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In new york city. >> its unbelievable. and you know, the wretchedness of what donald trump has done here -- i must add, those who are supporting donald trump, blindly, claiming that sending young children, young children to to places 2,000 miles away from where their parents are, is like sending them to summer camp? the wretchedness of that? that mindset -- the wretchedness, the depravity. you wonder whats happened to people who speak like that in defense of a president, jon heilemann, that dese...

"washington post," indicted, pled guilty and is now cooperating with feds. boy, thats some phony investigation. but wait, theres more. one of donald trumps top campaign managers during the 2016 campaign has pled guilty. and is now cooperating with authorities. why, thats some funny witch hunt. oh, wait, theres more. paul manafort, the man who is running the campaign, jon heilemann, the man who donald trump said he had to get on board, so he could win the republican nomination, is going back into...

>> if you want to know where the republican party is right now, jon heilemann, mark sanford survives career-ending, what should have been a career-ending scandal. as governor, lies about going on the appalachian trail. becomes the butt of late-night jokes. nobody said that guy would ever be elected back to congress. and he won. two years later he votes with trump maybe 95% of the time. >> 87%. >> 87%. says one or two things about trump that people dont like. and is so conservative, conservative ...

Summit with north koreas kim jong un and yesterday we got new comments about the summit from rudy. >> well somehow north korea after he canceled the summit, because they insulted the vice president, they insulted the, his national security adviser. and also said they were going to go to nuclear war against us. they were going to defeat us in a nuclear war. we said well were not going to have a summit under those circumstances. well kim jong un got back on his hands and knees and begged us for it...

Are less likely. at the same time, trumps approval rating has climbed to 44%, and 6 in 10 say they are happy with the economy. >> and theres some numbers, mika, on a russia probe as well. 37% of voters say based on what theyve seen, read or heard, president trumps 2016 campaign did collude or work secretly with russia. 34% disagree with that idea. and 28% say, they didnt know enough to say. thats basically the same, since december. meanwhile 53% of voters say they either had some or a great deal...

Out about the way he treated them or what about what happened between them or about perhaps the things that happened between them. while he was married to melania trump. you just wait. because right now, after you said that, rudy giuliani, i bet they might want to step forward. i bet they might want to think, you know what, just look at me. good luck with your case. >> mika, thats what happened when donald trump, and donald trump attacked the looks of his accusers, and more accusers came out. i ...

Plurality believe that there was actually collusion. so the president can keep tweeting "no collusion, no collusion." the plurality continue to believe by about ten points that he did collude with russia and that number remains consistent. a plurality actually want the mueller investigation to go on. by a pretty comfortable margin and a majority have confidence that robert mule certificate running a fair investigation. they have confidence in it. its interesting, the presidents numbers are going...

President trump about special prosecutors frk in 2016. when he was talking about hillary clinton. >> we are going to get a special prosecutor to figure this deal out. i will ask, my attorney general to appoint a special prosecutor. special prosecutor, here we come, right? were going to appoint a special prosecutor. >> good lord. >> right, jon heilemann, he says thats fascinating. he says thats unconstitutional. yet, that was an applause line, every bit of an applause there as "build that wall." ...

Comment when reached by nbc news. joe, this is pretty big news. >> it really is. jon heilemann, a guess the question is, why paul manafort hasnt been in jail from the very beginning. donald trumps claims nof collusion every day, 12 times a day. may be a bit more believable if he wrote "no collusion" parentheses, oth tn manafort. you can look at public records and you can see very clearly that paul manafort spent his adult lifeluding and consorting with and making calculated political decisions w...

Investigation into whether or not our elections were tampered with. when there have been 19 indictments. i guess -- thats the part that im -- when jon heilemann talks about poll numbers going up -- i just im really at a loss. >> when you talk about, im not trying to understand the trump voter i. not trying to defend the trump voter. think and i said it, december 7th, 2015, coy never vote for a guy who is a racist, that was going to exclude 1.5 billion people from coming -- all right, fine. im ju...