that's not the trump method. the trump method to instantaneously hit somebody. someone's holding him back. >> maybe in some instances but here's the problem. you have a guy who he may go on script for a day of two but the next day he rips the script up, goes on an unhinged tirade. >> that's the pressure cooker thing we were hearing about in the "the washington post" tonight and if you control him it might be you make thinss worse making a bigger explosion a few days so. >> maybe so but i think the real concern here is that you have somebody who, again, said during the campaign, why do we have nuclear weapons if we can't use them? you have got somebody who goes on these unhinged tirades. john kelly doesn't seem to be able to stop those. you know, most -- a really empowered chief of staff would have tried to take the phone away on day one. that obviously never happened. meantime he's got to be thinking about worst-case scenarios. when ronald reagan was on the operating table in 1981 in george washington hospital, james baker went into a utility closet with ed mees

a new investigation has revealed president trump's adult children ivanka trump and donald trump , jr., were almost charged with felony fraud for lying to people interested in buying apartments in the trump soho, a hotel and condo development in downtown manhattan. the near criminal prosecution was revealed in an article jointly published by "the new yorker," propublica and wnyc. the article also reveals that the case was dropped by the manhattan district attorney's office only after trump's personal attorney, marc kasowitz, visited manhattan district attorney cy vance jr., in 2012 -- only months after he'd donated $25,000 to vance's reelection campaign. while vance returned that $25,000 donation ahead of the meeting, he went on to overrule his own prosecutors and instruct them to drop the case against ivanka and donald trump jr. six months later, vance received a $50,000 donation from kasowitz and his friends. secretary of state rex tillerson held a hastily-called news conference wednesday in which he denied he has considered resigning over conflicts with president trump. >> the vice

a new investigation has revealad president trump's adult children ivanka trump and donald trump , jr., were almost charged with felony fraud for lying to people interested in buying apartments in the trump soho, a hotel and condo development in downtown manhattan. the near criminal prosecution was revealed in an article jointly published by "the new yorker," propublica and wnyc. the article also reveals thaha ththe case wasas dropped b by te manhattan district attorney's office only after trump's personal attorney, marc kasowitz, visited manhattan district attorney cy vance jr., in 2012 -- only months after he'd donated $25,000 to vance's reelection campaign. while vance returned that $25,000 donation ahead of the meeting, he went on to overrule his own prosecutors and instruct them to drop the case against ivanka and donald trump jr. six months later, vance received a $50,000 donation from kasowitz and his friends. secretary of state rex tillerson held a hastily-called news conference wednesday in which he denied he has considered resigngning over conflicts with president trump. >> t

trump. >> on election day, was it you or your co-author who went to see the grave of the rabbi. >> that was me. i went there, jerrod kershner and ivanka trump had gone a few days before and i had never been there. >> first of all, who was it. >> so he was the seventh rabbi who passed away just over 20 years ago but in his lifetime he rescued, you could say, postwar judaism and gave it a religious direction that many people thought it would never have again after the holocaust. even with the establishment of the state of israel, israel's leaders assumed that religious judaism was fading and if it existed it was in small pockets and he reversed that. he promoted jewish ideas and values in and of himself as positive forces for change in the world that weren't just wrist objected to truths. the values would be helpful to humanity as a whole and he inspired thousands of people to become missionaries all around the world. in the course of that project, he became very widely respected, not just in

trump, president of the united states of america. and the congress of the united states america. . .esolution resolution. resolved, that donald j. trump, president of the united states of america, has undermined the integrity of his office with impunity and has brought disrepute on the presidency with immunity. has betrayed his trust as president to the manifest injury of the american people. and is unfit to be president. and is impeached pursuant to article 2, section 4 of the constitution of the united states of america. and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the united states senate. articles of impeachment exhibited by the house of of the united states of america in the name of itself and of all the people of the of the united states of ame against donald john trump, president of the united states america, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors of the nature which ,ay be denominated as political not requiring the commission of a crime, and exclusively the

trump hired him every way, trump humiliated him every day six days to sunday, no wonder reince priebus is happy to testify. >> happy, happy is the word of the day, no question on that. the chief of staff in a healthy administration is the hub. so this is an incredibly important interview for bob mueller for the reasons howard mentioned. have you someone fairly independent and not necessarily what we call a double l the lying loyalists, but also because he's in and out of the room and in and out of every meeting and following the paper and the e-mail and the schedule, from your experience, i know you are at the state department as well as a former white house director, talk to us about the import in the investigation where you are interviewing the chief of staff. >> well the chief of staff is supposed to be the most effective gate-keeper and mover of information from the top throughout the white house and throughout the administration. so for reince to say there was absolutely no collusion shows either how much he is willing to lie for donald trump as his former presidents or how out of

onald trump is to blame! [applause] >> i want to pose a problem for all of you and a real problem for free society. ow would you know. the four-star general in the son wentrps who lost a to the press corps and said so much of what you report is false. but it is an enormous problem. john four-star germ, kelly, serving as secretary of defense, said yesterday, the media reports about trump wanting to have a 10-fold increase in nuclear weapons are falls. they become trumized and no longer know the truth. but you may decide that a great deal of what you believe is total holewash, and news immediate yeah and in its own way of keeping score it doesn't have a clue what donald trump is doing and captain think objecttively. his speech in wausau is comparable to reagan and i say with that knowledge because the speech writer said, anything reagan ever said, but if you are on the left, tv idea you would defend western civilization is prove that there is something wrong. read reagan's speech which has a core argument, but

from donald trump. and god bless them and thank them for their service, but it is not the constitutional way to run the government of the united states. >> let's listen what republican charlie dent said about this. >> we've had a lot of these emperor has no clothes moments. and i'm glad that senator corker has brought voice to this. we are concerned. my colleagues, my republican colleagues in the house i know and senate are concerned by much of the dysfunction and disorder and chaos at the white house. >> ron klain, there are real cracks in the wall now. there. >> are cracks, lawrence, and i think the question is will other people step up and say what bob corker said and what john mccain said when he voted against the health care bill and be republicans who speak out against this president. there are cracks, but they're only cracks. i think the question is will this come undone in time to save the rest of us from the rest of the trump presidency. and, you know, i hope that other people of good conscienc

they never have a negative word to say about donald trump. it's always 100% pro-trump. they'll never say, well, i agree on balance, i'm in favor of the president. they are 100% behind him. it's remarkable such a conservative party has participated in the moral debasement of the presidency and of the movement in which they ostenseibly participation for mere entertainment and sticking it to people they don't like. >> i have to sneak in a break. glenn thrush and jonathan swan, i'm going to let you exit stage left on this one. >>> when we come back, two former presidents, two retiring senators and an american hero with a cancer sdpdiagnosis sing from the same song sheet in a matter of days. coincidence or crisis? our panel weighs in. >>> also more answers about the dossier that makes donald trump squirm and rant and rage every time it's in the news. we'll bring you the latest. >>> and behind bob corker's rebuke is a grave concern about donald trump's temperament leading us to the brink of war with north korea. we'll share some new exclusive reporting from nbc news. please s

because trump. the republican chairman of the foreign senate relations committee bob corker decided today would be a good day to drive donald trump crazy again. which senator corker did by making the rounds of morning tv, knowing the president was watching when he said things like this. >> i guess like all americans, i would have hope that he would rise to the occasion and bring out the best in our nation, charlie. hopefully what presidents do is to try to bring the country together, to unify around common goals, and not to debase our country, if you will. and that has not happened. and i'm beginning to believe that it's not going to happen. >> that provoked donald trump to start tweeting lies about bob corker like senator corker supported the obama iran deal, which senator corker actually oh poeszed, and that senator corker decided not to run for reelection when president trump refused to endorse him. in fact, president trump asked him to rerun. senator corker responded on twitter same untruths fro

>> first it tells you people who voted for donald trump were not huge fans of donald trump. it's sort of a consistent thing, we haven't seen the numbers move a ton, what you see that is important on the other side of that which is about 35% of the country that supports donald trump in everything that he does, that believes in everything he does. and that is a majority of the republican party, once he won that primary he got a lot of republicans who did not like hillary clinton very much to vote for him. if i recall correctly, about 50% of his voters said he was not fit to be president and voted for him anyway. >> i remember steve kornacki bringing that up over and over and looking at the numbers of the man who is now president. kimberly, can you remember a time when the factions of a party has gotten so much attention and as we said, earlier in the broadcast an hour ago seems to be steering in that party's direction? >> no, i can't, in recent history and not to this extent, we are seeing that reflected in these numbers, but when you look at the polls the majority of people a

>> yes. >> don trump jr. i believe was a neophyte in letting that happen. >> what abouticating with a rus january hacker, what about carter page? what about all of the trump administration officials or campaign advisors who had undisclosed meetings with russian officials? >> we're calling people in the next week or two to find out if russia helped also pay for that fusion gps document. we need to hear that and here's the thing. let's remember how the fusion gps document got into the bloodstream in the first place. it was john brennan, the cia director for president barack obama which infused that which has been claimed to be false. >> are you saying hillary clinton colluded with russia to lose? >> i don't think she ever thought she was going to lose the election until election night. >> i'm going to let eric in here. >> yeah. so this is classic putin. this is what aboutism. this is a specific kind of deflect sh deflection. you say, yes, we might have colluded with a foreign government to overthrow this electi

when trump tells the n.f.l. owners you should fire these players, if they don't fire the players they're basically going against the president, right? and if the players take a knee, now they're going against the president. but you realize until this weekend, the knee had nothing to do with the president. nothing at all to do with trump! ( applause ) at all! collin kaepernick started kneeling back when obama was in office. this had nothing to do with donald trump. luckily, to the n.f.l.'s credit, they stood up to the bully in chief. >> the president versus the players. hundreds of athletes sending a message to president trump. >> from coast to coast, even in london, players sending that message to the president from the football field linking arms like patriots quarterback tom brady, some kneeling, raising fists. >> the majority of football players choosing to stay in the locker room till after the anthem was over. some singers taking a knee along with players. >> owners throwing support behind their teams, from

trump: great to see you. amy: during his visit, trump shook hands with the city of san juan's mayor carmen yulin cruz, who had earlier pleaded with the federal government to end the inefficiency and bureaucracy that prevented aid from being distributed. but trump did not call on cruz during his meeting with officials at muÑiz air national guard, where he praised his administration's relief efforts. pres. trump: i had to take, puerto rico, but you have thrown our budget a little out of whack because we've spent a lot of money on puerto rico. that's fine. we saved a lot of lives. if you look at -- every death is , but if you look at a real catastrophe like katrina and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died and you look at what happened here with, really, a storm that was just totally overbearing. nobody has ever seen anything like this. and what is your death count as of this moment? 17? 16 people certified. 16 verses in the thousands. you can be very proud of all of

onto the cold of donald trump, the persona of donald trump. the people that a talk to and some in the audience that a most frustrated with trump are conservatives. they are feeling like my god, we've been working the conservative movement for decades, and this is the result? this is what's been produced? the political currents right now are vicious and confused, , buti think it all gets back to the 1960s and early '70s. reagan uses a undrinkable back the great society. i think trump if he had his way would like to roll back the great society and the new deal. >> how about you, mara? what a a surprise you about all the surprises? >> i guess what surprised me is that donald trump is exactly as it was during the campaign. in other words, there was some kind of weird magical thinking that this was all an act, that he used to be a democrat, that he would revert to this kind isf to become the alternative universe of the three of donald trump is what doug suggested is that because he was so unique that he could busbars and bowed and which are bigger

trump. >> steve bannon became ceo of the trump campaign. before that he was vice president of cambridge analytica. while working for firm had urged trump campaign to hire them as far back as april. in september 2016, trump campaign made biggest payment, $5 million, eventually totaled nearly $6 million, payments for data management services. the firm has offices in london, new york and right in washington, d.c., three blocks away from the white house. cnn has reached out to cam bridge analytica for a response in the wake of the revelations about wikileaks. but despite our repeated attempts, we have not heard become. but in november, just before the election, cambridge analytica's ceo alexander knicks did speak to cnn about data operation and newly reopened fbi investigation into, you guessed it, hillary clinton's e-mails. >> clearly there are unknown knowns. such as what has recently happened in the case of the democrats' candidate with the reopening of the e-mail inquiry. we can't predict th

there was a connection between the trump campaign and russia. who was involved and how much and what happened is yet to be determined, but there was a connection, even though the president has denied that connection for months. the president can assert whatever he wants on twitter but the facts are the facts. there were official members of the trump campaign who were receptive to working with a hostile foreign power to attain damaging information about their political opponent. these revelations should concern every member of this body, democrat, republican, independent, liberal, moderate, conservative. i understand the strength of this intrif cal forces in politics that weave everything into a partisan battle between two sides. there are two sides to every argument but no one is above the law no matter what side of the argument you're on. rule of law, an american democracy are indisputable as our bedrock. we cannot abandon it for political expediency. special counsel mueller who served both republican and democratic administrations, a lifetime

i do think we need to make a division in evaluating this data between trump 1.0 and trump 2.0 to the engs tent we understand what that is. trump said a lot of things on the campaign trail that he's taken a different tack while in office. i don't think this administration has been friendly to vladimir putin, if you actually look at what they've done in any meaningful way, which i think is a good thing. that's where i was very critical of them skpchlt to quote kissinger, the pledges of each new administration are like leaves on a turbulent sea. it isn't exactly a new nen none to see this happen. the final thing i'd say on congress i think it presents an opportunity for congress to reassert its authority. and far from being a coequal branch of government, i believe the founders created -- we should be jealous about our authorities under the constitution. but on all lines, let me just say there's a dichotomy among trump supporters about being negative about alliances in general, but then far more positive than any other group about deploying military assets in defense of our allies. 18 p

donald trump wants to read all the u.s. tax code but first congress has got to agree on a budget resolution will either happen this year we're taking a look on this edition of. welcome to politicking on larry king president trump eager for a legislative victory ten months into his administration is touting his framework for reforming the u.s. tax code and not many details in the president's plan but it does call for a substantial reduction in the corporate tax rate and changes to individual tax brackets as well but no reform is going to happen until congress agrees on a budget resolution which could be held up by fiscal hawks within his own party like senator rand paul not to mention opposition by the democrats will take a look at where the budget plan stands and how likely tax reform is to happen as outlined by the president but first a look at the proposed tax plan through the eyes of financial expert he's neil gross win managing partner and chief investment officer of t.k. n.j. capital frequent commentator on business on

president trump did two things. first of all, he made clear that we are going to take action, and we saw that, unlike what president obama said, that's a redline that they dropped gas on their own people. when the syrians dropped gas on their own people under this president he immediately took action, and then he listened to the military and unleashed them on the mission they could do, which is setting up a force of syrians to work with american trainers and american assistance to do what we saw today. let's not kid ourselves, the battle against isis is going to continue. they've been kicked out of raqqa but just like al qaeda, we will face these people for years to come. >> martha: they've moved down into the euphrates river valley. that's what they have migrated while this area has been bombed and hit so ferociously. you also have the russia element. they recently retook the city of my of -- also a stronghold of isis. and i have the battle between russia and iran and the syrian forces backed by the united states f

this is now trump care. trump, you own it. if this was a bluff, it was a bad bluff. >> shelby? >> democrats are looking at this and saying hey, you break it, you own it. trump doesn't want to own it but doesn't want obamacare to exist. we just heard him say stop talking about it, referring to it -- >> if you stop talking about it, it just goes away right? >> we don't know what he means when he says he has the votes, what he would have votes for. multiple bills have been shot down. senator collins reaffirmed opposition to latest bill and whole process by which the bills have come up in the first place. this is serious stuff, insurers have filed paperwork with states, many saying they have to raise premiums as much as 20%. trump hammered health care companies and pharmaceuticals and applauded that their stocks have gone down, he's injecting more and more uncertainty every day and when you look at big picture, it's not about health care stocks, pharmaceuticals, it's about american people and health care of american people. right now we don't know a lot about how it's going to play

i hope trump is not involved. as far as him not being a weitician, it is about time have somebody who is not a politician. thank you. host: richard in alabama. we showed you some of the white house press secretary's statements yesterday from the podium in the briefing room. the president has not tweeted for about 21 hours now. we will show you his tweets if he does. posttory in the washington focuses on what the president is doing at the white house yesterday as the news came out. this is their look at the president's two day based on 20 different interviews with various officials. write, "separated from most of his west wing staff, president trump clicked on the yesterday and spent playing fuming media critic, legal analyst, and crisis committee case and strategist. he called his lawyers repeatedly. he listened intently to cable news commentary. with rising irritation, he watched live footage of his one-time campaign advisor and confidant, paul manafort, turning himself in to the fbi. it is the inside the white h

trump avoided it every time. we don't know even with sean hannity's best effort what calm before the storm means. >> best effort is -- we live in an era of low bars and basically a ladder on the ground now and just stepping over them. so that's good. i enjoyed the interview. i'm very curious about who does their makeup. my water proof makeup tends to shed when people do that kind of tongue bath but, you know, theirs seemed to stay on okay so that's something to consider a sponsor for that. you know, one thing sort of seriously is as much as i would love a real reporter to ask trump a real question and to have him, you know, under threat of having his wig taken off have to answer it, sometimes it's in the really relaxed settings he reveals himself and we saw a lot of the president. not too much but what we saw, you know, who he is. tonight and much as we always do and he's a selfish, tumesic sack of lyes. i guess it's nice to have that confirmed on a daily basis. i hope some day we will be surprised but probably w

he listens to trump. he's told associates that he's astonished by how little trump knows about foreign policy and then when trump will say something tillerson will say to the president well, that's your deal which further infewer yates the president. so this is not sustainable. >> and elizabeth, i get that a smaller state department is fitting with the destruction of the administrative state. but after a while to run this government and be a leader in the world aren't they going to need to fill in some of those slots. >> yes, of course. there are major negotiations where they're not sending people. this big issues with major countries. we do not have ambassadors in place. i could give you many examples. again, this is unheard of to have the top floor of the state department so unoccupied. you know, tillerson has complained he can't get people he wants confirmed. but he's not really moved in a big way on most of them. >> all right. elizabeth, andrea, thank you both for coming on. thank you for your reporti

this trump administration, president trump i think is demonstrating that he believes himself to be a wrecking ball, that he needs to wreck things, tear up things, tear down things. that's not good for the common good we share as a people. >> to that end a wrecking ball or dismantler i want to take a look at what the president has dismantled. the clean power plan, obamacare subsidies. the iran deal, paris accord. on the face of it he is just dismantling and not constructing any of his own policies which at the very least is that not a p.r. problem? >> i think the people all across the country are realizing that we need to make a correction here. we need to start hitting the brakes. this isn't really about donald trump. it's not about president obama's legacy. it is about the challenges that middle class families across the country are experiencing when they see that their expenses are going up faster than their wages. then they see their own president taking reckless actions to drive up their health care costs. this is not making sense around the most important place in america and th

what president trump said about his intelligence, his relationships on the hill and much more. and the unity in the republican party. welcome back to "early start" everything. >> good morning. it's 30 minutes past the hour. the closest connection yet between the trump campaign and wikileaks prompting many questions this morning. the daat the daily beast reporte trump campaign e-mailed julian assange. >> sources telling cnn they were seeking tens of thousands of e-mails. for more, let's turn to pamela brown in washington. >>reporter: good morning. source rs tell cnn the head of cambridge analytica, a data firm working for the trump campaign reached out to julian assange asking about hillary clinton's missing e-mails. he acknowledges that did happen and reject at the request. the head of that firm sent an e-mail to several people rel relaying that he had e-mails assange but soours sources say no one from the trump campaign was on the request. not hillary clinton's e-mails. we don't know if a third party obtained

i mean, that's what donald trump jr. was told in those e-mails and papadopoulos, though he lied about it to the fbi then came here to the fbi -- >> that's a very good point. it's very clear that they were responding to signals from russian operatives saying we've got some stuff, do you want to talk to us. yes, we doment your stuff. now, what we still don't know and it's a big don't know is whether thiesz conversations led anywhere and did it actually led to cooperation with the russians. that still is unclear. but we know that's where mueller is hoping to go or are least he's going to investigate that to find out just what happened. one last thing, anderson, what we've also been told tonight by the "washington post" is that facebook is going to testify tomorrow that the russian-based, russian sourced materials put out in the campaign to meddle in the campaign may have reached as many as 126 million americans. that's about the number who voed. >> yeah. cnn has confirmed that. david, can you just put this in some historica

what happened to the trump administration accident the trump agendas of today and wider still, he leaves at the end of this week for the most consequential trip of his presidency and by the way, it may include a visit to the dmz. >> right. that's exactly right. and today he -- you know, my colleagues at the new york times report, i think some others reported as well that he's made a choice for who is going to be the chairman of the federal reserve of the that may be the most consequential appointment he makes in his first term of his presidency and yet it becomes over shadowed by controversy and scandal. he wants to have this tax reform bill sprousd to committee on wednesday. that's the biggest legislative initiative he has left in this first year of his presidency. and as you say, he leaves friday for asia. these are big things. these are things any president would want to focus on and instead the focus of this week will almost certainly be on the question of this russia collusion and what we've learned now and what these various indictments hanging over them might mean. ep won't let it

trump." whoever it is, whether it is mike pence or anybody, how much of that can be repaired? because america is more than just one president. >> i think it can be repaired. i am confident in the united states that that could be repaired. our country -- all of our allies will come back to us. they recognize we are having a weird aberration going on right now. we have to figure it out. they have their own problems. some of these countries have their own similar problems with great britain was the brexit debate and all. it is a confusing period of time, but i think we can right the ship in four years. if trump makes it for eight years, it may do permanent damage, but right now, we have earned enough credibility in the offld to be given all one- with him that it just got out of control, particularly with the russia scandal, the internet. you know, all of this was the perfect storm of confusion, and this happens from time to time in world history. america will get a pass in a couple of years. mar

trump." whoever it is, whether it is mike pence or anybody, how much of that can be repaired? because america is more than just one president. >> i think it can be repaired. i am confident in the united states that that could be repaired. all of our allies will come back to us. they recognize we are having a weird aberration going on right now. they have their own problems. some of these countries have their own similar problems with great britain and the brexit debate and all. it is a confusing period of time, but i think we can right the ship in four years. years, it may do permanent damage, but right now, we have earned enough credibility in the world to be given the offer with him that it just got out of control, particularly with the russia scandal, the internet. hillary clinton, 3 million votes more. all of this was the perfect storm of confusion, and this happens from time to time in world history. america will get a pass in a couple of years. mara: very optimistic. you know how americ

tower in new york, with donald trump jr. and paul nan ma fort and jared kushner, cleared the memo that was provided with the kremlin in advance. it's a significant statement if there was some sort of collusion that i'm sure the special counsel among others are looking into. >> yeah, this is an unfortunate bit of timing for the no collusion argument because now we have evidence here that the lawyer who came to see donald trump jr., manafort, jared kushner, came armed with material that was prescreened by the kremlin and so this denial that she was for the russian government goes out the window. that meeting has taken on quite a bit of importance. that is the meeting that when it was exposed for which the president is alleged to have written the talking points for his son that were released to the public that really minimized the meeting and said it was about adoption. clearly the memo that came from the kremlin was not about adoption. >> everybody stand by. there's more we need to discuss. i heard the white house press secret

that just getses where we were before trump and that's the grouped that created trump. it's nothing to prevent somebody else who combines it even more dangerous mix of these qualities that trump has from taking pour again itch see this as very much a bipartisan process, the table that was set for trump. aait's about media and news coverage, the table was set in so many ways and all he needed to do was show up because we were already treating elections like reality tv shows. we already had a media landscape that was much more interested in interpersonal dramas between candidates than in-depth coverage of the issues. we already had democrats using the tools of corporate branding themselves, president obama was a fantastic brand. he used incredibly cutting edge marketing techniques and a lot of us felt there was -- that behind the claims that he was leading this deep change in and transformation, there wasn't enough change and that helped set the table for trump . something else was this liberal idea that the clintons were central to, which was all about how billionaires c

this is going to be trump's benghazi. trump's niger. they need to concentrate on what happened and what is happening. representative hastings and i wrote a letter to general mattis about this investigation. we have not heard anything. i want to go way back to when i started with this. bring back our girls. every wednesday. this was all about watching what boko haram was doing in nigeria. so there was a multinational task force that was put together that included nigeria, niger, chad. they were put in place to fight boko haram. boko haram broke in half, one-half went with isis. that's the group that is in niger. the other half is in the nigerian area. so as i am advocating for bring back our girls and advocating against boko haram and going to africa and making sure that the congress watches this, and we're wearing red every wednesday, unbeknownst to me, i have a soldier who is personal to me, who was a member of my 5,000 role models of excellence project in that region fighting or advising troops against boko haram. all of this is going

geo group was a major backer of the trump campaign, giving $225,000 to a pro-trump super pac and then another $250,000 to trump's inaugural committee. the company secured a new multimillion dollar contract from the trump administration, and its stock price has tripled since last year when the obama administration announced efforts to end the use of private prisons. "usa today" is reporting the trump administration is slated to declare the opioid crisis a publ health emgency today. the der uld low ates to shift federal funds to address the ioid crisis, which killed 64,000 americans last year. to see our full interview about the sacklers, the secretive family that made billions off the opioid crisis, go to democracynow.org. "the washington post" is reporting the establishment republican party has declared open warfare on president trump's former chief strategist steven bannon. bannon is the head of the whichght breitbart news, has been described as a haven for white nationalists. he is also the leading figure in the insurgent of the far right of the republican party. the establishment w

donald trump was direct. there is no evidence that mr. manafort or the trump campaign colluded with the russian government. mr. manafort represented pro-european union campaigns for the ukrainian, and in that he was seeking to further democracy and to help the ukraine come closer to the united states and the eu. those activities ended in 2014, over two years before mr. manafort served in the trump campaign. >> let's back up earlier in the day. tonight's reporting is indicating the administration was relieved by this morning's initial news the president himself wrote on twitter, sorry, but this is years ago before paul manafort was part of the trump campaign. but why aren't crooked hillary and the dems the focus? also, there is no collusion. but mueller was not done when the president wrote that. "the washington post" reports the president's celebration was short-lived. a few minutes later, court documents were unsealed showing that george papadopoulos, an unpaid foreign policy adviser on trump's campaign, ple

because the infamous about the trump tower they saw trump jr. as a contact. >> now it comes at at time when russia had access to hillary clinton's e-mails, not necessarily to do with t.music to the ears, the front-runner lauding praise talking about bettering the relations between the two countries and then you can see, huh, maybe the russians are saying this is the person we should be dealing with to get something in exchange. >> everybody stand by. the there's a lot more coming into "the situation room." let's take a quick break. we'll be right back. you do all this research on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've done more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won't raise your rates due to your first accident. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. you know what's difficult? adulting... hi, guys. i'm back. time to slay! no,i have a long time

charles: donald trump ready to go to war over the dallas cowboys owner. >> donald trump woke up this morning in a full twitter rant and said that jemele hill and espn would be his target. >> he's spiking the football, actually. jemele hill was suspected from espn -- suspended from espn for two weeks because she tweeted about jerry jones. >> bella hadid, she turned 21 and she posted this photo of her in a g-string. that's her sister, she went to a surprise party. kelly: i've always been weird about men that wanted to be with sisters. >> why would that be weird? >> if you had bella and gigi, it would be weird if the started kissing.

that quote hurt donald trump and we know that it hurt donald trump. we know donald trump cared a lot about that quote because he very angrily tweeted about it this morning attacking congresswoman wilson. democrat congresswoman fabricated what i said to the wife of a soldier who died in action and i have proof. sad. there it is. there's the proof. of how much he cares about what he was quoted as saying to the widow of sergeant johnson. if he tweets he cares. if he doesn't tweet, he does not care. and that was the president's very first tweet about any one of those four soldiers who were killed in action. and that tweet came 14 days after they were killed in action. that tweet came two days after the president was asked by reporters why he had not yet said a single word about the four soldiers killed on the deadliest day of combat under donald trump as commander in chief. that tweet came two days after donald trump insisted that he is the only president who bothered to call families of soldiers killed in the line of duty, a lie that was immediately beat

donald trump was a symptom. what we're seeing right now is that you basically get what you deserve and you get the politicians that represent you. >> we'll continue this discussion. i have to take a quick break. we'll get reaction from capitol hill to the senator's comments. >>> bill o'reilly isn't just blaming "the new york times" for the latest revelation in his sexual harassment scandal. he's blaming god. people would stare. psoriasis does that. it was tough getting out there on stage. i wanted to be clear. i wanted it to last. so i kept on fighting. i found something that worked. and keeps on working. now? they see me. see me. see if cosentyx could make a difference for you- cosentyx is proven to help people with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis... ...find clear skin that can last. don't use if you're allergic to cosentyx. before starting cosentyx, you should be checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infections and lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor if you have an infection

trump. it went on to allegedly say russia was eager to meet with the candidate and had been reaching out. the documents allege the campaign official forward that had e-mail to another official saying, quote, we need someone to communicate that d.t. is not doing these trips. it should be someone low level in the campaign so as not to send any signal. in another e-mail a campaign supervisor allegedly tells papadopoulos, quote, i would encourage you and another policy adviser to the campaign to, quote, make the trip, if it is feasible. that trip to russia, never happened, according to officials. despite the court documents indicating papadopoulos was acting with campaign approval, the white house today attempted to minimize his role in the campaign. >> it was extremely limited. it was a volunteer position, and, again, no activity was ever done in an official capacity on behalf of the campaign. >> also today, surrendering at the fbi in washington, former campaign manager paul manafort and campai

that is not donald trump. and you do have to admit, there are successes with our allies countries who are engaging in north korea in a far different way than they have in a year ago. the united nations is engaging in a different way and china is engaging in a different way that they are going to support us in our effort to go after financial institutions that support north korea, that hasn't happened in the past so you have to give president trump gret credit for what he's been doing in north korea. he's making more advancement than prior presidents have and the risk and the threat was similar. >> so it does sound like you are on team trump, not team -- i know you started by saying you are on both but it does sound like you are siding with president trump than corker. and i do want to get to puerto rico and the relief. so there -- so as you know the governor is asking congress for $4 billion to help the relief efforts. is that the right amount, will you get on board with that? >> so know the governor well, a w

trump says there was no collusion. and then attacked of course as usual suspect hillary rodham clinton. >>> and as special prosecutor robert mueller makes his first move, what happens if trump decides to fire him? tonight democrats are warning trump against doing just that. but will he be able to stop snims. >>> finally, bobby kennedy, a raging spirit. this is "hardball," where the action. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> a programing note now about the nationwide tour for my new book, "bobby kennedy, a raging spirit" whose official publication date is tomorrow. tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern i'll be a guest on the "the rachel maddow show" and then be back up first thing tomorrow to discuss the book on "morning joe." that's the kickoff, the big day for this book. "bobby kennedy, a raging spirit" arrives in stores tomorrow, october 31st. and we'll be right back. dad: molly! trash! ( ♪ ) whoo! ( ♪ ) mom: hey, molly? it's time to go! (bell ringing) class, let's turn to page 136, recessive traits skip generations. who would like to read?

you said that donald trump is speaking truth to power. no, donald trump is power. what i would hike to see is for you and other trump supporters to speak truth to him, tell him when he does do something wrong, that he needs to be called out on it. it's time for this attitude of letting trump go and do whatever he wants without any accountability to end. >> and you're so blinded by your hatred you can't see anything good that [ overlapping speakers >> jason, is there anything that this president would do that you wouldn't criticize? would you come on here and reflectively support this president about anything? because that seems to be the case. no one on this panel reflectively supported other candidate, and i've been here for bush, i was here for obama, and now i'm here for trump, and i've never seen any pundit come on television or pundits come on tv and reflectively support the person who is in office as off as i've seen you and trump supporters. do you feel the nee that? because everything he does is not going to be correct, as we can see. stevie wonder can see

. >> reporter: critics scoff at trump estimates. >> forbes has long had a donald trump rule, which is whatever donald trump said we have to divide by three to what the real number is. >> when i say $10 billion, i'm not doing that to brag. who cares? >> reporter: the same day the list came out, he tweeted so much fake news being put in dying magazines and newspapers. fiction writers. >> to me he is not a richman. it is what a hobo imagines a rich man to be. >> it turns out i'm much richer than people think. >> reporter: no one thinks about it more. >> i made a fortune. >> reporter: than donald trump. >> a vast fortune. ♪ >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> a cabaret reference at 4:57 in the east. let's get a check on cnn "money" stream. global stock markets are higher after the dow crewed past 23,000. it hit three other milestones this year spurred by strong economic data and renewed hope for tax reform for business. the focus this week, earnings. strong reports from united health and johnson & johnson. today expect reports from american express and united. facebook's stock h

on thursday, the trump administration announced it is on thursday, the trump administration announced it is withdrawing from unesco -- that's the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization -- because . this is u.s.s. charge d'affais at unesco, chris hegadorn. >> the second issue, and for sleep this has become politicizized undermining the wk of unesco across its mandate. it has become a venueue for anti-israeael bias.s. unfortunately, we are taking this decision to withdraw from unesco at this time. then he fell in response, the general director of unesco said "at the time when conflicts continue to tear up our societies across the world, it is deeply regrettable for the united states to withdraw from the united nations agency emoting education for peace protecting culture under attack. that is the director general. hours after the u.s. with true, israel been also pulllled out of unesco. both the london and new york police departments have launched investigations into disgraced movie producer harvey weinstein, who was one of the most powerful men in hollywood unt

trump. that they are driving this. it's a movement and that they need to stay with the president, that he needs them as their natural allies. and the second and maybe the bigger part of this was to attack his perceived or the president's perceived enemies both old and new. >> hillary clinton just had a ni 900-page book and still can't tell anybody why she should be president of the united states. she can whine about, you know, all the bad things that she thinks happened to her but she can't make a convincing case of why she should be president. she can't take on any of donald trump's ideas. didn't want to do that. they wanted to use that $2 billion just to destroy him. >> reporter: that's a little backward-looking obviously because he's talking about hillary clinton, but bannon laid out his next big target, his next big war is going to be the republican establishment. he said it is a season of war for republican senators like bob corker, who he feels have not done enough to support the presi

lou: it was illegal when president trump did it and he's reversing it. ed: he has undone a vast majority of the damage done by president trump by executive orders and he's trying to correct the legislative stuff that was done. lou: i understand what you are saying. but foreign policy, it will take some time and great resolve to fix what he did as obama. ed: he and kerry and hillary clinton as secretary of state. lou: there is a pair. ed: what he said to the iranians, i know you are cheating, i know it was a bad deal. i have got you on notice. lou: obama knew they were cheating. ed: he didn't care. he want to be part of the global community. lou: if you examine the obama years, every major decision he made -- no one can define what the obama doctrine is. but it is without question u.s. national interests. there is -- i can't think an exception. >> i will never forget when went to west point and made a speech to the young cadets. he said this isn't about war anymore, this is about diplomacy. you would think he was talking to the foreign service school. lou

it is coarser because of donald trump. and i wish the christian leaders would stand up and mack a distinction between the policies they like and what donald trump is doing as a role model in this society. >> charlie sikes, scott jennings. appreciate it boat of you. thank you very much. >>> coming up next, a reality check on puerto rico. president trump claims they're doing a great job there even though 9d 1% of the island is still in the dark. more ahead. wemost familiar companies,'s but we make more than our name suggests. we're an organic tea company. a premium juice company. a coconut water company. we've got drinks for long days. for birthdays. for turning over new leaves. and we make them for every moment in every corner of the country. we are the coca-cola company, and we're proud to offer so much more. as king midas, i eand so should you.uarantee. on struts, brakes, shocks. does he turn everything to gold? not everything. now get $100 back on a 2-axle brake service with your midas credit card. book an appointment on