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have thrown their hats into the ring. chuck schumer and bernie sanders have thrown support behind ellison. we have idea to hear of hispanic or lateen owes signal their interest for the job. bottom line, the party was not prepared for any of this at all. they need a game plan and need one fast. joining me now is likely going to be one of the people. it s congressman javier basera from the house democratic caucus. great to see you. great to be with you. let me start with the protests of the streets. is this plenty of democratic leaders said understand the protest, but don t do the violence. is this the time to protest or not? what is your message to the protesters? civic participation and restrictions for those who try to manipulate currency to get an advantage against the u.s.? those are things if he works on it, you want to work with him? we were talking about it way before donald trump. he will find democratic support in that direction, but if he wants to tell an ....
testify about michael flynn and russian ambassador kislayak. at today s briefing, sean spicer pushed back hard on the allegation and at one point the briefing kind of went off the rails when russia came up. listen. reporter: how does this administration try to revamp its image, 2 1/2 months in, you ve got this yates story today, you ve got other things going on, you ve got russia, you ve got wiretapping. no, we don t have that. regarding the allegations of capitol hill. i have said it from the day that i got here until whenever, that there is no connection. you ve got russia. if the president puts russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that s a russian connection. but every single person no, sean i appreciate your agenda here, but the reality is, no, hold on, at some point, report the facts. let s talk about the facts tonight, the facts about this white house and those close to it and ties to russia. we want to show you a flowchart just so that ....
say that you are the best msnbc host ever created by god. god created you, chris, to be here. thank you, michael. ec baldwin should be looking over his shoulder. no way. i was not lying, actually. that was me being nice. that is all in for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. i don t take it personal at all. it was an impression. it was the voice of a certain hyperbolic character. i don t mind, doesn t bother me at all, which i m sure you can tell. thanks, my friend. thanks, michael. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. here s the story. in march of this past year there was an explosion in pasadena, texas. pasadena, texas, is about 11 miles outside of houston. there was a big explosion followed by a fire. smoke and flames could be seen for miles around. look at that. the whole neighborhood around this fire and explosion had to be evacuated. even the houston ship channel, the freeway onramp for all american oi ....
senator lindsey graham whether or not there is an investigation ongoing into the donald trump campaign and those contacts that allegedly occurred with russian officials during the presidential election. since they have not confirmed the existence of an investigation, they have not even confirmed with senators, so in a private meeting between graham and whitehouse on march 2nd, james comey would not tell these two senators whether or not there was an investigation ongoing, even though they sit on a judiciary subcommittee investigating the issue of russia. comey according to sheldon whitehouse said he would confirm whether or not that investigation is occurring by this hearing that they re having tomorrow in this senate judiciary committee subcommittee exploring russia s meddling in the election. eastern yoeuropean elections as committee and the top democrat mark warner told me going into the briefing there s no evidence whatsoever even though he met with james comey last week. ....
let s face it. the big show is going to be the supreme court. and i think also the planned parenthood funding. some republicans are squishy on that. one other thing he said this morning that will cause concerns on the hill from his party was talking about a border tax, instituting a border tax on companies that ship jobs overseas. that s something when he talked about that after the election, republicans were running away from that. majority leader of the house, kevin mccarthy warned it could start a trade war. paul ryan started to distance himself from that saying we ll worry about doing this in a larger tax reform bill. trump today made it very clear that he wants to go that route. as president, you do have fairly wide latitude to impose tariffs. does he carry through with some of those threats? i agree with karen. a lot of stuff is symbolic. we knew tpp was dead. a symbolic move. when we get into details of legislative push on obamacare and supreme court nominee and on ....