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Credibility in the president really matters. Credibility in the president S Communications staff members. Yes. And we have none of that as we read a Statement Like that. Yeah, and its with something this serious, with something that is its hinting at some sort of military action that may be taken or at least is being threatened. You would usually expect there to be evidence rolled out with that. Wow expect there to be officials speaking on the record or in background to explain it, to help us give context so were just not reading words where we have no idea what theyre about. But in this case all theyve put out is the statement with no supporting information to anybody as far as we can tell. So this is this is a weird way to do something that is this serioussounding. But this is what theyre doing. Another thing that its definitely hinting at is if there is not a chemical attack in syria, President Trump will take credit for there not being a chemical attack in syria. Yeah. I dont know. Im hoping this develops further over the course of this evening. This is the kind of stuff that you dont want people messing about and being imprecise with. So this feels very random and unconnected to anything else that we understand here. I hope this gets cleared up tonight. Well report more as soon as we get it. Thanks, rachel. Thanks, lawrence. Tonight we will be joined by one of the authors of the official New York Times catalog of President Trumps lies. Every lie donald trump has told as president. And one of Donald Trumps new lies is that president obama did nothing to try to stop russian interference in our election. We will consider that. But first, the United States senate is on the verge of making history, on the verge of going you actually track the logic of the tweets, you will get a blinding headache. He says things all the time that arent true. So, you know, why would today be any different or yesterday . He is throwing back the terms that he has been accused of, and its a defense that frankly has no basis. And thats because his actions have been indefensible. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the senate bill would strip Health Insurance from 22 million americans. That explains why republicans have been having trouble defending this law. If youre on the fence, im not so sure this report helps you much. This cbo report should be the end of the road for trumpcare. Republicans would be wise to read it like a giant stop sign. With health care, the American Government has only gone forward, never backward. It provided first medicare, medicaid, Health Care Coverage for people over 65. Health Care Coverage for poor people, much later expanding that coverage under obamacare for a wider range of beneficiary. Never taken anything away. Now, now, republicans in washington are on the verge of taking Health Care Coverage and health care itself away from a minimum of 22 Million People. And the most important statement any republican in washington has made about the Republican Health care bill was made today by the most important republican that america has never heard of. Here he is. Nothing President Trump says about the Republican Health care bill is as important this week as what this guy says. Nothing Mitch Mcconnell says, nothing paul ryan says. This week is as important as what this guy said today. And for that matter, nothing any democrats say is as important as what this guy said today. When it comes to the Health Care Bill, this guy is the most honest republican in washington, or at least hes trying to be the most honest republican in washington. This guy is keith hall. Hes the head of the Congressional Budget Office. Keith hall has the typical academic credentials a cbo head would have. He has a ph. D. In economics from purdue university, but he has a more political history than many cbo directors. He was on president george w. Bushs council of economic advisers, which is not an unusual resume item for a cbo director. But during the Obama Administration, keith hall became a public critic of the Affordable Care act, and that disturbed some democrats, many democrats, when the republican chairman of the House Budget Committee chose keith hall to run the cbo in 2015. Democrats knew that keith hall would be evaluating republican bills repealing the Affordable Care act. They thought he might be prejudiced about that. Senator bernie sanders, who is the Ranking Member of the Budget Committee in the house in the senate, said when keith hall was named director of the cbo, his opposition to increasing the minimum wage and his resistance to sound strategies for eliminating poverty place him outside the mainstream. The republican House Budget Committee chairman who chose keith hall to run the cbo was tom price, who is now the Trump Administrations secretary of health and human services. And tonight the Trump Administration wants you to believe that the republican director of the Congressional Budget Office, who has been a public opponent of obamacare, is wrong in his evaluation of the republican bill to repeal and replace obamacare. Keith halls cbo report says that the slightly new Senate Version of the bill will take Health Coverage away from 22 Million People. And in the process, make health care more expensive for the people who will be able to keep it. There is only one line in todays cbo report that matters to health care consumers. It says, most people would have higher out of pocket spending on health care under this than under the current law. Some republican senators think the bill is too generous and does not repeal enough of obamacare. I wont vote to proceed to it unless the bill changes. I have a hard time believing wisconsin constituents or even myself will have enough time to properly evaluate this for me to vote for a motion to proceed. The big vote news of the night is that maine senator Susan Collins announced she will vote no on the senate bill and she will not even vote for the motion to proceed to consideration of the bill. With Nevada Republican dean heller opposed, that means republicans cannot lose one more vote in the senate. But this weekend, on fox news, the president said he thinks his good friends in the senate will come through. I think so. You know, i have great relationships with most of the people in the senate with, as you know, most of the people in the house. I think i really i work very hard. I made a lot of great friendships with the people in the house, a lot of them. Same thing in the senate. Theyre four very good people. Theyre friends of mine. I dont think theyre that far off. Famous last words, right . Here is what one of President Trumps dear friends in the senate said today about President Trump. If the house bill was, you know, mean according to the president at 23 million, whats the senate bill . Heres what i would tell any senator. If youre counting on the president to have your back, you need to watch it. Joining us now, david jolly from florida and ezra klein, editor in chief of fox. Com. Ezra, the cbo report today, what for you are the highlights of it . What do you think are the points that well be hearing the most about between now and the vote . Highlights isnt the word id choose, but theres a lot in there. The part of the cbo report that i could not get over came i think it was on page 8. And what they said there was remarkable. They went through the numbers of the house bill of the senate bill, and they went through how it worked. And they said basically because of how high the deductibles would be on the plans the senate bill would help people buy, they do not expect lowincome people for the most part to buy any plan at all. So what they are saying is that the senate Health Care Bill would push people who dont have very much money into plans with such high deductibles, those plans would not be worth it for those people to buy even with subsidies. So they would not buy a plan at all. Later they go through the premium comparisons and this stuff gets kind of complicated because the plans are different in different versions of the bill. But kaiser went into that and they looked at what a premium would be like for an apples to apples plan. The kind of plan people are getting on bhaeobamacare, how m would it cost them . And the premium rise is 74 . These are much higher deductibles. Its much higher premiums. Its a very large drop in the number of people who would be insured. This is a catastrophic report, and thats why youve seen in the aftermath of it so many republicans, so Many Senate Republicans saying they cant even vote for the motion to proceed to go forward with the bill. David jolly, whats your reading of the state of play in the senate on this . So, look, ezra is right. Listen, the obamacare picked winners and losers, right . If you are uninsured, if you are sick, if you are lower income, you are a winner. If you are healthy or wealthy, youre a loser. You lost your plan. You lost your doctor. This reverses that. What is very telling is why isnt Mitch Mcconnell or paul ryan or donald trump trying to sell this plan to the American People . We havent heard u. S. Senators or house members trying to sell the details of this plan to the American People. Mitch mcconnell is trying to sell three undecided u. S. Senators, but he wont fess up to 300 million americans, and its because the losers lose a lot more under this plan than the winners win. Ezra, that description that david just gave of obamacare, of the reason were here tonight, which is the repeal of it in effect, that there were winners and losers, and the description of the losers, the idea that everyone apparently who already had a doctor could no longer go to see their doctor under obamacare. That somehow changed the world for all health consumers, thats the burden of Health Legislation is that you get to accuse whoever is moving the Health Legislation of having affected everyones policy and everyones relationship to the health care system. Right. I mean thats just absurd, right . Wealthy people, for one thing, do not for the most wart or really anybody lose their doctors. Theres something the congressman is right about. Wealthy people under obamacare did have to pay higher taxes. They did lose under the bill in that way. They had higher Capital Gains taxes. There were taxes on different parts of the health care industry. If you want to understand what the republican bill is doing, there the tax cuts overwhelmingly go to the richest folks. I think i the number i saw was the top 1 get 45 of the tax cuts in this bill. And in order to pay for those 590 billion of tax cuts, theyre taking a lot of Health Insurance subsidies away from poor people. So you really have to ask yourself is the problem america faces that the top 1 do not have enough money . Is that really a worse problem than the people at the bottom of the Income Distribution not having Health Insurance . Because that is the vision of americas problems as encoded in this bill. This bill is flatly saying it is worse that rich people have to pay slightly higher taxes than that 20 Million People who are mostly low income wouldnt have Health Insurance Going Forward in the future. David, whats going to happen to keith hall this week . Are they going to attack the cbo, tom prices handpicked director of cbo . They probably will because they have nowhere else to go. But lets call balls and strikes here. Obamacare did raise taxes on the wealthy, and this bill rolls it back. But it wasnt just the wealthy that lost their doctors and their plans. Im a tale of two patients. Prior to congress, i lost my doctor. I lost my plan under obamacare, and it was part by subsidizing those who needed additional coverage. But, lawrence, im going to share something with you and the American People tonight that most people probably dont know. Heres the other patient that david jolly is. On january 4th, i was a former member of congress, unemployed, with no Health Insurance, and a preexisting condition. And while i ultimately chose a private sector plan, i also knew in 2017, obamacare provided an exchange that was a safety net that wasnt there before. And to be honest with you, if i had had to rely on it, i knew it was there. Thats why the politics of obamacare in 2017 are different than 2013. I lost my doctor, and i lost my plan in 2013, and i was angry about obamacare, and i ran for congress. But in 2017 as an unemployed person with a preexisting condition, i knew obamacare was there as a safety net if my wife and i needed it. Ezra, a quick last word. I dont think thats actually how the Affordable Care act in general works, but i think the congressman is right on the other piece of this. Medicaid in particular is an incredible important safety net in this country. The core of this bills cuts go to medicaid both now and in the future. The number that will be hurt by that is tremendous. David jolly, ezra klein, thank you both for joining us. Appreciate it. Coming up next, the Trump Defense team is already working out a strategy to deal with any possibility that the Trump Campaign colluded with russia. Just change the meaning of the word colluded. And an analysis by the New York Times reveals the president lies well, he lies a lot. Hey, bud. You need some help . No, im good. 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Dont touch container tip to your eye or any surface. Remove contacts before using xiidra and wait at least 15 minutes before reinserting. Chat with your eye doctor about xiidra. On friday, the Washington Post published a massive story detailing the Obama Administrations reaction last year to the discovery that russia was interfering in our president ial campaign to hurt Hillary Clinton and benefit 2kru678. The article included, as all such articles do, one unnamed source inside the Obama Administration who was not satisfied with the steps president obama took in defending the United States against the russia threat. That unnamed official was quoted in the Washington Post as saying, i feel like we sort of choked. The article was obviously way too long for President Trump to read, but there was enough tv talk about it and enough tweets of the quote, i feel like we sort of choked, for the president to take a public position on this. He got to think about it while he was playing golf this weekend. He took the whole weekend and then today the president publicly announced that even though the article is from the Washington Post and the Washington Post is fake news, and even though the article relies on many unnamed sources, and of course you should never believe unnamed sources, including the unnamed source who said i feel like we sort of choked, even with all of that, President Trump has decided that the article is completely true. A perfect history of russian interference in our president ial election and the Obama Administrations response to it. He announced that in a series of tweets this morning, saying, the reason that president obama did nothing about russia after being notified by the cia of meddling is that he expected clinton would win and did not want to rock the boat. He didnt choke. He colluded or obstructed, and it did the dems and cooked hillary no good. The real story is that president obama did nothing after being informed in august about russian meddling. With four months of looking at russia under a magnifying glass, they have zero tapes of t people colluding. There is no collusion and no obstruction. I should be given apology. Each time the president says president obama did nothing about russia, he capitalizes the word nothing. It seems hes now just trying to make it easier to find the lie. The capitalization really helps. The truth is president obama did several things, including speaking directly to Vladimir Putin about it and giving putin a warning of retribution that, according to the Washington Post article, which the president says is true, quote, prompted moscow to abandon any plans of further aggression such as sabotage of u. S. Voting systems. President trump of course famously and proudly has done absolutely nothing about russian interference in the election. I mean nothing to penalize russia for that interference, but the president has done everything he possibly could to penalize former fbi director james comey for investigating that interference. Joining us now, nick akerman, who served as assistant special watergate prosecutor. And ken vogel, now reporter for the New York Times. Nick, your reaction to the president s tweets here, saying first of all that the Obama Administration did nothing. We know thats not true if you read this massive article. But the idea of him trying to suggest that there was something that the president was colluding. Hes using the word collusion and obstruction now and aiming it at obama. First of all, it is absolutely Crystal Clear he did not read that entire article. Well, we know that. Because if he read that article, hed realize that he was the butfor cause of all these problems. I mean he was the person that was touting russia to go violate federal criminal law and hack Hillary Clintons emails. He was the one that was touting wikileaks and saying how great they were. He was doing everything that Vladimir Putin would have wanted him to do if Vladimir Putin were simply holding the strings of a puppet and trying to get a candidate for president of the United States to undermine our electoral process. He was perfect. And lets listen to something that sean hannity said on friday on his radio show because this seems to be what could be a new set of defensive talking points about this. Lets listen to this. What was the collusion . That maybe somebody in the Trump Campaign talked to somebody in russia because russia supposedly had the information that Hillary Clinton had destroyed on her server when she committed a felony and tried to cover up her crimes . And that they might say, as the Trump Campaign representative, wow, you have that . Tell the American People the truth. Let them see it themselves. Release it. Is that a crime to say release it . So, ken, so the new line might turn out to be, if sean hannity is ahead of the curve here, whats wrong with what they did . Yeah, this is a puzzling defense to say the least. I mean they actually do have some sound defenses to fall back on, which is that russia did, in fact, as trump is increasingly admitting, try to meddle in the election and try to help him, but that it didnt have any effect and that there was no collusion. Stick to that. The idea that somehow theres nothing wrong with encouraging russia to hack or to release hacked emails from Hillary Clinton, thats not a good defense, nor is the idea that he obstructed, that president obama, rather, obstructed the investigation or colluded with someone to somehow hide the ball here. However, that said, trumps other questions about whether, in fact, obama did enough to stave off the hacking or to penalize russia, those are valid questions. Other people are asking did he do enough. Trump is saying he did absolutely nothing because, of course, trump isnt satisfied with the but he also suggests that perhaps the reason why he didnt do it is because he didnt want to rock the boat because he thought Hillary Clinton was going to win, and it might look like he was putting his thumb on the scale. I think that too is actually a valid point. But obstruction, collusion, hacking Hillary Clintons email is a good thing, all bad arguments. Ic i nick, go to sean hannity saying release it, release what you found. And sean hannity asks the question, is that a crime . Hes basically not looking at what the criminal conduct is here. First of all, you youve got all of these contacts because one of trumps Main Campaign people, roger stone, and goosifer, who is the person from russia who was hacking into the Democratic National committee and providing all of this information to wikileaks. At a minimum, there could be a conspiracy to commit hacking here under the Computer Fraud and abuse act, title 18, u. S. Code. Theres conspiracy. Theres also the question of the collusion between the campaign and russia with that micro targeting, whether or not they actually used russia as a means to get to clinton voters to superi suppress the vote. That could be a crime in itself, using Campaign Funds from a foreigner to fund what was, in effect, an effort to suppress the clinton vote. Ill give you another emerging defense that im hearing from my sources. You heard sean spicer allude to this in the offcamera briefing today, where he said that, yeah, trump has acknowledged that russia meddled. But other countries may have as well. My understanding is what spicer may have been referring to and what he and the white house are being encouraged to hit on is a story that we did that showed that ukraine did, in fact, work with a dnc operative to try to get out dirt on Paul Manafort about his dealings in ukraine. Obviously thats of a far different scale than hacking into John Podestas emails or the dncs emails. Nonetheless, its yet another example of the way that theyre sort of reaching for defenses that might answer back against some of this mounting criticism. We now have Associated Press reporting that President Trump is eager to meet with putin next month when theyre going to be at the summit. Nick, if you were his criminal defense lawyer here, wouldnt you advise him to at least publicly play it very, very tough with Vladimir Putin . Oh, sure. I mean i would try and do that. I mean everything he has done up to this point makes it look like hes an inside spy for the russians. He meets with the russians in the oval office the day after he fires comey and wiepnds up givi up classified information. If i were writing the perfect spy novel, thats exactly what i would have happen. Why not do it in public . Give them the information they want in public, and no one will suspect anything. Were going to have to break it there tonight. Nick akerman and ken vogel, thank you both for joining us. Coming up, a legal expert will explain how today the Supreme Court put trumps travel ban on life support. Thats next. You totanobodys hurt, new car. But there will still be pain. It comes when your Insurance Company says theyll only pay threequarters of what it takes to replace it. What are you supposed to do . Drive threequarters of a car . Now if you had Liberty Mutual new car replacement™, youd get your whole car back. I guess they dont want you driving around on three wheels. Smart. With Liberty Mutual new car replacement™, well replace the full value of your car. 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Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the United States until our countrys representatives can figure out what the hell is going on. Joining us now, jay michaelson, a former clerk for Supreme Court nominee merrick garland, and legal columnist for the daily beast. Also with us, ellen farkas, a former executive director of commissi commission. Jay, what did the court decide to do . Well, it did a few things today while it was putting off the final decision. Tell us what happened . Right. So it agreed to hear the case in the october term, and the real question is what happens in the meantime. So the injunctions that had been in place basically staying the ban were partly left in place and partly overturned. That was the kind of surprise. I think most people thought the injunctions would stay in place, meaning the ban has no effect. But instead the court actually allowed the ban to take effect for some people while restricting it for others. This is not uncommon in many cases like this, there are no injunctions at all. They allow whatever the president is trying to do to continue, and then theyll just decide what happens to it after the court actually takes action. But in these cases, there were several injunctions put out there basically blocking the president from doing anything that he wanted to do. So now the Supreme Court has allowed some. The lions share probably remain in effect. The injunctions remain in effect. If you have any bona fide relationship to a u. S. Individual or institution, so if youve been accepted to college or have a job offer or a direct relative in the United States, the ban does not apply. Its only for people who have no connection to the United States. So, you know, it was interesting to see the president call this a victory. 90 victory is really more of a 63 loss because the majority of the ban remains blocked, and i think the Supreme Court really telegraphed in this unsigned opinion where they want to go with this, which is that this ban has really expired. Thats why i said i think they put it on life support. Its a temporary ban that has an end date on it, and the end date will hit before the court actually reaches the end date has already passed. Its a threemonth ban, and the ostensible reason for it, which we can debate whether thats the real reason, but the ostensible reason is well, we need time to figure out what the hell is going on, just like candidate trump said. They said they needed three months. That period ended on june 14th. Evelyn, what is the actual security value of whatever it is the president s trying to do here . Yeah. So, lawrence, i will tell you what the hell is going on. The Security Threat is not coming from the outside. The new America Foundation and a number of other experts have looked at the terrorist attacks that have occurred, the ones that have been lethal. None of them have come from the outside. Theyve all been from people who are american citizens or have been residents living here for a long time. Even of the nonlethal cases, you know, where they were thwarted or nobody was hurt, those also have been almost all of them americans or residents. So its a misplaced the whole measure actually is a misplaced kind of outofdate idea because we havent seen, since 9 11, a successful, thank god, lethal attack coming from the outside. We saw some attempts since then, the most recent being 2009 with the underwear bomber, the nigerian who got on the plane on Christmas Eve and tried to blow up the plane. That was thwarted. So the real issue is radicalization inside the United States, and thats what we have to attack. And a lot of it is happening through the internet, through social media. Very quickly, its individuals actually not even being recruited. Theyre sort of going in and enlisting if you will. Evelyn, i want to go back to something that rachel and i talked about at the beginning of the show tonight, and that is this very unusual statement by the press secretary at the white house. And its saying simply that the United States has identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the assad regime that would likely result in the mass murder of civilians including innocent children. And it goes on to say if mr. Assad conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons, he and his military will have a heavy will pay a heavy price. Its not a press release like anything weve seen from a white house before. How do you read that . Not recently at least. Well, first of all, i mean i applaud the president if this is true for trying to deter the syrians from taking this action. Its completely appalling that they would use chemical weapons again. However, if they dont Pay Attention to this very public attempt to deter them, then i worry about what he means by the military, the Syrian Military will pay a heavy price if i got the quote right because i dont believe we havent seen evidence that this administration has a strategy. So they can exact a price by bombing or who knows what kind of attack we could commit against the Syrian Military. But what is the strategy that thats tied to . So, again, im all for trying to deter the syrians from using chemical weapons again, trying to save lives in syria, but we need an overall syria strategy. So anything we do militarily needs to be tied to that strategy. Jay, apparently the president might be watching you at the moment because he just tweeted during this discussion, he just tweeted, great day for americas future, security, and safety courtesy of the u. S. Supreme court. I will keep fighting for the American People and win. So he thinks hes going to win. He doesnt think his executive order is on life support. We can make a friendly bet on that. Ill see his casino and double it. Jay and evelyn, thank you for joining us. Coming up next, an analysis from the New York Times shows every lie, every single lie that donald trump has told as president. It took a full page of the New York Times in tiny print to include every lie. You supported him through four years of undergrad. And medical school. Its no wonder he said, 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. 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I have been on their cover like 14 or 15 times. I think we have the alltime record in the history of time magazine. The audience was the biggest ever. This crowd was massive. Look how far back it goes. This crowd was massive. I guess it was the Biggest Electoral College win since ronald reagan. Obamacare covers very few people. The fake media goes, donald trump has changed his stance on china. I havent changed my stance. Now, the paris agreement, they all say its nonbinding. Like hell its nonbinding. From the trivial to the important, those are just some of the lies that the New York Times included in its massive new list of every lie donald trump has told in the first 154 days of the trump presidency. The list of trump lies filled an entire page of the New York Times, yesterdays print edition of the New York Times. It includes only what the times calls demonstrably false statements. The times reports that donald trump publicly told a lie on 20 of his first 40 days in office when the times used what it called a broader standard, one that includes his many misleading statements, it found that he said something untrue every day for the first 40 days of his presidency and on 74 out of 113 days after that. An example of what the times called misleading was the president exaggerating military spending in the middle east. Joining us now, stuart thompson, who cowrote the piece on trumps lies. He is the graphics director for the opinion section of the New York Times. Stuart, first of all, thank you because just right on one piece of paper i can just carry around. So this we have to hope is a recurring feature of the New York Times every two, three months, Something Like that. It might be. Please. You can raise my subscription personally to cover whatever this costs, okay . I will personally kick that in. Where did the idea come from to put it all down . Well, a columnist in the New York Times had written about times several times, and he had included in one of his columns where he listed a bunch of lies. And i talked to him about that and thought maybe if we looked at the whole universe of statements that he made, we could put together a big list and sort of give a nice view of the entire list of lies hes made since his inauguration. This is an especially fascinating moment for me because i have been saying trump and lie in the same sentence since, i guess, 2011 when he first opened his mouth about the president s birth certificate. The rest of the news media was very reluctant to do that. The New York Times did not say the word lie with the word trump until september of 2016. That sounds right. So basically in the closing section of the president ial campaign. Are there any regrets at the times about that . I understand the struggle that the major newspapers went through on this question, but i noticed at that time, New York Times, l. A. Times, everybody kind of broke out at the same time. It seems like there was a bit of a tunnel shift in the coverage around that time. I think whats unique about this piece is that its an opinion piece, and its the subjective view of david and i to evaluate those claims. But we have seen, you know, the news section call occasionally something a lie. But we can use a sort of broader standard in opinion. This also could have been done during the campaign. I mean at any point during the campaign for the last month, this could have been done. Yeah, definitely. We only picked it up since the inauguration. We got a lot of comments from people saying you could extend that back, like to the birther movement. What was the response to this . It went online. This appears in the sunday opinion section, so when print appears yesterday, but i think i first saw it on friday. It went up on friday afternoon and very quickly was i think it was the top article all weekend, top opinion piece. Yeah, it was a very popular thing on social media as well. And when you and david studied this, were there moments where you just started to be you probably thought you knew what you were getting into. Did your understanding of what you were doing change by the time you got to the end of it . Yeah, it was difficult to put together. We had over 400, you know, false statements that we were able to factcheck, and we had to cull that list down. That took a lot of debate to really decide what we thought qualified as a lie versus just some kind of falsehood. When you came across something where you thought, well, you know, he might believe this, its completely wrong. The earth is flat, but he might believe the earth is flat, what would you do with one of those . I think thats sort of a theme of his lying. He doesnt necessarily know what the facts are. But, you know, in a traditional lie you sort of willfully deceive people. But hes pretty flippant with the true. Stuart thompson, its a public service. Trump lies. Weve got to keep it going. Whatever you want to do to my personal subscription price to keep this going, go ahead. Thank you very much for joining us. We really appreciate it. Coming up, President Trump is losing some supporters, not a lot. But the most important thing is he isnt gaining any new ones. Thats next. Does psoriasis ever get in the way of a touching moment . If you have moderate to severe psoriasis, you can embrace the chance of completely clear skin with taltz. Taltz is proven to give you a chance at completely clear skin. With taltz, up to 90 of patients had a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques. In fact, 4 out of 10 even achieved completely clear skin. Do not use if you are allergic to taltz. 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All he wants is the love of the 40 or maybe it will get down to 30 . But thats what he wants. He does not think ahead. He does not think to 2020 and what do i need. I need 48 or 51. Whatever i need. He is just going for the love of the true believers. It also seems that police to him are myth kal people because i cant see them. The people that matter are the ones who show up at the rally and they love him. Right. They must all love him. Right, exactly. And so of course when he sees the occasional outliar poll, rasmussen, that have him at 50 . That backs the real poll numbers. And you know, it is so strange and of course if they pass the senate Health Care Bill, which you know i guess if were guessing theyre not going to but if they do, then he sees what happens when he doesnt try to appeal to a majority. Because thats when it starts it seems to me his numbers start going toward 30. And well see if he reacts then. Because so far he has never you know before since he was first running for president he has not had the experience of having poll numbers that low. And i mean theyre not high enough to be reelected but still 40 appear be he got nominated and elected at that. He is dipping a little bit on the honest side. I mean if in january you were one of the 39 who thought donald trump was honest in january, for you actually not much has happened to change that. Because all the evidence was in then about how honest he is. Thats gone down to 36 . People thinking he he is not honest went from 56 up to 59 . But those are in american politics prohibitive poll numbers four the future of a politician who who wont be running against someone he has already beaten. Well and also look at his in terms of how he can even reassure and keep the love of those who support him, his tweets when he goes on the crazy tweet storm, six in 45 minutes first thing in the morning. He is reusing the same program. He doesnt have new ones. Its still the same theyre doing it because they lost the election and this is the real story. And i think thats going to cease keeping people entertained after a certain point. The other thing he is doing or surrogates like sean hannity are doing its not true or false is it a crime or not . Its the defendants version of the truth. Can you convict me on this . I dont think so. And i think he will get there himself i believe. I am among those not terribly upset about what the white house is doing to the White House Press corps in terms of dont use cameras and dont use this. Because i have never seen anything important come out of the White House Press corps ever. The most important they get is someone there gets a leak about something youre going to all know publicly in six hours. They might get it six hours earlier. I do not understand what the value is of turning the cameras on for sean spicer. I mean, wouldnt the proper journalistic protest be were not turning on cameras today because its such nonsense in this room, were not even put going on tv. I agree with you. It is another violation of norms. But not the most serious or ee greej just that he has done. To the degree this goes on that violation of norms will begin being striking some fraction of the 40 who just support him as thats just weird. And he is being theyre being cowards and theyre not play going the way its supposed to be played. I dont see what that gets other than the hill arise subsection o interaction with sean spicer for a day. Its impossible for them to win in that room. They dont have answer to any of the most important questions. So its the one thing strategically from their side they are doing right when all the answers are bad then avoid as much exposure to the questions as possible. Right. But again, is that sustainable . Maybe. I dont think so. All right well have to break it there. 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Thats tonights last word. The 11th hour with Brian Williams is next. Tonight on russia, President Trump blames obama and takes a victory lap as the Supreme Court takes action on the travel ban. Two former white house chiefs of staff from both parties here with us tonight. Plus why the dems were talking late again in the senate. The word today that the new Health Care Bill would dump 22 million more from insurance. What the senate vote might look like. And the veteran of the cia is here to show