Joy behar and the gals from the view are hitting the Vice President for his faith. Well discuss it all with Monica Crowley. If whats the message behind the obamas bizarre official portrait . Illegal immigration and the job that we wont or cant do. Thats the focus of tonights angle. A big immigration debate is underway on capitol hill. Mitch mcconnell is saying you only have one week to do the whole thing. Im telling you, watching this thing, the same old open borders and suspects are it again. Front and center is senator dick durbin. He took to the senate floor yesterday to repeated that tedious trope that you americans are just too lazy or unwilling to do the jobs that only Illegal Immigrants will do. Go to the local Meat Processing plant or the chicken Processing Plant and watch what comes out of that plant at quitting time. Hispanics and africans taking what are pretty tough, dirty, rough jobs because others dont want them. Not many of us say to our sons and daughters, im hoping the
He says dont be silly but adds, you started it. And who cares democracy is broken . It took dealt la just six days. By removing a tax break from the airline. Still no word out of washington on when well see legislation to make schools safer. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to lethe lead. Chaos has been part of how donald trump has run his businesses, how he ran the country. Is there something boris this weeks maelstrom . An ally of the president s tells gloria borg per this past week has been different and quote, something is very wrong. That advisers are scared. The president is spiraling, lashing out, out of control. The chaos is not just about staffing or the president s intemperate tweets. It has had a real policy effect, with the tariffs on steel, sending shock waves on his staffers and administration who have caught completely unawares, but around the world. The president tweeted, trade wars are good and easy to win. This on top of the extremely mixed messages from the presiden
Scandal. Foxs Trump Defense should come as no surprise the network reflects the attitude of trump himself, a long history of accusing men. Including roy moore and bill oreilly and roger ales, peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation, adding is there no such thing anymore as due process. Trump did not share who the people are but the tweet came as two west wing aids former staff secretary rob porter and former speechwriter David Sorenson resigned. Both men continue to deny the allegations. Joining me now to discuss how all of this is playing with republican women, general kenz. Jennifer ruben of the Washington Post and former nevada state gop chair. Amy, youre a first timer, ill go to you first. Ill play what Kellyanne Conway had to say to jake tapper on cnn about Donald Trumps tweet yesterday. Take a listen. The president s tweet was more generic. About the me too movement. He never said the me too movement or rob porters name. Hes saying some are old, some
The Washington Post reports Robert Mueller is looking into the president s efforts to force sessions out last summer. And theres more. Jared kushner has heat on him. The president s soninlaw is now facing a damning report in the New York Times that says he secured hundreds of millions of dollars in loans for his Family Business after taking meetings with financial executives at the white house. The key here is the timing. Now, moments ago we spoke about all of this, all this west wing chaos, whether its real, with former White House Communications director Anthony Scaramucci. Listen to what he says about morale at the white house. Listen, this is a man with zero interest in saying something thats hollow in its negativity of the president. He says morale is a real problem. Its a big departure in the sense that this is one of the president s closest friends, aides, loyalists, somebody that understands the heartbeat of the president , understands his personality and also is shes incredibl
Republicans at it again. Trump had personal involvement in email scandal. So 25page report out by the republican ron johnson and in it he sites a text message between two fbi officials yes talking about peter strzok and lisa page. According to johnsons report page texted strzok about preparing talking points because, this is the operative line, pod us, President Trump wants to know everything we are doing. Okay. That one phrase was enough for senator johnson to make the connection between President Trump and the clinton email investigation. And the current president of the United States did not wait for the facts, the context or the details before tweeting about johnsons report to 47. 5 million followers in all caps, new fbi texts are bomb shells. And then Sarah Sanders came out calling for a review. I think it further shows there is reason for all of us to have great cause for concern in this pros stes and we hope its more thoroughly and fully looked at as we move forward. Okay. There