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Costly say, this is not who we are. this is not what represents us best. not only did he double down, this president went out of his way not tonight embrace the alt right but the ideology that has fueled so many in the administration in terms of their voting for him. and literally in terms of mr. bannon, mr. miller and others. so i think what we saw here was, unfortunately, and tragically, the reflection of a man who has long since lost his moral compass. is incapable of leading us politically, ...

Been talking about how to handle the inquiries about the meeting and decided to be as fully transparent as possible. but the president overruled them. he dictated a statement misleading at best. some would argue it left a lot of important information out. and overruled his advisors on behalf of his son and new an example of the president taking full control over the russia, his own strategist and in so exposing himself to danger. thats according to a number of advise toerts president that my col...

Are they only digging themselves deeper? >> im not sure what was more surprising, the fact that scaramucci gave up the president or a source or that the president was fundamentally wrong in his assessment. >> are you calling the president an anonymous source? we know they dont like those. >> one key fact that again in the context of the kushner statement needs to be examined on october 27th, 2016, the national -- director of national intelligence and the director of homeland security put out a s...

Turn out, and at some point from a political point of view, however enthusiastic they may be about demand, thats going to catch up to them. >> the difference between the surge voters, i think theyll defend him. the flip voters, they were voting against hillary clinton and the establishment. >> and they are waiting. they are waiting for the republicans to do something. whats been the entire theme of our conversation, the lack of leadership. >> and also you think about the fact that he hasnt expan...

Administration plan it. listening to the president, none of that reality. he wants to take us another into showroom where he will talk about obama colluded with the russians. and oh, lets double down. its a crazy wag the dog world they go to that has nothing to do with reality. yet typing it up like it is news. the president said today, like it is an authentic reality. its not. >> it is just point at the next person. usually for the trump administration, it is obama, clinton, its i didnt do it. ...

>> right. that last thing might give them a little leeway. but, you know, i dont think following the law is the most important thing for these folks. this is all about the politics. and we started to see it about 24 hours ago. a lot of republicans who support this white house starting to come out with tweets, with public statements in interviews on television, starting to sort of back the idea, to float the idea of maybe the president should fire the special counsel here. and its just an indicat...

Double down. they would say something crazy. and remember one year we called it the summer of the double down. they would not apologize. they would just stick to it. two things have happened. one, the news cycle moves so quickly that, if you can survive the original freakout that everybody has, you actually can survive it. number two, audiences are more splintered. >> to follow up with you on that, i wonder if the medias willingness to cover everything as a game is affecting the rules of the gam...

>> it is a great piece worth checking out in the atlantic for sure. if youre trying to figure out what it vote means. i want it ask you, jeffrey, about this -- really, a double-down, a tweet by donald trump when it comes to us australias health care. they have universal health care. then have you the spokeswoman for the white house sarah huckabee sanders trying to just say what i think a lot of us think is true, that he was just trying to be complimentary. this wasnt a real deep dive on policy. ...

Leadership and guided by his executive orders, we will secure this border and bring the full weight of both the immigration courts and the federal enforcement and prosecutors to combat this attack on our national security and our sovereignty. brian: wow, attorney general jeff sessions heading back to the border today. this time with dhs secretary john kelly. this is both -- they both double down on the dangers of illegal immigrations today. what fleedz to be done to change and keep america safe ...

Msnbc. look at this incisisticly if you can. why would the president say something that wasnt true in a tweet two weeks ago and when he could have backed out of it and said, you know, i heard something i probably shouldnt have jumped on it. i did. instead double down, triple down and standing next to angela merkel, a serious government leader, a serious person, stood next to her and wouldnt answer the question the first time it came from a german reporter, the second time he blamed it all on som...