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>> our great thanks to our opening panel here. phil, eli and elizabeth. after a long day for everybody. coming up after our first break, if north korea acts on guam, president trump vows a response, quote, the likes of which nobody has seen before. "the 11th hour" comes back right after this. were just getting under way. you know whats awesome?

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 our msnbc contributor, jason johnson. so eli, well begin with you. what does it mean when these two...

Committees. so he hasnt had much to say but i suspect next week hes going to get lots of questions about it. >> i suspect youre correct in that assessment. pete, thank you very much. hap happy friday to you after a long week. all of the comments from james comey are raising two questions on where the special investigation goes from him, this special counsel. and our two questions for the president at the rose garden. if there are tapes where are they and will he release them. and two, if the p...

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>> there was a lot of reporting about, he had taken notes at the time. and maybe had written a memo which people had seen. do we know if he would read from those notes or be allowed to? >> that remains to be seen. >> that is the big question here, if people have seen these memos. if james comey has them in his own possession. its unclear if he will take out these memos and read from them its likely to say hell do it from recollection much. >> i want to bring in the panel, the wall street journal...

A large portion of funds toward budget of the united nations compared to other countries. heants to see more from that. so it was very classic donald trump in the sense of saying that there are big things ahead for the united nations but also trying to say, there are areas where he thinks they havent acted enough and concerns about how it is financed. so one of the most prominent female appointees of the president, nikki haley, this is a chance for her to give a different sort of tone to the tru...

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Lets bring in our panel a kind of white house press core in and of itself. white house reporter for the associated press. eli of the wall street journal emains with us and katelyn collins, white house correspondent for the daily caller. were awfully happy to have you and weve been watching you as we have all the figures in the white house press core with great interest. the presidents been good in terms of calling on you. i think sean spicer calls you in regular amounts. but can you blame us for...

Benchmark that the media care about much more than any actual people. what is going on inside the trump white house with this approaching? >> well, while the 100-day marker is a media creation, donald trump is so much a creation of the media that he is paying attention, too, his white house is very much obsessed with it. you heard today the gorsuch announcement, trump claimed he accomplished that in his briefing, and as you listed there is a long set of things that have gone wrong for donald tru...

Reince priebus, the former chairman of republican national committee, yes, that is a political insider but no, that is not somebody who knows how congress works and that has been a huge challenge for this white house. getting bills passed, finding sponsors, knowing the sweet spots of when to push and when to pull back. and again, during this first 100 days there are likely no significant 100 achievements. in fact, they face one big deadline still. they need a bill to pass to keep the government ...