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Renaissance of journalism, and its focused us on the mission of journalism, and also theres no lack of news. this morning, i came to the office and, you know, its august in washington. the presidents on vacation. congress is out. theres always a certain scrounging for stories in august, and, you know, by about 4:00 this afternoon, we had our hands full. >> another unbelievable day. >> right. >> our great thanks to our opening panel here. phil, eli and elizabeth. after a long day for everybody. ...

>> eli, i want to run a piece of sound at the risk of repeating ourselves. this was a turn of phrase the president did today. by doing so, he ratcheted up the temperature on north korea, but you heard in this whats become a familiar tell to him in the language of the president. here it is. >> frankly, the people who were questioning that statement, was it too tough? maybe it wasnt tough enough. >> what did you hear in that as you told nicolle wallace at 4:00 p.m. today? >> i heard a president wh...

Pool today to kind of go back, recognizing the opportunity this presented. what havent we asked him? theres so much past business. i already heard tonight there are so many state department families upset that their fates have never been apologized for, mentioned, until now where its a good thing, except of course, if you have to uproot your family and move back to the states, find a house and get the kids in school for september. >> right. here we have the president of the united states support...

Failing "new york times," and it has been good for "the new york times" in one case. it has been -- we feel a renaissance of journalism, and its focused us on the mission of journalism, and also theres no lack of news. this morning, i came to the office and, you know, its august in washington. the presidents on vacation. congress is out. theres always a certain scrounging for stories in august, and, you know, by about 4:00 this afternoon, we had our hands full. >> another unbelievable day. >> ri...

Its -- yes. youre absolutely right. people are very upset about this, and whats striing about it, look what happened today. the president was critical of so many things, of -- and so many people, but the one person he is not critical of is vladimir putin of russia, and thats kind of extraordinary to hear this over and over again. he has never once, as far as we know, criticized putin in public. >> eli, you came to the judgment watching it all today and kind of summing it up. it was a lot. and i ...

Reporters. you conducted the longest press conference since february. >> thats right i guess. we had no idea it was going to be quite like this. this was built as a photo spray, which is normally a photo op, where you take a picture, and maybe we thought he would make a comment or answer one question on north korea, and i asked a couple of questions, and every time, he came back and made eye contact, and we kept going and our goal was to just get as much information out of him as we could, and k...

Family and move back to the states, find a house and get the kids in school for september. >> right. here we have the president of the united states support -- backing putin on this one, not his own diplomats. its -- yes. youre absolutely right. people are very upset about this, and whats striking about it, look what happened today. the president was critical of so many things, of -- and so many people, but the one person he is not critical of is vladimir putin of russia, and thats kind of extra...

Special counsel of funds. if mr. trump want it stop mr. mierl even sooner, he can instruct mr. rosenstein to have veto power over step of the way. if mr. rosenstein rebuffs the presidents commands, mr. trump could replace him with a loyalist who will follow his instructions. neither bill deals with these he is nashos and yes, sir they are the likeliest avenues for mr. trump to interfere with mr. muellers work. joining us now, coauthor of that op-ed in the new york times. also, eli, and msnbc pol...

Instantaneously. because youve got staffers in "the situation room" who are monitoring global events ready to update the president and his staff at a moments notice. the fact you would have to set up a team at the rnc to provide information to the president of the united states o just to feel good about himself twice a day no less, is, i think, fair to say unprecedented. >> and eli, based on what we know about the presidents habits and inclinations, he spends more time on this and it gets more o...

Parts. i think it would be entirely proper for the target of an investigation to have communications. with the prosecutor. and im glad that president trump expressed his appreciation for robert mueller i thi. i should we should all appreciate the work robert muler is doing. >> is it proper to have communication with the counsel, with the heard involved but to have the head of the government that prosecutor works for communicating with the prosecutor indirectly strikes me as something different. ...