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National -- must change laws." tonight ashley parker, philip ruck rucker reported that president trump settled on a strategy of fear. the president has been focussed in recent days on a caravan of about 5,000 migrants traveling north across the u.s. border, a group he has darkly characterized as gang members, violent criminals, an unknown milli middle easterners. the approach, in many ways, seeks to recreate the 2016 playbook that lifted trump to the presidency in which cultural flash points and...

First round of tax cuts that are seen as being more beneficial to rich people and corporations, are not all that popular. if they were, the president will be talking about the first round of tax cuts, not this mysterious, perhaps imaginary second round of tax cuts. >> in about 20 minutes i will talk with kevin hassette from the white house about that and other things and find out if theres meat on these new middle class tax cut bones. geoff, thank you for joining us, always appreciated. as we me...

Military that this is a national emergy" -- he called it a national emergy. must change laws. tonight ashley parker, philip rucker reported that president trump settled on a strategy of fear laced with falsehoods to motivate republican voters. and we quote. "the president has been focused in recent days on a caravan of about 5,000 migrants traveling north across the u.s. border, a group he has darkly characterized as gang members, violent criminals, and unknown middle easterners. a claim for whi...

Have been on cable news talking about it, but this is the president and once he forges a relationship as somebody and he sees the relationship as positive and sees that person as somebody that likes him, its very difficult to get him to hur turn, of course. hes getting backing not from official washington but the chattering class of republicans, essentially saying this is something that isnt worth scuttling, this relationship, so that in some ways is what he is listening to and what his gut tell...

Scenarios and different situations, they tend to have a different view of things. i live -- >> pete: those cultural flash points, where do you stand ideologically on the things i say i believe in then l decide whether i believe you or dont believe you. hillary clinton says i believe all women except those women who said that they were raped by my husband. im going to shame them publicly, which she did multiple times. she made a bargain along time ago. i stay with my husband. i get to run for pre...

And president trump said they discussed this loosely six months ago and you are absolutely right, because they put on a united front in the oval office today. president trump praising nikki haley and she of course thanked the president and said it was the on honor of a lifetime. she was a critic of the candidate trump, but one of the first to join the administration in the transition, andch suppord helped him to explain to the public the foreign policy with whether it relates to north korea, ira...

Bit, with respect to my decision on don mcgahn. my decision, thats new. is it an add myths that trump himself pushed mcgahn out for trump getting rid of a mueller witness could take the obstruction of justice case against him from bad to worse. and that was just one tweet. the president also hit a host of other flash points in muellers investigation, including his reported attempts to fire robert mueller and jeff sessions. james comeys to rob mueller and the lester holt interview when he admitte...

Drive them over to the vietnam memorial late at night where its veterans day. so theyre reading the names of the fallen. and without publicity, the president of the united states, the defeated president of the united states, gets up and reads names of the fallen from that controversial conflict. and it was all because john mccain reminded him of what service was. and i think thats why were reacting the way we are. >> wow. still ahead, this morning on "morning joe," the legacy of john mccain wi...

>> ken vogel, how can this be the case, that this far into it and despite rudy giuliani going out on the shows yesterday and saying, oh, you know, he briefed john dowd and they were aware. it seems like if you look at all the flash points in the obstruction of justice prong of the investigation, don mcgahn is potentially a pretty incriminating witness if the president is found to have obstructed justice. >> yeah, absolutely. you laid out some of those flash points, nicolle. they deal with the fi...

>> sure, so, the key thing that we reported, that we heard from them that seemed to be what the president was responding to in that tweet was his unease about don jr.s possible culpability in all this. >> he stumbled into conspiracy into collude with a foreigned a verve tear. >> done something bad, or even that he feels guilty in a way that his son is caught up in all of this in a way he feels probably collectly his son would not be were he not his son and of course had he not taken that meeting...