MSNBC "All in with Chris Hayes" - Transcript: Donald Trump

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HAYES: Ahead of tomorrow`s special election in Pennsylvania, the President  flew there to the district over the weekend to whip up support for  Republican Congressional Candidate Rick Saccone. The President also used  his rambling 73-minute speech to attack the media, to praise countries that  execute drug dealers, and to go after one of his most vocal critics in  Congress, Democrat Maxine Waters.

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HAYES: Joining me now is Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Democrat from  California. Congresswoman, the President has said this twice about you in  the past week. I wanted to give you an opportunity to respond.

REP. MAXINE WATERS (D), CALIFORNIA: Well, you know, there is no response.  Everybody knows who this bully is. This President has attacked more women,  more individuals, name-calling, I mean, look at this. Not only has he  talked about Senator Warren, called her Pocahontas, he called Hillary  crooked. He`s calling me low I.Q. He called Rubio little. I mean, this  is what we expect of him. I just wonder what took him so long. And so  since we know who he is, and the fact that he is, you know, calling people  names constantly, and talking about the media in the way that he does and  calling people SOBs, et cetera, et cetera, I`m not surprised at all.
All I know is this. If he thinks he can stop me from talking about impeach  45, he`s got another thought coming. I am not intimidated by him. I`m  going keep saying that we need to impeach him and I am so depending on our  Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, to connect the dots so that he can prove  the collusion. And of course, we`ve seen obstruction of justice just  playing out before our very eyes. So this is a dishonorable human being.  He is a con man. He came to this job as a con man. I really call him you  know, Don the con man. And so, that`s who he is, that`s what we expect and  I`m not surprised at all.

HAYES: It`s interesting to listen to your reaction to this because it  almost sounds like you and other folks who work in Washington don`t even --  it doesn`t even land anymore when he does this kind of thing because it has  become so wrote. Is that a fair characterization?

WATERS: That`s absolutely fair. We expect to wake up every morning to him  calling somebody else another name or telling another lie. He has no  credibility. And so, no we`re not surprised about him, you know, calling  names and talking about my I.Q. He might say or do anything. It`s  expected.

HAYES: You just mentioned Robert Mueller. I know that you believe that  there probably was collusion. There were crimes committed. That`s a  contention you`ve made. You think obstruction has played out before our  eyes. Today the House Republicans on the Intelligence Committee announced  very abruptly without consulting Democrats, they`re wrapping up their  investigation. It`s done and it`s over, and they found no collusion. Do you take that at face value?

WATERS: Well, first of all, they had no real investigation. And who would  believe Nunes was working in a credible way to find out what took place?  As a matter of fact, he was simply a messenger boy for the President,  running up in the middle of the night, trying to prove that Obama, for  example, had wiretapped the President. And so they can conclude whatever  they want to. They weren`t doing anything to begin with. It was not a  credible investigation and so we`re not paying any attention to that at  all.

HAYES: The President`s former right-hand man and senior adviser Steve  Bannon went to France. He`s been touring around Europe and he gave an  address to the Front National, the National Front Party there that is a  very hard right anti-immigrant some say proto-fascist party. And he said  this to that group and I wanted to get your reaction. I thought it was an  interesting thing. This is what he said to them. Take a listen.

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HAYES: Wear the term racist as a badge of honor. What do you think of  that?

WATERS: Well, you know, he has always said that. When he was at  Breitbart, he said look, if race is an issue, we win every time. He`s made  it known that he wants race to be the issue. He wants us constantly  talking about how racist they are and constantly he`s organizing people,  saying that, you know, we`re accusing them unfairly, et cetera. We`re  playing the race card. This is his game, and this is what he does and we  have to stay on some of these issues and stop following some of this stuff  that he is doing and that the president is doing. They like diverting us  and diverting the attention from the real issue. I`m sitting here as the  Ranking Member of the Financial Services Committee, trying to hold on to  the reforms that we have made with Dodd-Frank.

That Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that Mr. Mulvaney is now over  there trying to dismantle since Mr. Cordray is gone is extremely important.  We`re working on issues trying to deal with the big banks and to implement  the Dodd-Frank reforms that we have been involved in, to make sure that we  never have another crisis like we`ve had where the big banks basically took  advantage of so many of our citizens with these exotic loans and with these  loans that resetting in a short period of time. We had foreclosures all  over this country that we had to learn how to do modifications for and keep  people in their homes. We need to be talking about these issues. We need  to be talking about the sanctions and why there is no implementation of the  sanctions? Why it is that Tillerson had $120 million. Didn`t spend a dime  of it to find out about what had happened with hacking into our DNC? Why  it is Mnuchin who is the Treasury Secretary supposed to help implement the  sanctions is excusing himself and talking about oh, that`s something the  State Department was supposed to do.

This President in my estimation has a deal with Putin where he agreed to lift the sanctions, where he agreed that there would be no more sanctions in exchange for that. I think, I believe no matter what anybody else says, that that is what was worked out between the two of them, that Putin helped him because President in the way that he has done all of the trolling and all of that that he has done. And so I`m not surprised about anything that he does. And it`s time to talk about the issues. He can call me all the names that he want. It doesn`t make any difference. I want to tell you, he is exactly who we know him to be. He is Don the con man. That`s who he is. He is a con artist.

HAYES: Congresswoman Maxine Waters, thank you for making the time.

WATERS: Thank you.

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