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Youre absolutely right, we wont solve our readiness problems. we cant fix our ships and planes and so forth in three months or six months, but we can get on a good trajectory. in july the house passed a defense bill by the largest bipartisan majority in the last eight years that does exactly that. unfortunately what this three-month, stop-gap measure will do will cut the funding by more than $50 billion that was designed to fix those problems. so you cant just say -- ill put it this way. were do...

A storm so powerful it has flattened an island, smashed the instruments trying to measure it, left meteorologists out of adjectives to describe it. irma barreling toward south florida where the miami mayor calls it a nuclear hurricane. a new update from the national hurricane center moments away. and the dealmaking president finally strikes a deal, albeit with democrat leaders. now trumps own party is shellshocked as its forced to accept democratic terms to raise the debt ceiling. he did promi...

Now, irma has been churning with winds over 180 miles per hour. that is incredible. we are running out of adjectives to describe this monster. already we are seeing the center about 50 miles now from san juan. it is not expected to make a direct hit in puerto rico, as we talked about last night, but conditions are falling apart quickly. the worst winds, the worst storm surge, the greatest strength is that northeastern quadrant. therefore there have been evacuations in the turks and caicos and th...

Not only not advancing those causes but hes actually toxifying them, hes actually hurting the cause. and i really got that sense you know, weve talked before about the cult of personality around donald trump, the fact his base doesnt move. but you get that sense of that creeping disillusionment, disenchantment. theyre clearly paying attention and even though some of the numbers might not move as dramatically as you might expect, theres still some cracks underneath that because again, people are ...

Adjectives were not about his prowess in getting things done. one woman said i wish he would be professional about it, but everything else sounded like a bunch of people around a table talking about somebody they just dont like. >> they were. the words that they used were striking because they were so staggering in their precision about president trumps character. and describing him in ways that ive never heard a president described before. and it really does show both their disappointment but a...

Cracks underneath that because again, people are paying very, very close attention. i was also struck by their disillusionment wasnt so much about specific issues or accomplishments. theyre not talking about charlottesville or other specifics or health care. theyre talking about his demeanor, his personality, his character and thats coming through loud and clear to them. >> right, donna, that did come out loud and clear those adjectives were not about his prowess in getting things done. one woma...

People with boats taking part in life-saving efforts. the texas governor estimating that 1,000 people are still trapped, and there are people on roofs who have no food or water. there was even a 73-year-old woman who was found upside down and trapped in a current grabbed at the very last second. the red cross said 17,000 people are in shelters across texas. some could be there for weeks or for months. our correspondents are across this region. they are covering the presidents visit and theyre de...

Chelsea manning. but donald trump will say whatever he feels like saying if and when he pardons mike flynn or paul manafort or jared kushner or donald trump jr. or ivanka trump. and one of the things hes absolutely going to say is that president bush pardoned scooter libby. hes going to say that even though its not true. the president provided no facts whatsoever to back up his pardon of joe arpaio. no facts. just adjectives. he simply said this. >> sheriff joe is a patriot. sheriff joe loves ou...

Hit hard, too. not only rain, but pretty strong winds later on tonight. heres the craziness. overnight, our long-range computer forecast models give us the new 12-hour updates. this is our european model, it is the best for long-term forecasting. this shows you where the center of harvey is as we go through friday. thats pretty much as expected into saturday. then as we go into sunday, into monday, notice what happens. it backs it up, back over the ocean. it actually regenerates it a little bit....

Reporter, john ralston, editor. and here with me in the news room, msnbc national political k correspondent steve cornacki. >> it is really something to see the different donald trump when he has a teleprompter on, just adds a few adjectives once in awhile. talking about unity, whats in our hearts, and our shared humanity. last night he was spewing all of this infect tivective in phoeni.