Well, the white house insists the rally is not a Roy Moore Campaign event. But the president is expected to slam his democratic challenger, doug jones. And the Moore Campaign is actively encouraging supporters to go to this event tonight. This morning, President Trump offered his most explicit endorset yet. The last thing the make America Great agenda needs is a liberal democrat in the senate where we have so little margin for victory already. The pilosa schumer puppet jones would vote against us 100 of the time. Hes bad on crime, life, border, vets, guns, and military. Vote roy moore. Thats the president this morning. Nbcs Vaughn Hillyard is at pensacola right now, the site of tonights rally. How close are these two gentlemen getting politically right now, vaughn . Trump and roy moore . Reporter well, theyre using each other at this point. If youre roy moore, what you need is the president on your side. Why . Because at this point in this race, this race is so up in the air, polls are tough to go off at this point. And actually, its interesting. That tweet you just read off there, President Trump almost in a way is focusing the message for roy moore, who has struggled for several weeks, in doing such. Over the last month, roy Moores Campaign has been focused on these allegations, the yearbook, propagating the idea of a conspiracy. When you look at what President Trump is putting out there, hes making the case we dont need a liberal democrat, that being doug jones. In the u. S. Senate. We need roy moore. So if youre looking at it from roy moores Vantage Point, the president is actually seemingly being helpful in terms of his own messaging for his candidacy. It seems like there are three ways to vote down there. You can vote on party loyalty, vote democrat or republican, moore or jones, or you can vote on the moral issues, if you see it that way, like abortion rights, if youre prolife, you dont want to vote for jones. But also, this question of whos the person . The person youre sending to washington. Is it true that trump is trying to get people not to think about the person theyre sending but the ideology . Reporter i will say it worked a year ago. In alabama, he received almost a two to one margin over Hillary Clinton in november of 2016. But yeah, in this race, i mean, it goes back to the supreme court. You look at the flyers that the super pacs have been sending out on behalf of roy moore and the campaign itself have been focusing on the confirmations, abortion, second amendment. Right . So those hot button issues for republicans and conservatives. Youre looking at, i do want to point out, though, that we talked to a large number of republicans, particularly in the suburbs around places like birmingham, montgomery, outside of mobile, right, where republicans are hesitant to vote for roy moore, understanding allegations that are out there. And i want to say that i talked with the secretary of state here of alabama just this evening. He said that theyre expecting at least a 25 turnout. Why . Because multiple counties are seeing requests for absentee ballots six fold. Compared to what they were just in the runoff earlier this year. If you look at some counties, i want to take you back to 2012, right . When roy moore last run statewide, he ran against the democrat for chief justice by just three percentage points. Theres a couple counties where roy moore lost in 2012 but mitt romney won. Some of those places, huntsville, in the birmingham area, too. Were seeing the requests for those early ballots exceedingly high, as i said, six, sometimes nine fold of what they had been in the past, which is encouraging if youre looking at it from doug jones Vantage Point at this point. Sounds like its still very much in the air. Thank you, Vaughn Hillyard down there in peninsula cola. President trump is one of the few National Republicans openly endorsing roy moore. For the post part, the party has tried to distance itself from him. Lets watch. I had hoped that judge moore would resign, but that obvusly is not going to happen. If he were to be elected, i think he would immediately have an issue with the ethics committee, which they would take up. They explicitly admitted in the past they believed these women in alabama, and somehow now the rnc is giving money. It doesnt make any sense. I still think its unfortunate. Were going to have a tough enough time in the coming years. And being the party of roy moore is not going to help. I made a lot of people on the mall, and if you get kicked out of the mall, thats a pretty bad situation to find yourself in. I dont want the Republican Party to tolerate behavior like this when its just overwhelming the man has a problem. Thats the best line ever. For more, im joined by author and commentator Charlie Sykes and Karine Jeanpierre. Senior adviser for moveon. Org. Charlie, ill start with karine. It looks like the Republican Party has an icky attitude about this guy. Even the president is going to pensacola, but hes not quite touching roy moore. Hes saying im against his opponent, doug jones, but he could drive. That plane will take him anywhere he wants to go, and that plane is not taking him to alabama, his own air force one. To your point, he could go anywhere today, but he is still in pensacola. I think this still is very much a fullthroated campaign for roy moore, absolutely. I think the problem that you see when you see Lindsey Graham and flake talking in that video is that whether they win or lose, whether roy moore wins or loses on tuesday, they own this. This is like a skoex now, they can never get off it. Thats strong. Let me go to charlie. I think you might be right. Is this a skunk smell. Will they pay for this if he stands in the caucus and has his picture taken next to Mitch Mcconnell now and then. Absolutely. Theyre going to wear roy moore around their neck in the 2018 offyear elections. This is a catastrophe for the Republican Party. The republicans can say roy moore is not the face of the Republican Party, but when you have the leader of your party, the president of the United States, endorsing him and campaigning for him, you do own him. And i think this is another measure, and i think david brooks and the New York Times had a fantastic column this morning. This is really a measure of what donald trump is doing to this party. Leave aside for a second the allegations of molestation by the women. There are more than a dozen reasons why this man should not be acceptable to republicans. And in any other time, in any other Political Party other than Donald TrumpsRepublican Party, roy moore would have disqualified himself many, many, many times over. This is going to hurt the party badly. You sound as if roy moore is worse than donald trump. No is he . Is he worse . Well, yes, in a certain way, because hes so its so unvarnished. Its like the party said, hey, after access hollywood, were going to accept donald trump, so that was a warmup, what if we had donald trump, you know, who was going after teenage girls, who said that muslims should not be allowed to serve, that women should never be allowed to run for public office, who would harken back to the days of slavery, would republicans still go along with that . Would trump republicans still go along with that . The answer is yes. You teed me up to this one, even before the accusations against judge moore by nine women became public, he was an extremely divisive politician. One of his more unbelievable quotes resurfaced thanks to a tweet from a former Obama Administration official that went viral. The Los Angeles Times reported on a moore rally back in september. According to the l. A. Times. One of the only africanamericans in the audience asked mr. Moore, judge moore, when he thought america last was great. Moore said, i think it was great at the time when families were united, even though we had slavery, they cared for one another. Our families were strong, our country had a direction. Close quote. One moore official told nbc today, judge moore clearly made his point, which is america is great when our families and our faith is strong. To suggest that judge moore condones slashry is wreckressly malicious, except thats what he said. How are families, africanamerican families treated when they were slaved in terms of taking the Families Together . Terribly. They were taken abart. They were beaten. They were ripped apart and sent to different states. They didnt have a family, moe of them. They had to look for their family. But look, this is not surprising. Roy moore has said racist, islamophobic, homophobic things before the Sexual Assault accusations came out. And you know, back in 2002, trent lott, if you remember, he said something similar. He was a minority leader as a u. S. Senator then, and the Republican Party forced him out because of the things that he said that were similar to what roy moore was quoted as saying. And the thing that you see there is trump has taken this Republican Party so far backwards with race here in this country, with race, with this party, and its just really just amazing, unfortunate to see, and now hes using his power and prestige of the office to go and campaign for roy moore. You know, charlie, i wanted your perspective on the race issue. I know suburban republicans cant stand the racist tag. They dont want to vote for anyone who looks like a racist. No matter what their feeling are, they dont like admitting it. What do you make of this . Can trump build a Political Party based basically on white votes . It seems like thats what hes doing. Thats what hes trying to do. The answer is no he cant. You look at the demography of the country, you realize where he is taking this Political Party. This is a president who keeps going to the base, but that base is shrinking. Its shrinking. Its getting smaller and smaller. Yet he keeps doubling down. And there are moments when you step back and say okay, obviously, you understand this is a political dead end. Not to mention its morally repulsive, and yet, as long as donald trump is, you know, pursuing this, than the Republican Party is going to be owning it. When they seat senator roy moore, you know, youre going to see, you know, another one of those moral tests for the republican, which im afraid theyre going to fail once again. Well, charlie, in a new fundraising email this morning, Roy Moore Campaign argues, al franken has proven roy moore is innocent. The email argues that people like al franken, matt lauer, and others have a pattern of abuse that continues until recently. Quote, these abusers dont stop. Its a way of life. Thats why they all have been forced to admit their misdeeds due to verifiable recent evidence. But the d. C. Establishment wants you to believe that roy moore was all wrong 40 years ago and then became a model citizen, gentleman, father, and grandfather for decades. That doesnt happen, just as it didnt with real abusers like franken and weinstein. Theyre saying basically since he hasnt done anything wrong in a while, he didnt do anything back then. In other words, dont believe those women, they made up their stories completely. By the way your thoughts. Its ridiculous on its face. This is the trump playbook that roy moore is playing right now in this race, which is if you deny, if you lie, then its true. Let me go back to charles on that. Your thoughts. What do we make of this argument that somehow because franken admitted what he had done, that proves that roy moore didnt do what he said he didnt do . What a dumb time to be alive, chris. I mean, really, that just makes no sense. I will say that i know a lot of democrats are very, very unhappy with what happened with al franken, but the fact that the democrats really kind of cleaned the slate with john conyers and al franken, i think is going to up the pressure or certainly the focus on the republicans, the party of donald trump really . Really . What makes you think that . What makes you think that . I mean, maybe not internally, because now the spotlight is going to be on them. All right. Its been on them. Shameless. Starting with the president. Were in inmiddle of a cyclone that is about to become a tsunami, and eventually, the Republican Party is going to have to answer for the president of the access hollywood video, when all of the women who have come forward, should they be believed . And then, and then you have just this toxic figure from alabama coming to the u. S. Senate. You know this is not the party of profiles in courage lately. I think its going to up the pressure on them imenlsly. I dont think so. Karine . The republicans have been complicit since day one. They vote in lock step with him. They let him get away with i dont see how this is going to change. How is roy moore coming into the senate going to change how republicans have been behaving for over a year with donald trump being the nominee and now the president . Im not saying that theyre going to change. But voters in the midterms, if you want to if this is going to be one of the defining issues of 2018 different point but well made. This is a perfect storm for republicans. Thank you, Karine Jeanpierre and Charlie Sykes. Major developments tonight in the russia investigation, including the fiancee of Trump Campaign adviser George Papadopoulos who said papadopoulos set up meadings with World Leaders and was in Constant Contact with top Campaign Officials. A far cry from the coffee boy that trumps allies have called him. It comes as a top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee says the country will learn surprising things in the russia probe. And trump continues to praise himself for recognizing jerusalem, but was it a strategic mistake . Thomas friedman says trump gave away an important bargaining chip to the israelis without getting anything in return. And white house is blasting john lewis for skipping trumps appearance at the new Mississippi Civil Rights Museum this weekend. The White House Press secretary put out an absurbd statement saying its unfortunate lewis wont celebrate the civil rights leaders when hes one of the leaders theyre honoring. Finally, let me finish with trump watch. Its about mississippi. Usaa to me means peace of mind. We had a power outage for five days total. We lost a lot of food. We actually filed a claim with usaa to replace that spoiled food. And we really appreciated that were the webber family and we are usaa members for life. U. S. Congressman trent franks of arizona stepped down today. Nbc news has confirmed franks allegedly made unwanted advances toward female staffers in his office, offering one of them 5 million to act as a surrogate for his child. The sources say franks approached two female staffers as acting as a potential surrogate for him and his wife, who had struggled with fertility issues for years. But the aides were concerned franks was asking to have sex ul relations with them. It wasnt clear if he was asking to impregnate them through sexual intercourse or inveto fertilization. One woman said franks retaliated against her when she rebuffed him. He cut off access. Franks denied the allegations although he acknowledged he did speak about surrogacy with his staffers. Well be right back. The real gift isnt whats inside the box. Its whats inside the person who opens it. Give ancestrydna, the only dna test that can trace your origins to over 150 ethnic regions. Save 30 for the holidays at ancestrydna. Com. But it might be hard to handle like the flame that burns the candle the candle feeds the flame topped steak twisted potatoes at applebees. Now thats eatin good in the neighborhood. As i stand here now, i think that there are going to be some things that come out that will be very surprising and disturbing to the american people. Welcome back to hardball. That was u. S. Congressman Joaquin Castro delivering an ominous message last night about things to come in the russian investigation. Special Counsel Robert Mueller already has two cooperating witnesses in the case. And there are new signs today that one of them, former Trump Campaign adviser George Papadopoulos may have had relationships with more High Ranking Campaign officials than we previously knew. We already know that in march of last year, papadopoulos told donald trump, jeff sessions, and others that he had russian connections that could arrange a meeting between trump and putin. We also know that he continued his efforts to arrange such a meeting, and russia through the summer of 2016. Now in an nart view with abc news, papadopouloss italian fiancee is speaking out, saying he was frequently in touch with other Campaign Officials during the election who were aware of what he was doing. He was constantly in touch with a high level official in the campaign, and he never took any initiative as far as i know unauthorized. Constantly in touch, you say, with members of the campaign. Was he in touch with the chief strategist, steve bannon . Yes, as far as i know, yes. I know steve bannon, michael flynn. He was in touch with michael flynn, general flynn . Yes, as well. Youre saying he had communications with top levels of the campaign. Everything he was doing was with the knowledge of those officials . As far as i know, absolutely, yes. Never took any initiative without the blessing of the campaign. When the papadopoulos plea deal was first unsealed in october, trumps defenders pushed a rush to downplay his role in the campaign. This was a campaign volunteer. He wasnt somebody who was a senior adviser, as many of you want to bill him to be. He was somebody who played a minimal role, if one at all, and was part of a voluntary advisory board. He was not a person who was involved in the day to day operations of the campaign. I never heard of papadopoulos. He never showed up at trump tower. Never had any interaction with any of the Campaign Leaders around me. He was the coffee boy. Coffee boy. In other words, this is another indication that George Papadopoulos was more than just a coffee boy. Im joined by ken delainian, Investigative Reporter with nbc news, and renato mariotti. He told stephanopoulos there, his fiancee said he played a significant role, reporting regularly. In fact, consistently, to the top Trump Campaign people. Yeah, chris, this was a remarkable interview. There was almost a taunting quality to it. Normally, people who are defendants in a whitecollar case, have pleaded guilty, they lay low. Here, the fiancee was out in public, almost sending a message to the trump people. You want to call him the coffee boy . Let me explain how important he was. This was not a major figure in the Trump Campaign, but we still dont know to what extent papadopoulos cooperated. What did he do . Did he wear a wire, for example . Did he make phone calls on behalf of the fbi . There were many months he was cooperating that the Trump Campaign was not aware of it where it has to be disconcerting to wonder what it is he has on them. Do you think his fiancee is raising his value. My god, hes no coffee boy. He has the inside track on everything they were up to, making his value as somebody who swings to the direction of the prosecution more valuable . I think thats a great point, because there could come a day where hes on the witness stand, and Robert Mueller and his prosecutors have to emphasize his value to a jury. The other interesting thing about the interview, she said he was writing a book. All those notes would be discoverable by any defendants in the case. A lot of interesting stuff. Let me go to renato. Were looking at a guy who may be bigger than we thought he was because he was put down by the press secretary to the president who said hes nobody. Hes a coffee boy, basically. You cant Pay Attention to him. No matter what he says. Yeah, i thought some of those comments were pretty funny, chris. I think my sense of the interview, i thought ken was right. There was a taunting quality to it. I think the quality i saw was my guy, my fiance is not going to be the fall guy for everybody. You know, i think there was a sense, probably, from her fiance that they were going to make him take the blame for everything, and what shes trying to emphasize is a lot of people were behind this. He was taking orders. He was part of a bigger operation, and hes going to be on the right side of things in the end. And by the way, her statements cant be used against him. Thats one of the rules of evidence. Shes not speaking on his behalf as far as we know. So really, she can speak more freely than he can. Is that because shes a fianc fiancee . Is that the same as being married under the law . You know what. Even your wifes statements cant be used against you. They can be if theyre your agent, if shes speaking, for instance, if i sent my lawyer out to speak for me and im authorizing a statement, perhaps, but generally speaking, your fiancee or even your wifes statements cant be used against you in a court of law. And you know, i did notice when i watched the full interview, she said the attorneys told her not to reveal any documents, not to reveal any emails. What i thought was interesting is this woman apparently has viewed some of the evidence that we havent seen. So it will be interesting to see how her statements match up once we actually have a chance to see some of that evidence. Well, the New York Times is also reporting tonight that White House Communications adviser hope hicks was warned about operatives trying to make contact with her after President Trump took office. According to the niemgz, senior fbi counterintelligence agents met with ms. Hicks in the white house situation room at least twice. Gave her the names of the russians who had contacted her and said they were not who they claimed to be. Their concern was the emails were part of a russian intelligence operation. However, the story notes that theres no evidence hicks did anything improper. The New York Times also reports that hicks interviewed with muellers investigators yesterday, and again today. What do we make of all this, this advice. Was that a warning, ken, to be it sounded like a warning, be careful, these guys are working for the state, working for the kgb modern version. Yeah, chris. Absolutely. This is very standard. Fbi agents will do this with members of congress, for example, if they think theyre being approached by foreign intelligence assets. But whats fascinating about this is dont forget, while this was going on, they had an open fbi counterintelligence investigation into the question of whether the trump team was colluding with the russians. But they were also juggling the fact that these guys had now taken office. Hes become the president. Shes becoming the communications director, so they have to warn and guide them away from obvious russian intelligence infiltrations. One wonders, though, when they warned her, did they explain what other information they had about trump associate contacts with russia . Probably not. It also raises the question of what other warnings there were along the way. Its a fascinating development. Let me ask you about the general question. What about getting to hope hicks for information . Apparently, shes very close to trump. Trusted completely by him, and for good reason. Shes reliable. As a person who keeps secret. Is she going to be pressed here, squeezed . For sure. I mean, everything that she heard trump say or saw trump do is something that could be very helpful to mueller in this investigation. And i think these communications from the russians you were talking about, chris, they show how intensely interested they were in reaching out and getting to know the trump camp. They knew that the fbi was looking at them, and they still made the attempt anyway. And as ken said, i thought ken made a very savvy comment a minute ago. Whatever warnings there were to the trump camp, could be used against them later if they were less than careful in the future, in subsequent outreaches by the russians. Were seeing a lot of evidence over the last several days the russians were reaching out to the Trump Campaign. The Trump Campaign was reaching out to them. The family was as well. Thank you, ken delainian and renato maruato. Forget the art of the deal. How about the art of the giveaway . Thomas friedman is coming here. 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The winds where not expected to die down until monday at the earliest. In the russia investigation, new documents showing Paul Manafort was heavily involved in drafting an oped while under house arrest. Prosecutors saying that violated a Court Order Barring him from trying his case in the press. Now back to hardball. Welcome back to hardball. From jordan to indonesia, muslims poured into the streets to protest President Trumps decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. Protesters also occupied the west bank and over the border where one palestinian was killed. U. S. Ambassador to the u. N. , nikki haley, defended the president s decision in a Emergency United Nations Security Council meeting. Lets watch. The United States took this step in full knowledge that it will raise questions and concerns. Our actions are intended to help advance the cause of peace. We must recognize that peace is advanced, not set back, when all parties are honest with each other. Our actions reflected an honest assessment of reality. Well, the special session at the u. N. Was requested by eight states on the 15member body. The Security Council who objected to the move. In a Statement Issued late friday evening, palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas says the United States has become no longer qualified to sponsor the peace process. New york times columnist Thomas Friedman was critical of the move, writing, quote, in nearly 30 years of covering United States foreign policy, i have never seen a president give up so much to so many for so little. Every Israeli Government since its founding has craved United States recognition of jerusalem as its capital. And every United States government has refrained from doing that, arguing that such a recognition should only come in the wake of an agreed final status peace accord between israelis and palestinians. Until now. Im joined now by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, whose book thank you for being late is now out in paperback and is number one. Heres the problem, if you go over there, you realize theres west jerusalem, which is jewish. Its been there since 48, and then east jerusalem, which was picked in the 67 war. Its been seen as disputed or occupied depending on your lingo. Now, it seems like the president was saying all of that is now israeli. It sounded like is that what he was saying . I think they deliberately were vague about that, chris, in order to leave it to the parties to decide what they want in the negotiations. If israelis were to give palestinians part of why are they fighting . Why are the palestinians fighting if they think they still have a good shot at east jerusalem, their share of jerusalem . From their point of view, they think its over. They lost it all . Yeah, yeah. Well, let me ask you a tougher question. I watch with skepticism, Jared Kushner. I have no idea what his background is. Hes probably proisraeli, but thats all i get. He goes over and says hes going to put together a grand deal. Saudi arabia, jordan, our sunni allies, and israel all together against the iranianled shia, and its going to be our side is going to win and its going to make sense and be cohesive with israel a key partner in the coalition. Then we go away and we make a deal like this. And throws it right in the face of our potential sunni partners. The first rule of middle east peace making is the arab states will never go farther than the palestinians. That is, israelis and palestinians agree to something, they will not be there the morning before. And its a grand illusion, which i have seen played out numerous times in some of the arab states are going to do something for israel, absent real concessions by israelis or real agreement between israelis and palestinians on a final status agreement. So my beef with the deal is that, you know, nikki haley there saying, you know, we were honest with our parties. Thats stuff and nonsense, okay. The fact is this was a huge asset. And trump could have come to the israelis and said you have wanted this, every Israeli Government has wanted this for 70 years. Heres the deal. I will recognize jerusalem as israels capital, but in return, i want you to freeze all settlements in the west bank beyond the settlement blocks that everyone knows will go to israel in any peace deal. What if trump had done that . He could have gone to his cabinet and said look, we all wanted this jerusalem thing for so long. Israel might have accepted west jerusalem without all of jerusalem . The americans kept it vague, all we had to say is whatever you guys decide in a deal, were recognizing jerusalem as the capital. Beebe could have gone to the capinal and said were giving this, final recognition of jerusalem as our capital, in return, we just have to freeze settlements deep inside the west bank. Now, then, abbas could have gone to his people and said okay, well, they agreed in principle to that. You know, tom, you know that his coalition, his block includes the Settler Community that wants unlimited right to keep settling and growing. They dont want to have a limited role in israel in the future. They want to own as much of the west bank as they can get ahold of. Im sure they do, but our job as americans is look out for american interests. How, just to finish the question, Jared Kushner is out there. He looks great in the pictures. Hes young. He goes around, very clean cut. He looks like he might do what hes doing. How is that whole thing hes doing with the saudis going to work with this thing of giving israel the capital . I dont think it is, any connection whatsoever. Has jared talked about what his fatherinlaw is doing. It only puts a smile on your face when it starts with them krrb camp david started with them, oslo started with them. Bottom line, is the fatherinlaw talking to the soninlaw . Is trump talking to his soninlaw about this . I have a feeling nothing was happening, and i think this is a cover for the fact nothing was happening and nothing was going to happen. Heres my domestic analysis. Go ahead. I believe trump knows hes never going to get over 40 in this country, maybe 43 in a tough election with a weak opponent. What he wants to do is solidify all his borders. Christian right, help with roy moore down here. This helps with roy moore, with the christian right. Going out with the ranchers and the miners. You know, in utah, to grab that land back, give it to them. I think hes going around the country, parcelling out, almost in biblical fashion, giving everybody a piece of what they want so theyll stick with him. I think its all politics with him. He doesnt care who roy moore is. He just wants to build up the support with the evangelical right down there just like hes doing with the capital of israel. Whatever you say i would believe. Trump is not a man of values. Just a guess. Thomas friedman, the best columnist out there. Up next, the white house shames congressman john lewis for boycotting trumps appearance at the opening of a civil rights appearance. Even lecturing mr. Lewis on the incredible sacrifice of the movements leaders, its as if the Trump Administration is oblivious to the fact john lewis, that man himself, is the civil rights icon of what happened down there in the deep south in the 60s. Youre watching hardball. The ford yearend sales event is in full swing. you are going to be a big surprise. whining aww, i see a big puppy. I see a biig puuppy. Hey greg thats ford, americas bestselling brand. Now get exclusive holiday offers, with 0 financing for 72 months across a full line up. 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In a joint statement with representative Bennie Thompson of mississippi, who is also boycotting, the congressman wrote, President Trumps attendance and his hurtful policies are an insult to the people portrayed in this Civil Rights Museum. In part, they cited the president s disparaging comments on race. You also had people that were very fine people on both sides. I think theres blame on both sides. And i have no doubt about it, and you dont have any doubt about it either. And and if you reported it accurately, you would say. Wouldnt you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out, hes fired. Hes fired White House Press secretary Sarah Sanders struck back at the boycott saying its unfortunate that these members of congress wouldnt join the president in honoring the incredible sacrifice civil rights leaders made to right the injustices in our history. The president hopes others will join him in recognizing that the movement was about removing barriers and unifying americans of all backgrounds. Well, john lewis, of course, was a coorganizer of the 1963 march on washington. As well as the 1965 selma Voting Rights march, an event that became known as bloody sunday after activists were confronted by Alabama State troopers as they crossed the Edmund Pettus bridge. Lewis was beaten so badly, his skull was fractured. Lets bring in the hardball roundtable. Eleanor holmes norton, eli stokols, reporter for the wall street journal, and Sabrina Siddiqui from the guardian. What is going on here . The president shows up where he probably shouldnt show up, and the people who should be there arent showing. Which shows you why hes showing up to honor himself. Look, all praise to the state of mississippi. Honest, hardhitting museum. Haley barbour, the republican governor who pressed forward. But no respected civil rights leader like john like my colleague in the house could possibly go, because of both words and policies. He sat in the congress for a full year with disparaging policies and disparaging words. And now the last thing he should do is to honor the president , because thats what we would consider it, by insinuating himself into this very important ceremony. Hes trying to say, look, i have always been for you, so here i am. And that shows it. Disregard everything that happened in the past year. Whats the hypocrisy by the president . Because it seems to me hes playing to those last suburban republicans, white people, basically, who still dont want to believe theyre in a racist Political Party, and theyre supporting a racist president. So hes saying ill give you some cover. Im going to this thing. Maybe, but theres plausible deniability. We want to go, we want to honor this museum, but they also know by going, they will get the reaction. There were be protests. Youre machiavellian. Donald trump, back in the campaign in march of 2016, was going to go to chicago rally friday night, south side of chicago. Why would he go there . There were people marching in the streets. It got violent. He didnt go. He canceled it. I dont know what kind of he picked a spot where he would be igniting a propest, and then he got the protest he wanted. Happening in a border state in alabama. You dont believe it . Of course not. You dont think hes that machiavellian. Think you dispassenger the people who support him to think thats what they want. Of course, theyre going to support whatever he does, but i dont think they want him to go down there and in fact cook up a dispute with black people. I think there are two threads here where on the one hand you can understand where someone like congressman john lewis is coming from because its essentially a photo op for the president. He kind of checks off a box where he says look, i have extended this olive branch by commemorating the civil rights struggle even though hes shown no understanding of its true meaning and has had a record of incendiary comments about race that predate even his time in political office. You have the policies and then you have trump even before he came into office with being sued for Racial Discrimination against africanamerican tenants in the early 70s, taking out an ad against the central park five, calling for death penalty, and still insisting they were guilty. This is not just about the politics. Congresswoman, i knew about you long before you got to congress from the District Of Columbia. You were one of the leaders in all kinds of eeoc stuff, all the equal opportunity stuff. Back in the civil rights day, you and all kinds of people, im thinking of everybody i knew ended up in d. C. , it seems. Tell us what it was like in mississippi and what that feeling was when you had to open up ole miss with James Meredith and those three civil rights guys buried alive. I went in 63, where there were like half a dozen civil rights workers in the state, and it was the seat of american terrorism. I saw the sacrifices people on the ground had made. And saw this state come now to be a state where it has the largest number of africanamericans. In their state legislature in the United States, but they have only one africanamerican in congress because of the way its gerrymandered. Of course, thats benny thomas. You have to ask yourself why, if they have so many africanamericans, is that the case. Nevertheless, i think the state comes a step forward when it puts a museum up that apparently does not hide the ball at all. And i think theyre willing to do theyre willing to do that, we think we ought to give them credit. If it had been any other president , i mean any other president. The bushes werent our favorites, i dont think he would have seen any reaction like that. John would have gone, bennie would have gone, and everybody would have applauded the bipartisanship represented at this moment. But not after the first full year of the trump presidency. The roundtable is sticking with up. Up next, well get scoops for the weekend. Youre watchb hardball. Your brain changes as you get older. But prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered. In jellyfish. In clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve shortterm memory. Prevagen. The name to remember. Im all about my bed. This mattress is dangerously comfortable. When i get in i literally say, ahh. America loves the leesa mattress. We have more five star customer reviews then any other mattress of its kind. This bed hugs my body. Today is gonna to be great. Place your order and experience the leesa mattress at home risk free. Order now and get 100 off and Free Shipping too. 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With Donald Trumps victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, speculation about a biden 2020 run has only intensified. Do i regret not being president . Yes. I thought there was a need to bring the country together. He would be an opponent. A Good Standing with the american people. People like joe biden. I cant think of anyone with more experience in the senate and the white house. I would never count joe biden out. This man is the energizer bunny. He just does not quit. Headliners, joe biden airs sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on msnbc. Well be right back. David. Whats going on . Oh hey thats it . Yeah. Everybody two seconds dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance. Through the Tuition Assistance program, every day mcdonalds helps more people go to college. Its part of our commitment to being americas best first job. We are back with the hardball round table. Congressman, tell me something i dont know. The 700,000 people that live in the District Of Columbia are number one in taxes paid to support the government of the United States. They have one disempowered congresswoman and we have a Record Number of cosponsors for the bill to make the District Of Columbia the 51st strait. Take that. Im not shocked. Eli . I spoke to someone close to the president s political operation, if the election was in montana, he would not be going to mississippi. New jobs numbers out today. 228,000 new jobs. This is a president overseeing a goode conmy. Hes 20 points under water in the overall approval rating. Pollsters say its hard to be that under water when the economy is doing this. Wonder how bad the economy drops. New numbers coming in from the governors race to understand the themes. Many think that foreshadows a democratic wave according to internal numbers ed gillespie is igniting an immigration debate and demonizing immigrants. Thank you. 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Shoot anybody who puts a hand on him he ordered. His decision kept me alive. Not until that night did the kennedy brothers understand the racial integration in the deep south. That was more than a half century ago. Does anyone question what side donald trump would be on . He denied the first africanamerican president was born here. It makes a great gift this Holiday Season especially for the hardball fan. Thats hardball for now. Thanks for being with us. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Tonight on all in let me tell you, roy moore denies it. Donald trump and roy moore join forces. By the way, he gives a total denial. The president hits the stump and tells alabama to vote for roy moore. Then the trent franks mystery is solved. Im going to make a statement. New reporting that the congressman offered an aide 5 million to carry his child. Plus, what we are learning from the mueller team, including an fbi warning about a russian contact and the plot to stop mueller is growing