and lawrence, this is why i disagree with jonathan. i think republicans have had their hands on that stove for 35 days. they ve got third-degree burns, and i do not think they re going back there. i think what president trump is trying to do and mick mulvaney, and others speaking on his behalf, trying to act tough, we didn t back down. we might do it again. i think they re preparing to take some sort of executive action in the absence of money for this wall whether it s with dod funds or in some other mechanism to re-purpose existing funds, i do in the think there s going to be any stomach in the republican party to do it again. jonathan, the presidential campaign is underway. it s only days old and we are seeing dynamics that you wouldn t expect to develop for many many months, first of all, california s junior senator announces that she s running for president. she gets what would have been a record setting crowd at any
and care a swisher. jonathan, why would president trump attack not just a wildly popular athlete lebron james but specifically on this peek when he has spent millions and millions of dollars to help underprivileged kids in the state of ohio? you might not even lebron james, but you re going to back him after something like this. yeah. i think president trump is all about distraction. so by going after one of the most popular athletes in the country, that s part of it. the other part of it is that he sort of, i guess, hate watches don lemon and he has attacked don lemon in the past. that s part of it. the other part and more pernicious part is that he can t stand the fact that there is an african american who is probably as famous if not more famous,
funny you should say that. i m writing about that this week in the next column. i don t think so. i think twitter laid out the position that he s the president, and what he says is important, and so we re going to publish it. i think there probably is a line to cross, but he hasn t crossed it yet for twitter. and it s hard to say what it would take to do that. and so the question is will some of these social media companies which have a lot of power start to throttle things back? you saw apple today pulling alex jones off of i-tunes in the podcast. it s a value step, like this is not allowed on our platform. we ll see if the companies will continue to do that. even as they have these very strong first amendment arguments on the other side. but it s a complicated issue. it s not easily reduced to just i m for free speech or against it. jonathan, last point. the lebron issue, is it over and done with. is this just the president s 480 insult and it moves on?
trump was referring to a cnn interview in which james criticized the president as being divisive. what i noticed over the last few months, that he s kind of used sport to kind of divide us, and that s something that can t relate to. i know that sport was the first time i ever was around someone white. you know? and i got an opportunity to see them and learn about them. what would you see to the president if he was is thing right here? i would never sit across if him. be t interview was part of james effort to promote his new school he opened for at risk students. he did not respond to the attack. but the first lady did. her spokesperson saying, kwoek, it looks lebron james is working to do good things on behalf of our next generation. adding she would be open to visiting the i promise school in akron. i need to go through this. joining me jonathan capeheart,
was about russian adoptions. instead this morning he wrote, quote, this was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal, done all the time in politics and it went nowhere. i did not know about it. what does this latest tweet mean for the investigation? joining me now jennifer reuben of the washington post, msnbc contributor jonathan capeheart and danny savalos, matthew miller and dana millbank of the washington post and joining by phone ellie mistow of above the law.com. give us your sense from a legal point of view what has donald trump done to his defense or donald trump jr. s potential legal jeopardy? joy, we are very close to donald trump saying in open court, you re gd right i ordered the code red! this is beyond ridiculous. what we have right now is donald trump admitting, admitting for the first time that his son colluded or conspired, which is the legal term, with a foreign