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Right now, lets go to stephanie ruhle. She starts right now. Good morning, im stephanie ruhle. President trump lashes out at iran on twitter, threaten being the country with consequences few in history have ever suffered after the iranian president warns trump war with iran is the, quote, mother of all wars. And after secretary of state mike pompeo attacks iranian leaders. Iran is run by something that resembling the mafia more than a government. Ooh. And top secret documents officially released. For the first time ever, the fbi makes public classified documents related to the wiretapping of former Trump Campaign aide carter panel who denies being a russian agent. I sat in on some meetings but, you know, to call me an adviser i think is way over the top. And show me the money. President trumps big tax cuts were supposed to lead to more money in your paycheck. Heres a question, why are wages falling . Were going to ask the white house. Big fat beautiful tax cuts. And hopefully well get that and then youre going to really see things happen. We begin this morning with President Trumps twitter ty raid against iran, describing president rouhanis war receiptic as, quote, demented words of violence and death. All of this as secretary of state mike pompeo appears to declare United States support for a new iranian revolution. I have a great team here to break down all of that. We got a lot to cover this morning. First, i want to get you caught up with what happened while you were sleeping because this situation escalated quickly. Remember, iran has been under tremendous pressure lately and things are likely to get worse with the United States preparing to reimpose sanctions next month. Against that backdrop, president rouhani went after trump sunday in a speech to iranian diplomats. Saying, quote, mr. Trump, dont play with the lions tail. This would only lead to regret. America should know that peace with iran is the mother of all peace and war with iran is the mother of all wars. In response to that, President Trump delivered a twitter threat in all caps, quote, to iranian president rouhani, never, ever threaten the United States again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before. We are no longer a country that will stand for your demand ement will stand for your demand emed words of violence and death, be cautious. While that may seem a little over the top, heres the thing. Its not unusual at all. Remember, he threatened north korea in the past. This time, the Administration May be ready to do more than talk. At the same time, the president was tweeting, his secretary of state mike pompeo was giving a speech in california where he sent a message to the people inside iran. The proud iranian people are not staying silent about their governments many abuses. The United States, under President Trump, will not stay silent either. In light of these protests and 40 years of regime tyranny, i have a message for the people of iran. The United States hears you. The United States supports you. The United States is with you. Irans government says the u. S. Is just trying to meddle in its affairs. But the truth is, irans leadership may be more vulnerable than it has been in quite some time. Irans currency has collapsed. Its Unemployment Rate has risen above 12 . All while the iranian government spends billions in places like syria. As a result, the country has been plagued with antigovernment protests for many months. On sunday, pompeo stopped just short of calling for a fullblown revolution but drew parallels to americas own experience with the leaders. When the United States sees the shoots of liberty pressing through iranian soil, we pledge solidarity. We took a hard step towards becoming a free country. While it is up to the people to determine the direction of their country, the United States, in the spirit of our own freedoms, support the longignored voice of the iranian people. Nbcs Kristen Welker live at the white house. Its no surprise President Trump would jump on this. He wants to distract us from Michael Cohen, taping conversation, from the awful week he had following the helsinki summit. Whats pompeo doing here . Well, look, i think this is a whole of government approach. I think youre right, theyre trying to turn the page away from the russia controversy, that fallout in the wake of the helsinki summit, but theyre also responding to that warning by irans president. Remember the maximum president campaign, stef, that we saw the president take towards north korea. This is the threat of new sanctions next month hangs over this entire war of words. This escalation we are seeing. I asked Sarah Sanders if this is merely an attempt to change the subject away from russia. Take a listen to what she had to say. I think the president has the ability, unlike a lot of those in the media, to actually focus on more than one issue at a time. And certainly we know the medias obsessed with speaking about all russia, all the time, but the president s focused on a lot of things taking place across the globe and iran is one of them and its been something we talked about. Does he run the risk does he run the risk of inciting the war with iran, does he run the risk of inciting a war with iran with that tweet . The president s responding to iran and hes not going to allow them to continue to make threats against america. If anybody is inciting anything, look no further than to iran. And, stef, sarah was also asked if the president s broader goal here was to bring iran to the negotiating table like he did with north korea. Sanders saying shes not going to get into the president s strategy but this does come against the backdrop of president trip announcing that the u. S. Is withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal. That was a very controversial move. But the Trump Administration making the case they didnt feel it was tough enough. They didnt feel as though it reined in irans first ability to develop a Nuclear Weapon but, second of all, some of its bad actions in the region. So they are taking what they believe is a tougher line against all of this. Will it work . Will it bring iran to the negotiating table . Those are among the questions well be looking for, stef. Certainly have a lot. I want to bring my panel in. Theres a lot to get to. Editor and columnist for foreign opinion. And christine queen, vice chair of the new york state diplomatic party. Bobby, to you first, President Trump threatening war ining war with the protesters, is this a shift . No, the president and his proxies have been making warlike rhetoric to iran for a while. The fact he chose to respond to this particular provocation from rouhani may be a matter of timing. Maybe, as we said at the start, designed to distract from the awful week he had. With pompeos outreach to the iranian iranians, it seems more designed for a domestic audience. That is basically antiregime in iran. Because iranians are not going to take that very seriously. Theres already evidence of that. Iranians are push back. Ordinary iranians saying how come if youre so concerned, how come youre banning us from going to the United States . If you really want to help ordinary iranian, why wont you let us into your own country . You know, this smacks of hypocrisy up and down, both sides, it should be said. The idea that this is all designed to lead to the same outcome as we saw with north korea that a singaporelike summit that takes place a few months down the line except our middle east allies in iran, as it relates to iran, dont want us to sit down with rouhani. In the north korea instance, south korea, china, sure, theyd like it. The president is saying he doesnt care what our allies think and want. So i think we can put that aside. But more practically, what this is doing is it actually uniting iranians rather than creating a split between them. Rouhani was under a lot of pressure from the hardliners. Now he and his hardliners have something in common. There were all these protests in iran against the government. Now the government is able to say to these protesters, this is not the time for internal dissension, this is the time to unite against an external threat. The economy, people there do not have jobs, theyre looking at millions of dollars being spent on things like syria. If we impose more sanctions, could we strangle the economy so much that it forces regime change . Think its absolutely true we are able unilaterally as the u. S. To inflict economic pain on iran. Since we decided to leave the agreement, weve seen european companies, theyre worried about retaliation from the u. S. , theyre pulling out of projects. You have Companies Like these saying theyre not going to invest anything more in the future. The problem is, we dont have the leverage we had four years ago, which is that we were able to reluctantly sort of drag all the europeans with us and impose not global sanctions but sanctions from a large number of developed countries. We dont have that bait anymore, right . So we can inflict some pain. The most important question is, what does china want. So in the case of north korea, it was very clear that china wanted and was nudging north korea in from the cold. Right now, iran has a very nice economic position for china which is on the path between china and european and just as they are with pac and a bunch of other countries, theyre investing in iran. They dont care what were doing and theyre going to keep paying to build roadings in iran. Christine, mike pompeo is calling for other countries to back us, to help us here. I want you to listen to what he said. We are asking every nation, every nation who is sick and tired of the islamic republics d destructive behavior to join our campaign. We are calling on all governments to end their flirtations with the revolutionary regime and come quickly to the aid of the iranian people. How does that work . How does mike pompeo call on our allies in the middle east and europe, i believe it was less than a week ago, trump said europe was our biggest foe. Right, and attacked merkel, attacked theresa may, attacked montenegro, i mean, calling them aggressive aggressive. That tweet is the definition of aggressive. I want to tweet Something Else mike pompeo said that pompeo said the Trump Administration would be willing to hold talks with the iranian government if it stops repressing dissidents and religious minorities and stops supporting militant groups in conflicts elsewhere in the region. That sounds like a sentence that should have been read and written prior to a meeting with putin as a condition for meeting with putin. So the standard here, wish it was just iranic, but its worse than that. Again this posture of what theyre saying here in iran i think calls into question whats really going on with putin and russia as well. Could this end, bobby, in military conflict or is this a President Trump special . Create a massive conflict, settle down the conflict and then take credit for settling a conflict that he created . Listen in so many ways, were already in conflict with iran. We have, to some degree in iraq, our allies are in conflict with iran. The risk is you have a hostile actor who work as irans proxy. Iran does not have to respond by launching a war with the United States. Iran can act through hezbollah, through any numbers of militias, through hamas. Look, if this is only a twitter war, then we can all rest assured. But the truth is, there are too many, for want of a better word, crazies at play in the region for us just to take it to be that sanguin that this is only going to be a twitter war, thats the real fear. Can iran fight back in a real way . Yes, absolutely. Theyre conducting cyber operations, proxy operations. The challenge is i think its very difficult for any american, and particularly this american president , to become sort of acquainted with the new reality that there is a lip tation to what we can do alone in the world. And so we should not lose sight of the fact that iran is a bad actor here, right. The question is, how do you respond to a bad actor. Things like the tweet, they make it increasingly difficult to bring together other countries that might help us. So as does his terrible treatment of nato. I mean, just terrible. Thats not going to make people stand up and be with us, particularly be with us in response to tweet diplomacy. Well, it forces people to respond to the president s tweet with the germans who came out and said this is not helping. This does not help the situation, you know, lets have less of this. Germanys one of the allies were going to need in order to put those economic sanctions we want to have work in iran. Were going to need the germans. The europeans are trying hard to find a way around the sanctions. Were giving them excuses to do that. This is the president hurting his own strategy in iran by sort of latenight tweets. This is not the work of a consistent strategy. This is just him going on freelance. Well, hes successful in that the lead story today wasnt Michael Cohen taping him. I keep thinking of the trade war with china. Is china a bad actor on trade . 100 . How do you approach that . You bring together absolutely everybody else in the world and say lets get together and describe exactly what we want from china and how were going to get it. That is not what hes doing with china. Its not what hes doing with iran now. You can do that, or you can tweet through the middle of the night through a narcissistic lens that sees International Affairs through only whether you look strong or weak. Coming up next, for the first time in the history of the fisa court, the fbi released the documents relating to the surveillance of former Trump Campaign aide carter page. Whom the agency suspected was working as a russian agent. What do the secret documents tell us about the russia investigation . Well, as we learned this weekend, they tell us exactly what you want to hear depending on who you are. Lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed . Lets get someone to say it with a really low voice. Carl . Lowest price guaranteed. What about the worlds lowest limbo stick . How low can you go . Nice one, carl. Hey ive got an idea. Just say, badda book. Badda boom. Badda book. Badda boom. Nice. Always the lowest price, guaranteed. Book now at choicehotels. 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Youd cry. Dont you think i had dreams and hopes. What about my life . What about me . Maybe even laugh while crying. So you know, even if youre a psychopath, it touches your heart. Sounds pretty great, right . Were on to something. Come on. And the best part is its easy to upgrade. Just say, add epix. Epix has a whole lot more. Whoa this is so ridiculous, its just beyond words. Ive never been an agent of a foreign power in by any stretch of the imagination. That of course was former Trump Campaign adviser carter page, hitting back at the idea he is a foreign a gent for russia. This comes on the heels of the fbi, for the first time in history, releasing documents supporting a warrant under the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act. What is it . Well, the heavily redacted more than 400 page document says, quote, the fbi believes page has been the subject of targeted recruitment by the russian government. It goes on to say, quote, the fbi believes that the russian governments efforts are being coordinated with page and perhaps other individuals associated with candidate number ones campaign. Nbc investigations reporter tom winter joins me now. Tom, walk me through exactly what this is. Because carter page has not been charged with any crime. But lay out, what else are we learning from this 400page document and how lawmakers react. Were not learning a ton because its so redacted. A lot of this information to get what does that mean, redacted . Redacted means there are lawful exemption where the government can say, yes, well release this to you. Its a freedom of information act release document. We can withhold certain sections. Were literally going to black them out on a sheet. Thats not going to allow you to see them because it may be top secret information. This is a good example of a redr redaction there. All the lines in black. There are lawful exemptions the government has. Thats what it means by redactions. I think theyre starting to reflect what a lot of this has been reporting. I think we want to hear right now from senator rubio and tray gowdy. I dont think they did anything wrong. They laid out all the information and there was a lot of reasons unrelated to the dossier for why they wanted to look at carter page. My take is carter page is more like inspector gadget than he is jason bourne or james bond. Im sure hes been on the fbis radar for a long time, well before 2016. Trumps never met him . Great, fine. He was clearly part of this team. Well, i think the key thing is both are accurate there. I think to say that carter page is a sort of mastermind of a collusion effort is not something Law Enforcement would agree with. So i think trey gowdy is accurate there. I think when you look back and look at all this, whether or not he was in close connection with President Trump or not is not really the question here. Its not the question about getting this fisa application. The government knows because they interviewed him and it says actually in this fisa application, the fbi talked to carter page about his involvement with several russian intelligence individuals who were arrested here in new york city, charged and convicted. The ones that were here, that they were able to get their mitts on. So this is not somebody whose interactions with russia was a foreign thing to them. This is not something that relied on this source document, which we now know to be Christopher Steele. They already had a lot of information on him. Building one of these warrants is like building a house. Youve got to have a foundation. Youve got to actually build the structure. Youve got to fill out all the key parts of putting together something thats sound. The government already had a terrific foundation and was well on its way to building the first floor. Because of the involvement that carter page has and his travel that he has that dated back to before the investigation began. So thats whats important. Because right now when republicans are saying see, and trump, its all about the dossier, the dossier, the government needed far more than the dossier to get this fisa warrant. Without a doubt. Help me understand in the court of public opinion. Because the president calls this a witch hunt all day long. But we know that the full list of indictments and plea deals in the Mueller Probe at this point totaled 35. So when the president calls it a witch hunt, its nonsense. But in this case, getting the fisa warrant, the four judges involved are republican appointed judges. Thats correct. This was actually approved four times which means there was some sort of ongoing information that Law Enforcement believe, federal Law Enforcement, the fbi, believe that they were getting that was advantageous to them, that was lawful for them to continue to get, and four judges continued to sign off on that, based on the information, based on what the fbi had. There were whole pages of this application that we cant see so we dont know what other information they had. One other thing i want to mention, i want to show the document we were looking at before if i could. We were showing the redactions. What this document also shows, theres been a lot of discussion the fbi never disclosed to the foreign Intelligence Surveillance court, those four judges you just referenced. They never tdisclosed to them where the information came from. This Christopher Steele dossier information. That they never disclosed where it came from and who it might have been paid by. On this document, it clearly says that, you know, hey, court, understand that this is somebody whos been reliable to us in the past but understand this persons being paid to get this information and understand that we speculate that this information, that the person whos paying for this information is a person whos paying for it, to discess candidate one, we say, which we now know to be donald trump. The fbi was clearly, and the department of justice was clearly above the board in this case, in disclosing to the foreign Intelligence Surveillance court judges, hey, this is where were getting some of the information from. By the way, it may be coming from somebody whos being paid to discredit the person the candidate one, President Trump, the person who page is associated with. 35 indictments and plea deals and the judges were republican appointed. I want to bring in our guest, a white collar criminal attorney who represented three white house employees during the clinton scandals. From a legal perspective what sticks out to you from a fisa application . Fisa was a law passed in 1978. This is the first time the fisa warrant has been revealed to the public. Which is highly unusual obviously and could have detrimental ramifications. What sticks out to me is that you had other evidence. It wasnt just the steele dossier, as tom alluded to. In fact this provides indisputable evidence that its inconsistent with what david nunes and donald trump has been saying in terms of what facilitated the fisa warrant. It was approved by four republican judges. Its a probable cause determination. Its renewed every 90 days. So it really strengthens the argument that the fisa warrant was not the basis of this investigation. Okay, thats if you read the details and dig into it. But if all you do is listen to the president s tweets, he goes on a tweet tirade and now says we find out it was indeed the unverified and fake dirty dossier paid for by crooked Hillary Clinton and the dnc, that was knowingly and falsely submitted to fisa and which were responsible for starting the discredited mueller witch hunt. I want to share what Top Democrats on the House Intel Committee adam schiff said. I think hes act like someone whos compromised. It very well may be he believe hes compromised, that the russians have information on him. What are your thoughts . Putting aside whether hes compromise order not, obviously thats a very legitimate question, the issue is he continues to put out this is a witch hunt. Youve had five pleas of guilty, including National Security adviser. His Deputy Campaign finance chairman has pled guilty. And is cooperating. So its clearly not a witch hunt. Theres a good faith basis to the investigation. It will go on for quite some time. The period of time that mueller has been investigating has been really short compared to iran contra, compared to the clinton investigation. And so this will go on and well see tweets every morning about what donald trump thinks about the investigation. All right. Well, theres a lot more to cover on this, its not going anywhere. Jeff, tom, thank you. Cominge ing up, president t says the stock market rally gives him an opportunity for his trade war. When the chair of the council of economic advisers joins me next live for money, power, politics. If you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, Little Things can be a big deal. Thats why theres otezla. Otezla is not an injection or a cream. Its a pill that treats psoriasis differently. With otezla, 75 clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months,. With reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. And the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. Dont use if youre allergic to otezla. 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Heres the Vice President this weekend in chattanooga, tennessee. Since the president signed our tax cut into law, that little bit of good news came along is that more than 6 million americans have already received bonuses or pay raises or bigger benefits even before all the tax cuts have gone into effect. I was told coming into today 56,000 workers across tennessee have already received a pay raise or a bonus following the president s tax cuts. 6 million americans and 56,000 in tennessee with a pay raisebonus, thanks to the tax law. That sounds very good. Lets give you the total numbers. 6 million of the total labor force of 160 Million People is just 3. 7 who saw any kind of increase in pay or a bonus. As for the 56,000 in tennessee, that is less than 2 of the states workforce, seeing more money in the paychecks. Overall wages are down. People are working longer hours for less money. Inflation is rapidly on the rise. The average consumer is bracing for an increase in their groceries thanks to the president s brewing trade war. If there ever was a time that the u. S. Workers needed a pay raise, its now. Joining me now, is the chair of the council of economic advisers kevin hassette. 50 of americans, and im not talking just republicans, i mean all americans, feel good about the way the president is handling the economy. The economy is a win argning argument for this administration. Why would the Administration Wage a trade war and risk losing it . I think what were in is a trade negotiation or trade reform. You know, i think in fact, the president has probably more support against democrats than republicans. In the view the trade deals need to renegotiated. Weve got a bunch of europeans coming here this week. So i think in the end, whats going to happen is other countries that have big barriers to our exports are going to lower them because the president s going to negotiate better deals. But youre right, that at this time right now, what youre seeing mostly is uncertainty and that uncertainty is a little bit rattling for markets and something to keep an eye on. Finally, the last thing i wanted to do is come back a little bit at you on the wages. I think the best measure of wages is the uci. Over last three months, thats increased at an average rate which if you extrapolate it for the rest of the year would be 4 wage growth. The antidote the Vice President gave but theyre including supervisory roles. Were not arguing that executives, theyre making bank. Im talking about low wage workers and if you look at the numbers from june 2017 to june 2018, theyre down. Yes, well, one of the things about the bls numbers that weve been working a lot to smooth through is that you saw that in the last month, 600,000 people entered the labor force and, you know, were looking at millions going back to 2016 and those people, its really good news theyre doing that. Those people who enter the labor force tend to be people who are out because they have lower skills. That has an effect on the average because you have more low skilled workers than the labor force. Were getting ready to put some stuff out at the cea that shows what happened to median wages and how this competition effect affects wages. Its worth almost a percent that youre averaging over a lower skilled group. I think the wage numbers are going to get better. Were looking on friday for a number well north of 5 for Second Quarter gdp. Its going to be good for workers too. I think were already seeing it in the data. When you look at all of these companies and its positive news. Some are committing to hire more people in these jobs train iing programs. With that commitment are they going to agree to certain wage parameters . The story were hearing time and again, its not that there arent jobs out there there are loads of jobs, but theres not enough jobs that pay a living wage. When youve got amazon employees or walmart employees that are on government assistant, it just doesnt seem to make sense. Right. You know, youre right, theres been a hallowing out of the middle of the workforce. This is something the president spoke to during the campaign and something ivanka and i were on tv last week talking about the president s new initiative thats going to try to get people the skills they need. 50 of people who lose their jobs have to change industries. If youre doing that when youre in your 40s, its hard to change industries. Right now if you look at government spending, we spend almost 2,000 per person to train them before theyre 22. After that, its only about 12,000. For rest of your whole life. So people are having to change occupations in the middle of your career and theres really not government assistant for them as they try. So thats something the president and ivanka have been talking about. Because weve got this Bold New Initiative to try to fix that. Its a great idea, a great initiative. Thank you. Wheres the money going to come from . Because many people worry all the budget cuts that have happened, we dont know where youre going to find that money. Can you tell me . Yes, sure. So the American Council for the american worker, which im a member of, which was established last week by the president , is going to study the training issue and suggest improvements and i think its going to be pretty easy to improve because right now weve got 45 training whos going to pay for it, sir . I was just about to get there. Weve got 45 training programs. So youve got massive redundancy in terms of supervision of it. Nobodys really compared Program Number seven to Program Number 22. What were going to do is say hey, of this 45 programs, kill these 20 and pour the other money into this other one and spend the money more efficiently. When you look at the rest of the u. S. Compared to the rest of the countries that are most developed like us, then were second from the bottom in the amount of money the u. S. Government spends training workers who are displaced. Second from the bottom. Mexicos the only country thats below us. If you consider, this is something that the council of economic advisers, weve been studying, going forward, by 2030 it could be as many as 60 Million People lose their jobs because of automation. Then weve got to start to get the economy ready for this reskilling thats happening now thats going to be in the future as well. I think thats something thats a major focus of this white house now. Its an important focus. American certainly needs it. In the meantime, the American Economy is going so well. The president and Sarah Sanders have said its the best weve seen since world war ii. Then why is it that the president is going after his own fed chair Jerome Powell, saying that we shouldnt see rates rise when, in fact, when obama was in office, the president was claiming that janet yelling was holding rates down to help president obama politically . Can you help me understand the argument hes making against Jerome Powell and rates . Look, i 100 respect the independence of the fed and i would never want to suggest they do this or that as a policy. I think the president has participates in public debates and, you know, he says his opinion about what Interest Rates should be. He in no way is trying to, you know, coerce the fed into doing this or that. Hes just shares his opinions with his supporters. Thats something the president does quite well. I would never want to step out to this point, and why is it that rates, maybe you can help me understand, if the economy is doing so well, why should we keep rates so low . If we keep them this low and we do, in fact, face a recession, remember, weve been coming were now this is a nineyear bull run. We wont have any cushion. Why does the president or the administration think we need to keep rates so low . The president has tweeted what hes tweeted. Again, i can say that i want the fed to do whatever they decide to do because theyre superprofessional there. But, you know, i was on stage a few weeks ago and somebody asked me if i thought that it was the wrong time for the tax cuts because youre going to overheat the economy and i responded on stage and said, well, actually, since the tax cuts are causing a Capital Spending boom, which is in the data, which is good for workers, then they increase the supply which puts downward pressure on. Im delivering a message that maybe the staff at the fed would look at and analyze themselves and see if they see it that way. That kind of debate is healthy. What you dont want to do is have someone say, hey, fed, you have to do this. Thats not anywhere close to what the president s doing and we all respect the independence of the fed. Theres no effort underway to coerce them. You said right now were not in a trade war, were in a trade negotiation. When the president was discussing that with my colleagues, he said, hes got the cushion to do it as it relates to the market because were playing with the banks money. Do you know what he means by that . As it relates to the banks money, that would be individuals deposits. I think right now, theres uncertainty in markets. If you look, theres been times weve announced the next step. Markets have gone down the next day. Weve all noticed that. When growth is as high as it is right now, its a good time to take on these challenges. I think thats really the main point we have on this. So the hope is that very soon deals will start to roll in. Again, the europeans are coming in to try to work out a deal as well. President trump wrote art of the deal, not the art of war. I got to clarify that. He didnt write the art of the deal. The person who cowrote it has said the president is not a master negotiator. While he says he wrote the art of the deal, he didnt. When i read it, it sounds like him. If someone else wrote those word, then they really know him well. The person who wrote it the says well, you know what, were going to leave it there. All right, kessel vin, thank yo comie ing up, with 500 piec of evidence promised, special counsel bob muellers trial is about to again. The hearing for manafort gets under way in two days. To jar, t. And serve with confidence that its safe. This is a diamond you can follow from mine to finger, and trust it never fell into the wrong hands. This is a shipment transferred two hundred times, transparently tracked from port to port. This is the ibm blockchain, built for smarter business. 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This is about inspiring people to the polls, giving them something to vote for, creating hope for this nation, and knowing that so long as there are working class americans who believe in a prosperous and just future, we will have hope, no matter how red the district. Senator Bernie Sanders and democratic hopeful cortez, fresh off the Campaign Event in kansas, pushing their progressive message to a red state. The progressive wing of the Democratic Party is gaining momentum ahead of midterms and worrying many moderates within their own party. Some moderates are trying to figure out if the progressive wave helps or hurts. My panel is back with me. Christine, can Democrats Win Back Congress or the presidency with this kind of division . Many are pointing out, this kind of division is straight out of the republicans playbook. They want to see this divide. I think they do want to see this die livide. The party needs to come together. That said, i dont think the idea of having separate kind of summits of the moderate left and the which happened recently, to talk about what they need to do, almost to kind of wage a Campaign Effort against the left wing of the party, is the right way to go about it. We need to have all the democrats talking to each other, not setting up yet another camp that is going to be pitted against the left of the party. I dont think that makes any sense. Can talking to each other solve anything . Brend brenden, they can all get in the same room. When we see this rise of the democratic socialist movement, it is very hard for the middle to get on board with that. While it might have a lot of enthusiasm behind it, you run the risk that those in the center remember, over 50 of americans, not just talking republicans, support what the president is doing economically. There might be tons of bad things othing s on the horizon, but at the moment, the economy is a winning strategy. Democrats divide on the economy. If you have candidates like cortez saying capitalism doesnt always have to exist, do democrats risk shooting themselves in the foot . A lot of people in the middle will quietly vote against that because they fear money will be taken out of their pockets. I dont know how this will work in 2018 or 2020. The one thing ive been looking for for the democrats is their understanding of how the economy works. Republicans, i think, have always owned the issue of the economy because theyve always been able to explain in a simple way how it is theyre going to stimulate glorowth. Reduce regulation, reduce taxes. I dont agree that is an effective way, but they say it, it is simple, i understand what it is they want. What im hearing from democrats is an interesting, different model on the economy. Im interested to see if cory booker will get on this more toward election time, but he talks about a huge portion of the American Economy driven by consumer spending. Give higher wages, theyll spend more. A democratic model of growth is starting to emerge. I dont think that you can necessarily say the republicans are always going to own the economy. It is just that the republicans are the ones who always talk about growth. The other thing i think is interesting that is coming out of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party is that theyre pointing out, accurately, the republicans never pay for their propos proposals. They print treasuries. I dont know what the answers are for democrats to pay for theirs, but im encouraged theyre hammering away on this fact. It is an indisputable fact, they dont pay for the things they want. Why should we have to pay for it . From an argument perspective, the republicans still seem to win this. You like the economy . Were responsible for it. When people hear candidates say, im going to give you Free Health Care and education, and we dont know how itll happen, people can say, im afraid i might have to pay for that. I wont vote for you. Are democrats having a messaging problem, of how to explain what theyre going to do . I dont think the democrats are having a messaging problem. Look, i think this kind of buildup on the left and the real energy and the activism, bringing new voters out is a good thing for the party. I do think both sides of the party need to be in more conversation. I think youre also right, we as the democrats have an opportunity to win back the economic message. You know, look at the recent conversations today about wages and all of the promises of the big, fat tax bill that have not worked out for americans. Now, when they listen to the republicans, who promised them higher wages, who promised them bonuses out of this tax cut, and they see that hasnt happened at all, theyre going to have much more open ears to the conversation on the left. I think thats really a pivotal moment. It is good that energy and hope and activism and new people getting involved in the party, younger people, is a very good thing. The mature side of the party, will it accept and welcome that . I think back to the Rolling Stone interview that nancy pelosi did. She said guys like ryan are inconsequential to the party, when others say it is opposite. If you embrace the younger generation, youll energize a larger number of people. I think the generational divide is an important question here, but i think if we look so the republicans starting in the 70s decided they were going to describe the economy in a completely different way. It was a radical departure from eisenhower republicanism and nixon republicanism. It didnt come to fruition until reagan or, arguably, Newt Gingrich in the 90s. If were talking about, you know, who is going to embrace this, if youre going to describe the economy in a different way, it takes a generation. Bob dole wasnt on board with happy birthday, bob dole. Happy birthday, bob dole. He wasnt on board with Newt Gingrichs revolution, not all of it. Bob dole is much more of an eisenhower republican. As the generations move on, you have a chance to redefine what the party stands for. I think it is natural. Look, i dont think leader pelosi should be saying anyone is inconsequential. It is not the right message from a leader of the house democrats, particularly one who has had challenges against her leadership. I just think that was completely off message and borderline insulting to some of her members. History. We could learn from it. There was a recent election, and democrats did lose. Time to get it together and power through to the next one. Thank you, both, so much. You know how i always end this show. With good news. Theres always good news somewhere, and we believe good news ruhles. An assistant volunteer fire chief in lancaster county, south carolina, arrived as a surprise Birthday Celebration this weekend at the firehouse. The biggest and best surprise came out of the fire truck. These stories kill me. His son, marine Corporal Matthew returned home from a deployment in norway. What a beautiful, beautiful reunion. Father and son. I love it. That wraps up this hour. Im stephanie ruhle. Ill see you again at 11 00 a. M. With my partner, ali velshi, and all day on twitter. Now, more news with Hallie Jackson. I am Hallie Jackson in washington where the week is starting off hot. A new trial, a new threat, and a new focus on a big battleground. Paul manafort heading to court any minute. One last hearing before his federal trial kicks off wednesday. How the risks for the president s former chair is picking up. For special counsel mueller, time to show his cards. While you were sleeping, the president of the United States releasing a tweet, targeting iran. And how tehran is responding. Plus, a new statement from his National Security adviser, out moments ago. Were also taking a road trip to one of the best places to be this summer. Outside the beltway. Great plains hoping to be a pickup spot for republicans in november. Well talk about what v