Days now hes been tweeting an attempt to from possible conclusion between his campaign and russia. Referring to his story on fox this morning, for example, trump tweeted such amazing reporting on unmasking and the crooked scheme against u. S. By fox and friends spied on before nomination, the real story. From there the president went back to his rearview mirror, the giant one, did Hillary Clinton ever apologize in receiving the answers to that debate . Just asking. This is the president of the United States. Attacking nbc news, when will sleepy eyes chuck todd Start Talking about the audio surveillance scandal. Theyre following in line on that point. Three out of five pollsters dont oppose an fbi polls. 65 who do want to get an investigation going by the fbi. Well, trump meanwhile seems desperate to distract attention from any investigation about anything the president may have done to thank putin for help. The ranking democrat in house and Intelligence Committee called out the president for his diversion nair tactics. Hes not subtle. And i think his tweets tell the story and the story is, look over there at leaks and look over there at anything the Obama Administration we can claim did wrong on this collection on anything else. Whatever you do, under no circumstances, look here at me or at russia. I would tell people whenever they see the president use the word fake, it ought to set off alarm bells. I think thats really whats gone on here. Meanwhile, released financial disclose sure form shows michael flip failed to report payments he received from russianrelated companies in his filing with the ethics of government last february. Among his reported income was the 45,000 he received from rt, as well as payments from two other russian companies. It was this february. Flynn submitted a form last friday, just one day after he requested immunity from the congress and fbi. First to the post new reporting on that trump back channel. Joining me now is adam who has coauthored this story for the washington post. What is this breaking story about the black water founder, brother of betsy devos education secretary and People Associated with putin. So what you had here was you had a meeting that was organized by the crown prince of abu dh i dhabi, prince presented himself to the crown prince of abu dha i dhabi. The crown prince set up a meeting in the say shells where the crown prince owns a few properties and so then they had the meeting on january 11th. Its our understanding that there wasnt a second meeting after that because you have to keep in mind that the timing january 11th was about a week after the Intelligence Community came out with this report, pointing to russia intervening in the election to help trump and just literally a day before the initial disclose sures about flynns communications with the russian ambassador. Do we know whether this was talking to trump about what he was doing with this friend of putin. That we dont know. I mean, theres also, you know, theres a lot of Unanswered Questions here. Did the crown prince in any way communicate with people at the white house or at that point, the Transition Office to coordinate this with them before setting up this meeting between prince and confidant of putin. We also dont know the name of the russian that went there for that meeting. We also dont know, you know, why they decided to try this, you know, why did the uae and prince and maybe others decide to set up a meeting like this so soon so close to the inauguration. It was only a few days away before the inauguration. When, obviously, if they had just waited until after the inauguration it wouldnt be an issue at all to set up these kind of meeting. Thank you very much. Joining me right now democratic congressman sits on the House Intelligence Committee. And now the political reporter with the washington post. Let me go to congresswoman on this, now were getting so much on your plate there on a committee that has been discredited because of your chair. I know youll do the best you can despite nunes sitting the work in the back room with the president. More russian connection here which is the focus of your hearings, what do you make of this meetings between the brother of betsy devos, the new secretary of education. A big contributor into the president who is over there on this mission, doesnt look like freelancing to me, it looks like something, how do you see it . Well, i see it as, one, a violation of the one president at a time rule, with all this conduct going on, this effort to try and negotiate with portfolio or without portfolio. And it under scores the fact that we have this incredible, unusual web of relationships between Vladimir Putin and trump associates. And that is very disconcerting. Its so disconcerting it had with dr. Comey at the fbi come out at the hearing we had and say we are looking into whether or not there was coordination between the campaign and the russian hackers. I think what we have here is one month march 4th was the first time president tweeted about being wiretapped. Weve spent a month on this deflection and not focused on whats really important. Well, lets moments ago weve got more buzz feed reports now the former trump adviser, carter page, met with a russian spy back in 2013, three years before he met donald trump. According to the report page provided documents about the Energy Business to a russian operative later charged with being an unregistered agent of foreign government. Thats set back in 2015. The revolution of pages connection is clearly documented date between russian intelligence and someone in trumps orbit. How do you put that one more layer, youll need a pretty complicated chart to connect, roger, stone, manafort. By the way hes been caught not reporting. It does seem to have a lot of entanglement there. Carter page in december was in moscow when when he actually sold 19 interest to a third party and, as you recall christopher steel, said part of that was payment to carter page. So we dont know the truth or validity of that. But, again, it is far too complex in these relationships and theyre all in President Trumps orbit when he was a candidate and president elect and now were dealing with it in the aftermath. Hold on for a second, heidi, this is a complicated story. Now, but it seems now to make sense why trump is so busy over the weekend, so festively exercised in trying to create any distraction, any sort of fire cracker can light off or glistening object to get us away from what seems to be a rolling disclose sure of between him, his people and putin. Zbh whats happening is that a whats happening is that a web is being spun out that we were told before didnt exist, right . At the same time, the timing of these divergents is critical in terms of nunes coming out when he did. That is when comey had blown up trumps wiretapping accusation. The timing of it is in important and the web thats spinning out. Chris, this is just one story. Last week usa today was reporting all the money launders who had third Party Connections to donald trump. Is that a coincidence. You had agent living in his some of his properties. All o his incorrect contts, basically one person removed from trump and were suppose to think that this is just a coincidence. Robert, you know the man, you know trump better than any reporter i know. You know how he works, series of crazy tweets over the weekend. Im not going to follow them i know he wants to talk bt, Hillary Clinton getting from brazil last year and the debates, are you kidding me, hes president of the United States, talk on the whats on the table right now, is this possible conclusion with the russians in the past election, what do you think hes up to. Well, president is known based on my reporting to be very responsive to what he sees on television, actively tweeting often without consulting his top advisers, so hes watching this, seeking, sometimes i narratives that are not backed up by evidence. We saw that with the wiretap tweets a few weeks ago that led the white house to try to back up some of the president s claims, even though evidence did not exist and that was, again, stated by the fbi. You have a president who has these convictions based on sometimes on things he sees in the conservative press, reacting and creating more controversy, and prompting people like nunes, the chairman of the house to try to come up with some kind of story that they believe backs up what the president has asserted. Let me ask you about trump. Now, mike flynn has got some problems. He wasnt honest in disclosing his income from the russians when he went up from his job. And then youve got this thing where trump is not saying, mike flynn is right to ask for immunity. Normally, when youre the target of investigation at the top, you dont want somewhere down the chain of command to get immunity. The way they save their butt to get out of trouble they sell off somebody at the top. Of course, i support mike flynns call for immunity. I think thats what it is, what do you think, what do you know . Its unusual, here on capitol hill, chris, theres a lot of raised eyebrows even among republicans about the president s decision to recommend flynn taking immunity. Theres a sense here of republicans and democrats that should be up to the Justice Department as it pursues its different investigations about possible russian interference and the election. That its not the president s decision to weigh in or appropriate for the president to weigh in, so you dont see a lot of republicans rallying to the president s side as he makes these kind of statements. Well, several high profile republicans, including former chair of the House Intelligence Committee mike rogers saying flynn should not be granted immunity. If i were the committees. I wouldnt great immunity. The other thing i would stop doing is having all of this public intention to an investigation. If this is really an investigation, Everybody Needs to clam up, including the president , stop talking about it. I wouldnt give the media to somebody unless i knew they had something to offer. The whole situation with general flynn is a bit bizarre. If theres an active open investigation by the fbi and they shouldnt do that. We may be doing something later this week, related to his payments that he received from not only russia, but turkey, as well. Youre just not allowed to accept these types of payments as a former military officer. Congresswoman, i think general view of all of this stuff, which i notice independence wanted fbi investigation in the russian connection, they wanted to pursue it. They wanted to find out the truth. Republicans dont want an investigation. When i hear somebody doesnt want to give immunity, you dont want any testimony. In water gate terms its clear. If you want testimony to get to the guy at the top you immunize people at the bottom, they squeal. Thats the traditional way of looking at it to get immunity next. So thats absolutely right you only give immunity if youre going to get the big fish. And the big fish here. Its unclear whether or not flynn has anything worth giving him immunity for. This is so far in the future that it wouldnt even be contemplated for months and yet i think this is the strategy of this attorney to try and, you know, put him forward in a matter that makes him look like hes in a good light. General flynn has violated so many laws already, whether its the clause within the department of defense where you cannot ask a retired general, take a gift or any kind of compensation from the foreign country unless you get aproovl because you still could be called back into active duty. Hes he didnt properly indicate that he was actually lobbying on behalf of foreign country last year. I mean, the list goes on and on. So, yeah, i can see why he might want immunity, but i dont think theres any reason for us to offer him that. I know its the independents are strong for the investigation. It seems to me the nonpartisan american out there who does no loyalty, saying lets fin out what happened. Thats why we are going to find out what happened, either to the senate or an independent investigation, but in terms of immunity, i think a lot of these members are old enough to remember when immunity was traded away and that impeded department of justices ability to bring charges. I think the congresswoman is right. They need to find out if he has a proffer, if he has something to offer. Immunity is down the road off the table. He knows a lot, chris. I bring you back to the conversation in december, who believes that general flynn when he was discussing sanctions, which by the way he lied about, was really freelancing. What National Security adviser will discuss that stuff on their own . So i think they need to figure or the very beginning investigators need to figure out what he has to offer. Remember what trump said on the record everybody, it was trump who said, if flynn was talking to those people, i would have told them to do it any way. But clearly talking about sanctions was the hot topic, was it not. Thank you. U. S. Congressman jackie sphere of california, thank you robert costa for always understanding, trurc trump. Hes increasingly lying on his soninlaw. As jareds role inside the white house grows. Such is the question, why him. Top level defective says kim yong is prepared to use the Nuclear Arsenal against the United States if he sees tanks coming across the boarder or missiles coming in. We talk about the looming show down. I hope so. There isnt going to be a show down with the Supreme Court justice, i was thinking korea. Thats what i dont want. Theyre forcing to kill the fill buster which they will do thursday night. Lets finish, hes not going to like it again, this is hardball where the action is. deep breath phone ringing theyll call back. 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He said this is all a part of his negotiating process, what we saw two weeks ago is just round one. He said he thinks he can get a deal done, will he work with democrats . He doesnt think hes going to be able to necessarily get a deal done with democrats right now, chris. He cited the fact that tensions are fairly high, particularly given the fact that theyre posed to filler buster neil gorsuch. He said he thinks he can take a second bite of the apple and the tuesday group, Vice President mike pence with the tuesday goup earlier today. Hes headed back over to capitol hill to meet with the Freedom Caucus to discuss a potential compromise. That compromise would entail, essentially, allowing states to forego certain regulations, Like Essential Health benefits for example. If they can prove it will lower the cost of premiums, that it will make health care more affordable in their states. So the tone here from the white house, chris, is that they are working on this in earnest. The president was very emphatic on that point and Vice President mike pence will be holding his second round of meetings about this today, chris. Well, i think thats what hes trying to do. If he moves over to the right to reach the tea parties demand hes given up on the residual modern republicans who lookor things and theyre not going to turn away essential services the people represent to be taken care in terms of their health. Well see, great from the white house, well be back right after this. Thanks, chris. Complete relie. Flonase helps block 6 key inflammatory substances that cause all your symptoms, including nasal congestion and itchy, watery eyes. Flonase is an allergy nasal spray that works even beyond the nose. So you can enjoy every beautiful moment to the fullest. Flonase. 61 changes everything. A 401 k is the most sound way to go. Lets talk asset allocation. Sure. You seem knowledgeable, professional. Im actually a deejay. [ laughing ] no way that really is you . If theyre not a cfp pro, you just dont know. Cfp. Work with the highest standard. Welcome back to hardball. Donald trump is increasingly relying on his soninlaw and Jared Kushner. He joined the chairman othe joint chiefs in meetings with iraqi, american and coalition officials. There they are and there he is. According to spokes mr. Kushner is traveling on behalf of the president to express the president s support and commitment to the government of iraq and u. S. Personnel currently engaged in the campaign. You can add iraq to growing portfolio, includes china, canada, mexico, middle east peace and over hauling the federal government here at home while hes at it. Today White House PressSecretary Sean Spicer defended kushners various roles. I think not to its not like he doesnt he has a team that he overseas and i think theres a lot of areas that he has working very diligently on behalf of the government and on behalf of the president s agenda. New york times reported that kushner is the president s ear. Mr. Trumps washington, his soninlaw is the man to see. Ron reagan is the author and political analyst and matt slap is the conservative. Ron, did your dad to take over the middle east peace agreements . Ron get in here, i want you to handle and everybody else in israel, i want you to take and make them best friends. He didnt think i should start a one man mars colony. But other than that, no. Jared kushner must be an enormously talented young fellow. Its extraordinary. There are so many problems with this ethics concerns, of course. Theres practical concerns like dont we have a state department. Shouldnt that be doing a lot of things that Jared Kushner is apparently doing. But the bigger question is really who would put him in this position, what president would assign soninlaw who has no relevant speerchs to do all of these things. I would say insecure and perhaps dill lugsal president. Well, much love. You just heard its been thrown down there. I always think its interesting to hear democrats going after Jared Kushner who himself is a democrat. So whats wrong with the fact that hes got someone next to him who is giving him diverse political guidance over all these republicans. What advice does he have to give him, mexico, iraq, all of these coup trntry. Its Bobby Kennedy role. Do you want to start there . I do. Lets start with the fact that Bobby Kennedy was his brothers campaign for manager and taking down gangsters of this country and made a name for himself doing something. Youre going to say jared is no Bobby Kennedy. It was a mistake. My point, jared who is involved, has been involved in Donald TrumpsBusiness Life is probably one of those people on this earth that the president talks to the most. What he does, hes being honest and open with the american people, having him shed his business ties going through all the ethics. Thats why hes doing this. Its the right way to do it. The wrong way to do it to allow him to be his adviser. Hes going through it. Here is the question. Is he the best man for the job . Its the one the president listens to. Hes comfortsble. President s talk to who they want to talk to. In order to deal with the president ordeal with the world. I couldnt hear that. Is kushners advantage here and the reason he has this position, not his ability to deal with the world, which hes being to do, his ability to deal with donald trump. Thats a fair statement. Hes a blankee. Thats a little cheap. Thats wt i mean. All president s, includi democratic president s ron has been in this position of being a position. I would like to know what he did for the president. I dont know if he played any, he was a progressive from the time he was born. I had no official role, matt. Good. Good, ron, im happy about that. Im sure you are. But nepotism is law is real. She did have a role. She had a small role and very specific role. Jared kushner seems to be all over the place, donald trump is a guy who is in a position now where he realizes hes over his head and hes looking for a security blanket. He wants all of the people around him now. He wants all his familiars around him as a security blanket and the problem with that is everybody must know is he needs to be reaching out to people who actually know what theyre talking about. Jared kushner doesnt have the faintest idea what hes doing in all of these desperate realms. Youre part of this. So tell me about this world. The president of the United States hasnt gotten through the clearances. Congress has not confirmed the appointments, no deputies, no secretaries, this will go over all over the world, far east, africa, middle east, theres nobody really to support. Tillerson travels around the World Without a press combo. I guess i can understand. He goes incognito. He wants a smaller plane so he can travel around the world. Does he relate to the kushner operation. And anybody connected to the president this is a fair criticism, which is the personnel process is not moving fast enough. These cabinet secretaries do not have enough senate confirm, they have a big problem at state. The secondary question is this, theres always a fight between big heads at the white house and these cabinet secretaries. So far the people at the white house i think are dominating a lot of these cabinet secretaries which i think for some is acy met acy m you know the read in the world. He was blocked. You should be happy about that. He was blocked because he made antitrump statements. Ron is crazy. We have a new ceo who operates like don traveling around the world like hes prime minister, like hes mr. Ceo, i dont need press, assistance, im the ceo of america. Its strange. And then weve got Jared Kushner moving around on his own. And then we have a Statement Department sitting over there waiting to be asked a question, maybe a translation. Theyre not being talked to. Meanwhile the president where he meets foreign dignitaries, this is you thoughts. Theres a lots going on. I could not have said it better, chris. The competence issues here are just enormous. Its unsustainable. I mean, you cant sustain state craft like this with Jared Kushner in charge of everything. The question of how do they coordinate with the state department, well, indeed. I mean if Jared Kushner is off meeting with the chinese and taking care of israel and palestine, when do they connect with the state department. Is the state department in the loop on all of this stuff or not. I dont think kushner sets palestine. Well figure that one out later, any way, thank you. Its going to be okay. Its going to be okay. Very comfortable with his movement. By the way, its all over the place. 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Its worth 47 billion and second to gm. Back to hardball. Snend. Welcome back to hardball. Lester holt sat down with high ranking north korean diplomat who gave rare incite into kim jongun. Hes a person who did not hesitate to kill his uncle a few weeks ago, even his half brother. Hes a man who can do anything once he sees that there is any kind of sign of, you know, kind of attack of imminent threat from america then he would, you know, use you. Hes, you know, Nuclear Weapons, you know, with icbn. Well, the warning comes amid rising tensions which President Trump said hell sob on his own. Oval Office InterviewPresident Trump told the financial times, china has great influence over north korea and china will either decide to help us or they wont. If they do that will be good for china. If they dont it wont be good for anyone. If theyre not going to solve north kree yarks we will last month they reportedly launched three test missiles capable of reaching regional alies of hours and even in the United States. James mad dog mittis. Secretary tillerson warned the policy of strategic patience has ended. President trump is set to meet chinas president thursday in maralago. Im joined by jillian ted. She interviewed President Trump. Thank you, jilln, joining us. What did you have a sense of the degree of sensitivity that he needs to use in dealing with someone, perhaps, as sed to explode as kim jongun. I dont think President Trump that creates sensitivity of anybody. And two things came out of our interview with President Trump, another white house official from friday, first, that theres a rising level of concern, serious concern about whats going on, which, frankly, is not surprising because of of the Security Intelligence report that actually north korea is close to putting together what it needs to send an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile and it could technology, too, to put on that. Secondly, trump is a man who is a deal maker. He is renowned for talking very tough and trying to cow his rival opponents and backtracking a bit. So its very hard to tell whether hes actually just talking tough ahead of the crucial summit on thursday to hoping the chinese relent or he does mean hell go to learn. Well, when i interviewed him about a year ago when he talked about keeping Nuclear Weapons on the table, a phrase was very comfortable people have been using it on the table, as it was one of our reasonable weapons. Even in the case of europe, he talked about it being on the table. So the question you have to ask is, does trump know that weapons are there as deter rent. Theyre not there to be used. You dont use Nuclear Weapons. The leadership made where they said that both north korea and u. S. Seemed like trains on the track hurdling towards each other. They also meant that you have, essentially, two pretty unpredictable leaders. Now that even the white house i think are the only way to with an unpredictable leader is to be equally unpredictable. They may be doing this to bluff, who knows. The reality is that tensions are rising and at some point its ironic people spent so much time last year worrying about iran and syrian and things like that. The threat from north korea is very present and rising. My concern, like anyone who has read the history of what happened in most wars, whether its barbara writing about world war i or what happened at the end of world war ii, is that one side will feel its the only way to win, we did. Without having Million People dead on the beaches of japan and the other side may feel they dont have to face the fact theyll be able to bluff it out. My concern here is that trump will think we have to move into preventative and using Nuclear Weapon and that could ignite the use of Nuclear Weapon by north korea. Thats the concern that most people will have. Tragically many cars start, not because of any single thoughtful proactive decision, but because of lots of smaller mistakes until something suddenly cracks what theyve done, the normalization where you keep shifting the boundaries a little way each time because you make mistakes. You have incremental slippage that causes a catastrophe. I hope this doesnt happen here. If you want to be optimistic, here is one thing to think about. The fact that u. S. Leadership is getting so concerned and the chinese appear to be concerned, as well. Might just possibly actually drive these two sides together. And there are some people saying that actually whats going on right now, are people talking about trade and the nuclear and the whole south korean and south china sea, they could come together as a bundle of issues and maybe on both sides the chinese and the u. S. Will actually some closer together than people expect. It will be nice to think that, any way. Thats going to take foreign policy. But thank you gillian for bringing us the optimistic. Over trumps Supreme Court nominee, some trump state democrats states that went for trump are backing neil gorsuch, others are holding their ground. Its clear to see what Democratic Senators are going to cross the aisle because theyre worried about their own reelection, which makes sense. 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Several others facing reelection in 2018 and voting against, however voting against gorsuch. Two of them are vulnerable last year, and john home state of montana with 57 of the vote. For moreover the fight lets go with chief investigative correspondent with politico. And correspondent for the guardian and contributor the daily beast. Is this about all survival for the democrats. The one that are going over to gorsuch know they cant ignore their constituents at home. I think thats part of the calculation. But i also think theres another side to that, which is 2018. Your base is super excited for the fight thats an argument for fighting gorsuch, theyll go the other way. Is there a base is there a base in West Virginia for the left . Yeah, i mean, its a midterm election. Thats when the left will come out. Thats going to roar out, understanding. Well, it har kins back to 2014 when you had a very difficult map for Senate Democrats and you had a lot of them break from the party and steak out their own position and it was still Election Year for democrats. Hyper party regardless of the calculations joe donnelly might be making, they still have a d next to their name. And history tells us the first midterm can be really tough. And its still not clear how big of an issue the Supreme Court will be in the midterm. Also, chris, these people who are up for reelection next year, they first in what, president sial Election Year, when obama was on the ballot and lot more democrats were coming up to vote. Manchin and maybe some others they cant be about what theyre going to be. They have to assume its going to be that elected them back in 2012, when most of them won. Can you count an electorate to switch, the beauty of being a senator, the ugliness of it youre with the majority people or most people show up for the democrat, right, normally. If youre a public, fewer people show up, but every other time you have to run a risky situation. Yes, certainly, there is a hope on the democratic side. Thats predictability. Do you think its going to be safer for joe donnelly in indiana to vote against gorsuch. Is that the safer vote. I mean, i think do you think thats the safer vote . I think over all maybe for them personally. For the Democratic Party as a whole, they want thats for office. It certainly, again, in midterm, youre not going to have that turn out. The trump phenomenon said there was one. Im a voter, democratic voted for trump. You just threw that back in my face. I voted for trump and wouldnt let me have it. You trashed my vote. I can hear that argument. I can hear the republican ad campaign. You can hear the republican add campaign. Its not as though its going to reward democrat who does Cross Party Lines and vote to confirm Donald Trumps nominee. Also, donald trump has record low approval rating, midterms typically to be referendum on the sitting president and so, again, its hard to make the case that Public Opinion is really going to be shaped necessarily by this. Look at these guys, theyre already moderate, some of them. I dont consider moderate a bad word, you dont get a majority. Hes West Virginia corporate government. High camp i think is a moderate and donnelly is, i think. Shes such a tough cookie. Shes a tough warrior, she takes on tough races all the time. Another moderate i think he seems moderate. Brown is essentially progressive labor guy, he cant hide and say i voted for gorsuch, that wouldnt help. He is. The dems voted for trump and sort of an economic motivation. Supreme Court Nomination is all about the social issues. You laugh at that, but women, gay people, theres a lot of reasons that it cuts right there to quick, right who they have to live as. Right. I dont think thats Supreme Court, Supreme Court nomination is going to hurt a member of the op site party, even if it will but theres a lot of women that got elected at 94. Ie know West Virginia im from there. My dad knew his uncle, i know the state pretty well. Hes got to vote for gorsuch. He, you know, hell just get clobbered. Theyll come again with millions and millions of dollars and try to take him out and Chuck Schumer knows this and he thinks, hey, ill take a democrat from that state any time. Hes got to release a bunch of these guys. He can release up to 59 of them. It looks like 55 how many votes total votes for gorsuch, 5 a, 56. Maybe fewer even. I would say about 55. 55, just those three. 55. You dont think its 55. Iyou look a the ones who are on the fence that could end up voting with the democrats, its possible. 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