I need you to say no, its going to be okay. Its not going to be okay. Its not. Omarosa, oh, my, oh, brother. Can we really take her seriously . But we begin with a live picture of capitol hill, where democrats are pushing back on the president s refusal to authorize the release of their intel memo, meant as a rebuttal to the gop memo that was released last week. Here is what congressman rubin gallego, who was here last hour, told me. The republican memo has a lot of false assertions and in general leads the reader into a false direction. The democratic memo blows the cover that donald trump and his complicit partners on the House Intel Committee have trying to create, which is an excuse to fire the Deputy Attorney general. President trump tweeted this morning that the democrats sent a very political and long response memo which they knew, because of sources and methods and more, would have to be heavily redacted, where upon they would blame the white house for lack of transparency. Were going to get into the headlines with correspondent kelly odonnell, maya harris, ali stuckey, and california Deputy District Attorney andrew jans. Kelly odonnell at the white house, another good day to you. What is the president saying in that tweet, kelly . Reporter well, its a stormy day here in washington, a metaphor for the president s comments and the atmosphere after the departure of two staffers, one in the inner circle, that would be rob porter who worked with the president on a daily basis, regular access to the oval office, and then late yesterday, the departure of a speechwriter in one of the councils thats attached to the white house on environmental quality. That is David Sorensen who resigned after he was challenged by white house officials after allegations made by his former wife after a background check. Then today, what we hear from the president is not any support for women who have made these allegations, not a general statement condemning domestic violence. Hes had an opportunity in the oval office to do so. And you heard the comment where he supported the good work of rob porter while he was here. And then in a tweet today, using the full 280 characters now available, the president writes, peoples lives are being shattered and destroyed by a mere allegation. Some are true, some are false, some are old, some are new. There is no recovery for someone falsely accused life and career are gone. Is there no such thing any longer as due process . That struck a nerve, and one of the prominent female senators, a democrat from the state of washington, patty murray, who was first elected in wave of five women brought to the senate, she responded saying that she would be standing with the women of the me too movement. Shes linking the president s comments to that movement. We have seen many prominent individuals who have made allegations in the workplace against male colleagues or male bosses, and then weve seen prominent men being removed from positions. Patty murray saying that the president s comments reflect on that. Unclear what the president s direct intention was, was he speaking broadly about the me too movement or was he referring to the staffers from his own administration who are now gone . We dont know. But we can say that the president has not taken the opportunity to condemn domestic violence, which Vice President mike pence did quite quickly when asked about this during his time at the olympics by our own lester holt. He called it abhorrent and said there is no tolerance in this white house for domestic violence. But the president has not matched those comments, alex. Kelly odonnell at a rainy white house, thank you so much, well see you again. Maya harris and ali stuckey, ladies, welcome to you both. Ali, we know that the president spoke out go rob porter on friday. Here is a bit of what he had to say. He says hes innocent. And i think you have to remember that. We absolutely wish him well. So hes essentially defending porter to a degree. Hes defending the accused. In neither case does the president make mention of the alleged victim. Is this not the case, ali, of a tone deafness . Hes not giving a comprehensive approach to the situation. If the president were watching msnbc right now, which we all know hes probably not, i would have told him or i would tell him to change his statement to include the seriousness of domestic violence, the seriousness of any kind of abuse, and of course acknowledge both victims and alleged victims. I dont disagree with the content necessarily of what he said. I think we all believe in due process. Coming from a legal standard, of course, we believe in a presumption of innocence. But thats not the same standard when it comes to employment, especially not employment in the white house. And i think it would have done well for the president to say what mike pence said, that there is a zero tolerance for Domestic Abuse and even accusations of Domestic Abuse. And unfortunately he didnt say that in his statement and thats the part i disagree with. So allie, you say if you were able to counsel him, so presuming that people do counsel him and give him ideas of what to say, what he should say, thats fine. It appears as if this, though, is offthecuff. It is what is in his heart, in his mind, what he truly believes. So is that the problem there . You cant rein in this president when it comes to offthecuff, certainly. Is that the problem, if this really is whats reflecting the way he thinks . Thats what we dont know. Im certainly not a mind reader. The bottom line is he never should have been put in this position in the first place. We can all agree, even though were operating on a lot of hypotheticals, we dont know who knew what when in this whole horrible scandal, but his leadership in the white house, particularly general kelly, should have never put him in in position. He should have never had to make this statement in the first place. I do think he missed some points in his continued tweets, he misses the point that he should be acknowledging victims and alleged victims. I dont know what he believes in his heart of hearts. From a pr standpoint he certainly could improve. Lets face it, a lot of president s are put into positions they shouldnt be put into, but its the reaction that makes the president. Maya, in the end, another controversy with little to no fallout for the president. Why does he seem interviews to blowback, or as was suggested on an earlier broadcast to me, the midterms may be that level of blowback. I certainly think that the midterms will be a real moment for accountable and reckoning for this administration on many levels, certainly when it comes to issues like this, but even broader levels in terms of what were seeing in the russia investigation and efforts to delegitimize and undermine it and not really support an effort to get to the truth. So i think youre already seeing in the elections cycles weve had, a tremendous amount of momentum on the democratic side. And yes, the midterm elections may indeed be a reckoning. But i think that this is, sadly, par for the course for this group. You know, trumps circle. Weve seen this time and time again. He believes the men, not the women. Listen to the men, not the women. Its something that he has failed in his own behavior, to hold himself to account or been held accountable. Just when you look at not just trump, you look at roy moore, now you see rob porter. I dont think were going to, sadly, be able to expect or see more from this administration. I think the real question is what will we see and can we expect Something Better from the Republican Party. Maya, im curious, with these two men, rob porter and David Sorensen, both being accused of spousal abuse, both having been married twice before in the case of rob porter, both exwives are claiming spousal abuse, in David Sorensens case his second wife saying she cannot confirm the accusations made by the first wife. When it comes to vetting things of this nature, particularly since rob porter did have an order of protection to stay away from one of the wives, i mean, thats on record. How are these things overlooked . The question is is this a question of vetting or is it a question of disregard, lack of, you know, concern about these issues. Because this is not a situation where you take rob porter, certainly in terms of whats been revealed over the last few days, where they didnt know what had happened in his past. They received the information from the federal bureau of investigation as part of the background check that was being conducted. Its why he didnt have a full security clearance. Its why he was expected not to pass the background check. And despite that, despite the fact that the White House Council knew it, despite the fact that the chief of staff knew it, they chose to give cover to a serial Domestic Abuser. And so its really it goes beyond the question of vetting. In this case there actually was some vetting and the administration chose to overlook it. Again, believe the man and not the women. When these allegations occur, not one but two wives, and the federal bureau of investigation saying the allegations were credible, their initial report to the white House Counsel was that it was credible and the administration chose in the face of that information to move forward. I want to get to former white house aide Omarosa Manigault making her debut on celebrity big brother. Shes slamming her former boss. Heres part of what she said. I was haunted by tweets every single day. Does anybody say to him, what are you doing . I tried to be that person. And all of the people around him attacked me. Would you vote for him again . God, no. Never. A million years, never. Allie, do you believe omarosa, and if you dont, why dont you . Well, its not simply omarosa. I dont really believe anything that comes out of reality television. Now, thats not to say that everything shes saying is a lie. Obviously she truly believes that the white house maybe is in disarray or maybe she just didnt appreciate the president s leadership style, and thats perfectly fine. I dont really find her ominous warnings that its not going to be okay very credible. For millions of americans, its more than okay. Theyre feeling the tangible benefits of Donald Trumps presidency, both in Economic Policy and also in domestic and Foreign Policy and keeping communities safe. And thats not to discount the parts of his presidency that she didnt like. However, i just dont buy into this gloom and doom fearmongering tactic that she seems to be employing on reality tv . What about you, maya . Do you think all the criticism aimed atom omarosa is fair . I think this is a really bad spinoff to the reality tv presidency were experiencing, all of us as a nation. I dont know that you can give much weight to anything on maro says. That said, i do think things are not okay, when you look at whats happening in our democracy and a president who temperamentally is not fit for the office, who is undermining and attacking our independent institutions of government, and who is being aided by a Republican Congress that is either complicit or is content to look the other way. Things are not okay. And circling back to your point at the top of this segment, alex, i think this is what illustrates why the midterm elections are so important, that were going to have a check on this government, this administration, is if the democrats, you know, take control of either the house or the senate. Allie, overall, so many of us find this absolutely incredulous, youve got this reality tv aspect of this administration. I mean, when has this ever happened in the past . And how do you feel about it . I mean, it is entirely unprecedented. And look, ive been a critic of certain parts of President Trumps rhetoric, certain parts of his tweets. I do support his agenda. I think thats much more important than this reality tv aspect that we have. And to take at face value anything that anyone says on reality tv, i think is just a little bit silly, when you have so much success coming out of this presidency, when you have so much economic accomplishment and so much safety that has been accomplished through this presidency, i find these things to be very secondary. Certainly going into the midterms. I mean, these tax cuts are going to be huge for the Republican Party and yet you have the democrats who are saying that they are going to run on repealing and replacing tax cuts that are proven to make a large majority or save a large majority of americans money. I dont think this is going to have that much bearing for the gop. I think the midterms are going to be something to be reckoned with much more for the democrats. Im almost out of time, but maya, i agree with allie that we would all love to have substantive conversations about policy and the direction of this country, what will be repealed, what will be replaced, what wont be. There are any number of topics to discuss. But the fact is that we still have this tenor emanating from the white house. Do you have any expectation that that will be tamped down at any time in the near future and offer us the ability to just talk about more substantive things . Well, you know, alex, we thought that speculated that with john kelly coming on as chief of staff, maybe things would calm down, maybe some of the chaos would dissipate. And what have we seen . Week after week since the start of the year, if you look back at the number of dramas, number of situations that have erupted. I dont think theres really a whole lot of hope of tamping anything down with this administration. I think its going to continue as it is. And of course there is the question of, you know, what next with john kelly, because i dont think that this particular situation has done him any favors. But i think he has had a number of series of missteps and conduct unbecoming of his office. And he not only has been unable to control the chaos, hes now become part of the story too. So i sadly dont have a lot of hope, alex, for what the future holds in terms of any dramatic shift from what weve been seeing week after week after week, month after month after month, in this presidency. Actually i hope youre wrong. Thats all im going to say. Youre right about most things. I do too. Allie stuckey, good to see you both, thank you, ladies. Devin nunes is called perhaps the president s staunchest watchdog on capitol hill. But if polls are accurate, he may need to find a new one after the midterm elections. Ve. 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Takes after his grandad. Seriously anything, to help you invest for the future. Ally. Do it right. This is a partisan issue now. This is about politics. This is not about whats best for the american people. Adam schiff and others in the Democratic Party want to put the white house in a position of knowing the information thats in the memo that they sent over cannot be released for National Security reasons. They want to make sure that if the white house does put it out, they have to redact so much of it that theyll call it partisan politics. Corey lewandowski there, a former Trump Campaign manager, this morning accusing democrats of conspiring to undermine President Trump through their memo. Democrats are fighting back, alleging the president s refusal to release their memo is yet another example of a possible coverup. Lets bring in andrew jans, a democratic challenger to Republican Congressman devin nunes of california. Hes a prosecutor and has lived in the district for most of his life, california Congressional District number 22. Welcome, andrew, nice to speak with you. Hi, alex, thanks for having me on. Lets talk about the president who tweeted that sentiment this morning that this memo was an allout effort for the democrats to blame them for the lack of transparency, meaning blaming the white house. Your reaction to this line of thinking. Look, alex, i havent read the memo myself. But, you know, im all about transparency. I want to see all of the information out there. Ive been saying this even about the original memo. I think its very clear to me that the Trump Administration is doing anything that they can to cover up for my opponents original memo. In addition to that, you know, the Intelligence Committee has never been really politicized in the way that it has under devin nunes. I think that its time really for new leadership there. I know, andrew, that you launched your campaign because of nunes ethical issues and how you perceive them. Are your neighbors talking about russia . Do they care about it . Absolutely, alex. Ive been in this race for ten months now. Ive been crisscrossing this district, meeting with democrats and republicans alike. And people are really fed up with devin nunes and what theyve seen him do on the house Intelligence Committee. While hes fooling around on the Intelligence Committee, hes really ignoring the constituents back at home. We have a number of pressing issues. Were a very proud agricultural region. Were just out of a sixyear drought. And devin nunes has been in w