President trump is shadow boxing against an invisible enemy. And barack obama, more on him coming up. President trump said that he wants the attorney general to serve his political agenda rather than the law. The oped posed a National Security threat to the country. He would like jeff segs to launch an investigation to find out who wrote the piece. Here is the audio of the president responds on air force one. I will say this, for somebody to do that, it is very low. I think journalistically, and from many different standpoints, maybe even from the standpoint of National Security, we will find out about that for the New York Times to allow that to happen is disgraceful. Do you think jeff segs should investigate who the author of the oped piece was . I think jeff should be investigating who the author of that piece was, i believe it is National Security. This comes after the president demanded that new york timings turn over the author to government at once. And trump suggested that article amounted to it. Re treason. And accused the New York Times itself, treason. It is tle son, can you call it a lot of things t may be a deep state person who has been there for a long time it is unfair to our country, and the millions of people who voted for us. They voted for us. Washington bureau chief for usa today. And sir michael singleton. And the former white house staffer. Congratulations, you have turned out to be the first whistle blower, you were ahead of this person. By the way, who do you think wrote the oped. I think it is someone out of pences office, i think it might be nick ares. They are in the position to benefit f the 25th amendment is enacted, if trump is removed. The clues are in the oped. Which are . When it says, when and if he leaves, however, indicating if it is approximate by impeachment, investigation or if he is not reelected. The Vice President denies responsibility for this. The style of writing, documents and email that is came out of the Vice President s offices. You think it is one of his staffers . Absolutely. You have, the one newspaper read all over the country, you have an analysis pieced it, that said this president has a reckoning coming to him right now . I think there is a sense of storm gathering, the mccain funeral, the woodward book, and the oped paint a consistent picture. And lays the ground work for what is the big event to come, the mueller report. What he finds. We all believe he would try not to interfere, relatively soon or months away. What do you think of the president calling the i dont think the president knows the dev fig of treason. If he does, i would ask the president , where is the treason . Where did the act occur . What is going on, donald trump set the tone. It is telling that those individual that is he selected to work with him on behalf of him and the people who voted for him dont trust the president. Those people need to have the courage to come out to say who they are. I am worried about getting back to the president here. I want to ask you about this, the fact that the president sees someone who doesnt like him as a traitor to the country . He has an extreme level of paranoi a. This is triggering all of his worst fears, it will make him hunt down this person, in the white house, in the agencies, and it isnt a good precedent. You think there is say man hunt or woman hunt or whatever . Is trump out there looking for the person who ate frozen strawberries and mutiny. Yes, i think he is determined to find out who the author s for one thing, you cant necessarily believe that they were the author, if you think it is possible, we will find out soon. When you look back to deep throat it turned out to be a boring guy. It wasnt someone as exciting as a white house staffer. This is like primary colors, when i served in the clinton administration, they were trying to figure out who wrote primary colors. If was cline. He told me he didnt write it. It appears behind the closed doors, the press is unable to distinguish friends and foe. They are disavowing the oped, and prove locality to the president. In oval office huddles, chief of staff, john bolt know, press secretary, and Senior AdvisorJared Kushner tried to tell the president he could trust them. Are you laughing, big time journalist like you, are you out there trying to figure out who it is, are you go New York Times, Michael Schmidt and the rest of them. Are they trying to find out . I assume they r i think we would like to know who it is. I think it is a brilliant move by the white house that we are worry body who it is, not what the person said. Someone put out a statement saying, dont think about who did it. I do think, to susans point, that what is written in the article. There is a line that individual writes, they are trying to help the country, if you will, making sure the president doesnt commit sduft disastrous acts. I think what we have seen so far have been disastrous. Former president obama said, what good are nutd white house defending us against 10 of this crap, when he warned voters not to take comfort in the oped. The claim that everything is okay, because there are people inside the white house who secretly arent following the president s orders, that isnt a check. I am being serious. That is not how our democracy is supposed to work. These people arent elected. They are not accountable. They are not doing us a service by actively promoting 90 of the crazy stuff coming out of the white house, and saying, dont worry, we are preventing the other 10 . Is that true, the people in the white house feel superior because they are i would have to say there is more. Damage control . Yes, in the time i served, he would have dangerous. Impulses. When he says, blow up this country, because he doesnt like something that leaders of the country said, they push back, and they should. Active resistance is the oped in the failing New York Times. Those who defy the voters. There is a word he hasnt used before, anonymous. What do you make about that . Going after this character, he doesnt know who is it gs10, doesnt know who it is. Trying to put an enemy mark on that person. Make that person the enemy of the people. I do think he has a legitimate point here, it sent appropriate for an elected unelected officials to counterman decisions by a duly elected president. They shouldnt be doing what this person admits to be doing. He won the electoral college. If you want to oppose him, the checks and balances are with congress and courts, in public. Didnt the secretary of state under nixon, said, do not launch missiles . Then, do you follow the orders of an unfit president . I understand the argument. We have a 25th amendment, impeachment process. Did anyone think, when your point of view, does anybody believe that michael pence would ever blow the whistle on trumps incompetence . No. The vp, get the ball rolling . If the president is not capable of being president , again to the individual who wrote the article, and the individuals part of the resistant movement, they should resign. Come over, testify before congress, for these reasons, the president is unfit to serve. If that is indeed the case, if their critiques are found legitimate. We have two ways, is to leave the white house and write a book . Yes. Another is to put out an oped. Which is the most admirable. Funchlths put your name on t you suffer consequences. The moment they show who the identity of the person who wrote t you know what will happen. I went through it. I argue, it is more important for the countrys sake to deal with the consequences as long as he has whistle blower protech, i say come forward. Number one on New York Times best seller list. Are you number one . Yes. Thank you. Coming up, he has waited more than a year and a half for this president barack obama. The question s who wins . I think trump is taunting obama to get more severe, nastier, to come back on him do to him what he did to jeb, what he did to little marco. The he wants the former president to get in the ditch with him. So he can take him down. 14 days in jail . Jaywalking gets you eight. Unfortunately for the president , we show he uses the same Vocabulary Words that are in woodwards book. This is hardball. John dean was testifying today, he spoke about on out against kavanaugh joins the court, republicans and conservatives, i know fought the expansion of president ial power and executive powers, that is no longer true. Judge kavanaugh has a broad view. He would have the congress iminize sitting president s from civil and criminal liability. Sometimes the backlash comes from people who are fearful of change. Most auch, it is manufactured by those who want to keep us angry and cynical t helps them maintain the status quo and keep their power. It did not start with donald trump. He is a symptom, not the cause. The closer we get to election day, those interested in fear and division will work to do anything to hang on to their recent gains. Their policies are, let all the crime come n open borders. They are against so many things you want. It shouldnt be democratic or republican to say we dont threaten the freedom of the press because they say things or publish stories we dont like. The latest resistance was posted in the failing New York Times. It is sad for the mainstream media. You need to vote. Impeach trump. If it does happen, it is your fault, you doesnt go out to vote. He has get in the arena with trump, he trash talks, you look smaller, it is hard to stay filing with the guy. I dont think that is the case with obama. I think obama is a different type of player, we saw it at the white house correspondence dinner, he deacon structed donald trump in front of him. Has a biting way to do it. High bro approach for sure, no less biting. I think that president is planning to do a couple of things here. One, to engage the base, get that democratic vote out there. To be that voice that is a counter to what is out here now. It doesnt exist in the Democratic Party it is not corey booker, it is not harris. There is no leader that can stand with stature to your point and make the case about a different america. An america that we thought we knew. Im not saying that former president has a glass jaw. I have watched the trump fight. Get the other men and women take shots at you, get them at your level. I dont think obama cares, there is much higher calling, to unite the country, he doesnt see himself as the face of the Democratic Party. President clinton, after he was president. He did take on that role. President obama, when he does speak, he is drawing attention, trying to unite. He doesnt care if President Trump tweets at him. Here is what he had to say in a fundraiseener north dakota. I am sorry i watched f but i fell asleep. I found he is very good for sleeping. Here is what i think he is doing, you guys are not going to help me here. You are playing it straight. I think it is getting nastier than that come at me. If you get nasty, dont be too high level with me. That is not obamas style. They call him no drama obama north a reason. He does have a way, we have seen it. It is not something unknown to us. We have seen the former president take on adversaries in a way in which he scores the points he needs to score. You like when he made fun of the apprentice. Exactly. He has a way of doing that i think there is something bigger and more important here. Just where we are. And they are the voices starting to emerge, the oped, other things are setting a different state. You may ultimately be right. I give obama an equal footing. He gave a political speech, colored in nonpolitical language. Even if tudont like him on immigration, on regulation, you think too much big government. If you dont like him on abortion issues, same sex. Here is a chance. This is an antitrump opportunity. He was going to include everything but trumps kids. He gave a speech, the contrast you showed was incredible. What he is doing is reminding people, if you want too take back democracy, you have to vote. Voter turn out is notoriously low. To possibly take back the senate. I keep hearing the rumors that john kerry is running, biden is running, hillary is running, i keep hearing this i am wrong. She made it clear, on multiple occasions, i cant speak for john kerry. What do you hare . I do hear the list you listened, biden is the one that everyone has an eye on. I think of that list, he is the strongest one to move forward. Age wont be an issue in this next battle. Women are winning, minorities are winning, i dont think age will be a factor there necessarily. The tony bennett guy, the older guy the young people like. I uncle this is too mature an audience. Up next, former Campaign Aide george papod ompapadopoulos got weeks. It is more than a witch hunt. This is hardball. Is welcome back to hardball. We are covering breaking news on the mueller front tonight. George papadopoulos first Trump Campaign advisor heading to jail. Late this morning, the federal judge gave him 14 days. Who gets 14 days for anything. Board air force one President Trump sought to distance himself from him. I dont know papadopoulos, i dont know him. I saw him sitting in one picture at a table with me. Thats the only thing i know about him. I dont know him. But they got him on a couple of lies is what they are saying. I dont know nothing. Pled guilty to repeatedly lying to fbi agents. Since the special investigation was launched, mueller has indicted or secured guilty pleas now from 32 people and three companies. That is 32 people indicted so far. For more, i am joined by Julia Ainsley and greg brower. Give me a sense. I have been counting on you to do this. This young guy, 29years old. With his picture of him at the meeting. Trust said he never met him. We understand he had a drunken conversation with an australian diplomat. That could have been one of the things that kicked off the investigation. I had neeg to do with russia. Trump approved of efforts, during the campaign. According to a memo, the lawyers wrote, eager to show his value to the campaign, that the campaign should look into it. That is close to the bone here. The lawyers were trying to get a light are sentence for him, which they managed to achieve. There is no transcript of that meeting. They denied that of the way it happened. Why two weeks . I thinks it is too special counsel won, they were asking for jail time and got it. Papadopoulos was remorseful. And probably didnt completely buy in to the government argument that his misstatements were tended to undermine the investigation. In fact, they cancelled the interview, they found out he was talking to reporters. The judge thought he was remorseful. He wanted a second chance. The government asked for 30 days, that was the sentencing given to the lawyer that was indicted for lying in the mueller probe. We are talking about paul manafort, the charges are discreet. And a lot of times, the judge says, someone wouldnt go to jail. Didnt the line allow the agent to escape . They were going to try to grab . From a former prosecutor perspective, i think anybody who prosecuted a case, would like to see someone get more time than 14 days for lying to agents. A win for the mueller team. The judge didnt think he deserved more time than that. He must have given them something. I dont think that is the case. I dont think that is necessarily the case. I dont think we know that. I think he was actually someone who it seems the sentencing is not in cooperation. Tons of emails and texts, they know exactly who bit on that bait that he was offering. They dont need papadopoulos cooperation to get the answers. If his cooperation was significant and ongoing, you would not have seen a sentencing. Thank you. Up next President Trump is pushing back on some of the insults contributed to him in Bob Woodwards new book. He is denying saying anything like these things, they are not his words. We have Video Evidence to say these are the very words he prefers. Come on back and watch the rest of hardball tonight. Thank you. Welcome back to hardball. Today President Trump again attacked Bob Woodwards tell all book on his presidency. The book that was written was fiction. I dont speak that way. I am highly educated. In reality, they match a lot of the president s daytoday vocabulary. For example, woodward reports that the president called attorney general Jeff Sessions mentally retarded and a dumb southerner. Trump said he never used such terms on anyone. In 2004, he used that very language on the howard stern show. I have a golf pro who is mentally i mean, he is not really a smart guy. Trump called his former wife marla maples parents an entourage of dumb southerners. Woodward said he called h. R. Mcmaster full of s a line that trump used about politicians before. No politicians are going to solve it. I would like to use really foul language, i wont do it. I was going to say they were full of [ bleep ] but i wouldnt say that. According to woodward, when he decided to quit, trump called it treason. Lets watch. The times shouldnt have done that. It is treason. Lets bring in author of the big game. The nfl in danger times. It. It came out tuesday, your name is not in it. When does it come out . Eugene scott is a political reporter for the washington post. Why would trump deny what is verifiable by tape. Using these words. Very good use of video. He will deny that is what he says, woodward doesnt have him saying these things on tape. We move on to the next thing. The interview before the live studio audience, it was very wwe. Let me ask you margaret, this president , why does he deny what is undeniable. Because he lies and gets away with it. I am sensitive to mentally retarded my brother is brain damaged and he is the kind of person that uses words like retard. He never cares about how people feel about it. Feelings, not at all. Dumb southerner. The white southerners. Put this guy in the white house. 70 returns in alabama. Right directly at the dixie crowd. I said the other night, i went to chapel hill, a brainy school. The idea of people being stupid is absurd. It was awful to attack southerners. And attack Jeff Sessions for not going to an elite university. So many people who got on the trump train. Have southern accepts, are working class americans, so, why is he attacking his base . He doesnt like his own people. And he said they were not going to leave him. He said he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and they would stay with him. That is what it looks like. I love polls. And three polls were released last week. All which are part of the hardball ten. In missouri the race is tied at 47 between Claire Mccaskill and hawley. The former governor needs blackburn, 48 to 46. Two points. I think he can win that i think blackburn can win. And in indiana. Joe donnelly leads by six, margaret. Go irish. You didnt put in manchin in there. State by state. Watch the show, margaret. Two or three a night. I must have missed something. Went to the stove to stir the pot roast. So sorry. She is tough. One tough girl. I admire that i wish i were that tough against you. You dont need to be that tough. It is getting too personal. I think they have a shot. I didnt think so two week ago. Do you think trumps calamitous week from harris, booker, and they want to turn out. Can you say this make a predic . I can say, if the democrats play defense, i think they got a shot. Can you say this . Can you make a prediction. If the democrats play defense, they keep the seats. If they can maybe get two out of arizona and nevada, tennessee, maybe put texas in there. They are in the low 50s. Bredesen is popular in tennessee. I think you black dpltd burn can do it. Close to call. I think the age will hurt him. I think women are in good shape this year. Is that dumb to say that . This week nike announced an ad campaign. Colin kaepernick, the ad says believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything. Here is how tramp reacted. I dont like what nike d i dont think it is appropriate. I honor the flag, i honor our national anthem. And most of the people in this country feel the same way. I know this is treacherous cultural territory. You have this thing about taking a knee. Couldnt roger, whats his name . Who makes how much a year . 200 million over the next five years. Cant he figure out a way to finesse this . Apparently not. Do it different times than the pledge of allegiance. Do it for two or three games and stop. They are working on it. The vacuum of leadership inside the nfl has been filled by nike, by donald trump. How come the nba knows how to do things. Just as much cultural challenges. They have a urban, coastal fan base, and a trusting relationship with their commissioner and players soerk. Goodle has no control over him anymore. He is not in the league. Like the sixers to, get the good picks. Here is a gli who is open. Free agent. Why doesnt someone hire him . He will bring a bunch of baggage, who are not as supportive over Police Brutality and racism. Now he is a symbol. The guy who had trouble with dogs, he got a job. He went to jail first. The fans, how they view the issues affecting animals, versus black people being shot by police officers. You make a cruel point. Factual point, too. I stayed up until 12 30. I fell asleep. I know philly won. Scott is on their side. The team, they had five first downs in the last three minutes. So many opportunities. I fell asleep. Philly needs wins, i love philly. The round table. The three will tell me something i dont know. You are watching hardball. Weve got a big week coming up. Were sit down with secretary of state john kerry. He has a lot to say about the current occupant of 1600 pennsylvania avenue. And then john kasich and Sherrod Brown are going to join us. These are two, i think president ial contenders. Well be right back. He u. S. Its americas most popular street name. But allstate agents know thats where the similarity stops. If youre on park street in reno, nevada, the high winds of the Washoe Zephyr could damage your siding. 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I traded the washington swamp for the nfl swamp. Only 7 of all nfl fans have ever set foot in a stadium. Tv is king in football. Whats the key of an average ticket . Probably about 55. I made that up. I think its more. I think its more because david is going to the patriots game this weekend. Hes taking the kids anyway. Chris, i was told today that bill shine, the ousted fox person is in on the leak hunt, and this is just stirring up the talk of how bill shine has couldnt possibly have the vetting or security clearance that he needs to have the job he has in the white house. Because he goes into secure locations. He goes into those meetings. He has civil lawsuits against him. How is he going to find this person . Theyre talking about lie detectors . Whats the technique . I think bamboo sticks under the fingernails. I dont know. Jean, do no, there were phrases to take people off the scent. What do you have for us tonight . Today trumps pretty excited because Congress Passed a bill that makes it legal for the federal government to deport immigrants convicted of violent crimes. But the Senate Passes that. I thought actually, theres been debate about if you commit a felony in this country, youre deported, arent you . The Supreme Court in april had a debate over how they were defining what is a crime. The senate has to vote on it before december. Its not on the schedule. Its not clear if its going to happen. Many democrats actually voted along with the republicans. Anybody know what happened to rob emanuel, why he quit. Hes not really popular. The murder capital and the trial is coming up on the Police Shooting where he kept the video from being released. I wonder what he wants to do next . Something not politics. When we return, well talk about what president obama had to say. I think hes going to the ramparts. He made a real partisan speech today. It may have looked like something else. 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He said we should vote democratic even if we disagree on important matters and even if we want to see less regulation and are more conservative on social issues like abortion and same sex marriage. Obama said we should vote democratic even if we disagree with the party on all these areas because its the only clear way to vote against what trump is doing in all these areas. His partisan approach to administering justice. His relentless assaults on the American Free press. His refusal to acknowledge white supremacists. President obama wants people to use their vote to condemn trump to vote against. Hes drawn the line in the sand. Vote antitrump. Vote democratic. Thats hardball for now. Thank you for being with us. Tonight on all in. Gutless coward. Attacked on the inside. Virtually, you know, its treason. Another guilty plea on the outside. I see papadopoulos today, i dont know papadopoulos. Another camp Campaign Aide is sentenced. New evidence that mueller has his sight set on a bigger target. Then. The threat to our democracy doesnt just come from donald trump. The biggest threat to our democracy is indifference. President obamas return to the campaign trail. His call to arms. You are the antidote. I began by telling the