booker. so senator leahy started it off and i just happened to finish it. what has been the reaction of your colleagues to your very, very strong statement? well, overwhelming majority of them agreed with the analogy i used. 100% of them agree with the sentiment, and that is that it was wrong, it was a departure, and we shouldn t allow it. the one thing that i will not do is allow a personal attack or disrespect on any of the members of the congressional black caucus but certainly not john lewis. congressman, you also have the speaker of the house, paul ryan, attempting to impose sanctions to prevent members which included john lewis the last time from making demonstrations and protests on the floor. do you feel whether it s on the senate side in these hearings or on the house side there is an attempt to essentially silence the opposition to donald trump? well, people would like to
russi russia. shawn spicer trying to knock down this document tried to say that donald trump doesn t even know carter page. let s listen to sean spicer. one issue that the report talked about was the relationship of the three individuals associated with the campaign. these three individuals, paul manafort, michael cohen, and carter page. cart page is an individua who the president-elect does not kn and was put on notice months ago by the campaign. a person that the president-elect does not know and was put on notice months ago by the campaign. now here s donald trump talking about one carter page with the washington post editorial board on march 21st, 2016. it s all fake news. it s phony stuff. it didn t happen. and it was gotten by opponents of ours, as you know because you reported it and so did many of the other people. it was a group of opponents who got together, sick people, and they put that crap together.
pointees to ke sacrifices. ali, i have to give you the last word in this segment. jonathan, you had a point to make? no. i think he s absolutely right. i want to hear what ali has to say. ali, the bottom line is that donald trump is showing us in a lot of ways the difference between laws and conventions. a lot of things that i think a lot of americans thought were laws were really conventions and he s flouting them all. how far can he go before he runs into a republican who will do something about it? the polls that you have showing are opposite of what republicans who voted for him and put him over the top who really are very concentrated on wages and economic growth if that results in higher wages. so to some degree he is still playing to the audience that says no one s been able to fix those fundamental problems, very much the same message bernie sanders was giving. if he can fix those messages then i don t really care about washington conventions i think
will have the cahonis to put flynn in his place. i think my answer will be true for many weeks to come, vladimir putin. he is now a week away from seeing his pick in the white house he has sowed miss trust and discord here. you have republicans bending over backwards to try not to investigate a lot of the stuff and you still have donald trump doing pirouettes trying to explain the relationship which he could not. vladimir must be very, very happy. the right that he manages to knock off germany and france. how much trouble are we in? it s new cold war i think he is an ill liberal force in the country attacking democracies from prex it here, france and germany and that s bad for all political sides. he is not a friend. jonathan capehart? the dynamic duo, president obama and vice president joe
speaker boehner informing him of that is what started the wheels moving even faster to unwinding and making sure that marriage equality do you know what the defense of marriage is? having wonderful people like you and nick be able to participate in it and fully enjoy it. congratulations. thank you, joy. so you won the week. thank you to jennifer and david who had the hot interview, he kind of won the week, too. a whole bunch of people won the week. you won the week for watching. join us tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. eastern for more a.m. joy. martin luther king iii on today s march on washington, and donald trump s twitter attack on john lewis. e ready when growth presents itself? american express open cards can help you take on a new job, or fill a big order or expand your office and take on whatever comes next.