Theres a Major Development on that front tonight. And drama in the east wing. First Lady Melania Trump called for the firing of a Senior National security official after a series of runins with the first ladys office. We begin with President Trump, who has made a habit of trashing our democratic institutions, a selfish willingness to destroy the foundations of american civil life in his pursuit of absolute power. Quo quote, i have an absolute right to do what i want to do with the Justice Department, he told the New York Times. Absolute right. Hes made a support of denigrating the fbi. Here he goes. Youve got some real bad ones. Youve seen whats happened at the fbi. Theyre all gone. Theyre all gone theyre all gone. But theres a lingering stench and were going to get rid of that, too. Our Justice Department and our fbi have to start doing their job and doing it right and doing it now. Whats happening is a disgrace. How many fbi are gone . How many Justice Department people are gone, that i found out . They found out. Theres a lot of bad stuff going on in this country, and were finding out. And im getting to the bottom of it. And ive done a hell of a job. Well, hes waged a war on the media as well, with the goal of discrediting them. At one point, he started to attack the press. Skpi and i said, you know, that is getting tired. What i are you doing this . Youre doing it over and over and its boring and its time to end that. You know, youve won the nomination and why do you keep hammering at this . And he said, you know why i do it . I do it do discredit you all and to demean you all so when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you. And now in a report just out tonight, by the l. A. Times, a week after the elections, President Trump is bitter and resentful about the results and hes lashing out. Looking for someone to blame, hes now destroying americas faith in the election process itself, by undermining the electoral process down in florida. And since this election, hes tweeted ten times that the elections were a fraud and an embarrassment. Hes accused democrats of corruption, saying they want to steal the election. And today he demanded that Democrat Bill nelson quit the legally mandated recount process, tweeting, when will bill nelson concede in florida . The characters running broward and palm beach voting will not be able to find enough votes. Find too much spotlight on them now. This time hes bringing his republican colleagues along for the ride. Whats going on in florida is a disgrace. I think what undermines Election Integrity is Broward County cant get their act together over multiple elections. So the problem is not with President Trumps rhetoric. The problem is with the incompetence and the mischief in Broward County. Okay. Do you believe democratic lawyers are trying to steal this election . Well, the answer is yes. What evidence of fraud do you have in the supervisor of Elections Office for this race . First of all, i didnt say fraud. I said election lawyers are down here to steal an election. Bill nelson is clearly a sore loser. He cant stand the fact that hes not going to be elected for, what, the first time in decades. And he wont hes just here to steal this election. Thats what hes done. Steal the election. Fraud. Steal the election. Trivial, in arizona, congressman Martha Mcsally graciously conceded yesterday after losing to democrat Kyrsten Sinema. Lets watch this. Hey, everybody. I just called Kyrsten Sinema and congratulated her on becoming arizonas first female senator after a hardfought battle. I wish her all success as she represents arizona in the senate. For more, im joined by robert costa, Washington PostNational Political reporter, ryan costello, republican from pennsylvania, and u. S. Congresswoman, shaerri busto frm illinois. So i wanted to show mcsally in the normal way you concede, even though that was very nice, even cute sitting there with the dog, that was very nice. But you know, when you lose, you lose. Numbers talk. Trumps out there saying, stealing, fraud, these people are up to mischief. Hes got his ckowtowers running along, like lindsey graham, saying mischief. He has all of these people saying this stuff. This is what they say in countries like pakistan, where they hang the losers. Where they say, every election you lose is rigged. Like zimbabwe, every election is rigged if you lose it. This is the stuff we used to be proud of in this country, that we accept the integrity of our elections. Especially when theres no evidence whatever, according to the secretary of state down in florida, of any misbehavior, of any irregularities. And the president s out there trumpeting these lies. Your thoughts . You nailed it, chris. But lets look at whats going on right now. Weve got the service men and women who have voted, who have sent in their ballots and President Trump is saying weve got to put this to a stop right now. Lets not count anymore ballots. I mean, what does that say . Were one day past veterans day. What does that say about these men and women in uniform who have gone through the effort to vote and hes saying, lets stop this now. President trump used the word disgraceful. He is acting in a disgraceful manner to say anything other than that we should get to the truth. We should get to the account every last plballot. We should make sure we restore the integrity in this process rather than interfering with the process. And thats exactly what hes doing right now. Youre right. The servicepeoples votes arent even due in until later this week. Right. Is he afraid of losing this election for the governorship of the senate down there, or is he afraid of losing the next election . And thats why hes crawling, yelling out fraud and fraud hes probably going to win these two. Theyve got the advantage down there. So why is he saying this unless hes trying to do what he told lesley stahl he was going to do. Discredit any obstacle, do whatever he wants, say whatever he wants, so when he does have a crisis, for example, in 2020, he can cry fraud then and his troops will come out and say, yes, yes, yes, sir, thats true, they stole it again. Well, hes adistracter, i me knows that. But look what hes doing to the prez. For how long has he been talking about, the press is the enemy of the people. Im a former reporter. Thats what i did for almost two decades. And i can tell you we went into the newsroom every single day, just as you do, to get to the truth. And if we need to expose corruption, we expose corruption. If we need to talk about families that are doing great things, well talk about families that are doing great things. But dronald trump, to call the press the enemy of the people, to interfere with the election process, to sptry to undermine americans faith in the election system, that is disgraceful. And we need to you brought up 2020. It is imperative that we do everything we can to be successful in 2020. We just had a very good election cycle. It looks like in the house, we could pick up as many as 39 seats. We still have some that are in play. Which is a very strong number. We won in districts where we didnt think we were going to even have a shot at winning. And now what you know, im running for chair of the Democratic Congressional campaign committee, and should i be successful in that, i want to make sure that we hang on to these tough districts. And these ones that we barely lost, places like central illinois, where betsy dierks lanergan only lost by a very slight margin, that we get these people to run great campaigns again and were successful in 2020. Hold on, congressman. Lets go to robert costa. You know donald trump, is he angry or angling for the next election . Why is he going around saying things about the florida race . Both of his candidates down there for governor and senate are ahead. Theres no real evidence that theyre not going to win. Why is he out there trashing the system and the recount . Talking to white house officials and confidants of the president , they say hes a man alone after the midterm elections. Preparing to make changes in his cabinet, looking possibly at making a change as chief of staff. Its him, his twitter why is he so ticked off . Hes ticked off because hes lost power. You know that as well as hes lost the house. Did he felt he got a rejection from the American People in the popular vote, in the nationwide national count went against him . He also feels vulnerable with the mueller investigation, not knowing whats going to be in that report thats coming out perhaps in a few weeks. Number one, he likes to be bad cop. And weve all gone through election litigation and when youre the elected official, you dont play bad cop. Thats for the lawyers to do. Number two, he doesnt lake process. And when he sees two people battling and he sees a stalemate or he doesnt see something having ended when he likes it to end, he likes to insert himself, and he just starts swinging at people. Thats what hes done here. Why does he assume or say that nothing is on the level . I mean, theres nothing that hes said that the fbi is on the level, the Justice Department is not on the level, the press is not on the level, the florida election machine is not on the level. Everybodys a cheat, how he looks at it. Is he projecting . Thats how he fights. Its grievance populism. Thats the same thing he said in 2015, knsaying that everything r rigged. Does he know hes tearing down these institutions . All he does is shatter norms for a living. All hes been doing since he was elected is shattering president ial norms. But when fbi agents, men or women, whatever their politics, they have to go out and risk their lives. Doesnt he know that they have to be seen as people of integrity who represent the government and not as, you know, off you know, crooks . This is a president who have stench, as he put it . This is a president who embraced kris kobach in kansas who lost the gubernatorial race, and despite really no evidence that theres rampant voter fraud across the country, hes going behind candidates that say there is. Here he is with the real third world stuff. Its not the first time trump has questioned the legitimacy of our elections. Months before the president ial election in 2016, when he thought he was going to lose, he began claiming the election was rigged. Lets watch that. And im afraid the election is going to be rigged, i have to be honest. We have to make sure that you dont have people voting ten times. I hope its going to be a very fair election. I dont know that it will be. I hope its going to be. Were in a rigged system, folks. Were in a rigged system. The only way we can unrig it is get to the polls. But weve got to make sure theyre honest polls. Weve got to make sure. I will totally accept the results of this great and historic president ial election, if i win. You know, congresswoman, that is the idiotic, third world, asinine view of every clown and tin pot dictator in the third world. If they win the election, it was clean, if they lose, it was rigged. You see it all the time in countries like zimbabwe. I dont want to single them out, but thats a classic example. I see that in pakistan and countries like that. They dont have trust in their institutions. And this is a oneman wrecking ball going around the country, telling 40 of the country who believes in this guy, the lemmings of the republican party, dont trust votes. Dont trust press. Dont trust fbi. Dont trust Justice Department. Thats what hes saying. Dont trust anybody but me, because im your leader. Yeah. Chris, i just wish you would tell it like it is. Im concerned about your candor here. Well hey, look, were going to be sworn in in the majority on january 3rd. One of the first things were going to do is address the fact that weve got a problem with making sure that we invest in that our polling places are safe. That we take a look at the money in politics. That weve got a whole reform package to make sure that things are working in washington the way they should work. And so, you know, were ready to go on day one. Not just with that, but also, not to bring in another topic, but weve got to address rebuilding our country again. You know, one of our competitive advantages weve always had as americans is, weve been able to move our goods to market better than any other country. So were going to have a 1 trillion rebuilding america package and were going to bring down the costs of prescription drugs and health care. So those are our three top priorities, including restoring faith in democracy, because of what the president has done over these last several years, before even he was president. Thank you so much. Is anything sacred with this guy, besides his family . Listening to the congresswoman, is there really anything even possible in this kind of charged environment with the president lashing out at his own party, about the democrats, to talk about prescription drugs and infrastructure, thats a rosy view of what could happen in january. But a lot of people up here on capitol hill, they done see it happening if the president s in this sort of temperament. What do you think, congressman . Youve been there. Well, i think a lot of thats going to depend on what the appetite of the senate is. I think if you get something through the house and the senates willing toic t ii itak and pass it, the revenues always been important. On the pharmaceutical drug side, its actually been the president whos unrepublican in terms of what hes willing to do. So i think that those both have possibilities. One final point from my perspective, the president , i think, has never gotten rid of his developer mentality. So he views the fbi and the doj like montaanhattan borough coun when hes trying to railroad a development project. He doesnt look at these institution with the reverence that we do. Thats a problem, but its also the reason that he just keeps on swinging without regard to the longterm damage is, to the credibility of those institutions and the American People. He probably figures if you can throw them a puck buck or t you can get what you want from them. Thank you, cheri bustos, robert costello. Coming up, trumps legal team is preparing to answer muellers written questions. And are big indictments around the bend . We think so. We think its coming for a couple of his really beauties that work with trump. Plus, trump is lashing out again at his latest adversary, the president of france. Will america have any allies left at the time that Trump Leaves Office . And the knives are out in the east and the west wings of the white house tonight with some highprofile exit. The first ladys office is sat war with the National Security staff and maybe the chief of staff himself. This is fascinating marital political marital situation here. Finally, with great power comes great responsibility. Will democrats in the house wield their newfound power responsibly . We mentioned that, well get to that later in the show. This is hardball, where the action is. Dbl,al where the action is. Im ken jacobus, im the owner of good start packaging. We distribute environmentallyfriendly packaging for restaurants. And weve grown substantially. So i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. I earn unlimited 2 cash back on everything i buy. And last year, i earned 36,000 in cash back. Thats right, 36,000. 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Im joined now by barbara mcquade, a former federal prosecutor, and ken dilanian, an nbc news National Security reporter. Ken, whats the importance that theyre going to have these answers within the week . What we dont know is whats precipitating this. Is Robert Mueller threatening to subpoena donald trump and haul him before a grand jury . I think this is part of the negotiation thats playing out between the trump team and the mueller team about what answers trump is going to give. I dont see how its okay for trump to say hes not going to answer questions about obstruction of justice, a main part of Robert Muellers investigation, but thats their position right now. Because they believe that that probe stemmed from the firing of james comey and trump had an absolute right to do that. Let me suggest a strategy. Theyll say, you can have half of what you want, you can have written answers, which is nonsense, because lawyers write the answers and theyll be cleverly written. But ive got this new guy, matthew whitaker, whos any attorney general, and hes not going to push for any sort of subpoena, so live with it. How about that . Well give you something, but dont ask for more, because ive got a guy thats going to defend me. If that happens, mueller has to report that to congress. He has to tell the congress that they have shut him down . If they shut him down on any investigative step, absolutely. All right, barbara, your thoughts on this . Looking at this whole thing, the naming of whitaker last week as acting ag. The word out according to nbc news that theyre going to agree to some kind of response to these written questions. How hows it fit together and how does it advance this whole process of ending this investigation conclusively . The sequence is somewhat suspect, isnt it . Just as youve pointed out, chris. Weve waited months and months for these answers. I think it was january that Robert Mueller started down this path of seeking information from President Trump. And now that hes got his handpicked attorney general in place, now mideahes ready to g answers. So i think he feels like hes in a position of empowerment at this stage of the game. But nonetheless, hell get answers. It locks President Trump into story. And he cant wiggle out of that for now. I dont think this is going to be 100 satisfactory to Robert Mueller, because as you point out, theres no ability to follow up with follow up questions, to observe body language or tone or inflection or any of those things. It doesnt preclude Robert Mueller from seeking a subpoena at some point if hes not satisfied with those answers and to get information about obstruction of justice, but i do think it would help him in any court case, to show that he tried to take the path of least resistance and that he tried to get this through negotiation without resorting to a subpoena. Yeah, and it also makes trump look good if he does answer with written answers, so then he tells his 43 of the country, look, i gave my answers. And they appear to be closing on this jerome corsi. According to nbc news, corsi says he expects to be indicted for perjury, adding that muellers team delivered the news at a meeting about a week ago. This comes after nbc news reported last month that investigators obtained communications suggesting corsi may have had advanced knowledge that wikileaks would release emails, those ones hacked by russia, from Clinton Campaign chairman john podesta. Corsi, however, denied having any advanced knowledge. In fact, he told prosecutors that he simply figured it out on his own. Intuition. Now according to corsi, he appears to have given false information to federal investigators. Lets watch. I fully anticipate that in the next few days win will be indicted by mueller for some form or other of giving false information to the special counsel or to one of the other grand jury or whomever they want to do the indictment. But im going to be criminally charged. Well, investigators also scrutinizing whether that guy, corsi, passed any information about the hacked emails to roger stone. Theres stone on the right. Who appeared to predict the release of podestas emails on twitter in 2016. Most famously, stone hinted, podestas time in the barrel, later saying there was a payload coming, just two days before podestas emails were released. Theres a couple of things here. First of all, corsis a bad guy. Hes the guy who created the whole swiftvote nonsense, destroying the Political Campaign of john kerry. He also came out with the whole nonsense of birtherism, thatbaum was birthed over in kenya or somewhere outside the united states. This guy is in cahoots with trump. Is this one of the final dashes of excitement to this prosecution or where do you see it in the list of developments that will get to a final report by mueller . Well, first, nobody gets indicted, of course, for being a bad guy. They would get indicted for some criminal activity, which could be false statements. You know, hes hinted that hes fallen into a perjury trap, but you know, to make it very clear, people dont get indicted for making mistakes or forgetting the facts. They get indicted for false statements when they know what theyre saying is false. So he seems like a potential link to roger stone. He seems like a potential link to others related to the trump campaign. For example, theres already that indictment about hacking, that alleged a conspiracy to interfere with the Fair Administration of elections. If roger stone or mr. Corsi was involved and had advanced information and provided advice about the timing of the dissemination of those emails, that could be aiding and abetting or that could be conspiracy to violate that statute. And so anyone else who participated could also be charged. And it so seems that corsi finds himself in the crosshairs at this moment, because he has information thats valuable to Robert Mueller that he wants to get. And as weve seen, when people lie to Robert Mueller, he is not shy about charging them with making false statements or perjury. This is the belly of the beast. This is collusion with russians. Aside from corsi and stone, theres the possibility of a bigger indictment to come. Politico reported last week that according to one source, trumps son, don jr. , has told friends in recent weeks that he believes he could be indicted. It should be noted, however, that any new indictments would need the approval of trumps acting attorney general, matthew whitaker. I dont know, this is ken, hes got this guy whitaker, this guy kavanaugh at the Supreme Court to back him up. Hes got this whole thing wired. Whats he going to do if his son is indicted . Thats been my question. He can throw well, first of all, roger stone can rat him out on all kinds of russia stuff, it seems to me. And i dont think roger wants to go to federal prison. I agree with you. And for the past many weeks, Robert Mueller has been dragging roger stones friends and associates before the grand jury. Thats where this corsi thing fits in. And its very clear they have a communication from corsi to stone where corsi suggests he knew about that stone had the john podesta emails. Which came from the russians. Exactly. This is the whole idea. Mueller is trying to look if theres a link between wikileaks and the russians and the trump campaign, going through stone and corsi. And if he establishes that, thats huge. That could be collusion. Well, im very hopeful, because weve been all following this. I guess were invested in getting to the truth here, barbara. Were hopeful i hope that mueller has something that truly has to do with the russians, with vladimir putin, with his gang over there and trying to undermine our elections in 2016. And if it happened, i want to make sure that trumps hands are caught. Thats my belief. If he did it, i want him caught. Thats my thought. Your thoughts about that, barbara . Well, if anyone is guilty of colluding with russians, of conspireing to throw our elections, then they should absolutely be held accountable. I dont think we know at this moment what the role of President Trump was. I think people have their suspicions, but i think that it would be a kind of tactic to use someone like roger stone as a cutout, not someone who is officially affiliated with the campaign, but someone like roger stone, who is a friend and confidant and adviser. Its exactly the way the russians operate and it could be the way that President Trump operated in this instance, and so if anyone can find out about it, its Robert Mueller. Can you imagine roger stone knowing, as he made clear he did, that the russian stuff was coming . That John Podestas time in the barrel was coming, weeks before. That he didnt confide that to the man he was working for, donald trump . Why he would keep that secret from trump . Yeah, it seems unlikely whether he was directly communicating with President Trump or others, remains to be seen. But i think the timing of the trump tower meeting in june of 2016 is so critically important. And now remember, Paul Manafort, who was present at that meeting, is cooperating with Robert Mueller. The timing of that, between the time of the hack and the dissemination of those emails that were stolen in the fall of 2016 would be the perfect opportunity to have a conversation about what would be the best time to release these to maximize the impact in favor of President Trump. And so, if anyone at that meeting, don jr. Or Jared Kushner or Paul Manafort was involved in providing that advice, that could make them coconspirators. I like lawyers that can speak english, barbara. Youre making it clear. Thank you, ken dilanian, for your great reporting, especially the stuff tonight. Up next, President Trump lashes out after his paris trip, mocking president macrons Approval Ratings including french defenses during the world wars and threatening new tariffs on french wine. He is a bull in a china shop. Why is he fighting with the french . He also has an explanation for skipping that ceremony at the cemetery for american soldiers over there when he went over there to do just that. 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He threatened tariffs on french wine and responded to macrons call for a European Army by taunting him over the German Occupation of france in both world wars, tweeting, how did that work out for france . They were starting to learn german in paris before the u. S. Came along. Well, thats all horrible nonsense. He also called criticism over that canceled stop infake news, saying the secret service said no when he suggested they drive there. In an opinion piece in the Washington Post on veterans day, ana mill babank the americ heros you think of on veterans day, satirically noting, we think of President Trump battling rain for not one, but two days this week. Im joined by dana milbank. A bull in a china shop underestimates this president. Why are we having this pee match in the rain . The french would have a phrase for this and be right to apply this to the president. Presumably he starts firing away at macron and france before his advisers could let him know it was the solemn anniversary there in france. Charlie, charlie what is that called yes. That one. The satiric magazine. Yes, of course. For macron, this is who has been suffering. Hes been having a difficult time getting a coalition together, this is gold he tried to kiss up to trump. That went nowhere. Now he realizes that taking on trump, getting attacked this way in france is brilliant. Why is he going after a guy named macron, whos a man of the center right, whos trying to deal with that encrusted old system in france where nobody really wants to work that hard. They want their afternoons off, the whole thing. And hes trying to crack through that system, so something can get done over there. Trump should be trumpeting the guy. Well, he should be, but i dont think trumps really thinking on that level. You know, why did he skip the parade. Why was he so cranky tweeting, you know, basically completely misrepresenting de gaulle and churchill walked down the champselysees. Its a simple explanation in that we happen to have a lowenergy president. You notice every time he goes on a trip, helsinki, the middle east, asia, he makes these gaffes and gets in trouble. Hes tired. He doesnt have his executive time, as they call it. And you can be sure he said, i dont want to go out there in the rain. The secret service doesnt say, no, you cant go. Hes in charge of the secret service, not the other way around. Anyway, while honoring veterans in an American Cemetery in france on sunday, the president paused to point out that the veterans were under a tent while he was getting drenched. Lets watch. We have a number of amazing veterans with us today, including six veterans of world war ii. James blaine. James . Wheres james . James, thank you. Thank you, james. Frank davida . Thank you, frank. Thank you very much. You look so comfortable up there under shelter, as were getting drenched. Youre very smart people. What do you make of that . Well you said that the president s hair was so lacquered that it was like the burning bush that never burned. Its true. You saw the lectern was wet, his coat was wet, but the hair did not actually get wet. I do think he sees himself as out there, sacrificing. Perhaps not like the world war i soldiers in the trenches well, he said that his vietnam was surviving, you know, essentially stds and he was a very brave soldier in doing that. First of all, that seems to be somewhat blasphemous about guys who serve and got killed and everything hes done it repeatedly. And i think the not going to an american war memorial thats why he went over there. I think its also isnt that why he went over there . It was the purpose. And i think he said, well, ill go a cemetery tomorrow. Wasnt there a cemetery nearby they could have gone to . Its an hour away. Its not that hard to do this. Let me ask you this. Youre smarter than your satire always covers up and officer offers up an explanation. Its not just fun. What is his politics . Is this the stuff out of popeye doyle and French Connection . I would rather be a lamppost in new york than the president of france . Is this just dumping on Foreign Countries something for the people back home . First of all, it doesnt play well for the people back home. Because as when we wouldnt have the flags lowered after john mccains death, americans dont like this. Its not patriotic to skip a cemetery visit and hang out in the ambassadors residence watching television for five hours. Yeah, so i dont think theres a strategy behind it. Why does he attack macron. He says, well, wherever hes attacked he goes and hits back twice as hard. I dont think hes actually thinking about it. The world is mocking him. Its galvanizing the world against him. Its not playing well for him here. I think its instinct, i dont think its strategy. Well, its queens, isnt it . Anyway, i guess. I think thats what he thinks he is. The tough kid going into the big city and showing the smart guys how tough he is. Thank you, dana milbank. Up next, the first lady is bringing the hammer down on the white house. This is a great feud between the east wing, there she is on the left, and the west wing, kelly. Her feud with john kelly means his days are numbered. Plus, her extraordinary call for the firing of a top National Security aide, all done through memos and press releases instead of just calling up, donald, i want to get rid of that person. Youre watching hardball. O gen youre watching hardball. [ slurping ] act your age. Get your own insurance. [ child babbling ] aah oh act your age. Get your own insurance. A t your age. Cleaning floors with a mop and bucket is a hassle, meaning you probably dont clean as often as youd like. For a quick and convenient clean, try Swiffer Wetjet. 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Its been less than a week since President Trump fired his attorney general jeff sessions, and today the word went out that another cabinet member could soon walk the plank. The Washington Post reports that the president is preparing to move Homeland Security secretary kirsten nielskneeniene coming weeks, if not sooner. Theres also some news from the east wing. The first ladys office publicly called for the firing of deputy National Security adviser mia ricardel, seen here as the white house there she is on the right. In a statement, the first lady spokeswomans wrote, it is the position of the office of first lady that she no longer serves the honor deserves it, of serving in the white house. What a strange way to talk to your husband. The rift also extends to chief of staff, john kelly. Nbc news reports that white house chief of staff john kelly could soon be on his way out, noting that kelly has also gotten on the wrong side of Melania Trump over staffing issues and travel requests. Some of the disputes with the east wing have escalated to the president. Im joined now by the hardball roundtable, mia kumar with mcclatchy, david elrod with hillary for america, and Corey Lewandowski is the author of trumps enemies how the deep state is undermining the president , and former chief of staff or political adviser to trumps 2016 campaign. Anita, let me ask you this about the whole question. It seems to me there are other ways of communicating between the first lady and the president than issuing a statement for the whole country to read that the deputy nfc direct should be gone. Extraordinary. I mean, clearly, first ladies must express their opinion. You just dont usually see it publicly like this. But what this i remember nancy reagan, when she didnt like donald regan, the chief of staff, she told bernie shaw at cnn to announce on television, hes been fired. Well, what this probably means is shes tried another route, right . Shes tried i mean, this is someone that has gotten on to cross hairs both at the white house has already been, just like these other people you mentioned, jeff sessions, secretary nielsen, these are people that have got sboten inte president , the first ladys crosshairs over the last few months. So its someone that hasnt been fired yet. So this was her way of getting it out there. Any tradecraft here, corey, that we could understand, how trump does business when he doesnt want somebody there . I think its very simple. The first lady was clear that this is a person that she doesnt think deserves the right to serve in the white house. She said something very similar when she was overseas and did an abc interview with tom lamas. She said, there are people in the white house who i dont trust and dont deserve the right to be there. The president echoed those same comments when he went on 60 minutes with lesley stahl. He said, look, there are people here that i dont think should be here. The president needs to take the action and remove those individuals and the first ladys Statement Today was very clear of who those people are. Is this an ideological thing, young, anita . Is this john boltons deputy being a little too neo con for the first lady or what . Im not sure its that for the first lady. Shes mentioned several things, and it didnt sound like it was ideological. It sounded like they just had their differences. Adrian, sometimes its a simple matter of manners and respect. Sure. Don regan, the chief of staff to Ronald Reagan who thought he was prime minister, hung up on the first lady one day and as soon as he did that, he chop pd his head off. Good job for melania speaking up. But it is highly unusual and another day, another chaos in the trumpland. Anyway, meanwhile, democrats are feeling emboldened by last weeks rebuke of President Trump at polls. They won the National Vote for the house and strategizing behind the scenes on their plan moving forward as they plan the majority in the house come january, january 30th, exactly. Axios reports that a Senior Source says that democrats are preparing a. Canyon with exactly 85 targets, the democrats plan to probe every aspect of Donald Trumps life and work. But the New York Times reports that planning to go on the offensive could be a challenge for democrats moving forward, writing, democrats who remained remarkably focused during their campaigns must now figure out how to put forward their own agenda, even as they deal with the provocations of a president who relishes confrontation and disdain s institutional norms. Well, thats fancy writing. But adrian, you were head of strategic communications. That is right. How do the democrats stay strategic so that they look good a couple of years from now when we have to pick a party to lead the country . Yeah, all of this talk about democrats coming in and having a cannon of subpoenas is really ridiculous. I mean, we can do two things at the same time. This is why leader pelosi is so important for being the next speaker of the house. Because she has experience, she has the respect of our caucus. Weve gotten three very capable chiefs, if you will, who will be overseeing some of these subpoenas, some of the oversight. Thats adam schiff, Elijah Cummings and jerry nadler. But at the same time, employepes made it very clear that shes going to be focusing on health care, addressing the health care costs, which republicans have done nothing about. Whats going to get the headlines . Both. Whats the media going to talk about . Well, the president s response, if he sees the house is now democrat, they have all of these subpoenas over there, they have pelosi there, probably the leader. Whats he think about all of that . Its very simple. This is exactly what happened to bill clinton two years into his administration, this is what happened to barack obama two years into his administration. And if the democrats think that theyre going to go out and be on the offense and its going to hurt the president longterm, i think theyve made the same miscalculation that other president s and other minorities have made when they became the majority. Look, this president said, we want to work with a partisan nancy pelosi on infrastructure and spending bill, 1 trillion into the economy. Thats a nonsan francispartisan. Will they do that . I think they have to do that. This is just the party of no. If the democrats become the party of no and the party of subpoena, they will pay more that at the ballot box. Thats not going to happen. Ion after world war ii, the republicans spent two years issuing subpoenas and truman won. Anyway, what do you think, the democrats and republicans, are they going to get together on things like preexisting conditions . Its not a winner for the republicans. Why didnt they do it . Well, its going to be hard. We heard what nancy pelosi said last week, but all of these democrats that are coming into the house, a lot of them ran on that they want to hold President Trump accountable. Theres going to be a lot of pressure on her like emoluments clauses yes, to do all of these things about tax returns and emoluments. Of course we push that here and its going to be very hard for President Trump on the other hand to say, you want to cut a deal on infrastructure . Whos most likely to reach their hand out and say, lets deal, on infrastructure . Is it the president or pelosi . I think both of them have said they want to do it. Who is most likely to put the hand out and say, lets deal . Pelosi. Pelosi. And again, i think its ridiculous that we are sitting here and saying that democrats cant move forward on some of the policy issues that matter to americans while also working to hold the president accountable. Voters demanded that, independents, moderate republicans, and a lot of democrats voted they can walk and chew gum at the same time. It sounds cliche, but they can. Will trump ever change . Why would he want to change . Hes the president of the united states. Have you ever met anybody whos changed in your whole life . No, wiof course not. How many members of the Democratic Party who just won their first election said they werent going to vote for nancy pelosi for speaker and are going to hold true to that in the leadership elections this week . Its not going to happen. This happens every time. They always end up but the point is, theyve made a promise to their constituents and the first vote they make will be are they going to vote they can vote present. Theres no other candidate. Theyve got to vote present. You guys, republicans have been trying to demonize nancy pelosi for years and it never works. The number one goal of every freshman is . To get a second term. Up next, these three will tell me something i dont know and. Back with the round table, tell me something i dont know. My colleagues have done reporting that shows nearly two dozen Democratic Candidates or potential candidates have already spent more than 1. 3 million in the four early voting states. So lots of names we already know, elizabeth warren, joe biden, eric garcetti. How many candidates . 20, at least. Women are taking over government. Emilys list tripled the number of prochoice democrats who are now women who are running governors seats in many states, and also a very important point regardless of how many seats we end up taking in the house, women will have won the majority, are taking back the house for democrats, regardless of how many best any women. Good news for nancy pelosi. Very good news. Kevin mccarthy will be the leader of the republicans in the house. Jim jordan will be the Ranking Member on the house judiciary committee. Mark meadows will be the Ranking Member on oversight committee, two key allies of the president , is the democrats threaten subpoenas moving forward. Tell me about mccarthy. Hes a true mathematician, knows every district like tom davis used to when he was at the nrcc, he was there and worked as a staffer, went back to california and became back. He was someone who represents the entire republican caucus, not just a small group of it and has a great relationship with President Trump, which has extended long before he became the republican nominee. How does trooup keump keep h from getting wet . An umbrella. East over in paris, no umbrella, no wet hair. He calls it the burning bush that never burns up. Anyway, thank you to my panel. When we return, let me finish tonight with trump watch. 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He doesnt like it when the attorney general files Justice Department guidelines and recuses himself from the russian probe. He doesnt like it when a state, florida, follows its rule of counting all votes. In each case this president condemned the institution that dared to question him. He called the fbi the deep state. Attacked the press as the enemy of the people. He attacked the florida election counting system as corrupt. And we know why he does these things, why he condemns each institution as untrust worthy. It would free him to do precisely what he wants and then get away with it. President trump wants to do what he wants to do, and get away with it. And thats hardball for now. Thanks for being with us. All in with chris hayes starts right now. Tonight on all in. What a stupid question that is. The president will answer Robert Muellers questions. That was a democrat hoax. As potential indictments loom. Well, look, perhaps they have squeezed poor dr. Corsi to help frame me. The latest movement in the mueller probe. Then they wanted their voices to be heard. Now im being arrested. Republicans push to stop counts votes continues. Plus, why the first lady is publicly calling for the firing of a deputy National Security adviser. And climate protests on capitol hill its about making sure