they love steven miller. he's a symbol to them of what the president is trying to signal with this rhetoric. >> purifying the nation, race. is that from a strategy standpoint, matt, what the republican party thinks is the right approach for the 2020 election? one would guess that the party of reagan would say, why don't you go with economic prowess? >> certainly the economy needs to be part of the big message and if it's not republicans are in trouble. >> that's not the president's big message. >> stepping back i think actually helps both the squad and the president in a way because president trump has elevated the squad and now they're the face of the democratic party. that's good for them. i think they enjoy that. >> right. but those are four freshmen congresswomen in office less than a year. whether it is good for them personally doesn't mean it is good for the democratic party. i'm asking you a question about republicans and the president is clearly making race the central strategy for his 2020 re-electio

steven miller arguing on fox news sunday as well that the president's attacks at their heart are not racist because he's really just criticizing the ideology of these four democratic house freshman known as the squad. take a listen to the lines of defense from the president's top aides. >> you have a chance to say right now don't do it again. is that your message? >> major. the president was very clear. >> was he? >> that he wasn't happy about it and if it happened again he might -- he'd make an effort to speak out about it. >> all the people in that audience and millions of patriotic americans across this country are tired of being beat up, condescended to, looked down, talked down to by members of congress on the left. >> reporter: steven miller in that same interview argued that democrats throw around the word rayest too much to try and silence their critics. sources tell cnn that president trump faced pressure from aides and allies and lawmakers to distance himself from those racist chants amid a growing backlash among democrats, and as many republicans also found it difficult to

. >> the face of a lot of these policies is steven miller. there's trash talking of the country, they still came back with this message. here's steven miller. >> there's a gigantic, enormous distinction between donald trump saying i'm going to get on the world stage and put america first at every single thing we do versus a view that says americans should never come first which is their view and that's what we're going to take to the ballot box. >> are they doing it respectfully. they have to respond and be forceful that that's not true. criticism and protests and they're trying to defend them. democrats have to be forceful because if not, these arguments kind of creep out there and they become part of the public. >> but don't they also have to show who the party is led by if, in fact, it's not these four women? they're into the doing that. >> they could either do that or they could make an argument we are a coalition. they could stand by everyone in the coalition and they could try to rebut this argument rather than distancing themselves fro

steven miller is willing to go out and push that message. there is a sense that the white house, the campaign and president's orbit and republicans understand that they are not going to win an argument on racism. that is not a winning argument. you have to keep in mind there are senators and house members and in trickier districts that don't have the ability to be teflon like the president who want that to go away. if they can reframe it in the culture wedge issues like kneeling for the national anthem. that is the area where they take the president's tweet from and move back because that is more successful. >> let me reiterate. there are no racial tensions. ashley and eugene, good to see you. from the washington post. >>> up next, a new twist in the nuclear game of chicken with iran and the united states. the latest claim from iran that has the lives of 17 of their citizens on the line. that's next. ♪ did you know you can save money by using dish soap to clean grease on more than dishes? try dawn ultra. dawn is for more than just dishes.

steven miller penned it and put it in the prompter. at those rallies, these things are choreographed. there are section leaders who start the chants so it was intentional and we know they did it so they would start the chants so co-test it. it didn't start spontaneously. he knew what they would be chanting. and then throwing his supporters under the bus. >> it was just insane. >> by the way, those were his words they were saying. >> let's just play my good friend kevin mccarthy as he was describing the minority speaker of the house what he saw at that event. there was really nothing happening there. >> it was a small group off to the side. he moved on to stop in the process. he wanted -- you want to dislike him so much you're going to accuse him of something he did not do? >> if they don't love it, tell them to leave it. >> the president did not name the individuals. >> alexandria ocasio-cortez. pressley. >> does anyone know what lugenpress is? that's the term hitler came up. it was call build a wall. there was another one, the same wa

miller, the president is fanning the flames of racism. >> we'll get to steven miller in a moment. congressional republican are so afraid of the backlash that they won't criticize president trump. the so-called squad doesn't have such reservations. we'll get to that next on "morning joe." is just a button. ♪ that a speaker is just a speaker. ♪ or - that the journey can't be the destination. most people haven't driven a lincoln. discover the lincoln approach to craftsmanship at the lincoln summer invitation. right now, get 0% apr on all 2019 lincoln vehicles plus no payments for up to 90 days. only at your lincoln dealer. so, every day, we put our latest technology and unrivaled network to work. the united states postal service makes more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country. carl, i appreciate the invite here. as my broker, what am i paying you to manage my money? it's racquetball time. (thumps) ugh! carl, does your firm offer a satisfaction guarantee? like schwab does. guarantee? (splash) carl, can you remind me what you've invested my money in? it's

steven miller is someone who seldomly steps in front of a camera to defend the president but who's very influential behind the scenes particularly when it comes to trump's immigration agenda. miller argued just because the president is criticizing congresswomen who are minorities that doesn't mean his criticism is inherently racist. miller also accused democrats of throwing around the word racist too much in order to silence critics. take a listen. >> why shouldn't someone see all of that as racist? >> i think the term racist, chris, has become a label that is too often deployed by the left dmz in this country simply to try to silence and punish and suppress people they disagree with, speech they don't want to hear. the reality is this president has been a president for all americans. all the people in that audience and millions of patriotic americans all across this country are tired of being beat up, condescended to, looked down upon, talked to by all members of congress on the left in washington, d.c. and allies in corners of the media. >> miller also highlighted the fact president t

steven miller. and it's chris wallace of fox news this weekend. watch. >> he didn't say the country was garbage. she said some of the policies she opposes are garbage. >> it's impossible to read the quote that way. the quote is there's a -- >> this idea of 10% better from garbage. shouldn't be what we settle about. it's the proposal. >> it's impossible to read the quote that way. >> no, he's wrong. it's literally the only way to read it. congresswoman ocasio-cortez was talking about policies. not people. steven miller. he just can't let go of the word garbage. >> we're starting at garbage. >> i understand that. she's talking about policy. >> she's saying the starting off point. >> is garbage a horrible word? >> she's saying america in her view is garbage. >> no, i want to put something up. a tweet from donald trump from 2014. he wrote, the united states under president obama has truly become the gang that couldn't shoot straight. everything he touches turns to garbage. that's donald trump. >> you he

miller wrote for the first time in his life social fist, bernie sanders practices economics and buddy the results are hilarious. one user too took twitter with the point of the raise are the minimum wage so that school people make more money, not make the same amount of money and just have three days off a week you -- >> all right well it is expected to cool off nearly 200 million people dangerous heat wave is coming finally to it an end that it heat wave blamed for at least six deaths extreme heat is lynxed to major power outages. one forcing evacuation and in a philadelphia retirement community. the other leaving more than 15,000 new yorkers in the dark. the extreme heat even leaving roads buckled in south dakota. >> janice dean live with your forecast good morning janice. >>good morning ladies yes good news on folks on horizon across the east coast you can see where we've got that cold front right 60s in minneapolis and des moines and chicago. wow that is on the way. but we're also going to see potential for showers thunderstorms even some severe storms flooding concerns as this co

la propuesta vino de los aliado de steven miller, el arquitecto del tema migratorio en la administraciÓn trump. la idea que concederÁ la administraciÓn es reducir a cero el nÚmero de refugiados para el prÓximo aÑo. esta abogada dice que el gobierno tiene derecho de reducir el nÚmero de refugiados, pero si lo deja en cero estarÍa violando tanto la ley de migraciÓn en estados unidos como las leyes federales. >> claro que sÍ, porque el gobierno de los estados unidos ha firmado un acuerdo de aceptar tanto refugiados como asilados. >> si una persona llega estados unidos y pide asilo, la ley nacional e internacional indican que debe procesarse esa peticiÓn. desde que estados unidos organizÓ su programa de refugiados tras la segunda guerra mundial, jamÁs ha reducido a cero la entrada de refugiados. el presidente trump ha dejado claro que quieren pedir la migraciÓn de indocumentados. acusÁndolos de usar los servicios destinados para los estadounidenses. y ya redujo el cupo de refugiados de 45,000 a 30,000 por aÑo. si lo deja en serio se espera que sea desafiado en corta de inmedia

the things he's doing, that steven miller is engineering inside that white house is shocking, that they want no immigration in american countries, they want no one seeking asylum. they're trying to cleanse the country of any newcoming brown people and push them out if they can. it's the new policies that are frightening. >> that's because contrary to what we heard a moment ago, this appeal is not empowering white americans. i don't know when white americans became disempowered, so that's an interesting phraseology. this is not about empowering white americans, this is about appealing to white american fears, as the member memorably shouted during barack obama's first term saying, i lose my country. i want my country back. where we had all the positions of power, we made all the decisions, we were the ones in charge, we were in control. i don't like the fact that these muslims, these gays, these african-americans, these people brown-skinned are suddenly more prominent and suddenly doing more in the public eye. i want my country back. this is not an appeal to empowerment, this is an appea

now i don't think mulvaney is the same as steven miller. i don't think he's one that delights in the miseries of others. he's in this larger group of the people in the white house who are in a position of saying ridiculous things and lying about it and just generally destroying their reputations. you have steven miller who delights in the evil of it and the rest of them just in a sense destroying their own reputation. >> i think you may be right. even let's say he does not delight in it? >> what's the difference? >> there is no difference. >> karine, it is being put in that position, accepting and doing is another. >> right. >> mick mulvaney seems to delight letting people take high interest loans. these rent states are essenti essentially -- only texas is aboveground in term of paying more in federal taxes. he comes frs a poor state and he has no problem of payday lender offering in his state. he seems to be delighted to getting paid. >> if mulvaney is having problems, he would leave. he would leave and walk out of the administration. i th

do what you had to say and respond to steven miller. the pressure is high. >> i already feel judged by tiffany. >> they're all expecting big things from you right now. >> first, i want to talk about richard spencer. it is not a sentence that would come out of my mouth. richard spencer is not an expert, he's just a racist. you can find any of those at an uber driver. we see this happen all the time. they're just people with bad haircuts. some of us have to do with editorial decision. i would not ask him anymore to defend the president than having him defend epstein. but i am not surprised what miller is saying what he's saying. his politics and policies have been very clear. every time he goes on the sunday's show, his job is to push back and attack the media. he's playing for r tthe audiencf one which is president trump. i am not surprised of anything he says. they believe this is a winning conversation strategically and imperative for them through immigration policies and housing policies and economic policies to make america a whiter

. >> you know steven miller pinned thatten a put it in the prompter we know that because he worked with him. but also what's important is to acknowledge at the rally these things are core graphed there are section leaders happening to start the chants. it was intentional we know they did it they could start the chants he could test it. that was no accident. it didn't start spontaneously. he knew what they were channing. to distance himself from it is throeing supporters unthe bus. >> it was insane. >> he is sort of. >> by the way, those were his words they were saying. barbara i want to get to you in a second let's play kevin mccarthy as he was describing the minority speaker of the house what he saw at that event. because trump there really was nothing happening according to mccarthy. >> it was a small group off to the side. >> he moved on to make them stop in the process. >> you want to dislike the president so much you are going to accuse him of doing something he didn't do. >> if you don't love it, tell them to leave it. >> the president did not name the individuals. >> i will haul

trump advisor steven miller leaving no doubt the attacks on the women are part of the president's re-election strategy. >> there's a gigantic, enormous distinction between donald trump saying i'm going to get on the american stage and make america great versus saying americans should never come first versus american citizens shouldn't. >> vice president candidates will speak. >> the president made it clear, that he wasn't happy about it, and that if it happened again he might -- he'd make an effort to speak out about it. >> he will make an effort? >> that's what he's already said. >> the president's strategy and those that defend it leaving black lawmakers fed up. >> this is a guy who is worse than a racist. he is actually using racist tropes and racial language being for political gain. he's trying to use this as a weapon to divide our nation against itself. if we were trying to enter an olympic sized pool near my house, i was beaten and all kinds of rocks and bottles thrown at me. the interesting sthing that i heard the same kind of chants. go home. you don't belong here. when the president

. >> but on fox news sunday, white house aide steven miller insisted the congresswoman was criticizing the country despite a direct comparison to what president trump said. >> she's talking about policy. she's not talking about the country and the people. is garbage a horrible word. >> she's saying america in her view right now is garbage. >> i want to put something up on that regard because i want to put up a tweet from donald trump from 2014. he wrote, the united states under president obama has truly become the gang that couldn't shoot straight. everything he touches turns to garbage. that isn't aoc, that's donald j. trump. >> you're continuing to conflate donald trump's criticisms of president obama versus aoc's deep and systemic criticisms of the country itself. >> so as the 2020 democrats race to collect delegates, nbc news, and survey monkey teamed up to look at how voters view the presidential race. in georgia, joe biden is ahead with 31% of the vote. kamala harris with 15%, pete buttigieg, andr yang. >>> in alabama, biden has 31%, harris with 13%, buttigieg gets 5%. other in t

steven miller went on fox news and said basically you're unamerican if you don't support trump's wall and trump's immigration policies. that means you want immigrants to come in and take your jobs and engage in all kinds of acts made. they're spinning in a way that makes your reporters amp up and even though mexico isn't technically paying for the wall, they're able to pay for it and that hasn't completely come to fruition yet, you're not talking about trump's base, he said -- trump said very clearly mexico is going to pay for the wall. instead, there's funds being diverted from the military to build a wall that is going against -- violating the environment, public communities, destroying wildlife and affecting people all across the border. so while there's going to be all kinds of lawsuits that i think will continue with the building of this wall, ultimately i don't think this is a big win for him in terms of gaining more people to support him. it's mostly an important decision to divert funds from the minimum tear ri to build the wall. >> the democrats believe you're right. the pres

heather: chris wallace pressing senior white house policy advisor steven miller on the controversy. >> would you want to have a color blind society, it means you criticize the immigration policy and not have it seen as racial. >> can you also say go back where you came from. >> the president was clear -- >> he let it go on for 13 seconds. he had nothing in his tweet -- >> as an american jew, i am prow foundly outraged by -- profoundly outraged by the comments by ocasio-cortez. those are the comments we need to focus on. heather: the president did disapprove of the chant, saying he was not happy about it. bernie sanders is paying his campaign staffers the same minimum wage he wants to give all americans, $15 an hour. but that pay raise comes with a huge catch. tracee carrasco from our sister network fox business is here with how he's now cutting hours. good morning, tracee. >> last week, the washington post reported that sanders feels staffers were upset that he's really been pushing the $15 minimum wage an hour all while his staffers are not making that much. sanders did say, though,

miller, studio audience, i'm greg but i love you america. ♪ [applause] jesse: welcome to "watters' world" i'm jesse watters. the beginning of the end is the subject of tonight words. political correctness and identity politics, to poisons that liberals uncorked on america. these tools are used as a weapon against the right. and as a shield for the left. you can't say that, it is offensive! is there way of controlling and silencing you. race, gender, sexuality and immigration status. they are deployed when they need to protect themselves from legitimate criticism. how dare you disaee

the fact that he has his vice president as well as steven miller does not make what he does any more acceptable to the majority of americans. >> adrian, i alluded to this a little bit while ago about mike pence's reaction to all of this. the president's top officials, though, undoubtedly are defending him. watch. >> the president thought it was important to stand up to them, and i'm glad he did. >> i fundamentally disagree with the view that if you criticize somebody and they are a different color of skin that is racism. >> we know it could be incredibly disruptive to our democracy, that's problematic. . >> we have talked about the silence from the republican party at large. these are the president's inner men and women, very close. what do you make of their reaction in terms of how they are tfpdefending all of this? >> they are doubling down. they know the best way to survive in the west wing, and this includes the vice president, is to essentially defend trump's agenda no matter how far and extreme it goes. they are doubling down. i want to make it clear on to all democrats running

miller who made this accusation. >> i think the term racist has become a label that is is too often deployed by left democrats in this country simply to try to punish and suppress people they disagree with, speech they don't want to hear. >> did anything help quell this storm? it's been going on for over a week now. >> i don't think it helped quell the storm at all. they tried to distract the story line chrks is four congresswomen love the country or not. but that's just his attempt and the administration's attempt to change the subject. what's going on and what we're now going to see for weeks and months to come at every rally president trump holds is whether send her back become the rallying cry that "lock her up" or "build a wall" became in 2016. and whether president trump, whose moral stand on this is dwoing to be on the line, ebb courages that, laughs, smiles, says no, come on. every rally now it's an introduced into the bloodstream by this president. this racist notion that people of color who don't agree with him should go back to a country their country is is actually the u

miller, who's his so-called immigration czar. >> but you have someone appointed by the president as well, the new acting chief of the department of homeland security, who says he's acting. talking about the facebook postings, that secret facebook page, he's directed an investigation and says anyone who's done wrong should be and will be held accountable. we learned that today. do you applaud him? >> yeah, no, absolutely. he's certainly saying the right thing when it comes to that. we need to see it followed up with action. we need to see -- of course, you probably saw that elijah cummings is going to conduct investigations. the acting secretary said he's going to conduct investigations. and not only did people need to be disciplined, people need to be fired. i can't tell you, kate, just the fact that knowing some of the people that were supposed to be our security for that day when we were at the press conference and all of the people that were in the maga hats out there, screaming obscenities at us, those were supposed to be our security personnel. those are the people that are sup

i want to listen to what white house advisor steven miller had to say on fox. >> i think the term racist has become a label too often deployed by the left, democrats in this country simply to try to silence and punish and suppress people they dis gree withx speech that they don't want to hear. >> what do you think? >> i think trump's defenders are twisting themselves into a pretzel to explain a way trump's tweets. es for i want to return to something that david jolly said earlier about the difference between what house republicans want to see. this is clearly detrimental to their ability to take back the house of representatives in 2020. we saw that specifically with kevin mccarthy and other members of the leadership team having an intervention earlier this week saying you have to talk to the president and distance himself, have him distance himself from the "send her back" chants at his rally. republicans know that will hurt them in an incredible way come 2020 in the house of representatives and do them harm in trying toing take back the house. >> you were a former member of the republi

miller and get this point in. this is a note over the president's racist attacks. watch this. >> the term racist, chris, has become a label that is too often deployed by the left democrats in this country simply to try to silence and punish and suppress people they disagree with, speech they don't want to hear. >> he says democrats are trying to silence the president by calling him a racist but today, the president escalated his attacks on the squad calling them racists. okay. he wants to keep this going and he's completely undermining everyone who went out on television to try to defend him but go on. >> well, he absolutely wants to keep this going. if you look at his actions over the course of the past week, it's very clear that this is calculate on the president's part, and it is intentional. he initially began this fight with this squad by saying that these four congresswomen of color should go back to where they came from, and there was no other interpretation of that, but then to believe that it was a time t

jillian: chris wallace pressed steven miller on the controversy. >> if you want to have a color blind society, it means you can criticize immigration policy and not have it be seen as racial. >> can you also say go back where you came from. >> the president was clear that he disagreed with it. >> he was clear after the fact. excuse me. he let it go on for 13 seconds and he said nothing in his tweet. >> as an american jew, i am profoundly outraged by the comments from ocasio-cortez. and those are the comments, chris, that we need to be focusing on. jillian: and when asked about it later, the president did disapprove of the chant, saying he was not happy about it. democrats speaking out ahead of special counsel robert mueller's testimony on the hill. house judiciary chairman jerry nadler insisting the russia report lays the ground work for impeachment proceedings against the president. >> the report presents very substantial evidence that the president is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. we have to let mueller present those facts to the american people and see where we go from th

show steven miller, studio audience, i'm greg but i love you america. ♪ [applause] jesse: welcome to "watters' world" i'm jesse watters. the beginning of the end is the subject of tonight words. political correctness and identity politics, to poisons that liberals uncorked on america. these tools are used as a weapon against the right. and as a shield for the left. you can't say that, it is offensive! is there way of controlling and silencing you. race, gender, sexuality and immigration status. they are deployed when they need to protect themselves from legitimate criticism. how dare you disagree with my policy!you are just threatened by me because i am a black lesbian immigrant.most normal americans are sick of the nonsense. we are used to and you have to be very careful to protect ourselves from being smeared all of the time. but now ladies and gentlemen, these cheap lousy taxes have begun to sweep into left-wing playing field and there getting a taste of how poisonous it can be. as the casualties are beginning to stack up. after aoc suggested nancy pelosi was racist, for singling

in these emails it shows that steven miller is particularly interested -- >> these are emails that you obtained. >> that we obtained. national security official telling a cbp official to get ready for this meeting bas miller will want know the number of asylum seekers pors passed by border agents because he wants that number to be lower and then he'll want to apply nor border agents do these interviews. >> the reason that the white house i thought had been given was that they wanted more manpower, essentially. >> right. they were overwhelmed, they needed more people. this lays bare those issues that it's to curve the amount of asylum numbers. >>> right now, much more of chris jansen picking it up in new york. hey, chris. >> i am in for craig medical sin here at msnbc headquarters here in new york. raging on as democrats prepare to take the stage tonight, president trump lashes out again leaning into his racially charged attacks. is. latest sign he's trying to bait democrats into his culture war? >>> and for democrats who want to be the one to take trump on next, well, tonight and tomor

miller on down are the ones who actually do want to implement this policy of zero, of receiving zero refugees and make no mistake about this, this is the next step in implementing the administration's frankly racist-based policies. he does have people around him, and he is agreeing with him that they do want to shut the border down. he has said no more people should be welcomed. they don't want anymore people, and especially if the people come from s-hole countries as he has said himself. and look, in terms of the refugee policy, this is important for the viewers to understand, that this is a mechanism that this country has had frankly from its founding that focuses on this country being a beacon of hope and liberty and the way that ronald reagan talked about it, and it is something that our military and our diplomatic core use to negotiate around the world to figure out what is the best way to move forward in terms of america's foreign policy, and they are the ones that the department of defense are the ones saying, no, this is stupid and this is not serving america's interests. >>

the nephew being white house senior adviser steven miller, architect of some of the president's most anti-immigrant policies like the muslim ban and family separation policy that results in babies being taken from parents. his uncle called him an immigration hypocrit whose policy ideas would have wiped out their own family. now stephen miller cooked up a new idea. politico reporting that mr. miller is leading a new effort to try to make it the trump administration's new policy to stop all refugees from being allowed in this country, not reduzing the number of refugees or making it harder. they are talking about ending the practice of people receiving refuge in america. that is stephen miller's big new idea for trying to end as much immigration, legal or otherwise that he can into this country. even if his own path to becoming an american started in a dirt floor shack in belarus and the man who fled terror and came to ellis island with eight dollars in his pocket which is how stephen miller got here. stephen miller's uncle joins us next. stay with us. uncle joins us next. stay with us

i think this is the long-arm of steven miller sitting back and watching this and saying, fine, this will dissuade tens of thousands of other migrants from coming north. if this is what we need to do, this is the price of that policy. they've been very clear about that in this administration from the get-go. >> simultaneously, victoria, you have this report that alleges 10,000 border patrol members were in a facebook group joking about -- this group joked about dying migrants and democrats in congress including ocasio-cortez. nbc news reached out to customs and border patrol. we have not independently seen this. they said they will investigate and hold people accountable for their actions. what does this tell you about this whole situation? >> i wish i could tell you that i was surprised by the comments we saw on the facebook posts but i'm not. i'm not because this idea of dehumanization michael brought up earlier is something we see from the very top. president trump has normalized dehumanizing people, demonizing people. these are human beings. they have souls, they have rights, but they

miller and the president are working on and let's make the whole 1952 immigration act new to conform with the standards of today, let's make everything better and we have an opportunity to do that, arthel. arthel: so what's it going to take, though, i mean, because the political gridlock is leaving, you know, remains porous at the border. >> the $2.5 billion and now more walls, frees up a lot more agents, we have sent down to the border volunteers from every federal agency to go help, so it frees up the border patrol agents to do enforcement action and arrest illegal aliens coming across the border, not only those seeking asylum but those who will come here and commit crime and hurt people, so what is it going to take? a little bit on either side, that's where the democracy is all about, give and take. >> i think people want -- >> i wish -- arthel: i'm sorry, you know what, i'm getting a wrap and i apologize but i'm with you on that, i want them to get together and make it happen, we need to fix it, we really do, thomas, i really appreciate your time today and we will be right back l

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in addition, steven miller and other trump campaign people were invited in june, in late may, early june. they get an invitation to a symposium that was held in cambridge in early july. now, at this, at this symposium you have characters like the british historian christopher andrew, you have people like the former head of mi-6, richard deerlove. this is some type of contract for hire spying outfit. what you have there is an american citizen, somebody who's long been involved in politics, and the guy's name is steven schragey. he knows that the house intelligence committee, the senate intelligence committee, the fbi, we want to talk to anyone and everyone who was dealing with carter page and other trump associates especially in early 2016. he is the one who invited carter page to this event. schragey is the one who organized this event. but instead of coming forward, a guy who's been involved in politics for this long doesn't come forward? i want to know did he know about the steele dossier at that time? when did he find out about the steele dossier? did he give it to anyone? those are t

>> there's a constant push around the president of people -- of course we know steven miller is the hardest voice within the left wing. he is the person in the president's ear saying you need to do more, you need to stick to your promises, what you said, and there's this constant push pull of what the president will go along with. again, could there be another fresh appeal by others in the administration to go along with this, there might be but i think it's hard to plan for this twice and not go ahead with it twice if you're a president looking at immigration in your calilous, and that's the cold reality. >> number one, there will be collateral deportations, you have learned which means people who aren't even targeted if they're undocumented and on the scene when these raids happen, they could be collected as well. and number two, you say there's some apprehension among officials who are involved in this about arresting kids, basically. >> correct. and again, i think it's no surprise there are people who are concerned what that would look like, what that would mean, the realities of doing

chris wallace will interview nadler ahead of the mueller hearings and steven miller on fox news on sunday. check your localing listings. make it a grade weekend -- great weekend. stay cool and drink a lot of water. that's it for the "special report." wednesday complete coverage of the mueller hearings with my friend and colleague martha maccallum who has the "story" right now. >> martha: looking forward to that. see you on wednesday everybody else stick around. a big show tonight. the president said we need to go to the moon and then to mars and it's not just about exploration. >> we are going to the moon, but then we are going to mars. and importantly and all of you folks know from a standpoint of defense, it's so important. we will be doing a space force. that's where it's at. >> martha: surrounded by apollo-11 astronauts. in a world of drones it's not hard to imagine there may be battles in space the kind we have

miller, a current trump adviser, were invited to attend a symposium at cambridge university in july 2016. your office, however, did not investigate who was responsible for inviting them to this symposium. they also failed to interview an american citizen who organized the event and invited carter page to it. is that correct? >> can you repeat the question? >> whether or not you interviewed steven schraege who orged the cambridge -- >> those areas i'm going to stay away from. >> the first trump associate to be investigated was general flynn. many allegations against him stem from false media reports that he had an affair with a cambridge academic, lokova, who was a russian spy. some of these allegations were made public in a 2017 article written by british historian christopher andrew. your report fails to reveal how or why andrew, and his collaborator, richard dearlove, head of mi-6 spread these allegations and you failed to interview svetlana lokova about these matters. is that correct? >> i'm not going to get into those matters to which you refe refer. >> you had a team of 19 lawy

miller. then you heard him at the end there sort of talking about whether or not -- he wanted to make sure robert mueller was aware that the dossier, in his mind, was paid for by the clinton campaign, and he wanted to sort of go through some of those characters, once simpson, natalia svletskia and make sure he was aware of them. it reminded me, bret, of your interview with jim comey, where he claimed to have not known who paid for the dossier either. >> it was interesting to see, obviously, bob mueller didn't answer those questions. he started the second hearing by correcting the record of the first hearing, clarifying earlier testimony with ted lieu saying he wanted to add this correction that his testimony. he said one thing wrong when asked by liu, who said, and i quote here, you didn't charge the president because of the olc, the office of legal counsel opinion. that is not the correct way to say it, said mueller. as we say in the report, i said at the opening, we did not reach a determin

we saw from steven miller. racial animus is shot through the story of donald trump. shot through the political career of donald trump. his dad was arrested at a klan rally when he was 21 years old. the trump was asked about that by "the new york times," and he said, i don't think that's fair to bring that up because there's no charges. the justice department sued him, the trump family, for racial discrimination. you have the muslim ban. you have the rapists. >> central park five. >> immigrants. the way he talks about crimes of ms-13. this is somebody who made -- charlottesville. he made very clear who he is, what his values are and we'll see that for the next year and a half. >> he is talking about criminalization. you see katie hopkins. when you're a white nationalist, white people is the focus. all of our politics are by, far and about, what white men think. that is over. it is the end of white politics. it's the end of this era where we go to one group of americans and say, what do you think? at its core, it's interesting that the white house would send out the wh

. >> let me get in more of steven miller. shall we? he was on "cbs this morning" and claimed that there are acceptable, and unacceptable ways to criticize the country. here's what he had to say. >> i've never called any of his tweets racist, but there is no question he is stoking racial divisions. >> chris. the core almost of the president's philosophy is north america first. saying that america needs to improve to get closer to an america first ideal as the president did as a candidate criticizing obama, criticizing our trade deal, our foreign policy deal, our immigration policies is out of a love for america. saying as representative alexandria ocasio-cortez did illegal immigrants are more american than americans is fundamentally not an american statement. >> apologize to chris wallace. and fox news. the president in the past has called america a laughing stock arc foolish country, a dumb country. we're not great. the country is all to -- i can go on and garbage. >> and we have been taken advantage of. >> so, what do you make of the

senior white house adviser steven miller echoed the president's message on sunday. >> these four congresswomen detest america as it exists, as it is currently constructed. they want to tear down the structure of our country. >> reporter: democratic congressman elijah cummings defended his colleagues and called the president a racist. he warned what that means for the nation. >> we're getting more and more people emboldened with racist, making racist statements and treating people badly. >> reporter: the controversy started when mr. trump tweeted the congresswomen should go back to their original countries. president trump's atarks on representative ilhan omar at a campaign rally prompted a chant of send her back, which went on for 13 seconds. [ chant ] >> send her back. send her back. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news vice president mike pence was one of the people who voiced concerns about the chanting leading the president to distance himself from it for about a day. pence spoke to cbs news chief washington correspondent major garrett. >> the president was very clear. >> was he? >> that he

steven miller gets in the way of any kind of a solution. they pushed this rock up the hill more than a couple of times. people thought they had the elements of a deal, and it rolls back over on them. and that's the problem, isn't it? >> i think that there's a problem of this on both sides, which is there are people who want a solution on both sides, and then people who want theosh both sides. i think that's a fair statement that there are people. but i think the truth is donald trump, if you listen to what he actually says as opposed to the character of what people think he says is he would be willing -- when he had that famous meeting where the whole thing was recorded in front of everybody and he was sitting next to dick durbin and said, why don't we do comprehensive. let's go big. and he was like, no, no, i don't want to go big. >> don't overdo it, because we all were -- we were all alive when that happened. and it, by the end of the day, it rolled back over on him. >> the reality is that democrats are dug in. they'll not give him this w

coming to his defense, steven miller considered the master mind of some of the most controversial and racially insensitive policies emerging from the trump administration. >> anybody who is running for office right left or center always puts where they think america needs to go and can do better, but there's a fundamental distinction between people who think that we need to lean into and strengthen america's core values, whether it be our constitutional values, the rule of law, the principles of western civilization or people think we need to turn america into venezuela. >> and part of the president's defense is attacking the four progressive congresswomen for controversial comments that other democrats have criticized. but adam schiff says there is no equivalence. >> yes, we have a big and diverse caucus and the political views of the caucus is reflective of the country as they are of our caucus, but that is not equivalent to the racist rhetoric coming out of the white house. i fully expect our members are going to be very aggressive out there. we have strong disagreements with this

grants him ultimate power, much like steven miller said in 2017. in february of 2017, that president has ultimate power and can do whatever he wants. what a marked contrast we have lined up today. >> that's right, joe. yesterday, as you just indicated, the president of the united states told these students, i have article ii. meaning him alone. today, the country has bob mueller. and one of the underrated aspects of today's testimony could be the fact that we live now in a country where people are sleepwalking through these things. there's been a new normal created by donald trump. and it's not normal at all. and one of the underlying factors that will be addressed hopefully at this hearing today is the fact that the united states of america was under attack from one of our sworn enemies, russia. ari, i'm wondering if you are looking toward anything -- we've been talking about obstruction all day long and the obstruction component of the report. but the russia report the part that deals with russia is truly something that might trigger, in bob muel

miller or acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney? did you have? we have conversations all the time about many of our policies. >> and did you consult with any national affordable housing organizations, tenant rights or immigration groups. >> we have conversations with such groups all the time. >> did you have conversations with the largest new york city public housing authority in the nation, new york? did you? >> i think what is important is what are we going to do about the program. that would make a lot more sense. >> reclaiming my time, you know, don't sit there, sir, and say about a national conversation. we need to have a national conversation about homelessness in our nation, about the disrepair of public housing in our nation. you know what it takes, it takes money. it takes the budget. you have created this crisis by the disinvestments that have taken place in public housing in our nation. >> we have a very substantial affordable housing crisis. and there are two ways to approach it. continue to throw money at it which has b

miller and page were invited at cambridge university in july. your office did not investigate he was responsible for inviting these trump associates to the synpo synposyum. >> can you repete tat the quest? >> whether or not you interviewed steven shragy? >> those are areas i am going to stay away from. >> first trump's associate to be investigated in was mr. flynn. he had an affair from a cambridge russian spy. some of these allegations were made public in the 2017 article written by british intelligence christopher andrews. your report failed to reveal how or why, mi 6 spreads these allegations. y y >> i can't get into those matters which you referred ch. you had a team of 19 lawyers and 40 agents and unlimited budget, correct, mr. mueller? >> i would not say we budget. >> the investigation was not opened based on the official product on intelligence but based on a rumor conveyed by alexander downer. your report describes him as a representative of foreign government. he's a long time -- he proo previously arranged to $25 million to the clinton