Relations, who is not, note alley, running for reelection. In an interview with the New York Times he said this about the president. He concerns me. He would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation. I know for a fact that every single day at the white house its a situation of trying to contain him. Except for a few people, the vast majority of our caucus understands what were dealing with here. Of course, they understand the volatility that were dealing with and the tremendous amount of work that it takes by people around him to keep him in the middle of the road. All that came after corker responded to a Trump Twitter tirade against him by saying, quote, its a shame the white house has become an Adult Daycare Center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning. Where corker is concerned this has been building for some time and we have watched him struggle when describing this president. I do think there need to be some radical changes. The president has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. I chose the words. I stand by those words. When i met with the president a week ago friday i said mr. President , i stand by what i said. Secretary tillerson, secretary mattis, and chief of staff kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos. And about the fight with corker and similar battles the president has been in, the Washington Post spoke to 18 people in the white house, outside advisers included, and other Trump Associates who said the president is increasingly isolated. Quote, one trump loyalist noting that corker has many more friends in the senate than trump said the rift could gash chances for tax reform and other meaningful legislation. His presidency could be doomed, said this person. Here is another. One trump confidante likened the president to a whistling tea pot saying that when he does not blow off staem he can turn into a Pressure Cooker and explode. I think we are in Pressure Cooker territory said the person who, you know the rest, requested anonymity to speak candidly and the axios news Service Reporting tonight the stress does not stop with the press secretary at the white house. They write, quote, we cannot stress enough how many essential staff and officials want out. If not this quarter then soon after the new year. We also got a glimpse tonight of something else, this rapidly escalating war on incumbents in the Republican Party, not all but some, and its under the banner of the trump movement. Steve bannon appeared on Sean Hannitys show tonight on fox news. He warned Establishment Republicans nobody is safe. Were coming for you, and here was the exchange with the host. Ive been told by people in the room, been sass, john mccain, Lindsey Graham, corker, and even mcconnell, they trash the president , but yet they cant get any of their promises completed. They are the swamp. Republicans are weak and pathetic and theyre lacking in identity, and the forgotten men and women, that voertd in this election are being let down. Look, they have total contempt for the forgotten man. They have total contempt for the base. Thats what you saw in alabama. In alabama where they came in with Luther Strange with 32 million to destroy judge moo, the base totally rejected them. These people have no respect for the working men and women in the United States. I tell you what, senator corker is an absolute zis grace. If bob corker has any honor, any decency, he should resign immediately. He should not let those words stand what he said about the president of the United States. No be is safe. Were coming after all of 24e78 and were going to win. Those were important words and they made news tonight. Interesting exchange. With that lets turn to our lead off panel for this evening. Peter baker, kimberly atkins, and jeremy peters, New York Times political reporter and an msnbc contributor. Peter, lets begin not where that lasts bit we heard. Well get to mr. Bannon. But based on your writing tonight, why is this fight with corker particularly bad timing for the president , not that any time is good to take on the chairman of Senate Foreign relations, a member of your own party is this. Well, exactly. Bob corker is not just an average republican senator and hes not one of the ones who has been a renegade up until now on some of these health care votes. When the president has been trying desperately to get to 51 votes for some of these big pieces of legislation, the ones hes been kofrting and losing are have been john mccain, Susan Collins, lisa murkowski. Now add bob corker to the list of people he no longer can count on. Bob corker as chairman of the Foreign Relations committee has a lot to do with obviously the appointment power, if there is a new secretary of state, if Rex Tillerson is put out. With the Iran Nuclear Deal if the president later this week dessert fiez it as were told hes going to do. Ands a deficit hog going way back. Kimberly, i have described senator corker on this broadcast as a workhorse and not a show horse, a man not normally given to hyperbole. So having said that, what do you think is in it for him . Do you think he views this as a straight up acted of patriotism . Well, what did janice jop lynn say, freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose. Since he announced that hes not running for reelection, he has a lot more freedom to speak very frankly about how he seize this white house. And youre right, this is somebody who doesnt spout off. This is somebody who chooses his words carefully. Its also someone who supported donald trump. Hes not a never trump person. And so having this hes expressing, hes taking on the responsibility of expressing what hes hearing in the Republican Caucus, sort of giving cover to the other people who are running for reelection and who cant speak as freely about this president. So thats what makes it extraordinary. Hes also someone who is very well respected. I mean, you made the point that he has a lot more friends in the Republican Caucus than the president does right now. And so taking that position, hes really, you know, using that freedom that he has now that hes not running for reelection to really speak on their behalf. Nice job on bobby mcgee, by the way. Jeremy, whats the ratio of republicans who agree with corker yet refuse to say so . Hundred to one, 200 to one, 300 to one . And has there been any migration in any of their has courage broken out in any per susceptible way in the last 36 hours . No. Not among, brian, republicans who are running for reelection. I mean, theres a handful who have always kind of been willing to criticize the president , but for the most part the ones that youve seen who have really come out hard against him are people like bob corker who are enincouple berd by the bonds of reelection and you have people like john mccain who have always kind of been out there against him. And its not clear to me that anything short of a stoelgts implosion by President Trump, a realization among republicans that he offers them no more political power will cause them to break with him. They have to see among their base, among their voters that President Trump is no longer popular, and right now thats just not the case. Among the Trump Supporters who were with trump in the primary, 95 of them still approve of the job that trump is doing according to the latest nbc news wall street journal poll. And thats what republicans are seeing back in their district, back in their home states when they take into consideration, okay, is it time for me to criticize the president yet. Peter, lets go dr. Phil on the relationship between those two men and then well move on. We remember seeing the pictures of corker arriving at trump tower. We were led to believe it was an audition or interview loosely for a cabinet spot. Not just any cabinet spot. Why didnt that happen for senator corker . Republicans that when he interviewed with president elect trump they disagreed on most of the issues around the world in a lot of ways. I did not think that they clicked during that time. Peter baker who will not be the next secretary of state for plut. Hey, kimberly, our friend Gene Robinson calls us the era of the dear leader. Obviously a tip of the hat to the nomenclature of north korea. Look at this tweet from Lindsey Graham today and as we read it, really enjoyed a round of golf with President Trump today. President trump shot a 73 in windy and wet conditions and so on. Here is lined see graham who has been critical of the president. Lindsey graham, bestie with john mccain. Whats going on here . Yeah. The president is clearly trying to elicit all the phrase that you can. You have the likelihood that the president suggested that he praised him today even though the president does not like to talk about his golfing. There was also a statement put out today from cabinet members praising the president S Immigration plan that was laid out late last night. He thrives on praise and he really hates criticism. So in the space of a week weve been discussing whether or not the secretary of state called him a moron and now we have bob corker, you know, saying that its like an Adult Daycare Center at the white house, hes seeking all the praise that he can everywhere he can. So, jeremy, now to mr. Bannon. Mr. Bannons words really got our attention tonight s. Tell us how real this is, how real the fear should be from mcconnell on down. Everyone in the caucus and why senator barrasso of wyoming is in the news today. Well, as we reported over the weekend, brian, senator barrasso is likely to get a challenge from rt right from eric prince, the founder of blackwater, the military contracting service. That is Steve Bannons doing in large part. Steve bannon recruited him. And from the right. Peter, just for fun, tell our viewers who the president is having lunch with tomorrow at the white house. Well, none other than Rex Tillerson, the secretary of state who did or did not call him a moron in the past and who said hes not resigning. A lot of people will be watching this lunch to see what comes of it. Theres a real feeling that secretary of state tillerson is not long for this job, even if he stays for a few months, his position is obviously diminished. People do not assume that he speaks for the president. He speaks for the administration, and therefore, that takes away the biggest calling card that any secretary of state has, which is the idea that he represents the United States of america around the world. So thats a lunch, all eyes will be on. Unfortunately were not in the room, but maybe somebody will tell us a little bit afterwards what happens. All right. Thanks to our three returning friends for starting us off tonight. A first break for us of the and still ahead, the president s legal team has a new strategy when it comes to dealing with mueller. The secretary of defense talks about readiness should the president order military action against north korea. More on that tonight. And up next, now the Vice President is in the fight over kneeling before football games. Apparently acting on orders from the boss. The 11th hour just Getting Started on a monday night. Ah, dinner. 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Then a carefully composed statement from pence landed on social media, already in beautiful graphic form. Then we heard from the president on twitter, quote, i asked vp pence to leave stadium if any players kneeled disrespecting our country. I am proud of him and second lady karen. All of it led philip bump of the Washington Post that it refen forced the obvious conclusion that pences appearance at the game and his well coordinated exit from it was stapled. The president added this on twitter just today, quote, the trip by vp pence was long planned. Hes receiving great praise for leaving game after the players showed such disrespect for country. And members of the president s staff played offense today. It takes a lot to get that mans blood boiling and to refer to someone who is standing up for the flag and all it represents to hundreds of millions of americans and all it signals to the world, our vet answer, our unity, the founding of our great nation, to call that a political stunt is stuly outrageous, egregious and offensive. Lets talk about it tonight. We are joined by philip bump and andy march teeno. Gentlemen, welcome. So philip, you instantly had no doubt and how if your conclusion and the evidence weve seen is correct, how angry should taxpayers be . Because wild spending on aircraft flights han in the news of late. It has. We dont know exactly how much this cost and theres been a lot of attention paid to costs in part because we can calculate. There are ancillary costs, the costs of security, the costs of getting mike pence from the airport to the stadium. There are also things that are intrusions in peoples daily lives which is expensive in other ways. But i think the thing that i think is really refen foshsing is the fact that this was something that was planned in advance, clearly planned in advance. No one wants to go see the colts play the 49ers. The two worst teams in the nfl. He went there specifically to have this reaction happen. And this was something that you only get so much time as Vice President. This is something he spent a day of his time planning for and carving out because this was a priority. And i think that is what we should judge on its merits. Andy, im going to you ask you to take on a headline of phils piece. Why pence and trump keep framing the nfl protests as being about the military. Why . Well, its an excellent question because its not actually at all about the military. Thats right. Colin kaepernick, people say that kaepernick, we dont know what hes protesting for accident we dont know why hes kneel. Its a strange thing for the right to claim because kaepernick himself has been very clear this is before perceived police brutality. This is about social justice. This is about systemic racism. This is not about the militaryment this is not about soldiers. Its been coopted by the right into one of these devices, breitbart red meat kind of issues and thats clearly what the Vice President and now president are doing. Plenty of the players have military in the family. The word war has never come up to my nonl. Mu happened ali waged a protest against the military. This is to protest the crisis black men and women are facing every day all across the country. Now, let me raise a separate crisis. The nfl is going through a rough time and it could get rougher. From cte to issues like this, this comes at a terrible time for professional football. It does, brian, but i think this is a political winner at least for football. It depends on the questions asked. It depends on the poll. But kaepernicks action and those who have followed him have always polled poorly. The majority of americans are against what he and his fellow players have done. This is someone thats common in racial protests, in sports racial protests. Ali was not popular in his time. 23 of the American Public was in favor of martin looutser kings march on washington the day before it happened. If im the nfl, if im a jerry jones the owner of the cowboys who came out against this after all this happened with Vice President mike pence. I want to talk about this instead of the fact that my sport is killing people, causing brain injuries, causing suicides. That is a loser. This, unfortunately, is a political winner. Think nothing of the 05 new york giants. Exactly. The president tweeted tonight a big salute to jerry jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys who will bench players who disrespect our flag. Quote, stand for anthem or sit for game. Again, a little political coopting there, and if we had a legal eagle on this panel they would remind us the First Amendment were waving around protects its about the government. Right. Independent private companies can be private companies, and if youre the employee, they can lay down the law. Yeah. Jerry jones has every right to do what he wants to do with his team. Obviously there are contract stipulation and so on, but generally speaking thats true. The point that was just made about the significance of the flag and how this is being coopted is an important one. The fact that this is being made about the flag, about the military is because those are political winners. The military is a political winner itself. Donald trump is extremely unpopular, Vice President pence theyre protesting the military to gather people around. He spends so much more time dealing with this than he has, frfrm, the aftermath of haurk maria if puerto rico. Its something that his base and republicans get excited about and he needs that support right now. And so hes seizing on what jones did in part because its another win in his column on this issue, which he thinks is important. Gentlemen, i cant think you enough. A terrific discussion on a monday night of all things. Thank you both. Coming up after another break theres been a lot less trashing about Robert Mueller by the white house lately. Thats a calculated plan. The latest on the russia vegs and what it means for the president when the 11 owed hour continues. The white house seems to have a new strategy as you may have noted when it comes to dealing with this ongoing russia investigation. New york times reports that it basically goes like this. Respond to all of Robert Muellers requests and ask him to publicly clear the president. When its all over. The times writes, quote, once mr. Mueller has combed into the evidence, mr. Trumps lawyers plan to ask him to affirm that plut is not under investigation either for colluding with russian operatives or for trying to obstruct justice. Lets talk about it tonight. And with us to do that Jill Winebanks is back with us. Former assistant watergate counsel. Jill, you are fond of finding all the statements that are aimed at an audience of one. Is this the president with an idea, goes to his legal team and says lets offer this . Its a very good legal strategy for several reasons. One, its always better to get out even bad news yourself rather than waiting for the other side to find it and then you have to explain it. Its much better to be able to get it out and talk it away before its found. And the other thing is its a good strategy not to be antagonistic to the prosecutor and to hopefully cooperate with him. On the other hand i did give advice at one point over the air to donald trump jr. Saying that he should reveal everything and do it fast. And then i saw the chain of emails and thought well, that wasnt such good advice because that email chain was so incriminating that it was very hard to explain it away no matter how hard you tried. So sometimes full cooperation may backfire on you. Well, speaking of ways it could backfire, theres no law against working the refuses in public. Sometimes different sides in a case are prohibited or prevented and other lawyers come out and work the reps through the media. Is mueller likely to react negatively to these kind of advance instruction . I dont think so. I think that mueller is looking at facts and evidence, and he will view the facts and evidence from whatever source when he gets them and he will analyze them fairly and without any bias. So i think this really doesnt affect the prosecutor so much. It does make his job easier if they will cooperate than if they keep stonewalling. I mean, certainly in watergate we had a very long time of stonewalling by the president , and it took public reaction and horror at the saturday night massacre that forced him to say, okay, i will give you the white house tapes and i will appoint a new special prosecutor after he had fired the special prosecutor. So public reaction can matter more than the special prosecutors. And this may be done for his own base to say to them, look, i have nothing to hide and so im really cooperating. And that may help him with his bags more than with the people who are already suspicious of what will be found. Jill, if we all agree that Robert Mueller has hired an allstar legal team and if we all agree that he is a taciturn, close to the vest guy who will never get caught leaking, based on all publicly available cues and clues, on a percentage basis how far along do you think the mueller effort is . I think in terms of manafort and flynn, theyre probably pretty far along. In terms of russian collusion and obstruction of justice, maybe not as far along. In terms of certain clues to obstruction, the firing of comey, the actions in connection with that do indicate to me some potential for the president to have been involved in obstruction of justice. But we need a lot more evidence, and i am sure that mueller has it and that his team is doing a wonderful job on it. The search warrant for manaforts home would indicate theyre a lot further along with that. And i wonder about how quiet its been about flynn as to whether hes cooperating, and thats why its so quiet. But we arent ever going to hear anything from flirn im sorry, from mueller until there are indictments. Then we will know what he thinks the crimes that have been committed are and who committed them. And other than that, hes not going to come out and say i cleared the president. All he will say is ive dieted a, b, examine c, and thats all he will say. 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Its all assumptions. There is no world leader that we know less about. There is no regime we know less about with regard to their intentions. And the ability for a miscalculation to occur that causes a tragedy for the ages is a real thing. One of the moments from todays programming that got our attention as he often does, republican strategist shooef submit earlier this afternoon with Nicolle Wallace remind usful stakes. Also today, secretary of Defense James Mattis said that although diplomacy is, of course, the preferred course of action right now, the role of the u. S. Army must be preparedness. Now, what does the future hold . Neither you nor i can say, so theres one thing the u. S. Army can do, and that is you have got to be ready to ensure that we have military options that our president can employ if needed. We currently we currently are in a diplomatically led effort. Well, with us tonight sue my taer, former north korean analyst of the cia and former National SecurityCouncil Director for korea, japan and on or aboutianic affairs. And barry mccaffrey. General, ill start with you. Where will our current policy if nothing changes, where will our current policy with the north lead us . I think, brian, inhe is escapeably we are sliding toward war. I think part of the problem is going to be the north koreans over the last 50 years have learned they can provoke, talk, gain compensation and provoke again. So i anticipate at some point kim jongun, young, untested, probably rational. By the way, rational governments do stupid things all the time. The japanese attacking the United States, kennedy and johnson getting us into vietnam. So, you know, i think a provocation from the north koreans in the coming year is very likely to result in us striking them in a major way with conventional air and sea power to destroy the nuclear capability, which by the way will mostly work. But then we could anticipate high intensity warfare in the Korean Peninsula which would be a disaster for the rejoon. Wow. Next time i see you id add to the list, by the way, bay of pigs. Thats for a later discussion of the i know you know and respect the opinion of the general. I want to add to what he just said, chilling as it was, the last tweets on the subject from the president of the United States over the weekend. President s and their administrations have been talking to north korea for 25 years. Agreements made and massive amounts of money paid. Hasnt worked. Agreements violated before the ink was dry, making fools of u. S. Negotiators. Sorry, but only one thing will work. How chilling is that . And whats he talking . Well, he keep make tg sound like only military option is available when he says only one thing is going to work. And but it is true weve been talking to them for 25 years and its also true that engagement did not necessarily work out, but you still have to give north koreans off ramp. You can do pressure, you can do sanctions, you can do secondary samples, but you still have to give them an exit. Otherwise what will they do . They will think provocation is coming or war is coming so it will lead to miscalculation on the north korean regime part and that can lead to an escalation and conflict just like the general talked about. Kim jonguns younger sister has just been elevated, begin a little bit more responsibility. What do we know about her and is is that considered good news for the west . Well, i dont think its necessarily good news or bad news. Shes kim jonguns aunt seshtd in that role for his father. So its normal that kim jongun is reaching out to his family members, the one person that he can truly trust. And what hes doing right now is filling hes filling key posts with only people that he can truly trust because obviously, you know, thats what he wants. But this is not unusual that hes, you know, reaching out to his sister or family member. General, as no one needs to remind you, the members of the u. S. Army who are stationed there do so under the banner, under the phrase ready to fight tonight. And they stay battle ready 24 7, and that is terrific. However, what if they dont start it . What if its something were reacting to started by the north because of a threat or a faint or a comment on our side . Well, i think, again, thats a problem. Secretary mattis is almost worshipped by the armed forces and his message today was clearly one of lets use diplomacy first. But when you look at sort of a modest u. S. Military presence in south korea, substantial naval and air presence in the region, when you look at this capability, where is the diplomatic leverage . If the secretary of state is being undercut, is call his own president a moron, which theres a serious argument about that, if you look at senator corker, i mean, this is the key person in the senate dealing with this issue. So how could there be magic that we dont know about that will take us off the paths of war . I think at the end of the day we are headed inescapeably, without a peep out of congress toward using a military option to solve a genuine threat to the american people, which i think is is going to be a sad outcome. Wow. Thats breathtaking. Sue, last word. How much western media does kim jongun consume, do we think . A lot. Im sure hes watching this right now. Theyre pouring over every word thats coming out of Trump Administration and coming out of the United States. Very chilling stuff. Two of the very best in the business whose opinions well continue to count on. Sue my taer, general barry mccaffrey. Thank you both. Another break for us. More when we come right back. So much to talk about tonight with bill kristol. Obviously a veteran of the reagan and bush administrations, editor at large of the Weekly Standard and a guy we turn to whenever we can. Okay, bill. The comments tonight by bannon to members of the republican establishment who might dream of not being with the trump agenda, devote, no one is safe. We are coming for you. How worried are you about this movement to burn down the house and while theyre at it the senate . And then what will it mean to have an r after your name . No. I think theres a real civil war in the Republican Party as you and i have discussed before. I think people have been under estimating this. Theyve tended to interpret the different sides as psycho drama. Theres a lot of psycho drama with donald trump is involved. But fundamentally theres a genuine fight for the future of the Republican Party. Trump and bannon have one vision and they are bannon is out recruiting candidates and some of them are spontaneously appearing too. They thought geez in cory stewart can come to beating gill list pea, why dont i take a shot . I think were going to see something we have not really ever seen in modern politics. Primaries almost against every republican senator. Primaries inhouse district and serious fights with money on both sides and a real battle over the future of the Republican Party. And this is not a party thats out of power. You know, weve seen this before, brian, where the party thats out of power has a lot of angt and they fight and what are we going to see . This is a fight that controls the presidency and congress. And were going to have a civil war with the president on one side and the majority leader in the senate and the speaker of the house on the other. We have not seen that before. Listening to bannon on hannity tonight the common denominator is the senators who report to mcconnell. Does he realize his exposure . Is there anyone that can take him out of the game because there could be damage to the kfrms he leads now . I think its possible. If you listen to bannon and other Trump Supporters and himself they think republican senators should work for donald trump. Corker, hes supposed to be even more loyal to trump than he has been. Hes been pretty loyal. Hes voted for the healthcare bill, i think every single one of his nominations. Hes not like john mccain and Susan Collins who have bolted on a couple of things. Hes supposed to resign according to bannon and people like John Barrasso in wyoming who has voted with them on everything, these supposed to be primaried. Again, its a free country. I think the notion that you can apiece trump or apiece bannon should be put aside. This may be a moment where republican senators in congress will wake up and say you know what . If were going to fight for the future lets at least fight for something we believe in. Lets stop trying to bend over backwards for trump and his supporters. We havent seen that much courage to standing up to trump in public yet. Maybe there will be more now. About that building with the dome on it behind you, whats the chance that we come to the end of 2017 without a successful major legislative initiative . I think pretty good chance. I dont think tax reform will make it this year. If roadway moo shows up here in december, that makes it even harder for mcconnell. You have an administration thats not interested in legislative details. You have to be fair to the pop house an establishment Republican Group who arent who are operating a pretty stale idea in many cases. They havent really made a case for the tax reform bill. Speaker reason who is most knowledgeable about it, im not convinced. And then youve got the populists who just want to burn everything down. So not a recipe for legislative success, i think. Bill kristol, will you keep coming on and explaining everything to us . Yeah, right. Ill keep coming on, but my i hope i can explain a little bit. I cant predict much. I think your focus on bannon and on the sort of whats happening, this is not just the normal sniping. We are at a real moment for the Republican Party and maybe for american politics. Yeah. It felt like a moment that we witness on television tonight. Bill kristol, walk home by way of that dome behind you and fingers whats going on there. Thank you. Another break and up next what donald trump wants us to know about what may be the lasting image from his trip to storm ravaged prosecutor prosecutor when the 11th hour continues. No, im scheduling time to go to the bank to get a mortgage. Ugh, youre using a vacation day to go to the bank . I know, right . Just go to lendingtree dot com. 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It was instantel criticized as disrespectful, and the criticism of that moment and Trump Administrations overall response to the storm damage has clearly bothered the president. We did a great job. And we werent treated fairly by the media because we really did a good job. I mean, one example, theyd these beautiful soft towels, very good towels and i came in and there was a crowd of a lot of people and they were scream and they were loving anything and i was having fun. They were having fun. They said throw them to me, throw them to me, mr. President. And so im doing so the next day they said, oh, it was so disrespectful to the people. It was just a made up thing. And also, when they had when i walked in, the cheering was incredible. A reminder fully 85 of Puerto Ricans, tax paying citizens all remain without power. Just over half have clean Drinking Water now. There are still communities that have received no assistance, the president said on twitter this weekend, quote, nobody could have done what ive done for puerto rico with so little appreciation. So much work. And on that last line, make no mistake, for those who are there as part of this monumental relief effort, it is work. Its relentless and it is exhausting, and we salute all of them from members of the military to regular citizens who have flown down there to be part of that relief effort. That is, as we start a new week, our broadcast for tonight. Thank you so much for being here with us. Good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. The person. A republican senator rings a nuclear alarm over donald trump. He doesnt realize that, you know, that we could be heading towards world war iii with the kind of comments that hes making. Tonight senator corkers stark warning over President Trump. His claim that nearly all of his republican colleagues agree, and why what happens next is so important. Then the president deploys the rubber glue response on the moron report. One of the greatest of all terms ive come up with is fake. What were learning about just how staged the Vice President s nfl walkout was. You can see us. Thats okay. You can say yes. Thats fine. All in starts right now