So weve got a real cliffhanger for tomorrow night. Yes. At 9 00 p. M. It involves a prop, and its funny, and its about the epa. My guess is it will still be scheduled for the end of the show. Probably. So im going to see it, and im going to have to react to that. I cannot wait, rachel. Thank you. By the way, tomorrow night, no matter what they say in that control room, take as much time as you want. I will. Thank you, my friend. Thank you. Well, new polls out tonight show overwhelming opposition to the Republican Health care bill, and now we know why the mcconnell bill is the First Health Care bill in Senate History to bypass the Senate Finance committee. Because thats where it would have died. We are looking at a health care that would be a fantastic tribute to our country. Republican senators are not afraid of defying him. They feel like his threats are empty, that he doesnt have the political standing out in the country and in their home states to really be a threat. Were working very hard. Weve given ourselves a little bit more time to make it perfect. I get the sense that, you know, this issue is maybe not the president s wheelhouse. There seems to be pressure coming from those moderates on leadership to work with democrats. I have said all along that i thought we had should talk to the democrats from the beginning. President trump, my republican friends, the choice is yours. Nobody inside the administration or out can point to a plan or a coherent set of steps that the Trump Administration is taking to protect the election system. If he continues to refuse to act, its a dereliction of the basic duty to defend the country. Given that he wont even, i think, level with the American People about the russian interference in the election, its hard to imagine him confronting vladimir putin. The day after the resistance crushed Mitch Mcconnells attempt to repeal and replace obamacare, the day after Mitch Mcconnells worst defeat as the republican majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell began his day on the senate floor saying exactly what a defeated leader in the senate is supposed to say. Well continue working so we can bring legislation to the floor for debate and ultimately a vote. He didnt even attempt to sound optimistic about ever actually being able to bring a Health Care Bill to the floor for vote. He didnt try to sound optimistic about trying to win that vote if he ever gets a vote on the senate floor. But at least he didnt step up to the microphone and just quit the way paul ryan did when paul ryan was forced to pull his First Health Care bill off of the house floor. Mitch mcconnell is not in the same place that paul ryan was when ryan suffered his firstround defeat on a Health Care Bill. This does not mean that its all over in the senate, but it does not mean that Mitch Mcconnell can do what paul ryan was eventually able to do, which was find a socalled compromise that allowed conservatives in the house of representatives to ignore their socalled principles and vote for the repeal and replacement of obamacare. For Mitch Mcconnell doing that, reviefrning this bill the way paul ryan did in the house of representatives, is literally ten times more difficult. Ten times more difficult for Mitch Mcconnell than it was for paul ryan. Paul ryan could afford to lose 20 republican votes in the house of representatives. Mitch mcconnell can afford to lose two. So far, publicly Mitch Mcconnell has lost nine votes. Nine republicans were ready to vote against Mitch Mcconnells bill if he brought it to a vote this week. The latest whip count after the seemingly pointless meeting with republican senators and President Trump at the white house shows that there are now eight republicans ready to vote no. Ron johnson was moved from the no column to the undecided column today because he said he was simply unable to vote on the bill this week. And so by delaying the vote, it now becomes theoretically possible to get ron johnsons vote. But Mitch Mcconnells biggest problem isnt actually the number of senators who are against the bill publicly. Its the number of senators who have said publicly that they are for the bill. There are only five of them. Mitch mcconnell, mike enzi, lamar alexander, and jim enhop. That is it. No one else is willing to say they support Mitch Mcconnells bill. That leaves 39 republican senators undecided. I have never seen less support for a majority leaders toppriority bill, which is a top priority of his party and his president. The five, five public supporters are the loneliest public supporters of a major party agenda item that the senate has ever seen. This legislation was supposed to be handled by the Senate Finance committee. Thats the committee with jurisdiction over this. But Mitch Mcconnell, in an unprecedented insult to the committee and a personal insult to chairman orrin hatch, removed the bill from the finance committee and created, out of thin air, a group, a group of 13 republican men to replace the finance committee. They were extraordinarily lucky to be brought into the room for the most important legislation on the agenda. And in turn for this astounding, unprecedented honor, this elevation to this unique group of 13, this honor that Mitch Mcconnell gave them, most of them gave Mitch Mcconnell absolutely nothing. Only three of the men on the group of 13 are supporting the bill that they came up with, with Mitch Mcconnell. Nine of them. Nine of them are undecided, and one of them is opposed. One of the 13 handpicked senators who was supposed to do this with Mitch Mcconnell is opposed to what they did. But thats better. That is actually better than what would have happened to Mitch Mcconnells bill in the Senate Finance committee. Mitch mcconnell knew that if he sent the bill to the Senate Finance committee, that it would have died in the Senate Finance committee. Here are the members of the Senate Finance committee. If the bill had gone to the finance committee, we would have heard the input of three women on the democratic side, which was something Mitch Mcconnell was not eager to here. But that wasnt going to be Mitch Mcconnells biggest problem. There are 14 republicans on that committee in the majority. There are 12 democrats. Mitch mcconnell always knew that this bill was going to be a very serious problem for republican dean heller, one of the junior republican members on the Senate Finance committee. Mitch mcconnell knew that he might have to allow dean heller to vote against the bill for dean hellers own survival in nevada in his reelection battle next year. He could allow him to vote against the bill on the senate floor. That he could allow. But Mitch Mcconnell could not live with dean heller voting against the bill in the Senate Finance committee. Mitch mcconnell could have been i mean dean heller could have been one of the two republicans that could be allowed to vote against the bill on the senate floor. But if dean heller voted against the bill in the Senate Finance committee, he would kill the bill dead in that committee because the vote in the finance committee would have been 1313. Tie vote. A tie vote kills a bill in the Senate Finance committee. Mitch mcconnell knew, knew that vote would be a tie in the Senate Finance committee. So Mitch McconnellsHealth Care Bill is, in theory at least, still alive. And its not alive because he kept it away from the democrats on the Senate Finance committee who would have been so critical of it, including senators stab know, kent well and mccaskill, who would have brought a womanly perspective to this legislation that was not included in Mitch Mcconnells group of 13. Mitch mcconnells bill is theoretically and only theoretically alive because he kept it away from dean heller in the Senate Finance committee. This is the First Health Care bill in Senate History that was not handled by the Senate Finance committee. Mitch mcconnell bypassed the committee because he couldnt afford to lose one vote. One vote. Now hes trying to get some kind of version of that same bill somehow revived on the senate floor where he cannot afford to lose three votes. Mitch mcconnell is the best tack tissuen working in the congress today. Hes better at legislative strategy than paul ryan ever was. Much more experienced. But hes not a miracle worker, and thats why the resistance won yesterday, and thats why the resistance wins every day that goes by when Mitch Mcconnell doesnt add a single yes vote to a bill the Republican Senate is afraid to vote for. Joining us now, john hol iman, National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc, and joy reid, host of a. M. Joy on msnbc. So, joy, this peculiar process of whats he doing, how come he isnt using the committee, why is he using this group of 13 he knew. Yeah. He knew if this goes to the committee, it dies there. Yeah. I mean because the thing is if you think about what Mitch Mcconnell is trying to do, obamacare is sort of like a fourpart puzzle, right, that theyre trying to unravel. Youve got obviously the nongroup market, people who buy their own insurance, which republicans would very much like to release them from the mandate to buy insurance, not have that 10 million or so people buying insurance. You get the much bigger piece, which is medicaid, which the people in the Senate Finance committee, particularly dean heller, they can do the math in their state and see Something Like 20 to 25 of people in their state are getting medicaid and only like 5 to 10 of the people are in the nongroup market. Its a bigger piece. Then theres the even bigger piece which is of course all the rules and regulations that even folks like us that get insurance through our employer love, the free mammograms, the free testing, the stuff that you can access through the regulations. And then the fourth piece is the taxes, which theyd like to get rid of altogether, the taxes on rich people. Which piece of that do you take out of that puzzle and pull out without destroying yourself . If the nongroup market, if their theory is true that all 10 million of those people just dont want insurance, which is crazy because i doubt they dont want insurance, that would only be 10 million versus 72 Million People on medicaid. If youre dean heller, you can do the math. And if youre most other than those 13 guys or five of them, they can just do the math. Its very hard to undo obamacare. Lets put up on the screen again the names of the undecided republicans if we can do that. 39 of them, john. Its a stunning group because it includes members of the leadership. It includes john thune. It includes john cornyn. It includes the republicans from mississippi. Why . Because theyre afraid of being beaten by a democrat if they vote for this thing . It includes the republicans from alabama. It includes most of the chairmen. It includes all of the high levels, chuck grassley, the senior players. Theres a simpler explanation that goes to another aspect of the peculiarity of this and the situation in which mcconnell finds himself in trying to figure out a set of tactics that will get it passes. Most of those people are undecided because they dont know whats in the bill. They havent seen the bill. They havent read the bill. All of them know this is a politically dangerous, potentially toxic situation, even if youre in mississippi. So most of them would like to be they plan to be for the bill, but they want to at least have read the bill to understand how much trouble theyre going to be in. And some of them were hoping what has happened would happen, which is to say without having to take a position on the bill, Mitch Mcconnell would have to pull the bill, and they would never have to see the bill again or take a position on the bill for those reasons. And i think thats kind of where were likely headed right now. To joys point, i think the reality is part of the reason why this is so complicate san diego because rand paul is right. This is not an Obamacare Repeal. This is this machine hes trying to concoct to solve the fundamental problem, which is there isnt a bill that the moderate republican conservatives in the senate will agree on that the conservative, conservative farright senators will agree on. Theres not one there. It doesnt work. So you cant just repeal and replace it because theres no singular new system that they would agree on. Then you get into Rube Goldberg world, and thats not going to work either, which is why i agree with you. Not dead, but man, i had a hamster that i put in the Clothes Dryer when i was 8 years old. That hamster might be alive today, but its probably theoretically dead. I want to issue an invitation, if you make up your mind, please come on this program and ill let you announce your yes vote and why youre doing it. I wont even cross examine you. You can call this a dare if you want. I dare you to say youre willing to vote yes. Joy, i dare any of the 39 to move from hiding to yes. And your producers have had the same issue mine have. Its very hard to find an elected republican who will come on and defend the bill. When they do, if theyre willing to be honest, we had congressman reid who at a certain point admitted, i dont think taxpayers should pay for medicaid. If youre going to be honest, youre going to have to give a reason thats going to be super unpopular and make yourself look cruel. Even if theyre a yes, they dont want to be a public yes. One other thing, Mitch Mcconnell is sort of hurtling down a train track where at the other end of it are democrats who hes going to have to eventually deal with. What the republicans have also done is threatened not to fund the subsidies for the people who buy through the nongroup market. Those 10 million they say at a certain point, that market might actually collapse. Then youre going to have instead of Obamacare Repeal and replace, obamacare rescue. A bailout of Insurance Companies is coming, or a compromise with democrats to fix the Affordable Care act, which is the logical thing to do, but Mitch Mcconnell doesnt want to do it. Heres another thing were learning and it goes to your point about Mitch Mcconnells tactical mastery. Theres no doubt the man knows how to work that chamber, but he has spent the last eight years using that chamber and his mastery to stop things from happening, from keeping president obamas priorities from becoming law. Hes now being asked to legislate, which is a different thing. Hes out of practice. And not just to legislate, but to legislate on the hardest possible legislative priority you could imagine at this moment. So i think its not that his mastery is overstated. Its just that the kind of mastery hes developed is not well suited to doing the actual job of legislating. My point is hes not a mer miracle worker. I just want to leave this footnote. When that bill died in the house the first time, it was declared dead. It turned out it wasnt. I do believe the degree of difficulty here is ten times more. But well know its over sometime later in july to be absolutely certain. But we will leave it there for tonight. Thank you both for joining us. Coming up, President Trumps lawyers have discovered that attacking people like maybe the prosecutor who is investigating President Trump is not, not their best idea. Theyre backing off from that. And later, Union Members were warned that President Trump was not telling the trukt when he said he was saving all those jobs at the carrier manufacturing plant. Those jobs have been lost in exactly the numbers that the union head predicted they would be lost. That union chief will join us later. So, your new prescription does have a few side effects. Oh, like what . Youre gonna have dizziness, nausea, and sweaty eyelids. And in certain cases chronic flatulence. 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A Senate Intelligence committee has announced that they will soon get the memos of former fbi director james comeys conversations with President Trump. Committee chairman richard burr told politico, quote, ive got a commitment. He was asked who gave him that commitment. The senator responded, im not going to tell you. He said, he is fairly certain of the timeline for getting the memos and suggested it would be soon. It does us no good later. Bloomberg reported that President Trumps lawyers are now backing off their threat to attack james comeys conduct, saying trumps lawyers will postpone filing a complaint against former fbi director james comey with the Justice Department according to a person familiar with the decision. A bid to stop antagonizing the special counsel who is investigating ties between the president s campaign and russian officials. The report adds, the president s lawyers still intend to file a complaint at some point. Today, former nato ambassador testified before the Senate Intelligence committee. I dont believe any previous american president would argue that your own hearings in the senate are a waste of time or, in the words of President Trump, a witch hunt. Theyre not. Youre doing your duty that the people elected you to do. It is his duty President Trumps to be skeptical of russia. Its his duty to investigate and to defend our country against a cyber offensive because russia is our most dangerous adversary in the world today. If he continues to refuse to act, its a dereliction of the basic duty to defend the country. Joining us now, senior White House Correspondent for bloomberg, who broke todays story about trumps lawyers, and mieke eoyang, the Vice President for the National Security program at third way. Margaret, so this is obviously a change in style for Trump Lawyers and the new lawyer, mr. Dowd, is the one with the kind of experience that one would expect this from. So, lawrence, this has been going on, as you know now, for about almost three weeks, these deliberations about what to do after james comey testified that he had these memos, that he had in fact leaked those memos im using the word in quotes to someone who would get it to the press, and that his whole intention was in part to try to force the triggering of a special counsel. We know that President Trump was incredibly frustrated after that, and thats where this threat to file these reports, these complaints to the Justice Departments Inspector General and the Senate Judiciary committee came from in the first place. But youre right. Even just as recently as last week, we expected that these filings would be coming. This decision signals a strategic shift to say the least by the trump legal team. And, margaret, it also seems to indicate client trump following at least some lawyers advice. Yeah, i think thats a really important distinction, and weve seen some parallels of it in the way the president has conducted himself in his Public Comments and on twitter in recent days. He seems to have, at least for now, put on hold the idea of attacking bob muellers character or reliability. We still know hes no fan of james comey, but hes not going after mueller right now, and that is also part of this approach to show a little respect to bob mueller, give him the space he needs to do his job. Its those optics, those signals, that the legal team appears to be trying to send now. What will the comey memos, the actual possession of the comey memos by the Intelligence Committee add to their investigation since james comey seems to have testified about those conversations with the president in full already . So i think these memos are really important for them to have because it establishes a written record that comey was making at the time that they can use to then interrogate other witnesses, compare their memories of what happened to what comey had written down at the time, which is probably the freshest recollection of any of these incidents. So its really helpful for them to factcheck as they go forward. What do you expect after they get the memos, when youre building an investigation like this . There are these basic Building Blocks you want. Where do you see them moving them after they get the memos because theyve now read those memos . So after youve read the memos, youre going to want to go back and interview the people mentioned in the memos. This is on the obstruction piece of it. Comeys memos are also on the question of what was russia doing and who responded. What did they say . Theyre going to want to go back and ask those people on how russia conducted its election interference as well. And, margaret, back to the president s defense. Is there a feeling now within the white house, do we know, that the lawyers and it seems like its dowd who is the new addition here, who is not the flamboyant not, not the one going out there doing press conferences and going as a guest on television shows, who may have gotten control of this. Do they feel in the white house that dowd actually has control of the president now in this investigation . Well, there has been a real firewalling or really attempt to firewall both the white house, you know, don mcgahn and the president s advisers from the legal size and at the same time this addition of jay sekulow and dowd. But i think nobody in that legal team or outside of it is predicting that trump himself will be able or will be willing to commit to permanently holding his fire. This is, lets say, a strategy for now that is designed to create a little bit of space and cooling off period for now. But theres an entire summer worth of investigations and twists and turns in testimony and document gathering, negotiations with the Treasury Department over financial documents to take place. So between this and that, theres a whole lot of room for the tactics and the instincts to change. Mieke, your old committee, the house Intelligence Committee, now saying july 24th they will be hearing from roger stone, longtime trump adviser, and theyre going to be doing that not publicly. Theyre going to close the door for that hearing. Roger stone says he wants the hearing to be public. Why isnt it public . I think with a witness like roger stone and the sensitivity that you have involved, the committee is going to want to interview him first in closed session to establish a record. This is a guy who loves to grandstand, who wants to score political points. They dont want to do that. This is a factbased investigation, and theyre going to want to tie him down on specific facts on his relationship with guccifer or these russian hackers, with wikileaks. What kind of contact did he have . When did he know what he knew . And establish that record in closed session. Thank you both for joining us tonight. Appreciate it. Thank you. Coming up, whos afraid of the big bad wolf . Well, in washington apparently, no one is. Its ok that everybody ignores me when i drive. Its fine. Because i get a safe driving bonus check every six months im accident free. Because i dont use my cellphone when im driving. Even though my family does, and leaves me all alone. Heres Something Else. I dont share it with mom. I dont. Right, mom . I have a brand new putter you dont even know about its awesome. Safe driving bonus checks, only from allstate. Sometimes i leave the seat up on purpose. Switching to allstate is worth it. Manaits a series of is nsmart choices. 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John weaver, former chief strategist for john kasich tells the Washington Post, when you have a 35 Approval Rating and youre under fbi investigation, you dont have a hammer. Pulling support for what is now the Mitch McconnellHealth Care Bill ranges and this is recent polling taken this week, ranges from a high of 27 from a fox news poll to a low of 12 in a Suffolk University poll. Joining us now, liz mayer and john hol iman. Liz, it doesnt seem as though the president has a hammer. I dont know what else he has, and i just dont see why any republican senator would take him seriously in any conversation. Am i missing something . I dont think youre entirely missing things, no. My perception of this is, you know, first of all, i think john weaver has a few points that are very well taken here. I dont think he really does have a hammer. But in addition to that, trump is, to be quite blunt about it, he is not regarded as somebody who is in any way shape, care, or form, a Health Care Policy wonk or a policy wonk at all. About all he seems to know about health care is like many big employers, i think he would rather not have to personally deal with the hassle of getting insurance, and for that reasons he seems to have defaulted to Single Payer Health care or socialized medicine. And i think thats probably about as much as he really knows about Health Care Policy. You know, i also think candidly he doesnt have the hammer, but also he hasnt really been that engaged in Health Care Policy in the formulation of this Obamacare Repeal package. So its kind of hard to even measure whether hes proving to be a total success, a total failure, or just a gigantic nothing burger. He just kind of isnt really there to the degree that i think a lot of people would typically expect a president to be. John, i for one think president ial leadership in legislative affairs is the easiest thing in the world to exaggerate. Overrated. Meaning that, you know, you can be a master of the policy. And if this isnt good for me as a house member, im not going to vote for it. If it isnt going for me as a senator, im not going to vote for it. You dont find bravery in the casting of these votes and they are not cast for individuals. Once in a great while, theres a handful of votes that can be persuaded on a personal basis. I think President Trump had that. Bill cant im sorry. President obama had that. But not in big numbers. No. And this president its on the margins. Im not a mathematician, but the math is not hard to do here. Youve got a president in the midto high 30s. You know. What am i doing . If im doing the arithmetic on capitol hill, thats not a thing for which youre looking at those numbers and saying this is not i dont see how this adds up. The other thing thats the reality is the one place they really interseeded in this whole fiasco so far was the dean healer thing. As soon as heller comes out and says im not for the bill, its unhelpful. But he didnt say i cant be brought around. They said were going to run ads against you. They drop an ad on him and Start Talking about how theyre going to primary. And mcconnell rightly calls up Reince Priebus and says, this is the dumbest thing youve ever done. So to the extent they had any kind of leverage, that kind of behavior is the kind of behavior that is like antileverage. Its not just not having a hammer. Whatever the metaphorical opposite of a hammer is, thats the thing that makes people say, thats not going to get it done. That is because of course Mitch Mcconnell believes that if we are going to have a republican senator elected in nevada next year, that persons going to be named dean heller. Hes the guy who can win the state for us. You know, dont fool around with him. No. I think thats correct, and i think that, you know e beyond what john discussed, its worth noting that that outside trump group was actually planning on running ads not targeting republican senators per se but running ads supposedly targeting like Democratic Senators in a bunch of the states of republican senator whos are wavering on the bill. So its not just that i think trump has lilly pissed off dean heller, thats pissed of the senatorial. I think with regard to the heller ad, there was so much publicity. Within the nevada local media market, there was so much coverage of that that the damage was really done whether or not they decided to actually go ahead and drop their seven figures running the ad attacking him. So the whole thing is really an example of them having severely misplayed their hand. I notice one strategist was quoted in one of the axios morning newsletters saying they think attacking dean heller and threatening to drop seven figures against dean heller was probably the stupidest mistake the trump team had made second to firing james comey. I think that speaks volumes. Quick last word. The other thing of course is the notion that trump holds a victory celebration for the passage of the house bill and then later calls it mean. Obviously its inconsistent but the point is if youre a senator thats antileadership. If youre going to exercise leverage, people have no know youre going to be consistent and reliable. Once you think the guy could do anything at any point, he comes to you and begs you to vote for something and then hes going to screw you later, it doesnt work. Liz, john, thank you both for joining us. Appreciate it. Thank you. Coming up, President Trump threatened the owner of the Washington Post because he is so jealous of the owner of the Washington Post. 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Jeff bezos started getting rich all on his own long after Donald Trumps big head start of being born rich. And jeff bezos massive wealth was built on his success with amazon. This has allowed him to branch out into things like movie producing, hollywood. This year, jeff bezoss movie manchester by the sea won oscars and everyone in hollywood is bowing and scraping to jeff bezos everywhere he goes in the hope he will finance their next film or tv series, and donald trump has never been wealthy enough to finance a single movie, to hire a single actor, to finance a single tv series. No movie star has ever had to say, thank you to donald trump for anything. Jeff bezos has also branched out into ownership of the Washington Post, which earned him this tweet from the president of the United States today. The amazon Washington Post, sometimes referred to as the guardian of amazon not paying internet taxes, which they should, is fake news. Joy reid is back, and so donald trump has found a tax that he likes. He wants there are days he wakes up and he doesnt remember hes a republican. So he tweets, i want to do this tax. Of course he doesnt know because its the internet. Hes never been on the internet that, of course, amazon does pay sales tax. On all the purchases on amazon, you pay the state sales tax where you buy it. He doesnt know things. He knows feelings and vibes. The thing you left out is that jeff bezos is also respected. That is something that donald trump has craved his entire life. Its this neediness that makes him chase after the new york times. I think he cannot tolerate that somebody like jeff bezos is more successful in things donald trump would like to be successful at, including media, so now hes decided to go off the reservation. So heres the question, though. How long will it be before rank and file republicans who like donald trump also are for Internet Sales taxes. Okay. Im going to bet that thats a bridge too far for them, that he will get zero support for sales taxes. I dont know. I mean trump voters, Trump Supporters have decided russia is okay. Theyve decided russian hacking is okay. Right. I mean the rubicon has been crossed on what republicans are willing to tolerate. The polling shows that even though they think donald trump might have colluded with the russians, they dont think theres a problem with that. Theyve always hated taxes more than russia. Theyve always hated taxes the most. That is true. So tonight the president has a fundraiser for his reelection earlier than any president in history has ever done this. Of course what it really is, first of all, is a big income event for his hotel in washington because he gets these people to contribute money. Yep. Which is then paid to his hotel to have this event. He then personally takes the profit out of that. Right. Which might have something to do with why hes Scheduling Fund raisers so soon. Ha is the other thing, that donald trump has blown through the norms on emoluments. Hes enriching himself being president. And charging these fundraisers to his hotel is one of the ways hes doing it. It should be illegal, but i guess no one is going to enforce it. Theyre certainly studying it, and the competition in washington is saying suing him, saying its unfair advantage there, and those suits have legs. Well see what happens. Joy reid, thank you very much for joining us. Coming up, remember when President Trump promised to keep jobs, save those jobs at the carrier plant in indiana . He was lying, and now we have the proof. A few weeks after he won the electoral college, donald trump through to indiana to announce that he had just saved over at johnsons we care about safety as much as you do. Thats why we meet or exceed 15 global regulations for baby products. And where standards differ, we always go with the toughest. Johnsons. 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The month before that, the economy added 178,000 jobs. 1,100 jobs is so tiny a number that it is within the margin of error of the bureau of labor statistics count of jobs created or lost in america in any given month. So the president could not have picked a tinier number of jobs to celebrate, and that doesnt mean that each one of those jobs isnt the world to each person who has one of those jobs. It is everything to any person who has one of those jobs. A thousand jobs would be something local mayor to celebrate. A thousand jobs would even be something for some governors to celebrate. But the president of a country with 146 million jobs . You could tell that day that donald trump was not satisfied with announcing his rescue of only 1,100 jobs. Over 1100 jobs. By the way, that number is going to go up very substantially as they expand this area, this plant. So the 1100 is going to be a minimum number. So the number was going to go up because they were going to do more hiring. The head of the Union Representing carrier, chuck jones, told the Washington Post that donald had, quote, lied his a off. Donald trump has been called a liar by a lot of people but chuck jones was supposed to be one of those people saying thank you donald trump for saving those union jobs. Of course donald trump attacked chuck jones after chuck jones called him a liar. Donald trump tweeted, chuck jones, who is president of the united Steel Workers 1999, has done a terrible job of representing workers. No wonder companies flee country. Chuck jones responded to donald trump on this program. Im not backing up on my position one iota. Hes wrong. Im right. And well move on. And if he wants to keep on tweeting, ill keep on responding. What he said was saving 1100 jobs, that was a falsehood. In all reality, like i said, 730 are staying, and here in indianapolis, 550 are losing their livelihood. Chuck jones was outraged that donald trump was lying to the 550 people who chuck jones knew were going to be laid off. He hated having to tell those Union Members that president elect trump was lying to them. He wished that donald trump was telling them the truth, that they werent losing the jobs. Chuck jones told them the truth because he knew they had futures to plan, christmas presents to buy, budgeting to do with the knowledge that they were going to be laid off. They needed to know that. This week we can now officially close the file on the case of who was telling the truth, donald trump or chuck jones. Cnbc reported that the carrier factorys union has received the official notice as required by federal law that the first round of cuts, 338 jobs, will take place on july 20th with an additional 290 employees terminated on december 22nd, three days before christmas. The number of manufacturing jobs that will remain at the carrier plant is exactly 730, precisely the number that chuck jones made public when donald trump lied about saving a minimum, minimum, of 1,100 jobs. Chuck jones didnt want to be right about this. But he was. And donald trump was, as usual, lying. Chuck jones will get tonights last word, next. When this bell. It starts a chain reaction. Thats heard throughout the connected business world. At t Network Security helps protect business, from the largest Financial Markets to the smallest transactions, by sensing cyberattacks in near real time and automatically deploying countermeasures. Keeping the world of business connected and protected. Thats the power of and. Im ryan and i quit smoking with chantix. I tried to quit cold turkey. I tried to quit with the patch; that didnt work. Along with support, Chantix Varenicline is proven to help people quit smoking. For me, chantix worked. It reduced my urge to smoke. 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And by the way, that number is going to go up very substantially as they expand this area, this plant. So the 1100 is going to be a minimum number. Joining us now, chuck jones, the former president of the united Steel Workers local 1999 which represents the carrier workers. Chuck retired last month after 26 years as president and 48 years as a member. He joins us from his union hall in indianapolis. Chuck, these seven months since the president was there, the official word has come to the people being laid off. Do all the individual workers who know theyre going to be laid off now know that and are they now able to plan for that . Yeah. Finally the dates were announced, and the people that are going to be affected are very aware of who they are. And they can plan their life going forward. Is there a different feeling out there now about thenpresident elect trumps visit to the carrier plant . Well, i think at the time without a doubt the way he laid things out, people thought that he was going to have a job, only to find out, as you reported the next day, when we told him that wasnt the case, i think, you know, without a doubt now, people understand what the situation was, that he came in and did a little creative math with the numbers. And, you know, i made some comments to the Washington Post, and i stand behind them. He did lie. I want to listen to Something Else that donald trump said at carrier that day. Lets listen to this. Companies are not going to leave the United States any more without consequences. Not going to happen. Its not going to happen. Ill tell you right now. Chuck, that was the tough guy talking. There are going to be consequences, consequences, carrier is not going to be able to do anything with these jobs. Any consequences that carrier is suffering . No. The state of indiana rewarded them 7 million. So i dont know how in the world the state would give a corporation money for taking jobs out of this country. But theres no consequences im aware of. So chuck, it was your job to tell those people after the president told them one thing, you had to tell them Something Else. What you had to tell them was the worst news they could possibly hear. How did that conversation go, when you had to tell the workers that . People were surprised. You know, for the most part, there wasnt any reason to not believe us. But when youve got the president elect telling them one thing and then all of a sudden the next day were telling them another, they were definitely, you know, in a dilemma where they finally went to the company and the company verified what i had said and what the Union Officials said were the right numbers. Chuck jones, thank you very much for joining us tonight, i really appreciate it. Thank you very much for having me. Chuck jones gets tonights last word. The 11th hour starts now. Tonight, hes running. The president is out raising millions of dollars for his reelection. But just five months in, the gop is already playing the blame game. Plus the russia investigation. Lawmakers are getting comeys memos and reports today that the president s legal team will hold their fire on the ousted fbi director, for now. Also tonight, access denied from the White House Briefing room to the president s fundraiser. The president secretarys podium is being weaponized by a white house eager to escalate its war with the press. The 11th hour starts now. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters in new york. Im nicolle wallace. Brian has the night off. Its day 160 of the trump