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Corker knows that and hes maybe trying to get a headline or two on his way out the door. >> because the secret to life is timing, all of this came on the day of the gop unity lunch on capitol hill. just as the president was under attack from two sitting senators, three if you include john mccains comments this week, quoting the post again, quote, at the closed door lunch trump received a standing ovation from republican senators. yet for months many of these lawmakers privately have seethed at t...

Been simply the president saying, look, you know, your son made a -- and your husband made a terrible sacrifice, thats what members of the military sign up for, in a sympathetic way. what we have is the congresswomans account that that -- whatever was said, upset the widow, left her in tears. and the woman who raised the soldier corroborating that in a conversation with "the washington post" today. so thats -- i mean, thats all we know. is how those -- >> we also know the womans politics. the co...

In the 278 days weve been at this? where will this day go down in the history of the trump administration in your view? >> well, it was an extraordinary day in washington, and this will be one of historys moments that we remember from this trump era because senator flake did not just attack the president in sort of the tit for tat were used to in political campaigns. this was a searing indictment of the presidents character, of his fitness for office, of his temperament. this was not a policy di...

Day of the gop unity lunch on capitol hill. just as the president was under attack from two sitting senators, three if you include john mccains comments this week, quoting the post again, quote, at the closed door lunch trump received a standing ovation from republican senators. yet for months many of these lawmakers privately have seethed at the presidents acs and language as flake and corker did publicly and concluding that trump is an unstable presence in an american political life. how is th...

>> maybe he can teach that to eli. bill -- >> come on, brian, you got -- >> i know. im sorry. >> you really got to let it go. >> bad weekend. >> it is what it is. >> third straight bad weekend. >> yes. >> bill, lets talk about that misdirection because by tonight, this has gotten mixed up with some vague sense of being anti-military on the part of the -- >> like carl said, the narrative is crazy. we were talking in the greenroom. i was trying to peg this. a lot of misdirection. a lot of smoke an...

Option. you know, hes faking handoffs everywhere getting us to focus all on the wrong things. >> maybe he can teach that to eli. bill -- >> come on, brian, you got -- >> i know. im sorry. >> you really got to let it go. >> bad weekend. >> it is what it is. >> third straight bad weekend. >> yes. >> bill, lets talk about that misdirection because by tonight, this has gotten mixed up with some vague sense of being anti-military on the part of the -- >> like carl said, the narrative is crazy. we wer...

Im not here to do that. im here to be clear and concise and succinct. his comments on monday are strong, and the comments on tuesday erased the strength. what we want from our president is the moral authority. that was compromised when tuesday happens. theres no question about that. >> on those notes, lets bring in our leadoff panel. our white house reporter for "the wall street journal," our host of "msnbc live," katy tur, who covered the entirety of the trump campaign, and also returning is ou...

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...

Who covered the entirety of the trump campaign, and also returning is our msnbc contributor, jason johnson. so eli, well begin with you. what does it mean when these two republican senators, tennessee, south carolina, said what they said today? >> well, i dont know if a dam is fully breaking here, but its definitely a ratcheting up of the rhetoric coming at this white house from republicans, and i have been talking to republican senators and their staffs on capitol hill this week, trying to figu...