an colter tweeting today trump proposes amnesty. we voted for trump and got jack. what do you think about this? and the far right not giving him any room to maneuver. >> i think you describe it well. the president is really boxed in here. look, as much as there are some people around the president urging him to continue this fight, there are also others who want to find an off ramp here, who want the president to be able to notch some kind of win. he is in this very tough spot. you saw him now trying this weekend to reach out, at least try to pick off some moderate democrats hoping that maybe this plan that just as you said landed with an absolute thud might potentially appeal to some democrats. after 48 hours, not a single member of the party so far has come out in support of the plan. so you have got, you know, democrats not interested at all. but on the other side, you have got conservatives and the right wing media who described what the president proposed, just a three year extension of daca as amnesty. he's got very, very little wiggle room here to be able to

trump doesn't do that. what you can't do is punish the trade flows themselves, because at the end of the day, you're going to end up hurting american companies, american stock markets, investors, and workers themselves. >> and you end up trying to pick winners and losers within your own economy, which is something that all republicans have always believed government is really terrible at and government has proven it's terrible at. we'll end it there. thank you for joining us. really appreciate it. tonight's last word is next. (burke) parking splat. and we covered it. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ allow you to take advantage of growth opportunities with a level of protection in down markets. so you can be less concerned about your retirement savings. talk with your advisor about shield℠ annuities from brighthouse financial, established by metlife. >>> their people have been here for thousands and thousands of y

president trump directed michael cohen to lie in the testimony about negotiations to build a trump tower in moscow. they reported that trump supported a plan set up by michael cohen to visit russia during the campaign to meet vladimir putin in person. special counsel mueller's team learned that cohen lied in front of congress with witnesses in the trump's orb. cnn has not yet confirmed the report. we have a lot to get to, let's begin with sarah murray. this is stunning of this buzzfeed report that president trump directed his attorney to lie about the moscow project. tell us what you are hearing. >> it is a wild story. cnn has not independently confirmed it. now the way that buzzfeed said two officials say president trump directed michael cohen, the discussion ended earlier than it did so it did not look like donald trump was trying to negotiate this project while she was the gop nominee in 2016. and internal company e-mails and text messages and a case of other documents, don, you can bet in the special counsel is planning to rely on this and if it is true, they have to have documents t

his lies about how long donald trump engaged in negotiation over trump tower moscow. one could never be sure what rudy is up to. he clearly established a brand-new fact pattern as it pertains to the timeline of donald trump's discussions with his personal attorney, michael cohen, over that deal. cohen had claimed in testimony to congress that those discussions about trump tower moscow ended in january 2016. he later admitted that was a big, fat lie in a guilty plea to robert mueller. now he's offering up a new version of events. >> it's our understanding they went on throughout 2016, weren't a lot of them, but there were conversations. can't be sure of the exact dates but the president can remember having conversations with him about it. >> throughout 2016? >> yeah, probably up to -- could be up to as far as october, november. it's covered until the election, so any time during that period they could have talked about it. >> it didn't stop there. after he did that interview, rudy went further than that in an interview with "the new york times" he quoted donald trump a

and the enabling of donald trump. look, those poll numbers are bad today. they're going to be a lot worse as i think the damage from the shutdown becomes clearer, as the cost becomes clearer. i also think when people begin to think through the concept of declaring a national defense emergency on the border, i think there's going to be a tremendous backlash to that as well. >> sam stein, anyone who knows anything about the way the army core of engineers, the defense department spends money, does construction, building things, especially things that require permits, which a lot of their stuff doesn't if it's being done in combat zones, say in afghanistan -- >> sure. >> if you're trying to build something in texas and you are the defense department, you are a minimum, if you're completely unobstructed by the political process or by courts, you're a minimum of over a year away from a shovel hitting any dirt anywhere in texas on the border to build this wall. >> yeah, absolutely. and that's not even mentioning the fact tha

we have evidence of trump and butina being in the same room, donald trump jr. meeting aleksandr torshin and others, you know, that allegation has been out there. so we just wanted to see if this was true and go further and probe further. and we're not able to every time we've tried. the good news is we can now look. >> you were on this program and other programs complaining last year that the republicans who were in control at the time, that they were blocking investigations into the influence that the nra may have had on the trump campaign. are you going to start investigating this now? >> yes. part of what we're going to do is fill in the gaps where the republicans would not allow us to go last time. so we can actually subpoena records to follow the money. so one issue that we are going to follow and chairman schiff has been pretty clear about this, is whether the russians were laundering money through the trump organization. so we can subpoena deutsche bank records. we can look at his tax returns once we get those, and i think have a clearer picture of wheth

trump. an i.t. specialist according to "the wall street journal," and cohen denies the cash payment but the i.t. specialist is extremely specific. he says cohen handed him a blue wal-mart bag which included between $12,000 to $13,000. evan perez is out front in washington. and evan, look, at the least this is bizarre and it does appear on the top level here yet another instance michael cohen willing to do anything for trump. >> that's right. and i think that's the story that michael cohen is going to be telling certainly if he gets to testify, erin, in the next couple of weeks here on capitol hill where he says he wants to testify, want to tell a story of all the things he's been doing for donald trump over the years. and certainly this idea that, think about this he was rigging online polls. these are things that nobody really pays attention to, right? but he says he was supposed to be rigging those polls for the future candidacy of donald trump, to sort of burnish his image ahead of his announceme

trump is going to be disruptive. he's going to be a disruptive presidency to this leftist agenda because theydon't want confrontation . they don't want the american people to wake up or as they in the deep internet, this red telling and if you follow some of the things like this to a non-which has been posted on the deep chance which i pretty well identified as one of the military intelligence working closely with trump that this is a narrative that is again, back to the fact that the constitution's going to be preserved. donald trump is going toturn the tide. that he has weathered the first attack . on the miller attempts, a special counselor to impeach donald trump has failed. and i'd say that because miller has an indictment of over 13 wacky russians that posted some things onthe internet . even the department of justice said did not influence the election. and donald trump did not get involved with. if that's it, that's all they've got. or to concoct a prosecution of general flynn for lyin

donald trump. toue gss who donald trump i'm a bunch of wind. and just like your stomach after that strip mall sushi, well, i'm a bit unpredictable. let's redecorate. whatsyamatter tanya, i thought you loved being spontaneous? i do. and if you've got the wrong home insurance coverage, i might break the bank too. so get allstate, and be better protected from mayhem, like me. ♪ >>> welcome back to "hardball." we're getting another insider account of life in the white house. this time it's a book "team of vipers" from a little known spells assistant to the president. sims describes tas white house e calls absolutely out of control. one reference is trump's reaction shortly after the white house supremacist protest in charlottesville. >> i do believe that he messed up in his comments on tuesday when it sounded like a moral ekwivication or at least moral ambiguity, when we need extreme moral clarity. >> according to this comments like those prompted the presidents to telephone ryan. telling ryan, paul, do you know why democrats have been kicking yo

now it's donald trump's discussions about trump tower moscow. giuliani on day three of his cleanup tour today telling "the new yorker," "i am afraid it will be on my grave stone. rudy giuliani: he lied for trump." just might be. giuliani working to undo the damage from his revelations sunday that donald trump's tal s s about building trump tower moscow went on through election day. he trotted out a new new line in that "new yorker" interview entitled "even if he did do it, it wouldn't be a crime." we knew we'd get here. the president's own attorney saying not that trump didn't pub luckily lie for months about his relationship with russia but even if he did, so what, it isn't a crime. i'm guessing the pardon defense will come next. rudy is in hot water in the west wing today over his erratic performances over the last 72 hours on television. "the new york times" reports, "several people close to mr. trump have grown exasperated with mr. giuliani's public appearances and increasing prosecutors' anger with the president and potentially creating a m

that trump told him to lie to congress. if true, here's two words we're going to learn today, suborning perjury. cnn has not confirmed this. not only is suborning perjury a crime, it was also part of the articles of impeachment against both former presidents richard nixon and bill clinton and we're all old enough to remember 2016 and here was then candidate trump during the presidential debate. >> i know nothing about russia. i know about russia, but i know nothing about the inner workings of russia. i have no loans from russia. >> today the president and his attorney rudy giuliani are calling michael cohen a liar. more on that in just a moment. all this reporting is based upon accounts from two federal law enforcement officials with ties to the investigations, so not michael cohen and again cnn has not independently verified buzzfeed's reporting. there is one more thing. the article claims that cohen did not bring this information to the special counsel robert mueller. mueller actually brought it to him from this piece. le

trump ended ms. winston wolkoff's role asla dismissed after initial reports taken in by the entity she formed to help produce the inaugural. this story seems to be another pull on the ball of thread that's going to unravel badly. >> yeah. i mean, and one sense, what a surprise that the guy whose house looked like saddam hussein's palace wasted a lot of money on the inaugural. i don't think that's very surprising at all. and, you know, waefltwasting mo isn't a crime. nothing illegal about waving money. i suspect if investigators start combing through how the money is spent, you'll see all the people in that committee because, remember, the people that came into his committee like the people he brought into the government, so many are not the traditional people you >> the ukrainians. >> they are probably stealing money and have personal legal liability. the bigger question is going to wind up being where did the money come from? it is a crime for money to make its way into the committees as a way for f

story of the real donald trump." jack o'donnell, of course, being the most successful american with the name o'donnell and not related to me, of course. joy, i want to start with the woman we just heard, faye smith. that is the real face of this shutdown right now today. people who are on the verge of losing their homes. she is going to be evicted in washington, d.c. donald trump has done a lot of evictions. >> yes. >> you know, in his life. his father has done a lot of evictions. they know from their end of it how that works. and mitch mcconnell is the person who now will be as responsible as donald trump for faye smith getting evicted if she does. >> yeah, and not only doing evictions. if you follow history as tony schwarz and others have laid out, using tactic like not fixing the heat, making the apartment so unlivable that people essentially self-evict and leave in order to redevelop properties into luxury condominium. he's used to inflicting suffering on people that he thinks are disposable in order to get his w

they are all for trump, directed by trump. trump in business is one of the number one microman injuries. ru -- micromanagers. there will be proof. this is not a freelance operation. >> before you go, give us a sense as we follow this story what are the questions we're looking at going into today? >> first of all, look for other news organizations to match the story. you know, one of the sure signs of when a story is going to pan out and when it's not is when multiple news organizations get it. when you have one hanging out here like that, it always causes you to raise the question, hey, are we sure this is right? i have a lot of confidence in these two reporters, but i do want to see other news organizations validate their reporting before i conclude for sure that this is true. number two, i do think, you know, a key question going forward is going to be the one you guys were just talking about, which is is this michael cohen's word that this happened or is this something that is michael cohen val didating whats clear from a d

donald trump has created a trumped up notion that we have to secure the border because it is the only thing that rallies his base. in fact, it's detrimental to the well-being of americans. right now with this government shutdown he's saying what he said in his breaking news. it's okay. people will adjust. the average american's median savings is $11,000. that doesn't last long. when he's threatening to shut down the government for years, shame on him. we depend on these individuals to be our safety. the tsa is going to be -- >> it's all over the country. >> this is a charade. we know immigration levels are down in the southern border since 2008. they have historically kept going down. individuals that are fleeing their countries are people seeking political asylum. if we can talk about immigration reform, absolutely. we need sound borders, sound security. he doesn't know how to legislate. he doesn't know how to lead. his only talking point now is let me scare the american people to their detriment. >> jamil, you're from california. the states most impacted even if it was possible to b

trump was helped along by his son, donald trump junior. an avid outdoorsman who played a role in his father building ties to the nra. >> they love the nra more than anyone i know. they are my sons. they are lifetime members. >> great to be here. these are our people. >> reporter: what we don't know is if this is just an effort by the special counsel to make sure they have checked all their boxes or if this is some deeper probe into the relationship between the trump campaign and the nra. the special counsel declined to comment ve comment. one thing notable is that president trump, when he received the written questions from the special counsel's team, he did not have a question about his relationship with the nra on that list. >> very, very interesting and intriguing. stay with us. shimon is with us as well. we're getting new details about this mystery company. a foreign-owned company. all of a sudden the u.s. supreme court is weighing in. >> 100% foreign-owned company. that's something we learned in the new filing today that was redacted.

we know donald trump jr. and eric trump have braggeded about how much money the trump organization has gotten out of russia. in 2016, the trump organization was pursuing a plan to build a trump tower in moscow. this is an entangling financial relationship that leaves him potentially open to blackmail. >> number 13. trump has praised putin while trashing everyone else. then you remind everyone about how he congratulatie ind putin his rigged election when aides said do not congratulate him. >> he can't help himself. it's like don rickles in the white house. he's an insult machine, but doesn't insult putin even when putin does something like expelling american diplomats. donald trump actually thanks him for that. wrou write this, is there no on the other hand, max. >> there really isn't. if you listen to trump himself, he says nobody's tougher on russia that i have. like the 2017 sanctions act or the work of aides and the reporting has been that when donald trump is opposed, more sanctions and when he's found ou

president trump directed michael cohen to lie in the testimony about negotiations to build a trump tower in moscow. they reported that trump supported a plan set up by michael cohen to visit russia during the campaign to meet vladimir putin in person. special counsel mueller's team learned that cohen lied in front of congress with witnesses in the trump's orb. cnn has not yet confirmed the report. we have a lot to get to, let's begin with sarah murray. this is stunning of this buzzfeed report that president trump directed his attorney to lie about the mos tcow project. tell us what you are hearing. >> it is a wild story. cnn has not independently confirmed it. now the way that buzzfeed said two officials say president trump directed michael cohen, the discussion ended earlier than it did so it did not look like donald trump was trying to negotiate this project while she was the gop nominee in 2016. and internal company e-mails and text messages and a case of other documents, don, you can bet in the special counsel is planning to rely on this and if it is true, they have to have documents

♪ feel the power that's the power of trump ♪ ♪ that's the power of trump feel the power of trump ♪ ♪ feel the power of trump ♪ feel the power of trump ♪ feel the power of trump [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: wow. that's -- please. how about that. up for trump, everybody. take a bow, that was sensational. wow. [ cheers and applause ] aren't they terrific? what a show so far. and we've got so much more to come on an intermission accomplished, a halftime tribute to trump. stick around, we'll be right back. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ they've got a chance to win this with a field goal. time, give me time... wait, there's a time out. they're gonna ice the kicker! [pop-top can opening] [pop-top cans opening] what is going on?! i don't know! [fans gulping and drinking] i've never seen anything like this in my life. hike! the snap is good... ...threads are up... ahhhh... ahhhhh... ahhhhhh... ahhhhhhh... ahhhhhhhh... ahhhhhhhhh... ahhhhhhhhhh... ahhhhhhhhhhh... [clang] they got to him! doh!! oh! i don't believe it! can you believe it?! ♪ dad! hiding when i was supposed to be quitting

>>> trolling trump's tower. the russian pop star involved in that infamous trump tower meeting in new york cancels a u.s. concert tour after he fails to strike a deal with robert mueller. was the backdrop for his announcement designed to send the message, a message to the president? >>> and not backing down. there's no movement toward ending the government shutdown, as the president's new proposal to get his wall built fails to break the deadlock. is there any new hope for compromise tonight? >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news tonight. the president's lawyer is trying to defuse new land mines he dropped into the russia investigation. rudy giuliani went on the record in multiple interviews indicating the conversations on building a trump tower in moscow went on longer than many thought. all the way until the 2016 presidential election. even quoting the president, himself, as

he says it was all done in coordination with the trump campaign with trump campaign officials. the judge laid out the charges in a federal court in fort lauderdale today. >> mr. stone, you are here for an initial or first appearance on an indictment that has been returned against you. the indictment charges, in count one, obstruction of a proceeding. counts through through six are false statements to a legislative branch of the government. and count seven is witness tampering. >> roger stone is defiant tonight. he says he is not guilty and will defeat the charges in court. but the special counsel's 24-page indictment is damnings. mueller's team writes in part after the july 22nd release of stolen dnc e-mails by organization 1 or wikileaks a senior trump officials was directed to contact stone about what other releases and damaging information organization had regarding the hillary clinton campaign. we don't know who the senior trump campaign official is who reached out to stone. this is the key part. mueller writes, this senior campaign officials was directed to reach out to st

team which is criticize trump. he wrote this op-ed titled "when you can't stand your candidate." it's an excerpt from a do not allow the republican convention to be a coronation where trump and trumpism are unchallenged. the party needs to be reminded there are deep divisions and trump needs to be reminded how many oppose and fear his nomination there was an op-ed by the council on hemispheric affairs in 2017 that talked about considering elliot abrams would be a rude shock to latin america. give us background on why latin america might be fearful and disturbed by the idea of elliot abrams >> a couple of things here abrams is one of our country's premier regime change architects it's something he spent his life thinking about he knows the state department, the cia, the department of defense. he's applied them in latin america and globally what's fascinating is he was nearly deputy secretary of state under rex tillerson and donald trump nixed him at the last moment that hasn't stopped elliot i have seen him over the

trump said, you're fired. i love that part. >> he's teaching madison to talk. >> make america great again. >> in the days of mao tse-tung, that would have been normal. our second nominee goes to the 18 republican members of congress who nominated donald trump for a nobel peace prize back in may of this year for his efforts to denuclearize the korean peninsula. in case you're wondering, north korea still has a full control of all their nuclear weapons. and our final nominee is fox news anchor sean hannity. hannity joined trump on stage during the president's final rally ahead of this year's midterm elections. [ cheers and applause ] >> by the way, all those people in the back are fake news. [ cheers and applause ] >> mr. president, i did an opening monologue today and i had no idea you were going to invite me up here. and the one thing that has made and defined your presidency more than anything else -- promises made, promises kept. >> oh, this is difficult. a gut punch to all the people in the panel to even ha

managers to real donald trump, nobody else. not one person made a decision without their approval. others just took credit for this family's amazing ability. i'm done with all these lies. they will be embarrassed. well, interesting tweet, right? >> there you go. he's saying what a lot of people know. i think there was a lot of truth to that. trump was -- did micromanage that campaign. he ran it himself. he was his own best communications strategist, political adviser, right? he made all the decisions, the same way the white house operates now. he is a micromanager. and so that tweet was written when i think the wolff book came out, and he was trying to argue certain people wolff was saying were important weren't as important as he said they were. in light of what the indictment said today and who may have directed stone to do what, i thought that tweet was pretty interesting in the current context. i do wonder, though, if mueller in an indictment would say a senior campaign official, and he would refer to the candidate as a sen

donald trump jr. denied they knew anything about the project in an interview with fox news. >> when was the last discussion about this trump tower deal? because rudy got everybody really confused. he goes on "meet the press" and says it could have been right through the election. then he said he was talking in hypothetical terms today. >> i don't know. i don't talk about things i don't know about. unfortunately that sometimes happens, no different than anybody else. this wasn't a deal. we don't know the developer. we don't know the site. we don't know anything about it. ultimately it was michael cohen essentially trying to get a deal done. i don't think anyone took it all that seriously. that's the reality of what went on. >> in september of 2017, trump jr. testified he knew little about the project except that his father signed a letter of intent. >> new details about the buzzfeed story contending hard evidence that donald trump directed michael cohen to lie to congress. the president's legal team, q

it would put donald trump, and potentially ivanka as well, in possible trump, so is it true? ? just a moment we have an exclusive interview. lanny davis will be speaking out for the first time since the story dropped and he is not denying it it. acarding two what buzz feed calls two legal officials, he said the president personally instructed him to lie to congress. with that trump tower moscow meeting. nbc news has not confirmed it. remember it has been established in public court filings that cohen was circulating his false testimony with folks at the white house and was in contact with them. that was filed by robert mueller, no one denied the aemgs at the center of the story. but finally a few hours ago, rudy julianny finally did saying any session from any source that the president counciled michael cohen to lie is categorically false. the claims are more lying born of more mallace. joining me now is lanny davis. let me start right off. you did not deny this story. you have in the past denied others and corrected the record when something has been wrong. yesterday michael c

the next honor is trump award for bravery, at least as defined by donald trump. with so many investigations president trump likes to share an encouraging word of support for those willing to stand up against the rule of law. got it? well, the first nomination is this tweet from president trump about roger stone currently under scrutiny by mueller for his ties to wikileaks. trump wrote, i will never testify against trump. this statement was recently made by roger stone. essentially stating that he will not be be forced by a rogue and out of control prosecutor to make up lies and stories about president trump. nice to know that some people still have guts. >>> the second nomination is this tweet from president trump, again, after paul manafort was found guilty of financial crimes. i feel very badly for paul manafort and his wonderful family. justice took a 12-year-old tax case, among other things, applied tremendous pressure on him. unlike michael cohen, he refused to break, makeup stories in order to get a deal. such respect for a brave man. >>> finally, there was

trump. >> could it be donald trump who instructed them in that later paragraph? it could be, but i don't know. but yes, it could be. >> there is a paragraph in the indictment that says they were instructed by a senior campaign official to go back to -- >> no, it says a senior campaign -- not to correct -- it's like the senior campaign official was instructed to go back -- >> right, right. >> and they made sure to not -- and that's at the same paragraph where they're extremely particular in writing senior campaign official contacted, senior cam -- it could be. >> who else would roger stone have had a personal relationship with besides donald trump himself on that campaign >> well, in that time frame, things were a lot different. and going through -- just to understand, once paul manafort got in to the campaign, first under the auspices that he was going to help trump during the campaign, and then basically it looked as if roger was going to -- roger and i were going to get what we wanted -- >

trump. this is quite a caper. and unlike the big stories these days, the core points are not disputed. donald trump's guilty lawyer michael cohen opening up now about things he said he did for trump like spending money to try to rig polls online. now the timing is key as i'm going to explain tonight. because this could be the beginning of the process of michael cohen publicly coming clean for things he did for trump that we didn't know a whole lot about. and that we're not necessarily charged in court. or that still could be charged in court. cohen prepping for the high-stakes testimony to congress. testimony that itself top democrats have cited as something that trump may be already trying to illegally interfere with with the public threats that appeared basically targeting michael cohen's family. people have been buzzing over this story all day. but i could tell you, tonight "the beat" is the first time we hear from cohen's attorney lanny davis. cohen hiring a small i.t. firm before the ca

and lindsey graham, who styled himself the new bestie of donald trump and trump whisperer. he's got nothing for all of his obsequiousness he put himself out on a limb january 2nd saying this about these wall negotiations. let's listen to lindsey graham >> if he gives in now, that's the end of 2019 in terms of him being an effective president that's probably the end of his presidency. >> eugene -- >> let's hope. let's hope. >> well, i mean, from lindsey's lips to god's ear. maybe it is the end of his presidency who knows. but that's a -- it's a very interesting question so, you know, you gave the mitch mcconnell line that every southern senator uses, frankly, >> yeah. >> about the no -- there being no education in the second kick of a mule. so here's my question. how many republican senators felt the mule kick of this shutdown and will want to avoid repeating the experience and i don't know the answer to that yet we do know that there was an extremely tense republican senators lunch, i believe it was yesterday, in which voices were raised senator ron johnson and mitch mcconn

trump. the story was first reported by the "wall street journal." cohen says he paid between $12,000 and $13,000 to red finch solutions to manipulate two polls in mr. trump's favor. the attempt was not successful. cohen saying he regrets his blind loyalty to mr. trump. he still intends to testify before congress early next month despite expressing concern for his family. >>> rudy giuliani cleaning up his own mess after trying to move the goalposts on possible trump campaign collusion. here is what the president's lawyer told a stunned chris cuomo on wednesday night. >> i never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign. >> yes, you have. >> i have not. i said the president of the united states. >> that claim by giuliani was false. he has often maintained there was no collusion by the campaign. then yesterday he told dana bash he never meant to send any new signals about what the mueller investigation might be finding and he followed that up with this t

here's rudy giuliani today on cnn. >> did president trump on anyone on the trump team talk to michael cohen about his congressional testimony before he gave congressional testimony or testimony? >> i can tell you i wasn't the lawyer at the time. 3. >> right. >> michael cohen's lawyers reviewed his testimony with him -- >> did president trump or anyone -- >> let me answer the question. >> okay. >> as far as i snow, president trump did not have discussions with him, certainly had no discussions with him in which he told him or counseled him to lie. if he had any discussions with him, they'd be about the version of events michael cohen gave then which they all believed was true. >> you just acknowledged it's possible president trump talked to mike cohen about -- >> which would be perfectly normal. which the president believed was true. >> so it's possible that that happened, that president trump talked to -- >> i don't know if happened or didn't happen or might be attorney/client privilege if it happened where i can't acknowledge it, but i have no acknowledge he spoke to him. >> you just

and trump relented. the reporter hung up without a top scoop from source close to the president which was the president of course. joining me now by our friend, phil rucker and david led a former senior speech writer for president obama. phil, this book, which can you somehow got ahold of fast, apparently a seven-figure deal. demand for dirt inside this white house. >> it's a memoir and it's filled with intrigue and all sorts of scenes of dysfunction and due plisty and frankly among the president. sims is quite flattering in his portrayal of the president and certainly not in his portrayal of some of the co workers. >> david, i've never heard of the white house so disloyal to the president. when i askredpoerters like phil is it hard getting stories out of the white house? they laugh at me. kelly ann is pitching stuff from different directions and the president himself a a source and they complain about fake news but it's all from them. >> i hope you'd preferrer to me as a source close to david litt. it's

that's either donald trump or donald trump junior. >> it could be president trump. i think having seen what rudy giuliani has done and i don't think he gets credit for this, sometimes i think he's doing it masterfully is laying the bar out saying trump tower negotiations may have started as early as the campaign started. that would be news to me. >> he starts it and gets the shock factor early so there's none. >> very quickly. every indictment that's reference someone that they have not been in that indictment has ultimately been indicted or cut a deal. roger was referenced in a previous indictment with the gru. i still think things are coming and the grand jury is still open. >> that is an interesting point. roger stone and he came on the show. hesitate like that's me. that was the person, whatever it was, person one. he assumed it was him and it was. now he is been charged. that's an interesting point sam makes. when stone was asked if he's expecting the president to reach out to him, i want to play for you what he said. this is interesting. >> no. i think he's la

that anybody gave right where he said trump's word was not worth a. diploma from trump university. so i think mitt is establishing himself as a. voice of a critical voice in the united states senate but you know i don't expect too much of mitt romney i mean i think he'll be the kind of like jeff flake was or like bob corker was willing to criticize a president now and then but still vote for everything that he wants i haven't seen yet anybody among republicans in the senate with enough backbone to stand up to donald trump certainly not mitch mcconnell not any of the others why do you think you know i think they're making a mistake first of all there are fraid of the republican the trump base and they're afraid that if they take him on they know he'll fight back he'll to criticize them on twitter and he'll support somebody in a primary to run against him and he's done that already look what he did in florida . supporting. the republican candidate there pretty new republican governor at the santas down there rather than so i think they're afraid and i g

but in this case it is not a matter of cohen's word versus trumps word. buzzfeed says officials learned about the or views with multiple witnesses from the trump organizatation an internal company emails text messages have a cache of other documents. only vendor code of knowledge those instructions during his interviews with the special counsel's offic. buzzfeed news also reports that despite minimizing business dealings with russia trumping colin had more than ten face to face meetings during the prpridential campaigign. to geget the moscow projectt up and running trump also reportedly pressured going to organize a trip to russia to meet with vladimir putin in order to jumpstart the trump tower negotiations. after colin pleaded guilty to lying to congress in november trump defended his continued involvement in the moscow projects during the election. i was running my business while i was campaigning. there was a good chance that i would want. and which case i would have gotten back into the business and why should i lose lots of opportunities. ordering s

i don't think trump cares about that i think trump is happy to have pit bulls out there that jump at the media and gnaw at people's knees and raise doubts about the quality of a prosecution, and i don't think trump is going to get rid of him any time soon. >> should we be listening to him? i thought after having to walk it back, what's the added value of listening to somebody that doesn't seem to know the story, can't remember the most basic facts of it? are we doing ourselves a disservice by listening to rudy giuliani >> it's the hardest thing. he speaks on behalf of supposedly donald trump. our country is being destroyed by the narcissim of old men. that's like the theme of today, roger stone, trump the fact he is simultaneously tactical but frantic and sad, those are both realities so i think whether we watch him, it's this constant effort to figure out you know that it's demeaning, the discourse and it's muddying the waters so i think it is this question how do you absorb a culture of lies that trump has placed on the public and we're forced to reckon with it you can't ignore it.

on that, he is with trump. trump and romney could work together on that potentially. >> i don't know if you saw this, but mitt romney's niece tweeted about the op-ed calling it disappointing and unproductive. do you agree? >> i think for the people who are looking for that champion of the pre-trump republican party, mitt romney is serving as that vehicle. i think it is good for republicans to have this debate. what should the republican party stand for in terms of tone and temperament and policy. you need a champion on the other side to do that. >> nice to have you. thanks very much. >> thanks, poppy. >>> still to come, with the new year still bringing a second trump summit, will it bring a second trump summit with north korea's kim jong-un. new questions surrounding the regime could complicate matters. >>> u.s. stocks down as 2019 trading begins. we are live on the floor of the new york stock exchange. >>> just days after taking a major step, senator elizabeth warren set to make her first trip to iowa. we will

boy, that's devastating for trump because it suggests that trump himself is the object. and then the second thing is, what was stone's reaction. as a lawyer, i was shocked to see him go out on tv tonight, including a program i was on, and say all kinds of stuff normally a client would never do that but i think here there's one reason for it, which is he only has one audience it's not the court, it's not mueller, it's not the public opinion. it's one person, donald trump. he is seeking a pardon that's what the strategy is all about. it must be nice to have donald trump on your side and i know you're giving me a hard time about "hamilton" references but you made a "notting hill" reference >> i have to go there with you and ask you, do you think pardons -- people still regard this as a kind of fantasy discussion do you think it's possible or probable from this president some of these names we've come to know in this investigation? >> we're talking about a president who pardoned sheriff joe arpaio and scooter libby who was accused of doing the same kinds of things that trump

donald trump jr. remember, this campaign was very small. and it was run very hands-on by donald trump himself. so there are a plethora of facts, including some of what donald trump jr. said about wanting dirt on hillary clinton, about knowing in advance about the release of documents by wikileaks. those stolen e-mails that indicate that it was either him or his father donald trump. >> of course, as i played a few moments ago, donald trump months after the stuff had started to be leaked, months after it was known that it was russia, months after wikileaks is the source of the leaks, months after you know wikileaks and russia are linked together, the president is talking again and again and again. i played four times he's talking about how much he likes wikileaks and you have to look at what they're putting out there. he didn't not know to name, didn't not know who was putting it out there. that's clear. but if what you're surmising which many are wondering if it's true, if it's the president of the uni

so barr has made explicit that trump can do pretty much all the things trump would want to do to underp undercut this investigation. he can interfere without consequence and pardon and offer a pardon to folks that mueller otherwise might be able to flip or to work on. so by putting barr up, trump is sending a very clear signal that a, he believes that the senate is going to back him on this. he knows that his kind of republican compatriots will allow him to essentially install someone who will make it so there are virtually zero consequences for anything he's done wrong. and b, i think he's also sending the message that he just doesn't care about even the kind of baseline appearance of propriety and fairness. in the past presidents are typically careful about the optics of who they appoint to roles like this. granted, we're in unprecedented times. there's a sense of what we want appoint somebody fair minded maybe from the other party but fairly moderate. that's the robert mueller story. and what you see here is the opposite of that. you see trump saying i'm going to appoint someone who

a donald trump problem. jared kushner has yet to earn his junior g-man badge they've got him working on immigration policy they've got him negotiating on the wall and he's in over his head there is no one around this president that is competent enough to address the myriad number of issues that come in front of them. trump ultimately never listens to anybody what you have now in this event is, as neera said, it's the first sort of landmark failure for this team in which their incompetence is exposed. it's also donald trump revealed as an inept deal maker a guy who came to washington with a base believing he was a very competent businessman who could get things done in washington even though his track record as a businessman was just as abysmal was the deal he got plowed by nancy pelosi on. it's all come home to roost. >> all that's really come out of this is that donald trump, his cabinet and even his daughter-in-law have appeared to be incredibly callous individual people the republican party look completel

trump -- president trump's behavior. otherwise, he could leave this person, who's set to go to prison in march, and not respond or overreact to all of it, and so i think what we just heard from the congresswoman and what we're going to hear, i think, through the process is how does congress pull on these threads. one more point, before you let me go, as they say, i thought it was very notable that mr. davis today said he can't speak to this because it's the heart of the mueller probe. that tells you that we are learning, in a few leaks, about the type of things that mueller may have a lot more evidence on. >> all right, ari melber, we appreciate your time on your night off. as i said, any time you want, it's your show, my friend. you can call in any time. >> thank you, amon, and thanks for your work. >> and with me now is former federal prosecutor glen and richard painter, chief white house ethics lawyer under george w. bush. glen, let me get to you about all this. how much does mueller know in all this? the interesting

jared kushner, donald trump jr. or even donald trump himself. as the facts come out and i'm on the house judiciary committee, we'll investigate because we want to know what did the president know and when did he know it? we'll conduct those investigations and show the truth to the american people. >> sarah sanders, the white house press secretary, was on c thi nn today talking to john berman. she said this indictment had nothing to do with the president, it has nothing to do with the white house. what's your reaction to that? >> i read the indictment several times. sarah sanders admitted she did not read the indictment when she's making the statement. so she was just making stuff up without having read the actual document. if you read the actual document, it lays out basically collusion. it lays out the trump campaign, trying to get damaging information about hillary clinton, and they were working with roger stone and wikileaks who was working with the russians. that to me is pretty clear. and i think it's very important that we protect the inde

trump. those two felonies were the really big exclamation points that first day michael cohen turned up in federal court in new york. and those exclamation points were well-deserved, right? those are serious felonies. he pled guilty to them. he and prosecutors both implicated the sitting president of the united states in participating in those felonies. but, again, for those of us watching from outside this case trying to keep track, trying to figure out, you know, what this all means and where this is all going for the country at large, for this presidency, for the existential question of this presidency, which is whether it was borne out of a foreign intelligence operation, right, the related question of whether we are still living with a knowing participant in that foreign intelligence operation living in the white house. i mean, for those of us just as citizens watching michael cohen, watching him in court as one player in this larger story, that first day he was in court in new york in

most big trump lies collapse instantaneously, the second donald trump says them, to people who are well informed enough to know it is a lie, people who can process the difference between truth and falsehood, fact and fiction. the big lie of the trump presidency was in donald trump's presidential campaign announcement, 3 1/2 years ago. >> i would build a great wall. and nobody builds walls better than me. believe me. and i build them very inexpensively. i will build a great, great wall on our southern border. and i will have mexico pay for that wall. mark my words. >> yes! yes! >> that was the paid audience that donald trump hired for his campaign announcement. so they weren't as enthusiastic. they didn't know that the wall was supposed to be a big cheer line. but you saw what happened to it during the campaign. it got cheers every time donald trump said it. and mexico will pay for the wall became a campaign chant, led by donald trump. that big lie, mexico will pay for the wall, was carried into the trump presidency, and it immediately became a problem for president trump in his first co

trump tower moscow deal and that trump green lighted it, it was proving that trump lied in the campaign about the timing and the nature of the trump tower moscow project. what is new here is the allegation that donald trump told michael cohen to high, and we're not getting push back on that from the michael cohen camp. trump's attorneys are denying it, but it is hugely important apart from the information because it suggests that he was involved in emergency, part of a conspiracy to lie to a coequal branch of golf, and it hvernmens a lot of people calling for robert mueller to impeach. michael cohen being called a liar will not be enough for the public for that matter. >> a lot of the buzzfeed reporting is not reliant on the reporting by michael cohen. so the statement that he is unreliable, whatever they want to call him, the fact is this reporting if true, and we have not monitored it. >> it is based on two law enforcement sources and they discussed documents that were obtained from the trump organization. you have to assume that they were dexing and e-mailing about a instruction for

president trump's lawyer admits the trump campaign may have colluded with russia. here is what rudy giuliani told chris cuomo last night. >> i never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign. i have no idea. i have not. i said the president of the united states. there is not a single bit of evidence the president of the united states committed the only crime you can commit here -- conspired with the russians to hack the dnc. >> not true. we have the video to prove it which we'll play shortly. giuliani made another false statement claiming president trump also only said he did not collude with the russians, not his campaign. >> the president did not -- >> said nobody had contact. tons had contact. nobody colluded? >> the guy running his campaign was working at an issue at the time of the convention. >> he said he didn't. how would he know? >> he said that, rudy. >> i never saw that. >> he said as far as i know. >> as far as he knows, that's true. >> giuliani is lying. the president did say so. we have the video. he has repeat

roger stone's road from watergate to the trump campaign. watergate to the trump campaign. i get unlimited 1.5% cash back. it's so simple, i don't even have to think about it. so i think about mouthfeel. i don't think about the ink card. i think about nitrogen ice cream in supermarkets all over the world. i think about the details. fine, i obsess over the details. think about every part of your business except the one part that works without a thought. your ink card. chase ink business unlimited. chase ink business unlimited, with unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase. chase for business. make more of what's yours. >>> stone has been a player in politics for years. the guy next to stone is lee at water notorious hatchet man in politics and he came up with the willie horton ad. and look as little different now. his name is paul manafort. these guys were partners in the '80s. manafort was also in federal court before the same judge that has the stone case. a nice way for the two to be reunited. and none other than manafort himself will tell you in the documentary get me

trump that he did not have to mention the russia investigation. mr. trump directed mr. rod rosenstein to mention the russian investigation anyway. the second event was the president tying the firing directly to the russia probe in his own words with an interview with nbc. >> regardless of recommendation i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story, it's an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election. >> coming up on "morning joe" one of the reporters who broke that story. >>> one of the weekend's bomb shell reports current and former u.s. officials describe in detail to "the washington post" the extraordinary lengths president trump has gone to hide the details of his private conversations and interactions with russia's vladimir putin. this includes trump's july 2017 meeting with putin on the sidelines where the president confiscated the notes of his own interpreter and demanded the official not discuss what transpir