not donald trump. donald trump seems to have learned his ethics from his father, who was arrested at a ku klux klan rally and later charged by the federal government with civil rights violations in his real estate business and donald trump apparently is a believer in the morality of the mafia. >> yes, always, godfather. >> that is the scene james comey describes in the white house when the president sat him down alone and asked for his loyalty and when donald trump didn't get james comey's loyalty, he killed james comey's career at the fbi. if you are a very old man from utah, say, somewhere like that and everything you know about new york city comes from gangster movies, you might think every guy in new york is like the godfather. orrin hatch is 84 years old. he has spent the last 42 of his life representing utah in the united states senate. and so he has led a very shelters life as a mormon bishop and as a united states senator. he seems to know as much about new york city as he knows about mars. thi

messages that donald trump has put there? at what point will half of them or even just one fourth of them lose the strength to hold all those contradictions in their heads at the same time? when will they lose that strength and just give up, give up on donald trump? because if that happens, if half of donald trump's fervent supporters reach the point where they just can't take it anymore, can't take any lie about how he arranged a payoff to a porn star, then we know how the trump presidency is going to end, the president will be removed from office after an impeachment trial in the united states senate or like nixon before him, he will resign from office before being convicted in the senate, and i mean being convicted by republican senators because if donald trump loses anywhere between one fourth and one-half of his fervent republican base, the bottom will fall out of the republican party. and the 16 current republican senators who voted for the conviction of bill clinton in his impeachment trial and removal of office would

donald trump is very, very different. i don't think we've ever seen anything like this in american politics. and he's diminished us as a result. right. what do you think those millions of, particularly white working—class americans, who voted for donald trump and who, according to every single opinion poll, are still foursquare behind donald trump, what do you think they make of people like you describing trump's policies as racist and bigoted? because it makes me mindful of hillary clinton during the campaign calling trump supporters "the basket of deplorables." it doesn't seem that you democrats have a way of connecting with the white working class in the way that donald trump does. well, see, that's the difference. i don't think donald trump — yes, the core of the republican base is very solid and still behind donald trump, but trump was also able to win some swing independent votes, that i believe fundamentally won't be there for him this next time around. and you will see that in terms of the results of the novem

trump using the n word, but we do have this video from 43-year-old donald trump. in 1989. >> i have said on occasion, i would love to be a well educated black because i do believe they have an if i were to started tod would love to be educated because i do believe they would have an advantage today. >> joining us right now, franklin leonard, the film executive and founder of the "blacklist" and jason johnson is back with us. that was donald trump in 1989 says i would love to be a well educated black because i believe they do have an actual advantage today. any hints of racism in that? >> look, i said for several years now that when you are accustom to privilege, equality feels like -- we are talking about the hence of the beginning of progress towards equality and 1989 and 2018 we hear the narrative from the white house and animated the entire white supremacist movement in this country. look, i am happy to be where i would imagine donald trump would consider a well-educated black. there is no evidence to backup that claim. being a well-educated black meaning a col

did not all of a sudden conclude after having known donald trump for 12 or 15 years that donald trump would not make a good president. here's what happened, michael cohen realized he was dead to rights, he was in the crosshairs, whatever metaphor you want to use, as it relates to prosecutors from the southern district of new york. he took the steps he's taken for no other reason than to save himself and his family. let's be clear about that, let's not try to call it anything other than what it is, just so everyone understands what happened. this season the about love of country or patriotism, michael cohen waited until the last possible moment, you've witnessed it over the last five months. he's been practically begging for donald trump to lead him out of the dark force for months now, it became clear it wasn't going to happen. >> he was waiting on some help in the president. >> no question. >> i think he was waiting for loyalty and it never developed. >> it's a lengthy sound bite, but this is what you were referring to earlier, when it comes to the alleged wire transfer if that is wh

people were attracted to donald trump. omarosa talks about in the book him being constantly quoted by rappers. he had hip-hop artist, p. diddy combs at mar-a-lago. i didn't even know about the housing discrimination until he ran for president. what about him made you, all six of you -- let's put up the v.o. of this. it's an extraordinary press conference, former "apprentice" members of color. what is it in your experience with donald trump brought you to the conclusion he was racist such that it you had that press conference, tara? >> for me, there were several things. the first is when he proposed a blacks versus whites season of "the apprentice." i thought that was horrific. and just the damage that something -- something like that would do and that he was seriously considering it and floating the idea. that was point one. >> omarosa talks about marc burnett setting the seasons up that were provocative, where you had teams mostly black or mostly white. that was the way the show was built. >> that was not experienced on m

donald trump won the seat by 11 points. right now, it's razorthin, we're not sure of the end result. but, in the end, the republicans have spent $5 million to hold onto a seat in which their president won by 11 points, and it's a razorthin margin. and there are 70 other seats that are better for democrats than this seat. we want to see it... we could go through area by area and discuss the specifics of the political balance in various political states, but the nationwide picture is pretty simple: it's hard for you guys in the democratic party to overturn the republican majorities in the house and senate when we see that a republican congress and a republican president are supervising an economy that is motoring, motoring ahead, with growth rates now put at over 4%, with record high employment levels, and where even african—american and latino unemployment is at record lows. these are the realities, the facts, that make it very attractive for americans to stick with what they know. well, there are also some realities and f

trump's involvement at the direction of donald trump and frankly donald trump has come out since the plea deal and said yes he reimbursed michael cohen with personal funds why that matters is cohen and prosecutors and a federal judge all agreed this week that a crime had been committed and donald trump has now suggested he was part of that crime so the idea that he is today an unindicted coconspirator i think is a is an accurate description of the president and states you tweeted that trump is done. how do you mean i believe yes. i believe he is i think the validity of his presidency from here on out will always remain in question but i i actually think we may be seeing a bit of the unraveling of this presidency and what i mean by that is it will be hard for donald trump to escape culpability coming out of the cohen case at the same time under the moeller investigation this week we saw the man afford conviction which though not directly touching donald trump the actual conviction we know that manna for male timidly end up cooperating if he's offered the opportunity to do so by miller

donald trump jr. eagerly soliciting what they call dirt on hillary clinton after they had clinton dirt to contribute to the trump campaign. the president's tweet yesterday said that the meeting, quote, went nowhere. the trump line of defense about the meeting was that the russians didn't hand over any dirt on hillary clinton. as we sit here tonight, we don't know if that's true. we don't know what happened in the meeting. we don't really know what happened after the meeting. we don't know whether the russians directly handed over dirt to the trump campaign about hillary clinton directly to donald trump jr. or to anyone else in the campaign. but there are three ways to violate federal election law on contributions from foreign nationals. the trump line of defense says the trump campaign did not actually receive any dirt on hillary clinton from the russians, and, so, there was no crime. they are now insisting that the meeting was legal because they did not receive any dirt on hillary clinton. and so if

donald trump. he undermines his own message that he hires the best people, and you combine that with the fact we know that there are a raft of people who don't actually want to go into the white house, were donald trump to run for a second term or were the call to be made to them because it's too toxic and they fear for their own reputations. people thinking, not surprising, this is not the smoothest administration we've seen in the white house. >> and walter, you're heading back to louisiana, hurricane season and all pretty soon. when you head back there, when i head back to my home state of florida, i will talk to a lot of people who say, i don't like how he tweets. i sure as hell don't like how he cozies up to vladimir putin. i don't like what he's doing with nato. makes me nervous the way he's talking about mueller. but the economy's doing better than its ever done before, my small business is doing better than its ever done before and, hey, the country's strong. they'll be able to put up with

trump is donald trump. here he is, he's accused by someone who used to defend him against charges of being a racist, he's now accused of being a racist and there's something about that that is hollow after she has spent so much time defending him. but then he comes out, he comes out and says here, add this as exhibit a to your proof that i'm a racist. >> yeah. it suggests not only that he is as she calls him unhinged but also just kind of a moron. he's supposed to be such a great media strategist for himself. you know, and in some ways he has been. but to send that tweet, again, not just in the context for accusing him of being racist but also the context of are there tapes out there with me using the n word? well, mark burnett called me last night. we still don't necessarily believe that's true because mark burnett hasn't publicly said he made that call. said i never called anyone the n word. it isn't in my vocabulary. but i'll tell you what is in my vocabulary, to call a black woman a died. what's wrong w

paula duncan said she voted for donald trump and she would still vote for donald trump again after being firmly convinced beyond a reasonable doubt by robert mueller's team of prosecutors that donald trump's campaign chairman paul manafort was guilty of everything they charged him with. she explained that paul manafort got a hung jury on some of the counts only because there was one juror who refused to vote guilty. on the undecided counts the vote was 11 guilties, 1 not guilty on every one of them. that's how close paul manafort came to being convicted on all 18 counts. the way that trump supporter paula duncan wanted him to be convicted. and tonight paula duncan is the most important voice standing between president trump and a pardon for paul manafort. >> how would you feel if the president pardoned paul manafort? >> i feel it would be a grave mistake for president trump to pardon paul manafort. >> why? >> justice was done. the evidence was there. and that's where it should stop. >> donald trump has to listen to that. a trump voter, a strong trump supporter still who is ready to vote

and then he implicated donald trump saying that then candidate donald trump connected and coordinated what most prosecutors would say was an illegal campaign contribution. and it was. by the way, i heard a lot of people talking, i heard donald trump talking about it. that was an illegal campaign contribution to himself. and the fact that donald trump said, oh, i did it myself, no, it's aimed -- the purpose of it was aimed at keeping an embarrassing story under wraps right before an election. you can't -- i mean, you can't write a check for $10,000 to yourself before the election withouter reporting it, let alone as much as he did. pecker's assistance appears to have played a vital role with regard to what transpired with cohen earlier this week. five people who are familiar with the "national enquirer"er's parent company, american media, tells the ap that the company kept a safe containing damaging stories on the president. you just kind of wonder how big that safe was. it had to be a big safe. including documents of the hush money payments to women who claimed to have had affairs wit

donald trump and want the country to know about donald trump? >> well, we're seeking to invalidate the nda on the grounds set forth in our complain complaint. the chief ground is that it was a violation of campaign finance law. so we want a judicial finding that that agreement is void for among other reasons the reason that it was a violation of campaign finance law and done in a direct manner to influence the election in violation of that law. and we want to prove that through the testimony of michael cohen, and also the testimony of donald trump. we want to actually try that issue. we want a judicial finding. and in order to get that, we'll need the testimony of donald trump and he will have to take a position as to the purpose of the agreement and he will either have to admit it or positive i.t. on it, either way he will be in a bad spot. >> and what does a bad spot look like? if donald trump is forced to admit what i think most thinking people in america know and that is he directed michael cohen to make a payment to stormy daniels for the p

that donald trump has. and as a person who's a white american male i have to say this president is racist. those of us who have been racists know it when we see it and hear it. the fact that mrs. trump was supportive of his birther accusations i think is very disturbing, but there's not the same pattern as exists with the president. his racism goes back decades. in the case of mrs. trump i think that she's trolling him. i think she's -- she is guarding her own reputation and her own image. and like the president's children, there will be a life after the white house for her. >> thank you, michael. i appreciate it. >>> when we come back the new documentary that looks at the ties between president trump and vladimir putin. i'm going to talk to the director next. the chili pepper sweat-out. not cool. freezing away fat cells with coolsculpting? now that's cool! coolsculpting safely freezes and removes fat cells with little or no downtime. and no surgery. results and patient experience may vary. some common side

what did donald trump do again and again? he denied he or anyone on the campaign had ties to russia, had any communications with russia. and this is the first time that we're seeing evidentiary proof that that is false. and donald trump i think knows very well where this is leading. we are going to learn a lot about in this trial but more so in the next one in d.c. that paul manafort was thick as thieves with the russians. for him at that level of the campaign to have those relationships with the kremlin and kremlin type figures i think goes a long way towards proving the collusion/conspiracy theory. >> matt, i know with your experience in the justice department, you know that previous departments have not even been tempted. not even tempted to make public comments about ongoing criminal investigations and ongoing currently underway criminal prosecutions. but your reaction to what you saw in the president's tweets today and in rudy giuliani's defense of them. >> you are right, lawrence. you are right, lawrence. it is a red li

and, david, you have been studying donald trump, the trump businesses, you have spoken to donald trump before he became a political candidate about his businesses. tell us what it means that the president -- the president's accountant has immunity. >> oh, this is very, very troubling. and apparently his deal is not a full deal. it is immunity to get his testimony. but every check goes through allen weisselberg. he is totally loyal. he uses the phrase, yes, mr. trump 1,000% that he agrees with him on things. and now that he is forced to testify, he will be able to tell about the many, many crimes i'm absolutely certain donald has committed. and his immunity is only federal. that means that if cy vance, the manhattan district attorney and the new york attorney general pursue criminal cases against the trumps, the trump organization and the trump children, as i think they should, his testimony can be used against him as well. >> and, harry, you have been in these situations where you're working on a prosecution, an investigation, and at some point you get the accountant on your side. what

- donald trump jr. didn't tell donald trump his dad about that meeting but now when he's trying to raise money from millions of people to support donald trump he's saying oh, yeah, no, donald trump never did that or i don't know that that happened or he denied it. i think we should take his statements at the time, not today. >> all this week we've been having conversations as to whether or not omarosa should get this kind of airtime. this is a reminder of where that discussion should go. this man is a terrorist sympathizer and he's trying to spin it to an american audience. he is the father of the alt-right. the alt-right are white nationalists. you can't accomplish white nationalism without violence. and what happened in charlottesville was a protest march that turned into a terrorist attack and he's going to try to spin that to the best of his ability. you can say antifa is as bad. it's like saying batman and the joker isn't the same. antifa exists to be anti-fashionist and he is a supporter of fascis

trump argues and the same thing donald trump supporters argue. which is, robert mueller's investigation must come to an end. he doesn't have constitutional authority to do what he's doing. >> so, joe, regardless of what happens with peter strzok and the side show of the attacks by this congress in the house particularly on these department of justice and fbi officials, the investigation goes on. you named -- ticked off all of the numbers and we're now getting close to getting answers about the fate of paul manafort. and let's remind people what the goal of a lot of this is. it is to squeeze these individuals for additional information about the president's own role in all of this, about his knowledge, for instance, about what happened at trump tower. and these are the people who are going to give us those answers. so you can just deduce from the president's own behavior of these increasingly frantic tweets, waking up first thing in the morning, to try and, again, push this narrative of it being a witch-hunt about what his level of concern is that

you think donald trump scares him? and i think donald trump is again she sh-- showing he's a bully. as soon as they're in his face, he doesn't have anything to say. he's all smiles. >> you've been lending an ear to what senators were saying this week. initially it was we don't have time for additional hearings if the president were to ask session stoegs resijeff sessions to resign. that seems to be changing now. how much confidence do you have in this? >> less than ai did a few days ago. to go back, when the first couple of times he attacked sessions, trump attacked sessions, you get to the sixth, seventh time, and you're like oh my god, trump is the loser here. to go back to the must-see tv of the '90s. you have a george costanza situation where he's refusing to quit. he has the upper hand. trump is doing a couple things that are problematic. he's acting like the minute bob mueller was appointed that he could do anything. he's obstructing. he would have been better off firing sessions early on. if you think about it, he has not fired anyone since comey on this matter because they a

donald trump, jr.'s 2016 meeting at trump tower with a russian lawyer. so let's bring in now cnn contributor michael d'antonio the author of "the truth about trump." good evening, sir. you wrote a great piece tonight in this title, to protect himself trump is willing to undermine his son. you say the president will do the unthinkable for most people, betray his son to protect his own hide? >> oh, i most definitely think he would. you know, think about being donald trump's son. it must be the most disorienting thing a person can go through. a father is supposed to provide a stable environment, to provide moral guidance, help form the character of a child. donald trump is a serial liar who's betrayed everyone in his life. he demands loyalty but gives none. he's entirely malformed morally. i don't think you could think of a worse parent for a child. this young man goes into adult life trying to please this man. and figure out what the right thi thing to do is. no wonder he exhibited such poor judgment by a

whether you like 70s donald trump, '80s donald trump. we're looking at it saying these people round you have done wrong. >> let's say you put them oen a scale. of wrong dining. let's say everything is wrong. donald trump would weigh the scale down and hillary clinton would go flying off. is this pure misogyny and people won't say it? >> people have hated hillary clinton and responded -- long before anyone was suggesting she was corrupt. it was the idea she didn't cookies. >> she was standing by her man. >> as a feminist and a tutenshal woman president a threat to the established order. and come canning on the heels of barack obama, that combination -- i remember go thing to 2016 convention and looking at the paraphernalia sold outside. near porpbographic sexism. that gave me an insight into what was really going on. >> we got to go? we got to go. i got to go. kwr go ahead. >> i'm in little rock, arkansas. i know everything about hillary clinton. people died in benghazi and that is a result indiana large part on inaction by hillary clinto

both donald trump and vladimir putin. they're the only ones now on this island, lawrence, this island that's becoming increasingly isolated as these data points of russia's assault continue to mount. >> let's just look at it one more time. donald trump standing beside vladimir putin and comparing the information he gets from his intelligence services to what vladimir putin just told him. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others. they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> now, the right shot there would have been the putin reaction shot. >> oh, yeah. >> when donald trump is saying -- >> the smirk. >> i don't see any reason why it would be. >> the smirk. yeah. i mean, look, to ned's point, we've got to just focus on a couple things. what happened in 2016, what russia did. forget about collusion, coordination, conspiracy. just what did russia do? they launched this information war across social media

republicans may hope that the list will scare the trump base to the polls to protect donald trump from any of those investigations, but as democratic congressman tweeted today, house gop went so far to make a list of objectionable conduct by donald trump. so if they know, why won't they investigate this stuff? joining us now congressman eric swallwell. that was one of your angrier tweets about this, but it is kind of extraordinary to watch the republicans basically draw up the preliminary outlines of an overall indictment of the ethics of the trump administration, the trump family and then say the danger to the country is that this will be investigated if democrats are elected. >> good evening, lawrence. you almost went into brian william's hour there going through that list. but what was so concerning for me was that they know. it is as if a lawyer asked their client, you know, tell me everything that you did and they compile this long list of their client's exposure. except, that's the problem. the republicans view donald trump as their client, as someone who they are supposed to pro

. >> donald trump's friends have warned me for years to not view donald trump as a business. he was a reality tv guy who ran a mom and pop office. >> that's right. paul and joyce raised the important questions which is what kind of immunity did weisselberg get. tom winter is reporting and suggesting it was the kind of immunity where they're compelling him to testify suggesting he's not really cooperating voluntarily. then the question of what is the southern district's end game? i've been talking to people with ties to the southern district to get some opinions on that. it's all over the map. one thing we know is that donald trump once said that robert mueller would be crossing a red line to delve into his personal and family finances. that line has exploded. it was genius to rod rosenstein to farm this out to the southern district of new york. they're going where the evidence will lead. the question is -- they're doing it in cooperation with robert mueller. at the end of the day who is responsible for ferreting out the culpability of donald trump in this scheme to violate ca

trump started running, since donald trump got elected. that is the sort of thing you would never see in the past where a candidate wouldn't talk about a man who served the state honorab honorably. talk about arizona and how arizona may have avoided -- the arizona republican party -- may have avoided a disaster in the fall and actually moved away from the person who was desperately trying to tie herself to donald trump. >> this is the best possible outcome for republicans. if anyone showed us how to walk this tight rope of trying to not completely embrace donald trump but trying not to alien ate it was martha mcsally. she did not endorse him when he was running for president. she did not alienate him, either. she tightened her position on immigration. she will be running against sinema who is a moderate. i think this race will be a very good test of whether or not someone like martha mcsally can survive in the end having somewhat aligned herself with trump in this race because it is so close. i think it will expose one of the really under

bad for donald trump. but it's good because wheels of justice were running on overdrive today in two different venues where we saw the system is still functioning. the stuff people worry about is are the wheels about to come off the wagon? they're not. and we're seeing that happen. it's obviously also the worst day in the trump presidency since may 17th of last year when bob mueller was appointed. we all thought michael cohen was going to flip. he's been sending clear signals about that. for months all the people close to him all the people reporting on him, all my reporting, everything has suggested this was going to happen, something like this. but you're right. the precision, the clarity of it, the damningness of it, those things you couldn't quite anticipate. and the fullness that -- he's all in now. and as rachel suggested on the hand-off, what's about to happen is clear. there's some suggestion he may already be commenting with bob mueller. but if he's not already he's going to be. and the reason he'

give us your sense from a legal point of view what has donald trump done to his defense or donald trump jr.'s potential legal jeopardy? >> joy, we are very close to donald trump saying in open court, you're gd right i ordered the code red! this is beyond ridiculous. what we have right now is donald trump admitting, admitting for the first time that his son colluded or conspired, which is the legal term, with a foreign operative to influence an american election and we have trump admitting now kind of indirectly that he covered it up. so we can talk a lot about whether this proves collusion or conspiracy. what i'm more focused on is this proves obstruction. you need the underlying crime, the underlying illegality to make an obstruction for justice case and trump just admitted on twitter what the underlying crime was. it's an amazing, hilarious thing. >> it's actually not the first time he has admitted to something that could be called obstruction of justice. let's go back to the may 2017 lester holt interview in which donald trump admitted why he fired jim comey. take a listen. >> regard

i did not know donald trump. i knew he was a racist because i listened to the racist things he very happily said in public then. omarosa tells us that donald trump told her then that he wasn't being racist when he was lying about president obama's birth. he was just using it as a political device. omarosa wasn't the only one who refused to call donald trump a racist seven years ago. virtually the entire political news media held their fire back then and begged donald trump to do another tv interview talking about the obama birth certificate because it was good for ratings. the omarosa story is about what it means to be complicit and how many people in how many places are complicit in the cruelty and incompetence of the trump white house and the trump administration and how they all must at some level know that they are complicit no matter what they are willing to say now. >> yes. it is hindsight. but i will say this to you. i was complicit with this white house deceiving this nation. nay continue to deceive this

i give donald trump credit for that. on cable newse did fear mongering around the meeting with korea. you do not get to make peace with your friends. you make peace with your enemies. i do not mind he met with kim jong-un, i just wish he got results but he got no results. but he said, now we do not have a nuclear problem in north korea but they are still building nukes. he is not that bright. i judge him on his actions, not based on his being donald trump. it's like whatever he does, i am fine with it, who cares about law and order. he gets nothing out of negotiations, who cares. he was going to close a loophole on hedge fund taxes. i said during the campaign, not sure i believe him but if he follows through, i will give him credit. then they did the giant tax cut for the rich. they did not close the loophole for hedge funds. donald trump is a liar. he lied about that. ,e is not looking out for you he is looking out for the guys who gave him money. he said he would negotiate drug prices with the drug companies on behalf

we've commented at the time that donald trump, like, only 35, 36% of americans found donald trump to be honest and trustworthy. in the 50s found him to be a liar and dishonest. he just happened to be running against somebody who actually had lower hon effort and trustworthy numbers than him. pretty remarkable. gene robinson. i want to follow-up on what the rev and willie and -- and we were all talking about, donny, talking about it. about knowing this guy for ten years. >> uh-huh. >> and this is the bizarre thing about it. he talked about fund-raisers for chuck schumer. nancy pelosi. i mean, he was a democrat. behind closed doors wasn't even posing for anybody, he gave a ton of money to the dnc. he gave money to rahm emanuel. he did all of these things that would have allowed him to make that turn, like i think a lot of those democrats believed that he was going to make. again, he was always broodi ibr publicly, shallow, always insecure, but i think everybody assumed, and it was a pretty good calculation that those very quality would make him want to be beloved so much that he'd rath

whether you like '70s donald trump, lifestyles of the rich and famous donald trump, 8'80s donald trump. >> my point is, let's say you put them on a scale. of wrongdoing. let's just say everything is wrong. i'm just -- i'm just generalizing here. there is the scale, like donald trump would weigh the scale down and would be like a seesaw and hillary clinton would go flying off. i'm just wondering, is this just pure misogyny, people won't say it? >> people have hated hillary clinton. and responded extremely viscerally negatively from the minute she arrived on the political scene in 1992, long before anyone was suggesting he was corrupt. remember, back then it was the idea she wouldn't bake cookies -- >> she was standing by her man. remember that? >> right. she has been always as potential woman president and as a feminist a tremendous threat to the established order and coming on the heels of barack obama who represented a -- >> a tremendous threat. >> -- profound shift. the conversation, i remember going to the 20 16 republican convention and looking at the paraphernalia sold outside. i'

so worried about donald trump tweeting against them. no paranoid being mocked by rush limbaugh or sean hannity. at best they are saying let's get through the cavanaugh hearings. let's get a supreme court justice and we'll grapple with donald trump after the election. >> won't there be something else down the road? now that we have gotten through that, let's get through this. >> that's the problem. we're in dangerous waters. just like omarosa doing her 200 tapes every week. she's a student of donald trump who will be taking away from security clearance from people with 20, 30 plus career serving the united states in the best and most noble way. everybody needs to speak up and defend brennan right now. i've been surprised that former president george w. bush staying so quiet. eight years a president of the united states. his father been head of the cia. the cia is named after bush. speak up and denounce donald trump because some of these other people aren't household names where bush is. >> is this how a purge starts? >> it is. most thing

if you're donald trump and you're donald trump's lawyer and you're watching what's played out in that courtroom over the course of this week with paul manafort, are you worried as donald trump's lawyer? a, are you worried, and b, if you're worried, what are the things you've seen this week that as donald trump's lawyer you would be most concerned about? >> you've got to be deeply worried. like barb says, it's a paper case and you can't cross-examine paper. it says what it says. it's evidence that the jury will have back with them in the jury room when they deliberate. the other problem that emerges for manafort from this testimony is now a string of accountant but thenesses who say he either concealed his foreign accounts from them or they knew about accounts and helped him doctor his paperwork so it looks as though both on the tax fraud and the side and also the bank fraud side of this investigation, he gets convicted. and then trump has to be worried about what happens next. does manafort stay true, hoping he might get a pardon? or does he reach a point where he decides it's in his

of donald trump? this was a crime designed to help donald trump get elected president. it didn't make michael cohen any money. it doesn't help him. it was a crime for donald trump, so the claim that he directed it has a lot of credibility. >> david gregory, you are on with us virtually every morning talking about the different the leads, the different incremental steps in these investigations, what is your thought this morning? >> well, i agree with jeffrey. this is a huge moment, not just because of what's happened, but because of what could happen. and that is in the legal realm in terms of michael cohen cooperating. will paul manafort ultimately cooperate? what about michael flynn who is cooperating with the special counsel? so there are a lot of players now who start to potentially construct an enterprise, a criminal enterprise, that is around or may even involve the president. and we are still not talking about what is the central thrust of the investigation, which is whether there was collusion

is donald trump's twitter account. jillian: some people like his twitter account. some people enjoy it. a lot of people rely on social media as a form of communication. wendy, would you agree on joe kennedy? >> i dissent on that because myself as a millennial we are looking for characteristics, kennedy has them but i'm not sure he will be a front runner. polls are misleading, we have joe biden who is the front runner and a lot of polls. we know joe biden, he is a white male, 75 years old looking for fresh blood. joe biden will get into the dirt with trump. someone who will punch back and speak to those flyover states, someone who is there for the people and he has that record. what i will say, whoever is the winning ticket for the democrat is going to have ethnic or gender minorities, someone who speaks to that demographic, we have candidates like kristin jill a brand, and someone who speaks to these minority groups. >> the divide in the democratic party, that you are united in messaging going forward and who should be

this has been donald trump's darkest 2a hours. the most serious accusations have been made and his legal difficulties have multiplied. jon sopel, bbc news, washington. much more to come on a turbulent day for donald trump yesterday and the ramifications. we'll be talking about that in a few minutes more. bring you up to date now on other news to do with the australian politics in the revolving door at the top. we know it very well, the number of prime ministers that have been elected in the last ten years or $0 been elected in the last ten years or so to been elected in the last ten years orso toi been elected in the last ten years or so to i think the number is at six or seven. the current australian prime minister, malcolm turnbull, is now facing a second leadership challenge with the man who once his job, demanding a liberal party meeting to vote on the issue to the web will report on tuesday when malcolm turnbull had survived a leadership contest 48 votes to 35. the former home affairs minister, peter button is seen as a hardl