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>> which of these accusations hasnt been true. >> stormy daniels he paid her off. he paid off mcdougal. these are real cases. theres nobody out there making up fortune cookie cases. >> the fact checks dont necessarily stop trump. >> the context important to remember is women certainly arent a monolith when it comes to hot button issues. remember the majority of white women voted for donald trump even in the wake of the access hollywood tape. its significant. even in the wake of that tape where h...

"rosenstein suggested he secretly record trump and discussed 25th amendment." >> heres michael schmidt of "the new york times" who broke that story with some more detail. >> as we point out in the story, rosenstein in the meeting was asked whether he was serious or not and he said that he was. >> but this morning there is a debate over what rod rosenstein meant. heres my colleague. >> the senior justice department officials are pushing back strongly on the way this is being characterized. what t...

This is from the "new york times." the headline of this piece, rosenstein suggesting he would secretly record trump and discuss 25th amendment. >> were hearing different interpretations of what rosenstein meant with that suggestion. >> senior justice officials are pushing back strongly. what theyre saying is thats was made sarcastically. >> michael smith says this. >> as we point out in the story, rosen stein in the meeting was asked whether he was serious or not and he said that he was. >> rod ...

Or treating people in an equal then maybe ill have shifted his thinking a bit. the big thing is now you have president trump possibly not being able to have a supreme court nominee. this is one of the number one things that evangelical christians wanted out of this nominee. if brett kavanaugh cant get through, this president will have a lot of people look at him and saying why are we supporting you. >> i also want to read from this article, according to someone close to her, sanders trying focus...

13 years of strategic missteps have been followed by the maniacal moves of a man who has savaged americas vital alliances, provided comfort to hostile foreign powers, attacked our intelligence and military communities. what are your thoughts on that? >> 13 years of strategic missteps and then in the same breath criticizes a president for maybe raising the question that the military has not implemented the right strategy and these wars. the amount of cognitive dissonance that it requires to write...

Reality for the foreseeable future? >> i think this is the reality because the president has shown himself incapable of separating the national security threat to the u.s. from the questions about his own ledgitimacylegiti. its more than just cognitive dissonance, it aamounts to what is undermining one of our greatest weapons in this struggle which is the opportunity to publicly shame and confront the russians and putin. the president far from doing that, from from in helsinki saying we know wha...

Theyre speaking from the same playbook. but this is a tough line to walk, andrea. >> ken dilanian, you had dan coats, head of national intelligence, questioned about the dissonance there. lets watch. >> in the run-up to the helsinki summit, u.s. officials, ambassadors to nato, ambassadors to russia, said that the president would raise the issue of malign activity with the president. >> im not in a position to either understand fully or talk about what happened at helsinki. >> ken, it does seem t...

Directly contradicting what vladimir putin told the world in helsinki, that putin did want donald trump to win the 2016 election. also contradicting of course his own national security cabinet only hours earlier in that unprecedented white house briefing. joining me now, charlie sykes, contributing editor at the weekly standard, and michael steele, former gop chairman, both msnbc contributors. charlie, youre in wisconsin, in the heartland. what are people there saying about what were seeing as d...

Andrea, they have an old proverb which is that when you are probing with a bayonet and you encounter pu countecounter mush. when you hit steel, withdraw. well have to show some steel in the cyber world. i hope general nakasone is prepared to do that. i would like to hear more, at least to the congress on a classified level, about what options are on the table. lets time we took this more seriously than we have to date. >> and russia also misbehaving according to treasury sanctions today on north...

>> there is the disgrace and it wont be recaptured any time soon because of the damage youve done to the justice system. and i talked to agents around the country. you embarrassed them and embarrassed yourself. and when i see you with that little smirk, how many times did you look so innocent into your wifes eye and lie to her about -- >> mr. chairman, this is outrageous! >> is the issue -- >> mr. chairman, please! >> have you no decency. >> you need your medication. >> sean: it is clear and obv...