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They believe it may be the motivation to bring out voters who stayed home in the 2016 election but are fed up with the washington establishment. joining the table democratic strategist basil michael. >> it is something we heard. its a frame that the president likes and there is a lot of us versus them. he wants us to believe in the border wall. there is the us who are washington outsiders, which somehow after four years of being president, the president is still able to frame himself as an outsi...

And as many of the democrats running for president are in south carolina today, the iowa caucuses are now just 100 days away. new polling this morning, insight into how the campaigns calculus is changing 100 days out. someone who called himself an outsider in president trumps inner circle will join us, david shulkin the former veterans affairs secretary. in a new book he describes how the presidents pals influenced policy from the very beginning. basil michael, the former executive director of t...

Democratic strategist basil michael and chief correspondent for "the new york times" magazine mark leibovich. what do you think? >> that was tough to watch, but it made its point. im not sure if it reaches the ears that it needs to reach, and thats the saddest part about it >> i appreciate my senators chuck schumer and kirsten gillibrand that she may have a unique ability to convince folks on the other side of the aisle that this is the right way to go, this is the right thing to do. sadly, i ju...

This as elizabeth warren is rising and hearing reporting from my colleague jeff zeleny about bidens team keeping an eye. they really believe that she is eating into bernie sanders support. they are dismissing reports that they are like singularly focussed on that, that they want to keep forging ahead with his strategy which is to make it all about donald trump and to make the case that he is the person to take on donald trump in 2020. >> thank you very much. now lets go to basil michael. what do...

Demonstrations go to media and then you go to legislation, which i was so happy to hear the emphasis on those young people yesterday at the save our lives march. then you can have reconciliation. lot of people want to jump to reconciliation without really dealing with the problem. its like having the health malady and the doctor saying youre going to be all right without dealing with whatever it is you are sick with in the first place. >> the documentary airs 9:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc the messa...

White house or mass staff changes. he told me that he thinks the white house is operating like a smooth machine. >> chris ruddy there, a friend of the president on reports of turmoil at the white house after a week of staff shakeup answer policy surprises. his remarks come amid new reports the president will not be hiring two lawyers whose appointments were announced days ago. we bring in conservative commentator carrie sheffield and democratic strategist basil michael, former executive director...

Purposes. its an unprecedented situation, and it would never exist except for the fact that he is the presidents son-in-law. we have anti-nepotism laws for a reason, and this is it. >> basil, just your final thoughts on this. as we talk about the potential risk to the american people. >> well, sure. this is something that i talked a lot about on the campaign, the fact of the matter is you have got people who are that concerned in the role and value of public service. and we talked about being ab...

Santorum, basil michael thank you both. coming up, a hospital offering to take in a terminally ill child at the center of a legal dispute. why the vatican is stepping in despite acknowledging there is little hope. up next. the future isnt silver suits and houses on mars,

Martha: members of the university of missouri football team and their coach are joining protests of the universitys president overseerries of alleged racist incidents that have happened at the school. so this weekend more than two dozen african-american football players posted their picture on twitter, standing arm in arm, announcing they will not play until the universitys president, who is former student of the university, is removed from his post. deneen borelli, fox news contributor, chief p...

People to come to phoenix here later this afternoon. in many ways he does have a following, hes a vigilante, going above and beyond immigration laws even if federal courts are deeming them to be unconstitutional but it is significant that donald trump will be coming here. this is a place where theres a very active pro-immigrant rights community where they had to battle many of these divisive laws in arizona. were expecting them to protest in pretty strong numbers outside of the crowd here and so...