Developing stories including more on russia. A poll showing over half of americans say they do want an independent inquiry of the links between trump and russia. More than 60 say this is concerning for what it actually means for our democracy. Couple that with the former National Security adviser, mike flynn, Offering Testimony in exchange for immunity. Now, today. Vladimir putin spokesman claiming there is actually nothing to uncover. Are you concerned about anything he might say about his contacts with russia . No. We are not. Any blamings that russia could have been interfering in Domestic Affairs of the United States is slander. Peskov saying that an allegation regarding the russian governments involvement in the recent killing of an Opposition Lawmaker is absurd. How will these events affect the already rocky path ahead for the Trump Administration . Joining me now is ron klain, a former senior aide to president clinton, matt miller who worked at the Department Of Justice for eric holder and maya wiley, Vice President for Social Justice at the new school and former counsel to mayor de blasio. A lot of you have experience in government and how scandals can grow and mutate. Ron, what do you make of the most recent thing with russia basically putting its people out brazenly on american television, which is their right, even as all the allegations pile up and we see reports of the russian lawmakers assassinated and targeted and thrown off a building. As you alluded to in an earlier segment, ari, the russians are engaged in active measures to try to corrupt our democracy, to try to break apart our democracy in this country and other western democracies around the world. So the fact that their
spokespeople are out advancing that message, advancing propaganda, should be no surprise to people. Of the many sad things and there are many sad things in the first 70 days of the Trump Administration i dont think there is anything sadder than seeing our government, our great democracy, aligning itself with these horrible forces of intolerance, of antiliberalism. Theyre trying to destroy democracies around the world. Then you go to how this all works in government, matt. Substantively, procedural. Rhetorically, the Trump White House has done everything it could to make it look like its defending russia in all this. There hasnt been a pause or we welcome the facts that come or are cooperating. Quite the opposite. I wont list the litany, matt. Listen to john mccain, no liberal critic, explaining why this all piles up to needing an independent committee. This is why we need a select committee, martha. Every time we turn around,
another shoe drops from this centipede. Matt. Yeah. Senator mccain is right. The trumps embrace of russia goes back to before he was president , goes back to the campaign. And whats surprising politically a little bit is that he hasnt recognized, you know you would think that if you are in the middle of this kind of scandal where you are under investigation for potentially coordinating with russia intelligence to try to steer the election to you when theyre all of his famous comments during the campaign, you would think they would take a politically smart path. Just have the president come out and say one tough thing about Vladimir Putin and it would go a long ways for them politically and theyre not willing to do that. I think it has something to do with trump, who he is. He likes to be flattered. He likes the way that Vladimir Putin has said nice things about him. I think it has something to do with he doesnt want to admit that his campaign did get the help from russia because he
knows that leads to questions about his legitimacy that he is very, very sensitive to. I think this is an important part of what trump has to do right now. He has to say that, actually, i am the president of the United States and of all americans and im going to come forward. Im going to come clean. Im going to cooperate. Instead, he sends tweets that suggest that somehow this is a witch hunt against his administration. We have to remember that both his attorney general, jeff sessions, whose office introduced carter page. Former campaign manager, paul manafort. So many connections right now to a folks actually talking to a Russian Ambassador and allegations that there were communications between carter page that he was supposed to pass on to trump that he was going to, in fact, get rewarded mr. Tillerson, do you believe that Vladimir Putin and his cronies are responsible for ordering the murder of countless dissents, journalists and political opponents . I do not have sufficient information to make that claim, but i am not willing to make conclusions on what is only publicly available or have been publicly reported. This is classified, mr. Tillerson. These people are dead. Ron, what do you make of the exchange now two months later with what we know . The senate should never have confirmed Rex Tillerson. Its sad that marco rubio voted to confirm Rex Tillerson after giving those answers. This goes back to what maya said before. Its all the people around trump who have these ties to russia. Mr. Tillerson made a lot of Money Doing Business in russia. Former Senator Sessions now attorney general and his team have ties to russia. When you put it together it lays at the president s doorstep. When it has been laid at his
doorstep his answers have been disappointing. He was asked about these crimes. Russia has committed, killing journalists. Instead of deploring it, condemning it, he said, oh, our country is not so innocent either. That idea that were going to lower our human rights and civil sights standards, lower our Civil Liberties standards to russias level as a way of getting along with russia is a deplorable concept. Thats what the president has said to defend his friends and allies in russia. We covered this last hour. There is so much. The other thing thats brandnew and hasnt been on tv yet, maya. We were debating out this outreach on obamacare from President Trump is going to work. New sound of rand paul, a big critic. He was a roadblock, maybe striking a balance. Maybe donald trump finding in personal diplomacy what he couldnt find on the house floor. Rand paul, brandnew, after
golfing with trump. Great day with the president today. We did talk about some health care reform. I think the sides are getting closer together, and i remain very optimistic that we will get an obamacare repeal. Thanks. Maya. Hard to believe. You dont buy it. I dont buy it. I buy that there are conversations happening and the republicans feel a lot of heat to get a win on something they crashed and burned dramatically on. Unless you have something to address the fact that the previous plan was going to literally take tax credits from those earning 200,000 or less a year and essentially give a giveback of 7 million a year to the top 400 earning americans in the country and leave 24 million americans without Health Insurance, i think thats a tall order. The numbers dont lie. What did you think also of rand pauls sunglasses . I thought they were quite interesting and not going to get him over the edge when it comes to support for this bill. Youre not throwing any shade over there. I have a lot of shade to
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nobody. Elections involving tens of millions of people when you think about it, get narrated by dozens of people. Younger americans are under represented. They will literally live with the consequences of todays politics longer than the rest of us, whether thats debt, prosperity, war or peace. The media also spins a lot of narratives about the new generation, that theyre apathetic. Even though the turnout was historically high in 2016 or this theyre monolithic when we find great diversity in their views and actions. We hear that theyre in the streets against trump when several young blocs were split. White women under 30 with college degrees, Backing Trump and clinton at the same right. Young white women without degrees broke for trump. Clinton slipped with youth, dropping about five points. There are two areas where data shows young voters are a lot like their parents, race remains
a huge dividing line. White young voters broke for trump by five points. Minorities more for clinton. For a generation growing up on facebook, snapchat, and trumps twitter. Skepticism of major news media running high less than 20 of americans saying they trust the news media, i guess thats us. And thats a view they hold regardless of race or party. Is that a response to Media Failures or all the alternatives online or growing up on a president who often attacks the press more than his opponents . We dont need to speculate today. Well ask them. We have Young Leaders from the Trump Movement well hear from in a minute. First, right here some folks leading the resistance. Now, let me go ahead and introduce everybody. Were going to bring back them all together, i should mention, for a joint panel in a few segments. First when we talk to trump resistance voters. Richie torres youngest elected official in new york representing the bronx. Imani editor in chief of muslim
girl a Social Justice activist and blare, founder of equality for here. Zena maxwell. Former aide to Hillary Clintons campaign. Thank you for doing this, you guys. I think it will be Something Different and interesting. Show of hands. How many since the election have been at a march or protest . How many have done it in march, in the last month . Staying high. Richie, as our young elected official, what do you think of the street part of this which is different in Social Justice than just going to the voting booth . It shows that change has both an inside and outside game and puts the myth of millennial apathy to rest because Donald Trumps election set off a wave of demonstrations. There were millions of americans who participated in the womens march, not only in washington, d. C. , but in every major city across the country. Those demonstrations were largely driven by millennials. You are shaking your head. Go ahead. Well, i just think that, you
know, it was so powerful to see the womens march but also to acknowledge the amount of people who have been participating in the marches. I have been involved in black lives matter style movements and in that type of activism so im excited to see the uniting of forces of people who might have been more on the fence in terms of participating in activism. I wish there was more reliance on the wisdom of those who have been doing it but im excited to see the momentum of people in the streets, people bringing pizzas to the protests and coming out and supporting. You contrast that as someone who uses music. Hillary clinton had a lot of musicians out. I dont know whether it helped or hurt her. Well play a little bit of lady gaga, who was big for her on the campaign trail. Take a listen. Its an honor tonight for me to say, a 30yearold woman from an italianamerican Immigrant Family [ cheers and applause ] that i am with her [ cheers and applause ] but as i mentioned, she did worse among young people. Well, i think that, you know, i believe that just being a musician necessarily, because i like your music doesnt necessarily mean that i am somebody thats going to like or agree with your political thing. Celebrity just to be a celebrity is not something that is going to guarantee somebody as a vote. I think you have to be intelligent and understand the issues and be issue driven. People look for people who have been out there. If you havent been on the front lines of the protests and movements and just get out there to say youre getting behind a political candidate i kind of wonder how serious i can take you if i havent seen you being on the front line of some of the issues in the first place. Imani. Honestly, the statistics about white women voters doesnt surprise me too much. We really have to consider whose
backs the past elect