joining me now is political reporter ken vogue el of big money. so, perfect guy to talk about this, ken. katy tur spoke to author of dark money for her show and i want to play a little bit of that. who are the koch brothers? they are owners of the second largest private company in america. probably everybody has some product from koch industries. they make everything from stain master carpet to dixie cups and georgia pacific lumber. they are huge refiners of oil. you might see an ad and it is funded by one of the groups. you would not necessarily know
all the democrats fault. mr. president, what about the daca kids? should they worry about what s going to happen? they had this great opportunity. democrats have really let them down. it s a shame. now people are taking advantage of daca. fact check. undocumented immigrants who come into the country now cannot, as he said, take advantage of daca. only those in the country before 2007 are eligible for the program. it s written down, it s on the books, it s all right out there. president trump was also the one who originally pulled the plug on the program. remember when he wanted to work together on a deal? i feel having the democrats in with us is absolutely vital, because this should be a bipartisan bill. this should be a bill of love. truly, it should be a bill of love. let s debrief with our team of reporters. katherine lucy is a white house reporter for the associated press. ashley parker is a white house reporter for the washington post. and an msnbc political analyst.
now, down more than 700 points. there s also reporting that this quarter has so far gotten the worst start of any quarter since the great depression. the great depression, not the recession, so since 1929. the second quarter start is the worst. ken, the president is also trying to pressure republicans into changing senate rules. he wants them and he said this over and over again, but he s bringing it back, to go to the nuclear option, which is 51 votes needed to pass things like immigration laws. is this an indication that he s looking short-term or long-term, because ultimately, mitch mcconnell said he s not going to change that law and if you have democrats in power in a 51-vote majority, a whole lot of things that republicans or conservatives don t like would be passed pretty easily. i think it s really an indication of the disconnect between the president and his policy staff. the white house policy staff rather, the congressional legislative affairs staff is
and i heard you way in at one point saying insert the name obama in this story. yeah. i mean, i ve said that it s just hard to emergency even obama prepolitician barack obama or george w. bush. it s really hard for people to imagine that kind of offer being made to those men. that said, others have made the point today that, look, this is russia. this is how business is done in russia both in terms of, you know, offering favors to business men and also seeking compromise is the term they use oh them, blackmail, because this hotel in moscow is reputedly wired for sound and video by the russian intelligence services according to counterintelligence officials we ve spoken to. but then again, mr. schiller, we were told testified that he was aware of that and donald trump was aware of that. and that s a reason that schiller says it s very unlikely that these things the dossier say happened actually did happen. ken vogue el, what was your leading take away from this bit of journalism?
investigators say he crashed before apparently killing himself. investigators also say that a domestic situation at this point looks like it played a role in the shoog. kelly s mother-in-law attended the church but was not at the church during the time of the shooting. president trump is monitoring the situation from japan. the first stop on a 13-day, five-nation visit to asia. he talked about the shooting earlier today. this isn t a guns situation. we could go into it, but it s a little bit soon to go into it. it s a mental health problem at the highest level. it s a very, very sad event. chris jansing is traveling with president trump. she is in tokyo. and from washington new york times political reporter ken vogue el. chris, let s start with you. the president s response to the shooting here in texas, it was very different than his response to last week s bike path attack