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Popular to the biden team. the mayors office, you have to have executive decision experience. shes been in congress six months. so like per executive decision making make bill de blasio look like mike bloomberg. she should stay where she is. she could be a king maker. >> brian: i find her decisive, confident, charismatic and hard working. jesse, can you fault me on any of those four qualities? >> jesse: you want her to run for mayor so you can follow her every day. >> dana: youre right. >> jesse...

Summit in japan, perhaps a chance to strike a deal. eric: eric and well certainly be seeing what develops. david, thank you. arthel: the trade standoff also playing out on the campaign trail. francesca chambers, white house correspondent for the daily mail. hi. >> good morning. arthel: did president trump lose props for his highly self-touted trade negotiating acumen for going after canada and mexico first on aluminum and steel or the way he handled that deal overall and now the slow-dragging tr...

The one thing that would really chip away the most, i completely agree, is that the perception of wealth isnt what people were sold. voters were sold that he was so successful at business, he was so wealthy, and that he was going to apply that acumen to the country. if that narrative is chipped into, i do not see donald trump recovering from that. i think he could totally recover from being a russian asset, of course, but not the money. >> ron klain, aaron sorkin, of course, is in my brain on da...

Impact of this summit and what is going on in 2020. the president didnt get what he wanted yet. is moving in a good direction. what do you think? >> for 2020 there was no damage to the president. being willing and able to walk away when you feel you are forced to give away too much is the site of a good leader and a position of strength. if you look at content on the democratic ticket, those who have announced, none of them bring foreign-policy acumen to the table. rob: final word. >> i am a lit...

Re-open the government. but it looks like republicans are right to worry about the political fallout from an emergency declaration. nbc news reports that trump and kushner have already met with contractors to discuss building a border wall. thats todays onion news. yo joining our conversation, "washington post" columnist, msnbc political analyst eugene robins robinson. my date all night long. nbc news national political reporter, heidi, is with us. so, its my understanding, and you both correct ...

2012 race at this point in 2011. i mean, still, charles, $130 million is nothing to scoff at. >> i believe it underscores the lie he told the first time around, right. i dont need money. im rich. i can do this. we found out in recent reporting that, no, he was broke and going to deutsche bank because he was giving the campaign so much money that he did not have. it was costing him money, limiting his projects. >> but people are donating. thats my point. >> i get that, but i just think we have to...

There were three casinos that failed, there was this attempt to get rid of tenants on 100 central park south that failed, the united states football league that failed this man has been a failure for his entire career. he earned -- im sorry he didnt earn -- he inherited $400 million. >> right were mixing your mic. >> i got it. >> thank you so much. >> he inherited $400 million and, you know, compared to almost any other way kite have been invested did nothing with it. >> yeah. i guess the thing ...

>> president trump often brags about his deal-making acumen, but it hasnt gotten him far in the government shutdown standoff with speaker pelosi and the democrats. "the new york times" spoke to former long-time trump organization executive barbara res who says speaker pelosi is a new challenge for donald trump. "one blind spot she observed was that mr. trump believes hes better than anyone who ever lived and saw even the most capable of women as easy to run over. but there was never a woman with...

Otherwise, pointing to some kind of criminal conspiracy here. what it will be and whether mueller will feel he has the evidence to say i can prove this in court, which i think will be his standard whether or not trump gets charged, i dont know. but i think that that -- from a former prosecutors point of view, and im not alone in this, i see criminal conspiracy. i think the separate but if not equally important is what this president is doing and has done in a moral way. >> we need seven more hou...

They either had an agenda that was so contrary to our values and what i believe in, or they werent plain old qualified in. betsy devos was not qualified. she did not have the acumen and background to help fix our schools which should be right in this country, that no matter what block you grew up on, you can get a good education. i looked at each nominee, scott pruitt. i voted against him because i knew he would spend his time polluting the environment, polluting the air and the water, letting p...