Thought, the famous verizon ad. Can you hear me now . Good. Can you hear me now . Thats where we land. Cell Service Needs to fall back. If people are using that trick to get off the phone with the president , that is amazing. Works. Liz, thanks for being on the show. This other guy, thank you for being on the show. Thats our show sp. Have a great thanksgiving friday. At 6 00 p. M. , we have our speci special, russia on trial, check that out. And hardball starts now. Trump stands alone. Lets play hardball. Good evening, im Chris Matthews up in boston. For weeks, republicans is have distanced themselves from roy moore. Theyve pulled endorsements and urged him to drop out. And many have said they believe his accusers. Lets watch. Do you believe these allegations to be true . Youre talking about he said 40 years ago, this did not happen. So, you know. And i do have to say, 40 years is a long time. Hes run eight races and this has never come up. So 40 years is a long time. Well, both new yo
notes, with gary cohn s departure, and from a political standpoint because the president is pushing away from people who fundamentally disagree with him. the president wants people close who agree with him, who support him. i think that s why these departures are so important. hope hicks, long-time aide to the president, announces he s gone last week. now gary cohn. more are on the way. there s no doubt about that. probably. i mean, there does seem to be an expiration date for anybody working in this wlohite house, part because it s a stressful place to work. it s a high-pressure place to work. the kind of conflict trump is talking about can be productive if you think of the idea of a team of rivals like abraham lincoln famously had. but it wears on people when it s so acrimonious. when the president seems to pit people against each other and enjoy it almost as if he s sort of watching a cage match. people get tired of that. or the president gets tired of them. and they eventually
touch him as well. but i was a 14-year-old child trying to play in an adult s world and he was 32 years old. for more, i m joined by national post reporter, robert costa, yamiche alcindor and peter baker, all msnbc contributors. let s go in that order. robert, i always count on you to give me a sense of trump, the man. why is trump the man defending roy moore, the man? this person? it s pure politics, chris. when you listen to insiders in the wlohite house, they say the have to get this tax bill through. and the president is haunted by these accusations he faced los angeles yelast year. so he doesn t want to wade into this national debate about sexual harassment, even though he knows that these women are making pretty credible accusations. so the white house feels politically boxed in and the president has chosen to make a political decision that puts him
so we might hear some things this morning about, oah, this i a witch hunt, this is proof of mueller having exceeded his scope. this is the kind of behavior and activity that is squarely within sort of that mandate that the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, had given mueller in the first instance. we also know that rick gates was at the white house several times this year, okay? and on top of that, we re just getting some reaction from our jim acosta s reporting, who of course is our senior white house reporter, of someone familiar with the situation. a source close to the white house, let me read it to you, that source saying, quote, today has zero to do with the white house. again, the white house is messaging before an initial statement that today has zero to do with the wlohite house. the problem with that argument, manafort and the president kept talking, far beyond after he left, until their own lawyers said, you have to keep talking. and these dates, 2006 to 2017, that s
the wlohite house later. could the market maybe respond tomorrow and say we do have some adult supervision in d.c.? the market may do that and the fact that congress can focus on their day jobs and not focus on this. but in the last week or so, the swirl of this has taken over the news cycle and taken over the president. so this special prosecutor could be a positive. but just think about this. honestly, greta, when was the last time we talked about trump s agenda? pass. i don t know. exactly. i don t know. i can t answer that. not in quite some time, and it s that agenda that s got the market excited. you can talk about deregulation, but are you going to do it or not? i don t know. anyway, stephanie, thank you. thank you. we ll see you tomorrow morning when the markets open. back with me, charlie sykes. charlie, i know you ve been sitting here listening and you ve got some thoughts. so tell me. first of all, stephanie makes a couple of outstanding points. number one,