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they try to call it a middle-class tax cut. and yet 86 million middle class families in the life of this bill will be paying more taxes. laura: we ll bring in an interpret ter w next time. et democrats are so desperate they have sued trump campaign. wikileaks and russian over hillary clinton loss in 2016. donald trump has been saying for a year plus it is because you lost an election. what says that better than the democratic national committee suing them. saying you lost us this election. it is like david hasel half saying it is a waste of i time d resources. laura: the democrats can t agree on a political strategy. tom perez and the dnc are filing lawsuits and other prominent liberals are shaking their heads. threating over election prospects. some trouble. they took out $1.7 million loan in february. soru they re fundraising, a good measure of voter excitement is pathetic. meanwhile the republican national committee took in a whopping $39 million in the first quarter ....
Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. Brian Williams examines the day s top political stories and current political-campaign news. self-inflicted wound. we don t know the entire back story but our understanding is this was not a strategic legal tweet. this was not a communications shop messaging tweet. this was the president waking up and doing what we reported him doing in our story which was privately sort of brooding and then publicly feuding and roaring. and he sent this tweet out to refute a bit of our story but in doing so actually pushed his own narrative much further into a place that is not particularly helpful for him or his namesake son. that may be an understatement. phil rucker, let s talk about dj t. j. to your knowledge and to the best of your reporting, has anything about don june, s case changed materially that has motivated the president s behavior, his change in mood? you know, the truth is, ....
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. or attempt to do either a thing of value from a foreign national. so arguably, a meeting sought to receive something of value from a foreign national as a contribution would violate that statute. and then second, title 18, section 371, which is the conspiracy to defraud, the possibility is that the prosecutors could look at this meeting and the events surrounding it and say this was a conspiracy to deprive the federal election commission of an honest and fair election. and that violates that title 18 statute. so there are two statutes to answer jay s, you know, rhetorical question that could apply. but i wanted to add one thing, which is, this is, in fact, poppy, the first, you know, public statement by the president about this meeting, as shimon indicates. but my recollection is that in the production of information from the white house to the special counsel back in july, they did send a letter Meeting , Hillary-clinton , One , Tweet , Robert-mueller , Words , Lies , Things , Thing , What-mueller , Purpose , It
here at the table for the hour, steve schmidt and matt miller. but first, to react for the first time, single threads different threads of a single story. questions about russians and contact with people in the president s inner circle. former cia director john brennan, lucky for us, now a senior national security and intelligence analyst for msnbc and nbc news. i understand now, sitting here today, why donald trump a week or so ago said don t believe what you see, don t believe what you hear on the news channels, because when you take all these events just this week together, they paint a very compromising position for this president on the question of russian influence. i think that s right, nicolle. i think we ve seen over the course of the last two years basically an effort on the part of president trump and others to pry to inoculate public perceptions of what actually happened during the campaign. first, there were no meetings. then there were meetings, but they we ....
Campaign, watching trump and vivek rise next to them? look, on one hand, willie, if you watched that debate, you could say, hey, there s hope, right? if you are a reagan republican, if you are a freedom conservative, if you re someone who believes in kind of limited government and traditional conservative values, not the quote, unquote, new right, you might have watched that debate and concluded, hey, everything s great. chris christie did a great job of supporting ukraine against russia s invasion. mike pence rhetorically did a great job. i think nikki haley did a fantastic job. she, i believe, overperformed, certainly my expectations. you might have watched that debate and concluded, things are pretty good. if trump were to disappear, we might be in okay shape. the republican party might come back. the problem is, if you start to actually add up the polling and consider who is winning, something like 75% or 80% of republican voters are supporting ....