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>> tom barrack is an interesting figure because he has the confidence of both paul manafort and donald trump and, of course, rick gates. he's known him for about four decades, met in beirut 40 years ago. he's known trump for almost as long, almost three decades. when the president needed or the then candidate donald trump needed someone to wrangle delegates for him at the convention, paul manafort stepped in and said i really want to work for this campaign. he told tom barrack, please connect me with the president. he said, okay,ly write you a glowing cover letter. in that letter he mentioned ...

Vote for us. the strategy is ridiculous. they should celebrate dwefivers, celebrate nancy pelosi's successes, go after the women's vote, go after all those white women who for some reason voted against self-interest and voted for donald trump. nancy pelosi is the woman to bring those women back to the democratic poll. >> interesting, because this republican party tried the experience going with the young gun, the person attractive to the media because they're a young white guy named paul ryan. he has not been as speaker. this idea you get somebody who doesn't have -- who hasn't gone through th...

Audience in the history of inaugurations. i did. >> who did donald trump have to thank for the biggest inauguration crowd ever? president obama's crowds were way bigger, this guy, tom barrack, a billionaire real estate investor, one of trump's oldest friends. he was the chairman of the trump inaugural committee. he's another trump associate questioned by robert mueller's team. as first he ported in the associated press, they questioned barack focusing many questions on former campaign manager paul manafort and business associate rick gates. joining me natasha ber tran, msnbc analyst paul butle...

To help done so much damage to their cause in so little time. in two separate tv appearances this week on the friendly ground of fox news, no less, giuliani announced that trump had, in fact, reimbursed michael cohen's $130,000 payoff to stormy daniels and made a direct connection between quashing daniels' sexual allegations and the campaign. that forced his boss to come out on friday and do some damage control. >> rudy knows it's a witch-hunt. he started yesterday. he'll get his facts straight. he's a great guy. >> not to be deterred, giuliani has kept at it, snagging a booking with the trump...

Who were taken hostage in 2017, one who's been there since 2015. how does these men's plight play into these negotiations? >> well, i think because kim jong-un wants to make sure that his meeting goes well with trump, they are prepared to release these americans because they know that this is what we want. it's sort of -- you know, it's a gesture from the administration. i think they will be released. i think they will be in okay condition because if they were in otto warmbier's condition or very bad condition, it would go sour very quickly. >> there would be no point having us back. sue mi te...