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Cooperate with one another to share information so they can anticipate the prosecutors case and piece together a common strategy to fight back. Lawyers for trump and flynn, who along with his son is under investigation for foreign business dealings and his contacts with russian officials had been doing that up until this week. One reason according to the times for the change could than it is unethical for lawyers to Work Together when one client is cooperating with prosecutors and another is still under investigation. Which makes this news a possible sign of trumps worst nightmare, Michael Flynn cooperating with muellers investigation, potentially handing over incriminating evidence against his former boss and the Trump Campaign. Joining me is malcolm nance, paul butler also joins us. Paul on this question of cooperation, normal izen sent this tweet out thursday. I negotiated a cooperation deal for a target with muellers office when he was u. S. Attorney. Let me tell you, he wont give one to flynn unless he implicates someone up the ladder, kushner, don jr. Or big daddy. Your thoughts . Joint defense agreements with agreements when people are subjects of investigation and they want to share information because they think, hey, were all in this together. Except when theyre not. So, now flynn has been persuaded by either his attorneys or by spell counsel mueller that he had different interests from President Trump. So it could mean hes cooperating with the special council, which means hes singing like the canary to avoid what could be decades of prison time. Or it could mean he will fight this. And in his defense he will implicate donald trump. Paul, the New York Times put a caveat in their story saying that that some lawyers withdraw from information sharing arrangements as soon as they begin negotiating with prosecutors and such negotiations sometimes fall apart. Do you see signs where flynn may is not trying to all the way cooperate or maybe his son trying to save Michael Flynn jr. What he would have to offer prosecutors . Information that would incriminate donald trump or Paul Manafort . Michael flynn was the National Security adviser. Thats a highlevel position. Hes now got lots of exposure for false statements, for not disclosing that he was an agent of Foreign Governments at the time he was working for the Trump Campaign, and then in the white house. He has a lot of incentive to try to bring the goods against somebody who is higher up on the chain, which means somebody in the oval office. So, its perfectly right theres not a done deal now. He has a lot of pressure to really deliver somebody high up. Again, that means President Trump, somebody in the oval office, or somebody in President Trumps family. Again, obviously mueller is a guy with integrity. He only wants the goods if theyre true. The concern is sometimes people who cooperate, when they have a lot of incentive, sometimes they say stuff thats not true to help themselves. Lets go to malcolm on this. We all know the cast of characters who are involved in the allege russia collusion with the Trump Campaign. Michael flynn. If you go back to travel back to when jim comey testified in front of a Congressional Committee and released the memo which showed that, in his view, trump was asking him to end the flynn investigation, go easy on Michael Flynn. We have the stories of trump reaching out to Michael Flynn saying stay strong. Malcolm haviv malcolm, having lived this situation for a year s Michael Flynn the person who most likely has the answer on whether the Trump Campaign colluded with russia or is his real problem that he was making money on the side . He has four issues that will come down on him. One, taking money from russia while holding a top secret security clearance, not saying anything about it. That could lead him to charges of being an unwitting intelligence asset. Two, taking money from the turks in order to extradite illegally in a u. S. Resident to turkey which is kidnapping, federal conspiracy charges. Thats bad. Three, then theres making that phone call to moscow in december of last year. That is significant because that could implicate mike pence and donald trump as having ordered him do that. He may have lied about it. And finally, he may have been the executive officer of all the dirty tricks campaigns to get the wikileaks information, the information from the russian lawyer, and the information from the podesta leaks and the rest to find Hillary Clintons emails, which means hes neck deep in all of them. The question is which are the easy ones mueller is going for . I think hes going for the turkey and russia payments, thats documentary. He can get that. Finally, it was jay sakalow who dropped a hint about the security clearance of flynn, saying obama cleared him. So that leads me to believe its more the moscow phone call and him being an unwitting asset of moscow intelligence. Lets not forget sally yates the then acting attorney general warned the white house he could be subject to blackmail and it still took them almost two weeks to get rid of him. Person number two, Jared Kushner. Sara, we recall going back again that Jared Kushner was one of the people who urged donald trump to fire director jim comey, fbi director at time. That could be one of the obstruction of justice charges. We have a new piece in vanity fair that talks about kushner being worried. December pil despite kushners efforts to proje project confidence about Robert Muellers probe, he expressed worry about the indictments of paul than for the and rick gates about how far the investigation could go. Do you think jared curb shekush should be worried about Jared Kushner . The consequences im worried about are that for the United States, a problem of nepotism has become a problem of National Security. We know kushner is implicated, we know he lied on clearance forms. He had hundreds of contacts with foreign officials, especially russia over the years, that he did not reveal. He was involved in the firing of comey. He was involved with manafort, the Campaign Team and the transition. Hes been implicated at every level, but of course his fatherinlaw is the president. This administration used executive power to override protocols that technically should keep people like kushner in check. He hasnt been. Perhaps hes more worried in light of manaforts indictment and pending indictments against flynn, perhaps. The corruption goes deep. I dont think we should be needlessly optimistic about the direction, in this is going to go. Paul, lets go to manafort. Mcclatchy has a new piece out talking about manaforts travel to russia was more extensive than we previously new. His flight records indicate deeper kremlin tines. Manafort is already knowingly in legal trouble. Would the prosecute verse to get manafort on something to do with collusion or could the corruption of his Business Practices separate from the campaign be enough to force him to flip on donald trump potentially . Its all fear of game. On the one hand we have plenty of evidence that hes got exposure for stuff that has nothing to do with russia or the Trump Campaign. Weve seen that mueller, he goes in. He wouldnt have problem indicting manafort on all of that stuff in order to get him to cooperate. The subject of this investigation is whether the Trump Campaign conspired with the russians in order to subvert american democracy. So, if manafort has information about that, thats what is of most interest to special council mueller. Manafort ran the Trump Campaign, he brought in late spring, early summer to manage the convention process. At the same time he has these separate ties to russia and ukraine. Do you get the sense that manafort, is his exposure that he may have helped to direct russia collusion into the pain or that he is just separately got corruption issues that have to do with tangentially with russia. I think the things were seeing on the surface and the indictments he got, those are the pressure points of his past misbehavior in the ukraine. He a special skillset to bring these russianbased corruption and dirty tricks operations into campaigns in the ukraine, he was brought into this campaign. The question is was he moscows man . Is this an issue of him being a dirty trickster or him being an actual asset of the kremlin . Thats a big difference between thats like espionage act sort of stuff there. Yeah. Can i make a quick aside for Jared Kushner that i think we missed on . I read that article with great interest. When he made that statement of do you think theyll get the president , coming from an intelligence perspective, someone who has done a boatload of wiretapping in my time, if i were to hear that sentence, that would immediately indicate to me that, you know, he has information that he feels hes the crux of that will lead up the chain of command. I would would you make that statement if you didnt already know the answer that you got it . He is flush with dirty contacts, with moscow related to money. I think hes very afraid that hes about to get the manafort treatment. And hes going to. Mueller is throwing a circle around foreign capital that may have come from foreign intelligence agencies and influence these people to do things that were conspiracy against the United States. We still havent gotten an answer to the questions we wanted from the white house about whether or not Jared Kushner has been discussing some of his financial needs when jaunting around the world to saudi arabia and other places. We would love an answer to that. Last question to you. You have now seen this probe go international. There was an arrest of one of putins favorite olligarchs on tax evasion charges. This arrest took place in france. Could the kremlin now become maybe worried about the oligarchs themselves will now be squeezed in terms of hiding money . We know hiding money in real estate including in President Trump properties is a thing they do. This was always their concern. Their guided presence in the campaign. One of their main objectives was to make sure there were no sanctions against russia and the oligarchs could continue unimpeded. It has not stopped them from accomplishing their goals throughout the year. I hope the investigation picks up. I hope things move faster. I dont they wi ney we necessar handle the repercussions. I think its rough for the oligarchs, its a lot rougher for the people of the United States. Im glad mueller is pressing down, that as malcolm said the net is widening, tightening. But at the same time we are running out of time. I hope they consider that. Well said. Thank you very much. Paul butler will be back later in the show. Could Robert Mueller be times person of the year . Donald trump claimed he turned down the honor that the magazine was probably going to confer on him. Time said they never contact the him and said any such thing. Trump has an obsession of being on the cover of time even creating fake versions of hill on the cover hanging in his property. So who do you think could be on the cover . Go to amjoy and add time person of the year to your tweet. Up next, the people versus roy moore. Stay with us. Master sergeant. They really appreciate the military family, and it really shows. 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That was Donald Trumps answer when asked if electing an accused child molester was better than electing a democrat in next months senate race in alabama. Trumps defense of roy moore is risky, given the president s own history of Sexual Assault allegations. While it wasnt a rahrah endorsement it was enough for moore to use in a fundraising opportunity. Writing i appreciate donald trump for defending my honor and my character. Jo i will start here with evan. The polling has been all over the place. This is a wbrc Strategy Research poll dated november 20th before thanksgiving it has roy moore at 47, doug jones at 45. How on earth is a man accused serially of essentially being a child molester still up in any poll . Tribalism. Its been an us versus them narrative where we have said as republicans if you dont like a certain piece of news even if its factual, you can ignore it because its fake news. News is based upon opinions rather than facts in this type of world. At the same time people are making moral justification saying its better to have roy moore who will vote the way we want to vote than having dug jones in there. I dont like doug jones policies, but i think hes far better than roy moore is. At the same time you have this poll from jmc analytics that came out two weeks ago that said 29 of voters are more likely to vote for roy moore because of the allegations. That shows the moral rot in the party, when we defend a man accused of such horrible, disgraceful behavior it makes people have a second look and say why do we wanted to be a part of the Republican Party. Kurt, you have the enforce wloer is not really good at elections or politics, but has the president dances on a string, your old friend steve bannon. This is him talking on his radio show on friday about that race. Take a listen. I think thats what the president said. This is wis 40 years old, allegations. Let the people of banl ma decide. That alabama decide. I think it will be straightforward. I think the president showed huge courage in the face of just widthering criticism. The idea that its courageous for drum whop himself onald trur an accused child molester, thats where the far right of the Republican Party is now. How mainstream is that view . I think youre seeing its not that mainstream. Theres been a number of republicans in leadership positions who have spoken out against roy moore, they floated the idea they would try to expel him if he won and was seated. So this is a concentrated group of Republican People who actually masquerade as republicans even though theyre not republicans. They dont stand for nothing. They dont have any moral come puss or values, they are not guided by any issue or perspective, much like the president. They exist to agitate, to distract, disrupt. What bannon is doing is classic, vintage bannon. Wherever the establishment is, i dont want to be. I dont want to do anything that aligns me with mitch mcconnell, paul ryan or establishment republicans, so he does the opposite to be contrary of that. Thats what President Trump does at times as well. If you think theyll listen to reason, follow common sense, they do the opposite to spite everybody else. They dont do that when it comes to things like cutting taxes for corporations, or policies that harm the poor. Theyre not contrary to the establishment when it comes to things that hurt people of color, women, gay people, theyre only against them when it comes to defending a child molester. Lets listen to Kellyanne Con y conway. Here she is on fox news on monday talking about the Alabama Senate race. Doug jones in alabama, folks, dont be fooled. Hell be a vote against tax cuts. Hes weak on crime, weak on borders, strong on raising your taxes, terrible for property owners. Thats why the media are trying to boost him. So vote roy moore . Im telling you we want the votes in the senate to get this tax bill through. So, yes, vote roy moore. The idea that the guy who prosecuted two of the clanklans who blew up the 16th Street Baptist Church and killed two little kids theres a special place in hell for mothers who defend accused child molesters, that would be Kellyanne Conway. I have no words to describe how atrocious and despicable this is. I want to differ with kurt, he sees a knock shows branch as a Republican Party as a segment. I think that is the Republican Party. You cant kind of pass them off as some fringe group when as the president of the United States, everybody in the white house, the head of the rnc, the Vice President , the party has already embraced someone who has been sear yrially accused of Sexual Assault, thats the president , thats paul ryan, thats mitch mcconnell. Thats everybody. To make this distinction that somehow there are good republicans on this issue and bad republicans, this is the horror of donald trump which he has infested and deformed an entire National Political party. I think theyre rotten to the core now. Kurt, isnt that the case . The bannon wing owns the party now. They have taken over. Paul ryan runs behind the president like a fan. Theyre all in lockstep. How can you make that distinction. I dont disagree with that more. I was speaking more directly to the issue of defending a child sex predator. A lot of people who are republicans and were quick to speak out against that. Thats not to say all the other things donald trump has done, while they sat compliantly silent as he has run roughshot over the Republican Party. I said the Republican Party died the night he was inaugurated, and others were clapping like a bunch of sales. It disturbs me, its troubling, its terrible for the country. On specifically talking about whether you defend roy moore or not, a lot of people have spoken out about that. But nobody listened to them. If people or if they were influential within the party would see roy moores support erode in alabama. The two things i worry about now are, one, weve been accused of having a war on women, this just perpetuates it. And i think theres a lot of bam mra voters alabama voters who are on the fence, but they see al franken and democrats standing by him, and they stand by roy moore. There is absolutely no symmetry between what al franken no. But al franken is not accused of being a child molester. The conflation of trying to put roy moore and al franken in the same sentence there is no similarity in the accusations, but im talking about how people view it. People are insane. Theres literally nothing that democrats have not defended al franken. To the contrary, theyre all calling theres liberal advocacy groups calling for him to resign. Theres an investigation pending. I havent seen nancy pelosi come out and say al franken is a great guy. The idea that al franken should be expelled theres symmetry whatsoever, these guys will serve with roy moore if he wins and say nothing and vote with him. Its absurd. Im sorry. My editorial here. Not even close to being the same. I appreciate the discussion. Thank you very much. Happy thanksgiving, you guys. Coming up, trump tiger are raising eyeeyebrows. Ill tell you why next. All you smart Holiday Shoppers will be glad to know buick has great deals planned for you this black friday. Or, if you prefer, crimson red tintcoat friday. Or quicksilver metallic friday . Ring in the holidays with buick. Its the enclave black friday event at your buick dealer. Get 20 below msrp on all 2017 enclave premium models. Thats over 10,500 on this specially equipped enclave. And i am a senior Public Safety my namspecialist for pg e. 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If you were in the white house, i dont think i would see doral again. I dont think id see many of the places i have. I just want to stay in the white house and work my ass off, make great deals. So much for that pledge. Since taking Office Donald trump has spent at least 80 days at his golf properties. Friday he tweeted after turkey call i will be heading over to Trump National golf club, jupiter, to play golf quickly with tiger woods and dustin johnson. This is not the first time trump teamed up with tiger woods. He helped to design a golf course at a trump branded property in dubai. Joining me now is david k. Johnston author of its even worse than you think. And richard painter, ethics lawyer for george w. Bush. The idea that the president of the United States and golf phenom tiger woods would be designing golf courses together and then promoting playing golf with tiger woods, how flagrant do these violations of the emoluments clause have to be before somebody in washington has to notice . The most serious allegations of dont involve golf courses, they involve the financing hes getting from Foreign Governments, Foreign Governmentowned banks, sovereign wealth funds, much undisclosed. He may be in debt for millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars to foreign nationals, some of whom may be connected to Foreign Governments, none of this is disclosed because the congress doesnt insist it be disclosed. Theres sheer hypocrisy here. The golfing and all of that is symb symbolic. Here is a man who criticize the president obama for playing a few rounds of golf now and then, since this president started, he has been doing nothing but golfing on his own courses, trying to promote his businesses and his sons flying all over the world promoting his businesses to foreign nationals and including Foreign Governments. This has got to stop but it wont stop until Congress Takes seriously their oversight duties. They are not doing it because they also are hypocritical. They want to cover for themselves and cover for the president. The United States goes around the world lecturing about democracy and how to do it. If you had a country in which you had resorts named after the leader of that country, golf course named after the leader of that country, and professional golf associations with playing on the links, and his name was plastered all over the place you go, and Foreign Governments could come and stay at his hotels, swipe cards and pay him money, would we consider that country a typical western democracy or questioning whether or not it is an open cleptocracy . Richard is right. Congress has a duty here to act to reform the laws that allow trump to not fully disclose whats going on with his financing. The decades of money launtd der, his reliance on money from Foreign Government is, and the lawlessness of this administration you see all the time. You just had Kellyanne Conway i violating the hatch act doing that. Donald ran because he believes of course he should be president , hes superior to the rest of us, he should be in charge of the whole world as he told Prime Minister turnbull. Once in office there are no moral boundaries to this man. He will do everything he can to deepen his familys pockets, even when it involves improper relationship s for a president with foreign banks, foreign individuals. The thing thats happening with trump are two pieces. On the one hand it feels like his presidency is so toxing it toxic that its tanking his brand, but then again he has maralago and new york. The Trump Hotel Soho in new york, his name will come off that hotel. Forbes, has dropped donald trump down on its list of richest americans. His nest worth is 3. 1 billion down from 3. 7 billion. He drops to 248 from number 156. We know its important for trump to be on that list. Part of the reason for that is because a lot of his properties are struggling. The golf courses in new york are struggling. His golf courses in a lot of places are struggling. A lot of his hotels are struggling. There was a project in mississippi they would open, a lowerscale hotel that is being scuttled. The one property making a lot of money is the hotel in d. C. The former Old Post Office building. Its filled with lobbyists and Foreign Government officials who are paying to stay there. How can that be legal . Its illegal under the cones tug constitution. Thats why hes been sued in three different lawsuits and in lee different courts. The big money is the financing. You may well see Foreign Governments or foreign sovereign wealth funds bail out some of those projects that are not doing well in order to ingratiate themselves with the president. Thats what the founders intended to prohibit. I get back to congress. They have an oversight duty. They are not doing anything. We have to look hard at congress in 2018. Theyre a bunch of hypocrites. You can see the way theyre pushing this Sexual Harassment thing, going after conyers. And who is calling Kellyanne Conway up to the house saying who are the name of those guys who are harassing her that she claimed in 2016 . They dont want to investigate that. Theyre hypocrites, covering for themselves. Ive been a republican for 30 years but i wont support people who will cover for a president who is violating the constitution and who applies a double standard to their own members of congress. You know, david, theres a lack of fear. Donald trump doesnt fear congress. Theyre not doing anything about it. They have no interest in this issue even though its plain as the nose on your face, you can reez it read it in the constitution clause, the emoluments clause. I had friends calling me up about a 4 400 million mega yach that pulled up, there was speculation on whether the Russian Oligarch who owned that yacht was staying at maralago. I wonder if in your view, knowing donald trump as long as you have, does he have fear that there could be chickens that come home to roost from all of this, what appears to be him profiting openly off the presidency and con sorting with Russian Oligarchs while under investigation for possible collusion with russia . Donald would have some fear about this, but hes been masterful in pushing away law enfofe enfor enforcement. He outdid four grand jury investigations, committed income tax fraud, had two civil trials over it that he lost, he admitted to sales tax fraud, he was found to be engaged in a conspiracy to cheap workers out of their money. Hes been successful on running out the clock in law enforcement. His friend here are weak disclosure laws. We need to thoroughly revamp our Campaign Finance and personal disclosure laws. Trump has not had to make an honest accounting of what hes doing. When Forbes Magazine tells you hes worth 3. 1 billion, even trump doesnt claim that. The statement he signed is 1. 4 billion, if you take all the 50 million of that and double them, you dont get to 2 billion. I think those numbers are highly inflated. He has lots of cash flow not a lot of unencumbered assets. I hope mueller gets us a proper net worth statement on donald trump, because i think it will shock people when they find out how deeply hes involved in foreign money. One thing trumps election has shown, a lot of us assume showing tax returns as president was a law, its not, its just tradition. Maybe thats something the congress should look into. Thank you both. Up next, trump uses the tragedy in egypt to double down on his calls for a wall and a muslim ban. Up next, more am joy. Ry town,. Ry town,. Small businesses show their love to you. With some friendly advice, a genuine smile and a warm welcome they make your town. Well, your town. Thats why American Express is proud to be the Founding Partner of Small Business saturday. 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What on earth what could be the thread, if you can extrapolate for us and even guess when what happened in egypt and building a wall and banning muslims from and banning muslims from the United States . Theres absolutely no trump confused. I mean, its sad, but its not surprising that our president , after the worst attack in egyptian modern history, would waste no time to stoke antimuslim sentiment, stoke islam phobia. Trump doesnt understand that muslims are terrorisms greatest victims. We are murdered and slaughtered by isis on a daily basis and for years. Its clear that trump not only doesnt stand that, but he doesnt get that nobody hates isis more than muslims. Donald trump doesnt seem to have learned whenever he weighs in on anything to do with his muslim ban, it actually tanks his chances in court of getting it to stand up, because it makes it clear that he just wants to ban muslims from the United States. Why does he not seem to get that . Hes already building a wall and banning folks in a similar poll po symbolic way. Whats not legal is to exclude people on the basis of their faith, which is why the lawyers keep saying in their pleadings, its not a ban, its not a ban. As you note, these tweets make it clear the president s intent is to exclude muslims from entering the United States. And as several courts have made clear, thats unconstitutional. His tweets make it transparent. Theres smoking gun evidence of his discriminatory intent. Just as a political matter, there was a time when particularly arab muslims were very much a swing community, particularly in florida. This was a community that some leaned republican and some leaned democrat. It was sort of up for grabs. Donald trump has seemed to go out of his way to be just sort of extravagant in his disdain for the muslim community. Did it surprise you that he paired that with what he was i guess portraying as sympathy for the people of egypt . It didnt surprise me at all. What is particularly sad about Donald Trumps tweets is its taking away attention and focus from the attack in egypt. The attack was so heinous and violent. It happened against a branch of islam, t islam. They are the most peaceful and loving. Its a mystical sect of islam. Their religion is focused on love and poetry. If you know any of the works of the great poet rumi, youll know exactly who the suffis are. I dont know how a racist ban and a dumb wall is going to help fight isis in the middle east. I think people dont zero in enough on the fact that part of what isis does, a lot of what they do is accuse other muslims of not being in their view the right kind of muslim and attacking them all over the world. Exactly. We are literally their greatest victims. 90 of terrorisms victims are muslim. It also goes to show were not a monolith. Were not all the same. Theres 1. 6 billion muslims in the world and theres so many varying sects. Just like in christianity and other religions, theres a very extreme sect. Really a lot of muslims dont even consider isis to be a part of islam. Muslims are some of their greatest victims. How is a wall with mexico going to help fight isis . And egypt is not even on trumps racist, dumb plan to have this travel ban thats never going to work. Just the same way that christians disown people who claim to be christian but who are extremists. The kkk claims theyre christians. Paul, i wonder if you could anticipate for us there will be more lawsuits over the muslim ban. I presume there will be lawsuits over Donald Trumps idea to build a wall. Could his tweets be used by the plaintiffs in cases like that . Yeah. They already have. Weve seen judges including the judge in hawaii credit his tweets. You know, the difficult thing about bringing these cases is you have to prove theres some intent to discriminate against people on the basis of their religion. Again, as much as the lawyers try to fix it up, the tweets are transparent. Its clear that what their president wants to do is to ban muslims, period. Again, that is unconstitutional. Yeah. On the wall, one more point to you on this. You know, it does seem that donald trump is just using this transparently because he knows his base wants those two things equally. They want their wall and they want this muslim ban. That was the driver of their support for him. Is there any evidence in your view that people connected to isis are streaming over the southern border, i guess, going to mexico as a way to get into the United States . No. It doesnt make any sense. I really dont think we should take attention away from the fact that its not the west against isis. Its all of us against isis. We must all be united. Its not muslims against isis. Its all of us. Amen. Well said. Thank you both very much. Keep it right here. Loe. 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It leaves other immigrants living under an offer of temporary protection in the u. S. , wondering if they could be next. Joining me jacqueline charles. Thank you all for being here. Jackie, im going to go to you on this first. The acting secretary for Homeland Security elaine duke said this in addition to her previous said. She said significant steps have been taken to improve the stability and quality of life for haitian citizens. Haiti is able to safely receive traditional levels of return citizens. Based on your reporting, is that true . No, it is not true. They have yet to provide us the matrix on which they made this decision. Yes, haiti just elected a new president. Yes, the United Nations pulled out its military force, but they are still present. They have a smaller mission. Even they consider haiti to still be problematic in the sense that it remains under chapter 7. If the United Nations believes that haiti still requires a loot lot of assistance. We know that as of june there was a story in the New York Times talking about the cholera epidemic that was brought to haiti by the u. N. Workers. Nearly a million have been sickened since cholera was introduced into haiti in 2010. There have been other issues obviously that the island nation has continued to face. Youve been back and forth to haiti several times over the past year. In your view, is haiti ready to absorb 60,000 people being expelled from the United States . Absolutely not. Ive been back eight times this year alone. I was just there this past weekend. Haiti is not ready. Theres a shortage of housing, there are no jobs. You are talking about people who are contributing to society, who are paying taxes. Dont forget theres 27,000 children also not factored into that 60,000. These children are u. S. Citizens. They were born here. Over half of these 30,000 of them own homes. They are paying mortgages. Its a failure by the administration. The administration has been antiimmigration from the start. I get it, its temporary but there are steps that need to be taken in order to stabilize haiti for these people to get the opportunity to come back to the country. Its absolutely not ready. Youve been fighting for tps. You fought for it every day since the 2010 earthquake. Youve been fighting for haitian citizens in miami and haitian americans for such a long time. This was hard won, tps. How difficult was it to even get this to happen and how devastating will it be for the community to lose it . It took a long time, many years of organizing locally, statewide and nationally. And it was only after the earthquake which killed over 250,000 people and quasi destroyed haitis infrastructure that then president obama did approve a temporary protected status. It also took bipartisan support and organizing with tens and hundreds of organizations nationwide. So what it means to the thousands of families is that they will probably, if nothing is done, if congress doesnt act, to pack their bags. It is a very difficult thing to ask them to do. How do you ask parents to separate from their children, especially when we know that haiti is not ready. Because i led a Fact Finding Mission to haiti in august from augu i went to where the dominicans have been living in squalor since 2014. The haitian government has not been able to offer them any support. This decision has thrown thousands of families in a high level of anxiety and a state of panic. Patrick, haiti is one of selfcountries that are under the protection of tps. We just put up the graphic there. El salvador is the largest number of rerecipients. This is a relatively small number of people in a country of 322 million people. The idea thats there some urgency to kicking these people out given the state of can you wants like ha can you ration l rationalize any reason why the administration would want to kick them out . I was one part of the obama administration. She will tell you that we were absolutely scrupulous about making certain that the white house did not impose politics on a decision that needed to be governed by the secretary of Homeland Security. Here, we have direct and clear evidence that the chief of staff in the white house interfered with the tps decision and that more likely than not its been determined by ideology instead of facts on the ground. I was in haiti a few short months ago and like your other guests observed that the country is not yet prepared particularly following the cholera outbreak. The u. S. Has a long and complicated history with haiti. This decision shouldnt be seen outside of the context of that history. The u. S. Is implicated in a lot of the challenges that yet persist on that island nation and needs to be part of Solutions Going forward, which is why we have to turn to congress and the senate now to try to undo this mess that the Trump Administration has created. Lets go back and talk about the origins of this decision. We know that john kelly whos now the chief of staff in the white house has been very adamantly against things like da daca. Is there any evidence this is a policy that came from when he was leading it, or is this the interim sort of lead in trying to undo tps for haitians . We have to remember before the decision was taken earlier this year to only extend tps for six months, kelly visited haiti. I spoke with him when he came back and i asked him what was the conversation with the haitian president. He said he basically told him to prepare to bring your people back. And the president laid out a series of arguments but most of all said they were preparing to help haitians get their documents at the time. I asked kelly, have you made up your mind what youre going to do in the fall . He said no, but this was sort of the final reprieve they were going to give haitians. There was a story earlier this year that the Associated Press broke about how the administration was asking for the criminal histories of haitians in trying to determine the tps decision. There was also a recommendation prior to the announcement that haitians should no longer receive tps. When you look at this and build up to this moment, you say, you know what, how much thought really went into this decision. I know that elaine duke spent a lot of time talking to a lot of people. She spoke to the haitian ambassador to the u. S. On several occasions as well as the foreign minister. I felt that she really wanted to arrive at a decision, possibly an extension. But an extension with a final deadline, thats not what people were actually expecting given the current reality of haiti today. Did you have any contact from the administration before this decision was made . Not at puall. Weve tried time and time again to get a meeting even with acting secretary elaine duke or anyone from the Trump Administration. Even those who organized that little haiti meeting, then trump claimed he wanted to be haitis best champion. Even those who organized those meetings have not been able to secure a meeting with anyone from the administration. So we are left to believe that this decision was made based on politics and ideology rather than hard facts on the ground. Obviously there is a congressional delegation from south florida. It is the largest haitian population in the United States. Have there been any responses from members of congress from south florida to this decision . Every member of congress from south florida even the republicans from the gone on down to senator marco rubio are all in support of the extension of tps. Were at a critical point right now that it doesnt seem this decision is going to be reversed. I think we ought to focus on what we need to do from this point on forward. Theres a couple things we need to focus on. Theres a house bill out of new york and a similar bill. Im asking the president of the United States, if youre listening, call speaker ryan, call senator mitch mcconnell. Bring these bills to the floor for a vote. This is a critical, critical situation. And also haiti is still waiting for the hospital that was promised after the earthquake to be built. We need to focus on that. Thiss also the phoenix project to bring electricity to the island that was blocked by secretary clinton and the obama administration. What can viewers do who are concerned about the situation . First of all, i would ask that people support the work of incredible committed advocates. If youre part of moveon, if youre a part of indivisible, make certain this is this goes far beyond florida. Senator feinstein is also supporting that legislation from senator van holland. And the American Chamber of commerce and the Building Association also recognize the Economic Disaster that would be hear in the u. S. And in haiti if these immigrants are returned. Lets support these senate bills. Lets continue to organize, lift up advocacy on this issue and demand that the u. S. Congress address this issue. Well get those pieces of legislation posted on our social media so our viewers can know what they are. I want to thank you all very much. And up next, donald trump and paul ryan turn the season of giving into the season of taking. Do you want clean, stain free dentures . Try polident. The four in one cleaning system kills 99. 99 of odor causing bacteria, cleans where brushing may miss. 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The senate bill would repeal the individual mandate in the Affordable Care act. One major factor is the same. Major permanent tax cuts for corporations that would add trillions of dollars of the deficit over the next ten years, paid for by tax hikes on americans who arent rich. The Tax Policy Center has weighed in on the Senate Version of the plan. This is the Senate Finance committees plan. Some taxpayers would pay more in taxes under the proposal in 2019 and 2025. About 9 in 2019 and 12 in 2025. In the middle income, 28 will receive a tax cut and 66 would get a tax increase. Im wondering what youre hearing about the politics of raising taxes on about 1 in 10 taxpayers a year before the president ial election. They seem to think two things. First of all, when you get to 2027, theres a lot of people with tax increases. Thawre s theyre saying those will go away. It wont be permanent. Overall the republicans seem to think the argument that most people will get a tax decrease will work even if you have millions who will get a tax increase. The tax increases are spread out a lot. The target of the tax increases is particularly people in california, new york, new jersey because of getting rid of the state and local income taxes. Those people dont vote for republicans already. Part of the thing going on here is there are some tax increases targeted to people that dont vote for republicans. Ive talked with friends in georgia and she pointed out to me that georgians are going to pay more. The other target for this is people with very low income. This is a New York Times article. If the senate bill becomes law, americans earning 30,000 a year or below would pay higher taxes beginning in 2021. The projected increase stems from the repeal of the aca mandate. How does the Republican Party sell the idea of actually raising taxes on the lowest income americans . A lot of the things is i dont think a lot of the American Public is concerned about 2027, 2025. Theyre concerned about 2018 and 2019. What they do see is the doubling of the standard deduction. 69 of americans dont itemize deductions on their tax returns. Youre getting a large swath of americans who are going to get what may seem to be instant tax relief. But the politics of this are they wont feel that until 2019. That will be after the 2018 midterms. A lot of things can happen there. Its perrys very spot on when he talks about the states that are going to get hit the hardest on the deductions and losing the state and income tax and property Tax Deductions on their states. At the end of the day, republicans cant make the mistake of mitt romney of saying 47 of americans dont pay federal income taxes. But about everyone in american, whether youre minimum wage or not is paying 39 taxes on every dollar they make. Its fees, local taxes, local assessments. So taxes are a concern to everyone. Its just a matter of what you identify politically is who calls them. The republicans now with donald trump, theyve got 2018 coming. If they dont show a bill passed with republican majority in the house and republican majority in the senate, regardless of the blocking of the democrats, theyll have hell to pay at the ballot box in 2018. Its interesting. Republicans are under a lot of pressure their donors who are ordering them to pass something that looks like a tax cut for the rich. They have to try to do it. But im wondering if even the democrats would be able to message against a tax increase on middle class people to pay for permanent tax cuts for corporations and the rich. That sounds simple enough for even democrats to be able to message against. It does. He cant even defend the policy here. What are the republicans saying here . It aims at poor people so its a good thing to do. Republicans define poor people as anybody whos not in the 1 of americans. Lets get past the stark raving hypocrisy of the fact that this tax bill would add trillions of dollars to the deficit, the same party when president obama was managing the state shut down the government over anything that hinted at the deficit. How many times have they tried to sell us on this sugar coated tax cut plan which was disastrous for the economy that ended up basically unraveling and bringing us to the brink . We saw it in the bush administration. We see it again now. I dont think theres any credibility, joy. Thats why the polling around this tax cut plan, only about 2526 of americans support it. Nearly 6263 are against it. It is deeply unpopular. I think thats an important point, because you see in the polling that its gotten through to the majority of people at least in these polls that the tax cut would be at their expense and help the rich. The other thing i think is weird is mulvaney. He is a weird messenger on this. He doesnt seem embarrassed about saying were going to hike taxes on poor people and going after something that used to be sacred, Social Security disability. This is a quote from a political profile of mulvaney in september. He says this is my idea of how to reform Social Security. No, the president replied. I told people we wouldnt do that. Here are medicaid reforms. No, im not doing that. Then he goes to disability insurance. He considers it to be welfare. Well, heres a map of the people who participate in Security Disability insurance. Its heavily in the south. Social Security Disability insurance, i think twothirds of the recipients are older white americans, trump voters. Does the Republican Party have a problem now they theyre openly cutting medicaid and Social Security disability . They have two problems. One thats being paid for not only by raising taxes eventually on those middle class people. But theyre going to have to cut services across the board. This is going to exert a pressure on spending that mostly benefits middle and lower income mornings. Now, beyond that, i think you have the real issue that for republicans and this is where democrats need to remember. They need to peel off republican votes. My suggestion to them, free advice is what you pay for it, is to focus on the deficit. You have republicans out there, jeff flake and bob corker who say they do not want to grow the debt and the deficit. This is a deficit buster. Any analysis, whether its the Tax Policy Center, whether its the committee for a responsible federal budget, anyone that you look at, were going to be adding trillions of the debt. If those republicans, some of whom dont have to stand for election, want to go out as principled republicans and want to be true to their values, they shouldnt be spoerltiupporting. Does this bill either the Senate Version or the house version ultimately pass and become law . It will hit Conference Committee and it will pass because of the politics behind it beating the policy and republicans are going to need to show a victory for 2018 midterms. It will pass. Do you think that raising peoples taxes will ultimately hurt them on the politics . I think Cutting Corporation taxes will win the day. The republicans will be the people who cut taxes and the democrats will be the people who want to raise taxes. Thats the old way politics used to work. Will this pass and will republicans be glad it passed . I it will pass because paul ryan, mcmcconnell and the donors really want it to pass. I dont think its good politics in part because youre going to have a lot of these members in swing district where is this bill raises if youre in an upper income district, this might raise taxes in those areas. Does it pass and will republicans regret it . I am thankful for the founde founders, because i think you see a lot of political posturing coming on. But when it comes time to cast the vote, no way in held three republicans of conscience are going to let this lemon pass. Does it pass and do republicans regret it . Not this. Something will pass and theyll declare victory over it and it wont help them in 2018 because as you say, even democrats can figure out a way to run against this. Repealing the estate tax, what, so ivanka doesnt have to worry about ever paying a dime of inheritance tax. Come on. Were going to keep this panel around. Coming up, the not so secret plot to destroy obamacare. First, american pie wars. April is just upset because the only thing she knows how to cook and serve is the fake news. She keeps questioning me that she wants proof of Sarah Huckabees pie. We want proof shes really a journalist. She aint no more a journalist than we aint really heard of her until this administration. Shes just trying to be relevant. more people shop online for the holidays than ever before. clapping and the United States Postal Service delivers more of those purchases to homes than anyone else in the country. because we know, even the smallest things are sometimes the biggest. April is just upset because the only thing she knows how to cook and serve is the very fake news. Thats right. She keeps questioning me that she wants proof of Sarah Huckabees pie. We want proof shes really a journalist. She anti we aint really never heard of her until this administration. Shes just trying to be relevant. Okay. So thanksgiving is a time for family, football, embarrassing family members that youd want to forget that you invited to the party. And of course, food. Including the newfangled modern day tradition of the food selfie. Heres the spread at my aunties house. Sarah Huckabee Sanders decided to post her own food selfie. Here it is. The pic generated some skepticism. Even april ryan got in on the shade, tweeting show it to us on a table. That sparked a back and forth that ended with huckabee sapdnds offering to bake april a pie. April tweeted thanks, be you dont like the press, i wont be eating that. The clear moral here is when you spend every day lying to the press and the American People on be off of the president , after a while people dont believe you not even regarding the authenticity of the holiday pie. To our friends, april ryan happens to be a veteran and respected journalist who would never turn herself into a vaudeville act for politics. But thanks for playing, ladies. Up next, republicans play p ebenez ebenezer scrooge with Childrens Health care. You dont have to pick me up. At lincoln financial, we get there are some responsibilities of love you gotta do on your own. And some you shouldnt have to shoulder alone. Like being able to retire more confidently, no matter what comes your way. 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Another Popular Program the Childrens Health Insurance Program known as chip is on the brink of collapse, putting close to 9 million low income children and women at risk of losing their health care if congress doesnt act to renew it. We know that florida has a large abundance of people who are on chip. In a state like that, can the members of congress from florida afford not to push to renew chip . Its an excellent question. Florida and many other states would be decimated. I think it leads to the question is it any surprise that the party that is pro pay for play, pro putin and now with roy moore, propedophilia. The fact that theyre antichildren, is that any surprise . I dont think it is. This chip scenario where you mentioned 9 million children without Health Insurance. I think if you take a step back, one has to ask themselves and i think the American People should ask themselves the broader question. What has the Republican Party in the last ten years done to help the American People . What have they done . This is not a political party. This is a domestic terror group. What i think the American People should consider when they ask themselves that question with a party that has done nothing to help the American People is to vote them out and consider possibly locking them up. I know youre not a fan of the Affordable Care act, but can the party really get away with the idea of not renewing this program . Its 9 million kids. I would predict to you the party or the politicians will find a way to make this palatable and affordable and they already have addressed it in the house. Its pretty tough to leave 9 million children behind. And that wont happen. At the end of the day, were still talking about the Affordable Care act. I understand why donald trump is taking zero ownership of it. Thats good politics. And from his stand point, thats where hell stay. I predict that children matter no matter what side of the aisle youre on. You can make it as political as you care to. For eight years we had president obama. Weve now got President Trump. That program will stay safe and end up being funded. Where theyll find the money to replace, thats a whole other question. The collapse of the rates and t the increases are now coming home in 2017. We know that the individual market is having some issues. They could just fix it, but they have chosen not to do that. Just looking at the statistics on Childrens Health care. 370,000 pregnant women receive care yearly. Chip and medicaid brings uninsured kids rates down to just 5 . The Chicago Tribune reports that states are already preparing to shut down the program. It hasnt been renewed. Theyre dragging their feet on doing it. What is the delay . What is going on . Why hasnt this been renewed . Basically the leaders in the party have said theyll get to it later. They want to get to this after tax reform. Im not totally sure why. In terms of the politics, this seems like a mistake to me. One thing you see this year is trumps numbers were not really killed as much by the russia investigation. What has really dropped trump in the polls were those months and months when they were pushing medicaid cuts. The public does not support that. Chip is basically like the children version of medicaid. Its the same kind of program. Again, this doesnt make any political strategy point to me. Theres a debate about whether there should be offsets for this chip money. Even then, republicans are going to have to fund this program because its very popular. Im not sure why they dont do it already. It doesnt really make sense. Just to show more statistics, this is the uninsured rate among nonelderly adults and children from 1997 through 2016. You can see it goes down, down, down, down. The Affordable Care act and particularly chip has helped to really drop those uninsured rates. Its hard to argue with the stats. These programs have actually lowered the rate of uninsured in the country. I dont understand the politics of insisting on getting rid of it or at least im not rushing to do it may be first before you do a tax bill thats already unpopular. Right. I think this is a failure not only of the democrats but the socalled moderate republicans. If i were the democrats i would be approached people like susan collins, and say why are you voting for a Senate Tax Bill thats going to give billions to the wealthy while we have not alleviated this problem. Same issue with daca. I think the democrats and moderate lps nerepublicans need step up to the plate and make this a condition of the approval of some of the things republicans want. As long as theyre meek and mild, republicans are going to ignore this. I would suggest that republicans and democrats who actually think this is a good idea, insuring poor kids, get together and start putting down some demands. Any plans that you know of for the democrats to start advertising on this, specifically against or to push people to vote renewal of chip . I agree with jennifer. I think the democrats are clearly on the right side of the issue. In terms of how theyre executing and implementing the politics it begs t s ths the qu the Republican Party during the obama era shut down the government. Why dont some of the democrats working with the moderate republicans be willing to shut down the document to give Health Insurance to 9 mill children . Excellent question. Were actually out of time in this break. Thank you all. And up next, levar burton or levar ball. Hows it going . Hi okay, so youve got two friends here. Yes. This is the j. D. Power award for dependability. Now i want you to give it to the friend that you think is most dependable. Ohhhh. Ughh. Wow. Thats just not fair. Does she have to . She doesnt have to oh, i dont . No, but its a tough choice, isnt it . Yes. Well luckily, chevy makes it a little easier. Cause its the only brand to earn j. D. Power dependability awards for cars, trucks and suvs two years in a row. Thats amazing. Chevys a name you can trust aand its now just 59 of the season. But the real gift isnt whats inside the box. Its whats inside the person who opens it. Give ancestrydna, the only dna test that can trace your origins to over 150 ethnic regions and open up a world of possibilities. Save 40 at ancestrydna. Com. The lowest price of the year ends monday. Im lavar burton. You are watching one of the finest minds in the political arena today. You are watching a. M. Joy with joy reid. That was lavar burton, beloved star of roots. This is levar ball, the man donald trump went on a twitter rampage against this week after ball failed to show enough gratitude to the dear leader following his son and two other College Basketball players returned home from china following an allegation of shoplifting. Apparently Trump Supporters cant tell the difference. Trump supporters have been attacking lavar burton on twitter. Joining me now to discuss are pam oliver, fox nfl Senior Correspondent and jamal smith. Jamil, can you guess why it is that people think that lavar ball and lavar burton are the same person. Lets get to the issue at hand. Donald trump, this week, i will confess, i had no idea who lavar ball was before this week. Now that the three basketball players are out of china, lavar ball, the father of liang el low is unaccepting for what i did for his son. I should have left them in jail. Your thoughts on the idea that the president of the United States said he should have left them rotting in jail because their dad didnt thank them enough. For generations now, black people have been told they are not grateful enough to have what they have in this country or they dont show enough appreciation for all the gifts that have been bestowed upon us. I think you have the president here perhaps experiencing such pain that hes actually helping black mennes cape prison. You cant help but lash out, and say that, hey, these young black men arent being thankful enough, neither is their loud mouth father. And so, were going to have another round of lets talk about the prominent black person so we can gin up our base. Donald trump seems to have a particular fixation with black athletes, whether its the nfl players who are kneeling. This was his latest set of tweets. It wasnt the white house, father lavar on the ground. It was me. Too bad, lavar balls the poor mans version of this fixation that donald trump has with black athletes, do people note that, that it is athletes he seems obsessed with . Yes, i think people do notice that were just talking about a president whos obsessed. Who spends so much time focused on athletes, and the most convenient um has been directed at nfl players, of course, 70 of the nfl are black people, black men. So and of those, at the stadiums ive been to, only a couch el of white guys are taking part in this whole protest and the rest are africanamerican players, when President Trump says Something Like they or them, what is he referring to. What is he whats actually his intent. I dont know whats in the mans heart, i know he can choose his words carefully, more carefully, he can definitely get off twitter, try to do something respectful. Act like a president and stop with the silliness. Yeah. The other thing, i think beyond just donald trump is, you know, this week, there was a cnn interview with lavar ball where chris cuomo seemed to have a difficult interview. He helped, if he helped, i would say thank you opinion. He says he spoke to the president of china, and that was related to you. In a lot of ways. You were told he helped. Anybody who speaks to the president , i should thank anybody who speaks to the president. You. Wont say thank you. Hey, thanks. Your son said thank you, the other guy said thank you. Thanks for helping me. Im not the other guys, though, im doing something else. I mean, lavar ball has been called the black donald trump and hes on knox jous to people. Am i the only one who thought, why is chris cuomo badgering him to say thank you to donald trump. In the United States, we are not required to say thank you to the president. When i saw that moment, i thought to myself, what exactly have we proven about what donald trump did to help set those young men free. They were never in jail, they were in a hotel, they were sequestered and released, i would argue that probably ucla, a university that has more pull with china than this president , probably did a lot more to get those kids out than anything the president did. We have no proof that the president either spoke to ping or that had any influence if he did. I dont think this is the time to start believing what donald trump says. Even if he did, its not north korea, everyone doesnt have to thank their leader. Donald trump also went after Marshawn Lynch of the oakland raiders, attacking him for one of these anthem protests, in your reporting, is donald trump having an impact on the nfl and whether it will decide to impose an nba style rule to try to force these players to stand for the anthem. I think this will divide the nfl in a lot of ways, some owners see it for what it should be. Its freedom of Speech Movement thats happening over here, and some owners will see it another way, its disrespectful. They buy into the trump rhetoric so much, they cant see the forest through the trees. I think theres going to be some sort of split and maybe significant. Pam oliver, jamil smith, thank you both. More a. M. Joy after the break. The military family, and it really shows. Weve got auto insurance, homeowners insurance. Had an accident with a vehicle, i actually called usaa before we called the police. Usaa was there handson very quick very prompt. I feel like were being handled as people that actually have a genuine need. Were the webber family and we are usaa members for life. Usaa, get your insurance quote today. For one company in my former hometown of denver, colorado, aspen inc. 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