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Devastating loss. his devastating loss is that he shook hands and he agreed,let reopen the government. >> well, look, of course, the remarkable thing about it, and it is why the american people have contempt for congress, i mean, the government shutdown was about two issues. fundamentally, 90% of the american people support them. were looking at what i say is a carnival of incompetence in d.c. >> ali velshi has treasury secretary steve mnuchin. >> i just did. hes over there. >> ali? >> reporter:...

Then andrew mccabe, brought in for a get to know you and asked essentially out of loyalty who did you vote for, lo and behold the president calls for him to be fired. we now have reporting he pressured wray to fire him and mccabe ultimately retires. >> it is definitely part of a pattern. thats absolutely right. and i saw your very excellent insights earlier on ari melbers show ""the beat" where you said only one person knows what donald trump did. well, there is evidence here of what he did. and...

We do the largest study of trust globally, looking at business, media, government, and ngos. 33,000 people surveyed across 28 countries. what weve seen over the 18 years is the biggest one-year drop in trust ever, and its on the united states of america. the american people dont trust the united states, and globally the united states has fallen. brand america, in terms of companies that are headquartered here, were between italy and spain. were slightly more trusted than russia, slightly less tr...

Has now reached new levels of contempt for institutions of government like the fbi. and that has bothered more than one united states senator. so on the whole, i think its a positive what happened over the weekend. >> mike saw a lot of commentators during the government shutdown. taking a predictively cynical tiresome view, whats, what are these people doing, you know, theyre such fools, theyre such clowns. no, you actually had democrats standing up, for what they believed in. and i remember we ...

Drop in trust ever, and its on the united states of america. the american people dont trust the united states, and globally the united states has fallen. brand america, in terms of companies that are headquartered here, were between italy and spain. were slightly more trusted than russia, slightly less trusted than china. and globally, youve seen huge increases in trust around brand china, as american seems adrift in the world. certainly when you think about the american people domestically and ...

Certainly when you think about the american people domestically and you look at this carnival of incompetence under way in washington, d.c., where our politicians hail as some giant foot forward for the american republic, the notion that ministerially they can maintain the government, that this is some type of victory, you understand why the american people hold their politicians in such profound contempt and distrust. >> as so many people go to see a movie about winston churchill at a time when...

Illegal immigrants at times at odds with the interest of american citizens, as he puts it. as if a lot of immigrants dont become american citizens. as if thats not the original source of the american citizens. i think its bad for the country divisive and exploitive rhetoric hes using. think of sarah sanders, didnt you play this earlier she says about chuck schumer whos been there an awful long time, cut an awful lot of deals, he doesnt understand the policy process, senator schumer. that kind of...

>> the president called me fake nudes. somebody went on my wikipedia page and changed my wikipedia page to say that i had died that day on january 11th, 2017. that had to be taken down. i turned off my twitter notifications because it became sort of this open sewer of hatred and contempt. heres the question. what do we do about this? do we just take it? do we not say anything? >> to his supporters, attacking the messenger is a feature, not a bug. an access to an unfiltered leader feels authentic...

That hes going to preemptively exempt himself from having to answer question, what do you think lewandowski or hope hicks will do, listen, im also going to preemptively do this. it really is nothing that has ever been done before, but the playbook is well-established. to be clear, the idea of whether or not a congressional desire to compel someones testimony and hold them in contempt is not really just a republican issue. remember that the former attorney general eric holder refused to answer ce...

>> right. in this interview with senator graham i want to bring in something else he said. so being incredibly critical of the president. been very flip flopping. but asked about whether the president was racist given the whole s hole controversy. he said hes not a racist. >> why dont you ask me is he a racist? >> that was my next question. >> absolutely not. you could be drk as chocolate, lilly white, it doesnt matter. its not the color of your skin that matters or content of your character its...