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Violating the constitution. this is where we are. how is trump violating the constitution every single week. >> this hour, this week, this month. thats where we are. i think one of the sort of bedrock of that tweet apart from the things you just mentioned. >> david, the way normally a story like this and outrageous as this is which is why it is breaking this morning on this show. normally we would have found out through a source that got in touch with david corn. well find out through the media ...

Who decided not the sell ammunition on guns as well as saying that they did not want people into their stores. >> yeah. >> it is great, because they recognized that people were set off, right. we have had quite a few mass shootings back-to-back and people are nervous when they see someone walking into the store to buy toothpaste carrying an ar-15, and so it is important for the retailers to take steps that our own elected officials will not take despite that the majority the, of the country wa t...

H -- revenue has fallen by 69%. 24 trump cabinet officials have spent time or money there. it goes back to donald trump. he runs the newsletter tracking these statistics. were also joined by david corn. good to have you both here. why does this matter. . >> the president is profiting from the presidency. we dont know where his interests lie. hes given up his salary. at the same point hes reported $81 million in income from the trump hotel d.c. in the past two years. thats money thats come from f...

For him to be giving $30,000 directly to trump. theres no blind trust here. he may well be dealing -- when hes not working because he has nothing on his schedule. he may be involved with his own business operations through his two sons. i dont know how to express the outrage that should come in response to this because theres enough -- theres something every day that deserves not one to ten but an 11, 12, 13 on the outrage scale and this is one of those. >> zach has been staying on. david has do...

>> its fascinating because so many different projects in a activism and information has come out of this era. most hotels dont have this revenue streak. >> i had been a travel writer for 15 years. you would mingle with the owner. there would be champagne. it was campaign and struck me as interesting. its something that needed to get covered in depth. >> this is little known. david also wrote for condi nas traveler. he insisted filing his travel

Christopher steele and british intelligence. james baker, who we know was leaking to mother jones and david corn to get out the steele dossier to the press before the election. lisa page and peter strzok, those poor people after the whole thing blew up, they got together and said lets categorize the. the one that comey took home weo determined are confidential and not felonious in the one he left behind we will say are classified but hes not subject to criminal exposure because he didnt take tho...

Three times involved with christopher steele, there was james baker who we know was leaking to mother jones and david corn to get out the dossier, in an orwellian sense, lisa page and peter strzok, no comment needed. they got together and said lets categorize these -- the ones that he took home we determined are confidential and not erroneous and the ones he left behind we will say are classified but he is not subject to criminal exposure because he didnt take those three home. how hard would ha...

Reportedly promising pardons to aides who break the law to build his border wall. nancy pelosi has criticized trumps plan to raid fema money, and democrats say they plan to investigate trumps idea of using his miami property for the g7 summit. but nbcs first reading points out democrats dont seem to have a single overarching strategy to deal with these stories, noting the lack of a coordinated democratic response. with me now is mother jones washington bureau chief david corn. david, good to hav...

Sore it kind of an ad hoc committee by committee individual reaction at a time, not a coordinated party wide strategy? >> my impression is the latter there. and if there is anyone from nancy pelosis office or other people on the hill who want to talk to me, please do so. my questioning of people on the hill has led me to believe that its basically every committee for itself, with the committees themselves going over some turf issues who get to do what. and there is no war room. there is no overa...

Organization who may have tweeted something ten, 15 years ago that is reprehensible, but we are going to use it to tarnish you all. >> you know, my friend, david, this is exactly what joe mccarthy did. he didnt find any significant communists. he found a dentist in new jersey who had been part of the communist party. a dentist. that was his job in the army, to be a dentist. he found this guy was an old lefty, a member of the party and he used that to make the case that the united states army had...