and crucially he knows he is not supposed to do what he's doing, not supposed to get involved, admitting at much in a radio interview yesterday. >> you know, the saddest thing is that because i'm the president of the united states, i am not supposed to be involved with the justice department. i'm not supposed to be involved with the fbi. i'm not supposed to be doing the kind of things that i would love to be doing. and i am very frustrated by it. i look at what's happening with the justice department. why aren't they going after hillary clinton with her e-mails and with her -- the dossier. >> if we haven't yet heard widespread calls for impeachment, it's because this president's disregard for the rule of law for democratic norms, his authoritarian impulses are largely baked in in the country's perception, even among political insiders. it was just a couple of days ago, for example, that he called the american criminal justice system a joke and a laughing stock. on top of that, all indications are that the president is already under investigation for obstruction of justice for his firing of former fbi director enforcement opens an investigation or prosecutes someone, it's based on the evidence and not on political ideology. and that's what make the president's comments so dangerous. he believes it's okay to use the incredible coerce i've power of the federal government to go after political enemies. it's wrong and it's also, by the way, obstruction of justice. >> the argument on the other side are these are the whalings of a fundamentally impotent individual. that were he actually directly ordering the department of justice to do this, that would be one thing, but he's just kind of whining about it on twitter the way that anyone watching fox news might. and, therefore, it's less of a threat and doesn't cross the line. what do you make of that argument? >> i suppose if this was donald trump, the real estate developer, doing things on twitter, it would be different. but he's the president of the united states. and if he in fact is under investigation, we don't know if he is, but if he is, then he has now either endeavored to influence or directly tried to influence the investigation because of all these comments he's making, trying to distract or threaten or make attorney general sessions do something different or the department of justice do something different. this is obstruction of justice right out plain for everyone to see. >> you know, there are two other recent instances of him injecting himself into judicial proceedings. one is the tweet that he had about the alleged murderer who pledged to isis here in new york city should get the death penalty. lots of worry that that could corrupt that case, make it more difficult for the prosecutors. and just today bowe bergdahl, of course, who deserted his post was handed down a sentence in which he will get no time and part of the citation, part of the issue in the trial was that the president had exerted undue command influence by opining on the case. >> chris, that's an excellent case. i was a former prosecutor in the prison. we can't have that happen because democracy depends on knowing that the rule of law is going to be administered fairly. >> all right, congressman ted lieu, great to have you. >> thank you, chris. joining me now, barbara mcquade, former federal prosecutor. as someone who worked for the department of justice and is familiar with the norms and regulations about the independence of that, what is your reaction to watching the president explicitly call for the department of justice to open up investigations of his political opponents. >> if it were anyone else it would be shocking but it's disappointing to hear these words coming from the president of the united states. i believe that the career prosecutors at the justice department are professional enough to tune out the noise and continue to focus and do their important work. but i think it is undermines public confidence in the legitimacy of the justice department and the independence of the justice department when you have the president making these kinds of statements. >> and we should also be clear, he has fired comey. he is essentially dangling jeff sessions' job over him. i mean the defense, which you're saying, and what the congressman said, both of which i take to heart, which is it's not having an effect, right, on the other end, he's not pushing and they're doing his bidding. but there's no guarantee that holds up, is there? >> no, and i don't know that it matters. i still trust the integrity of the career prosecutors to do the right thing regardless of whatever it is the president is saying. but i do think that this becomes additional evidence in any obstruction of justice investigation that robert mueller is conducting. any one of these statements alone may not constitute obstruction of justice, but it's going to be the pattern of activity that robert mueller looks at when he makes an ultimate decision about whether obstruction occurred. >> i want to read bob corker's statement. if i'm not mistaken, he was the lone republican, i think, out with a statement on this today, certainly the lone republican senator. like me, most americans hope that our justice system is independent and free of political interference. president trump's pressuring of the justice department and fbi to pursue cases against his adversaries an calling for punishment before trials take place are totally inappropriate and not only undermine our justice system but erode the american people's confidence in our institutions. >> i would hope everyone who respects the rule of law would speak out about this kind of sglamt unanimously. >> early on you could say president trump didn't get it, he's used to being a real estate executive who says what's on his mind, but again and again he has heard this is not appropriate for a sitting president. and it is also compromising real cases. we've already seen that it influenced the judge's decision in the bowe bergdahl case. i worry that it could have an adverse impact on the new terror case that was just filed in new york. >> there's a question here also about the obstruction investigation, and i want to go back to something you just said a moment ago, about this could be evidence in that. there's really a question about how broadly evidence for obstruction could be construed. only the president can obstruct justice in a particular way that the president can do it, in a way that civilians or other folks can't. but you think these kind of actions and statements could be part of that case were it to be made by the special counsel? >> i do. i don't know that any one of these standing alone would be sufficient to bring a case of obstruction of justice but it's enough to attempt to influence the outcome of an investigation. if that's what he's doing, i think that could be part of the p totality of circumstances robert mueller looks at, along with firing jim comey. is that enough for obstruction of justice? every time he speaks an tweets, he makes the case stronger. >> barbara mcquade, thank you. tom steyer is putting some of his billions into an ad campaign calling for the president to be impeached. he now has almost a million and a half signatures. tom, i guess i knew your position before what the president has done over the last 24, 36 hours. what is your response to the calls to go after hillary clinton in the context of your calls for impeachment? >> well, chris, i think this is an example of the disrespect for the rule of law that has characterized both the campaign and this presidency, and it is an example of the lawlessness that we have seen and which is the reason that we feel that it is appropriate now to call for the impeachment of this president. we think this is not -- i was listening to the previous segment, and i think that to be surprised or shocked or disappointed by this behavior means that you haven't been paying attention for the last year and a half. the fact of the matter is this behavior is absolutely unacceptable, but it is absolutely consistent with what we've seen from this president. as president and as a campaigner. >> it's funny you said that because i've been trying to think about transporting myself out of the current day and think about another president doing this. of course it's almost inconceivable. if another president in my lifetime had done this, it would be an earth-shaking political cataclysm that would precipitate a crisis that would fall like dominos and it would be the only thing anyone talked about. and here it's kind of like, well, he's tweeting again. how do you overcome that in the public perception? >> well, chris, what we've done is we've asked -- we've tried to provide a venue for the american people to directly raise their voice. that's why we've called for impeachment, that's why we've given people a chance to sign up on our website, to add their name and their voice. and in fact we're over a million and a half, we're at a million six now, which is way more than we expected, so we know the american people agree with us that this pattern of lawlessness has got to stop. >> you know, you were running these ads on fox news. i think that's probably where the president saw him tweeting wacky and totally unhinged tom steyer who has been fighting me and my make america great again agenda from beginning, never wins elections. have you ever run for election? >> not since school, chris. but fox news subsequent to that refused to fulfill their contract with us, which was to continue to run our ad. >> they cancelled the contract midway through after the tweet. >> yes. so we don't know why, we don't know whether it was a request from the white house, but what we do know is that they are k n censuring the voice of a million and a half americans that they are scared to air. >> so they're no longer running it on their air? >> correct. in violation of the contract that we have with them. >> i want to ask you about you're beginning to see signs of the legislative branch to go after robert mueller. politico has this headline about conservatives introduce a measure demanding mueller's resignation. while ted lieu is saying this is obstruction of justice in plain sight. while the president is pressuring both the courts and the justice department, you have republican members of the house trying to go after mueller. what do you make of that? >> well, i think that what's going on here is not -- is politics. and let me say this, it's not me calling for the impeachment of this president, it's over a million and a half american citizens calling for the impeachment of this president. what the republicans are obviously doing with mueller is to prepare the way for more obstruction of justice because they know that this administration cannot withstand an airing of their behavior. but let me say, that behavior has been taking place in plain sight and americans can see it. what we're doing is lowering the standards of behavior and saying what was previously as you said completely unacceptable and lawless is now something that is excused as mildly vulgar and impolite. it's not vulgar and impolite, it's lawless. >> all right, tom steyer, thanks for your time tonight. >> thank you. more on the calls for special counsel robert mueller to step down. paul manafort's trial date is set and what the president said he remembers of the meeting that he attended with george papadopoulos in two minutes. low-level advisor, he kept turning up. in a september 2016 interview on the subject of russian relations, papadopoulos said trump if elected president will restore the trust. the american jewish committee used trump foreign policy advisor george papadopoulos as a panelist in its republican national convention program, sitting alongside, get this, senator bob corker, delivering remarks. there's papadopoulos on the far left with republican congressman from the house foreign affairs committee, who were also on the panel. >> apart from personal experience, especially on iran, before i started working for the trump campaign i was based in london for the last seven or eight months. during my time in london i had an opportunity to meet with european energy companies and other commercial enterprises there in france, it isitaly and uk. >> you can almost see the thought bubbles of who is this dude. a british publication wrote george papadopoulos, one of the business tycoon's foreign advisers shall said he had very productive talks with representatives of the foreign office in britain. two days after the inauguration of donald trump, the jerusalem post described a meeting between papadopoulos and regional leaders that occurred in washington, clearly referring to papadopoulos as a trump advisor. this is after inauguration. meanwhile today, in the case of trump's former campaign chair, paul manafort, u.s. district judge amy berman jackson proposed a may 7th trial date. the counts include conspiracy against the united states. michael isikoff from yahoo! news, natasha bertran join me now. it seems plausible papadopoulos was not high raning bking but w the american jewish committee is contacted and why do you have that guy there, because the trump campaign sent him, seems to mean something. >> i asked a former trump campaign official about this. he's just a low-level volunteer talking point. and he said, well, reporters should really feel free to push back on that narrative because pretty much everyone on the campaign was a volunteer because trump didn't want to pay anyone. so this whole idea that he was a volunteer, hey, manafort was a volunteer too so he could have had very, very large responsibilities and a prominent role in the campaign and not been paid for it. >> michael, what do you make of his role and what we're learning about him? >> well, look, he clearly got around. and i was a little surprised at how long he stayed -- >> me too. >> -- on the campaign. we know that in march, you know, trump mentions his name to "the washington post" because he was under pressure to get -- to come up with foreign policy advisers because he didn't have a foreign policy team so he hastily -- they hastily put together these names. papadopoulos is one, carter page is another. not especially distinguished foreign policy-wise men or women. but the key here that's significant is let's go back to that march meeting where he proposes this to set up something between trump and putin and he says this in trump's presence. papadopoulos has cut a deal with mueller. he no doubt has been questioned very closely on how the president responded to that proposal. we've had accounts that sessions shot it down. others were skeptical. what did president trump say when papadopoulos in his presence says, i've been meeting with russians who can set up a meeting between you and president putin. and i think that is really the biggest question that hangs over the papadopoulos case right now. we know -- we know mueller's people have been questioning the people in that room. sam clovis, who was papadopoulos' campaign supervisor, was before the grand jury a week ago and had to resign -- pull back from his nomination to be at usda this week as a result of these disclosures. but mueller has some answers about what trump's response is, and i think that's very critical. >> i would just say i think that the march 31st meeting is extremely important, but i think the key to all of this is looking at it from what happened after papadopoulos was informed by this russia-linked professor that the russians had these thousands and thousands of e-mails that they said came from hillary clinton's campaign. when he essentially learned that the russians had dirt and they wanted to give it to the trump campaign. after that you saw a consistent effort by papadopoulos to reach out to high-level members of the trump campaign, apparently not j.d. gordon and jeff sessions because they shot him down but to paul manafort, corey lewandowski, to pitch this trump/russia meeting. why did he want the president or the president's close advisers to meet with putin's people so badly? it's because perhaps he knew that there was something that they wanted to get. >> i want to play an interview the president gave i think just yesterday. and to look at his denial now of collusion with russia, which struck me as slightly different than what he said before. take a listen to this. >> do you think you would ever consider trying to have mueller removed or have you pledged to just stay out of that? >> well, i hope he's treating everything fairly, if he is, i'm going to be very happy because when you talk about innocent, i am truly not involved in any form of collusion with russia, believe me. that's the last thing i can think of to be involved in. >> michael, i am truly not involved in any form of collusion with russia. it's a little different than of course my campaign did not collude with russia. i am truly not involved. i think that distinction matters because i think of iran contra and the way that defense ended up moving which was from the facts being established about the conspiracy an whether the president knew about it, you can imagine a similar kind of development along those lines here. >> yeah, look, mueller's case this week against papadopoulos on its face is about one member of his campaign who was colluding with the russians, who was in contact with them, who was trying to set up meetings with them. so i think the president may have been counselled just to bow to reality here and put it on himself rather than his campaign. but, you know, look, at the end of the day, we don't know. we just have to deal with the evidence that we've got. >> no, agreed. >> in front of us. and right now i come back to that meeting. yes, he proposed this to the then candidate donald trump himself. and while others shot it down, he continued, so what did donald trump say to him after that proposal? >> that's the big question. what did donald trump say there and was he ever informed about the trump tower meeting. like the real questions, the outstanding ones which mueller will have access to because he'll talk to people involved, did the president ever know about this and what did he do? did he say yeah, let's go, let's do it. >> there's still skepticism surrounding where he was during that trump tower meeting. people really don't know, they haven't pinned that down, and during that march 31st meeting, the foreign policy rendezvous, he apparently was intrigued by papadopoulos' offer to set up this meeting. so he really didn't shoot it down. it seemed like his interest had been piqued and from there that will be mueller's probe. >> the last thing i'll say here is this was a very flat campaign organization. there was not a lot of layers between a guy like george papadopoulos and the candidate and that may come back to bite him in the ending. michael, natasha, thank you. coming up, what other revelations are yet to come and what else has the trump administration forgotten? a former trump campaign advisor joins me ahead. ask a question. russia is a ruse. i have nothing to do with russia. >> since that february declaration by the president, we have since learned significantly more about his campaign's entangle meants with russia. we learned that his son, donald trump jr. set up a june 2016 meeting with a kremlin-connected lawyer promising dirt on hillary clinton, among who's attendees included jared kushner and paul manafort. and we learned that former campaign advisor george papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents about contacts with russians and donald trump's former campaign chair, paul manafort, had a widespread web of alleged financial entanglements with russia-aligned interests and is now facing money laundering, conspiracy against the united states and more. but there's still a lot we don't know. and one man who might be able to shed more light, former donald trump campaign advisor michael caputo. he joins me next. does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment? 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( ♪ ) said, i thought humorously, you said he was a coffee boy earlier today. and since again they have got more reporting suggesting that he did stick around after that march meeting. i want to play you a little tape of him at this event at the rnc with bob corker and ted yoho and tom marino. take a listen. we don't have that. so my question to you is if he is in fact hanging around longer than -- he's not exactly a coffee boy, right? >> well, no, he might have gotten some tea as well. you know, honestly and frankly, this guy seems like he was like gum on the bottom of the shoe with this campaign because his name keeps popping up and his face keeps popping up in these unusual places. kind of like the zelig of 2016 this guy. you know, he never should have been on that foreign policy advisory board. he had no credentials to do it. and if he was so important, why didn't he get an appointment to the transition team? why isn't he serving in the state department right now? we're assigning way too much importance to this guy. >> but there's lots of people that played important roles in the campaign who didn't end up in the administration. paul manafort is a great example, corey lewandowski, who you famously feuded with. there are people playing key roles in the campaign who don't end up in the administration. that can't be the thing that determines whether they played important roles in the campaign or not. >> but you can't have it both ways. we're also hearing a lot of complaints that donald trump is not getting the best and brightest, especially into his state department and national security apparatus. if you had a pulse and some foreign policy acumen, i think you'd be in the administration's appointment -- among the administration's appointments right now. the fact of the matter is this guy was at ben carson's campaign for like five or six weeks. the way he got into that campaign was very similar, with an inflated resume and a linkedin message. >> right. but here's the thing. i am willing to believe charitably this guy was low on the totem poll, but he was e-mailing sam clovis, who was up for an administration position until it was yanked in response to what happened. he said i've got a person who's a russian agent who can give me dirt on hillary clinton through vladimir putin's niece and sam clovis, who i think you would agree ranks higher is like awesome, let's do it. that suggests the campaign was into this idea. >> sam clovis actually brought papadopoulos and carter page into that advisory board to begin with, and so i would imagine that they would have been e-mailing back and forth. you know, clovis has said that he was trying to just be nice in his response. i know that he's since left his role -- pulled himself out of consideration for an agriculture job. actually i think that the fact that he was brought in at all by clovis or anyone was a mistake. and certainly responding in any way to this kid suggesting meetings with russians -- >> 29 years old. >> it's just wrong, right. >> so i guess here's the thing, right. so in is lags, carter page was a weird guy, he went to moscow and we didn't approve it. george papadopoulos was low level and sam clovis was just flattering him and paul manafort was only on the campaign a little bit even if he was aligned with kremlin-backed interests and the meeting at trump tower when they were promised dirt from a russian lawyer on behalf of the government was a one-time fluke event and the meetings with kislyak were fluke events and the misremembering of them and flynn talking to the russians and also lying about that, all of that stuff was a set of individual flukey circumstances. you understand when those are together, it does start to look a little bad? >> it certainly does, especially when you're wearing a tin foil hat, i get that. this whole thing about the trump/russia collusion, you know, began during the campaign when they first -- >> but what is factually inaccurate? is it not the case that there was an e-mail to don jr. saying the russian government is backing your father and we would like to provide you with dirt on hillary clinton and he said i would love that. >> i understand, that was a mistake. listen, actually i understand, chris, that the string of those statements -- >> you said a tin foil hat. is that a representation of a factual thing -- >> no, i'm not saying that you had a tin foil hat. i'm saying there's a large group of people out there who are wearing tin foil hats who think donald trump himself actually speaks russian after the sun goes down. and i think those -- >> let's say the facts that are entered in evidence as of now which do not prove that donald trump had some secret handshake deal with vladimir putin to hack into hillary clinton's servers, but when put together, do you understand why people view that as somewhat incriminating? >> i definitely do, chris. i said especially if you're inclined to think that way. but also what we have here is also evidence if we all step back and take a look at it that clearly the russians were trying to get into this campaign. >> 100%, yes. >> i said that as far back as july of 2016. russia was targeting both campaigns. it's something we needed to deal with in 2016 and we need to deal with it now. >> i'm glad you said that because the desire to infiltrate seems clear. the question is was that possible. the final thing i'll say here the argument that there was a bunch of amateurs running around and it wasn't that well run an operation doesn't mitigate against the idea that they would be successful in penetrating it, right? >> right, it doesn't. >> the russians want to get in and there's all these weirdos hanging around, who knows if they were successful. micha michael, i appreciate your time. >> thank you very much. joy reid on how the president is faring after his first week in the indictment era. and new york's not new season, hotam. that's thing 1, thing 2, next. nick was born to move. you give us comfort. and we give you bare feet, backsweat, and gordo's... everything. i love you, but sometimes you stink. soft surfaces trap odors. febreze fabric refresher cleans them away for good. because the things you love the most can stink. and plug in febreze to keep your whole room fresh for up to 45 days. breathe happy with febreze. thing 1 tonight, it is no secret the trump administration has installed the usher echelons of involvement people who deny the role humans play in climate change. >> i think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact. >> nobody really knows. i've -- look, i'm somebody that gets it. and nobody really knows. >> do you yourself believe in climate change? 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you had indictment of a former campaign manager. what is your sense what the polling says and public opinion how much that's gotten out? >> there are a lot of different pieces to this obviously. there's the first piece, which is level of awareness and how important it is relative to other things that people are focusing on. there is for sure a level of awareness of what's going on here. but it's not going to be the same moment by moment drama that folks who follow this for a living are going to capture. and that we should all expect that and know that and acknowledge that. that said, if we want to look at the data and find where there is some bipartisan agreement, it is not looking on the outcome, not thinking about whether or not russia interference affected the outcome, because that's where people get very partisan, but looking at the investigation. should we have an investigation? is it important to have an investigation? is mueller doing a good job? on those metrics, there's, according to the abc poll that came out a couple days ago, there's actually a little bit more partisan agreement in some of those other questions. then the other thing i would just note is this current day, we have republicans and we have trump voters. so among republicans overall, there are quite a few republicans, about a third of republicans feel that mueller is doing a good job. there are republicans that feel the investigation should continue. there are quite a few republicans who feel that it's quite likely that paul manafort and george papadopoulos did something wrong. and that's among republicans. now, hard core trump voters may feel a little differently, and it depends on what kind of question you're asking. >> the polling would seem to indicate that more americans think the president committed a crime than approve of the job he's doing in office, which is a remarkable place to find ourselves in. >> a not insignificant percentage think he should be impeached. the outcome actually matters. what a lot of democrat's temptation is, they want to say okay, let's just talk about how bad it is that russia interfered period, have an independent investigation and just talk about the broad issue of interference. but here's the problem, what if it did impact the outcome? that means the legitimacy of the president of the united states is questionable. every decision he makes, every judge he appoints could be illegitimate. and that's the question americans should be afraid of. psychologically it's very difficult to be told that perhaps your vote was influenced by outsiders. >> you're stressing me out talking about it. >> that's part of the immaturity of the political system in the united states. >> if you talk about legitimacy, there's that idea that you get the partisanship. but you're starting to pull on a string, people are so distrustful any way. legitimacy is tenuous at this moment, that you feel like you're going to pull apart something more profound in terms of any faith in the political system at large. >> right, right. this is really about hey, this is serious. we don't -- let's see what happens. imagine if you have a trump administration really saying, we are as worried about this as everyone else. that would really change the tone. one of the things we're seeing with this is the role of leadership. how powerful when trump says this is something to worry about or not, there's a group of