Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. A day after 17 people were fatally shot at a high school in south florida, the president read remarks on a telepromptner which he did not mention gun a single time. The white house didnt hold a daily press briefering which meant reporters did not have a chance to ask questions about how else the president plans to address the shooting, about the statement this morning that appeared to place the blame for the shooting on the people in the community about the latest in a string of massacres that have taken place under the president s watch. Reporters also lost the chance to ask about the truly astonishing number of scandals that are currently engulfing this administration. More than a week since the resignation of rob porter whose first wife says did he this to her face while they were married, don mcgahn and yawn kelly have yet to give a full and factual verified account of what they knew about the Domestic Abuse allegations against port earn when or why the white house initially vouched for porters character when the allegations were made public when those photos were published. And now it turns out, porter was not the only senior aide who had trouble getting a security clearance. Nbc news reporting over 130 white house appointees lacked permanent clearances as of last november. Much more on that story coming up. Then of course, there are the president s cabinet secretaries, david shulkin, Veterans Affairs secretary was probably the least controversial of Donald Trumps picks, the only obama holdover confirmed unanimously by the senate. Now under fire for misleading officials about a taxpayer funded trip to europe last summer which included a au ticket to wimbledon and various tourist sites and crucially for making up an award tore justify bringing his wife with him all expenses paid. Shulkin told lawmakers today he wrote a check to reimburse the treasury. I do recognize the optics of this are not good. I accept responsibility for that. And but do i believe its important the United States continue its work with its allied countries. Its not the optics that are not good. Its the facts that are not good. Not the optics, the facts. Theres epa administrator scott pruitt familiar to viewers of this program who is a more controversial figure than shulkin for good reason and hon just discovered to have been flying around the word in first class using public funds including a trip on emirates airline, the single embodiment of over the top luxury which you may remember from this ad with jennifer aniston. The American People paid for that. The epa initially lied about pruetts travel at thing reporters he got a blanket waiver to fly first class. The problem is no such waiver exists. That was not true. He explained the reason he had to fly first class was because passengers in coach arent nice to him. There have been instances unfortunately during my time as administrator as ive flown and time of interaction thats not been the best. Ingress and egress off the plane, the security aspect are decisions made by the chief of staff, by the administration. I dont make those decisions. They place me on the plane. Just to be clear, the man who works for you, the citizen of the United States, says he cant fly among you unless have you enough money because if hes with those people, they treat him well. This after a previous cabinet secretary tom price at hhs lost his job for taking private jets. Now, that brings us to the president s longtime attorney, another person in the president s inner circle. Michael cohn. That man you see there who admitted this week out of the blue he paid 130,000 before the 2016 election to Stormy Daniels, the adult film actroes claims to have had an affair with the president over a decade ago. He says he used his own funds to facilitate the payment denying did the Trump Organization or the campaign had anything to do with it. It raises questions about potential Campaign Finance violations and what role the president may have apply played. Now daniels says she is free to tell her story. More on that later, as well. Speaking of large questionable sums of money, today the New York Times solved part of the mystery of what became of the money raised for the president s inauguration. They donate the leftover funds to charity they said. Turns out there the wasnt much left to give. Almost 26 million went to an Event Planning firm started by none other than an adviser to first lady melania trump. Records reportedly show the firm was created in december 2016, a month before the inauguration. According to first ladys spokesperson, the first lady had no involvement with the inaugural committee nor knowledge of how the funds were spent. This is a remarkable coincidence that the person who is a friend managed to get this contract. There is the slow motion scandal grinding on the background that has shadowed the entire administration. The russia investigation. Led by Robert Mueller which waxed and waned in the public consciousness. A couple big developments in the probe coming up. Through all of this, president s many scandals, the republicans who control congress which has oversight of the chief executive have largely been content to look the other way. That doesnt appear to be the case with the Domestic Abuse scandal at the white house. Chairman trey gowdy announced he is investigating the scandal, demanding answers from the white house and fbi within two weeks. Who knew what when and to what extent. If you into it in 2017 and the bureau briefed hip three times, how in the hell was he still employeded . The security clearances is a separate issue. Its an important issue but separate. How do you have any job if you have credible allegations of Domestic Abuse . How the hell did this happen. Mike is a political reporter. Lets start with there. It sounds like congressman gowdy, based on your reporting, is going to expand his inquiry. What have you found in looking into this . Chris, thanks for having me on with my colleagues carol lee and Kristen Welker and chris gardellla, yesterday we came in posession of documents detailing over 504 employees in the executive office of the president including a range of agencies housed, these are all officials who report to the president or report to officials in those agencies. And we began running the numbers. Our initial headline was more than 130. Its actually 135 officials have been operating at an least as of last november with some form of interim clearance. There might will be a number of reasons why is an official would be operating on an interim clearance while investigation continues. Even our own reporting up till yesterday was that number was much lower. Perhaps only 30 and 40. And the white house in explaining even that number said this is possibly an issue of a backlog. Its true. We spoke with officials from other administrations who said in the first year, we had perhaps dozens of officials waiting for this clearance revow to happen. What was most surprising to me, when you talk about the Upper Echelon of a white house official, people whose titles include assistant to the president , there are 30 of those in the Trump Administration and 10 of those, ten of those officials were operating and a completely are interim clearance including jared kushner, it includes ivan can trump, dan scavino who was involved in a lot of meetings taking pictures. Another group of officials hosh dollars have top secret clearance but were waiting for the highest level clearance socalled sci clearance in order to view the same and most side effect classified documents that the president would encounter. So one of the explanations again has had to do with whether there was a lag, a backlog of but whats important to note, there were 12 officials who starred after ivan can trump officially went onto the white house payroll who managed to get the highest level of clearance while these other officials are still waiting for theirs. There are a bunch of people started at the same time, some managed to get permanent clearance. Theres a bunk who didnt. We dont know the answer as to why. Thats right. There are any number of reasons why is somebody in the course of an investigation would have their clearance held up. Our own ken dilanian was reporting today that theres an additional in addition to the standard sf86 questionnaire that every executive branch official would be go through, theres an additional questionnaire that white house officials work have to deal with which specifically gets to issues that might make somebody susceptible to blackmail, could be a lot of foreign entangments, foreign ralphs, high levels of debt, issues of substance abuse. Those are the kinds of things that would raise red flags in somebodys application. I was interested to hear, as well in the last hour, we has Christopher Lu who helped run the obama transition in 2008. He said they precleared in the course of the transition period before the election 200 officials immediately going to need this high level access before the election even happened. I think we know that any preparations that had been done by the Trump Transition Team before the election were essentially thrown out the window after election day, of course, when Chris Christie who had been running the Transition Team was dismissed and the Vice President took it over. They were starting from scratch in terms of officials. Mike, thanks for being with me. Thanks. Joining me now a democratic congressman, staff secretary under president bill clinton. Is this normal . These kinds of numbers . No, its not normal. And its particularly egregious when you talk about the assistants to the president. That is the highest staff level at the white house. And to be have ten of 30 without this clearance, 14 months in, is very unusual. One of the people is don mcgahn. I dont understand how this is possible, frankly, for the white House Counsel to not have permanent clearance. Its one of the most important jobs in a white house. Hes got to deal way lost sensitive information. What do you make of that . Well, its not good. And chris, look, i went through you this personally. I can tell you the fbi sent field agents from the uruguay south american field office over to the small peruvian village where i worked as a volunteer with the jess youities in law school to interview the villagers. It was done fast and it was done with exacting precision. Here, the worst part of the porter thing is this is a guy with top secret foerlds on the desk and a burn bag under the desk because you incinerate the material he reads every day. People dont understand everything goes to the president through the staff secretary. National security adviser gives his memo to the staff secretary. When you know that this guy can never be cleared, then it is grossly incompetent and it is negligent to allow him to stay in the job. Others can take some time. Others may be a lower level or they see a different level of classified information. The white House Counsel that youre talking about, the staff secretary, assistants to the president , they have to be cleared fast. If theres a problem and you know its a permanent problem, a disqualifying problem, then you sideline the guy. In this case, they should kick him down the stairs because he was beating his exwives and you should care about that. The other question i have here, right, is that we know the porter story now. We know this is an individual that was told during his background check, exwives said this person was violent and tyrannical towards me, et cetera. That led to a delay in getting permanent security clearance which looks a lot like a rejection that never sort of came so they can kind of continue to kick the can down the road. Yeah, i think thats a great point. I guess my question is, do you have concerns that thats the case that theres Something Like that lurking somewhere in these other dozens of ones that are outstanding particularly the ones that have been there a long time . That is exactly why a bunch of us called on the Oversight Committee to look at this. Its good trey gowdy has started down this road with the same an vigor he applied to the handling of classified information by Hillary Clinton and then as secretary of state. I mean, this is really the key question right now. Hose is down there handling our countrys top secrets with a secret of their own . We already saw a speechwriter leave also for domestic violence. 130 people is a lot. And ten of the assistants to the president is very unusual to me. We should get to the box it quicking. Do you think that you can get to the bottom of it . This is a very sensitive kind of process, not something that people will be forthcoming about whats going on. No, but in the case of mr. Porter, im not sure theres a reason we shouldnt know what he said to the fbi, whether he made material omissions on his form. Thats a crime. If the white house knew it, we want to know what they knew. If they were assisting him in that, thats very serious. The president said he knew nothing about this which begs the question who cleared him even temporarily once they knew the information. Its very important that the Oversight Committee get the documents and find out who is working down there, looking at our top secrets who may be subject to blackmail. This is basic competence. Its very disappointing that john kelly who was brought in to run that place seems to be up to his neck in this. Hes been all over the map on his explanations. I respect his service but hes accountable for what happened underneath him. Its a mess. I would like an answer to the question whether don mcgahn has permanent clearance. If he doesnt, how is he doing his job and whats in the way of it . When is it going to get resolved. Id like that answered to. Sean patrick maloney, thanks for your time tonight. Next, reporting from nbc news on Steve Bannons interview with Robert Mueller and the late breaking reporting tonight that the Mueller Investigation is about to flip yet another witness. Well get to both stories in two minutes. Some air fresheners are so overwhelming, they can. Send you and your family running. Introducing febreze one for fabric and air. No aerosols. No dyes. No heavy perfumes. It cleans away odors for a pure light freshness. So you can spray and stay. Febreze one, breathe happy. Sure. Mom,whats up son . Alk . I cant be your it guy anymore. What . You guys have xfinity. You can do this. Whats a good wifi password, mom . 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For more what it could mean for the investigation, im joined by joyce vance, former u. S. Attorney for the Northern District of alabama. Start on the idea of queen for a day. What happens there. This is a session that sometimes is called more technically a proffer session. Its a chance for the prosecution and the potential cooperating witness to get to know each other. So you have to understand that at this point, this potential cooperator who is also a potential defendant has a lot to lose by being candid with the government. So he has the ability to come in and tell the prosecutors everything that he knows with the promise that it wont be used back against him unless he lies or takes the witness stand and says something contrary to whats in the proffer. This is an opportunity for the government to test drives the witness and see if the testimony will bring value to them to give them the opportunititon investigate it and make sure its truthful, and ultimately, if both parties are satisfied after they kick the tires a little bit, theyll conclude a plea agreement. So theres twos people that he have already had plea agreements, George Papadopoulos and michael flynn, two people charged and pled not guilty, rick gates, this individual who is the deputy of Paul Manafort who is the Campaign Chair for the campaign. What is the significance, if he were to become a cooperating witness . So this is interesting because we dont know the answer to that. Much like we dont know everything that the Mueller Investigation is working on. Were not sure whether gates has value because hes going to cooperate and testify against manafort. Making it that much more likely that manafort, too, will decide to cooperate and testify and help out the Mueller Investigation or does gates have some value of his own that he can offer against other key targets. We know that he stayed on with the campaign for a little ways at least after manafort left. Perhaps he was around at the convention when there was this is change to the platform that favored russia. He might be able to shed some light on that. But its not really clear. Is he valuable intrinsically or just because he helps with manafort. Is this fairly standard this trajectory of a charge and not guilty plea and it appears gates changed his representation and is now looking towards a plea. Is that something you see fairly often . I think that this is exactly what we would expect to see. Everybody pleads not guilty in the federal system at the time of arraignment. Then theres a dance back and forth, prosecutors reveal the evidence they have against a defendant. Its extremely expensive to go to trial for someone like mr. Gates. We see some reports he may be in some financial difficulty at this point in time. So this is exactly what we would expect to see. Hes got a trial team in place and, of course, theres an effort sort of under seal so we dont know the details where that team of lawyers is trying to disentangle themselves. The new lawyer hes working with is somebody you would expect to see negotiating a plea deal. Joyce vance, thank you for joining me. As we mentioned, we learned today that Donald Trumps former chief strategist steve bannon has now been interviewed by Robert Mueller. Nbc reporting the interviews took place over multiple days this week for a total of some 20 hours bannon has been less than forth coming with the house intelligence committee. His First Encounter last did not go well. White house orders, he refused to answer questions about the transition and his time in the west wing and issued a subpoena on the spot. Bannon did essentially the same thing when he returned to capitol hill today answering only 25 yes or no questions written by the white house and replying no to each one. Now the big question is, will the committee hold him in contempt. Joining me is someone who was there for the interview today. Eric swalwell of california. So im a little confused how this went down today. Bannon came in and what happened . Good evening, chris. First let me say my head and heart are with the families down in florida. As the a disgrace that is congress recessed early today and out all next week without doing anything. We did have in bannon before our committee today. And he asserted new privileges that weve never heard of which include that even if he talked to somebody yesterday or in the past few days and acknowledged that he had, that he cant tell us about it. And so we are seeing further efforts to obstruct and hes doing this, he said, on behalf of the white house and so you know, its quite disturbing and if our subpoenas are to ever mean anything, the next step we should take would be to hold him in content. I want to play the sort of acting chair of your committee because devin nunes has kind of recused himself although not really. The acting chair visavis this investigation had to say. Take a lis. And contempt is a big deal. I dont have unilateral control over that conversation. We have conversations about house equities as to how important our subpoenas are. Do you personally feel like he should be held in contempt. I think he should answer our questions. Whats your take quae away from that. Theyre in the majority. They have the subpoena power. And you know, hayes done an admirable job considering the circumstances hes under where devin nunes comes and goes mostly as a disruptive force. He wasnt there today. We should have moved peeledly to hold him in contempt. Theres other witnesses also asserting bogus privileges from attorney general sessions to donald trump jr. To roger stone. And we are telling them, were telegraphing we dont care that were not going to do anything about it. I think it could have just a destructive effect in the future. There will be future investigations. And were setting a really dangerous precedent. His behavior before this committee has been unique, right . Yes. Certainly though he has unified democrats and republicans in wanting to hear from him. But what concerns me is, the test is to whether the republicans are serious about taking the necessary steps toe compel his testimony. But heres what concerns me, chris. He is represented by same attorney who is representing don mcgahn. This is interesting because mcgahn is the white House Counsel who is a serting executive privilege. So you have an attorney representing one client hosteling another client that they cant testify. It tells me one, theyre working together. But its also i think one of the greatest conflicts of interest ive ever seen in the law. Also, this ultimately someones going to have to rule on this. Youre going to have to press the case on your committee or hes going to win and you walk away. Or you keep going but what hes asserting my understanding is quite a radical interpretation of the scope of this privilege. Certainly. He has asserted that again, even in his time after leaving the white house, if he talked to someone who never stepped foot in the white house that he cant talk to us about that. That happened a number of times today. So its really on us. Its whether we want to be a Serious Investigation or not. We can keep trying as democrats to change our colleagues minds or chris, were going to having to change 24 seats and do this investigation the right way come january. Congressman eric swalwell, thank you. My pleasure. The sheriff in charge of investigating the mass shooting in parkland, florida, is asking for more power to detain people or their social media posts. Sheriff scott israel will join me live coming up. Today the speaker of the house of representatives a man who has as much control as anyone what congress can do on any given mat he of Public Interest spoke back yesterdays School Shooting, about the murder of 17 students and teachers. Right now, i just think we need to take a breath and collect the facts. This is not the time to jump to some conclusion not knowing the full facts. So i just think what you dont do is knee jerk and say lets just take away a citizens rights. If that sounds familiar, it is because it is. Listen for instance to what paul ryan said after the shooting in San Bernardino that left 14 dead. What we are trying to do is find out the facts and make sure that what our response is actually addresses the problems without without infringing upon the rights of law abiding citizens. We want to make sure we dont violate a persons rights if theyre a law abiding citizen. You have to think these things through before we just have knee jerk reactions. Thats my point. Listen to what he said after the shooting in oregon that left nine people dead. Ryan says now is not the time for knee jerk reactions to the Second Amendment. I think by going after citizens Second Amendment rights after these tragedies is to overlook the real problems that underlie these particularly in the area of mental illness. Yes, mental illness. Youll see a rot lot of republicans talking about mental illness. The data doesnt quite bear it out. It might be more persuasive if congress was doing about that issue. Literally the only gun related bill to be signed by this republican president with the Republican Congress was a bill last year that rolled back an obama era regulation that makes it easier for a person deemed to have a mental disability to purchase a gun. So while paul ryan avoids a knee jerk reaction to another mass shooting we move forward towards the next one without any reaction at all. When i received the diagnosis, i knew at that exact moment, whatever it takes, wherever i have to go. Im beating this. My main focus was to find a team of doctors that Work Together. When a patient comes to ctca, theyre meeting a team of physicians that specialize in the management of cancer. Breast Cancer Treatment is continuing to evolve. And i would say that ctca is definitely on the cusp of those changes. Patients can be overwhelmed. We really focus on taking the time with each individual patient so they can choose the treatment appropriate for them. 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Its very rough, obviously, no parent should ever have to bury a child. Its devastating to the community. My wife and i raised our tripletts in that very community. They graduated high school. Coach feis was the coach i coached with and coped my two boys. Its a really tough time in parkland. Where is the investigation at this point . We continue to interview the suspected killer. We created a timeline. Our detectives have done an amazing job putting this timeline together by connecting video from the school. The our detectives along with atf have traced the gun to its origin, where it was bought and sadly, it was bought legally by the suspected killer when he was 18 years old. The we know where the gun was purchased and we continue just to follow leads. We have over 2,000 people to speak with as we try and find out why, who, what, where. So much to do. You know, the president this morning tweeted about the warning signs. And there were some people who interpreted that he was sort of saying that people should have done more. Obviously, there were certain things known about this individual. He was expelled from the school for this very reason. What is your feeling about that . My feelings are that different states talk about being able to involuntary take a suspect or a subject who might be the victim of Mental Health illness and bringing them to a facility where they could be evaluated and treated. In florida, we call it a baker act. The only time a Police Officer can baker act a subject is when theyre an immediate, an immediate threat to themselves or someone else. You know, we keep saying were going to have conversation. We got to stop having conversation and we got to do something pro active to save children, to save people from these horrific events. Im going to asking every legislator, every lawmaker that will lis than this baker act statute needs to be changed and Police Officers, deputy sheriffs who have information that a subject has posted some horrific pictures or videos on his or her website, bloody bombs, guns, rifles, things like that, police have to have the ability to take these people involuntary if necessary to be examined by Mental Health professionals. People say, what about their rights . And im cognizant of their rights and i spent a lifetime in Law Enforcement protecting peoples rights. But at the end of the day, the rights of our children must be first and foremost. We need to protect our kids. Our kids go to places like schools and libraries with book bags and pences. We need to do whats in the best interests of our children. And lawmakers got to change the way they do things. The same old same old just aint working. You could talk about gun control and what have you. We need less guns in america, not more guns in america. Guns should never fall into the hands of people on nofly zones, convicted felons. And while i pray for people who suffer from Mental Illnesses and i want them to get better and want them to heal, if a person is suffering from a mental iness in the opinion of this sheriff, they shouldnt be around a gun, able to be possess a gun or buy a gun. Those are things we need to do to keep american safer and our children alive. I understand. Obviously, this is like extremely complicated terrain for a bunch of reasons. And youre in an incredibly complex situation here. Just to follow up on that, you know, if the way that you could detain someone against their will is theyre posting things on instagram like this individual did have their arsenal, theres millions of people in america doing that. Posting lots of pictures of your guns or posting pictures of yourself holding a weapon or holding knives, thats not that uncommon in this country. Were talking about lots and lots of people, right . Right. And i expounded upon that a little bit. Im talking about being around bombs, possibly talking about i want to be a serial killer. Talking about taking peoples lives. Just taking a picture with a gun or a knife or a weapon that, in and of itself is clearly not even remotely something were concerned about. When you take a totality of pictures and statements and verbiage that a subject is writing or posting and you have a reasonable suspicion that this person might be a danger to children, to society, i had i we have an obligation as lawmakers to change the laws so we can doing something about it. To do the same old thing over and over again, the poet described that as insanity. We need to do things differently. We need to stand up as lawmakers and give police the powers to take fooem people suffering from mental iness to medical health professionals. You know, i feel strongly about that. Everybody has their opinion. I have mine. I dont know how many people with their opinions went into a school yesterday and saw 17 dead people. I guess to follow up on that, there is this question about taking peoples rights away. We have a National Conversation about it. It seems to me the right to purchase a weapon is a lesser right than the right to move around freely. Youre talking about something quite extreme. I understand why that makes sense given what this individual is alleged to have done. But just so i understand where youre coming from, you dont think avid like this should have been able to legally acquire a weapon . No, i dont. If we knew the things we knew. What were probably going to know what we dont know tonight but what were probably going to know three, five, seven days from now, if we knew that, you know, a year ago or two years ago, i believe we should have the empowerment to prohibit that person from being around a weapon. And from being able to baker act that person as we call it in florida and take him for evaluation and for the help he may need. Sheriff, you were i imagine in that school yesterday. I was. What is that kind of firepower, what does it do to a place and the people in it . Well, you know, i dont want to get graphic about it, but it produces great carnage. Its a devastating weapon. The rounds fired were i dont have a round count. Its going to be incredibly high. Its a high powered, its an ar15, a highpowered rifle. And its going to devastate people and kill people. All right. Sheriff scott israel has been working tirelessly since this happened. We appreciate you taking the time and wish you and everyone in that community the absolute best the entire country obviously watching and pulling for you. Thank you very much. Thank you and thank you for allowing me the opportunity to cop on your show. I appreciate it. You bet, sheriff. Well be right back. 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We can vote people in who have the courage to protect peoples lives and not just bow down to the nra because theyve financed their campaign for them. So hopefully, well find enough people first of all to vote good people in but hopefully we can find enough people with courage to actually help our citizens remain safe. The coach is right on this score that the majority of republicans in washington have proven they do not have the courage to do anything on this issue or really the will. Its not even a question of courage. I dont think they want to. Maybe not all republicans because today thing 2, the moments republican members of a state legislature stepped up to help pass a gun control bill, the oregon house of representatives advanced a gun safety measure that closes the socalled boyfriend loophole barring gun ownership for those convicted of domestic violence, have a retraining or stalking conviction even if not married to their victims. It passed with overwhelming support from democrat as well as three republicans who joined them including a state representative a gun owner who received donations from the nra but decided not to do their bidding. All week long, i have been inclined to crawl under my desk in the fetal position and ultimately reach for that lefthand button when the time came. I sincerely regret the timinging in hearing this matter given yesterdays tragic events in broward county. My hearts broken. As i think about my own grandchildren. Potentially facing similar horror. I want finally to make it absolutely clear that my yes vote today in no way reflects disdain for those who disagree with me. Frankly, i pray that all of us can continue to Work Together for the common good in this body. Thank you, madam speaker. Its a big day if the senate today because there were four immigration proposals brought up for a vote in that body. All four of them failed. Now, the biggest defeat and this is interesting and important to recognize. The biggest defeat went to the plan that would dramatically reshape and limit Legal Immigration that was backed by the president. That will plan, that did the worst. It got a mere 39 votes. Not even a majority. Nevertheless not even considering overcoming a fill buster. That gives you a sense how outnumbered the people that support that kind of vision out, how outnumbered the immigration retricksists are. Today, guns once again, the minority illustrated even though they dont have a majority of congress or the American People, they continue to wield veto over the lives of millions of people. Of the three plans that address daka, the one that came close to passing as a bipartisan more kren activity proposal. It only failed because the white house itself went out of its way to sink it. The president tweeted this morning the bill would be a total catastrophe, and on a background call, an anonymous official trashed lindsey graham, one of the republicans behind the plan. The white house issued an explicit threat. If the president were presented with a bill that includes the amendment, his advisers said he would veto it. Even the department of Homeland Security issued a statement that implied the plan crafted by a Bipartisan Group of senators would essentially lead to another 9 11 which means that the best chance to protect dreamers went down because the white house, its allies and congressional leadership wanted it to go down. Thats what happened today. The reason they wanted it to go down is that the president and his partys most powerful faction want dreamers to be subject to deportation. That isrevealed preference. That is what their actions show loud and clear. Now the problem for them and the reason this debate gets so confusing and bizarre is that that position they have that they want dreamers to be subject to deportation is a wildly unpopular one so they cannot just come out and admit it. Remember, what the president said just last month. Chuck, i will say when this group comes back, this group and others from the center from the house comes back with an agreement were signing it. They will be signing it. Ill be signing it. Thats exactly what the president did. First, he announced an end to the daca Program Providing protection for hundreds of thousands of dreamers. Then he instructed congress to come up with a bipartisan solution and rejected a series of bipartisan solutions. The entire farce was about staging enough votes to confuse people about where the two parties actually stand on this question. There will be no daca deal because the president and his advisors and paul ryan and Mitch Mcconnell do not believe Daca Recipients should be allowed to live their lives as americans. They share that view with a minority of the country to be clear but that is the minority of the country thats currently in control. I dont want to lie down. I refuse to lie down. Why suffer . Stand up to chronic migraine with botox®. Botox® is the only treatment for chronic migraine shown to actually prevent headaches and migraines before they even start. Botox® is for adults with chronic migraine, 15 or more headache days a month each lasting 4 hours or more. Its injected by a doctor once every 12 weeks. And is covered by most insurance. Effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injection, causing serious symptoms. Alert your doctor right away, as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems, or muscle weakness can be signs of a life threatening condition. 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After a complaint filed claimed that the 130,000 payment was a donation to the Trump Campaign, he said he facilitated the 130,000 payment with his quote own personal funds and that neither the Trump Campaign or organization reimbursed him but cohens allegations raise more questions and according to Stormy Daniels herself, cohen broke the nondisclosure. The manager saying everything is off now and stormy is going to tell her story. Jason johnson, professor at Oregon State University and host of the majority report with sam seater. What do you make of the Michael Cohen statement . Its possible a guy like that knew my job is to go and expend 130,000 and if you dont believe the trump people would necessarily win the election, maybe he thought that money would come back later. It also occurs to me that maybe this was pretty good timing. I mean, to announce Something Like this. I dont know what the stakes are of stormi daniels. If its not porter, if i was the trump people, id rather be talking about stormi daniels than porter. The way they treated this from the beginning, the way they dealt with it is to the threat it represents to Donald Trumps reputation. Right. Thats the part of this i dont understand. Thats a lot of money. They dont like throwing around a lot of money. I dont get that part of it. Look, chris, if you pay somebody 130,000, they either did something or youre trying to keep them from saying what they did, right . Were talking about something that happened 12 years ago. It doesnt have a huge impact. Donald trump will still stay president. Hes not going to get impeached because he may or may not have had a relationship with a porn star. This shows how sloppy supporters are. If he created a super pac called hide your mistress, he could have gotten off scott free. Just to be clear, they did create an llc. They did create a delaware llc with the name that paid it but he was under pressure to make the ad mission because of the filing, what is clear here is that the way its structured is someone did reimburse him, it wasnt the entities he said it was. Its possible that somebody reimbursed him. If were going to speculate about the 130,000, why that could have been a big number, look, we have no idea what the arrangement is with donald trump and his current wife and it is quite conceivable that there are certain stipulations when people with that money get married. There is often certain documents that are drawn up, prenups. Someone knew. You dont know. I think from the youre saying there is consequences for this beyond the public and political. There might be intense intimate consequences. I mean, except for the slight intrigue, is there anybody out there whose perception of donald trump will be changed by this story in any way . Yes, it would be very onbrand for this to be the case. The other question, it is the fact, jason, weirdly, this story again is notperspective, although it is when you say the president of the United States personal hinchman paid 130,000 to an adult actress to cover an affair, i wonder the extent to stormi daniels being in the public changes that. If she feels the nondisclosure agreement has been violated, shell go out and talk. She wont dance around it like she did with jimmy kimmel. Shell find the largest outlet she can and this will benefit her. Her porn hub searches went up. I looked this up. There will be a benefit to her coming out and talking about this. There is also another question that goes back to what were mentioning about the marriage and contracts. If we go by fire and furry, the book about the trump white house, if were to believe, we dont know the trump marriage was on the rocks and that they were going to get divorced as soon as he lost this election, it is highly likely that this might have been something that was done in order to save donald trump if he had a really ugly divorce. The other thing it per sip tates is where is money moving in what direction . You combine this 26 million to someone that was a friend of melania including 1. 6 million personally to her, i feel like we havent learned the full total of which money changed hands where under the Trump Campaign. You know, for us, the story might be stormi daniels but for other people who are investigating the flow of money, story might be the way in which this lawyer set up this llc. I mean a gift tax was filed and what happened. We dont know what the most relevant part of this story is. Somebody leaked this and it was somebody that wanted to do damage to trump or to people around youre saying the initial story. And we presume its based upon the notion of who he paid off and the intrigue around that but it could very well be. A bread crumb trail. To look at the path of the money. Thank you. That is all in for this evening. Steve bannon spending the day with house intel as nbc learned he spent some 20 hours with Robert Mueller. President trump addresses the School Shooting tragedy without mentioning the word guns. As florida mourns and washington doesnt act, are students going to be the one to push this issue where others have failed. Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarter here in new york day 393 of the Trump Administration. We know this has been a busy week in the russia