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Majority staffs by some kind of partition. do you think that was part of the effort so they could go about their business of saving this presidents neck without your committee and staff people getting involved? >> yes, they have taken away the bipartisan comedy thity that wed in prior congresses solely to protect the president, not the democracy or the ballot box in our future elections and i think theyll pay a price in november, chris, because people want someone to push the big red button that...

Of ideas. but this is really to me going to be about whos going to make sure paychecks grow, we have health care guarantee, health care for all in this country. and we take money completely out of politics. >> you talk about a battle of ideas. is the phrase civil war overstating whats happening in the democratic party right now. or is that fair? >> thats overstating it. >> why? >> joe crowley, great guy. he lost to cortez. whap did he do? played a song, dedicated it to her and endorsed her. that...

Joining us every day. thank you for joining us today on a day like this. joining us now, democratic congressman eric swalwell. congressman, weve now heard almost word for word the same analysis from former republican steve schmidt, from former democratic congresswoman donna edwards, from our own rachel maddow, that it is time for you guys to get mean and fight. are you ready? >> yes, nicolle. and weve seen this week that we cannot count on the court to save us from the wrecking ball that is dona...

Turn would sign into law that would do anything along those lines. >> and we have to change that. i my the american people want us to work with the president where hes workable but to push that big red button and stop him where hes being so destructive. >> and you also heard raj shah say that for practical purposes and the commissioner of customs and border protection that the zero-tolerance policy is not being implemented right now nor a variety of reasons. are you happy about that? >> well yes...

Religious freedom. >> you say there is a muslim ban. what evidence is there that there is a muslim ban because most of the muslim countries are not included in the travel ban. >> this list could grow now. the supreme court will now allow -- and so the president again, his intent when he first said it was to -- >> but he said that as a candidate. it was december of 2015. as a candidate, a lot of presidential candidates say stuff and then they never follow through. they dont implement the campaign...

Not quite in the end zone yet lets not spike the football. things seemed to be moving in such a positive direction and moving so quickly that i think a lot of republicans on the hill in the last 24 hours were sort of taken aback by this and suddenly worried that they felt good about this. >> we heard over the last couple of days from senator sanders and kellyanne conway. we have heard very little from the president. >> i think that is actually very intentional on the part of the president to neg...

Perform. plus prince william and duchess katherine are expecting their third child any time soon. and this years london marathon could be the hottest on record. when we say start, you dont mean start, you mean start. >> symbolically. shell have a long weekend. shes going to press a big red button and get things going around 10:00 a.m., which by then, things are going to start getting toef inting toasty as f temperatures. well talk about how hot we think its going to get in. this is the way youve...

And the preprrepercussions are felt. >> a man that wrote a book on it, he said the sanctions are working and they have teeth and thats a success story, and yet president trump by tweeting out the more juvenile tweet steps on that and thats what we are always confuounded by. instead of saying kim jong-un is answering that south korean call for the first time in two years, thats monumental. but it ends up -- i dont know if itself destructive or what, but its by all accounts not helpful to add the ...

>> he has a big red button on his desk. >> lets show the publicity. because pete sousa that used to be the photographer for president obama, shows the button red button in the office. so please continue. >> what it does is summons the white house steward with a coca cola. so what the president would do in launching a nuclear record is he wou weapon is turn to the aide and its basically a telephone, and a series of binders with preprinted nuclear options in it. one military aide who used to be re...

Satisfied with where my program is. ive got a big red button on my desk. now im ready to have talks. compared to a nuclear detonation and a belligerent statement out of him, this is not bad. i think president trump would be wise to let this one play out a little bit and see if there is a legitimate opening here for diplomacy. >> it just seemed to me coming up with rocket man now is not the best timing because there has been talk of some diplomacy. it seemed that rex tillerson in his op-ed in the...