this is just six things. >> trump store, ground level. trump cafe, ground level. but i will say, if you're thirsty for a coffee, it's easy to figure out where starbucks is. >> level two. >> the trump building includes five floors of retail. unless you spend a very, very long time in the lobby or wade through a mountain of public records, it is not easy to find out who takes the elevators to the office floors and 39 stories of luxury condos above. that's always been the case even before he was president. >> they're not being transparent about who is doing business here. >> donald trump's potential conflict of interests begin with his clients and tenants. dan alexander and his team have been piecing that information together. >> it's a business with a lot of tentacles. and everywhere you look you find conflicts. >> how do you do it? how do you figure out with donald trump has conflicts of interest that strike at the heart of american democracy. >> donald trump has to list, hey, i own this skyscraper. but he doesn't have to say anything about how the actual business

this is the crown jewel of the donald trump empire. >> this is where he made his mark. >> trump tower is the home base for donald trump and his sprawling real estate portfolio. this iconic building has served both for his popular reality show that aired on nbc "the apprentice" and as the launchpad for the most improbable campaign to succeed. look at all the different windows. who's paying what money to where inside that building? this is trump international? >> yep. hotel and tower. so there are apartments here, but it is also a hotel. >> i've never heard of one person that stayed in that hotel. >> saudis have stayed there. and not just any saudis. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, officials traveling with crown prince mohammed bin salman stayed at the trump international for five days following a white house visit in march 2018. >> there was a letter by the general manager saying the saudis have helped us with our bottom line. but just because you might see the trump name on a building doesn't mean donald trump owns it. >> so every single one of these have the trump name on

trump: thank you. it is great to be joined by a number of champions for americans' veterans, including secretary of education betsy devos. betsy? betsy, doing a great job. deputy v.a. secretary james byrne. james, thank you. great job. a man who has really done a great job, i do not know if the is always appreciated, that he has done an incredible job, and your state is doing phenomenal business, and i want to take all of the credit, but i can't, because he has done a lot, too, because he has been a truly great governor, matt bevin. thank you, matt. kentucky has had record numbers some of the best they've ever had in any category. it is a really incredible thing. and a man that i just watched on television, he is so good. congressman thomas massie, where is thomas? good job. thomas, say hello to our friends back in washington. that was a good job. i just watched you. i cannot come to kentucky without also praising the exceptional work of senator mitch mcconnell. [applause] pres. trump: i have to tell y

trump: and for japan. >> yes. are you still considering imposing section 232 tariffs on japan's auto exports to the united states on national security grounds? pres. trump: not at this moment. no. that's one of the reasons we made this deal but not at this moment. it's something i could do at a later date but we're not looking at that, we just want to be treated fairly. japan has had a tremendous trade surplus for many years long before i came here. i'll tell you something, we are transforming our country. we're taking the horrible , one-sided, foolish, very dumb, stupid, if you would like to use that word, because it is so descriptive, we are taking these trade deals that are so bad and we're making good, solid deals out of them. and that is transforming our country. that will be transformative and very exciting i think for our country, very exciting. go ahead. >> thank you, mr. president. pres. trump: i didn't actually say yes, the one behind her. why don't we do her first, you have been asking questions all day

i think the leaders are waiting trump out. i think they are waiting trump out. i think they are waiting to see what happens in the election and until then they have to race this is very unusual president of the united states to his unpredictable as we saw today and he was all over the map on china and first he called the president and enemy and then he said he was going to rethink his position on the ta riffs to rethink his position on the tariffs and he said no, that tariffs should have been higher and then today once again just before the stock market went up he said he wa nted stock market went up he said he wanted to have talks and he received some communication from china which of course did jamie said it was not the case. >> it's as you say it very hard to keep up. it's very hard for foreign leaders to keep up. i was interested to see president trump in his relationship with emmanuel macron because there was a lot there mr trump could not have been happy about, being ambushed for lunch, the iranian foreign minister turning up, mr trying to talk about clima

i think donald trump is beatable. it's very hard to beat an incumbent president, particularly with the current campaign finance laws in which an incumbent president can raise unlimited money. the last incumbent not in the federal funding system to lose wa herbert hoover and he had a bad year. but it's ominous. if the democrats get their act together and coalesce behind a really good ticket, they should be able to win this race. but i do think, looking at polls now, trying to predict what's going to happen november 2020, is not very useful. >> and stewart, we do know historically that when an incumbent president is challenged in the primaries within his own party, that incumbent president never wins re-election, every single time it's happened. >> yeah, it's interesting. if you sort of drill down, whether or not that's a leading or trailing indicator. the fact that there is a primary, an indication of a larger weakness, and that's why he loses? or the fact that he's in a primary why he loses? the reality is the primari

i think it was against trump. >> carrie sheffield: against trump it was not never trump it was against trump. >> brent bozell: that's exactly what it was. i get endorsed and produced. i was asked to submit a piece as to why i was supporting to cruise over donald trump. in the book, i stand by it. donald trump didn't walk with conservatives like reagan did. but simple.was unfortunately it became the bible for never trump. there were some people within national view and continue to be very vocal anti- trump and they were in the view. . . . . . . i do believe was brian williams who filed the story. we actually did a story about this. we actually did. talk about the pot calling the kettle black. isn't it fascinating how the media are constantly savaging the president for the language he uses? while calling him a or calling him a fascist, while calling him every despicable name you could hurl at the president of the united states. attempting to do far worse than what they do. they have no right, none but you have a right. i have a right. these books have a right to pass judgment on donald t

>> i think donald trump is still the donald trump he always has been. he has shed some, no doubt, that couldn't work for him anymore. he had racism and particularly egregious and bothered people, the attack on the kingwomen of col congresswoman and congressman of baltimore and cities with large populations is unsettling to some but it's not as if we haven't heard things similar in the past. it's not clear why there would suddenly be more of a split now in which scaramucci goes, to be fair, it was more than just 11 days. he kpwas a campaign surrogate. he was in the white house almost from the beginning. right now if it's skaf mucci and omarosa, i don't think that will have much of an impact. >> one of the things we have seen from politico is tomba rack, very personal friend of trump, ran his inaugural committee and now they seemed to have had a falling out. curious what you know about that and whether there are potentially others like him who would be in bis crohris toll's mind, the kind of people whose serious people and public renunciation of trump cou

with trump is mr. trump, sir, mr. trump. there is this attempt to make them fun, right? >> right. >> i understand this is abc entertainment and not abc news. we saw some reports anonymous staffers upset and sean spicer to be apart of it. what has abc news done institutionally to stand up to donald trump? there is not a press briefing in 160 something days. what has abc news done to make it known it is awful and democrat i can and n democratic. >> even if your abc entertainment is something dangerous to our democracy, you don't reach out to hire this guy. >> ej, it is all across the board. we have sarah huckabee sanders going to fox news which makes sense. she will be doing her own job lying for trump. reliance prieb priebus joined the navy and hope hicks is at fox news and . h.r. mcmaster at stanford and gary cohn at harvard and corey lewandowski who harvard also gave the same opportunity. there is no penalties, ej. people like gary cohn stood right there and let trump say things about charlottesville despite the feedback they staged the caging and all the horror and enc

trump canceling a visit to a u.s. ally. and, of course, the story that has everyone asking to define the word star. sean spicer on a dance show. these are spicy stories. some are purely madcap like spicer is, some are spats that reveal something larger as u.s. foreign policy can turn on trump's frenemy issues. our top story tonight is about the trump administration's actions that are some history reaching extreme degrees. so if you heard much about this top story tonight, note donald trump isn't tweeting much about it, it doesn't involve trolling or reality shows. it is about a president seizing new powers to detain people indefinitely. let me repeat. indefinite detention. the u.s. constitution, most dem creations severely limit the government's power to detain people, people not just adults, not just legal residents but all people because protections for human rights apply to all humans. keep that in mind as you take in the trump administration's new federal rule seizing detention powers attempting to abolish the current c

trump: that is a trump talking point. you approve one thing and then another thing, and then all of a sudden you are on the slope, and all of a sudden nobody has any legal protection. we have a second amendment. let me tell you this. we have a second amendment, and our second amendment will remain strong. go ahead. yes, go ahead. >> are you worried about the potential reemergence of isis? in afghanistan -- pres. trump: at a certain point, russia, afghanistan, iran, iraq, turkey, they are going to have to fight their battles, too. we wiped out the caliphate 100%. i did it in record time. but at a certain point, all of these other countries, where isis is around, they have been decimated, badly decimated. but all of these countries are going to have to fight them because do we want to stay there for another 19 years? i do not think so. at a certain point, other countries, that includes russia, ,t includes iran, turkey, iraq and afghanistan, and pakistan, and india -- look, india is right there. they are not fighting it, we

trump: well, i want to thank you very much, and more importantly, i wanted to come up here to say that because the job that president macron, and your wife, by the way, who is a great lady, bridget, i would like to thank bridget. she's been spectacular, spent a tremendous amount of time with melania and some of the folks who came in, some of the wives who came in and had a great tour of the area and it's a beautiful area. i want to thank you very much, mr. president, for the incredible job you did. this is a truly successful g7. there was tremendous you become -- unity. there was great unity. sometimes i would read a little bit of false reporting. in fact, we wanted to stay another hour, nobody wanted to leave. we were accomplishing a lot but i think we're getting along very well. seven countries, it really was the g7 and you have been spectacular leader on this. i want to thank you and i want to thank the very great country of france. thank you very much. [applause] with that, i think, excu

trump: maybe neutral. reporter: [indiscernible] the democrats are calling given supporters the white nationalists. does that help you? pres. trump: i don't like it when they do it. i am not any of those things. it's a disgrace. it shows how desperate they are. -- how desperate the democrats are. right now i'm working with the democrats on meaningful background checks. that's a big thing. hopefully we can do something. i don't want to focus too much on that. i will say this. for them to throughout the race word, racist, racist, racist -- that is all they use. they called nancy pelosi racist. she is not a racist. they call anybody racist when they run out of cards. i am winning in the polls. they are desperate. they have lousy candidates. they have bad candidates. i watched the debates. well, joe biden can't answer a simple question. something is going wrong with him. the only thing is a lot of people think that he was the one that wanted bob mueller to testify. it made joe look intelligent. reporter: is you

he said i've never seen -- they have trump banners and trump hats and trump buttons. [cheering] pres. trump: true. in this great congressman said, i don't know, but i can tell you one thing, if the rest of the country is voting like tennessee is voting, you are going to win by a lot. and we won. and we won by a lot. [cheering] pres. trump: our nation is stronger today than ever before. [cheering] pres. trump: we have the number one economy on earth. no economy is close. [cheering] pres. trump: we are rebuilding the awesome might of the united states military, and soon it will be stronger, relatively speaking, than at any time in our history. and when we took over, it was depleted. [cheering] pres. trump: we took over a depleted military. it is not depleted anymore, i can tell you that. our spirit is strong, our stride is back, and our stand is clear. we are finally putting america first. it is about time. [cheering] [chanting "usa!"] pres. trump: we have created 6 million new jobs since election day. nobody would have thought that was possible. more than 7 million ame

won trump's support. that's the -- it's all politics. >> i'm glad you reminded us of that convention moment. i remember that. it was pretty shocking. >> it was remarkable. you thought they'll never patch things up. well. >> another texan rival now turned ally, governor rick perry. watch this. >> he offers a barking carnival act that can best be described as trumpism. a toxic mix of demagoguery and mean spiritedness and nonsense. >> listen, perry's one of the most stable members of the trump cabinet in a white house known for a high turnover. how has he managed to stay on so long after such a stinging rebuke? >> it's remarkable to think we're four years on and he's the energy secretary. he has been since the start of the trump administration. how has he been able to stay on? donald trump loves a redemption story. right, he loves the, we used to be rivals, but rick and i are good now. the way that it works is if you capitulate to trump. if you either apologize to him or you acknowledge he was really right,

melania trump's bets. 8-1. trump to marry -- this is real stuff. to marry for furth time as president is 50-1. and melania trump to run for president against trump in 2020 is 200-1. other bets. trump convicted by the senate in his first material. 16-1. trump impeached by the house in his first material. 3-1. trump opens area 51 to the public in first material. 2-1. france will ask for the statue of liberty back. 200-1. and finally, trump narcissism specials betting odds. trump to have a u.s. navy ship named after him. 7-1. to have a u.s. military base named after him. 12-1. trump to publish precise dimensions of his hands on twitter. 50-1. okay. the interesting thing is going back to the betting odds. that right now, odds still have trump as 50/50 in vegas. >> there's the power of incumbency. i would say to go back to the silly ones, do they have bachelor trump in the white house. that work remarkable theater. we think we're in a remarkable theater now? imagine that. >> you say that in jest. we all know that trump is into producing a reality show.

trump's casino economy. this week's ominous storm warnings from the bond markets, china, and germany show a looming recession or maybe worse. are trump's erratic trade grenades equivalent to what he did to his casinos in the '90s? >> come to the casino in atlantic city. it's more than a hotel. it's a resort. how about this? it's got action, it's got night life, the whole deal. it's too much. it's too much, isn't it? i like that. you're gonna love it. >> and that was just one of his six bankruptcies. jonathan lemire, is a $39 hotel room in vegas a precursor to the $4 billion in debt, one of the many things along with the trade wars, all of a sudden china and germany showing signs of softening and the market starting to crater? >> right. the whole deal for this president is the economy. he and his team are banked on th banking on that. granted of course he inherited a strong economy from president obama, it was already on the rise. for most measures, the economy has been pretty good during president trump's te

being put out there we're going to let donald trump be donald trump. he's the guy that's not politically correct. he tells it like it is. he says what everyone else is thinking yadda, yadda, yadda and at the same time we're supposed to believe he has this very well reserved views of people around him. donald trump, you watch the very first republican primary debate. the first question he gets, he says, well, i'm not about being politically correct. statements like that are very believable. "a," everything that donald trump says suggests he believes these sorts of things and, "b," he presents himself as saying these sorts of things. for us to then give him the benefit of the doubt in terms of how he approaches other people is foolish on our part. >> it has real world implications for people. donald trump is maybe doing this because it will get him votes or get him national attention. but there are people out there in the country who listen to this stuff and taunt kids at school or beat people in the street or god forbid shoot people in their houses of w

>> i think donald trump and donald trump jr. with the pocohantas smear a week ago, that was a recognition both of them and the father in particular is worried about elizabeth warren. i think you will see donald trump targeting joe biden and elizabeth warren going forward. they represent threats to him in a different way. he sees joe biden he thinks wisconsin and michigan and swing states. he sees elizabeth warren, he sees someone smarter than him and more disciplined in him, on a debate stage could slice him up a bit. he was afraid of that with hillary clinton. the difference between hillary clinton and elizabeth warren, she's a much more effective messenger and brings real passion to this voters are starting to pick up on. >> we talked about biden in the last block and elizabeth warren. you have bernie sanders sitting there at 15, kind of tied with warren on the national level. seen a lot of other polls, seen his support dwindling. a bunch of candidates in single digits but lower spheres of single digits. i want to ask you, you

but that's what we have right now with donald trump. >> still ahead on "morning joe," donald trump has been talking a lot suggesting yesterday that any jewish people who vote for democrats are quote showing great disloyalty. >> boy, that sounds familiar. >> the reaction to that as you can imagine was intense. >>> plus, we've got lots of 2020 including an exclusive first look at joe biden's brand new campaign video, plus the former vice president is asked what his wife meant when she said democrats have to swallow a little bit and vote for him, even if they prefer another candidate's positions. you're watching "morning joe," we'll be right back. >>> they have been having these talks for hundreds of years, even under different names, it's kashmir, and it is a complicated place, you have the hindus and the muslims and i wouldn't say they get along so great, and that's what you have right now. chair is just a chair. that a handle is just a handle. or... that you can't be both inside and outside. most people haven't driven a lincoln. it's the final days of the lincoln summer invitation even

two things, it throws trump off his message, potentially if trump responds it could throw him off his message and not what he should be focusing on and it takes trump away from his other top target which is the democrats and going after the opponents that he's eventually going to face. it also gives independent voters who typically vote republican, it reminds them why they don't like the president. they have someone on tv saying we can't re-elect somebody who has no morals and who talks like this. it reminds republicans who actually voted for democrats and helped democrats flip the house and gave it to nancy pelosi why they don't want to support him again. >> yeah, it's interesting. if the president engages with joe walsh, his advisers will, i assume, jump off a building because there's no reason to do it. but yet that's the pinch. he's the guy who can pull him into the morass to some degree. >> he engages with tv programs, he's going to engage with joe walsh. i will hunt down any news outlet that spends a news cycle reporting on the president's nickname for sdwrjoe walsh but that's w

president trump: where? >> ukraine. president trump: we're looking at ukraine now. i was going to meet with the new president but because of the fact we have this really massive hurricane coming in, i had to cancel my trip to poland where i was going to meet the president of ukraine among other things. mike pence is going to poland and taking my place and will be a great job. it will be a beautiful weekend and celebration of the past and mike pence will do a great job. i felt it was important i stay here. and we'll be up at camp david working hard. we have a lot of things happening with respect to that hurricane. we have to be very careful. it could be one of the biggest that we've seen. so far it's looking not good, i have to be honest with you. >> what about china? >> dividing the trip to poland and germany? president trump: i'll be going to poland at a later date. we have a great relationship with poland and we'll be doing that and angela merkel invited me to go to germany so at some point we'll be setting that up. [inaudible question] president trump: i don't wa

laughing about the trump lies. what we said back then was that the el paso police department estimated that beto o'rourke's crowds between 10,000 and 15,000 people and everyone in that room yesterday knows that. they know that it was not 400 people. but most importantly, no one in that room except donald trump and the third mrs. trump care about that crowd now. no one cares about that this week. no one cared about that in that hospital yesterday except donald trump and that is because donald trump's untreatable lifelong preversion is he appears to care about no human being other than himself and he makes that manifest in every public moment that requires a demonstration that he is capable of caring about other people. capable of empathy. the white house propaganda video yesterday was designed to pretend that donald trump cares about other people. a report from cnn.com says that according to an el paso hospital official, there was a general assessment there was an absence of empathy on trump's part during his visit

here trump's under water by 7 points. finally there are white women with a high school degree, okay? in 2016 they went for trump by almost 30 points. now he only has a 4-point edge. look at that. and for all the talk about how the trump ledge is about the nonworking white class, these men work for the same companies and face a challenge or worse like men without a degree. they also have watched loved ones succumb to opioid addictions, all the same issues and trump is barely holding on there. that's the state of play right now. trump thinks he can run this strategy that cleaves the country into two chunks where he gets 40 plus%. he thinks he can win and govern with that 40 plus percent. and it is a wild test of american mechanics to see if that is going to work a second time. remember the things trump does to consolidate his base also alienates people. they announced they were endorsing trump's re-election, one of their board members jennifer horn decided it was too much for her. and she was telling "the washington post,"

all the leaders except for trump said yes and trump said no. michael, our reporter in europe, said it was as if trump was the dictator himself in that setting. it illustrated how far away he was from the consensus of these democratic allies, france, britain, germany, italy. >> i will come back to your great reporting and "politico"'s great reporting. you have taken us down an important path. i want to get you on the record. what phil described, not doing a volume of lies and chaos, would have stopped washington in their tracks, if barack obama -- president obama had done what phil just described, president bush had done it, a summit at which democracy matters. behind closed doors and obviously not much of an effort made to keep it secret because it's been reported by phil's excellent colleagues. we now know donald trump advocating more aggressively for vladamir putin. we know his body of statements about how we're killers, too. there's nothing extraordinary about putin killing this event. why isn't there an outcry? why is joe walsh the only rep

trump: no. what happens is china devalues their currency, and china is polling money out, and that will pay for the tariffs. i don't say that with all with china, they are very highly sophisticated, but so are we. more than anybody would understand. all you have to do is ask china. all you have to do is ask china. let me just explain. so, china is devaluing their currency and they are also pouring money in. their currency is going to hell. but there are also pouring money in. and that will totally pay for the tariffs. the tariffs are not being paid for by our people, it is being paid for by china, because of the evaluation, and because they are pumping money and. thank you. >> [reporter's question indiscernible] pres. trump: well, you interviewed the wrong farmer, number one. number two, any amount china takes out is made up by the billions of dollars we are taking in. remember this, our country is taking in billions of dollars from china. we never took in $.10 from china, and out of that many b

trump came out and asked for lunch at trump tower. and you said, he pushed back softly and gently to words i would have thought could never appear in a sentence also containing the word trump. you described him as full of humility and graciousness which was 3.5 months before he declared and then he said, after he declared and was very braggadocio is and he said the man i met was nowhere to be found now that he was on stage. there is not a hint of humility or thoughtfulness or kindness. all the things he has shown to me. why do you think in your opinion does a presidents embrace a persona that seems to be so different from the person you seen privately and you think this hurts him with the females, with minority voters who maybe that is not their cup of tea. >> very good question. and, i am not alone, many people have said the same thing that in private he's a very different person. i was stunned. perception is what i went into believing i was going to get. and, as i wrote in the book, it was the opposite. thoughtful, quiet, inquisitiv

by cnn count donald trump has spend 287 days at the trump properties as president. that brings money to the facilities concerns. >> yes of course concerns. the american taxpayers are spending millions of dollars and putting into the trump family's own pockets. this is unethical at minimum. and to return to what scott said. maybe scott doesn't have concerns about this. but it just might be unconstitutional to hold the g-7 summit at one of the trump properties. this is what the emoluments claus is about. i know it's a funny word and doesn't roll off the tongue. but it's to prevent foreign governments from trying to use money to influence our president. we should all be concerned about it. he profits, though, from the fact that there are tern concerns a day. ten outrages a day. sometimes even i will say i can't get that upset about this one. >> scott your response to the specific issue, because as joan notes, the constitution does specifically profiting from foreign governments for the obvious reason it doesn't want sitting u.s. presidents influenced by financial incen

[indiscernible] president trump: that is ok. i don't mind. the tweet is a repeat of what i heard over the news. i know his house was robbed, and i thought that was too bad. that was not meant as a wiseguy tweet. his house was robbed, and it came over the news at a certain moment last night. >> [indiscernible] president trump: china, number one -- you have to understand, we are so far behind, we have been treated so badly. i blame our leaders, our past trade representatives. they have done a horrible job. china, we can't just make an even with china. we have to make a much better deal with china, because they have an unfair playing field, and i am turning it around. we are getting 25% of $250 billion. now we will be getting 10% of probably close to $350 billion. that is a lot of money. china has to do a lot of things to turn it around, but you will be seeing -- it goes on september 1. frankly, if they don't do them, i can increase it substantially. if i wanted to, i could increase it to a much higher number. >> [indiscernible] president trump:

supreme court be trump appointees, just those appointed by trump. that would basically leave you with a 7-2 conservative majority on the court. i don't hear a lot of democrats talking about that. i didn't hear any of the democrats during the debates talk once about the supreme court. in fact. but, you know, as you lay out, joe, there are certainly a number of pickup opportunities for democrats in the senate. i think it gets a little hard because you have states like alabama where you have senator doug jones who is going to have a really tough fight there. and states that are kind of on the bubble. north carolina. it's going to be hard to knock off tom tillis though he is a vulnerable guy. susan collins as well. that will be a really tough race. it really is where republicans from what i'm hearing are putting all of their resources. it is their firewall especially if they lose the presidency. >> all right. thanks so much for being with us. we always appreciate it. >> thanks, joe. >>> coming up, another run-in between the trump administration, civil r

of trump enterprises. and congress one question needs to be addressed by the investigative committee why did trump fire james komi. why do you believe you were fired. so i don't know for sure i believe the prick think the president at his word that i was fired because of the russian versification something about the way i was conducting it the president felt created pressure on him they wanted to relieve he was asking for something and i was refusing to give it. and fact early in his term trump asked to speak to komi in private. there was a meeting at the white house a one on one meeting between trump and call me call me must have had his antenna up because he felt like something was wrong because as soon as he was done that meeting he wrote up these memos. after meeting with trump call me sat in his car and wrote down what was discussed the meeting was about general fled the advisor who had lied about his contacts with russia trump said he hoped komi come let the matter go. i hope you can let this go now

something that still upsets trump. now, we can extrapolate from ratcliffe's qualifications for the job, what his white house -- what this white house occupant is really looking for in the next director of national intelligence. it might say things like must be willing to attack special counsel robert mueller, must want to settle trump's scores for the russia investigation. or as the economist put it, donald trump wants a loyalist as america's top intelligence official. r and it might end sooner than we think. trump says he's got a short list in his pocket with three names on it and he'll be mulling it this weekend while you pay for his vacay at his golf resort in new jersey. the director of national intelligence, senator mark warner said the president should nominate someone with a deep knowledge of the intelligence community with respect for the hard work they do and be able to speak truth to power when necessary. joining us now is senator ron wyden. when the president tweeted he was withdrawing the nomination today,

cuche any little is carrying out the trump plan, the trump agenda. and that idea that everyone must be self-sufficient misreads america in ways. first, there is nothing wrong with people who happen to receive federal benefits sometimes. whether they're seniors on social security or veterans who get health insurance or workers who get unemployment insurance because they've lost a job by no fault of their own in a recession or corporate decision or children who get food assistance. let's remember there is no insult, no failing in participating in those programs at some point in your life. it's part of our social safety net. long funded and operated if you want to get political by yes, administrations in both parties. then there's the immigration piece of this, second. america's ethic has striped to welcome people regardless of what they look like or what they make. in fact, when it does come to struggle when that is a part of the analysis of where people are coming from and what they went through, our rhetoric and our asylum policies have long noted so

♪ >>> president trump says the united states is far from a recession. but inside the white house, anxiety is not over on how to hide a trade war with china. >>> the prime minister declines to sell them greenland. >>> and president trump accuses jewish democrats of great disloyalty and a total lack of knowledge and fierce backlash from jewish groups and democratic lawmakers. >>> good morning, everyone. it's wednesday, august 21st, i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian. we start with the president, where he says he's considering cutting pay roll taxes for individuals. speaking in the oval office yesterday, trump confirmed that the idea is in fact on the take. >> payroll taxes, i've been thinking about payroll taxes for a long time. whether or not we do it now or not -- it's not being done because of recession. because we are legitimately, if we had a cut in interest rates by the fed, if they would do their job properly, and if they would do a meaningful cut, because they raised too fast, you would see growth like you've not seen ever in this co

perhaps even without trump realizing he's being used. september 2018 several of trump's close aides have agreed to cooperate with investigators. his former campaign director palm and ford and his lawyer michael cohen have already signed agreements with robert mueller. they all agree to cooperate with the investigation if they do so fully the prison sentences they are facing will be reduced apparently those close aides to try catholics and are ready to share with bob muller the secrets of the president. president trump finds himself in a corner the walls are closing in on him many doesn't know where to run. him to keep the yankees the impeach word impeach trump matching what and we will impeach him but he didn't do anything wrong it doesn't matter we will impeach or. it is a hell of a play should. know better 2018 the midterm elections are approaching fast trump burns off the campaign trail. if his party keeps control over congress his legal troubles might fade away. the results are a blow to the president. the american voters give the ho

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this is the 35th time one of trump's nominations went busto, forcing trump to pull a 180. when asked what ratcliff's demise says about the white house vetting process, watch this. >> i think the white house has a great vetting give a name, i g out to the press, and you vet for me. the vetting process for the white house is very good. but you're part of the vetting process, you know? i give out a name to the press and they vet for me. we save a lot of money that way. >> oh, okay. your vetting process is our fault. got it. you're also saving money by not vetting anybody, and letting us do it for you. perfection. so maybe we shouldn't be surprised that ratcliff met this fate. as we wait for round two of presidential roulette dni addition, this is more than just a mere hiring decision. the zrvegs dni is the top intel official in the nation, coordinating all the other agencies. who the president picks for ha gig matters. it determines the strength of the entire intelligence community. and it's not hard to see why donald trump might want to reign in the intelligence agent sis. t

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trump. in others it will be played with the deadly darkness of shakespeare's richard the iii. and if we are lucky, future audiences watching all of the plays about the madness of donald trump will be watching them the way i watched the madness of george iii in 1992. they will be watching something that feels like it happened a long time ago in a crazy moment in history that could never come again. if we're lucky, when future audiences are looking back at it, the madness of donald trump will look like a four-year explosion in our politics and culture that came and went within the space of two presidential elections and all of the polling that came out this week strongly supports the possibility that the trump presidency will crash into democracy on the next election night and this time lose. donald trump has an approval rating which, if it holds, makes it impossible for him to be re-elected. "the associated press" shows 62% disapprove of donald trump's job appearance with 36% approving. there

and he's looking at a trump challenge. trump is an unfit conman. those are his words, here he was. >> are you running against him? >> i'm strongly considering it. the only way you primary donald donald trump and beat him is to expose him for the conman he is. >> it's kind of quick, you're not going to beat donald trump in the primaries, i think what walsh is saying, somebody has to punch him back. and someone has to punch him back. as you know, from covering politics as long as you have there's been a lot of time people have been waiting for people in the senate to do that with donald trump to punch him back, on all kinds of republican orthodoxy including the size of the deficit. including relationship with russia, donald trump has been on the opposite side of the fence. but they're not punching him back, because they're afraid of hymn. because he's very popular with the republican base, and they don't want to lose their elections. walsh has nothing to lose at this point. he's not in congress. he can punch as hard as he wants, he's not going to win

when you talk about anything else, focus on trump. and trump's racism. and -- you're missing like a national emergency happening right now because you're going after obama who joe and i can have a long conversation about here on this show and say, you know what, there are some issues with the obama administration which was the presidency that handed off to trump there are definitely some problems. but we're like missing a huge moment right now in terms of the democratic platform and how they're presenting themselves to the american people and getting more votes against trump. you're going to let him win again and it's a frightening moment, in my opinion. >> if you take the democratic debate and you played that two or three years from now, you would have no idea that that democratic debate was set right in the middle of donald trump's amping up of racial hostilities, attacking elijah cummings. >> the head of oversight. >> calling him a racist. attacking the city of baltimore. attacking black leaders across the united states of america. attacking urban cen

to trump before it's too late. they're getting some help from people who know the president. just yesterday, anthony scaramucci announced he would create a super pac with a goal to dismantle trump by running advertisements attacking him. here's the former white house community indications director discussing what he hopes to accomplish. >> he also knows that the, you know, look at the end of the day, you know, you know, i can grab ahold of five, six, 8% of the people that know he's nuts and possibly move them. and so that's what we'll be working on over the next 15 months. >> the mucc talks like a regular person at least. according to a new morning consult, politico poll voters would pin an economic recession on trump and 49% of his own pace would name him at least partially responsible for an economic downturn. that's not the only bad news for president trump in that poll. two of the democrats he likes to mock are leading him in head-to-head matchups. that's next. you are watching "hardball." ext. you are watching

trump can't deny it. it's a huge problem and it goes against the back drop we have talked about that the country is changing. the white population is shrinking and there's no doubt it's been a concerted part of the trump campaign to be able to exploit the us versus them divisions. when you do that, when it gets amplified on social media, awfulness happens. yes, you can say the shooting took place because of donald trump, but you can't deny that when you look at those rallies, when you look at the rhetoric, when you look at the output on social media both from the campaign and from supporters that things are getting cranked up to a level. that it is purposeful in some ways to really play in to that -- oh, there's us and there's them. and the only way you can really dial that back is through national leadership. like that is what you have. when you think of what george bush did versus what trump did, you can say the country is changing, let's have the party, let's have the country sort of adapt with it or y

trump: go ahead. to france, yes. >> china was not on the official agenda but it was certainly a big part of the discussions here at the g7. are you concerned that the trade war that exists now between the united states and china could harm the global economy? if you are, did you talk to president trump about that? and are you also concerned about if china's current trade practices go unchecked, in a decade from now, we could be in a terrible situation? pres. macron: [speaking french] translator: we obviously had lengthy discussions. during the session, the world economy yesterday morning. on both subjects. the discussions underway between china and the united states of america, obviously as we clearly see creates uncertainty, which disturbed markets and investors. and during the negotiations will create tensions which is a a -- is the case of any discussion. we saw this on different stock markets with which you are familiar. now the question is to know what the results of these discussions will be, an

>> donald trump coddles the nra. donald trump loves the nra. donald trump has no reason to be afraid of it because he sees them as an ally. at the end of the day his policies will be lined up with the nras. >> let me show you all of the things donald trump has attributed the epidemic of guns, violence to in his career. >> mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun. we must stop the glorification of violence in our society. this includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace. bad guys aren't giving up their guns. and you're not going to be giving up your guns either. if we had guns in california on the other side where the bullets went in a different direction, you wouldn't have 14 or 15 people dead right now. if even in paris they had guns on the other side going in the opposite direction, you wouldn't have 130-plus dead. if they knew there were guns in the room, it might not have happened. >> where do you start? >> when you have a presidential candidate that says i can shoot someone on fifth avenue and get

inouncer: trump be overseas france. before departing he spoke to reporters about the ongoing trade dispute with china. and the action of federal reserve chairman jerome powell. president trump: we put a lot of tariffs on china today. they put a lot on us. billion -- we50 are up to $550 billion. we want that stopped. ok? we will see what happens. it depends if they want to do that. they want to have talks. i'm always open to talks. reporter: [inaudible] pres. trump: in 1977, we had the rights emergency act. have the absolute right. 1977 -- i have the absolute right. 1977. check it out. we are taking in thousands of billions of dollars. china's manipulating their currency. people don't understand that yet. at the same time, china had the worst year probably anywhere from 30 to 50 years. they want to make a deal. happy with jay powell. i don't think he is much of a chessplayer. that's what i have, what can i tell you? he is not much of a chessplayer. i am going to say prime minister ali -- prime minister albee. he is a gre