they have followed donald trump to that new low. those followers of donald trump are lost. believing things they didn't use to believe. approving of things they didn't use to approve of. unless the impeachment process catches up with donald trump, trump followers will remain lost in trumpism until a majority of americans who have always opposed donald trump and trumpism turn out in full strength in the next election and do an intervention for trump followers that removes donald trump from office. and breaks their addiction to trumpism. that is tonight's "last word." "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. williams starts now. >>> tonight, the most significant move yet since democrats took over the house. we have details of the sweeping congressional investigation into the people around donald trump and seemingly all things related to trump. plus seems like we just said this, but once again the week before us could be consequential. with a lot of moving parts to watch that could determine the fate of some well-known names. >>> and we've narrowed down what you need to

they have followed donald trump to that new low. those followers of donald trump are lost. believing things they didn't use to believe. approving of things they didn't use to approve of. unless the impeachment process catches up with donald trump, trump followers will remain lost in trumpism until a majority of americans who have always opposed donald trump and trumpism turn out in full strength in the next election and do an intervention for trump followers that removes donald trump from office. and breaks their addiction to trumpism. that is tonight's "last word." "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. >>> tonight, the most significant move yet since democrats took over the house. we have details of the sweeping congressional investigation into the people around donald trump and seemingly all things related to trump. plus seems like we just said this, but once again the week before us could be consequential. with a lot of moving parts to watch that could determine the fate of some well-known names. >>> and we've narrowed down what you need to see at the saturday

friends of donald trump tried to seize his high school records in 2011 right after donald trump said that he wanted president obama to quote show his records because donald trump believed that barack obama was quote a terrible student. >> the word is, according to what i've read that he was a terrible student when he went to ox dental. maybe that's right or wrong but i don't know why he doesn't release his records. >> it's against the law for schools to publicly release student's transcripts but ivy league schools like the university of pennsylvania and harvard where barack obama graduated from law school do make public records of the students who graduate with honors and then ivy league schools most students actually graduate with honors, not graduating with honors is unusual in ivy league schools. there are three levels. donald trump did not graduate with honors from the university of pennsylvania. that is public information. and that puts him somewhere in the bottom half of his class academically even though the president once claimed to have graduated as the number one student in

. >> donald trump jr. says in the 2008 conference quote, "russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets." we see a lot of money pouring in from russia. >> eric trump told james dodson the same thing. >> eric trump suggested to a well regarded call that those funding came from russia. >> eric trump told the new york post that he was misquoted, stating the allegations was quote, "complete garbage." donald trump had been to russia more than once. he first went to 1987 when it is still the soviet union, he returned in 1996. his connection with russia grew deeply when a russian oligarch helped him stage the pageant in russia. >> we met aguilar in moscow and he came up to us and received a warm welcome. >> rob gold stone is a publicist who works for aguilar. >> mr. trump says he believes that the russians had a strong leader in president putin unlike america whose leader was weak. >> donald trump expressed hope on twitter that he and putin would become best friends. in november

the socialism that donald trump really loves. the socialism that puts taxpayer money directly into donald trump's pocket. >> the trump golf organization currently has a golf course in my home borough of the bronx. trump links. i drive past it every day. going between bronx and -- going between the bronx and queens. >> that was the most perfect illustration of house speaker tip o'neill's old line that all politics is local. and it turned out to be the perfect illustration of just how much donald trump loves socialism when it's just for him. >> taxpayers spent $127 million to build trump links in a, quote, generous deal, allowing president trump to keep almost every dollar that flows in on a golf course built with public funds. >> new york taxpayers spent $127 million that could have gone to public schools or public housing. but it went to a trump golf course, which benefits the fewest possible new yorkers per square foot of any building project in the history of new york. and it financially benefits donald trump. >> tonight, we re

donald trump and the trump organization. and all of the rest of those payoff checks to michael cohen come from that donald trump checking account with only one signature on those checks, only the signature of donald trump. was allen weissleberg no longer willing to sign those checks? why did allen weissleberg stop signing those reimbursement checks to michael cohen after robert mueller was appointed special prosecutor? surely someone in the house intelligence committee today behind closed doors asked michael cohen that question. here's what michael cohen had to say after that closed-door hearing today. >> the hearings went very, very well. i believe that all of the members were satisfied with the statements and the responses that i gave to them. i told them that any additional information that they would want, they should feel comfortable to reach out to my counsel and i would continue to cooperate to the fullest extent of my capabilities. >> joining us now, friend of michael cohen, donny deutsch, msnbc contributor. he texte

he knows more about donald trump's financial affairs than donald trump. which means he's got the same kind of criminal exposure that donald trump has. he's team trump. he's not cooperating. he's part of the don't be a snitch movement with roger stone. he's not telling on trump. he has immunity from the southern district, a limited immunity about the hush money payments. other than that, he's going down with trump. he'll take the fifth, just to be clear, almost certainly when asked to testify before congress. >> say he takes the fifth. seema, does the sdny need it? michael cohen came with receipts when he testified before the oversight committee. he had two checks, the one at the top with the giant magic marker signature signed in the oval office. this was reimbursements for the $130,000 hush money payment to stormy daniels signed by donald trump. the other signed by don junior and alan wiseleburg. can the southern district of new york indict trump on the campaign finance violations putting aside everything else we know they are investigating? >> the only

in 1982 donald trump -- donald trump is not a palm beach kind of guy. this is a kind of staid, kind of traditional place. even more so in 1982 when donald trump came down here the first time. he stays at the breakers hotel. he's a miami beach kind of guy. he went there all when he was growing up. he stayed at the breakers, it's raining, so he gets a limo, has a limo drive him around the town, and he says what's for sale? and the driver says or, well, mar-a-lago's for sale. now, if donald trump was part of the eastern establishment, he would know what mar-a-lago was. it was built in the '20 by marjorie meriwether post. 85,000 square feet on 17 acres. for the years she was building it, she cornered the market on gold gild. of trump goes in and sees it, and he thinks it's just fantastic. he loves it, and he decides he has to have it. he's in his mid 30s. he doesn't have the money for a place like this, but he wants it. mrs. post, in her last years,ed had given the estate to the american government for a winter white house. that's the way she wanted it woul

trump today i think we may end up with donald trump being greater legal peril greater legal jeopardy his family in legal jeopardy as we get closer to the election so you may end up getting more g.o.p. primary opponents to hop in the race at that point but what we got it we got to see the road goes do you agree with nancy pelosi who would be worth it to impeach i think nancy pelosi and you know she and i have not agreed a lot over the years but she's right on this one nancy pelosi has correctly determined that if you impeach donald trump in the house and you don't convict him in the senate all you've done is make him stronger all you've done is inoculate him and give him the ability to shake off future investigations and future of things that that try to hold him to account whether it's on the congressional side on the special counsel side or on another impeachment charge on other matters. who would have been to the republican moderates well larry most of them quit or lost their races in the last year. in the house the most of those guys the forty races that were that were forty seats

>> no, it's absolutely donald trump. i remember when he flipped, somebody said, well, he used to carry the president's phone, so he knows exactly what the president was doing during this whole time period. there are still roles in court documents that we've seen rolled out that we don't know who played that role. for example, who is the one that was directed to get roger stone to go reach out to wikileaks to find out what they were publishing? stone himself said that was probably rick gates. so that ties stone right next to trump and that witness, that person, would know who ordered him to tell stone to go reach out to wikileaks. that's just one example. but there are going to be tons for gates. >> very lastly, carol, inwonder if there's a sense that you have that, even if some of these guys are helping out and cooperating, they still did a lot of bad stuff. is it just a layman's misunderstanding to say that it seems like most of the people who have been sentenced so far have gotten pretty light sentences. >> well, that'

trump and say what's wrong with donald trump and say, oh, he's great, no, the media's just after donald trump. you just look at their children and you look at the example being given to their children and you wonder how is a generation going to grow up. we're already talked about the impact that bill clinton had in '98 and '99 on middle schools across the country. you and i saw that personally. and very concerned about the impact that parents who sit by and continue to raise up a man who lies every day, who besmirches people's character every day, who basically does the opposite of every single thing jesus talked about and look them up in matthethews if want to rk, that they are sendi their kids out in trump costumes for halloween. mike, let's stay a little more narrowly focused on john mccain. again, we don't have to talk about john mccain's extraordinary legacy. it speaks for itself. but there is no doubt that donald trump is tortured so much so that a man who has now been dead for six months has his grades in college april tacktta man who i guess did so horribly in college and was su

the question is, what did donald trump know and what did he know when. and maybe a whole lot of nothing here. but the democrats are going to insist that, look, we need every bit of information put out into the public doug domain or that e have access to so we can determine whether donald trump or -- here's the big one, needs to be looked at for impeachment, something that the democrats have been resistant at the leadership level for because they don't want to go forward with that particular process but if there was evidence to indicate that donald trump in some way or some fashion either colluded with russians or knew information about other people trying to work with the russians that would be a problem and everyone pretty much agrees at this point that the russians did some really bad things in the 2016 election, that's not in question. the question is at least what we're talking about is did donald trump noe anythin know at that. eric: there's information in the report that goes to the intelligence committee, adam schiff. >> the political implications

trump, sr., donald trump, jr., and alan weisselberg. the only person explicitly named in the indictment is michael cohen. it's clear who the others are. michael cohen brought receipts including a check with donald trump, jr.'s name on it. so donald trump, jr., is far out of the woods. the other instances with regard to donald trump, jr.'s testimony before the house intelligence committee. joy, i think there is compelling evidence according to the democrats who heard his testimony that he lied. i was a prosecutor, a public corruption prosecutor for the department of justice. i could get a jury to -- if donald trump, jr., said the conversations about trump tower moscow ended in january 2016, that's a lie. if donald trump, jr., said the meeting with the russian lawyer was about adoptions, that's a lie. i don't know why mueller didn't bring that charge. joy, if you deputized me to go back to the department of justice, i could prosecute and win that case. >> wow. strong words. tim o'brien, we know certain facts are on the table. the trump to

donald trump. i'm really actually hoping and i hope you understand my point here, i'm hoping we don't actually get a tape of donald trump using the "n" word because what you're going to see, you're going to see conservatives and republicans begin to rally around and justify it. >> yeah. >> move the window once again of acceptable behavior. i think that that would be a cultural and political disaster. >> i think you are correct about the results of what would happen. i think you're 100% spot on and that is unfortunate. eli mystal, thank you, charlie, sta tara will be back later. >> michael cohen said members of congress are playing the heavy for trump out of blind loyalty like he did. one florida congressman decided to do a demonstration of that thing and we will talk about that next. bout that next. >>> i want to say, publicly what i've said privately to michael cohen and his family i'm sorry if it is entirely appropriate to test the truthfulness of a witness but that could have been done in a way

donald presence on donald trump jr was promised damaging information about the hillary clinton allegation to see ongoing investigation sit down to see the trump campaign with russia did you at any time of the urge the former f.b.i. director james comey in any way shape or form to close sort of batten down the investigation into michael flynn and also as you will know. next question bottle field washington on al jazeera. the latest news as it breaks i was after the explosions to the point to say the city is safe and the civilians were not targeted. with detailed coverage despite the high cost young men are still volunteering to fight this partly out of a sense of touch you'll see. from around the world it must see it different now that is a view that speaks supported by many many people here in the past to report the. it does look more and more like bangladesh is becoming a one party state give me one good reason why the opposition should have been able to do far isn't the problem the human rights watch describes how opposition members have been arrested children even disappeared maybe hou

when the plo reviews president donald trump shut their office that refused president donald trump shut their office down. today thanks to so many of you is the law of the land. when president trump promised to cut off funding to anti- israel agencies at the united nations he meant it. and last year the united states ended all u.s. contributions to --. beyond all that they president promised to stand up to the world's leading state sponsor of terror and he withdrew the united states of america from the disastrous nuclear deal with iran. there will be no more -- attacks in iran. last year they president did what no other american president before him had the courage to do, when he moved the american embassy to jerusalem the capital of the state of israel. as though all of this wasn't enough his prime minister benjamin that yahoo said last week he did it again. for 20 years after israel's in syria -- with his this massive artillery held israel hostage. this region changed hands only after israel won a war forced upon it. years later when enemies attack israel on the holiest day of the jew

why are they lending to donald trump? >> one theory, and we may find out through this investigation, was that deutsch bank wasn't really the lender. they laid this off to dtb. that's the russian spy bank or one of the other state banks. it's not uncommon for banks to simulate big loans and spread the risk among several banks. but it's long been subpoenaed that deutsch bank made these loans because it was really the russians who were at risk. is that something, david enrich, you think the attorney general would be able to penetrate? >> i think they're certainly interested in trying. i have to say, though, i spent more than a year now digging into the relationship between deutsch bank and donald trump for a book that i'm writing on the subject that comes out early next year. and i have not seen any evidence -- i've talked to basically every person at deutsch bank, past and present, who was involved in any way with the trump relationship over the past two decades, and every single one of them has told me basically the same t

loser to donald trump. he will not be hired by donald trump and nobody. >> the wildest thing about this is that the memory hole that we will ultimately enter into, i saw people being like george w. bush does not exist at cpap. a republican president against abortion. eight years. why? because he ended disgracing and extremely unpopular and a bad president, historical record shows that clearly and george bush is gone. there was a time of people running around ready to carve his face in mount rushmore. >> they will say he was the greatest person taken out by the liberals and terrible people out there but remember this, it's the fact that the president even though he's not loyal to you and won't protect you, the shamelessness that he is presenting helped other people. jim jordan, given his scandals of some of the people on the committee, they are able to say this because i'm under president trump. >> jordan was a wrestling coach at ohio state university where there was a doctor who repeatedly and routinely and

donald trump is not well. and as long as he's president, our nation is not safe." >> well, look, i don't know how unwell he is, but it is clear from his behavior as phil said over the past three years, not just with john mccain, he cannot seem to let anything go when the slight seems to be to him. he takes this personally. this isn't a fight over what he saw john mccain as doing as bad for the country or improper policy. he went against him. he voted against him on that health care bill. he went against him when he, you know, had deemed to reveal the steele dossier. he went against him -- >> the fbi already had. >> which the fbi already had. and also, it also, donald trump reveals his insecurities in the things that he gets upset about. for example, military service. we see how he touts the military. he wants to have a parade, you know, in the style of kim jong-un and other authoritative nations, but he, himself, knows that he did not serve. in fact, he got five deferments and put him against a war hero, that

he's reported on donald trump for decades. he was sued by donald trump and he won. you got the information about the stuff that was released related to michael cohen's arrest records. the warrant that led to the arrest. what stands out to you? >> what stands out to me is the length of the search warrant, the amount of detail in the search warrant and the amount of evidence in the search warrant. so i have reviewed, written, reviewed hundreds of search warrants during my time as a prosecutor. they are sometimes very detailed. they sometimes rbt. i will tell you this is one of the most thorough detailed ones i have ever seen and that's saying a lot. it tells us really by the time they got these search warrants to go in and do the -- execute the search warrants on michael cohen's premises. they already had so much evidence about various crimes he had committed, including the campaign contribution scheme. the illegal campaign contribution scheme. we know that, because that's 18 pages worth out of the affidavit. there's a lot of attachments and whatever, it's really 18 s

i think what donald trump is trying. to do are those is not are not not queer the pitch any further not not skew things and make the environment that much harder even for the negative at the end of the day when i think a couple of weeks we will hear back from the north korean side as to how they would like to proceed further we must remember that in april of twenty eighteen it was at the third plenum that the north korean the third plenum of the workers' party that kim jong un said you know what i am now going to move a very from dual military economic focus to a purely economic forecasts and who knows in this next month sometime in mid april he might come back and say you know what i might have a dual focus and also do in terms of building my military as well as my economy which can which can be a real certain back for the for the for the denuclearization related talks so at this point of time the ball really resides on the north korean side on how they will respond after hanoi and i think donald trump is going a little

donald trump's life experience is crime pays. he is -- he owns the only casino in which there is a known case of cheating customers in atlantic city was at trump's castle. we need to recognize we have a man in the white house who is a third-generation the white collar crime family. i also think firmly that we nend to understand d his relationship and his attitude and treatment regarding the kremlin, which is a hostile foreign power that was attacking our elections muellll. mueller's r rort says t they wee attacking our election. thatd trump encouraged attack. that should disturb us deeply. amy: glenn greenwald, , before e get a break and then come back, respond to what david cay and fromand also this alert year,r,om july of last they p put out an alert s statig "action alert. it is been over a year since msnbc has mentioned u.s. war in yemen." the tragedy ofs everything that just happen. david and i have known each other for many years and have respect for each other's work. i will be presumptive enough to say i have respect for

trump and donald trump jr. are under investigation. the only reason that this has been redacted is because of an ongoing investigation. the two people that we know that the u.s. attorneys office is looking at is donald trump and his son. so, this does not auger well for either of them. >> you are going to say, and i'll have beret respond. you have enough evidence there, to be sure -- not that you want donald trump jr. under investigation in sdny, not that you think it's warranted but you say that proves it's already happening? >> i think it's happening. those are the two people that are potential subjects of this investigation that are so obvious. i mean, when you look at what the evidence is, now there are two witnesses that could testify against donald trump and donald trump jr. it's michael cohen and it's the fellow from the enquirer. and then you've got documents that back it up, checks that were signed. you've got a tape that corroborates him. and even better donald trump's kind of shifting statements on w

they don't talk about donald trump. it's like i don't want this person to be president, i don't want that person to be president. those people don't understand me, they're from another world. it's this disconnect that somehow this manhattan billionaire, supposed billionaire, has figured out how to connect on with people in middle america and democrats still aren't. >> joe, i don't disagree with that assessment. i think it's fairly accurate. nor do i disagree with michael claiming and legitimately so that the state of the economy has a lot to do with those numbers that we just read. there was a blizzard of numbers there. i think, though, there's a little something larger going on and i think what it is is those numbers that we just read at this stage of his president after the two hour and 20-minute speech on saturday, they prove i think that donald trump's sustained assault on the nature of the presidency, on our democracy, on common sense, on truth, a stand daily assault has had a huge impact on the average american vo

donald trump, that that's getting out there? >> well, this is not clearly just a matter of optics at this point, this is possibly a serious political problem for donald trump because now that the house democrats are emboldened to investigate these relationships and the idea that perhaps, as jane mayer reported, that donald trump ordered the justice department to do a business favor for rupert murdoch by blocking the at&t/time warner merger, a business rival of the murdoch media empire, that is something they will dig into. also, we should point out that there was a southern district investigation of fox news of how roger ailes possibly used company money to cover up the sexual harassment claims after donald trump fired preet bharara, the then federal prosecutor, that investigation just slowly went away. house democrats judiciary committee could presumably do an investigation to find out what happened. why did the sdny drop its investigation of fox news? >> it's not that president trump is worried about the perception he's tied i

perjury against donald trump jr.? >> i haven't seen all the evidence. as a former prosecutor, i don't like to second guess decisions. i don't know enough about what his intent was, about comparing the facts with the particular words he gave when he was testifying. but i do think based on his testimony and other things, i do think donald trump is in jeopardy. we're all in jeopardy because if something would befall donald trump jr., i don't know what his father is capable of. >> you have investigations in the house and senate, the southern district of north carolina, you have paul manafort in d.c. and virginia. it's a lot to sift through. people who have lives and kids and jobs, how should they be thinking about all these investigations? what is important right now and what may be important later? >> you're right. it's hard even for somebody like me who used to run the sdny, which i right a lot about in the book, to figure it all out. i think one thing people need to keep in mind is to be a little patient. every time th

trump today i think we may end up with donald trump being greater legal peril greater legal jeopardy his family in legal jeopardy as we get closer to the election so you may end up getting more g.o.p. primary opponents to hop in the race at that point but what we got it we got to see the road goes do you agree with nancy pelosi who would be worth it to impeach. i think nancy pelosi and you know she and i have not agreed a lot over the years but she's right on this one nancy pelosi is correctly that determined that if you impeach donald trump in the house and you don't convict him in the senate all you've done is make him stronger all you've done is inoculate him and give him the ability to shake off future investigations and future things that that try to hold him to account whether it's on the congressional side on the special counsel side or on another impeachment charge on other matters who would have been to the republican moderates well larry most of them quit or lost their races in the last year. in the house the most of those guys the forty races that were that were forty seat

donald trump's life experience is crime pays. he is -- he owns the only casino in which there is a known case of cheating customers in atlantic city was at trump's castle. we need to recognize we have a man in the white house who is a third-generation the white collar crime family. i also think firmly that we nend to understand d his relationship and his attitude and treatment regarding the kremlin, which is a hostile foreign power that was attacking our elections muellll. mueller's report says they were attacking our election. thatd trump encouraged attack. that should disturb us deeply. amy: glenn greenwald, , before e get a break and then come back, respond to what david cay and fromand also this alert year,r,om july of last they p put out an alert s statig "action alert. it is been over a year since msnbc has mentioned u.s. war in yemen." the tragedy ofs everything that just happen. david and i have known each other for many years and have respect for each other's work. i will be presumptive enough to say i have respect for h

. >> donald trump jr. says in the 2008 conference quote, "russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets." we see a lot of money pouring in from russia. >> in 2014, >> eric trump told james dodson the same thing. >> eric trump suggested to a well regarded call that those funding came from russia. >> eric trump told the new york post that he was misquoted, stating the allegations was quote, "complete garbage." the public record is clear on one point. donald trump had been to russia more than once. he first went to 1987 when it is still the soviet union, he returned in 1996. his connection with russia grew deeply when a russian oligarch helped him stage the pageant in russia. he took the tint opportunity in moscow to praise the leader. and other russian businessmen. >> we met aguilar in moscow and he came up to us and received a warm welcome. >> rob gold stone is a publicist who works for aguilar. pop star son. >> mr. trump says he believes that the russians had a strong lead

>> it is proof that michael cohen has papers on donald trump. it is necessary corroboration because as we all know, michael cohen is a witness with a lot of baggage. so he brought a receipt in the form of a $70,000 check which is documentary evidence that donald trump senior is in a criminal conspiracy with don jr., allen weisselberg, and michael cohen to violate federal election law. >> you mention election law, that's what's so important. so many things happened, people may forget. the payment is already a confessed crime in federal court which michael cohen confessed to, part of why he is going to jail. when you look widely at what the country thought of, i thought this was notable. court of public opinion, not juries, but way more people in this environment believe in cohen than trump. what do you think of that, paul? >> so two things. one, not only is it a confessed crime already, it's a crime that the southern district of new york has stated on paper that president trump committed. and cohen sentencing memo, sdny said he acted at the direc

trump today i think we may end up with donald trump being greater legal peril greater legal jeopardy his family in legal jeopardy as we get closer to the election so you may end up getting more g.o.p. primary opponents to hop in the race at that point but what we got it we got to see the road goes do you agree with nancy pelosi those do you agree with nancy pelosi there would be words that to impeach. i think nancy pelosi and you know she and i have not agreed a lot over the years but she's right on this one nancy pelosi has correctly determined that if you impeach donald trump in the house and you don't convict him in the senate all you've done is make him stronger all you've done is inoculate him and give him the ability to shake off future investigations and future are things that that try to hold him to account whether it's on the congressional side on the special counsel side or on another impeachment charge on other matters who would have been to the republican moderates. well larry most of them quit or lost their races in the last year. in the house the most of those guys the

donald trump. let's relax about the 1.2 million people in the military. they're not going to suddenly start rolling tanks down pennsylvania avenue because of an election result. they are professional, they are dutif dutiful, they are not going to make war on americans or each other for donald trump. remember, even if the majority of the military support trump, that leaves hundreds of thousands of military personnel that don't support donald trump. it feels ridiculous to even have to say any of this outloud. donald trump has pushed the country to this place. to this level of suspicion about what he wants. and i'm sure donald trump would like to have the police and the military, and bikers for trump take up arms if he loses an election. but they won't. they won't because they are better people than donald trump wants them to be, they are not violent criminals, ready to commit treason and murder. for donald trump. there are not millions of people in america ready to grab their guns and go to war again

loser to donald trump. he will not be hired by donald trump and nobody. >> the wildest thing about this is that the memory hole that we will ultimately enter into, i saw people being like george w. bush does not exist at cps prap. a republican president against abortion. eight years. why? because he ended disgracing and extremely unpopular and a bad president, historical record shows that clearly and george bush is gone. there was a time of people running around ready to carve his face in mount rushmore. >> they will say he was the greatest person taken out by the liberals and terrible people out there but remember this, it's the fact that the president even though he's not loyal to you and won't protect you, the shamelessness that he is presenting helped other people. jim jordan, given his scandals of some of the people on the committee, they are able to say this because i'm under president trump. >> jordan was a wrestling coach at ohio state university where there was a doctor who repeatedly and routinely

if your father talking to donald trump jr donald trump is elected president can you repeal the magnitsky act and could you indict bill browder and. she wasn't there just as a private citizen she was there effectively on behalf of lattimer putin in the russian government and it's remarkable from him from almost every different standpoint that that the russian government would send an emissary to talk about me in the magnitsky act is remarkable that donald trump jr. his son his son in law and his campaign manager would meet with this russian to talk so is it possible do you think in the end that if collusion is proven that it may turn out that bill browder in the magnitsky magnitsky act with powerful motivators well we know for sure that the russians were there because of the me in the magnitsky act and we know for sure that they supported donald trump because they thought he would be more favorable about these issues than hillary clinton and we know for sure that they were willing to do things in order to make that happen what we don't know is whether the donald with whether donald trump

why is donald trump talking about this right now today? and i want to be clear, we were just talking to chuck about what's true and what's not, it is true that donald trump asked bob mueller to come on down to the white house in those hectic days right after he'd fired james comey and that mueller reportedly showed little-to-no interest in that job. and then that same week, rod rosenstein was urgently searching with someone to be the special counsel to investigate collusion in the wake of this firing and rod landed on bob. and that was a full 22 months ago. and mueller and trump haven't faced each other since. the closest mueller has come in person to donald trump was probably this now-famous chance overlap between mueller and the president's son at the ronald reagan washington national airport. that's don junior in the hat. now, why does the president have his last face-to-face meeting with bob mueller on his mind today? and will bob mueller end his probe without any further indictments? and why is the president emphasizing someone else,

donald trump, that that's getting out there? >> well, this is not clearly just a matter of optics at this point, this is possibly a serious political problem for donald trump because now that the house democrats are emboldened to investigate these relationships and the idea that perhaps, as jane maier reported, that donald trump ordered the justice department to do a business favor for rupert murdoch by blocking the at&t/time warner merger, a business rival of the murdoch media empire, that is something they will dig into. also, we should point out that there was a southern district investigation of the fox news of how roger ailes possibly used company money to cover up the sexual harassment claims after donald trump fired preet bharara, that investigation slowly went away. house democrats judiciary committee could presumably do an investigation to find out what happened. why did the sdny drop its investigation of fox news? >> it's not that president trump is worried about he's tied in. >> serious corruption issues that they cou

i don't care if you support donald trump or don't support donald trump. i don't care if you like john mccain or couldn't stand john mccain. he is attacking a dead national hero and that is plain disgusting. >> well, if i can, look, john mccain -- >> don't justify it -- >> i'm not justifying it. i regret and would not necessarily be my style that somehow this gets to be about some of the other events that as you correctly say you could have disagreements about. i think a lot of republicans, not just president trump were disappointed in the obamacare vote and the dossier thing is a very sensitive issue with president trump and we'll see how this evolves. i do regret and i do agree with you and i'm not going to justify this here because i loved him very much, senator mccain, that we should talk about the events but not the individual. and i do agree about his service. i do agree with senator lindsey graham's tweet that nothing can be done to diminish or stain his service to this country. >> although it was interesting. >> neither you or lindsey have gone the

donald trump refers to him as justin from canada. just an act hurt when called out, donald trump said in us that of her tariffs, very dishonest and weak, another tweet about the prime minister. that was in june when a photo the president sitting as world leaders look around the world as donald trump left the g7 summit in canada. since then scandals heated up over a worldwide construction contractor that allegedly bribed officials in libya. a conviction in canada, a 10 year ban on bidding for federal contracts. justice minister jody wilson testified trudeau encouraged her to, quote, find a solution saying if there was no plea deal there will be many jobs lost and lava lynn would move its records from montrÉal. she left the justice ministry and resigned the cabinet laying bare the division in trudeau's government. >> there were many inappropriate conversations and attempts at political interference. >> reporter: trudeau says he wanted to save jobs in quÉbec. they employ 3400 people, but claims he didn't interfere in the judicial proc

president trump, donald trump, behaves as though the u.s. government is his own company and so he acts as though this is a family business. sometimes it's hard to determine where the criminality or the allegations of money laundering and everything, whether it occurred before, during, or during his presidency, so we really need to follow the threads. you don't go far wrong when you determine that what president trump does is motivated by a desire to protect himself and for money. so if you keep those two things in mind, you can get to a lot of the motivations of everything that trump does. >> and what do you make of the fact that the senate intelligence committee chairman who was an ally of donald trump during the campaign has come forward and said that he determined much like devin nunes in the house that there was no evidence of crime or collusion? >> i think that was a very premature position it take especially as we now see that house committee under the democratic leadership are going over so many aspects of the trump organization that

>> ari, i spent some time in donald trump's office talking to donald and other people. it reminded me of nothing as much as a form of upscale bad-da-bing. it was the president sitting behind a desk. nobody was wandering around because there's paintings and other things sitting on the seats. no one was sitting down. but only one person who mattered, that was donald trump. the main thing is the american people and the investigators are going to have to decide whether donald trump, his family and his inner circle, all of whom were described there by michael cohen, together constitute an ongoing criminal conspiracy that might have made itself either vulnerable or willing to conspire with the russians, but even if it didn't do that, is this ongoing, tax-evading, hush money paying give one thing, which is money for the family. it could be foreign policy or it could be money that left him open to blackmail. that's the big question and that's what connects all the different investigations in new york and washington. is this a potential giant rico case? >> as a reporter and form

total exoneration, complete vindication, those were donald trump's words. fbi official to push the collusion theory and authorize the warrant could have big problems. we are live for michigan with the highlights. the democrat at the helm of the house intelligence committee is not backing down because of investigating the president while calls for ships's resignation are growing tonight. we have team coverage tonight. kristin fisher reporting on the total tonight at a rally with the president firing up debates. we will take you live to michigan with kevin cork where the president wrapped up a while ago. >> good to be with you. the president came out swinging to use a boxing analogy. he threw a few punches and the media, took a few left hooks at the democrats and in particular he came out swinging against what he likes to call the deep state, the president holds the mall responsible for this so-called russian hoax. >> the russia witchhunt was a plan by those who lost the election to try and illegally regain power by framing innocent americans, many of them su

>> it's absolutely donald trump. i remember when he flipped, somebody said he used to carry the president's phone. so he knows exactly what the president was daing during this whole time period. there are still rolls in court documents that we don't know who played that role. for example who is the one directed to get roger stone to reach out to wikileaks? stone himself said that was probably rick gates. so that ties stone right next to trump and that witness would know who ordered him to tell stone to go reach out to wikileaks. that's one example but there are going to be tons for gates. >> and lastly i wonder if there's a sense you have that even if some of these guys are helping and cooperating, they still did a lot of bad stuff. it seems most of the people have gotten pretty light sentences. >> that's not a misunderstanding. but the ones that have very, very helpful inside knowledge, they're going to get a lot of credit for full forthcoming cooperation as opposed to limited cooperation that we've seen with some o

president donald trump welcomes his brazilian counterpart. to the white house the two telling their mutual admiration with trump promising to support brazil's efforts to formalize ties with nato also coming up living with the scars of an acid attack she was fifteen when it happened to her now she's on a mission to help other survivors by lobbying the indian government to completely ban the sale of desk. i bring golf it's good to have you with us they are considered two of a two leaders of the americas and two leaders both with polarizing personalities u.s. president has welcomed his brazilian counterpart joe you're both sonando to the white house today telling the far right leader who's been dubbed the trump of the tropics that he is looking at nato membership for brazil also he said that they plan to discuss improving trade relations and cooperation on resolving the crisis in venezuela. argemone this i'm joined now by our correspondent in washington over what did he do to you. we knew there was going to be somewhat of a leader's love fest ye