Organization, demanding any documents related to, guess where, russia. The bottom line is the special counsels a prosecutor. Hes going to keep going if he sees violations of law and hes not going to restrain himself to one country. This, as the Trump Administration imposes its first sanctions on russia for the meddling in the 2016 election. And hopefully, possibly, the president set to roll out a new plan to combat the countrys op opoid crisis. If somebody goes and shoots somebody or kills somebody, they go away for life, and they can even get the Death Penalty. They catch a drug dealer, they dont even put them in jail. Mm. What about all the Drug Companies, mr. President . We begin with a stunning interview with Stormy Daniels attorney with my colleagues on morning joe. Just a few minutes ago. I want you to listen to what michael abaniti said about the attempts to silence daniels, silence her about her allegations about a sexual relationship with the president. Was she threatened in anyway . Yes. Was she threatened physical harm . Yes. Can you tell us whether it came from the president directly, the physical threats . Im not going to answer that. Will you deny that the president of the United States threatened your client . I will not confirm or deny. Can you believe this story is not going away . Its only getting bigger. Not only that, the lawyer said daniels isnt just alleging a relationship with trump, he says she can prove it. You would not take on a client or a case like this without unequivocal proof . What im going to ill answer that in the affirmative, yes. You would not take on a case like this unless there was proof there was a sexual relationship between Stormy Daniels and trump and they tried to silence her about it . Correct. Jennifer pamrary served as White House Communications director for obama. Nicole amper. And jennifer roger, executive director at Columbia Law School and former assistant attorney in new york. Its a legal question. I cant stand talking about Stormy Daniels. I cant stand we go day in, day out, talking about a porn star and the president. But alas, this problem wont go away, and it sounds like its getting bigger. It is. I mean, physical threats are obviously a criminal matter. So to the extent that its true someone associated with trump physically threatened daniels, there are criminal implications there. That doesnt even touch the issue whether there were Campaign Violations of election law with the payments and all of that. This is a problem thats going to stick around. If President Trump had an affair and, guess what, he most likely did, thats the guy he is, thats one thing. But now, is it a game changer if physical violence was threatened . You can get into criminal charges at that point too. And that is something thats, you know, unchartered territory for the president. It makes it a lot more serious. But, you know, you saw this with, you know, president clintons impeachment started from a lawsuit filed by paula jones, right. So a similar situation in which lawsuits can spark a process that, you know, takes you into pretty dangerous places for a sitting president. See, Jennifer Palmieri knows you have to pay me 2 if you say unprecedented so she didnt say it. Raise big dollars from republican donors day in, day out. Talk us through how the white house handled this. The white house has done this, sarah huck buy saabee sans done this to the best of her ability. I think shes done a good job. For me, as a republican, i know, i see your face but for me, a republican fundraiser, there are there are you have to look at the races and you have to look at where trump resonates. So if there is a district thats better to distance yourself from the president. I mean, youve dealt with this with obama. There are certain places where it behooves you to, say thats the president , were running our own race. We did it in the mayors race against de blasio. People were trying to tie the individual who ran against de blasio with donald trump. She had to tiptoe around and say i like some of his policies but its not about trump. So you really have to push him away. Just like when, you know, towards the bush election if youll remember, a lot of people did not want push or karl rove or any of the surrogates to come down and campaign and endorse or anything. Because, you know, of Different Things he had done in the administration that people didnt agree with and they wanted to won their own campaign. This is unfortunate. This is also territory no one really likes to talk about. Its about sex. Thats not true, a lot of people like talking about sex. I think a ton of people like talking about sex. You dont like talking about it. The white house doesnt like talking about it. Its hard when youre trying to raise money when this issue comes up. Or is it hard when evangelicals want to continue to stand with the president and pretend this doesnt exist . Is it hard when you say youre the party of family values, oh, by the way, this is a porn star were dealing with, porn star. Think about this. Its an elephant in the room. We dont like to address. No one likes to address it. The only thing thats out there is theyre saying that President Trump is denying these allegations. And thats where you stop. The payoff is the issue though. Isnt the payoff the issue here . This is about its lease about the sex than it is about silencing someone and paying them off. Legally, its about to pay off in the benefits of the campaign. Politically, i think its about the lying. The sex is one thing if you think its about the lying, are you aware that 3,000 lies have crossed through this white house in the last year and a half . This is a topic i think some of the people who ignore lies about more substantive topics will Pay Attention to. Maybe this is naive. I think lying about Something Like this, people say, oh, yes, he did it, he lied, thats a problem. Isnt this more between Michael Cohen now . Because he did this theyre say, out of his own free will . Not necessarily. Now youve got another lawyer connected to trump who signed off on this. Michael cohen could be the 800th person to take a bullet for President Trump. At the end of the day, you get closer and closer to trump, there are just so many of these. Theres been reporting there were reimbursements in the amount of 129 you know, since of 130,000 from the campaign. If you can get it to the campaign, which is trumps campaign, hes on the hook for that election law violation. The problem with these why 130 . Why 130 . From a guy supposedly worth 10 billion. If youre going to do it. Shes a porn star. Porn stars do this usually for the money. Theyre not just having a big grand time. Theyre doing it to make a big name and a big living in the industry. Why would you, Stormy Daniels, say, um, lets see, 130, thats my number . I want to know why 130. Well, trumps the master negotiator, right. He supposedly didnt do it. But his team. All right, were going to cover this more obviously. The other big story. New york times saying special counsel mueller now has subpoenaed documents from the Trump Organization i see your red line including documents related to washington. As far as we know, that is a first. The subpoena apparently delivered in the last few weeks. Its not clear exactly what hes hoping to find. The fact that muellers investigation is now touching the Trump Organization could signal a sharper focus on whether foreign money played a role in funding trumps political activities. It could also bring the investigation closer to the president and his family business. An attorney representing the Trump Organization downplaying the subpoena, calling it old news. He also said the organization has been cooperating with investigators and responding to their requests since last july. The president himself warned mueller against digging into his business. He made that clear during a conversation with the New York Times last year. Listen. Mueller was looking at your finances and your familys finances unrelated to russia, is that a red line . Would that be a breach of what his actual charge is . I would say yeah. I would say yes. By the way, i would say, i dont i dont i mean, its possible theres a condo or something so, you know, i sell a lot of condo units and somebody from russia buys a condo, who knows. I dont make money from russia. They said i own buildings in russia. I dont. They said i made money from russia. I dont. Its not my thing. I dont, i dont do that. We know muellers going to find out. Whats mueller looking for . Well, hes probably looking for a few things. First of all, communications. A lot of people use their business email to communicate so hes probably looking for statements by trump, trump jr. , about all of the topics of muellers investigation. Hes also looking for foreign infusion of money for the election through the Trump Organization i think. Now that theres some suspicion the money coming into the campaign might be tied to russia or other foreign services. Hes going to look at the Trump Organization as a conduit for that money to come through. This is about his business dealings with the russians. His communications, his relationships with the russianings. And much of that would have come through the Trump Organization so hes looking for communicationings with these people, relationship with these people that would indicate whether they helped to influence the election. Isnt quid pro hard to prove . He doesnt use email. Hes not an active texter. Hes figured this out. Theyre not looking for quid pro quo necessarily. Theyre looking for participation in flinsing the election. Now youre not talking about proving up a quid pro quo, youre talking about are there conversations about the election, are there payments . And then dig further and find out what they are. President trump has been able to say up until now things happened in the campaign im unaware, i wasnt in the room. When it comes to the Trump Organization, his business, is that not a different story . Its a very Small Company . Its a very Small Company. I dont think they observed the lines as carefully as they should have between the Trump Organization and the Trump Campaign that can result into more legal trouble. But when i saw this news yesterday, i looked back because, you know, i worked with both president obama and president clinton. I have a lot of experience with special counsels. Remember when you see things when you see the special counsel news that happened yesterday, the white house knew that and they knew that for a long time, right. So the white house actually has an insight into what muellers doing because mueller comes to them for information. So, you know, all of the firings, the tillerson firing, the reporting that mcmasters going to go. More reporting there could be more firings at the white house, at the cabinet. It feels to me trump is trying to lose, you know, to limit his weaknesses, people who wont defend hip, and develop a wartime cabinet that is prepared for when mueller comes out with his report and if its very damning about connections with russia, have people in his cabinet that wont buckle, that will stand by him. Like pompeo versus tillerson. And that is i think its important for people to remember. They actually do when you see news like this, look back at behavior from the last week and thats how you really get a sense of how freaked out they are. Fair point. When you look sort of out of the blue in the last weeks and you see trump tweet witch hunt that could be the day the subpoena arrives. Whether its a Rex Tillerson, its being rumored now that sort of that side of the house is back to pushing john kelly out. H. R. Mcmaster. These are people that are not lifetime trumpers. This is definitely a strategy i think by trump. He even said so, hes getting his cabinet worked out. Though he chose the cabinet. He has. I hate to even make reference to this because i can feel the eye rolls. Just like on the apprentice when he did this, get them in, get them out. Maybe this is his style. Maybe we are seeing his style being brought to the white house. We dont know how much because the family didnt turn over but there were over Office People that turned over a lot. Maybe thats how he rolls. A lot of republicans who you raise money from who didnt like President Trump, didnt support him but they say i love the generals around him. If he now makes a switch and puts true trump enthusiasts around him, if its the house of Kellyanne Conways who will defend the president over anything. How does paul ryan feel about that . Youve got to look at what people people liked Rex Tillerson. They respected him from exxon. People liked Kellyanne Conway. A lot of people liked her. So the people he hired, first round people, a lot of people liked. The second round people, a lot of people still liked. People liked h. R. Mcmaster. People liked gary cohn. So he keeps insulating himself with people but theyre also with people, even the new change or whatever, are still a continuation of people that republicans do like. All right. Well, maybe theyll be more new people coming. I have a feeling the answers yes. Coming up, President Trump prepares to unveil major initiatives to come bat the opoid crisis. That includes the Death Penalty for drug dealers. And new reaction following President Trump, at a fundraiser this week that he made up information during a meeting with canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau. What was the most surprising to seth meyers is trudeau actually believed him. Trump is so bad at lying he lets the public immediately know he lied. If trump ever had to take a lie detector test, hed probably just draw the crazy lines himself. I did not collude with russia. Peninsula trail . You wont find that on a map. Ill take you there. Take this left. If you listen real hard you can hear the whales. Oop. You hear that . vo our Subaru Outback lets us see the world. Sometimes in ways we never imagined. avo get 0 apr financing on allnew 2018 Subaru Outback models. Now through april 2nd. Yes or no . Gin. Do you want the same tools and seamless experience across web and tablet . 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Ill have to give a hat tip to one of our colleagues, kate snow, doing a lot of reporting on this. Youre absolutely right. The president sed to be in New Hampshire, hardhit state there. This is a controversial plan, and it calls for basically tougher penalties, tougher ways for dealing with this, including the possibility of the Death Penalty for drug traffickers, as well as a renewed focus on changes in treatment and recovery methods. The crux of this plan is really to take a longterm approach, to talk about prevention, but then to try to get folks who have struggled with addiction into better jobs, into better recovery programs. So this is a whole of government approach. The president is going to be flanked by a number of members of his own cabinet. Why New Hampshire . Well, it has the third highest Drug Overdose rate in the nation. If you look at statistics from 2016. Now, President Trump signalled he was going to make this announcement on saturday when he was at that rally in pennsylvania. He talked about the fact, and ill give you a little bit of a quote, the fact that folks who someone goes out and shoots somebody or kills somebody, they go away for life. And then he said but drug traffics, you can kill thousands of people and go to jail for 30 days. You can catch a drug dealer. They dont even put them in jail. Still, this notion of giving the Death Penalty to drug traffickers, highly controversial. Something that would require an act of congress. This is not something that President Trump would be able to do unilaterally. Again, hes going to be calling on members of his cabinet to help him enact these very tough proposals. I want my panel to weigh in. Noel and jennifer. Still with me. President trump says a lot of aggressive things and people like the way they sound but he says he wants to enforce the Death Penalty. How on earth does that even happen . Yes, its not going to happen. The congress is never going to pass that. It is, you know, its a very controversial proposition. But even, you know, the question with him always is, you know, even lesser elements of the plan that would require congressional authorization would he ever have the discipline, followthrough, to follow up on it. When you think about this, the opoid crisis is killing record numbers of people. Yes, it is. Those who are struck by it, do you think they would say Death Penalty for drug dealers is the wait to go here . Well, first of all, bravo to him, you know, i will criticize trump when hes wrong and i will praise him when hes right and ive got to say something. At least he is shocking people to look at this. I mean this is a huge epdemic. Hes saying something. He has yet to do something. Hes saying something thats never going to come to fruition. Anyone whos ever had a kid who died from an overdose or committed suicide because of an overdose or, you know, took drugs or whatever. Youve got to look at the drug dealers supplying those drugs. I understand the comparison. When you have a guy armed with a, you know, ak47 mowing down students, what is the difference when you have a drug dealer that is giving bad heroin or bad cocaine to somebody and knocking out weve lost actors. Weve lost wonderful talents. Weve lost great kids that have never had a future through drugs. And theyre getting them through drug dealers. Theres got to be a very stiff penalty on people pushing these drugs on youth. Without a doubt. My pushback would be Kellyanne Conway is said to be the brainchild behind the president s plan. But sources tell nbc that the head of National Drug control, he hasnt even spoken to kellyanne. I guess my reservation is, if i was somebody whose family was struck by this and i wanted it taken seriously, i would want a plan that actually does something. You can enact on them. That congress would credibly pick up and do something with them. That you would have the discipline to follow through on it. Thats just you just dont except for when its cutting rich peoples taxes. Theres just not the focus to do that. Kellyanne conway also needs to incorporate the drug manufacturers. I know right now there are two or three Drug Companies that have in the second phase of testing a nonaddictive form of opioids. Because lets start at the root of the problem. The root of the problem is when you take the pill, lets just say im a housewife and im addicted okay, then the root of the problem is not a drug dealer on the street, the root of the problem then incorporate pharma. Theyre the ones making it. So look at how theyre making the ingredients. I mean, seriously. A company in the second phase i know to this day, i know for a fact, theyre raising money for the second test phase to try to get this approved to where the opioids do not have an addictive form. That sounds like an educated and powerful approach. Simply the president taking a flyer going, Death Penalty, just dont see how thats going to do anything. It wakes them up though. This caught our attention. Were now having a segment on it. Its crazy. I think were aware, were aware of it. Cominge ing up, officials in mi are holding an update on the dead lly pedestrian bridge collapse. See, it is infrastructure. Were going to have a live report from the scene next. First. We are keeping track of gun violence in this country. According to the trace, at least 11,550 incidents of gun violence in the United States this year, and 666 of them took place since monday. Remember, parkland was a devastating shooting. Heres a problem. Its not a one off. Gun violence, its also an epidemic. 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It has been widely reported that the chaos inside President Trumps white house is speculation of more departures from the west wing has been causing some volatility. We have been an extraordinary tear. We still are. Its been a bull run, super charged by tax cuts, by deregulation. In large part, the markets have ignored a lot of President Trumps rhetoric which often gets talk back. They have ignored chaos in the white house. In the last couple of days, im reading a lot of wall street commentary, saying maybe the noise out of the white house, the revolving door, is simply getting too loud. And maybe the president is looking to change some position, in that white house because he wants trump loyalists there. Why would he want trump loyalists there . Because of Robert Mueller investigation is getting hotter. The question is will the markets turn up the volume on this noise and start to Pay Attention to them . All right, weve got to turn now to that tragic, tragic bridge collapse that took place in miami where officials now say at least six people were killed and another nine injured. This morning, new Surveillance Video shows the terrifying moment the bridge came down yesterday. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is in miami where the Police Department will be holding an update any minute now. What exactly have we learned . How did this happen . Hi there, stephanie, good morning. Police are set to give a briefing in just a few minutes here at Florida International university. Authorities are now saying that this has become a search and recovery effort, no longer a search and rescue effort. The death toll climbed to six. This is a massive investigation. The National Transportation safety board has a team here conducting this. Overnight, senator marco rubio tweeted that the cables that suspended this massive 950ton pedestrian bridge had loosened somehow and the Engineering Firm had ordered them tightened. As workers were doing that, thats when this all came crashing down. Stephanie this bridge, as you know, had been installed just a few days ago. Many people here asking questions about what exactly led to this. We spoke with one of the surv e survivors telling us a dramatic story. He says he was driving back from a doctors appointment with his best friend who was in the drivers seat. A Massive Concrete slab fell on his car. Listen to his incredible story. We were parked at a red light. I started to hear the bridge creek so i looked up. I saw the bridge falling on top of us. I screamed her name over and over again. But i didnt hear anything. Now, authorities have not officially identified the fatalities. So we are withholding her name. Many people here asking the question if this the Construction Company was conducting tests on this bridge, why did no one decide to stop traffic. Back to you, stephanie. I mean, those images, devastating. Thanks so much, gabe. Were going to leave it there. Take a quick break. Coming up, a decade after the worst financial crisis in generations, i remember exactly where i was when bear stearns, lehman brothers, they all came tumbling down. Senate voting to loosen some of the regulations put in place specifically to prevent another Great Recession from happening. Heres the question. Is hiss stay tory repeating its . Thank you so much. Thank you so were a go . Yes we got a yes what does that mean for purchasing . Purchase. Lets do this. Got it. Book the flights hai si si ya ya ya what does that mean for us . We can get stuff. Whats it mean for shipping . Ship the goods. Youre a go you got the green light. That means go oh, yeah. Start saying yes to your companys best ideas. Were gonna hit our launch date scream thank you goodbye we help all types of businesses with money, tools and knowhow to get business done. American express open. To get business done. A hilton getaway means you get more because you get a break on breakfast get an extra day by the pool get to spend more time together get more from your spring break getaway with exclusive hilton offers. Book yours, only at hilton. Com welcome back. Im stephanie ruhle. More now of that stunning interview with Stormy Daniels lawyer telling my colleagues on morning joe that the adult film star is ready to speak publicly. Take a listen. Miss clifford wants a forum in which she can tell her story unrestrained. Can tell the American People the truth about what happened. Not just about the relationship with the president. But also about the attempts by the president and mr. Cohen to muzzle her and prevent her from telling her story. Those attempts include a 130,000 payment to silence her . Well, they include the 130,000 payment but they certainly did not end there. We obviously have not laid out all the evidence in the complaint we filed. We would be foolish to do so. No good attorney would ever do that. We have a substantial amount of evidence, substantial amount of facts supporting the allegations in the complaint. You described mr. Cohens assertion related to the 130,000 as odd. Ill describe it as ludicrous, preprosperous, ridiculous, without any basis in fact. Its unheard of. And when its all said and done, were going to get to the bottom of it and were going to prove, prove to the American People that its nonsense. But is it fair to say youre not going to get into the evidence here, i understand that, fair to say your belief that the president directed this payment is based on more than a hunch . Yes. Youve got a porn star whos been i believe on a strip club tour saying the president and his lawyer, proplus purse, ridiculous, unbelievable. All right. We have obviously much more to talk about throughout the day on this. Now my favorite subject here, money, power, politics. This week, for me, i remember exactly where i was ten years ago. It is the tenth anniversary of the near collapse of bear stearns. The first of several wall street banks to fall in 2008 leading to a massive Global Financial crisis. That crisis caused millions of americans to lose their jobs, lose their homes. So where are we ten years later . This week, this is the irony. The Senate Passed a bipartisan bill to significantly roll back parts of dodd frank, the law that was specifically designed to prevent another massive financial crisis. I want to bring in my friend bill colin. Author of house of cards which chronicles the bear stearns collapse. Quickly give us a recap of who bear stearns was and what happened. We should remind our audience larry kudlow, whos now the National Economic adviser for the president , who didnt believe the crisis was going to happen, was, in fact, way back in the day, a bear stearns alumni. And david malpas, who is deputy secretary of the treasury, also a bear stearns economist and david solomon, the new designee ceo of goldman sach, also bear stearns alumni. The alumni has done pretty well. Bear stearns the company was an 85yearold swashbuckling irreverent kind of wall street firm not in the club, not in the super club of, say, Goldman Sachs, jpmorgan. Always sort of fighting to get in. But because these were fast and loose absolutely. They went down. They made a lot of money. They had a huge fixed income business. They were one of the leading underwriters of mortgagebacked securities. Many of which weve come to learn were not quite what they were cracked up to be, what the Rating Agency said they were. They were filled with mortgages that probably should never have been written in the first place. They were using those mortgages to secure their overnight financing. And that was the fatal flaw of bear stearns. Okay so here we are ten years later. Yes. I am not a regulation enthusiast and neither are you. I know we both believe that smart regulation is essential. Absolutely. This week, the fact that much of dodd frank has been rolled back. What does that tell you . Have we learned anything ten years later . Well, we still have a compensation system on wall street that rewards bad behavior. We still have the shortterm financing of longterm assets, okay, not to get too confusing. And now were going to roll back some of the key regulations that helped protect our Financial System in the last ten years. Now, i dont know how much of dodd frank theyre trying to roll back. I dont know whether its a huge rollback. Basically what theyre talking about is taking so many of the restrictions off some of the quote unquote Smaller Banks that have, you know, those regulations have become quite burdensome for a lot of small and regional banks. Probably a good thing. Probably a good thing. I want to share though, former treasury secretary jack lew expressed concern this morning that congress is that by Congress Moving back dodd frank, is putting us in a worst position. Take a listen. If we had a crisis right now, if we had whether it was a financial crisis or a Business Cycle recession, we dont have the fiscal capacity to respond. Or more tr it. Or the monetary policy, its quite scary. Would you agree . I would, except you cant lower Interest Rates much more, number one. Sort of at the limit fiscally because weve just created this 1. 5 trillion tax law. And, you know, theres the treasury and the fed will claim they have wine down authority. I assure you that theres no way this government, any government, any u. S. Government, is going to let any of our National Champion banks fail, regardless of what kind of trouble they get in. The fed was designed in 1913 to bail out wall street. To be the lender of last resort. To bail out banks. Thats exactly what it did in 2008. It did exactly what it was designed to do. Theyre not going to let Goldman Sachs fail. I dont ware what anybody says. I dont think any of those banks are at any risk of failing. You never know where it comes from. Nobody thought bear stearns was going to fail. Nobody thought Merrill Lynch was going to fail. Or lehman brothers. Nobody thought i often call this crisis a lack of imagination. You know who thought none of those things were going to happen, larry kudlow. And among others. Among many, many others. A lot of us, me included, were very surprised. Up next, a scathing new report says treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin routinely opts to travel on pricey military planes instead of less expensive commercial flights. Yet somehow hes one of the few people in the white house whose name is not being floated, is on the way out. Not yet, not today. That can always change. My sourcing tells me, President Trump, he aint happy about all these special flights. Directv nu more for your thing. 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Remember, it was just can you believe it, it was only three days ago that Rex Tillerson got the boot. Noel noelle, Jennifer Palmieri, still with me. H. R. Mcmaster, even though it was reported last night he is leaving, my reporting says he was packing his bags to go on a trip today on behalf of the white house. How does he conduct his job . I think the credibility of the National Security team is in bad shape. They have mcmaster theres a lot of reason to believe mcmaster doesnt have the faith of the president of the United States. And that the president of the United States this week told everyone he lies to his allies. So it is theres just not any way that whether its mcmaster or pompeo or mattis can go overseas and speak with authority about this is the position of the United States of america and you can rely on it. And that is, you know, thats an incredibly dangerous place for the United States to be. But, you know, the president saying what he did about lying to Justin Trudeau and just making it up, its not as though World Leaders dont understand that donald trump lies. But when he says it publicly, it puts them on the spot in public puts him on the spot to have to respond publicly and be even and be publicly incredit lus about what the United States says and whether they can be relied upon. And that contemplates the kind of damage that it does to our standing in the world so its well beyond what h. R. Mcmaster as the person has the credibility, its the United States no longer does. We got a pull screen of all these people around the president on shaky ground. I realize the president isnt happy but how would this fair if he get rid of all these people who then need to be confirmed . There isnt legislative agenda in here that the president wants to get to. If youre a republican and you see all these people could loads that job, that doesnt bother you . It is hard for republicans because when you do any types of fut to get something done, put it this way, and you have to deal with any of these directors, and you form a bond or relationship and you can pretty much, you know, figure out whats going to be the next step and then theyre gone. Then you have to turn around and build a new relationship, i could see where it could stop progress. Its also a distraction. Its also when the republican party. We really need to be unified and this is hard. Youre put in a position to just like i am to say, well, out with the old in with the new. When it was just three months ago when he was put in this office. Its very hard to take Office Incoming fire. Put it this way, i just saw ben carson on there. I love ben carson. He went out just like jeff sessions. These are people that took bullets in the campaign and part of their rewards are getting some of these appointments and then out. Jeff sessions is getting criticized by the president for doing his job. Youve got people that are doing things that the president should be mad about. Steve mnuchin spending a Million Dollars of tax payer money on military fighters. Ben carson giving his daughter and then a 30,000 dining room table. You got scott pruitt in the phone booth, cost 40 grand. And then the jets, the propeller planes. Fifth me a break. The president has a right to be annoyed. Drs and he and he should be. Hes in the process, i guess of trying to replace i mean for a guy who had a show for ten years talking opinion firing people, he had such a weird way of letting people go. I remember can gary cohn i heard he was supposed to go after the the state of the union address. Every month. Maybe you have to add for weeks to the timetable because he doesnt like the press willing the one to report that h. R. Mcmaster im new to politics, when i look at steven mnuchin, a Million Dollars for military flights. What in gods fame did you need to do that for . This is happened before. This is per vaif, its outrageous. There seems to be no shame at all. If youre Steve Mnuchin youre word hundreds of millions of dollars you can i think this is partly having worked in white house, this is a factor of not having a competent or wellfunctioning white house. Normally youd have controls over there. If anyone wanted to get a military jet theyd have to go through the White House Cabinet Affairs office. I just dont think they have these kinds of control. It seems small, it given some of the other issues we face with trump but this is the keep of thing that sticks in peoples mind. It bugs them. Even his supporters can be upset about this behavior. Secretary mnuchin im here to help. If you want me to give you the number to ken, i know him. If you want a plane pay with your money. Im going to south by southwest. You dont want to miss it. Tune in. From the very beginning. 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I believe theres always good news somewhere and we think good news rulesism todays good news is our one great women. Shirley which i sayism. She game the first black woman elected to congress where she served a term of 7 years. The congresswoman died in 2005 at the age of 80 but was then awarded the distinguished president ial award of freedom. That is a life welllived. Let me know who youd like to see featured as our one great woman. That wraps us up this hour, im stephanie rahul ill see you again at 11 00. With your luck, Chris Jansens hour. Thank you so much stephanie well see you back in an hour. Were following new reporting on cabinet chaos. H. R. Mcmaster would could be th nueces to go. Who else is on the chopping block . Adding to that chaos, Stormy Daniels who her lawyer says someone threatened his client. Crossing the red line, special counsel Robert Mueller takes aims at the president s business dealing as part of the russia investigation, something the president said would cross a line for him. The president set to tackle the Opioid Crisis which could include the Death Penalty for drug dealers. Weve got an awful lot to get to this morning starting with that new clime from Stormy Daniels attorney about how far someone was willing to go to protect the president from the porn stars claim of affair with donald trump. Was she threatened in any way . Yes. Was she threatened physical harm . Yes. Can you tell us whether it came from the pre