battle. but the cost to trump was that he never got the property zoned, and he went into battle at the expense of his business interests. he's going into battle with mitch mcconnell at the expense of both his political interest and possibly his legal interests. >> so there's trump with the mayor of new york, going into a battle with someone who has more power than he does in that arena. and, jennifer, this is just institutional. the senate majority leader has more power over the outcome of legislation than a president ever does. i know the news media concentrates on presidential energy in washington and directing legislation, but if the senate majority leader is the place where you can kill or make a bill. >> absolutely. you think about judges. who does he think he has to go to

poor trump. [percussive music] - air traffic control does need and upgrade, and yesterday, at the tiniest desk in the world, donald trump got it done. - today we're proposing to take american air travel into the future, finally. finally. [applause] thank you. - thank you, mr. president. where's our leader? - now, now... now, hate him or love him, you've got to admit that donald trump looks really cute when he signs things at that tiny portable desk. yeah? looks like a little kid that's just, like, fighting hard. [grunts] [laughter] you know what-- you know what, it actually looks like one of those high chairs they give kids at restaurants. you know? like, i'm just waiting for him to flip over the page and do "the little mermaid" maze on the back. "i like there's so many walls. so many walls. my pen is like a mexican." [laughter and applause] it looks like fun. [cheers and applause] but... but i have to admit-- i have to admit, when i saw that signing, i was like, "wow, donald trump does get some

trump because donald trump cannot write english language sentences. the actual author was tony schwartz. to do the job, tony schwartz spent a year and a half with donald trump, almost every waking moment of the day. he got to know him very well, which is why when donald trump became a serious candidate for president with a real chance of winning, tony schwartz went public to tell the world that donald trump is a sick, pathological liar who needs to be stopped. as tony schwartz has recently watched the pressure close in on donald trump in what has become his lonely, dysfunctional presidency, tony schwartz has predicted that donald trump simply will not be able to survive four years in office like this. this week, tony schwartz tweeted, the circle is closing at blinding speed. trump is going to resign and declare victory before mueller and congress leave him no choice. trump's presidency is effectively over. would be amazed if he survives till the end of the year. more likely resigns by fall if not sooner. trump must be isolated. resistance every day. t

trump being trump, he rushed to twitter to claim he dumped them first. tweeting, rather than putting pressure onner the business people, i'm ending both. yesterday amid growing defections, he was downright braggadocious saying i have many to take their place. initially the white house and others, saying the president was entirely correct. the white house held a conference call for surrogates, hosted by presidential aide steven miller. the vice president traveling in south america said that he stands by the president. >> what happened in charlottesville was a tragedy. and the president has been clear on this tragedy and so have i. i spoke at length about this heart situation on sunday night. in colombia. and i stand with the president and i stand by those words. >>> and while a handful of republican officials have publicly condemned trump's performance, the party leaders in congress declined to call him out by name. instead releasing vague statements denouncing racism and hate groups. he waited four days. now as the public has stood by the neo-nazis and k

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trump does this all the time. he tells people what he thinks they want to hear in other words to get what he wants out of them. there's another perfectly good example of this with the president of mexico where he says one thing about the wall and i'm going to get the mexicans to pay and he gets to the phone with the mexican president. he says that wall that's really not that important. just don't beat me up on it. he thinks his personality is so powerful that he can hypnotize anything into doing what he wants them to do. he's had a pretty lousy track record of this with leaders in the justice community. i think it's going to continue not to work for him. i don't think bob mueller is going to look deeply into the eyes of donald trump and fall deeply in love. >> this does seem to raise a fej question about this white house's approach to this investigation in the long haul. you were saying the lawyers want to tamp things down and that may be a good legal strategy. they want to encourage donald trump not to leave any

trump's top generals had been pressing trump to deploy thousands more u.s. troops, while former white house chief strategist steve bannon and other members of the administration had been pushing to privatize the u.s. war and send in thousands of military contractors. we'll have more on trump's announcement and the u.s. war in afghanistan later in headlines. in syria, the local journalistic group raqqa is being slaughtered silently reports dozens of civilians have been killed by u.s.-led bombing and u.s. artillery fire over e last few days amid the ongoing battle to seize control of the city of raqqa from isis. the group says as many as 32 civilians were killed amid bombing in one neighborhood alone. among the victims were eight members of a family who had fled to raqqa amid earlier fighting in palmyra. a local syrian journalist with the outlet sound and picture reports -- "the city is devoid of doctors and the market is devoid of food. what food there was in our fridges has rotted because of the absence of electricity." back in the united states, confederate

mccain doesn't like trump. he didn't like trump having need him. i know you need me at 1:30 in the morning. guess what. i remember everything you've said about me. while you were in new york, i was shot down over enemy territory in hanoi. that was scary. i did it for the country and i ended up being tortured for a couple years and you made fun of that. you want me to vote at 1:30 in the morning? i don't think mccain agreed with him. he didn't think the politics were right and he wasn't going to do something he didn't believe in so trump could be happy. >> and trump made it easier for little to vote no. how had about elaine chao who works for trump as transportation secretary. she's a nice person. if she wants to work for trump, that's her decision. politicians do what they wanted to do. >> that was a terribly unpopular bill. every policy they put forward on health care was unpopular. i don't understand how he thought that would succeed. >> they liked health care more than republicans counted on. >> they grew to like it. when you're faced with the r

so if you call donald trump crazy, you might be a trump voter. here's more of what the trump voters had to say last night. >> he has got to be his own worst enemy. he couldn't be any worse at achieving goals in politics. >> everything he does is outrageous. he just doesn't have that soft touch to sell you on what he wants to accomplish. >> the thing that drives me crazy is all the tweeting he does. why doesn't he just quit that tweeting? >> he's just -- he's let me down. >> we know he's a nut. everybody knew he's a nut. he's not even professional, let alone presidential. >> i question what he's trying to do and don't fully understand it. >> he's such a flawed individual. he makes a travesty of the office. >> there are now signs in polling that some of donald trump's base is turning on him. tonight a new fox news poll shows donald trump with his highest disapproval yet in their poll. 55% disapprove while just 41% approve. donald trump has lost the most support in the fox poll among conservatives, republican men, and white voters without a college

meeting in trump tower. with all the scrutiny over the last year, these guys were sitting on this stuff knowing full well -- >> they were lying over and over. organizatio oh, no contact with russia. >> and i believe we can reliably assume that this is not it, there is more coming. >> you know when you were ordering those ronco knives and half wave through tway through they i go "wait, there's more." >> in one exchange felix wrote this, our boy can become president of the usa and we can engineer it, i will get all of putin's team to buy in on this." i want to read that again. "buddy, our boy can become president of the usa and we can engineer it. i will get all of putins team to buy in on this." >> there have been attempts in the past. >> what did i tell you? did i tell you there was more? >> there was more if you call now. >> you get a second donald trump story, you must pay shipping and handling. >> all for $19.95. >> they're going to pass it to sater sand say he was not a trump intimate. not just are congr

what about the trump children? they seem to have been awfully quiet and both practice the jewish faithful any read on their reaction to their father's, i don't know, the sweet spot for people who protest with nazis? >> well, as robert was saying, a lot of people in and around the administration are doing that old washington parlor trick. where they privately express concern and just how upset they are while still showing up to work the next day. jared and ivanka are not even doing that. i have tried to reach out to their spokespeople, to people close to them and it is utter silence. they had been positioned as liberal voices. and jared and ivanka are practicing jews. >>> coming up, the man known as russia's favorite congressman meets with julian assange. he says he has a men for donald trump. do you think robert mueller may want to know what's going on here? during your period? it's up to you, with tampax pearl. you get ultimate protection on your heaviest days, and smooth removal for your lightest. tampax pearl. a

trump: racism is evil. and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacist, and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. amy: after making his statement, trump refused to take any questions from reporters, despite having promised to hold a news conference. later in the day after a separate announcement, cnn's jim acosta tried to ask trump about his charlottesville statements. >> mr. president, can you explain what you did not condemn over the weekend? pres. trump: they have been condemned. >> then why aren't we having a press conference? pres. trump: we just had a press conference. >> can we ask more questions? pres. trump: [indiscernible] mr. presidedent -- amy: that is mr. president saying "you are fake news" to jim acosta. despite trump's begrudging condemnation of white supremacist violence, he also tried to deflect and distract from this violence by retweeting about crime in chicago by a far-right-wing co

(bleep) insane. ( laughter ) serious trump, somber trump, free style trump. personally, i'm waiting for the first appearance of reggae trump. that's what i'm waiting for. that will be exciting. one build a wall and mexico will pay for it, blacks blah -- blah, bigly, bigly! ( applause ) that's what i'm waiting for. although people would like to believe -- would like to believe donald trump switches every day because he's not in control. i think it's the opposite. this is not a bug of donald trump. it's a feature. he's in full control of which persona shows up. he told us about it this morning. he tweeted, "the fake news is now complaining about my different types of back-to-back speeches. there was afghanistan -- somber -- the big rally -- enthusiastic, dynamic and fun -- and the american legion -- respectful and strong. ( laughter ) is it just me or is it trump's modeling his personalities? afghan trump, somber, rally trump, enthusiastic, dynamic and fun. american legion trump, respectful and strong! ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) and now, look, don't g

trump's mind. >> yet, sater was given cards by the trump organization calling him a "senior adviser to donald trump." ( laughter ) >> trevor: oh, man. come on, guys, come on. it's like this is the same lie as the russia one. "i have nothing to do with this guy. oh, actually he's my senior adviser, and i printed it in gold. that's how i did it. i printed it in gold." ( laughter ) you know, like, the big story here, isn't just this shady russian-born criminal was acting as a middle man between trump and the kremlin when trump insisted he had no such connections. the real story here is what the shady guy was saying. >> in emails turned over to congress between sater and trump's lawyer cohen, first reported by "the washington post," sater wrote, "buddy, our boy can become president of the u.s.a., and we can engineer it. i will get all of putin's team to buy in on this." >> trevor: i love how obvious all the trump people were in their collusion emails. like, first, don jr.'s emails were like, "clinton, russia? i love it!" and now you've got felix sater saying to trump's personal lawyer, mic

on donald trump. will he show you his beautiful letter to me? well, i reached out to general clapper today about that, quote, beautiful letter. and clapper composed notes to both candidates, trump and clinton, to be included along with the winner's first intelligence breaching. he congratulated the president-elect and vowed the intelligence community would serve with the sbes intelligence he would deliver. i hand wrote identical short notes to the candidates to accompany the first brief as president-elect. only one got deployed, the one to him. i went on to say i hoped he would abide by the long-standing principal of the intelligence community always telling truth to power. clapper noted to us only a few weeks later president-elect trump went on to compare the united states intelligence community to nazi germany. the white house and trump clearly very sensitive when it comes to questions about mr. trump's fitness for office. >> well, that's right, jim. look, this is a president who already was facing

or donald trump jr. or jared kushner or michael flynn or paul manafort or any and all of those people or other people working in and around the trump campaign for president, and that is why, as t"the wall street journal" i reporting, the special prosecutor is now working with a grand jury to hear evidence about his investigation. that grand jury has subpoena power. the special prosecutor does not. the special prosecutor can ask a grand jury to issue subpoenas for documents that he would like to examine. the special prosecutor can ask a grand jury to issue subpoenas for witnesses to come in and testify to that grand jury under oath. it is the grand jury that technically wields those powers, but they always do so under the guidance of a prosecutor whose requests grand juries usually follow routinely. this grand jury is the single biggest threat ever faced by donald trump or anyone else named trump or married to a trump. when jared kushner is subpoenaed to testify to the grand jury, as he surely will be, he

be trump. i think the real danger in tomorrow night is that he revisits some of the racially charged sentiment that is aren't showmanship with him. trump has been a race baiter for decades. you know this is the same man who took out full page ads against black and latino teenagers in the late 1980 during the state patrol park jogger case inserted z himself into a midst of racially charged event because he could get publicity from it. also because he is used to foemting these kinds of divisions. the risk he runs tomorrow night after everything he has done in the last few day he revisits some of the problems that refirsted in the wake of charlottesville. >> tonight's last word is next. ♪ it's time for the biggest sale of the year with the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it senses your every move and automatically adjusts on both sides to keep you effortlessly comfortable. and snoring.... does your bed do that? the new 360 smart bed is part of our biggest sale of the year where all beds are on s

when it comes to trump's stories, the "national enquirer" is simply another version of donald trump's tweets. the "national enquirer" does not publish anything that donald trump does not want the "national enquirer" to accomplish. so paul manafort has every right to read the "national enquirer" today as an attack on him authorized by donald trump. it may be the most unwise attack donald trump has ever launched because as the special prosecutor closes in on paul manafort, paul manafort will be facing the possibility of five years in federal prison on possible tax evasion charges for what could be tens of millions of dollars in cash that was paid for activities paul manafort performed involving the country of ukraine, where a ledger was found indicating that paul manafort was paid $17 million in cash by the then pro-putin political party in ukraine. special prosecutor robert mueller may have probable cause of some other crimes committed by paul manafort, all of which can turn out to be reasons paul manafort might want to cooperate with the special prosecutor and provide testimony of cri

this is donald trump. here's the problem and in all of these different policies he's rolled out this week apply to this. so he's lost the republican party but gained a grand jury, right? he's lost white voters and now he's going to gain fights with universities primarily predominantly white institutions, what he's going to be fighting if jeff sessions goes along with this plan. none of this is productive. this is the key thing joy, great job numbers on friday. excellent job numbers and yet his poll numbers are dropping, why? because he's failing to provide the enthusiasm and the pass activity that he claimed he was going to bring when he got to the white house. so this is -- i'm not going to say it's a failed presidency yet but you can keep throwing things at the wall and it's not going to work and that's what he's realizing these race-based white nationalist steve bannon policies he's promoting aren't enough to get white voters to support him. >> he seems to know they're not real. one of the most extraord

. >> trump tackles storms. let's play "hardball.""hard bal. >> trump tackles storms. let's play "hardball."ball star. >> trump tackles storms. let's play "hardball."" starts . >> trump tackles storms. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. "the washington post" reports that trump saw a real estate deal in moscow at the same time that donald trump was running for president. we will get to that story all of those details in just a moment. we begin, though, with massive devastation in texas after what is being called a historic storm. houston remains paralyzed much of it under water tonight. thousands have been rescued from their homes. governor activated the entire texas national guard to help in the response. and much more rain is still expected. i'm joined now by nbc's maya rodriguez just outside of houston. maya, we see all of that rain around you, obviously, with the forecast still calling for more. >> it is calling for more, and it has been raining like this literally for days now, steve. this is a neighborhood where people have been trapped in their homes, neigh

trump didn't. in the first six months, trump didn't. he finally signed a major bill. it's a bill he didn't want. the level of this repudiation has to be seen in historic standards. last time a president was hammed in like this was when congress came after richard nixon's war powers in 1973. and when they passed the war powers resolution in 1973, there were still 135 congressmen who voted with nixon. three congressmen voted with donald trump on this russia sanctions bill. that shows you how confidence in this president has collapsed on capitol hill. >> let's listen to senator lindsey graham on the way donald trump signed this bill today. >> the fact he does this kind of quietly i think reinforces the narrative that the trump administration is not really serious about pushing back on russia, and i think that is a mistake too because putin will see this as a sign of weakness. >> sam, the word weakness can be used in sentences with donald trump on every single front of this presidency that we discussed. >> yes. and lindsey graham was proven right. dmitry medvedev actually

>> few people are more of a problem for donald trump than donald trump is nor donald trump. my biggest concern is what bannon is up to, i'm concerned about the destruction that he has intended for america. you know, people are cheering and celebrating the fact that he's out of the white house. i am really concerned about what he's taking away from the white house. this man had high-level security clearance and is a rampant bigot and has a, quote unquote, plan, and i'm afraid of what secrets he's taking with him to eradicate, quote unquote, the moderate people in the white house to stop his radical agenda. >> you mention state secrets. there was a lot of back-and-forth of how much access he had about the international planning. and he told friends he wants to give his account of the comey firing to special counsel mueller. believes the decision was made during an early may weekend. that's more than a typical interview, if you do it with mueller. >> that's correct. steven bannon has been playing the really interesting long game here. he sided with president trump in his campai

so if you call donald trump crazy, you might be a trump voter. here's more of what the trump voters had to say last night. >> he has got to be his own worst enemy. he couldn't be any worse at achieving goals in politics. >> everything he does is outrageous. he just doesn't have that soft touch to sell you on what he wants to accomplish. >> the thing that drives me crazy is all the tweeting he does. why doesn't he just quit that tweeting? >> he's just -- he's let me down. >> we know he's a nut. everybody knew he's a nut. he's not even proerfessional, l alone presidential. >> i question what he's trying to do and don't fully understand it. >> he's such a flawed individual. he makes a travesty of the office. >> there are now signs in polling that some of donald trump's base is turning on him. tonight a new fox news poll shows donald trump with his highest disapproval yet in their poll. 55% disapprove while just 41% approve. donald trump has lost the most support in the fox poll among conservatives, republican men, and white voters without a college

he sent them who would make a good trump? should playec trump. i don't know what she meant by that, but again, w we just assud we wouould do it for a handful f shows and wewe would be done because wewe all assumed he woud not t win. amy: what was your r reaction on election night? >> i was mortified. for two reasons. one, the same way everyone elsee was mortified who was opposed to this candidacy and i and all likelihood would have to continue this routine. amy: so we're talking a few days after bannon was fired or let go and says he is going to take on his biggest weapon of all, and that he is all jacked up to go back to breitbart. skit onthis famous "saturday night live" with bannon. >> send in steve bannon. amy: talk about that and what was being conveyed there. >> there was some talk about rosie o'donnell playing bannon. a big part of the reason that did not happen is because the show -- lorne is very astute about this -- as a company of actors and needs to use those people rather than handing out these plum roles to people outside the buildi

than donald trump. i don't think that you could feel about race the way i do and watch that kushner bastard walk around with that beautiful girl. >> that will get your attention. what have about jush members of the white house staff, gary cohn has been mentioned as being so disappointed by the president's words. and what about jewish members of the president's family? his daughter who converted, his jewish grandchildren, this is. >> yeah, i don't understand it. i understand there was a statement i believe this evening from the long-time rabbi of jared kushner and ivanka trump who oversaw her conversion to judaism condemning racism, condemning the remarks, i believe. so it has to be enormously upsetting to them. and there are reports that it is just that. you know, so the question is, what's your red line? what's your -- you know, how much of this do you take? how much do you stand? i imagine they're asking themselves do they stay? those who work in the administration, do they stay in hopes of being a po

one, the view of trump. two, that he is leading in ofernment a coalition rightist backed koch brothers types, racist, neofascist. different groups. descendedroup that is from the john birch society, the u.n. always viewed and state department as inherently evil. and they have managed to get control of state department policy. thethat dovetails with right-wing deficit hawks who/the budget, overall. the republicans face a deep problem in congress because they spending but they want to expand the pentagon budget. the solution up until now has been to cut domestic discretionary spending and try andlash social security medicaid but it is becoming more difficult because of the grassroots activism. so the state department becomes a national target. this is one of the things that drives the establishment crazy acause state department is symbol of u.s. power and trump is in the process of tearing it up. there is a very relevant quote from edward gibbon, the and he talks about the empire in the second century and he s

and the trump administration? now that he's out as communications director, why did you toss the mooch? >> thank you. >> and money, power, politics. attention turns to tax reform. but will the plan match the promise? >> we're going to be submitting a tax bill in the very near future. >> we're going to begin this morning with the trump administration trying to spin some good news on a wild 24 hours after bringing in a new chief of staff to clean up the white house, president trump tweeted aed inst all of that, think of the day we had yesterday, he tweeted a great day at the white house. then just 90 minutes later, a new bombshell out, trump and russia again. allegations he had his own son deliberately mislead the public about his meeting with a russian lawyer. we have to talk about this for the next hour. i have the best team in the biz to talk all about it. starting with nbc's kristen welker live at the white house. kristen, we need to star first, let's get to the bottom of this "washington post" report. the fact

take president trump at his word. united nations ambassador nikki haley spoke with cnn's anna cabrera over the weekend. >> this was a gut punch to north korea. we did what we could in the u.n. and that was basically speak with one voice. he is now on an island. north korea now has to look at the rest of the world and see that they're all telling him to stop this reckless activity. >> gordon, she described this as a gut punch, these sanctions. is it? will the sanctions stop north korea? >> yeah, i don't think they'll stop north korea. i don't think they'll change the calculus that kim jong-un is working under. you know, they, for instance, cut one third off of north korea's export revenue, 1 billion off of 3. nikki haley in that same interview said, look, the north uses the same way to build up their arsenal, so the question is why are they allowed to have $2 billion more? probably the north earns somewhere between 2 and $3 billion a year from iran, from their form of cooperations. missiles, nukes, god knows what else.

trump in january 2015. when i sat down with him, i saw the resolve of an individual who didn't need to be the president to have a great lifestyle and didn't need the job after he was a president to make a lot of money. and he said to me, you know, corey, i'm going to have a great life. i have all the money i ever need it i have a great air force of my own. i have airplanes, helicopters, homes all over the world. i don't need to do this so that my children will be ok or my grandchildren read we are going to do just fine. i need to do it because a country is broken and i think i can fix it. , 25 unique experience minutes later, had me stand up from my chair in trump tower on the 26th floor and he shook my hand and said you start working for me tomorrow. you are now my campaign manager. truth be told, i did not tell my wife that i was like to new york to look for a new job. it was a little bit troubling when i called her after that meeting. but like many of you, i thought, you know what, working for donald tru

what about the trump children? they seem tobl awfully quiet and both practice the jewish faithful any read on their reaction to their father's, i don't know, the sweet spot for people who protest with nazis? >> well, as robert was saying, a lot of people in and around the administration are doing that old washington parlor trick. where they privately express concern and just how upset they are while still showing up to work the next day. jared and ivanka are not even doing that. i have tried to reach out to their spokespeople, to people close to them and it is utter silence. they had been positioned as liberal voices. and jared and ivanka are practicing jews. >>> coming up, the man known as russia's favorite congressman meets with julian assange. he says he has a men for donald trump. do you think robert mueller may want to know what's going on here? a trip back to the dthe doctor's office, mean just for a shot. but why go back there, when you can stay home... ...with neulasta onpro? strong chemo can put you at ris

and elections prior to the trump era. i think that actually is more accurate in terms of indicating what we should expect, even though donald trump is a factor in 2018. >> so are democrats giving people a reason to vote democrat the? or is it, trump is going too far, vote for us. >> you have the dnc, congressional democrats all coming up with messages for their particular constituencies. i think there's a core message. inclusion and opportunity. so it is about diversity being a strength, not a weakness. the antithesis to what donald trump ran on which was identity politics but it was about white identity. i think that's one thing in our analysis of 2016, we're missing. we're putting identity politics against economic issues, as if those two things in conflict with one another and they're not. whiteness is an identity and there are plenty of working class brown and black voters that would come out for democrats if the message was fine tuned. >> i have to ask you a quick question. i'm thinking back to 2010. you were the rep

president trump will visit the area tomorrow. here is what he said about the storm today. >> i want to begin today by extending my thoughts and prayers for those affected by hurricane harvey. right now the single most important thing is the safety and security of those still in harm's way, including the first responders who have been so terrific and brave. you're going to see very rapid action from congress, certainly from the president, and you're going to get your funding. >> now during that same press conference, the president was asked about russia. tonight the white house is dealing with several new headlines about the investigation into russia's interference in our election and whether the trump campaign could have been involved. >> mr. trump would you consider russia as a security threat? >> well ,i consider many countries a security threat unfortunately when you look at what's going on in the world today. >> do you know finland could be of assistance helping u.s. get better relations with russia? >> i hope we do have good

it is now at 59%, and among trump voters who donald trump called the ones who called donald trump called the poorly educated, the people without college degrees, only 35% of them now approve of the president. that is down 12 points since february. only 24% of americans say they trust all of or most of what they hear in official communications from the white house. a president facing a nuclear standoff with another country needs credibility with the public and president trump clearly does not have that as he confronts north korea. joining us now nbc political analyst, charlie sykes. this is one of those moments we have been talking about since the presidential campaign. what about when the president of the united states needs credibility with the world, with the country in an international crisis? here we are at that moment, at that brink with north korea and we have a president who this country does not believe and the world does not believe. >> well, we always knew this moment would come. that's run of the reasons you don't nominate and elect someone like donald trump. if you are going

be trump? >> i think there's always been a misunderstanding that no one is standing up to trump or talking to him? from early in the administration trump has been getting advice contrary to what he does. reince priebus often telling him he didn't think this was a good idea. here's why. ' other people saying the same thing. trump listens broadly inside the white house. he doesn't agree with them and doesn't always go along with them. but i think that advice is continuing to go to him. saw th dramatization to this, he gave a gut response to charlottesville, on monday, he has to deliver a different speech an hours later, he tweets, basically, see, i told you so it doesn't matter, the press doesn't give me any credit for it. the next day, he's back to old form. >> that is a conversation happening, dramatized in front of the cameras. i think you have something similar happening now t. truce that's been held here is that the president is willing on policy to move. on afghanistan, he moved away where

there is nothing positive about donald trump, and i am a donald trump guy. i think, for the most part, 85 or 90% of the stuff he does is great and people need to look at it that way. whether it's dealing with the travel ban, as you know, mexico was just in the house, they came through and the prime minister of mexico asked donald trump to come to the mexican all-star game and trump went to the game any throughout the first mexican. >> can you get away with a lot of that? >> jesse, i get away with it every night because it's a positive trump joke. >> it's not mean-spirited. if you look at all the late-night shows, a lot of it is just really nasty. you can tell it's not from a good place. >> anytime donald trump makes a joke, people take it as a serious thing and they do all sort of analytics about it, but as steven colbert does a joke, look out. it's humorous. saturday night live made a living last year. there's a lot of people who hadn't seen saturday night live since belushi and chevy chase were on it. >> they should be thanking the president for being who

i think trump, president trump is going to be president trump. you are exactly right. he's not going to change just because steve bannon is there or not. bannon met with bob mercer, the hedge fund millionaire this week, president trump -- and live confirmed that. that means they've been talking things through.ea about how to play the outside game with steve bannon and the mercers, perhaps. that's an interesting thing in and of itself. >> lisa: hi, bret, it's lisa. are we expecting for people like steve miller or sebastian gorka, more closely aligned with steve bannon. does this signal anything for them? are you hearing of any additional staff changes? >> all we have heard is that general kelly is not finished cleaning house. if that's accurate i think there are people that will be looking over their shoulder. people, there are probably a couple of them. steve miller has entrenched himself. into this speech writing and on the more communication side of things. maybe a better position. there are a couple others who might be looking over their shoulders. >> jesse: hey, br

go into some detail. >> you showed the difference between trump and teleprompter trump and just trump. and you know, sometimes you see both in the same speech which is what we saw in phoenix last night. people around this president will talk about the need to release pressure, to open up the valve and let the compression sort of seep out. and that's what happened a week ago when he came down to the lobby of trump tower and was supposed to talk about infrastructure. not take questions, instead took all these questions and relitigated the whole chafr chafrts charlottesville thing a day after he came out and gave the statement. he was upset he gave the statement condemning the kkk and neo-nazi because he felt like it made him look weak. he let off steam and needed to do it again last night in phoenix. why is that? you laid it out. there's the russia investigation, the deterioration of his relationships with so many republican senators. there's the drip, drip, drip of reporting about all the charities that are leaving mar-a-lago and moving their benefits elsewhere. there are just so many

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is trump. he's not going to change. this isn't steve bannon. this isn't the alt-right. this is donald trump. he made the decision to respond to what happened in charlottesville. he carried out the decision on how to respond to what happened in charlottesville. and everybody who works for him knows it. they knew the bargain they were making when working for trump. i'm surprised by how surprised some people are by the last couple of days. if you have watched this presidency going back a year prepresidency it's one of the most predictable periods in politics ever. we knew there would be racial tension at some point, we knew he would defiantly stand up against condemnation when people lashed out against him and we knew his base would stand by him. and we knew that a lot of people who supported him would rationalize it. what's different and why today is an awful day for the presidency, an awful day, is that he did have those business leaders who he needs. he's about to do tax reform. he's about to a