Form of government when you find yourself working at the very top of it and knowing youre in some crazy grade School Recess yard where the big skid sticks the other kids with nicknames, brags about himself like some dangerous clown, and you having to take it every day, every minute . Thats hardball for now, thanks for being with us. All in with chris hayes, starts right now. Tonight on all in. Did you undercut the secretary of state today with the iq comment president president floats an iq test. Senator bob corker called the white house an Adult Day Care Center tonight multiple new detailed reports supporting the Adult Day Care Method of managing the president. And what it means for the country. Senator corker is certainly entitled to his own opinion. Then blockbuster new Assault Allegations against Harvey Weinstein. Please come in. Im everything im a famous guy. Im feeling very uncomfortable right now. Little bob corker up by Working Recording his conversation, was made to sound a fool and thats what im dealing with. Like so many statements lie this president that claim is false. According to audio cork i could new the Phone Interview was On The Record and had aides on the line making a recording of their own. I know theyre recording it and i hope you are too. Yeah, i am. According to reporter jonathan martin, after they got off the phone corkers aides made sure he had recorded the call. They wanted to ensure his extraordinary charges were precisely captured. As the president s retaliatory tweet today demonstrates twitter remains one of his few unsupervised activities and its apparently one he relishes are according to politico the president has on several occasions walked down to the oval office in the morning and told aides he knew they didnt like the tweets he sent earlier. Theyre not president ial, i know, he said, with a mocking tone on the word president ial. Its one example of how the president chafes to restrain his impulsive outbursts and defuse the ticking time bomb in the oval office. Almost an open secret in washington that bob corkers now saying py want to put in context the conversation i had with a prominent republican who literally was saying they imagine general kelly and Secretary Mattis have had conversations that if trump nunch are lunched for the Nuclear Football, what would they do, would they tackle hill, physically restrain him, from putting the country at perilous risk . That is the kind of situation were in. Wait, thats the conversation you had with a very senior republican musing about what would talking about these are the conversations that they have very good authority, are taking place inside the white house. I would say this maralago strategy is a sort of emblematic of how general kelly does not want the president to be out of his sight. And i think thats a very serious story that all of us should be talking about. The idea being that this is one of the recurring themes, that the president who is its not crazy to sate most powerful person in the world. Yeah. And has the authority to precipitate nuclear war. Kelly speaks to his character. And his stature and his integrity. So yei dont think this is the case behind the scenes theyre egging him on, i genuinely think theyre trying to a daily basis to do the right thing. That said were in a situation where the president thinks of himself as someone who is not beholden to advisers. This again is uncharted water. I think the question will be, going into the sort of Pressure Cooker of trying to get tax reform and others, if the president seems like he has nothing to lose, what does he do next . If he cant get any legislative agenda coming up on the oneyear deadline of his first year in office, what happens . Do they feel that, do you think, in the white house . Oh, clearly, without question, they know the clock is ticking. Thats why youre seeing the drumbeat of stories. The pressure inside is ratcheting up. Gabe sherman, amazing reporting, thank you for sharing that. Congressman dan donovan, a republican from new york
agenda. He set out a very ambitious agenda, chris. He wanted to do health care, he wanted to do tax reform, he wanted to do infrastructure all in the first year of his presidency because he realized in a twoyear election cycle like we run in the house, you get more things done in the first year than you do in the second year. I think hes getting frustrated. Hes using the bully pulpit to try to push his agenda forward. As you have seen, hes seen talking to democrats to see if he can make deals to get more enough people on board that he can get some of these things passed to the American Public. He promised the American Public he would make americas interests first. You think the reporting, you any the On The Record statements by Senior Member of your party in the senate, bob corker, and the constant drumbeat of reporting in which aides to the president speak about him in terms of someone who has to be controlled, a wayward toddler, volatile, you think all of that is wrong and invented, the whole corpus of that is just people with bias or making it up . No i think you said it before, chris. Are we getting spin from insiders, people around . Are we getting Accurate Information . You hear people saying that. You hear people saying that the president wants to move the agenda forward. So chris, youre getting different interpretations. You said before about his tweets. The president does that so he can get his message unfiltered out to the public without anybody interpreting what do you think, honestly, when you wake and up see that he called bob corker little bob corker and he said the New York Times set him up, and thats clearly not true, thats an untrue statement. Its belied bit tape, we can agree on that. I wonder whats your reaction as a republican member of congress . The president has always had nicknames for a lot of people. And today everybodys making a big deal about how hes comparing his iq to other people. Those things are the president s way of making some things just making them down to earth. So i think hes not getting the credit he deserves for trying to
and certainly health care, i dont know that the president you just fundamentally dont buy this whole notion that kelly and tillerson and mattis and all these people are just sitting there trying to mind this man that they fundamentally think is so volatile they might have to tackle him if he goes for the Nuclear Football . I dont think so. I think rex tillerson, general mattis, and general kelly, are advising the president using their years of experience to give him the best advice that they could give him, and that theyre going to carry out his mission. I hope youre right and the reportings wrong. Congress man dan donovan of staten island, appreciate you being here tonight. Betsy woodruff is a politics reporter of the daily beast. Mckay, it seems weve turned a corner. I dont know if its because more things are coming out or because of the Tillerson Battle Or because corker finally said this On The Record. I feel like this perspective is essentially an open secret in washington among lobbyists, hill
an antiestablishment insurgency, gotten into office, then kind of conformed somewhat to the norms of washington. Theyre seeing trump hasnt done that and i think its alarming a lot of people. To the tillerson point about the stakes here, to give people context in case they hadnt seen this quote, forbes asked about the moron comment, i think its fake news but if he did that i guess iq tests can tell you who is going to win. Which the white house later said was a joke. He said he didnt undercut anyone. Thats to me is the thing that its easy to lose sight of the stakes here and the reason corkers speaking out is you heard what gabe sherman said. Ultimately hes threatening north korea over twitter. Hes about to decertify the iran deal. Youve got two massively highstakes Nuclear Issues on the table. The president is treating the way that he treated running against ted cruz in the primary. Right. These are extraordinarily consequential issues. And its kind of easy to talk about the language being used. Corkers tweet about adultdy care. And treat this like a situation thats amusing. Butful the toplevel, longterm republican operatives that i talk to about this presidency dont treat it like its funny. No, theyre scared. Right, grief and keep concern, exactly. I think its important that people recognize that. When it comes to looking at what happened between trump and corker, i had a number of conversations over the course of the day with people familiar with his thinking. And the sense that i get from those conversations is that charlottesville was a really important moment for corker in terms of shifting how he talked about trump. He hadnt been shy about criticizing trump prior to that. But when that happened, thats when corker first said that he thought trump hadnt yet evinced the stability to be president. He really went after trump as an individual in terms of his character, in terms of whether or not he as a human being was able, at that particular moment, to lead this country. And then the tillerson piece is also really important. Corker is one of the few people on capitol hill to actually have a close, productive working relationship with tillerson. He chairs the Senate Foreign affairs committee. When the president goes after tillerson, when he tweets hes wasting his time, when he poohpoohs the work of the state department, my understanding is thats something that very much rankles corker. Corker and staff have put a lot of time and energy into trying to help tillerson, trying to help him manage these really complex issues, including iran and north korea. For cork tore watch the president turn around and just torch all that cant be easy. And part of the stakes here, to betsys point about this sort of the kind of policy vacuum, whether its daca, which Steven Miller is basically destroying by himself on the hill, like you just get the sense that theres total vacuum about what the agenda is and what the governments going to do, and its filled by the impulsivity
of the Man At The Top who at any moment could careen off course based on whatever stimulus he receives. This is i think also one of the reasons that youre starting to see republicans like corker more willing to speak out. I mean, also lets be clear here. Corkers also retiring. Thats a big reason that hes able to speak out. Right. But that doesnt mean the substance of his critique doesnt matter. I think the thing thats happening, though, you mentioned it earlier, the legislative agenda is a disaster. Its entirely boss that i believe well get to the end of this year without a single legislative accomplishment from the Trump Presidency and this republican congress. And republicans on capitol hill who were willing to hold their nose, bite their tongue, for months when it came to donald trump, because they wanted their tax cuts, because they wanted their obamacare repeal, are starting to say, look, if were not going to get anything done, then i have a lot less incentive here to hold my criticism to
myself. Mckay, betsy woodruff, thank you. Thank you. The explosive Sexual Assault and rape allegations against Harvey Weinstein, the Audio Recording of a police sting, and the Household Names coming forward. Attorney Gloria Allreds client said she left the industry after encountering wane stein. Repeatedly asking for a massage or initiating one himself. Today in The New Yorker more than a dozen accusations against weinstein, three that go beyond Sexual Harassment to allegations of rape. Farrah, a nbc news tributer, calls weinsteins behavior wellknown among colleagues 16 former, current executive asks assistants at Weinstein Companies told me they witnessed or had knowledge of unwanted sexual advances and touching associates with weinsteins films and in the workplace. They and others describe a paper of professional meetings that were little more than thin pretexts for sexual advances on young actresses and models. One of the women is ambra gutierrez. She was 22 when She First Weinstein in 2015 and went to nypd after she says he groped her in his office. The following audio obtain the by The New Yorker and published was reportedly recorded the next day as part of a spring traition. Ambra agreed to meet weinstein
and spoke to him about the hallway of his hotel as he tries to pressure her to go to his room as she repeatedly refuses. Im not going to do anything, i swear on my children, please come in. On everything, im a famous guy im feeling very uncomfortable right now. Please come in now in one minute, when you want to leave why yesterday you touch my breast . Please, im sorry, just come on in, im used to that youre used to that . Yes, come in. No, but im not used to that. I wont do it again, come on, sit here. Sit here for a minute, please . No, i dont want to. If you do this now you will [ inaudible ]. Never call me again. Okay . Im sorry. Nice i promise you i wont do anything. I know but yesterday was too much for me. I will never do another thing to you. Five minutes. No criminal charges were ultimately filed in that case. A spokesperson for weinstein says he denies any allegations of Nonconsexual Sengs and says
he never retaliated against women who rejected his advances. In yet another blockbuster story the New York Times revealed more accusations against weinstein including On The Record alist Oscarwinning Hollywood actresses like Gwyneth Paltrow and angelina jolie. A 91 of outlets, more than 20 women have now accused weinstein of everything from harassment to flatout rape. The women range from paltrow and Jolie To Women who left the Entertainment Industry entirely, in some cases they say because of weinstein. Attorney Gloria Allred is representing one of weinsteins accusers, the mother of attorney lisa bloom, who had been Individualing Weinstein before resigning from that role saturday. Your client is no one. Someone tell me the accusations she has against weinstein. What she reported in her News Conference today was that he invited her to pitch a screenplay that she had done to him, that they started out in
the restaurant, that the restaurant then said, well, theyre closing, and that he indicated that she should come up to his office. And the office was in the hotel. This was at the sundance film festiv festival. And that she had heard rumors and she said that she asked mr. Weinstein in front of a camera at the hotel to promise and swear that he would not do anything, essentially, to her, if in fact she went up to his office in the hotel room. She indicated that he did do that and that she went up to the hotel room, to the office, and they continued to discuss her pitch. For her screenplay. And then she reported in the News Conference this morning, she alleged that he came out in a bathrobe. In her words she said buck naked. And her allegation was that he wanted her to watch him masturbate. Which she did not want to do. She was able to get out of there. But that was a very disturbing situation for her, very upsetting. And she spoke out today because she knows there are many others still who have allegations against mr. Weinstein. But who do not want to go public because it may be that theyre afraid of retaliation, or to other reasons having to do with the industry. And so she felt that she wanted people to know that we have a process that weve invited mr. Weinstein to participate in. Because in addition to the therapy that he indicated he would be getting and the pain that he has acknowledged that he has been responsible for, for
some women, wed like to invite him to help to provide justice for any person who is alleging that shes a victim of mr. Weinstein. So were inviting him to waive, in other words give up and agree not to assert the statute of limitations which is an affirmative defense, in other words, saying its too late to file a claim if this happened years ago. Right. And to agree with us on a retired judge who could then conduct a trial, thats an arbitration, and then decide after the alleged victims can present their evidence, mr. Weinstein can present his defenses, who the judge finds should prevail. If they find that the victims have presented a preponderance of the evidence and should prevail, the judge can decide damages according to proof at trial. If, in fact, the judge finds in favor of mr. Weinstein, then, in fact, he can announce that publicly. So hell have due process. The alleged victims will have due process. And then thats a fair system to have these allegations resolved. Not the court of Public Opinion only. But in an actual legal process. He seems like he has retained attorneys and is going to fight this. Even if he expressed contrition in that first statement. And had retained your daughter, who has parted ways with him, i know you were asked about that this morning and said you guys have different decisions on different cases. It seems to me like hes going to fight this tooth and nail. Is that your expectation . Well, my daughter is with a separate law firm. And so shes not representing the accusers, i am. And i love her and re