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Like those with pulitzer prize-winning author and presidential his torian john meacham, msnbc contributor. about those clips. theres the people around the presidents in that moment who know theyve just witnessed something. the man who is mouthing scripture with bill clinton. the hard hats on the pile with george w. bush. and the men in robes who look up at a singing president of the united states. they get up out of flex. you could have knocked them over with a feth where barack obama started th...

Scripture with bill clinton. the hard hats on the pile with george w. bush. and the men in robes who look up at a singing president of the united states. they get up out of reflectiflex. you could have knocked them over with a feth where barack obama started that. genuine moments. challenge, leadership, and men stepping up. put it in context with the presidents trip today and his task tomorrow. >> you know, i was thinking all did, that remark of mrs. obamas last years are, that the president doe...

The remark of ms. obamas last year that the presidency doesnt change who you are, it magnifies who you are. in many ways he became president at that point. he had a disastrous first couple of years. i think its inarguable that george w. bush standing in that rubble with the innocent still around him who had fallen on what he called the day of fire, became president in many ways on that friday in september. president obama, i remember watching that moment live and being just -- my breath was take...

It had to do with the fact the brits voted to leave the european union which took them by shock. >> reporter: what about trump? >> i think you have to see germans maybe more than any other nation in the world, they value stability. 125b stability is something important to germans. merkel knows how to brand herself as an anchor of stability in these insecure times. >> reporter: delker, thank you very much. i can only echo what was said, german politics is like a tanker. it doesnt move quickly, it...

Business, you have to know that sometimes people make those kinds of decisions, but no, it doesnt change 15 years of friendship. i mean, if it was a year of frip, maybe. 15 years, no. >> what would you have done if you were attorney general on daca if you had to do with jeff sessions did? >> i would have said what i said during the campaign. i never thought the executive order was the right way to do it and i thought the president then, president obama, shouldnt have done that. i think he should...

Advance them and stand up for them it doesnt change. have you two permanent members of the security council in china and russia that obstruct us at almost every turn. can you see how it feels like this body is in no way keeping with what puts american values first. ainsley: we had a great weekend. what were you doing yesterday watching football or emmys last night? chances are you were watching football because it was entire two hours or hour however long it was. i have seen clips of it i dont w...

Their own party first. they were unified in their decision to make a compromise. this came out of the blue from the point of view of mitch mcconnell and paul ryan, and steve mnuchin, his own treasury secretary. >> as you put it this afternoon, this is a president who plays whack a mole rather than chess. >> i dont think there was any strategy here. he was probably getting bored, and he saw a deal that could be had. this is a transactional person. and we always examine him as a politician. but he...

The point of view of mitch mcconnell and paul ryan, and steve mnuchin, his own treasury secretary. >> as you put it this afternoon, this is a president who plays whack a mole rather than chess. >> i dont think there was any strategy here. he was probably getting bored, and he saw a deal that could be had. this is a transactional person. and we always examine him as a politician. but he is who hes always been. everyone talks about how someone doesnt change as a 71-year-old. hes not going to sudde...

Still support donald trump, theyre normalizing this behavior and just because we saw it 19 months ago and we still see it today, that does not make it right. >> plenty of republicans may not like his behavior and have spoken out against it but believe in the agenda and want to see the agenda moving forward. >> were not even clear on what the agenda is and hes, by the way, never been a conservative. hes never truly been a republican. all of those are facts. and what youre saying is right, people ...

People may disagree, but its also not a revelation. we know people are going to view him, view facts, view circumstances through the prism of their own beliefs or own bias. that doesnt change. it doesnt stop other people like jim clapper who has such long experience to be able to make a judgment about a president. >> when we come back, we touched on it a second ago, a white house back flip almost as high as the big beautiful wall, the president is reversing himself on who is going to pay for tha...