Up here. Okay. Not as your president. Good morning, welcome to am joy. Trump is now questioning Hillary Clintons mental state after his recent comments had some critics questioning trumps sanity. And one of the reasons that he is stepping up his attacks, his continuing slide in the polls. A new abc Washington Post poll Shows Hillary clinton wit an eight point advantage. And joining me perry bacon jr. And deann doan and kate dawson. And lets jump into the polls. And a. J. , the fourway race between Hillary Clinton and trump and now out to the solid 45 to the 37 and johnson at 8 and jill stein at 4 . And Hillary Clintons sort of floor and Donald Trumps ceiling are separated by a bit. She is not falling much below about 45 or 46 . During the convention i spoke to a pollster David Winston who made the point that the way to look at polls is at ranges and it is always been true for a long time that Hillary Clintons cerealing is higher than trumps and her floor tends to be higher thap tru tha
Give me a break. Give me a break. Lets bring in nbcs katy tur and cnbc contributor ron insana. Katy, youve seen many of these rallies before. This news about these tax returns breaking at the same time hes on stage. Well, he knew about it before hand because the campaign was asked for a comment from the New York Times. Its also interesting the timing, he had an interview with the times and started talk about how hes going to delve into bill clintons affairs and Hillary Clintons personal life. The campaign before that saying they werent going to get involved in it. So you have to question what donald trump was trying to accomplish with that. Was he trying to distract from this bombshell that the New York Times was are releasing his tax returns or his 95 return, three pages of it showing it would be legal for him to not pay any income tax for 18 years. Its legal so hes not doing anything wrong. But the man is running on his business record. Hes running on this idea that we need to fix ou
Hey, there. It is 1 00 in the east, 10 00 in the west. Im alex witt at msnbc World Headquarters in new york. Heres whats happening. We begin with an exclusive report from the New York Times on Donald Trumps taxes. Records obtained by the times show trump declared a 916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a Tax Deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years. But we cant know if he actually did avoid paying. Trump tweeting out this morning, i know our complex tax laws better than anyone whos ever run for president and am the only one who can fix them. Faili failing nytimes. Hes the first say this. Our tax code is an albatross upon america. It is far too complicated. It shows what an absolute mess the federal tax code is and thats why donald trump is in the best position to fix it. He did pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes, state taxes we dont know this until excise taxes. How do we know without him
Day for Goldman Sachs in this case its our lives. Thank you. President obama is still president and 272 people are the recipients of pardons are grateful for that. And if donald trump was paying attention to Vladimir Putins press Conference Today he should have learned a very important lesson going forward. If Vladimir Putin volunteers to defend you, just say no. Those people are worst than prostitutes. Its extraordinary how many times the kremlin is prepared to come to the defense of donald trump. False statements being spread to compromise the newly elected president of the usa. If putin likes donald trump, guess what, folks, thats call an asset, not a liability. This is more than being about him. Its about the United States and National Security. 40 of americans approve of the way trump is handling his president ial transition. This is a transition and a very important transition, and especially because things will be done beautifully. He seems to want to engage every windmill he ca
Get elected. And they helped destroyed the candidacy of Hillary Clinton. I dont plan to attend the inauguration. It will be the first one that i miss since ive been in congress. You cannot be at home with something that you feel is wrong. The president elect fired back against lewis comments about his legitimacy on twitter today. And the Democratic Party of georgia also weighing in. Kelly odonnell is outside trump tower for us. Get us up to date about the back and forth here. Reporter well, this has been a very volatile back and forth because john lewis is revered in the Democratic Party, hes got a persona that goes beyond politics because of his contributions to civil rights. Hes also a sitting member of congress for 30 years. And to say that a president who is going to be sworn in next week is not legitimate is a very serious charge. And you heard in his comments his basis for that, looking to the russian hacking as being an influence that interfered with the election. Donald trump,