donald trump jr. took this meeting, of course we investigated that, george papadopoulos came back and told the campaign they had emails, of course we investigated that, the president of the united states is tweeting, it's giving hope or a boost to illegal activity. i love wikileaks, what else does wiki leaks have. of course we would look into that, knowing they're a hostile actor. this is where he's been the most passionate, we did this for a reason, we had every right to do it, because the republicans are trying to say, you shouldn't have been here to begin with. >> to go back to the clarification that director mueller made about why they did not indict president trump, that's something the democrats had gotten excited about, they thought that this was big news. >> for good reason, and we all noted at the lunch break, because the idea that there was proof of a crime committed by the president, and the only reason it was not prosecuted by robert mueller is because of the justice department decision yo

donald trump jr. said if it's what you say, i love it and let's meet. donald trump jr. showed up for the purpose of receiving disparaging information about hillary clinton. it's incredibly unpatriotic. >> as with so much with the trump campaign, you have questions about intent. was this an inept campaign leaning toward corruption. for many americans who read the report, the answers to that question are blurry. >> but the revelations found on pages 50 and 51 are clear. and couldn't be more alarm iing. russian hackers didn't just attempt to sway public opinion, in 2016 they tried to influence the results of local elections by penetrating voting systems. >> the gru also targeted private technology firms responsible for manufacturing and administering election-related software and hardware such as voter registration software and electronic polling stations. >> it take it is down to a local level and suggests a capability. it clearly would have been far more serious than anything else. >> beyond identifyin

trump is a racist. he once asked me if i could name a country run by a black person that wasn't a [ bleep ]. this was when barack obama was president of the united states. and while we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in chicago, he commented that only black people could live that way. and he told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid. >> why do you think he wants a political race war? >> i think that he really doesn't know any other way. you know, for many years we fought him from central park five where he tried to get the death penalty for five young black and brown men that were prawn innocent all the way to his own discrimination and people kept saying, well, give him the benefit of the doubt. you know i toured with newt gingrich and others that i've disagreed with, but it was never this kind of racial rancor back and forward. for his own lawyer, who set up meetings with me and trump, to say he was a racist and what he would say in private sho

for trump. thank you. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: that is a lot of signs. do you remember the last election, donald trump will never, ever get the women. we have a tremendous number of women. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: we have this tremendous number of women, and during the election night they said what is going on? you know what it is called, suppression. polls are just as fake as the news themselves. but women built 60%, and men will sue me for discrimination now. women fill 60% of all the new jobs created last year. women took 60%. what is wrong with you men? but the radical democrats are trying to destroy all of our country's tremendous achievement and our country's success. unprecedented. we have had unprecedented success. leaders come in from other countries, prime minister's, presidents, kings, queens, dictators sometimes, i hate to say it, dictators, and they all start off by saying mr. president, i would like congratulate you on the economy you created. the greatest anywh

bikers for trump -- you ever see these guys? the bikers for trump. [applause] they leave them alone. our construction workers, they leave them alone. our law enforcement, they leave them alone. anybody that looks real tough and real nasty, they leave them alone. they only go after somebody that stands there and is not a fighter. nothing wrong with that. and they beat the hell out of them and they pummel him, like what happened two weeks ago. they pummel him. that's the only one they go after. they'll go after that. they say, "is he a fighter? " "no." "let's hit him over the head with sticks and bats." what they do, it's a horrible thing. but hey, they don't do it to many of our people. but they look for the people that aren't the fighters. these dangerous behaviors are the hallmarks of socialism. but socialism cannot survive when people are free to think for themselves. that's why america will never be a socialist country. it's never going to happen. [applause] so, thank you. thank you. because as patriots, we cherish our first amendment. we believe

who trump labels the sleepy one. none of that stopped the president from calling into his favorite tv show on that same network thursday night. >> mr. president, just -- i'm just going to open it up to you owe -- to you to go wherever you want. >> reporter: the president admitted he did watch the testimony of robert mueller. >> i couldn't believe what i was saying -- i ended up watching more than i wanted to. and then i watched the afternoon because you know it was such a big crater at the beginning and i said, now i have to watch -- >> reporter: this coming hours after trump received a 75-minute briefing on his 2020 campaign from his top political advisers. the message, joe biden remains a major threat to the re-election prospects but kamala harris might also put up a fight in michigan. meantime, trump continuing to weigh in on the fate of rapper asap rocky. who has been held in a swedish jail since july 5th. after sweden prime minister told trump he can't intervene in the case, trump firing back tweeting, sweden ha

in o other words, just simply evaluating trump as a political undermining whatt potentiaial opening trump coulde openingg up for the korean people. that is to say, trump may h have his own interest or calculations for why he is pursuing this kind korea in with north particular in this case, it might be for self grand iceman or photo ops, as many of the quotes you presented just now, but regardless of what i is individual interest might be, i think it presents a particular opportunity in this moment where we can actually carry out a concrete peace process. and in that sense, what senator about sanders mentioned about the importance of the work ahead after this kind of symbolic opening is really important. and on that note, i i think it s important in mention -- to mention that president trump spspecifically targeted and askd stephen begin to basically rally the state department and his staff to pursue do tell negotiations with the north korean counterpart in order to make the steps, set the foundation for the peace ahead. i think it is important to see this for what it is, whichch is that

he was the donald trump of american politics before donald trump became donald trump of american politicians. the right wing of politics doesn't need two donald trumps. no one really cares what rush limbaugh says. not even rush limbaugh. the latest crazy thing that rush limbaugh says nowadays never makes it into the american news media because it's not as crazy as what the president of the united states said every day. including what the president said tonight. rush limbaugh had to give up many of his beliefs to become the faithful trump follower that he is and he confessed publicly that they were never beliefs at all. he didn't believe all that stuff he was saying. stuff that he and other republicans were lying about what they believed. he actually said that on his radio show and at the end of this hour, pulitzer prize winning columnist will join us about what donald trump has done not just to the republican party, but to our politics and whether the damage can be repaired. when donald trump won the presidential nomination, this week he said that the damage the presidency of donald trump ha

president trump: go ahead. ms. cameron: my dad died. president trump: ooh. ms. cameron: and my mom too. president trump: when did your dad die? ms. cameron: [inaudible] home. president trump: that's too bad. ms. cameron: and my mom too. president trump: and you loved them both, right? ms. cameron: yes. president trump: that's good. and they're proud of you, you know? they're looking down right now, because you're in the oval office. this is the big stuff, right? you're in the oval office, and they're looking down on you and they see gold, right? that's gold. ms. cameron: yes. president trump: that's really something. and they're very proud of you, right? ms. cameron: thank you. president trump: so, congratulations. ms. cameron: thanks. president trump: who would like to say? would you like to say something? anybody? on your great victory? mrs. pence: well, i think you should tell about your special accomplishment. mr. millett: on behalf of special olympics [inaudible] -- we have 15 total. we're [inaudible] to be here in this great room. it's a great honor and pr

presidency from trump? >> that's a good question. maybe. thinking about this over the last 48 hours and thinking about the testimony, it seems we use the metaphor, the movie, the movie script tomorrow. like a show. why are movies interesting? because you don't know what's going to happen, the suspense. i think pelosi in effect taking impeachment off the table is when the whole thing began to fizzle. at the end of the day, it's interesting if mueller says a few things he doesn't say in the report or he says things more vividly than in the report, but what's at stake? if it's ultimately to learn a little more, then it's another report. i'm not criticizing nancy pelosi. maybe she's right there isn't stuff there to impeach the president or from a spirited point of view that it would be bad to have a totally partisan impeachment. whatever the merits, though, i think once pelosi basically decided if she has finally decided, but so far not to let these be impeachment hearings as opposed to bob mueller testifies so

are they running trump? these are the guys though in all seriousness you want to talk about how ruthless republicans can be. they tried to impeach republican deputy attorney rod rosenstein when they were mad at him. so they are not elegant but they are ruthless. >> they are. what they're playing is the game of keep away. so they want to keep away from the president's doorstep everything that could be the least bit incriminating, the least bit damaging, the least bit destructive to his presidency with respect to the campaign and subsequent. so i look for these individuals, duly named, to go out and be the front line. this is for everything. >> this is war. >> because you've now got the guy have the guy that wrote the report sitting in front of them. and so as best and search and seizure you can do the ultimate takedown of him and discredit him, the better. >> to them, not for the country. joyce vance, what would you advise democrats who will be asking the questions of special counsel mueller to ask? >> you kn

trump always doubles down. advisers wrote new talking points and handed him reams of opposition research on the four congresswomen, pivot to patrioti patriotism. it is clear they understood donald trump has been blatantly racist on these women. he wrote on his twitter feed and he said the country you came from. he did not say anything of the green new deal or medicare for all. that pedaling into those things was too late, right? >> it was sort of like what's in the chapter of your book. >> i read it and i didn't finish it. no matter what you hand donald trump as an operative. he's going to do what he thinks he needs to do. he address it in your book. it is true. donald trump has instincts that certainly fe certainly failed him well sel t intelle electorial electorially. donald trump inside the base as a factor that people will look past what he says and pick out what they like and accentuate that. that's what i have seen in this instance so far. >> do you worry that, i like for it to -- just because it is in my

donald trump. after decades of clear evidence of racism, trump clearly knows exactly what he's saying and to whom, and as president he has consistently backed up his racist talk with policy. he's putting real racist policy on the table designed to excite racially anxious white americans and to terrify people who aren't white. so, yes, donald trump is really racist, fini. this weekend trump added to the ledger targeting four black and brown democratic congresswomen, representatives alexandria ocasio-cortez, ilhan omar, ayanna presley and rashida tlaib, to punish them for criticizing his hideous immigration policies, including locking central american men, women and children in crowded cages where they are told to drink water from the toilet. trump pulled the ultimate barbecue becky telling them they don't belong here. trump in a tweet storm told these four american congresswomen to go back to the countries from where they came from. all are born in america. one in the bronx, michigan, chicago, and o

donald trump. not only is it incredibly damaging to the fabric of america, it is short-sighted for donald trump. i can tell you as one of 435 members of congress when the democratic party nominates its presidential candidate, members of congress are like ants on an ant hill and it is at that point the person who wins that nomination, who is the face of the democratic party, and there ain't nothing that either the president nor any member of congress can do to change that fact, but all of this will be forgotten by voters. they will not go into a voting booth going, oh, i'm going to vote against a congresswoman from some district in minnesota. they don't do that. but what will linger, what will remain, will be the suburban voters, the educated voters, the women, the blacks, the hispanics, latinos, the asian americans, the others, the muslim americans who will be so offended by this that they will go out and they will stand in line for as long as it takes to cast their vote to drive donald trump out o

trump found it amusing. he would say look at those kids, they're holding hands, they are so in love. he had a nickname for his wife, mother. donald trump that was the funniest thing ever. hence was always calling his wife's mother, karen. donald trump gets a call from mike pence, pence is beside himself. he's very upset and agitated. he tells trump in a brief phone call, you need to apologize. it needs to be sincere. i'm going back to indiana, we need to pray and think, i will be off the campaign trail for a couple of days. donald trump hangs up and he says, oh boy, mother is not going to like this. [laughter] a long excavation, sorry. [laughter] >> it was worth it. >> i feel like with mike pence, you reserved, you said as a whole, i think the word you used was up seen. why did you view him so harshly? >> a couple of things. history would judge all of these individuals. i'm just one, small voice in a chorus that is coming. i think it's one thing to accommodate someone on policy grounds, it's one thing to rec

called trump insiders. i have assembled a group of people who know and knew donald trump well friends foreign business associates and former trump white house insiders to go inside the mine of trump in this pivotal time and let us know where they think we are headed. lots to cover. this is saturday night politics. . >>> thrilled to have everybody watching tonights. thanks for inviting me into your home. a different show tonight. instead of normal brilliant journalists i have, this is a moment in time we all know what happened this week. and other than charlottesville it was the bottom of the trump presidency. scary times i didn't sleep several nights this woke. and i wanted to get people who know trump, friends, exex-friends, business, to really talk very, very kind of like where are we going, how bad can it go? how much of this is something we should be terrified about semi terrified about, the people that know him to really break it down and have some honest discussion. tonight i'm rosa manigault neumann

trump. those briefings conveniently leaked to the press. resulting in the publication of the dossier and launching thousands of false press stories based on the word of a foreign exspy. one who admitted he was desperate that trump lose the election and who was eventually fired as an fbi source for leaking to the press. after comey himself was fired by his own admission, he leaked derogatory information on president trump to the press for the specific purpose and successfully so, of engineering the appointment of a special counsel who sits here before us today. the fbi investigation was marred by further corruption and business zar abuses. top doj officials whose wife worked on fusion gps anti-trump -- fed information even after the fbi fired steele. the top fbi investigator and his lover, another top fbi official constantly texted about how much they hated trump and wanted to stop him from being elected. and the entire investigation was open based not on intelligence but on a tip from a fore

trump. and he took questions, he tried to get to all of the questions and answer them, and we'll see if trump was convinced by this performance. but he is certainly hanging on the ropes. trump publicly said he's standing with him but behind the scenes it's much more tenuous than his public proclamation of support for acosta. so we can have our fact checks of what he said, but trump is probably watching for the style he presented, did he look strong? did he look like he could keep fighting? and we'll see. >> robert, you agree with that assessment? >> the president knows congress, house democrats want to call the secretary up to capitol hill to get answers, and it won't be an interview and it won't be a press conference. it will be hostile house democrats taking on him and his record as an attorney. this was his opportunity, as annie said, to set the record straight. i have a few sources around the president i was checking in with text message before this program. one of them texted the world?

do enough protecting of donald trump, nor enough going after trump's enemies. i mean, look at the bang-up job the new attorney general is doing. he's investigating the intelligence community itself. looking for evidence that they were all totally wrong about russia trying to help trump in 2016. now that is loyalty. when trump announced in may that he was granting the attorney general authority to selectively make public any classified information that he wants to, dan coats pushed back, warning about the consequences. coats said the intelligence community would continue providing, quote, apolitical intelligence to the president. we can't have that. so now coats is out and the president is ready to finally have someone at the top of the intelligence community who thinks the investigation into trump is a sham. >> americans need to know this, as they listen to the democrats and socialists on the other side of the aisle, as they do dramatic readings from this report, that volume ii of this report was not authorized under the law to be written. it was written to a l

trump or to mr. trump, he's going to like you. he wants to be liked. and i think kim had it right when he said despite being one of the most powerful individuals in the world, he has this amazing insecurity that he looks at everybody and wonders are they helping me or hurting me. if he feels as if they're not helping him, he's going to go after them. look at the terms he used for kim derek. that's not being presidential but it's not surprising from donald trump. >> the ambassador's communication offers a strategy about dealing with the trump administration. talk to anyone you can who might have an ability to contact trump and influence trump including possibly some of the late night friends and rich guys he gets on the phone with because you can't use or expect to use normal white house channels and expect that to work. >> kim was giving practical advice to the british. if you want to make end roads with donald trump, find the different channels that resketive. whether they're late night talk show hoes or influencers or who leaves thoughts in his heads

to the trump tower deal? >> i can't speak to that. >> i yield back, chairman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. director mueller, you've been asked many times this afternoon about collusion, obstruction of justice and impeachment and the steele dossier. i don't think your answers are going to change if i ask you about those questions. so i'm going to ask about a couple of press stories. a lot of what the american people have received about this have been on press stories. some of that has been wrong. some of those press stories have been accurate. april 13, 2018, mcclatchy reported that you had evidence michael cohen made a secret trip to prague during the 2016 presidential election. i think he told one of the committees here in congress that was incorrect. is that story true? >> i can't go into it. >> got you. on october 31, 2016, slate published a report suggesting that a server at trump tower was secretly communicating with russia's alpha bank and i quote, akin to what criminal syndicates do. do you know if that

we spoke to another republican trump voter not voting for president trump again. we spoke to him by phone. and he says he thinks people are embarrassed. and he says he thinks they feel some guilt for putting president donald trump in office, anderson. >> we thank both of those folks for expressing their opinions to us. >>> she may be the most closely watched politician in washington. my conversation with alexandria ocasio-cortez. have a discount with another wireless carrier? t-mobile will match it. need a few more reasons to switch? 1. do you like netflix? sure you do. that's why it's on us. 2. unlimited data. use as much as you want, when you want. 3. no surprises on your bill. taxes and fees included. so, if you have a discount, bring it to t-mobile. we'll match it and give you great benefits. romance isn't dead! but it is here. thanks, captain obvious. don't hate-like their trip, book yours with hotels.com and get rewarded basically everywhere. hotels.com. be there. do that. get rewarded. [ text notification now that you have] new dr. scholl's massaging gel ad

i don't think america buys that trump it as a nazi, trump racis racist. so i guess you would have relied on the polls last election. >> the generic ballot last year showed democrats winning by 9 and they do today for the 2020 elections. >> laura: horace, on this point of where the democrats are on race, richard -- and what he said what he said because we are seeing a preview of where this is going. they cannot win on the economy. obama was not the deliverer of all great things for minority workers. we know that now. we just did not go off at the rate they are coming up under president trump. these numbers are simply stunning for minority americans. they are stunning. so all they have is trump is a racist. that is all they have -- she's a bad person, a racist, and you are a bad person if you vote for him. that is what we are talking about. that is a 2020 election in a nutshell. good luck with that. they tried it in 2016 against trump and it didn't work! >> in 2018 they tried it with these radicals running in georgia, running in florida, and running in texa

trump told mr. geetz in one of the calls after the congressman appeared on fox new that's did not preclude him from enkurcouragin his allies. it's hard to know who's running who. are they running trump in his tweets? these are the guys though, in all seriousness, want to talk about how ruthless republicans can be, they tried to impeach republican deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. so they're not elegant but they are ruthless. >> they are. what they're playing is the game of keepaway. they want to keep away from the president's doorstep everything 245 can be the least bint crimm nating, the least bit damaging, the least bit destructive to his presidency and in perspective to the campaign and subsequent. i look forward to these individuals dully named to go out and be the front line. this is for everything. >> this is war. >> this is war. you now have the guy who wrote the report sitting in front of them. so as best and as much you can do the ultimate takedown of him and discredit him, the better

do enough protecting of donald trump, nor enough going after trump's enemies. i mean, look at the bang-up job the new attorney general is doing. he's investigating the intelligence community, itself. looking for evidence at they were all totally wrong about russia trying to help trump in 2016. now, that is loyalty. but when trump announced in may that he was granting the attorney general authority to selectively make public any classified information that he wants to, dan coats pushed back warning about the consequences. coats said the intelligence community would continue providing, quote, apolitical intelligence to the president. we can't have that. so now coats is out and the president is ready to finally have someone at the top of the intelligence community who thinks the investigation into trump is a sham. >> americans need to know this, as they listen to the democrats and socialists on the other side of the aisle, as they do dramatic readings from this report, that volume 2 of this report was not authorized under the law to be written. it was written to a

, not a martyred trump. an impeachment would give them a martyred trump. >> and an acquitted trump. >> exactly. it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. >> how high will nancy pelosi let that number go. you know she counts. will she corral 150, as long as it's not 218? >> let me just say if you look at the vote when al green put forward his last impeachment vote, it got 66 votes to move forward this time 95. and there are, i think, 86, 87 democrats who are already on record of starting an impeachment proceeding. and i think after the mueller testimony next week, that number is bound to go higher. >> is this a defense by nancy? did she say i'll let you have all the joy of saying you want to impeach, but it ain't going to happen. >> could she send any more signals that she doesn't want to it happen? my fear i think is for the base of the party and for all those activists out there, people you want knocking on doors and being enthusiastic, you will dampen their enthusiasm by not going head-on at this president. an

we turn to former trump trump executive barbara res and an author to boot. thanks for being here. >> my pleasure. >> how does donald trump see when he sees his native new york here this week pass an explicit law to get his state returns. >> yeah, he feels like everyone's after him and that's just another example of oh, my god, the world is closing in on him. is he worried about it? at this point, i don't think so. not yet. i think he thinks his lawyers will protect him. look what he's done. this is dealing with little new york state. i mean, he's managed to avoid subpoenas. he's not listening to the supreme court. he doesn't follow any rules at all. i think he's probably taking this okay for now. >> why do you think he hides his taxes? >> you know, at first i thought well, it had something to do with maybe the charitable contributions that he doesn't make. and then you know, maybe he doesn't make as much money as he says he does. and he's always been that way, years and years and years. but now i'm wondering if it isn't just the financing where that money's

trump. and, second, a russian intelligence service conducted computer int esion operations againities, employees and volunteers working on the clinton campaign. translation, russia used the internet to fool american voters and hacatrs to attack demo computer networks. brangham: according to mueller's rept, the russian campaign began in mid-2014. that's when the employees of what's known as the internet research agency first ce to the u.s. to gather the material that they would later use in their elaborate social media postings. this is the ira's headquarters a. in st. petersburg, rus desjardins: by the end of 2016, the russians had set up fake social media accounts that reached millions of voters aimed at promoting trump o dividing americans.th branghamrussians created fake hashtags, like #kidsfortrump. they bought thousands of online ads. they impersonated u.s. citizens and set up real political rallies, like a 2015 confederate rally in hston. they made posters like this one of "miners for

i don't like donald trump. i think donald trump has some racist tendencies, if not a racist. but in order to pass criminal justice reforms it was something that i did. and i don't think cornell west or anybody else had a problem with me working with the trump administration to get criminal justice reform done. so if you're going to attack vice president biden for working with people he didn't like that didn't like him, well, attack me, too, for passing criminal justice reform and workin with donald trump who i know the african-american community has a serious problem with, but we did it. we were applauded for it. i think that that's what's missing in politics, that if we can move the ball forward for the people we represent, the people we care about, the people we love, the people who need us to do it, it doesn't have to be easy. but it's necessary. >> now after the first debate, a source close to the campaign told cnn biden knows he has to do better. and the vice president's own admission, he says he wasn't prepared for the attacks. listen. >> why didn't you fight it like th

the way he met donald trump was he sold the plaza to donald trump and fleeced donald trump. it was one of trump's worst deals. my point is tom knows, barrack knows how to push trump's buttons and he knows how to make money for himself. that is a very dangerous combination. he is also a very polished guy. if you look at the people hanging on to this administration to make money he doesn't stand out but you go back and i think when this is all said and done, the inaugural committee, which he ran, will be a real focus of where money came from and where it went. that was all tom barrack. this is no different than jared, you know, what's happening with his buddies in the middle east. they are making money and they are doing it in donald trump's name. they are doing it for donald trump, doing it for themselves, doing it in spite of america's best interests. >> jared kushner was asked by jonathan swan in an interview several months ago about khashoggi. jared said we're waiting to see what it says in the report. the president was asked a day later and he said what are you talking ab

trump's base. i also think it's a shame that they didn't at least refer to the judiciary committee and it is ironic in terms of contradiction on day one we can say that man is unfit for office because he's a racist and not think that is a high crime or misdemeanor. it was identified in congressman green's resolution as a high miscomor. i agree. it didn't require to us wait and see what mueller was going to say because it's separate and apart from all the other charges obstruction and otherwise we've been concerned about. but it does hit a key point. from the moment he walked down his golden escalator, he was a racist. he's been that before he announced. he's been that while he's been the president. and if this nation that made a promise we were all equal as we work toward perfecting this constitution and our failing to do so with this president, what better reason do we have to deny him the chief executive position in our government. so i think green was right. i think they should have at least ref

you mentioned donald trump. let's play a little bit of donald trump and some of the interaction he has as you know with the culture. he is fixated on aspects of hollywood and music take a look. >> we don't need jay-z or beyonce. we don't need lady gaga. >> instead of talking puerto rico gun reform for nevada, all these horrible tradition and he would rather cause a twitter storm with the packers. >> the women's march and you hear hama doon. >> she's disgusting. > it's disappointing and hurtful. this is the leader of the free world speaking like this. >> do you think artists and celebrities have a special wave getting his attention. >> you remember rap used to love trump. >> yes. >> trump was practically a rapper at a point in time. trump was partying with all the rappers. there were still songs being made about donald trump up to like 2012, '13. >> used to go on radio. >> america is muslim. that's when all of us were kind of like -- you know, we started to tiptoe away. obviously, donald trump is a reality tv sta

we don't believe donald trump. every other republican who voted not to condemn the president but voted in effect to condemn themselves, they did that, they voted to condemn themselves in history as actively complicit in the president's racism. before the vote the president tweeted "those tweets were not racist. i don't have a racist bone in my body. the so-called vote to be taken is a democratic con game. republicans should not show weakness and fall into their trap." i don't know why the president capitalizes the "r" in the word "racist" the way religious people capitalize the letter "g" in "god" out of reverence for that word. is it donald trump's reverence for the word "racist?" is that what he is signaling to racists with that upper case "r" for "racist?" is that what he's doing? every republican showed weakness and fell into donald trump's racist trap today except those four republicans who voted against donald trump's racism. why is it always the bones? why do racists always talk about their bones, as in i do

, and was, you know, united by a, you know, by trump's what their described as trump's bigotry and hatefulness, and you know, this obviously extends to trump's policies beyond his rhetoric towards these congresswomen, you know, you had congress people also tweeting let's keep our eye on the goal here, you know, there are mass deportations and raids that are going into effect today by ice that the president is also overshadowing with his rhetoric right now. >> yeah, jackie, good insights. >> still ahead, everybody, president trump continues his attacks against the former speaker of the house. the president's new comments on paul ryan over his apparent criticisms of trump. >>> plus bill karins is back on the latest tropical depression barry is hitting next after hitting the gulf coast. itting n hitting the gulf coast >>> welcome back, let's get the latest on the remnants of tropical depression barry as the system makes its way inland with nbc meteorologist bill karins. >> overnight we did have a foot of rainfall in areas north of st. charles, louisiana, and a flash flood emergency at one point,

kim also called trump a frightened dog and a gangster. trump's response to that? no, not getting banned or canceling dinner with him. love letters. >> i was really being tough, and so was he. and we were going back and forth. and then we fell in love. okay? no, really. he wrote me beautiful letters. and they're great letters. we fell in love. >> trump met kim three times after kim called him a mentally deranged dotard gangster dog. let's get this straight. if you're an american ally and you criticize the trump administration with being clumsy and inept you're done. but if you're literally a murtding dictator you get love letters. abby phillips is live outside the white house. and abby, the uk is sticking by its ambassador which is very significant tonight. not bending to this at this point. how far is president trump willing to take this fight? >> reporter: well, at least for now the president is doing what he can to make this situation as uncomfortable as he can for the uk ambassador as possible. this disinvitation for a dinner that is actually going on right now

. >> including donald trump. >> including donald trump. and then kavanaugh just decided and was coached to basically blow up and like chew the scenery as we say in the theater, right, to just act basically. perform his outrage and that turned everything, as if it changed somehow the truth of what we had seen the day before. it's a very sad moment in our democracy that the media is creating these rules and being played by donald trump in a lot of ways. >> you're an expert in disinformation. russian disinformation. but we're consuming a lot of it. i don't know if everyone even knows they are. your thoughts on -- just pick up on where heather took us. >> i mean, he's the master of disinformation, donald trump. the same way putin weaponized greefrance in russia and isis weaponiz weaponize grievance among muslims. i remember a mythical time called "tthe '60s, which not everyone remembers here around the table. and the demonstrations for ford increased it. i would be dismayed if there were not more demonstrations. it r

trump is president. and since the doj policies prohibit indictment of a sitting president, mueller's team believed they were not even allowed to ask whether he committed a crime. but here's the key, and this and not the thee atrics, not robert mueller's age or whether he gets an academy award for entertaining the media, this is the point. robert mueller was asked this key question in the first five minutes of the hearing. and this was the only answer that really matters. >> the president has repeatedly claimed that your report found there was no obstruction, that it completely and totally exonerated him, but that's not what your report said, is it? >> correct. that's not what the report said. t that's not what the report said. think all premium fuels are the same? new shell v-power nitro+ premium gasoline is engineered with four levels of defense against gunk, wear, corrosion and friction. that helps keep your engine running like new. so, maybe it's time to unthink what you think you think about premium

donald trump. >>> hello. i'm ari melber. on wednesday, bob mueller will give his highly anticipated testimony before congress. mueller is only speaking under subpoena. he already said the report is his testimony. we have gone through all 448 pag pages, scouring the report. in this hour, we present an in-depth look at the mueller report. >>> i'm speaking out today because our investigation is complete. >> special counsel robert mueller made his first and what he hoped were his last remarks into his probe into russian meddling, potential obstruction and the mueller report. >> we chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself. >> mueller resisted demands to testify before congress until two congressional subpoenas compelled them to agree. he will appear on wednesday. mueller's testimony comes in the shadow of the first person to see the long awaited report. trump attorney general william barr, who took the unusual step of summarizing mueller's report weeks before it was released and again

trump. they were conveniently leaked to the press, launching thousands of stories based on the word of spy.eign x fired for eventually to the press. for leaking to the press. after comey himself was fired by his own admission, he leaked derogatory information on president trump to the press for the specific purpose and successfully so, of engineering the appointment of a special counsel who sits here before us today. the fbi investigation was marred by further corruption and business zar abuses. top doj officials whose wife worked on fusion gps anti-trump -- fed information even after the fbi fired steele. the top fbi investigator and his lover, another top fbi official constantly texted about how much they hated trump and wanted to stop him from being elected. and the entire investigation was open based not on intelligence but on a tip from a foreign politician. about a conversation involving joseph nif have a, he's a diplomat who is widely portrayed as a russian agent but seems to have for

trump is in a long line. lindsey graham is in a long line of disgraced politicians, like joseph mccarthy who basically communists baited. and what these politicians do is they tell lies. they tell falsehoods to try and demonize minorities or demonize others. whether they be dissidents, political dissidents or whether they be catholics or jews or african-americans or asian-americans or italians or irish americans. they try to demonize, make them the other. and that's what trump has done. he did it when he started out with mexican americans. he did it with muslims. and now he's doing it with black americans. it's inaccurate. his tweets. it's hypocritical. but most significantly, it's un-american. it's against our first amendment, which embraces protest. >> peter, tonight ilhan omar was greeted with this when she went back to her home state of minnesota. watch. >> welcome home, ilhan! welcome home, ilhan! welcome home, ilhan! welcome home, ilhan! >> earlier today she said the president is spewing his -- this is

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i think this is donald trump being donald trump. i add this to the pile of other things i correspond you bewise and unhelpful. chris: here is the reason i kind of disagree with you, it seems to me the unity of the country and the harmony and the racial harmony of the country is important. so if the president says something, anybody says something -- >> nobody looks to donald trump for racial harmony and haven't for the past two years. i don't think that's the news. the news is whether the democrats are taking the bait here. i don't think if the steam is strategizing about this. but i think trump has a strategy and he wants to make the left wing of the party the face of the democrat party. if he succeeds in making aoc and company the face of the party i think that will work to this advantage. chris: ilhan omar has been punching back and here is a clip from her. >> as much as he's spewing his fascist ideology on stage telling you as citizens to go back because they don't agree with his detrimental policies for our country, we tell peo

president trump and china's paying cooled off their ongoing trade war for his part mr trump announced he'll hold off on imposing more tariffs again against chinese goods while china one concession on reopening to american industry products from its leading tech giant which were recently banned out of national security concerns for the u.s. so how long is this truce going to last and which side is winning and which is losing the battle of the tariffs and trade for expert analysis we turn to chris lew the former deputy secretary of labor during the obama administration he also served as the former white house cabinet secretary for president obama he joins me from washington d.c. welcome to the program chris thank you so let's begin with china's trumps agreement to ease restriction on china's tech giant who way it's a shock to many now is it a shock to you. it is a shock because there has really been bipartisan concern on a national security basis and so this is not a partisan issue in any way and so congress has been very firm on the national security risk that this entails and so this

a possible trump. well many people have said that in the past and there are similarities not just there has style but let's just let's just look at his relationship with reason may another man who's been openly criticizing her you know lost some of the day he was. czech is where they had the agreement the cabinet were going to go you know take this agreement with the e.u. if it breaks it he signed up to it and then he walked and left a cabinet saying you no longer could be foreign secretary because he didn't really even have breck's it and has been pursuing a no deal breaks it something that she said today she did not agree with so i think it's pretty clear that there is no love lost between those 2 it we have to be clear to you that this is not just a story about the the you know the bad boys or the bad men around theresa may i mean the language that donald trump uses to resume a has of which herself has a she has she said you know innocent in this i mean just a couple of them calling brit who are not

being trump. if you are on the trail, he comes up as something to be replaced and the result of decades long trends and not let's respond to the tweet of the day. >> you guys are real smart. thank you very much for joining. we will be back in the anchor chair tonight. you can find me on weekends at 10:00 a.m. the rachel maddow show starts now. bring it are in in for a landing right on time. yes, i did. >> thank you very much, my friend. thanks to youa at home. happy to have you here on a monday night. if the fox news channel is pro trump for you, you may or may not know there is another boutique little news outlet designed specifically for trump mega fans called one america. one america news network. the trump white house gave this boutique outfit a hard pass for access to the white house grounds and a permanent seat in the briefing room. remember when the white house used to hold press briefings? they had a seat. president trump started quoting this little news outlet and frequently telling peopl

trump: thank you. reporter: [indistinct] pres. trump: ask again? reporter: [indistinct] -- escalated your feud with the four congresswomen. pres. trump: they are very bad for our country. i really think they must hate our country. i think the four congressmen we are talking about -- the congresswomen, what they have said about israel, what they have said about our country, when they talk about discussing people, when they talk the way they talk, when one mentioned that brown people should speak for brown people, muslim people should speak for muslim people, that is not what our country is about. i think they are very bad for our country, very bad for the democrat party. i think you see that. they are pulling the democrats way left. nobody knows how to handle them. i feel they are easy to handle. for me, they are easy to handle, because they are just out there. they are very bad for our country, absolutely. reporter: [indistinct] pres. trump: no, i don't think -- no, no. no racial tensions. there's no racial tension. i had my best numbers recently,

check mate, trump wins. but what actually happened and what republicans know happened and what made them freak out is that that racist chant changed the entire terms of the 2020 debate. because donald trump didn't call congresswoman omar and the others socialists or communists in his attack on them. he didn't attack the new deal or their support for medicare or all or any policy that the right is planning to label. he didn't say anything about policy. he attacked only one thing about them. their racial ethnic backgrounds. that's why republicans panicked this week. let me do something i don't normally do here anymore and read trump's tweet. so interesting to see progressive democrat congresswomen who originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst most corrupt and inept anywhere in the world if they even have a functioning government at all. now loudly and viciously telling the people of the united states the greatest and most powerful nation on earth how our g