Day 287 of the Trump Administration brings us new information about the russia investigation and its connection to the current u. S. Attorney general. The president s soninlaw, and the man who used to run his Campaign Among others. Lets start with former Campaign ChairmanPaul Manafort and his associate rick gates, both back in court today. The judge expressed concern about them being a flight risk so both men will stay on home confinement with gps monitoring until at least next week. We also learned that Jared Kushner has already turned over being involved in a conversation about russia before the election. The other brings us back to this march meeting attended by both trump on the right and sessions on the left. And in the middle, advisor George Papadopoulos who is now cooperating with muellers investigation. Nbc news reports that during this meeting, for instagram, papadopoulos offered to use his russian contacts to try and set up a meeting between trump and vladimir putin. Sessions rejected the idea. The New York Times spoke to a different person in the meeting about a pitch, the pitch, from papadopoulos. And writes, mr. Trump, listened with interest. Mr. Sessions vehemently opposed the idea. Campaign advisor j. D. Gordon recalled and he said that no one should talk about it because it might leak, he said. Its important to note that sessions is the one who shot down the idea and reportedly vehemently opposed it, because when he testified under oath to the Senate Intelligence committee about anyone from the campaign who might have been in contact with russians, he said this let me state this clearly, colleagues, i have never met with or had any conversation with any russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaign or election in the United States. Further i have no knowledge of any such conversations by anyone connected to the Trump Campaign. Well the discrepancy has democrats calling for sessions to come back to testify again under oath. And it wouldnt be the first time. During his confirmation, he testified that he had not met with any russians, but he had. Look, he has contradicted himself so many times in the last, since january, that it really is hard to believe that he has been telling the truth at any one at any one point. Now as all of this unfolds, a new poll takes the temperature of where americans stand on the russia investigation. A Washington Post abc news poll finds 58 of americans approve of the way muler is handling the investigation, 28 do not. Thats more than a two to one margin. It also found 37 think trump is cooperating with the Mueller Investigation, 51 do not think hes cooperating. And 49 of americans think its likely the trump committed a crime in connection with russias work to influence our election, 44 think its unlikely he committed a crime. To our lead off panel tonight. Welcome to all of you. Joyce, let me start with you. There is just this constant trickle of new information about people connected to the Trump Campaign who had something to do with russia. May or may not be a suspicious and its face accept that everybody denied they had anything to do with russia. The cumulative incidents that were starting to hear about will certainly lead to interest on the behalf of muellers team. Obviously they have a lot of information that we dont have in the public. Perhaps theyre not surprised by any of these new public disclosures, but the more contact we find out individuals had with russia during the campaign, after the campaign, the more difficult it becomes for them to explain it away. These excuses of i forgot or it wasnt significant, it wasnt what you asked if he about, once we have three or four events in someones trajectory, it starts to look what prosecutors call willful blindness like their ostrichlike sticking their head in the sand, trying to ignore evidence of contact with russia as opposed to truly being unaware of it. And we to want remind everybody, shannon, about the exchange that the president had with julie pace of the Associated Press several months ago when, for the first of many times he was asked quite directly about his knowledge of his Campaign Team and their connections with russia. Lets listen. Can you say whether you are aware that anyone who advised your campaign had contacts with russia during the course of the election . Well, i told you, general flynn obviously was dealing, so thats one person, so he was dealing as he should have been during the election . Nobody that i have. I have nothing to do with russia. To the best of my knowledge no person that i deal with does. So shannon, what do you think this means that we just saw that polling thats indicating that americans are beginning to the numbers of americans who are suspicious of the president s involvement with russia are growing, he has vehemently denied this and yet in the face of more russian interference in the election and evidence of it, he still has not take an position that he understands the seriousness of that. Well, still nothing has shown that he knew of any collusion or he knew of meetings taking place, you know, that piece hasnt necessarily come out yet. And been flushed out yet, but of course, this was a tight knit campaign of people who worked on this campaign said, not much happened that, you know, candidate trump now President Trump didnt know about. This wasnt a big Bureaucratic Campaign spread out over two cities. This was a pretty tight knit group. So, i mean, that is going to be a question people are going to ask of whether or not he knew about this. I mean what this does for his public perception, i mean, i think the country really is sort of fallen on, you know, two sides of the fence with everything that he does. Whether its russia, whether its comments about the flag, his tweets, you know, his policies, you either love them or hate them. Certain meetings, but why is this all going to Jeff Sessions at this point . Well, its just the drip, drip, drip of information and happens to be about jeff sessionings right now and as far as the white house is concerned, thats just fine with them because its not about President Trump. Just as the news of the first indictments on monday being about manafort and gates, the white house initially, their reaction was, see, not about us, no collusion, this is just White Collar Crime issue, itll be dealt with. That obscures some of the deeper anxieties that they have. Its fascinating if you step back and realize that this is a white house and a president in a defensive reactive posture, theyre watching tv just like the rest of the country to find these things out. Theres not really a possibility of them going back and doing a selfvet because this campaign was so free wheeling, it was just flying by the seat of their pants and it was really led by donald trump. So he may not have known about these conversations taking place, doesnt mean they didnt take place, but that may shield him a little bit. But in terms of protecting themselves now, knowing whats coming, very difficult for them to do that, and i know that even though the president is going to make phone calls to reporters and say everything is fine, im not worried, tells you something, one that he feels the need to make those calls and make those declarations, but also, they know inside this white house that whatever manafort knows, manaforts doing and jail time right now. If he doesnt cooperate or perhaps come forward. Right. So hes being set out there as an example if he doesnt cooperate, but that case isnt over. He may cooperate. He may give some information. And you have news today that the mueller folks are getting materials from kushner who was at bedminister with the president the weekend they made the decision to fire james comey. So theres so much of this still to go, i know the white house likes to say, see, no collusion, and sort of check off each day. So hes like they didnt get us today, but there are a lot of days still to come. Joyce, when you look at it from Paul Manafort or rick gates perspective, if theyve got information to trade, theyve got decisions to make as to whether theyre going to give that information in exchange for his eli says, less jail time or no jail time on what looks like a solid indictment. What if they dont have information to trade for . Thats bad news. Thats a solid indictment against them. Well, they can still plead guilty, theyll get credit for acceptance of responsibility and get a lighter sentence than they would otherwise, but i think its unlikely that they dont have information to offer here. We dont know what kind of information that might be. It could frankly be limited to information about other white collartype transactions, perhaps apps, dealings overseas or it could be information about what went on during this campaign. But i think the idea that they are as involved as they were to this tune of millions of dollars, and that they dont have information that would interest federal prosecutors, that seems extremely unlikely. Shannon, i want to bring up this picture again of that meeting in which George Papadopoulos and Jeff Sessions and donald trump were all at. Each time somebody comes out with information that may be connecting people or maybe connecting all of them to russia, the white house down plays it. And they have now described this picture as having been taken for instagram to basically quiet everybody down, to say that, you know, people who were saying you dont have a Foreign Policy team. They said this group never met again as a group, and theyre down playing the whole thing. Papadopoulos as coffee boy and low paid, low level volunteer, what do you make of this . Well, we keep finding out more and more. It seemed like initially it was as you were describing, you know, papa who . Carter page what, and like theyd never heard of these people. And then, of course, little bits come out more and more that, you know, there was this meeting with sessions and the president where he did speak up, that, you know, there was a dinner that carter page had with sessions where he mentions this trip to russia, that there were other meetings that papadopoulos was in with the National Security advisors. So were starting to learn more and more, but i still do hear from people in the campaign who did not these figures were doef nitly not part of the inner circle. They were definitely not advisor level, trump tower type inner circle figures. That is one thing people are consistent about during the campaign, but i think the idea of them being the coffee boy, were starting to find out information that says it was, tfrs more than that. Joyce, what do you make of the strategy then where mueller has started at the top with manafort and at the bottom possibly with papadopoulos, what do you make of his strategy and where it leads . So one of the hallmarks of a good prosecutor is that you dont delay a case when its ready to indict. And i think thats what were seeing here. The manafort case, that piece of the case was ready to move forward. And its clear that mueller has established different teams within the special counsels operation, we see different lawyers signing off on the Manafort Indictment than we saw on the papadopoulos line of case. And so those teams, although there may have been a little bit of coordination here, i think that theyre moving forward with their cases separately. But one thing that did happen when these indictments were released to the public view is that we got a good sense of how mueller is working. And although papadopoulos may be at the lower end of the spectrum in terms of cull. Ability and indeed thats what were forced to conclude by the fact that he is now looking at a sentence of zero to six months, were also seeing an elegantly crafted message that people who lie will be held accountable, but also people that cooperate with the investigation and provide information will have Better Outcomes than those who dont. Manafort was obviously being courted by the special counsels office. They obviously reached out, told him that he was a target and would have given him the opportunity to cooperate, and instead he chose to let them indict him, perhaps playing for a pardon at some point, but he will be on a very different trajectory than papadopoulos with his guilty plea. Eli, Jared Kushner has come into play in the last couple of days. There is talk, probably, from the bannon camp that the president is very angry at Jared Kushner, holds him responsible for the decision to fire james comey and for other decisions that have taken them down a road they dont want to be on. Is that the palace intrigue at the white house or something to that as far as you know . That aligns with what our reporting says. He is still talking to the president and serves him well and his interests to continue to sort of sew mistrust between the president and other people in his ear. Jared kushner, hes an easy target at the moment to blame for some of these things. He was there for the decision to fire jim comey, the worst decision in american political history. So we know what steve bannon think abouts this already. I would go back to joyces point about mueller sending this message. He is sending this message before his folks have met with Jared Kushner, with hope hicks, with the real inner circle the message is if youre lying possibly about anything, ill come after you. He is basically saying, i know so you can tell me the truth, and question work together. Or, you could be obstructionists and, you know, look what manafort is facing. I dont know if thats exactly what the message is, but i mean, clearly hes not, hes playing hardball with manafort and sent that message before, theyve talked to reince priebus, theyve talked to a few other folks, but they have not gotten to the inner circle, those are coming. And this whole thing, i know we had indictments this week, but this is still very much an early stages. Shannon, joyce, eli, thanks to all three of you. Still ahead tonight, president and republicans have a tax plan, but can they pass it . Up next, the white house staying on offense says the indictments of Robert Mueller have nothing to do with the trump white house. Steve schmitt and Eugene Robinson are coming when the 11th hour continues. When you have a cold stuff happens. Shut down cold symptoms fast with maximum strength alka seltzer plus liquid gels. I trained as hard as i could to stay alive. I have more than 30 pieces of shrapnel still in my leg. But i still push myself to the limit. If it werent for my tempurpedic, i wouldnt be able to sleep on my left side at all. The tempurpedic veterans day Savings Event is here, and now is the time to take advantage of this incredible offer. Save up to 500 instantly on select tempurpedic Adjustable Mattress sets. Find your exclusive retailer today at tempurpedic. Com. Sflmpl welcome back to the 11th hour. A veteran of the Bush White House and mccain campaigns, both are msnbc political analysts. Good evening to both of you gentlemen. Steve, i want to play for you what Sarah Huckabee sanders said on monday about the russia investigation, and then lets talk about it on the other side. But look, todays announcement has nothing to do with the president. Has nothing to do with the president s campaign or campaign activity. The real collusion scandal as weve said several times before has everything to do with the clinton campaign, fusion gps, and russia. Papadopoulos is in on the campaign, it is specifically about the campaign it has nothing to do with the activities of the campaign. It has to do with his failure to truth. That doesnt have anything to do with the campaign or the campaigns activities. Steve, its remarkable to draw that sort of distinction. I dont think it logically exists in the minds of most americans. I mean, most of us can figure out a campaign is different from a presidency, but so many of the team members are the same and theres a continuous threat. What do you make of that strategy . Well, first time the dishonesty is just breath taking. Theres no normal democracy anywhere in the world where you see that type of lying from the podium of the seat of executive power. You just dont. Nowhere, not in candie, australia, great britain. Second, it has everything to do with the campaign. Paul manafort was the chairman of the campaign. Paul manafort, Jared Kushner, donald trump jr. Were in a meeting with russian nationals who represented themselves as being part of the russian government for the purposes of delivering dirt on Hillary Clinton. Later, the president of the United States from aboard air force one directed a lie to the American People, trying to cover up the real purpose of that meeting. All of this nonsense talk about fusion gps, the clinton campaign, just like the Trump Campaign engaged in opposition research. There is nothing illegal, nothing unethical about hiring an investigator, hiring a researcher to find out information through public records or other sources about a potential candidate for president of the United States. It is materially different than what happened with regard to the Trump Campaign where officials representing themselves to be part of the russian government contacted the campaign to collude with, to work with, to favor one candidate against the other meddling in our election process. And thats before we get to the massive russian misinformation, Disinformation Campaign that so profoundly divided the country and had the affect of weakening the American Peoples faith in our Democratic Institutions and our elections processes. The breath taking dishonesty, ally, is nonstop. Go ahead. Im saying, where youre seeing is a very deliberate effort, really a propaganda effort on the part of the white house and its enablers across the conservative media to misinform, to confuse the American People about this important and essential investigation. You bring up an interesting point, the concept is there are enablers across the media landscape. A little while ago, new york senator Chuck Schumer was in here talking to Rachel Maddow about this, lets listen. As usual, they are well organized and they also sing from the same hemal. They sure did. They are attempting to do one of develop things, maybe both. One is divert attention away from the investigation. Thats futile, this is a serious investigation. The second may be to try and steer things offcourse, that would be if there were actions by the president , anyone in the administration, even the congress to steer things offcourse, that would be really serious. Le hes talking about the far right media, gene. And i dont to want say conservative media, that would be unfair. There is a lot of conservative media out there that represents right. But there is a group that thinks its all a conspiracy. And any criticism of this administration is a conspiracy, and that this may this story can keep on going. Right. And that believes, apparently, that that its going to defend the president by any means necessary, which includes flat out lying. I mean, and thats all thats the only word for what you hear Sarah Sanders do on many days from the white house podium. And you just have to call it what it is. Its not telling the truth. You know, i do think that its possible that the the end that theyre seeking is to derail the Mueller Investigation in some way by trying to train some sort of investigation on the democrats in a way that touches on mueller or that mueller would have to, you know, the head of the fbi then would have to testify or Something Like that. Just to try to derail this investigation. I think this is a serious attempt to pervert justice susceptibly. Steve, what chance is there of that happening . Theyre trying to tie mueller to this uranium one matter when Hillary Clinton was the secretary of state, its been largely debunked as something that was a conspiracy, but, at what point does the are there enough people, enough conservatives to go along with it that it could get derailed and mueller could find himself under investigation . I think we have to look at the comments by the president yesterday, ali, where he talks about what a joke the american Justice System is, he degrades the justice department. Its an assault on the rule of law. At the end of the day, Robert Mueller is someone who has served this country in uniform, combat marine in vietnam, his integrity has been unquestioned throughout his long public career. This is a deliberate, pretty meditated Smear Campaign to lay the predicate for the president to order the firing of the special counsel should the investigation move too close. Now i do think that there is an hour coming for members of the Republican Party who are going to have to make a choice. They have been complicit, they have surrendered to this president s dig daegradations o this office, the widow of a fallen green beret and 100 other outrages hes committed during his short presidency, but the most dangerous may be yet to come. And that would be the attack on the special counsel, the president ordering his firing, and then republicans are going to have to defend the rule of law. Which is the bedrock, foundational base upon which our democracy lives. And some have come out already and said, Lindsey Graham said the other day, therell be holy hell to pay if the president tries to get rid of mueller without cause. 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Its a massive tax increase for a lot of middle income to upper middle income earners in states like new york, california, new jersey, these high tax states and i think when you look ahead, its inconceivable to me how you could be a member of congress from california or new york or new jersey or connecticut and vote for this. And i suspect that these members will not because republican members will not want to impose a massive tax increase on their constituents in those states which is exactly what this bill will do. No, thats absolutely right. I think, the assumption that these just sort of sails through well, weve seen, you know sailing through doesnt seem to work with this president or this congress. It didnt work even today, Christmas Gift to america. Every time they put a target on something good luck with that, you know. Good luck with that frankly. Steve is absolutely right, i dont see how if youre a Republican Congressman from new jersey, california, new york, from i dont see how you vote for this. For a lot of those people, middle class people in those states, this will be a tax hike. Its going to hurt a lot of your constituents and voters, a lot of your donors. Let me ask you this, steve, it may have been a matter of expectations, bill clinton wanted health care, didnt work. And it looked crippling. In the end, this administration believed with control of both houses that they could do big things like tax reform and health care and for whatever reason that hasnt worked, is it worth not resetting priorities, but sitting there and coming up with a bunch of Little Things that you can get done as opposed to this, they got a Supreme Court nominee, that was obvious. You know what can be achieved in 2018 . I think part of the story here ali is the complete and total collapse of rigger in the policymaking process on the republican side. How astounding is it on the Health Care Vote for example none that these were voting on something they had no idea what it would cost, how many people it would effect, they had no idea what it would do to insurance markets, none of them could explain it cogently in 30 seconds or 30 minutes. You look at this tax cut proposal, of course its deficits, debt financed, it adds a trillion and a half dollars to the national debt, something that all of these members have decried over recent years. It hurts middle class folks version, if you have to deduct medical expenses or student loan interest, your taxes are going up on this. Its just a small board proposal and i think thats born out of years and years and years of degradation and collapse of the report structures around the Republican Party and the conservative movement. How it had become the party of ideas. And we have moved 180 degrees from that on a policy level thats mostly nonsense. And this would fall deeply and neatly into that category. You wrote an oped that both are stuck in crisis. The importance is that the parties have had a moderating influence historically yes, they would. On politics, and with the partys in crisis, theres nobody to reign people in from the extremes. There isnt. If you want to look at long ark, the number of independence versus people that have strong Party Affiliation has been going up and up and up over time the parties have become weaker. Structures in washington through whats the partys channelled power have become weaker and, you know, just as the tea party sort of came in and fractured the Republican Party. You look at all the passion on the left now and you wonder if similar sort of thing isnt you have to assume at some point they get their acts together, thats not tomorrow, thats not next week. Were in for a bumpy ride without the parties, its hard to govern this country. Gentlemen, thank you for your time tonight. Eugene and stephen, thank you for coming in. As weve been saying here, President Trump and speaker ryan sounded triumphant. Steve was just talking about a bit of it. Now theyve got to get that through congress. More on that when the 11th hour continues. People would ask me in Different Countries that we traveled, what is your nationality and i would always answer hispanic. So when i got my ancestry dna results it was a shocker. Im everything. Im from all nations. I would look at forms now and wonder what do i mark . Because im everything. And i marked other. Discover the story only your dna can tell. Order your kit now at ancestrydna. Com. Helping small businesses. Ut, jamie damage your vehicle . We got you covered. [ glass shatters ] Property Damage . Thats what general liabilitys for. What . injured employee . Ow. Workers comp helps you pay for a replacement. 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Here with me tonight, robert trainum, former Senior Advisor on the bushche anyway campaign and Steve Kornacki, nbc National Political correspondent. Steve, politics aside, promises about when things are going to get done has not worked particularly well for this administration or congress. Sometimes it doesnt work well at all. Its sort of a thing people try and stay away from. I think this is where the urgency really is going to come more from congress, more from the house especially because every Single Member of the house is up in 2018, they understand that they have not put new achievements on the board this year. They want to have something they could point to to the voters next year. I dont know how valuable, i think they feel its valuable and thatll give them urgency. And theres an indirect on serns. The interesting thing, its skewed towards business and the business and corporate side. Its this indirect thing where they see the biggest asset right now is the stock market. Notice how he talks all the time. I think they feel that wall street, the business crowd is going to like, its going to keep the stock moving up, thats going to give them a barometer. I love talking about this stuff, particularly about stock market. It touches fewer and fewer americans as go on. There are other things americans are rightfully worried about, wages and job. And this is a strange approach. It is. Lets back up far second. This will pass, the republicans can lose about 20 votes and still get this pass. The question becomes is what happens in the senate. And its like a totally different bill when and frankly speaking. Steve its right here. At the end of the day it doesnt matter. House republicans can go back and say promises made, promises kept, were keeping your taxes low, were going to eliminate the death tax, thats a buzz thing right there. It may not mean a lot of things to the average person out there, when they hear that, even though it may not mean anything, republicans are fighting for me. Lets show you a poll that says the democrats are now better trusted to handle taxes than republicans, 43 think the democrats would do still not a majority, but do a better job dealing with taxes versus 36 for republicans. Robert, thats got to hurt you in your heart. Big time. Two reasons. I mean, lets just be honest about this. Slightly hypocritical here when it comes to this whole deficit spending and the whole nine yards. We as a Republican Party, this has been our gospel for years, probably since going back to barry goldwater. When you look at the numbers, they dont add up. George h. W. Bush said its called fuzzy math. It is. The reality is that its ironic that democrats are perceived as more deficit than republicans. Somethings wrong with that picture. Steve, how do they square this . This is just an ongoing problem for republicans. Its the same problem that sort of sunk them on health care and that is that there isnt one big tenth moderating force Republican Party out there. The interesting thing too again, look if the other number you can see on this, you can see how skewed this is towards business and corporate taxes and even among republicans, there is not a huge ground swell of support for if that. They like the idea of tax cuts and polls well with republicans, but the idea of corporate and business tax cuts does not, and i think what that speaks to is you talk about this as sort of goldwater, reagan theme in the Republican Party, tax cutting. The base of the Republican Partys changed since reagan. We talked about it a lot last year, the blue collar, noncollared whites, this isnt the same voting base they had in the 50u8, so that message of rahrah Business Corporate tax rates doesnt have the same effect. Were going to fit in a quick break here. The president s getting ready for a ten day, five country trip across asia. Will his problems at home follow him on the trip . That when the 11th hour continues. Alright, off you go. Casual fridays at Buckingham Palace . Surprising. Whats not surprising . How much money nathan saved by switching to geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. I enjoy the fresher things in life. O. Fresh towels. Fresh soaps. And of course, tripadvisors freshest, lowest. Prices. So if youre anything like me. Youll want to check tripadvisor. We now instantly compare prices. From over 200 booking sites. To find you the lowest price. On the hotel you want. Go on, try something fresh. Tripadvisor. The latest reviews. The lowest prices. North korea is a threat to the entire world. So all nations of the world must do more to counter that threat. That is happening. But the president recognizes that were running out of time and will ask all nations to do more. National security advisor h. R. Mcmaster today outlining one of the most challenging tasks that donald trump will face on his upcoming asia trip. Hes going to spend ten days traveling five countries spending time in japan, south korea, china, vietnam, and the philippines and it comes at challenging time for this white house. An article titled leave your troubles behind the represent represents a break from the indictments of his former campaign aids and isisinspired terror attack in new york city and the continuing inability of this administration to score a significant legitimative victory on capitol hill. Back with me, robert and steve. Steve, i want to show you a poll that indicates growing number of people are losing confidence in Donald Trumps ability to handle an international crisis. 39 are very or somewhat confident, 59 are not too or not at all confident. That 39 number, the very and somewhat confident is down from 48 six months ago. Yeah, i mean, think about what weve seen in those six months. Its a president he breaks with protocol a lot when hes on these trips in a way that causes a lot of commotion. He tweets belligerently, he subscribes to this erratic he seems the more of the advantage that gives him. All of that puts doubt in peoples minds, hey, if hes really in a situation where we have to count they are guy, we dont know as americans really what weve got here. One of the things, robert, thats interesting is one of the first thing that President Trump did which he promised is rip up the tpp. When things have gotten hot with south korea, which is an ally and a country we have troops hes reminded them that we have a trade agreement with them that he may want to renegotiate. The hot with south korea and an ally and the troops, we has reminded them that we have a trade agreement with them that he may want to the renegotiate, but there is a reason to take this business trip and a lot of the ceos accompanying him and he may want to get them back online with him. Yes, the chinese like predictability and all about the pomp and circumstance, and what they will do plet cli speaking is to play to the president s vanity here and they are going to be thinking that the president is the best the thing since sliced bread and what the president needs to get out of the chinese is specifically perhaps not trading with north korea, and cut off north korea and that is from the economic standpoint, it is going to hem usk but the second thing that the president needs to do is to articulate what the trump doctrine is in asia, because everybody is confused and erratic and seems like he is talking off of the cuff which is what you dont want to do with the chinese. So it is military, and diplomatic and economic message that he has. And the chinese work in fiveyear increments in the whole plan and their whole plan is longterm thinking, and nothing is off of the cuff ever. And the history have been around 2,000 year, and looking at the long haul here, and you to remember that president xi who just won the election and the ninth congress what they want from the president is some type of stability and vision as to what he wants to do, and not om as i said diplomatically but from the trade standpoint and you know this bert than i do, ali, the chinese have the upperhand here, and i think tt t it, because they have a lot of our debt. And goods. And the question is if the president truly understands. Maybe he does. And steve, from your perspective and the perspective of the american voter, what is the successful trip going the look like for him . From the perspective of the white house, it is to get the attention off of what we are talking about domestically and that is the special counsel and Robert Mueller and thinking of the trip to france a few months ago and that the trip to france came just as his son had taken the meeting with the russians in the 2016 campaign and donald trump found himself over there with macron in france and donald trump certainly likes to get away and likes to change the subject and a chance for him, i think that probably in his mind to show the American People that hey, there is Something Else go going on besides these things. And the success to come back here to sea, you know the made in china on the back of the mug . It is now going to be saying made in america. That is what is success. And as you are cropping the tax bill that is usually and historically going to be used on the president to use the bully pulpit to support it, and where we know sit is not support, is t good or bad for the prospects of the tax bill that the president is leaving . I think it is good. It is good. Let me back up, 86 you had Ronald Reagan and tip oneill, and dan rost enberg,enberg, and think that it is best for Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryan to do their things. You have kevin brady and Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryan and all of the leadership for the republicans up there making a case of it and maybe ten days to do their thing might be good for them. Well, i think that the urgency for this has to come from the kopg, and the leadership has to come from congress to get it through, but i think that donald trump is not really a legislative president , and he is a culture war president and that is where the interest is and it is not to get all of the folks from capitol hill there to hammer it out, and he does not want to be there for that, and he wants to be there for the signing deal. That is it. And put the impetus on them. Thank you for being with me this evening, Steve Kornacki and robert traynham. And we will talk about something getting done which is nothing to do with what the president tweeted. We will explain. Accused of obstructing justice to theat the fbinuclear war, and of violating the constitution by taking money from foreign governments and threatening to shut down news organizations that report the truth. If that isnt a case for impeaching and removing a dangerous president , then what has our government become . 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I like at donald trump, and at 140 or 280 and you could extend them, and all i do is the dot, dot, dot, and you extend it burk ki do the messages around the media, and get my word out at the way i mean for my words. I have my own form of media. That is the great thing about the twitter, an when the press is dishonest which is most of the time. Ki tweet. That was a false story, boom, boom, boom. And so, twitter definitely skipped a beat when the president s account was suddenly there, gone. None of it. Gone. And twitter put out a statement that real Donald Trumps account was inadvertently deactivated due to a human error for the employee and the account has been down for 11 00, and we are continuing to investigate and taking steps from preventing this from happening again. And in the few minutes that trumps account was gone, twitter users had fun. Trumps account vanishing and appearing again is best evidence that the events of the past two years are the results of warring sects of time travelers and lets hope it was ab test and rolling out site wide soon. Some get 280 and some get zero. And this is from our friend Rachel Maddow. I dont usually cover the president s tweet, but before a air, we learned more about the twitter because the company added this detail. Through our investigation, we have found out that it was done by a twitter Customer Support employee who did it on the em employees last day, and we are conducting a full internal revi review. And thank you for joining us from our headquarters in new york, im ali velshi in for a ailing brian williams. Thank you. Chuck schumer, the top democrat in the United States senate is going to be joining us here live for the interview tonight. Im very much looking forward to that. 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