president trump will not overturn a 2014 executive order signed by president barack obama protecting federal employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation. the white house issuing a statement saying that trump is determined to protect the rights of all americans. >>> the boy scouts of america will allow transgender children who identify as boys to participate in it's boys only programs. the organization previously relied on the gender listed on a child's birth certificate. a spokeswoman says that the decision is based on states and communities changing how gender is defined. >>> and today is the last day to sign up for health insurance for this year through the affordable care act exchanges. looming over the end of open enrollment are worries that of course people will be left without coverage if obamacare is repealed. the government says nearly 11.5 million people have signed up for coverage in 2017 alone. >>> and now president trump is starting to put a stamp on one of the agencies responsible for carrying out immigration policy. the president announced last night that

. >> hallie, you just said it took 11 days for barack obama to comment. i'm not surprised at all had he's an activist by trade, a community organizer. his disdain for the political process is well documented by republicans and democrats. president obama was vehemently opposed of donald trump. the problem was he lost and it didn't help hillary clinton whatsoever. so he runs the risk of becoming illegitimate if he continues to do this in the face of donald trump. if donald trump wins victories, then barack obama could be more insignificant than the executive orders that are now gone in his administration. >> i think we have to leave it there and bring in briefly -- very quickly, corine. >> i think my friend hogan needs to understand that donald trump did not win the popular vote. if anything 10 million people voted against him and not for him. he only got 25% of the eligible voters that voted. so this is about the peep. if you look what's. >> last word to corine this time. hogan, you'll get it next time. i want to go to brad blakeman, you have been inside t

arou and in his mind it would be standing up to barack obama but it turned out it was donald trump. on the other hand, donald trump is within his rights to fire her. he is. it looks bad. it's symbolic. it shook a lot of people up. but it's his right to do that and she knew that. >> the right thing for her was to resign not to do this. >> i disagree. jeff sessions disagrees, too. >> it was embarrass the president. >> no, it wasn't. it was designed to uphold the law in her eyes. >> absolutely. nobody elected her. >> can i just say the pause in syrian refugees in 2011, what barack obama did with both iraq and syria was to tighten things up. there were -- there were leaks, there were holes. >> exactly the same thing you guys didn't say anything. you're playing politics with tithe issue. >> less is known. then they put in their own extreme vetting. >> let me go to the white house. i want to turn to the white house. nbc's kristen welker has been standing by for us. you have members of the state department who have been circulating a memo opposing this ban as well. let me play what preside

these are the seven countries barack obama. >> four of them. >> barack obama selected four countries, along with congress in 2015 -- 2015, hold on, and three more were added in 2016. his administration did. yes. let's look at this. you just said -- >> i believe they all talked, which is good. >> you just said he didn't select them alone. my point isn't that donald trump implemented this correctly or it should be implemented, my point is people should keep their mouth shut and not be self-righteous when their policies led taos this stage. >> selection of these countries -- excuse me. >> you're fine. >> thank you. the selection of those countries under the obama administration was not accompanied by such nearly lethal language in an executive order that would lead you to believe, they are just edging around the fact. >> what's the word ari used, the boring word. >> again, i agree that this has been handled. >> intergovernmental review process. >> i agree completely. just barack obama doesn't need to be self-righteous about a policy if you just look at the policy is not that dramatically

>> after leaving the white house a week ago, former president barack obama returned to the political arena issuing a statement through his spokesperson saying he was encouraged by the demonstrations taking place around the country. he says in part, quote, citizens exercising their constitutional right to assemble, organize and have their voices heard by their elected officials is exactly what we expect to see when american values are at stake. and the former president also rejected president trump's claim that his travel ban is similar to what president obama did in 2011 regarding refugees from iraq. saying, quote, the president fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion. "the washington post" has pointed out that president obama's policy was in response to a specific threat after iraqi refugees had been found conspiring against u.s. troops. president obama also slowed the refugee process instead of halting it. >>> all right, louis, yesterday we showed you senate minority leader chuck schumer tearing up while discu

so when barack obama came in you may remember that he promised he was going to close guantanamo bay and signed orders along those lines in his first week. and you saw president bush when he came in sign some executive orders to undo steps that had been taken by bill clinton. so that's not unusual. the only thing here that would have justified moving quickly is if there was an imminent threat from these seven nations. and since we know that there has been little to no terrorism we've had in the united states from immigrants to these nations and sean spicer said himself at the press briefing today that there had been no immediate actionable threat they were acting on, i think that would have been the only thing that would have justified taking an immediate step. so here i think they just rushed. and you know, like most things in life, if you rush it, you are going to make mistakes. particularly if you have never served in government, never gone through these procedures, and suddenly discovered that it's a little more complicated than it looks like when you are on the campaign trail. >> da

four of those women, the presidency of barack obama lives on in them. me appointed them to their judgeships and deputy attorney general spot. one of them was appointed by bill clinton. a presidency is only four years or eight years. a federal judgeship is a livetime appointment. there are329 federal judges appointed by president obama, appointed for life. two of them on the supreme court. ann marie donnelly the first of them to stand up and say no to donald trump. she will not be the last. we don't know who will be next. the trump administration's legal recklessness will surely continue. been out of control since its first day of lying about crowd size at the inauguration. lying about millions of illegal voters in the presidential election and now dashing off what the acting attorney general thought was an unlawful order that has thrown the country into chaos. thrown our airports into chaos. and broke this country's word to people around the world who had been granted the legal right to enter and live in the united states. the good news tonight is that

barack obama came in and he promised he was going to close guantanamo bay and find orders along those lines in his first week. and you saw president bush find executive orders to undo steps that had been taken by bill clinton. so that's not unusual. the only thing here that would have justified moving quickly is if there was an eminent threat from the seven nations. since we know that there's been little to no terrorism in the united states from immigrants to these nations and the trump place who said himself the press briefing today there's been no immediate threat they were acting on, if that would have been the only thing that would have justified taking an immediate step. so here, i think they just rushed. and like most things in life, if you rush it, you're going to make mistakes. particularly if you have never served in government and never gone through these e procedures and suddenly discovered it's a little more complicated than on the campaign trail. >> david sang r, chief washington correspondent for "the new york times," i appreciate your time tonight helping us with this.

attorney by president barack obama and we'll all be learning more about dana boente in the days ahead. this is a dramatic move. we just spoke with historian michael beschloss about it and eric from "the new york times" about the shock wave this is sending across washington. i want to bring into the conversation now, lawrence tribe, harvard law school, he's argued before the u.s. supreme court dozens of times. he's one of a few litigators who is also a household name because of his job. professor tribe, but for joining us. >> thanks for calling, rachel. >> how big of a deal is it for the president to fire an acting attorney general s? >> i think it's historic. i agree with michael beschloss. it reminded me of the saturday night massacre. the only difference is how quickly this has happened in the trump presidency. history is being collapsed into a black hole and everything that's happening faster than the speed of light. and it seems to me that because the sessions nomination is already controversial, it challenges who we are as americans and violates important parts of the constitutio

former president barack obama who hadn't spoke out since leaving office supported the protesters saying that he was heartened by the level of engagement taking place in communities around the country. joining me now is a associate professor of law. professor, can you tell us what your own refugee experience was? >> hi, thank you so much for having me on the show. yes, i was one of these people who from a country that's a terrorist country, from iran and i had the hijab and shouted death to america when i was a kid because i was forced to. that's what the regime made people in elementary school do. my family was able to get out. there was war. we slept in our basements and there was bombs at night and we were able to get out and we got a visa and we came here as refugees and i've been able to live as a refugee. it's been a dream. this country has welcomed us with open arms but, you know, a lot of iranians are stuck between these two regimes where one says that america is evil and the other tells you that iran is evil. neither is the case. these people, iranians are stuck at the border. t

. >> it shows that trump has done what barack obama could not do and put energy in the left. after anti-left george w. bush was signed, they turn their energy go out there becoming grass root force. that never materialized that wasn't same energy for hillary clinton because she corporate ties and she turned a lot of people off. jerry nadler knows throwing red piece out there is going to work. trump has done what obama when hillary could not do and turn the left into excited political force. >> the white house dubbed back a bill over the weekend saying people with green cards could come home. people who had agree cards and legally could be in the united states could not come home if they were out of the united states. how do you portray the white house reaction since the order was first revealed? >> i think any signs they were dialing it back they were heading other direction specifically at sean spicer briefing where he septembkept s the concerns about people getting detain was overblown it was just a small misskul fraction -- >> senator cory booker of new jersey of the democ

barack obama based the way for this by allowing his political strategyist to sit in on the meeting. trump has ton something differently document saying that his chief strategist bannon is part of the team. george w. bush prohibited karl row -- >> it's not going to happen. >> because he didn't want appearance of mixing politics. >> what do you make of this, is this much ado about much of nothing. ? >> no questions about that. what disturbs a lot of liberal and conservative alike, to put steve bannon in that critical condition without having moreality ternive voices in the room. bannon is not trump's brain. trump does not have ideology theories wherein bannon does. trump has spoken out about foreign affairs and they have been right wing militant views. he has lot of scenarios for where he would like the world to move. people didn't vote for bannon, they voted for trump. >> bannon was involved but the head of dhs was not very involved. at the end of the process while bannon he has nor experience than they do, dhs -- >> let's talk superficially. first to you, clearance. should we make a

and barack obama's homeland security secretary jeh johnson who did this country a great service said there's no vetting process in place right now that will assure americans that the deserving refugees will get here, but those who to want harm our countries will be kept out. we are a compassionate nation, steve, we've always reached out. and the syrian people need our help, keeping those people out of harm's way and keeping them in the region is a better idea because of what will happen when syria finally settles and the con sflikt over, it's going to be the syrian people who build their country back up. and if they're too far away, that just won't happen. >> let me ask you about what senator shaheen was just saying, you're talking about the refugee piece of that, let me come back to that, let many ask you about the other piece. that ban, that ban on immigration, that temporary ban from the seven muslim majority countries. and she's saying, the way she can't find a way to look doesn't they looks like targeting of muslims. and i have to say, donald trump invoked 9/11 the memory of 9/1

the trump administration, though, still defending the order saying they're following barack obama's lead. we'll fact check that. and i'll talk live to an activist reacting to a hateful tweet and has turned it around and is using it to help refugees. >> and a mosque shooting in quebec, two suspects now under arrest. >> president trump signed a new executive aimed at reducing regulations on businesses. he met with small business leaders where he also took democrats slamming him over the executive order on immigration. >> i noticed chuck schumer yesterday with fake tears. i'm going to ask him who is his acting coach. because i know him very well. i don't see him as a cryer. if he is, he's a different man. there's about a 5% chance that it was real but i think they were fake tears. >> the president is standing firm on his order imposing a 90-day ban on seven predominantly muslim countries. the president tweeting only 109 people out of 129 were detained. big problems caused by delta computer outage. protests and tears of senator schumer. mass protests broke out as you well know, at airports a

the trump administration, though, still defending the order saying they're following barack obama's lead. we'll fact check that. and i'll talk live to an activist reacting to a hateful tweet and has turned it around and is using it to help refugees. >> and a mosque shooting in quebec, two suspects now under arrest. >>

. >> by comparison the united states, especially under barack obama, takes very few refugees. what is it specifically from refugees are we stopping that is causing imminent danger to us? >> we know that terrorists are trying to infiltrate the refugee process and we know the immigration process at large is struggling to fill holes in the vetting process. so i'm saying that in principal what donald trump has put forward is not unreasonable policy. i object strongly to the way in which he went about this in terms of rollout. i think he shot himself in the foot in a significant way, but in principal going after the refugee process and trying to strength be the vetting procedure is reasonable. >> most americans if not all would say we do want this country to be as safe as possible. president trump is expected to speak in a moment. to that point you made about shooting himself in the foot with this rollout process, is there something that we don't know that would cause him to take such dramatic action without going through proper checks and balances? >> no, i think this is just the

in fact, barack obama did it and explained it. i think listening to rick talk about this makes you wonder just how badly the president's staff screwed this thing up and how only fools rush in. and they rushed in on this and it caused, sean spicer can underplay it as much as he wants, but it caused chaos across the globe. >> chaos and also risks alienating allies that the president needs at home in both parties. donald trump tweeted, two sentences. there is nothing nice about searching for terrorists before they can enter or country. this was a big part of my campaign. both of those things are true. but if you go about doing it in a way that alienates people than you have to with mentality in the white house amongst some official the more negative coverage they get the more it proves they are doing it right. i think rick did make a good case on the merits of certain aspects of what they did but i think as he also said and i believe with both parts of what he said. if you do things that you think are right and you think you have a m

barack obama put a pause for six months on refugees coming from iraq back in 2011. i don't remember protesters and i don't remember lawsuits. so i think the bigger question, if this is a temporary pause which is designed for us to improve and look at our vetting processes and indeed temporary, i don't necessarily think that's an outrageous idea and the bigger question is implementation. did you get it right from the start? >> that's what people are nervous about. >> chuck, some things are true each if donald trump believes them. i think we always have to remember them. one thing is true. we live in an age where there are 65 million migrants traveling around the world and that is the most in history according to you. there is a need to sit back and say how do we respond to that, what is the commercial interest we have, and the historical commitment. you do that carefully and it seems to be one of the terrible signals we may be sending is to a lot of people is just don't go there and let's remember, this is an iphone. >> right. >> the guy who conceived this iphone was

. >> president barack obama, commander in chief of the united states of america. greatest nation ever. so i figured "we fight" was a good statement. you know, barack obama being half black, the battle he had to fight to get just where he's at, i figured it was a bold statement. >> while siverly might respect obama's battles, he is firm and he won't help black inmates in wabash with theirs. >> i'm not racist, but then again, i know where the lines are in here. so i know that if something goes down, just because i'm not racist doesn't mean if there's a race riot that they're not going to stab me too. i'm not going to arm a black so that a race riot can pop off at any time and all the blacks in the dorms got a knife and, you know, one or two white people's got a knife, so i'm on the losing end. eventually one of them's going to get to me. so i don't want to arm anybody that's going to potentially come back and use it on me, at all. >>> coming up -- >> they all think they're "gq" material. >> inmate picture day at wabash. >> your feet can't be on the wall. >> feet can

barack obama put a pause on six months for refugees coming from iraq in 2011. i don't remember protesters and i don't remember lawsuits. so i think the bigger question, if this is a temporary pause, which is designed for us to improve and look at our vetting processes and indeed temporary, i don't necessarily think that's an outrageous idea. but the bigger question should be implementation. did you get it right from the start? >> that's what people are nervous about. >> some things are true even if donald trump believes them. i think we always have to remember that. one thing that is true is we live in an age where there is 60,000 migrants living in the world. so there is a need, i think, to sit back and say, how do we respond to that? what is the commercial interests we have, what is the ethical interests we have, historical commitment. it really needs to be thought out, i think. you do that carefully. and it seems to be one of the terrible signals we may be sending to a lot of people is, just don't go there. remember, this is an iphone. the guy who conceived

barack obama put a pause for six months on refugees coming from iraq back in 2011. i don't rememberprotest tors and i don't remember lawsuits. so the bigger question, if this is a temporary pause, which is designed for us to improve and look at our vetting processes and it indeed temporarily, i don't think that's an outrageous idea. but the bigger question should be implementation, did you get it right from the start. >> that's what people are nervous about. >> chuck, some things are true even if donald trump believes them. we always have to remember them. and we live in an age now with 60 million migrants traveling around the world. this is more at any team in history. so there is a need, i think, to sit back and say how do we respond to that? what is the commercial interest we have? what is the ethical interest we have? it really needs to be thought out. you do that scarefully. and it seems to be one of the terrible signals we may be sending is just don't go there. this is an iphone. the guy that con seceived this iphone was conceived by an immigrant. he was steve

right now there is no head of the democratic party, barack obama has gone back to his private life. some advice from you, please. >> well, look, the people's movement in the street is really a way to shine the light on the leaders who deserve our votes. from what i can tell from being at protests and from watching people get organized is that we're really watching who is voting for trump nominees, we're watching who is at the airport right now. at jehmu said, we're watching who's bringing us granola bars. i've had the honor of leading the democracy in color campaign which is a call to action for the democratic party to hire culturally competent leaders and engage voters of color in a meaningful way. now is a time to turn to our democratic base, engamige us in this conversation and to say that we are about winning and creating an inclusive party as we move towards 2018. >> linda, the muslim community is a tiny voting bloc. we're not talking about 20% of the united states, it's less than 1%, i believe, of the country. is there enough power in not only the muslim community but in the m

i think she envious of barack obama. he feels once he became president he would enjoy the great reverence that people would essentially bow down to the donald, and he is enraged. >> joy, do it. >> i will say it on tv she an obsessive tv watcher. all he does watch tv and tweeter and he doesn't care about voter fraud, two of his kids, he has multiple people in his personal circle registered in more than one state. this is about personal senses of inferiority. it is bizarre. >> you know, let me say -- after teresa may. >> i have heard the theory of the inferiority. that is what drives you to run for president. some sense of need. normal people are like -- >> but driven by a sense of need. why do people spend years writing books, to prove something. psycho babble doesn't get anywhere with me. >> hamilton said vein is the highest ambition of the noblest minds. >> no no. >> they immediately tried to put people at ease. he went to diner with katherine cram and others. he said i may be to your right, but i'm not crazy. >> and ch

bush in the area of security, barack obama in the area of allowing more immigration transitions without congress. and we've seen courts push them back. the key thing, it matters a lot to anyone stuck in an airport over the last day. the larger point is, this is the first blowback to donald trump's very busy first week. to president trump's cascading executive action. if history is a guide, it will have some constraint on what he is trying to do. the courts can do things that congress can't in shutting things down and narrowing things and forcing them to pause. so it is significant even though it is not a complete stop sign for the entire order by any means. >> ari, great context. our chief legal correspondent on site. we have the breaking news, a national stay for the executive order from friday on detainees. >>> we are watching live pictures at jfk airport. the big news, a stay has been granted. the stay is national and they're saying we won, the aclu. they were trying to help those who were detained at various airports across the country. jfk, 12 individuals detained there. when we lo

. >> i don't think this is very different than the order that barack obama had with a temporary ban on refugees coming in from iraq. that was a six month ban during his presidency. and we didn't see the same type of hysteria and outrage there we saw here. of course, this will take some time to coordinate with the agencies, to put out the actual details of how this will work. but i expect that we'll have that mostly in place by monday or tuesday of this week. >> sarah, really quickly -- i want to play a clip, it seems like from where i'm sitting, anytime i ask someone -- i say, you know, what do you think about this. and i mean it in peace. i come as a journalist. it seems like quite often the response is when president obama did it or when president so -- it's like, i'm not asking you to compare. i'm just saying what do you think. you have a guy who was an interpreter for the u.s. military, he's here for the first time in the united states. one of his relatives has a problem with his liver. and this happened. all i'm saying, listen people are not able to talk to their attorneys. this g

you have donald trump denying that he had fewer people at his inauguration than barack obama did. and by the way, last sunday we had about three times as many people watching this particular program, "a.m. joy," then attended donald trump's inauguration, more than three times, actually. that is a numerical, statistical fact. no shade. why do people deny what they can see with their very eyes and what do you make of the rebellion of civil servants against trump? >> well, here is our problem. by "our" i mean all the citizens of the u.s. if you have an ideology, the research is pretty compelling, if you have an ideology, you see what you want to see. and there is a criteria now called science curious. and it's whether or not you're surprised by new information. and so we want to encourage people to surprise themselves, and we strongly believe that will change their outlook, their scientific view of facts. so this business of suppressing facts, i don't think it's sustainable. as you pointed out, there are so many people on twitter, social media will overwhelm us. but it is a remarkabl

embassy in berlin instructed foreign service personnel stationed there to not attend senator barack obama's public rally today" which the state department labeled a partisan political activity prohibited under its regulations for those serving overseas. state department official at the center of that decision was this man, patrick kennedy. mr. kennedy got a lot of pushback against that decision at the time, especially by members of the foreign service who wanted to go to the speech. his rationale was "no u.s. government foreign service person serve everything overseas should be seen as advocating for one side or the other." that kind of non-partisan ethos speaks to what the state department is all about. i mean, take patrick kennedy, for example, he was appointed as an undersecretary of state during the bush presidency in 2007. when president obama took over the white house, he was asked to stay on in the state department in the same role. if you look at his job description in the state department website, you can see why they might have a tough time ginning up an easy replacement for him.

obama." i think the other co-author is joy reid, of that particular book. an opinion columnist for the "washington post." when we hear him talk about torture and last night talking to sean hannity he said that very high level people tell him it does work. it seems it is his obligation to tell us who these people are. we know his defense secretary says. >> he gets these hunches. i hate to think where they come from. i'm somewhat we leaved he seems to be listening to mattis on this. mattis is the grownup in the cabinet. i agree with kelly i hope he will listen to mattis, kelly and perhaps tillerson, as well. >> we have stumbled to the end of week one of the trump administration. there he was standing beside the prime minister who completely disagrees with him about sanctions. she doesn't think it is too early to talk about -- >> she's also been in office a little longer. >> he's been asked about sanctions for a couple of years now. he still hasn't figured out what he thinks about them. >> he ha

for five years, he had one case of illegal barack obama. he voted illegally, having snuck in the country, he became president of the united states. he did not for five years all the while senng out detectives, getting reports, verifying his claim, then he said on friday, he said, oh, he is american like we are. and everybody let it go. how do you by any time from a guy who said number one guy snuck in the country. no one new him in school. he was a phantom being that did not go to columbia or harvard law, none of that happened. he wasn't there. >> i have to -- go ahead. >> he send his wife out to go on -- this guy who loves conspiracy theories, he is now listening to some crank talk about his theory -- it happened three million exactly the number he loses by but all of them voted for hillary clinton, it wasn't three million who happened to vote for hillary clinton. we have a country near the bottom for voterer town-out but just hillary clinton man managed to get three million to vote for her but was not make them savvy enough to do it in pe

how do they sell it trump is a better salesman than barack obama, politically speaking, right? takes credit for everything. how do they sell it and do people buy it? >> mexico is not the reason why we have this problem. you just said it, chuck. it has very little to do with trade. donald trump has gotten into his head. he's sold is to his base that our jobs are being stolen by mexico. he thinks the trade deficit is a bad thing. i have a trade deficit with safeway grocery store because i pay the money and they give me groceries. we're both better off. it's not inherently a bad thing. problems in america are not going to be solved by starting a trade war with mexico that's going to be born by his base. they are going to be dealt with by education, training, infrastructure, those are the heart of things. they're not flashy and they didn't work. >> but he's such salesman that i think that he's -- if he can sell this to people and say i did this. i took care of you. and i don't think people -- when i talk to people in ohio or in pennsylvania, they don't understand that the factories

i can remember him criticizing barack obama, president obama, for using executive power and executive orders. what do you make of the use of that tool? >> are you surprised, look, i have been asked when i was in philadelphia because the republicans, the legislators, they are at some point they are going to get tired of this the because their job is to legislate and of course a president has a pen and can issue these executive orders. they can be reversed quickly as president obama has seen, that he signed are now being reversed. at some point the new president is going to find out that the congress is not going to like this. they love it right now because it looks like there's a lot of momentum. hang on, that marriage is not going to last. i also think the interesting thing about this military build-up executive order that we are anticipating, we haven't seen it yet, today gorbachev wrote and op-ed. he's seen way too much military build-up and he like warning the world that we're going the rection of a war. so interesting to see gorbachev is putting on the brakes and we're getting mil

to the best of our reporting, the president -- the previous president, barack obama, never called mike reynolds' predecessor, jonathan b. jarvis, to talk one-on-one on a certain issue. so it was highly unusual, particularly this soon after taking office for him to receive a call at home from president trump. >> did he say the president attempted to get him to say something different, get him to characterize the photos in a different light? >> the national park service did not want to comment for our story beyond say they go do not discussion internal administration phone calls. so, you know that, would be up to the acting director at some point if he wanted to tackle that. but we talked to multiple individuals who had knowledge of this conversation and the president was delivering a clear message to the national park services in asking for these photos. >> obviously anyone receiving a phone call from their boss would be somewhat intimidated if they knew the boss was not happy. did the park service officials in any way feel that this was a call meant to intimide or to get them to say so

. >> two years ago it was then president barack obama who initially had to drag angela merkel along on sanctions with russia because there's so many economic ties between germany and russia. one other quick note on this meeting here, mattis will be meeting in the tank with the joint chiefs and president trump. they had dinner a couple of nights ago, all they white house about a two-hour meeting to discuss a range of issues. so we'll see whether or not there are actually any tasking orders or presidential directives to the present gone saying come up with some new plans to accelerate the plan. >> and mattis has been sworn in. he got his hair cut at the pentagon. the price is $12. you go in, you ask for a hair cut and they have one question, civilian or military? i'll get back to you on whether he asked for a civilian or military. >> hans, i don't know what we would do without you. thank you, pal. ambassador, hair cuts aside, i want to get your reaction on what we just heard from kellyanne conway. she said the lifting of sanctions on russia is under consideration. overall reaction to tha

but i wouldn't think barack obama's administration would want george w. bush's administration putting out statements on global warming. >> no. i think that is not unreasonable. the state department, by the way, is a tremendous bureaucracy where even the tiniest statement goes through this clearance process of dozens and dozens of bureaus. so it's not like people are going to be speaking out officially on their own. they were reluctant to do that any way. that is par for the course not a big deal. >> unlike the bad lands national park clearly in north dakota where they started tweeting things by themselves on climate change and got into trouble. >> that stopped quickly. >> that stopped. >> part of media is everybody has an avenue of communication. >> they can do things by themselves. >> rick, you wrote this piece in "the atlantic." the end of the american century. a line in there trump's administration is the death nail of the american century. what does that mean exactly? >> henry luce in 1941 wrote a great essay in "life" magazine and everybody thought i

. >>> barack obama is the first president since hubert who never had a year of economic growth is 3% or more. after the last great per session -- the economy grew 4.5% in a year. think of where we'll be and think of where all the blue collar workers would be. >> let's talk about the next four years. donald trump did something that i really liked. >> i do watch the show, you know, i point out his greatness occasionally here. >> lets talk about infrastructure and the airports and the shabbiness and laguardia airport and the railroad system we have in this country compares to the railroad systems and airports all over the world and south africa and all over the world, it is all better than ours >> republicans are trusting to spend but they don't want to do it for fiscal reasons. we are not going to waste your money but we'll spend some money to get capitol investment. do you think paul ryan will go along with that with trump doing some spending or not? >> i do. >> first of all, we have to understand that there are a lot of hugely important infrastructure projects that can be privately f

there is no barack obama and so i guess we are it. i guess the evil media is the new enemy but i don't see a real future in this strategy, i saw others from the other administration saying well, steve kind of went a bit far with those remarks. >> on the other hand, part of this complaint was that we could not have been more wrong of this election and no one is standing up to protest that. >> they won the election, it was a narrow victory. assuming that the conversation o f politics will turn to the next election and not the last election. those comments are fine for the chairman. those comments are outrageous for a senior adviser who carries the title "senior adviser and chief strategist." for people who are born in the 1980s, that number is 25%. we have seen a total collapse of the teaching of civics in this country. those remarks are chilling. just a week ago, stephen bannon, sworn to defend the constitution of the united states. the first amendment and freedom of the press. when white house officials making comments and not complai

barack obama and president bush could talk. but they have a support system around the president to ensure the president says none of the wrong things. one stray word, i worked for president bush and he said the word crusade when he didn't mean to have. he didn't think at that second how would that resonate in the middle east where he was talking. it had -- he paid the price for it for years. one slip in one moment. never repeated. the president's words are actions. so the idea the president is waking up at 6:00 in the morning with no staff support misspelling words in to his iphone, why? why does he make all of these mistakes? the whole world around him ready to give him accurate information if only he would ask and listen. one thing that i would think would be fun about being president is you want the answer to a question, you got the world's nobel prize winners to give you the answer. >> joy, what the world is seeing here is that it'all bluff. it's all just -- that's a big problem. presidents need credibility worldwide. >> ye

didn't he say for five years one of the illegal immigrants in this country right now was barack obama, the guy he road to the capitol with last week? before you answer, let me remind you of two statements, one from ronald reagan, the other from one of the marx brothers, both are relevant. president reagan once said in urging people to pay attention to that their health "don't be afraid to see what you see." i didn't think of better advise by the way. especially for people afraid to go to the doctor. the other squoquote is chico man "duck soup" who are you going to believe? me or your own eyes? that's it for me, "all in" with chris hayes start right. >>> tonight on "all in." >> you have people registered in two states. >> a voter fraud investigation that began as a game of telephone with a professional golfer. >> why did he write the report? >> tonight, why the president abruptly canceled the kickoff of his voter fraud probe. and what we learned from his first big interview. >> this goes all the way down here. all the way down. i. >>> plus, today's diplomatic meltdown with mexico. >> t

. >> if you remember, north korea tested a nuclear device soon after president barack obama took office. recently i talked to the outdoing defense secretary, ash carter about how the u.s. would respond if north korea carries through with its threat. is it policy now that, if they test an intermediate range ballistic missile, the united states would shoot it down? >> if it were threatening to us, yes. if its predicted impact -- or one of our friends or allies, yes, we would shoot it down. >> north korea is notoriously unpredictable. a north korean diplomat who defected last summer warns things are getting worse saying yesterday the traditional structures of the north korean system are crumbling. joining me now me chris hill. long time, no chat. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> let me start with the threat here of north korea. i assume, knowing their history, you think it's when not if they decide to test this president. >> that's right. i think they're doing more than testing a president. they're testing ballistic missiles. and they could be testing a weapons design. it's one thin

barack obama. economic stimulus and affordable care in the first two years and the second two years, trying to sell all of that. in a way it's not that different. it's the pace at which he has moved. there is an exhaustion element here. theresa may coming is a giant story on any other day. then we have the mexican president, how that went down, the voting fraud investigation, him speaking to members -- republican members of congress. the supreme court nomination. it's a flood of information, strategic, seat-of-the-pants, i don't know. but this is the hallmark of the early days of the trump presidency. >> chris cillizza. thank you for the time. >> thank you, my friend. >>> service union members in boston are rallying in protest of president trump's executive orders on immigration announced yesterday. that includes his threat to cut off federal funding from so-called sanctuary cities. this comes as boston's mayor marty walsh slammed the order yesterday, one of a number of democratic mayors speaking o

she's now criticizing former president barack obama, calling him, quote, weak. i'll talk live with manning's attorney about this op-ed written by her client. good morning. i'm tamron hall coming to you live. air force i ready to take off with president trump, headed to philadelphia where he will address congressional republicans at his annual retreat. his address comes amid what politico calls deep divisions between the president and his own party on several major issues, leaving them reportedly scrambling to respond after some of his recent announcement. among them discussing his position on torture. during his first sit-down interview as president, here's what he said last night to abc's david muir. >> i have spoken as recently as 24 hours ago with people at the high lest level of intelligence and i asked him the question does it work? does torture work? and the ann was yes, absolutely. i will say this. i will rely on pompeo and mattis and my group and if they don't want to do it, that's fine. if they do want to do, then i will work toward that end. i want to

she's now criticizing former president barack obama, calling him, quote, weak. i'll talk live with manning's attorney about this op-ed written by her client. good morning. i'm tamron hall coming to you live. air force i ready to take off with president trump, headed to philadelphia where he will address congressional republicans at his annual retreat. his address comes amid what politico calls deep divisions between the president and his own party on several major issues, leaving them reportedly scrambling to respond after some of his recent announcement. among them discussing his position on torture. during his first sit-down interview as president, here's what he said last