is getting calls is because of a sense that the democratic field is weak that, there s not a lot of obvious candidates who have star power and charisma and a real opportunity in 2020. i m sure there s a lot of politicians that would disagree with that statement. in oprah s word, there are a lot of people who are concerned. about the weakness of the democratic field. that s why they re urging her to run. what she would bring is the ability to put on a show just like donald trump. she did it for decades in check, the oprah winfrey show. that s why so many white women love her and black women and many men as well. she appeals to a wide array of people in the country. she s not commenting. i checked in with her company again tonight. they re just letting this trial balloon float up into the air today. van, in terms of actual pentagons she takes on complex issues, a lot of that has not been fleshed out by her publicly. so that would be one step, that also might alienate some people. it
in oprah s world, there are a lot of people who are concerned about the weakness of the democratic field. that s why they re urging her to run. what she would bring is the ability to put on a show just like donald trump. she did it for decades in swhik the oprah winfrey show. that s why so many white women love her and black women and many men as well. she appeals to a wide array of people in the country. she s not commenting. i want to say, she is be saying anything about this today. i checked in tonight. their just letting this trial balloon float up into the air today. in terms of actual positions that she takes on complex issues, a lot of that has not been fleshed out by her publicly. so that would be one step, that also might alienate some people. it is easy to say you love oprah. but then if she starts to take positions it is could not sea abevable. she could hold together a front
information on democratic donors to the trump campaign. could this mean mueller s probe is getting closer to the white house? and potentially the president? let s bring in our panel and msnbc danny. let s start with your reporting here, ken, and i was reading it before we came on air today. your head line reading trump dossier firm also supplied information in meeting russians trump team. yes, richard that stems from many nt views from lawyers in the trump meeting with veselnitskaya. and i think there has been some miss reporting and misunderstanding about what exactly she s been saying for sometime now where she got her information. and we wanted to make it clear, and we called her again this week, and she s telling us, and it s confirmed by a source familiar with the area, that she got the talking points from fusion gps this firm by former
officials are using on our air today, but everybody an expert who d looked at this said is going on. a low-level campaign functionary all of a sudden is being sort of seduced by these russian officials, and at one point in april 2016, this person described as a professor with close ties to the kremlin tells him that the russians have dirt on hillary clinton, and they have thousands of e-mails. that, ali, you know, was well before anyone in the public understood that the russians had hacked the dnc and the democrats, ken, to pete s earlier point. none of this information, the back and forth with the russians, the setting up of meetings potentially with putin. none of that would have been illegal. the thing papadopolos is in trouble is for lying to the fbi? exactly right, ali, and he s pleaded guilty and cooperating. another reason for concern among the trump campaign and another reason this is so significant. what experts say is, if russians did this once they did it again. didn t sto
increasingly concerned about the trump presidency. but, you know, we don t up until now we have no profiles in courage among the republicans. somebody really speaking out saying trump is bad for the country and bad for the party. but as long as he s able to hold that 35%, 38% poll rating, you may not see that. once it gets down below 30%, you see some republicans going the other way. there is this thought, someone said on cnn air today, and i agree with it, if donald trump were a democrat, republicans would be screaming for his impeachment already. yeah. now it says something about the democrats and i think not all that good about the democrats. they re sort of holding back. they re still a little wary of actually coming out and saying, listen, he s committed impeachment quality offenses. one can respect that to a degree because even though he s president, trump is entitled to presumption of innocence on so