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In many way, it was emblematic about the willingness and desire to fight back and sacrifice ones self. for them, this marks recognition in a way they have launched and feel like, you know, their story is an important part of and is an important part of the 9/11 story. >> that memorial, of course, called the tower of voices, 40 wind chimes, one for each passenger and crew member who died there. it was dedicated a few days ago. this is the first presidential visit since then, essentially. the arch...

What the president has to say and the message from the federal government. they are still receiving benefits and dealing with the aftermath. i read something so interesting this morning, people that responded to 9/11 are going to help in the hurricane, all these many years later today. its how they must be feeling today to go and help out. yes, they are waiting to see what the federal government, the new federal government is going to say, what president trump will stay. he stuck very much to me...

Names of those victims are read. i want to bring in evan, an msnbc news terrorism analyst and senior partner on set with us in washington and political reporter from "the new york times." as we look at the images from shankville, you were on the ground there in the moments and days after flight 93 crashed. >> i was based in harrisburg covering the capitol. shanksville three hours west on the turnpike. they sent a lot of reporters out there to cover it. i stayed in touch with some of the folks wh...

Drew them to the group is put concrete barriers on the bike path. thats great, but what about the other million soft targets in new york city? that really isnt a solution. thats part of the problem. we havent found a good way of dealing with this problem, you know, holistically, not just tactically. >> evan, we have seen shanksville. you are seeing new york city on the right and here in washington, the ceremony at the pentagon. vice president pence was there laying wreath with james mattis. that...

Michael waldman. former chief speech writer for president bill clinton and back and danielle and evan also back with us. mark, lets start with you, new to the panel here. what do you make of the excerpts so far from woodwards book about to officially come out on tuesday and if the president actually rejects these excerpts, this is different. this is an investigative journalist that actually has notes. that has recordings. >> this is different this time as you point out because this is bob woodwa...

Probably going to be gone and i think hes come to accept that. the question, dana, is does he quit before the president fires him? >> that is an interesting question. wow. that was a good teaser, evan. thank you so much. back around the table. iman d you work for senator ted cruz. i covered the hill and the republican caucus specifically. when jeff sessions was a senator, could you imagine this kind of fate for him? he was usually the guy who was acting not unlike donald trump is now, kind of ra...

Giving an advantage or disadvantage to any candidate or political party. what the president was effectively saying is jeff sessions should not have brought the charges, delayed them or not brought them at all because its more difficult for the republican party in the upcoming midterms. the last time jeff sessions responded to an attack from the president he said the following. while im attorney general, the actions of the justice department will not be improperly influenced by political consider...

Of this did not cite or sanction or shut them down. in my experience, sorry to say as a prosecutor for many years, running an agency, sometimes people are kind of in bed with one another, theyre friends with one another, they contribute to campaigns, theres violations and slaps on the wrist. arthel: thats unfortunate. very unfortunate. bob, thank you very much. right now, we would like to read the names of the 17 people who died in that accident. nine people from the cole man family were killed,...

Is president obama welcomed by everyone in the democratic party or are people going to want him? >> hes far more welcome in the democratic party than trump is in the republican party. two weeks ago the republican national committee and the campaign arms actually told republican candidates if you need to run and run against president trump, do so. david joyce out in ohio, he actually cut an ad saying he stood up to president trump. thats in a district that trump won by double digits. you have a b...

Excuse me. the strategy of the guiliani/trump legal defense here has been to attack the mueller investigation. even so much to the point that they said they were going to try to put out a counter report that is to try to delegitimize muellers investigation. weigh in on this strategy that guiliani has launched that evan and i were just talking about, which is this is a political fight and they need to keep this in the political arena to try and discredit mueller. >> well, it gives it a lot of cre...