Legislation, which we have to keep reminding people has not passed, has not become law even though the republicans tried to pretend thats what happened in 2 senate. The wall street journal reporting tonight, this will not surprise you at all that, the republican california delegation of house members are now worried that maybe they cant vote for a bill that repeals the deductibility of state and local taxes, including income taxes in both bills, house and senate completely eliminate the deductibility of state income taxes. And now the House Republicans from california would like to see that restored. And you know, the big group of Darrell Issas constituents that were camped out at his office today. Yes. Made that point to him very loud and clear. Not just because he is a very vulnerable California Republican, but because throughout that state and in a number of other high tax states, these decisions are going to have an immediate very noticeable negative financial effect on all sorts of regular folks who are these members constituents. And the new york state House Republicans voted against it, who saw it as harmful to their state and harmful to their districts. And Darrell Issas district is classic. It is a very significant tax increase in Darrell Issas district. If you cant fully deduct your property taxes and you cant fully deduct your state income tax. And darrell issa by now has got to know that. Yeah. This isnt the sort of thing where things will get marginally worse. And if youre smart about the news you may be able to tie it back to this one vote. Theyre pushing a button. Here is money that you have to send to the government that you didnt used to have to send to the government. And its because your congressman did this thing. Its going to be a very unsubtle, immediate and significant financial blow to people. And people are going to know exactly why it happened. And thats the sort of accountability measure in government that we dont always get. But when it happens, its a real test as to whether or not members are listening to their voters. And the California Republican delegation in the house has enough votes in and of themselves to kill this bill. Is that true . Wow. Oh, yeah, they have enough to kill it. Well have to keep watching the california delegation. All right, my dear. Thank you. Thank you, rachel. Thanks, lawrence. Well, tonight, News Organizations that closely cover the banking business are reporting special prosecutor Robert Mueller has subpoenaed records from germanys largest bank, Deutsche Bank according to bloomberg news, mueller issued a subpoena to germanys largest lender several weeks ago, forcing the bank to submit documents on its relationship with trump and his family. According to a person briefed on the matter. According to a report in reuters, a u. S. Official with muellers probe said one reason for the subpoenas was to find out whether Deutsche Bank may have sold some of trumps mortgage or other loans to Russian State Development Bank veb, or other russian banks that now are under u. S. And European Union sanctions. The Financial Times reports Deutsche Bank has begun sending information about its dealings with donald trump to u. S. Investigators following a subpoena by Robert Mueller, a person with direct knowledge of the german banks actions told the Financial Times. The production of trumprelated documents had begun several weeks ago. And the wall street journal is reporting Deutsche Bank received a subpoena earlier in the fall from u. S. Special counsel Robert Muellers office concerning people or entities affiliated with donald trump according to a person briefed on the matter. The subpoena requested documents and data about accounts and other dealings tied to relationships with mr. Trump and people close to him, the person said. The bank has lent more than 300 million to entities affiliated with mr. Trump, according to public disclosures. Today, a spokesperson for the president s criminal defense team said no subpoena has been issued or received. We have confirmed this with the bank and other sources. The White House Press secretary echoed that this afternoon. No subpoena has been issue order received. Weve confirmed this with the bank and other sources. I think this is another example of the media going too far too fast, and we dont see it going in that direction. Deutsche bank refused to confirm or deny the stories and issued a statement saying that the bank takes its legal obligation seriously and remains committed to cooperating with investigations into this matter. Deutsche bank has lent the Trump Organization hundreds of millions of dollars for real estate ventures, and is one of the few major lenders that has given large amounts of credit to trump in the past decade. Jared kushner also has financial ties to Deutsche Bank. The Washington Post reported in june one month before election day, Jared KushnersReal Estate Company finalized a 285 million loan as part of a refinancing package for its property near times square in manhattan. The lender was Deutsche Bank. All of which brings us to the trump red line. And like most political red lines, this one was created by reporters asking leading questions about red lines. If mueller was looking at your finances, your familys finances unrelated to russia, that a red line . Would that be a breach of what his actual charge is . I would say yes. But if he was outside that lane, would that mean hed have to go . No, i think thats a violation. That was the president s speaking to the New York Times in july. And with todays reports about a subpoena involving Donald Trumps banking records and banking records of his family, of course this happened. Thank you, everybody. Mr. President , has mueller crossed a red line with Deutsche Bank . Has thank you very much. Has mueller crossed a red line . Thank you. Joining us now, jim wineban winebanks, david cay johnston, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who founded dcreport. Org, and a former chief of staff to Vice President s joe biden and al gore, and senior aide to president obama. And also a chief counsel to the the Senate Judiciary committee, ron klain. David cay johnston, tell us about the trump relationship to Deutsche Bank. Well, Deutsche Bank is the one bank that will lend donald without hiding it through other entities. He has been borrowing money from them for a long time. Deutsche bank has been deeply involved in laundering money for the russians for a long time. Its paid in total somewhere north of 22 billion in fines for improper activities. And i dont think all the fines have been levied on them yet. And over 600 million of that was just for laundering russian money in moscow, in germany, and in new york city. So long, very deep ties. And they arent just limited to donald. Wilbur ross was vicechairman of the bank of cypress. The other vicechairman was a putin appointee. Who did they hire to run that bank . The disgraced and removed chairman of Deutsche Bank. Jill winebanks, what do you make of these subpoena reports . Thing is the next step in the Mueller Investigation. They are following the money. Its something that ive been urging for a long time because i think we are going to see some connections between russia and the trump family. Its not just the president , as you noted. Jared has almost as large a debt to Deutsche Bank. And i think we can find out a lot about what might be motivating the policies of protecting russia and praising putin. And ron klain, a lot of talk today about the red line and the possibility of donald trump seeing this as a reason to fire special prosecutor mueller. What would happen if the president attempted to fire the special prosecutor . Well, wed have a constitutional crisis, like we havent seen since the days of watergate. If he attempted to remove bob mueller for doing his job, investigating, as jill suggested, where the money has gone, what the financial incentives for trump to appease russia and to collude with russia might be. If he fires mueller for doing his job, were going to see a conflagration, and i think the start of impeachment proceedings, and maybe even the kind of outrage that even the republicans in congress cant blink at and cant look away. And david, i know youve done a lot of reporting on Donald Trumps finances over the years, and talked to him about it and gotten close to it and his casino businesses and all sorts of things. You know how he reacts when people get close and they start studying this. Yeah. Imagine for us the reaction in Donald Trumps world today when he discovers the reports about this subpoena. Oh, donald is absolutely liv livid inside about this. Remember, donald creates his own reality. And something is now happening not under his control. He is also going to try to move that red line. Because theyre theyre doing now appears to be directly connected to the russian influence in his campaign. And is not outside the scope by any means of muellers charge here. But donalds also a guy who beat four grand jury investigations. So he is not an amateur at this. By the way, im not as sanguine as ron is about the constitutional crisis. Look how the republicans have moved now towards roy moore to stay in line with trump. They get a real problem trying to go against trump because theyll get primaried the way jeff flake was going to be. Jill, imagine, if you will, the president making a move of some kind to fire Robert Mueller. There is a large office in place now of prosecutors, fbi agents who are working under Robert Mueller. Did they all just disappear if the president fires Robert Mueller . Well, thats an interesting question. And on the night of the saturday night massacre, which i of course would like to point out to the president led to a huge public outcry that caused the president nixon to reverse course and give us the tapes and appoint a Second Special prosecutor. So thats a warning to him. But there was a question the day of the saturday night massacre whether the office had been abolished, whether we had been fired or only cox. And there was a debate if we hadnt been fired, we should quit in protest. And archie cox said no, you know this case better than anyone. And unless and until you have been fired, you must stay and continue this investigation. It turned out that the office had been abolished, but as part of the public outcry and the reaction, it was reestablished. And so we actually never left the offices. But we had been abolished. So the president can fire mueller, and if he leaves the staff in place, they can continue without him or under new leadership. But it would be i think a political mistake because i think even though the president seems to have more teflon than any prior president in history, this might be the thing that causes the public to go enough is enough. Stop. And ron klain, there has been this controversy erupting over the president s private criminal defense lawyer saying that the president cannot commit obstruction of justice because he is president. An argument that we went through during the nixon administration. And now we have a refinement on that offered by ty cobb, who is the inside the white house on the white house payroll lawyer whose watching all of this. And he sites harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz on this. Lets listen to what Alan Dershowitz says about it. You cannot charge a president with obstruction of justice for exercising his constitutional power to fire comey and his Constitutional Authority to tell the Justice Department who to investigate, who not to investigate. So, ron, the dershowitz position is a president can commit obstruction of justice. You can charge a president with obstruction of justice, but not for anything that falls within the president s constitutional duties . So i think professor dershowitz is wrong on the merits. President s who do things for corrupt reasons can be prosecuted or at least called into impeachment for that. What id say is the only people who believe the position that dershowitz and cobb and sekulow have taken are people on Donald Trumps payroll. But not everyone on Donald Trumps payroll believes that. Attorney general sessions when clinton was subject to impeachment said a president could be impeached for obstruction of justice. So this is a ridiculous position. It has no broad support in the Legal Community and its not going to hold up under scrutiny. David, tell us how you would see donald trump in the middle of that discussion in the white house on this issue of can the president be charged with obstruction of justice. Oh, well, donald would absolutely argue that he is above the law. He certainly doesnt know his history about king charles i who was beheaded after asserting that the king can do no wrong. Donald, remember, doesnt understand the constitution. Nobody asked him during the campaign would you tell us the duties, powers and limits of the president. He doesnt know what they are. He thinks that he is a dictator or should be a dictator, and that he is above the law. But of course donald has thought that his whole adult life. Jill, weve got to hear you on this question that professor dershowitz is saying, that yes, its possible to have obstruction of Justice Charges against a president , but not if it is for something that is within the president s constitutional duties. Well, first of all, let me go back to something that was just said. Id also like to say king henry viii when he didnt like things he changed things or beheaded people. Thats what dershowitz is suggesting, that the president can do anything he wants. I agree when there is a corrupt intent, nothing is legal. So dershowitz is long. John dowd is wrong. And ty cobb is wrong. Not only can he be indicted for and the question of indictment may be an open question. But he certainly could be charged with obstruction. And he certainly could be impeached for obstruction. And all of the things that weve been talking about are i believe clearly obstruction. I think there is enough evidence of acts that are intended to stop an investigation. I recently reviewed the indictments in the watergate case. And so many of the things that i read could be changed to trump as the defendant. And jill, obstruction of justice was one of the impeachment counts in the house of representatives against the president nixon, wasnt it . Yes. It absolutely was. And another was abuse of power. So even if you accepted the argument that it cant be obstruction of justice, the president can abuse even his constitutional powers. I would argue that if he started to pardon everybody who was involved in this case to avoid the investigation going any further, that would be such an abuse of power, even though he has Unlimited Power to pardon, that would be a crime. And i dont think we should let the president get away with crimes. And ron klain, the thing that is always inhibited president s in these directions, like unlimited pardoning of your friends, especially first term president s, is the desire to be reelected. Is a notion that there are political limits to what you can do, that the electorate wont go with you beyond some limit. And donald trump never seems to have observed that. No, look. He does have a very strong support base. And as david said earlier, the Congressional Republicans have tolerated all of trumps outrages thus far. But i do think that there are some lines here and some places where even the republicans may get off the trump train. 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But kay koppens right its been reported trump sent pence a letter saying he needed time to decide whether he could stay with the campaign. But in fact according to several republicans familiar with the campaign, he wasnt just thinking about dropping out, he was contemplating a coup. Within hours of the post bombshell, pence made it clear that he was ready to take trumps place as the partys nominee. Republican donors and Party Leaders began buzzing about making pence the nominee and drafting Condoleezza Rice as his running mate. Joining us now, david forum, Senior Editor for the atlantic, and back with us ron klain. And david, we all remember how many republicans immediately distanced themselves from nominee donald trump when the access Hollywood Video came out. And according to this reporting, behind the scenes, mike pence was one of them. Look, this is such a terrific piece of reporting. Its my colleague mckay koppens. If mckay said it happened, it happened. He is a terrific reporter. But the delusion in the Republican Party. Do you remember those old loony tune where the coyote would step off the cliff, assuming that he was all set and in fact its the cliff that collapses. The central fact that every republican has to cope with is these coups cant work. As unpopular as donald trump, the regular Republican Party is that much less popular. So there is this idea that if only you could get rid of trump and proceed to take away everybodys health care and cut taxes for the very rich that thats what america wants. But as little as they like trump, they like trump more than that. Ron klain, the intrigue in this article about the reaction inside the Republican Party when the access Hollywood Video came out, including a meeting in which the president nominee, donald trump asked everyone in the room what they thought was going on. Reince priebus says you can drop out now or you can be wiped out on election night. One of the schemes was a billionaire buyout. And im reading from mckay koppens article. A small group of billionaires was trying to put together money for a buyout, how much money the candidate would require to walk away from the race. According to someone with knowledge of the talks, they were given an answer of 800 million. Its unclear whether trump was aware of this discussion or whether the offer was actually made. Ron, i dont think that offer has ever been made or discussed in any other president ial campaign. No. I think the mistake they made was not making the offer in rubles because that might have gotten the job done that night and we would be rid of this problem right now. Look, i think the fundamental problem we have here is mike pence and these other republicans blinked at the access hollywood thing. And they got back on board by monday. And have been on board ever since. And mike pence has stood up and allowed donald trump to offend his wife with this behavior. He has insulted his beliefs. He has outraged his christian views. And we learn tonight in the hill for example, the last straw. Donald trump said mike pence lacked class for bringing his dogs to the Vice President ial residence. He is even insulting the mans pets. So mike pence is basically taken it from trump. He signed on for the duration. And clearly is now part of the trump team. And david, i want to read you another part of this article which i know you know so well. But i want the audience to hear this particular athat mike pence has of communicating according to mckay koppens, who has watched him do many, many of these speeches and who says he just hung up the phone with donald trump and he always chuckles a little bit after he says that. And the way mckay koppens reports it, it almost as if in that brief barely perceptible moment pence is sending a message for those with ears to hear that he recognizes the absurdity of his situation. That he know just what sort of man he is working for. That while things may look bad now, there is a grand purpose at work here, a plan that will manifest itself in due time. How did you interpret that, david . Well, what mckay is describing weve all seen. If you watch that clip where John Dickerson of cbs asks Vice President pence about the russia collusion, pence gives exactly that same warm chuckle before proceeding to lie his head off about the contacts. But the mistake mike pence is making, mike pence has this idea that somehow the republicanism that he is offering is more robust, more deeply rooted than the one donald trump is offering. And we wouldnt be in this fix if that were true. That pence style republicanism is in trouble, and donald trump was the answer. Remember, when the access Hollywood Tape broke, paul ryan did separate himself from donald trump. He did it very decisively. He refused to campaign with him. Anymore. He canceled events. He withdrew his support. And it was paul ryans support that collapsed i believe about 20 points in ten days. And ron klain, we have mike pences wife in the article, described as saying she finds she has been disgusted by trump, finds him reprehensible, just totally vile. And weve had earlier reports this year that steve bannon actually taught the president a Little Something about the 25th amendment, and how the 25th amendment provides for the Vice President to initiate a process by which a majority of the cabinet and the Vice President can decide to remove the president because he is unfit to serve and install the Vice President as the acting president. And that of course steve bannon took as a serious threat. Well, it is a threat. But i do think that mike pence has knuckled under. And i think mike pence isnt spending any time studying the 25th amendment. I think given all the lies he has told about the russia investigation, he ought to spend some time studying the 5th amendment. He is going to be in the tank in this investigation too. And i think thats the big fallacy that may be in Donald Trumps mind. That mike pence can rise and survive and be the future of the Republican Party. And for reasons david said, and most of all because of pences deep complicity in the trump presidency, i do not 24i there is a future for mike pence after donald trump. But david, lying to the press or saying something to the press about trump russia that turns out not to be true is not something that can get mike pence into legal jeopardy. No. What is mike pences biggest legal risk with the special prosecutor . I dont know that he has legal risks. But he has a political risk. Youve often invoked the comparison to watergate. One of the things that gerald ford did, gerald ford, a very underestimated figure, is he managed to defend the Republican Party, defend even Richard Nixon while communicating to the American Public that he was completely uninvolved with these actions and that he was a person of character and decency. And the public was sort of ready for him to step in when the nixon presidency collapsed. He was close to nixon but not as close as pence is to trump. Thats not a legal problem, but it is a political problem. And ford did not have to pull the trigger on Richard Nixon. He did not have to initiate the 25th amendment. It happened anyway. But the process that is threatening donald trump is one that is a political process that probably is a deadline in 2020 rather than 2019. And mike pence is bound to donald trump. There isnt a good way out of this for him. Were going have to take a break here. Ron klain, thank you for joining us tonight. And david, please stick around. 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The New York Times discovering tonight that the white house is now backing off of the denials and simply saying theyre moving back to the position of saying the idea has been pitched, but no sign at this point that President Trump was actually briefed on it. Matthew, what do you make of the white houses shifting response to this . Well, i think the first thing to point out sits very indicative of the problem here within this story, which is that the lies that have come out of this white house thus far in 11 months have been unending. And so we need to remember that when they give a blanket denial, it just cant be accepted on its face. Its a in this case, it was a step by step. The first was a blanket denial. The second was at the press briefing today was a denial by sort of semantic evasion. And then we get another News Organization that confirms the story. And then the next step is sort of downplaying, which is well, maybe the proposal did get pitched to us. But it has no traction here. And in fact, i dont believe thats the case. This is a very, very troubling story because although on its surface it might seem almost silly or comical given the sort of shades ollie north and ir contra, what it really identifies is a divide in your bannon altright portion and some of your professionals. And there are people around the president who clearly for several months and as recently as last month absolutely are considering this proposal and believe it is something thats necessary to provide a check on the cia in what they see as disloyal Civil Servants working for government. They basically dont trust the spies doing the spying. So they want something that can stovepipe past the normal Intelligence Community and go from the ground, as it were, directly to the director and into the white house. And i think that notion is incredibly dangerous. Ned price is a former cia analyst. Whats your reaction to matthews reporting on this . Well, lawrence, i have spoken with some former colleagues whom i trust over the course of the day today. And the story they have relayed is largely similar to what we heard from the New York Times. Theyve conceded that yes, there have been meetings, but this doesnt seem to be getting off the ground, at least any time soon. What this all means, suggests to me, lawrence, it reinforces the notion that we have an administration in power that doesnt trust in the american system of governance and the american system of democracy. And thats a system that relies upon a professional cadre of Civil Servants, including tens of thousands of whom work in the National Security orbit, working day and night, regardless of president , regardless of the party of the president , democrat or republican, to serve the commander in chief and ultimately the American People. But with this trump camp, with the Trump Administration we now have in power a group that distrusts this professional cadre, a group that casts them all as the deep state. And weve seen this even since before President Trumps inauguration. The fact that the trump transition would not use the state department to conduct foreign leader calls and meetings during the transition. The fact that the very same erik prince reportedly, at least, at the behest of the administration went to the seychelles to establish a back channel with the russians during the transition. The fact that Rex Tillerson is gutting the state department. The fact that donald trump says he is the only one who really matters. And the fact that Jared Kushner and steve bannon again reached out the erik prince to develop a plan for afghanistan that relied not on u. S. Forces but on black water contractors. These are all indications that this is a crew that does not trust the people that are supposed to be protecting the American People day in and day out. And if we had a president who never indicated that he believed in fantasies and crazy ideas, this would be one thing. But a lot of this feeds into what we know donald trump would like to have if possible. I want to read part of your reporting, matthew. It says the proposals would utilize an army of spies with no official cover in several countries deemed denied areas for current american intelligence personnel, including north korea and iran. And in order to do this, you would have to have a president who believed that they could successfully get people into north korea and get information back from them. Well, there is no question that on the part of prince and his colleagues that there may be an effort to upsell their abilities to the white house and to the president. But we have to remember that erik prince used to run a cia program that was geared towards assassinating al qaeda targets during the bush administration. And although there were no known assassinations as a result of that program, the program was put together. The sbiers hipires were hired. The people were sent out. This story first became known to us was one of the things we discovered is that erik princes team from his cia days was being rehired by erik prince. And it was the first indication that things were moving and that money had been allocated. Now we should point out that we have no idea where the money came from. The money could have been private. The money as far as the government is concerned appears that theyre not paying for it, although i dont know that thats a settled question yet. So there is certainly a background here for the people involved. There is a senior official at the white house right now named Michael Berry who is the nsc intelligence director who worked with erik directly on the cia Assassination Program during the bush administration. And in fact, we have sources who said listen, berry was in our office all the time down in moyock working with erik to run these things. So you have a group of people who certainly know each other well, have the familiarity, and have clearly said to the president , you know, youre not getting the intelligence you need in north korea. Youre not getting it in iran. We have the solution, and its private. Kit be privatized, and it will be stovepiped directly to you. And obviously, the concern there is the potential for abuse and the ability to use intelligence for political means. Sounds like a Senate Intelligence committee has another investigation thats got to get started. Matthew cole, thank you very much for joining us tonight with your reporting on this. And ned price, thank you as always for joining us. Really pratt it. Thank you, lawrence. Coming up, jeff flakes new move into the resistance. The resistance against roy moore. Patrick woke up with back pain. But he has work to do. So he took aleve. If hed taken tylenol, hed be stopping for more pills right now. Only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. Aleve. All day strong. For every hour that youre idling in your car, youre sending about half a gallon of gasoline up in the air. That amounts, over the course of the week, to about 10 pounds of carbon dioxide. Growth is good, but when it starts impacting our quality of air and quality of life, thats a problem. So forwardthinking cities like sacramento are investing in streets that are smarter and greener. The solution was right under our feet. Asphalt. Or to be more precise, intelligent asphalt. 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We want to have the things that we represent and we certainly dont want to have the liberal democrat thats controlled by nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. We dont want to have that for alabama. Sitting beside the president hes endorsed roy moore once again was republican senator jeff flake who today wrote a check to doug jones for u. S. Senate showing that check on twitter that he contributed 100 to the democrat in the alabama race against Donald Trumps republican candidate. And in the memo line of jeff flakes check he wrote, country over party. And today the Republican SenateMajority Leader Mitch Mcconnell once again suggested that if roy moore wins the election, alabama will have to have another special election for the very same senate seat next year after roy moore gets expelled from the United States senate. I had hoped earlier he would withdraw as a candidate. That obviously is not going to happen. If he were to be elected he would immediately have an Ethics Committee case and the committee would take a look at the situation and give us advice. And david fromm is back with us. David, we all remember the attack tweets from donald trump against jeff flake that hes been doing most of the year, most recently november 19th. Senator jeff flakey who is unreliable, unelectable in the great state of arizona and so on and so on. And so you see, senator flake sitting beside the president today and donald trump just sitting there as if nothing had ever happened between them. Right. Half an hour before you went on the air roy moore tweeted out i think theyre afraid im going to take alabama values to washington and i cant wait. Maybe one of the issues in this election is what is that kind of slur against the state of alabama going to stand . These cant be alabama values, child molestation, those are not values anywhere. Theyre behaviors, theyre not values. Jeff flake stood up and good for him. Yes, and, david, you see Mitch Mcconnell now swerving a little bit on this coming back, apparently, to the possession had before which is everything that hes heard is stuff for the Ethics Committee to investigate as soon as roy moore comes to washington, if he comes to washington. Well, what is going on in Mitch Mcconnells mind youd like to believe hes standing up for good things. I think whats going on is more calculated commentation when is mcconnells figuring out i can get this tax bill passed before roy smoor seated and then i wont need him. So i can stand up to him because hes not going to be in washington until january and perhaps this tax bill will be law by christmas. And of course as long as roy moore is in the senate, even if he is under Ethics Committee investigation krer vote on whatever tax bills they put in front of him. He can do more than that. He can refuse unanimous consent. No one on earth can make more trouble, as you know well, than the United States senator. They will they will need they will have to appease him. However tough they talk now, they will have to appease him when he gets there. Yeah, because does he have that power of one snoor hold up whatever he wants to. But generally some someone finds themselves in the senate Ethics Committee, they tend to behave themselves on the senate floor. Generally. And generally when 32yearold men find themselves in the company of 14yearold girls they drive them home. Yes. And, again, to jeff flake, this is an extraordinary thing to actually write a check. I dont know that ive ever seen that before. Ive seen people in one party be signed of nod and favorable and never say anything negative about a senator running in another party. But ive never seen a check like that. Well, flake is writing, he has this terrible ka nun none drum. He despises donald trump, hes made that clear. Hes one of the ideological members of the senate. So generally on principle he approves of a lot of the things that Mitch Mcconnell is trying to do. And people are demanding that he vote against his own convictions in order to send a message to donald trump. Hes not going to blow up what he believes in to punish donald trump, hes looking for ways to send a message consistent with what he believes in. David fromm, thank you very much for joining us tonight, really appreciate it. Thank you. Well be right back. [burke] at farmers, weve seen almost everything so we know how to cover almost anything. Even a redhot mascot. [mascot] heyoooo whoop, whoop [crowd 1] hey, youre on fire [mascot] you bet i am [crowd 2] dude, youre on fire [mascot] oh, yeah [crowd 3] no, youre on fire look behind you. [mascot] im cool. Im cool. [burke] thats one way to fire up the crowd. But we covered it. Talk to farmers. We know a thing or two because weve seen a thing or two. We are farmers. 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I love everything about this tweet including the reference to my act role on the west wing playing jed bartletts father, and most importantly making a Christmas Gift to the k. I. N. D. Fund. Kids in need of a desk is dedicated to delivering desks to kids in african schools where they have never seen desks and it provides Public High School to girls in malawi where it is not free. And the other thing i love about this tweet is that reminder that when you call a member of congress to make your case for or against legislation, always remember that the person answering that phone is not responsible for their bosss vote. And many of those people answering the phone disagree with their bosss votes on the issues. And so, yes, please, always be kind to the people taking those phone calls and never give up in making those phone calls because this democracy is only improved when you make your voice heard. Thats tonights last word. Coming up next Brian Williamss coverage about the trumps decision about jerusalem and Chris Matthews will join brian for more on the specific councils investigation. The 11th hour with Brian Williams is next. Tonight what could Bank Records Reveal about donald trump on the russia front . And new reporting on that meeting with don junior and the russian lawyer. We get an insiders assessment tonight from an attorney who has worked alongside Robert Mueller and james comey. Plus, steve bannon back on the trail tonight for roy moore. And theres breaking and controversial news on trump and the middle east. And Chris Matthews, among our guests this evening as the 11th hour gets under way or