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Redirect. there are a couple of factors at hand here. one is that there was this whole parallel issue with acosta that some in the trump administration had. there were republican lobbyists, some inside the white house who felt that he hadnt been as aggressive as he could be about deregulation, about changing the climate in his role as labor secretary. that was underlying and existed before the epstein problems bubbled up. in a way, i think you dont do a news conference like the one acosta did un...

>> one thing my wife says the good old days were not so good for many, many americans. >> it was only good if you were white and male. >> correct. so, im sorry, in that comment was a sense of, oh, we used to be able to work it out, we used to be able to make things happen, why dont we go back to that. what is unacceptable is to invoke someone who did so much harm. eastland helped to perpetuate segregation. a lot of the same things we are still trying to overcome in terms of economic injustice, l...

Scandals involving contributions universities, coaches who are prepared to stretch the rules. at bottom, you know the fault for this lies in the fact that weve abolished grades and universities in many parts of the country. nobody fails anymore. if we went back to the situation that occurred when i started teaching at harvard, almost 60 years ago, this couldnt work. because the students would fail out. it didnt pay for them to get into college because they would make it through. they didnt have ...

The president grew increasingly angry as he watched growing media reports. by sunday trump decided that the two couldnt work together and pushed up mattiss exit up to next week. we have a national political reporter for nbc news joining us with more details. lets talk about the departure of mattis or the updated exit of mattis. what does that reveal about how things went down between president trump and jim mattis, the fact that he is being pushed out ahead of schedule. >> it shows how upset pre...

Pushed by liberal cry babies." who else? the online posts received nearly 264 million engagements as theyre called across platforms. that includes likes, retweets, shares. with us to talk about this tonight, and in seriousness, malcolm nantz, veteran of navy intelligence, special ops, homeland security. 35 years working in counterterrorism. his latest book is called "the plot to destroy democracy: how putin and his spies are undermining america and dismantling the west." malcolm, most people if ...

Democrats dont care, couldnt work politically and that is the only point. more than two weeks since the brett kavanaugh saga: , only senate republicans still believe the story had anything to do with sexual abuse. last friday democrats had they needed a couple of days for interviews to follow-up on christina fords claims. lets give this one week says senator amy klobuchar, her fellow democrats nodded solemnly. poor jeff flake believe them. today, you will be surprised to know this, democrats are...

Because of the war injuries that he sustained. he couldnt lift his arm above the shoulder left. and used to laugh because when we would do tv together for sometimes "meet the press" dt. >> weve got a clip later for you, dont worry. >> places like baghdad, you know, he would say it was my hair sticking up? i have so many wonderful personal memories of him as well as public ones. >> it was interesting the way he conducted himself in the senate. he almost would go out of his way to find the democra...

People and i think that we have reached -- we have reached them. 400 newspapers across the country reached out and talked about the importance of the work that they do, the journalism day in and day out, and, listen. they have responded to this call of this rhetoric about the enemy of the people and it really resonates with them. the majority of journalism in this country couldnt work for the cnn or "the boston globe" and work for weekly or small newspapers around this country and cover selectme...

People, and particularly african-americans, and you say, i want to make america great, theyll go, me too. but if you put the comma and "again" next to it, that is a dog whistle of epic proportions to people in the south, who say, when were we great, exactly what years were we great, what were we doing, and do you know what i might have been doing at that time? so taking people back to a time when they didnt have a right to vote, taking them back to a time when people couldnt work, to slavery, ji...

That the house select intelligence should be put back together. every indication was you couldnt work together, it was all partisan. even discussions about putting a physical wall between the two sides in the work room. you couldnt get it done. you couldnt separate the politics from what was the purpose of the investigation. why go back to that? >> lets remember the wall wasnt our idea. shutting down the investigation wasnt our idea. for refusing to subpoena witnesses or allowing a gag order of ...