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Country matters to you." how do you mean avoidance and what can we do about that? >> an example of avoidance would be when you hear people say, all lives matter in the response to black lives matter. obviously all lives matter but thats avoiding the issues. people say black lives matter specifically because weve lived in a country, where, particularly with regard to law enforcement, black lives have been treated as if they did not matter for years, and yet, when you come up with a slogan that sa...

That is not the case, but they seem to have a vested interest in believing that, and when you challenge them on that, then what you get is this sort of intellectual dishonesty, these answers which really dont hold together, these assertions which really dont hold together or really make any sense except to the degree that people need to believe them in order to feel good about themselves. >> im curious about what kind of feedback youve been getting on your piece, specifically from white american...

I mean, this is conversation reminiscent of the 60s, reminiscent of precivil rights movement time. and now we are seeing a growing movement who is taking on, by the way, take back america, his slogan. "make america great again." >> and reverend nixon, i think weve got to lead by example. one of the proud things im glad we do at msnbc, joe scarborough and i disagreed politically, but have bonded and showed a real friendship that you can disagree on some things without being disagreeable. but this...

Seen anything major oval office address, do you think that there is some reluctance to do it? >> ive been puzzled by the presidents avoidance of the major tv speech, the missing element of the health care pride. if there is a whole process that you have to ask for tv time, partly a problem where his spokesmans briefings are carried live, and the media build up, the most importants breach, then comes a speech, and debating the speech for a couple of days. it is moving public opinion. im surprised...

Chris? >> i guess, i dont know, the whole point here is if it is just about winning, ideology is less importance than victory, and is now on this legislation, they are saying again, ideology is less important, we just need a win it, it matter what looks like, just vote for it and pass it, so that we can get onto other things, and in a big way, that is a repudiation of not only long held that conservative views but also these millions of human beings who say how can you at this moment, after seve...

>> i think its a combination of informed fear of his reaction, and avoidance and denial. if i dont bring it up, we dont have any unpleasantness in the conversation. i find that astounding and a violation of her diplomatic mission and mandate. >> i want to show you live pictures of president trumps new hotel in washington, d.c. cameras arent allowed inside, but he is holding his first re-election fund-raiser there. thats the trump international hotel. 10dz milli $10le million is the expected take...

Making power with the president. below that, i dont have any problem with the pentagon receiving more authority from the president. i think that has been long overdue. we are talking about two different levels here, strategy and tactical. >> the white house says the military cuts out needless bureaucratic steps. here is what president trump said after a raid in yemen where a navy s.e.a.l. died. >> this was a mission before i got here. this was something that they wanted to do. they came to see m...

Through a sworn testimony, given his past statements where there have been many contradictions, is there a potential for him to perjure himself inim thinking of the clinton case where eventually all they could get him on was perjury. >> i think theres serious potential. i must say, just being blunt about it, that perjury about a blow job is not nearly as serious as perjury about russian attack on our democracy. talk about the end not justifying the means. it seems to me this is clearly a case wh...

Through a sworn testimony, given his past statements where there have been many contradictions, is there a potential for him to perjure himself. im thinking of the clinton case where eventually all they could get him on was perjury. >> i think theres serious potential. i must say, just being blunt about it, that perjury about a blow job is not nearly as serious as perjury about russian attack on our democracy. talk about the end not justifying the means. it seems to me this is clearly a case whe...

Its more serious than what nixon did. its really impossible to argue that no obstruction of justice could be present here. the facts, if they are as the very credible jim comey suggested, point powerfully to obstruction of justice and abuse of power. and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. if you look at all the facts. but ill stop here. i know we have a limited time. >> professor foley, what do you say to that? there are these two supreme court rulings that pretty clearly say in the...