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Affairs correspondent elise labott. elise, its a disconnect that were noticing between tillersons words and between the words of the president. >> thats right, brianna. and the secretary and the rest of the cabinet and even the policies of this administration with the rhetoric of the president. now, you remember, last week president trumps national security strategy laid out russia as a competitor, talked about russias aggressive actions to destabilize the world and against u.s. interests. if yo...

So when safety is improving and good, they usually take credit for it and say isnt this great. what we we have is a president who seems more focused on telling people that crime is scary than taking credit for what the facts say which is crime is down. >> cedric alexander, let me ask you about the role that governments are doing working with another city, cities doing better and cities doing worse. are they communicating with each other because of the national fact that weve seen this change to ...

Making a case for american power and at the u.n. helping get support for american initiatives. it wasnt perfect with the vote last week or the week before in terms of condemning the jerusalem decision by trump, but in terms of sanctions for north korea, in terms of substantive things that shes gotten done has been impressive and a boon. >> >> mike: the white house website does list her as a member of the cabinet. so as the u.n. ambassador has been in previous administrations. >> i concur. that i...

Connection to the american people. he is facing unprecedented hatred from some members of the mainstream media. you see the harvard study that said 80% of the coverage of his first 100 days was negative. the new mrc media research center said 90% of coverage in first year was negative. he has to use twitter to attack the fake news onslaught coming directly at him unlike president obama where the coverage was positive according to the harvard study. >> trish: im glad you brought that up. can you ...

I believe we have -- youll have to ask those folks, but i think they know the real answer. they have more legislation passed, including the record was harry truman a long time ago. >> reporter: research team took a look at the numbers and they just dont add up. this is not in the ballpark of being true. the president in his first year has gotten 96 bills through congress. harry truman had more than double that. when we pull back the lens even further, president trump had fewer things get through...

Donald trump being a divisive president. not being a unifying president. not starting with infrastructure, he could have got democrats onboard with. starting with something that would alienate a large chunk of the population, and us from the rest of the world? >> the important point here. obviously, theres an enormous issue here domestically with this travel ban and the legal fights that continued to keep going and will continue to keep going, but it also sends an enormous message to the rest of...

Peace out. >> hallie, we both know that rex tillerson is a dead man walking in the west wing. theyre guessing will he leave this month or that month. certainly lots of frustration from the president on down. the secretary has said hes going to extend some travel, take a higher profile. he said he was beginning to like his job. as we know about this president, hall hallie, hes reluctant to fire someone. he gets frustrated, make their life miserable, for a man who says youre fired, he doesnt do th...

These complaints when in fact it is so transparently political. it is bizarre. i think at this point in time jeff sessions has an obligation to say something, but who knows where he is? >> well, any administration can get upset at certain cabinets they perceive as being anti their interests. >> but administrations dont sign memos saying they were not doing something and then say actually they were doing something. >> exactly. but if you have a purge what you end up with is a cpa circa 2003 and y...

Meanwhile, republican congressman francis rooney calling for a purge of the fbi on msnbc. >> im very concerned that the doj and the fbi, whether you want to call it deep state or what are off the rails. people need a good clean government. i would like to see the directors of those agencies purge it and say look, weve got a lot of great agents, a lot of great lawyers here. those interest people that i want the american people to see and know the good work being done, not the people who are kind ...

Directors of those agencies purge it and say look, weve got a lot of great agents, a lot of great lawyers here. those interest people that i want the american people to see and know the good work being done, not the people who are kind of the deep state. >> the deep state. you need to see that, because that is the partisan fever in parts of the republican party calling for, in their words, a purge of the fbi. but thats not all thats going on. take a look at some nonpartisan experts striking a di...