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>> go on. go ahead. >> who do you want? >> theres a strange delay. its you. go ahead, douglas. >> okay. good. all i was going to say is when you deal with donald trump in this issue, you have to look at the race baiting. you have to look at the border wall with mexico, the comments he said after charlottesville, that he feels by beating up on obama hes scoring points with people that didnt like the idea of a first african-american president. it seems pure and simple, and he goes back to it time ...

>> who do you want? >> theres a strange delay. go ahead, douglas. >> okay, i say when you deal with donald trump in this issue, you have to look at the race debate, the border wall with mexico, the comments he said after charlottesville, that he feels by beating up on obama hes scoring points with people that didnt like the idea of a first african-american president. it seems pure and simple, and he goes back to it time and time again. >> im not saying there isnt a racial component. there very w...

Loyal. he did support him early on. >> and when times got tough, was he there? >> yes. >> no, thats not true. thats not true. he would not stick his neck out to defend the president in the most dire myments of the campaign. >> neil: charlie, your thoughts on this. by the way, i forced you in this segment because i felt like it. >> im like listen, what is so absurd about this, even if you believe everything that the adviser, mr. hill, has to say about corker, if you believe everything that presid...

To have to deal with there when it comes to rallying support with our allies. >> such as getting china to be more aggressive with north korea, et cetera? >> right. >> lets turn to slightly less momentous but still rather buzzy event which was last night at the em my ha wards when stephen colbert who was the house brought in sean spicer former press secretary of the white house. and this is what he said. >> this will it be the largest audience to witness an emmy, period. >> though sean spicer mak...

Cost her the election and i think it really speaks to where she thinks the causes of her loss lie. >> ladies, do me a favor and stick around. i have more i want to ask of you including last night, emmys, sean spicer. what did we think of him coming on stage with his podium and making jokes about lying about crowd sizes, a punchline. was it outrageous? was it funny? well discuss that as he tries to repair his battered image and well talk live about the reporter who overheard the conversation betw...

Would not be disclosed in this case. its not that surprising, frankly. a lot of trumps claims dont end up turning out to be true. his crowd sizes werent bigger than obamas in 2012. melania did plagiarize that speech. he did fire jim comey because of the russia investigation. so this isnt that surprising. >> tim, youre a historian. when you think barks can you compare that situation where the doj is directly contradicting the president? >> i cant. the historical precedent i want to talk about has...

So i think he still has a chance here, and clearly people found the second day remark morse empathetic. >> and in some ways, does this show what we havent really seen from donald trump is that there was criticism. and there was sort of a change of behavior? >> i think especially since it came at the top of the speech. you can think there must have been some discussion about how the first remarks came off, especially talking about crowd sizes in texas and i think it definitely was a course correc...

>> were going to get you back. what a crowd. what a turn out. >> this presidents obsession with crowd size no secret. >> i set a record. i had crowds like, well, massive crowds. >> massive crowds. >> did you see that crowd? >> the line was like 30 blocks long. >> the crowds are amazing. >> as weve wlernld this president and this administration, you cannot take them at their word. certainly not about crowd sizes. take a look at cpac. >> you folks here, the place is packed. there are lines that go...

Referencing things like his election victory or campaign rally crowd sizes. they strike a different chord when used to talk about one of the worst natural disasters in american history. one that is still far from being over. "new york times" columnist frank bruni puts it this way. i keep hoping against hope that a new challenge will tease out a new trump and if he ma lingers in the presidency long enough, hell meander in the direction of eloquence slouched toward poetry and tumble into inspirati...

Yesterday in texas. do you and is it fair to judge him on that or should we simply judge him by the federal response to hurricane now tropical storm harvey? >> yeah, i think its fair to judge him on that, but not solely on that. you know, you were talking about this in the last hour, this is not a president whos known for striking the right tone for expressing empathy in these types of situations. its not who he is. its not who hes ever been and not who his supporters voted him into office to be...