time. president trump today fielded questions about silt in his now controversial conversation with a gold star widow. his answers there return to a familiar theme we have heard so many times before. i was a good student. i understand things. i comprehend very well. okay? better than i think almost anybody. they say is donald trump an intellectual? trust me. i m like a smart person. i don t have to be told, you know, i m like a smart person. yo to be told the same thing and the same words every single day for the next eight years. who are you consulting with consistently so that you re ready on day one? i m spoking with myself number one because i have a very good brain. i went to an ivy league school. i m very highly educated. i know words. i have the best words. but there s no better word than
really do appreciate that, and i hope that we can work together to fix this. well, jesus contreras, i got to tell you, in the brief time i ve spoking with you, you have my admiration and i wish you the very best. please let us know what s going on with you because we want to follow your story, okay? yes, ma am. and thank you. and i just want to say one thing. i want to express my condolences to the family of sergeant perez and to all these other families that lost family members and homes and thank you for having me, and giving me the opportunity to be here. okay. we re glad to have you here, jesus. good luck, dear. for more on daca, lets bring in garrett haik who s at the white house. can i just get you guys to react to that, particularly you, victoria, how many times have you and i talked about daca. you hear someone like jesus contreras, an impressive young man. alex, i have students like jesus in my classes.
of the strategy of getting into bed with the far right. ever since the initial events in charlottesville, trump has been doubling down on that. i assume whip bannon s encouragement or if not explicit encouragement, bannon s fir fingerprints on that. what does he do now with bannon out and strategy becoming more and more reckless about spoking up the neo-nazi right? what s that going to be like without ban tln to hold his hand and walk him through it or is bannon still going to be there at the end of the phone? several people have been fired or resigned from this president either during the campaign or since he became president, and the president still maintains you re absolutely right, that back-channel communication. you suspect that the communication with steve bannon will continue even though he is out officially from the would us? well, i think it makes the white house itself more chaotic, but it also means that trump is
realtime. that is 21st century. daniel, is this even possible? i think that would be quite a challenge. yeah. thank you very much. joining us is van jones, gloria, jeffrey, and molly. the idea that americans were going to the polls while the fbi was kind of poring over social media, as phil said, it is a brave new world and raises a lot of concerns. it raises a lot of concerns. but part of the thing, if you pull back, you have an obama administration that s between a rock and a hard place. the republicans spent so much time driving down confidence in this white house, spoking suspicions about this president, that here you have a real threat to our most basic institution, and the president and the fbi, they don t know what to do. if they go forward and say the russians are messing with the election, there s a concern the republican also say he s just doing that to help hillary clinton. if they do nothing, you wind up with this outcome now nobody
the president of their country and mr. aguilar received a high level award. not an insignificant high level award. it s people who mr. putin considers important people. i m saying it s the case that he s an import pt person in the russian federation, a successful businessman, involved in lots of activities which have put him in high prominence. he doesn t have a personal relationship with putin anymore than any other powerful person has with their leadership. and months before there was a phone conversation between your client and don jr. spoking to the attorney for don jr. saying tlhey re going throuh all the phone logs to make sure there weren t any other conversations. have you done the same? and i want to circle back to where weather or not there were