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His unease he doesnt believe his son purposely broke the law. >> he stumbled into collude. >> done something bad. even the most unnotorious violation is that he feels guilty his son is caught up in all of that. he feels probably correctly that his son would not be caught up in it had he not taken the meeting. >> and there are people he can talk to if he feels guilty about. that but he responded, your reporting got so far under his skin. he responded and retweeted. this is the story. this seems t...

Compassion and impulse control is attacking the intelligence of a basketball star. donald trump would rather do battle with black athletes than malevolent dictators is at a minimum reflective of his skewed sensibilities and his willingness to pander to the racist element in his base. joining the conversation, kim atkins, chief washington reporter for the boston herald. op-ed for "the new york times." all msnbc contributors. kim, let me ask you to weigh in. let me put up for our viewers. this i...

Hearing anything in terms of some of the more moderate republicans sort of pulling back from criticizing mueller. >> there is an interesting contrast between the presidents legal team, rudy giuliani tweeted shortly after that indictment came out that the mueller probe needed to be shutdown, and republicans on capitol hill. sort of one of the big flash points the last couple of weeks has been the role of rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who is in charge of muellers investigation and th...

To an immigrant teenager trying to seek an abortion. his ruling was, he tried to delay that. he was overruled and in his dissent he wrote, he bashed the decision and used some of the trigger words used by the activist anti-abortion crowd in terms of abortion on demand. so there are a number of flash points here that i think are going to make it hard on democrats, but that is where you look for the first cracks as to those red state democrats, donnelly, manchin, heitkamp. >> he is much of a main ...

Chance to meet with this nominee before i pass judgment on them. >> beyond the supreme court, there have been so many flash points, as the democrats struggle against the president on a number of policy issues. one is a number of your colleagues have called to abolish the immigration and customs enforcement agency, i.c.e. and some of them who are saying that this should go away are potential 2020 presidential contenders. elizabeth warren, kirsten gillibrand. are you with them? >> im not in favor ...

He never pivots. he never budgets. so the take-away is whether he means it or not, hes promoting racism. >> this is a talking point that -- hes literally parroting a talking point of the white nationalist movement, immigrant people invading countries, that is a talking point from the white nationalist movement. >> so critics of president trump point to a lot of his biggest flash points, controversies, as having a through line. his handling of the hurricane maria aftermath, calling protesters who...

A couple days later and reported that the president had personally signed off on this. everybody at the white house and the legal team kind of went ballistic at that. and then the washington po >> mark corallo quit over this. mark corallo was the presidents kind of p.r. guy on the legal team. he quit over this. he felt perhapstion of justice was happening in front of his eyes. this is one of the central flash points in robert mers obstruction of justice investigation, right? >> yeah, and of cour...

Flash points where war can actually start. in doing that -- >> this is not answering the question because i know you. >> no, no, wall street told us all weather watcher is the blunt instrument of swift system or cutting off capital markets. trump brought in three weapons. put them on the book foot thp they came over because they had a sense of urgency. >> one of the heads of the chinese me. >> they doesnt get on without a sense of urgency. they have always wanted to tap us along and have these s...

The rise of china donald trump has done something extraordinary that wall street and the corporatist told us cant be done. he has three weapon processes one is tariffs on a massive school. the 50 billion were talking about and another 100 billion after that and another 100 billion. maybe up to a quarter trillion dollars of tares i was. number two is the 301 where china forces not steals our intellectual property. forces us to give the intellectual property. and the last is the actions like zte w...

About and another 100 billion after that and another 100 billion. maybe up to a quarter trillion dollars of tares i was. number two is the 301 where china forces not steals our intellectual property. forces us to give the intellectual property. and the last is the actions like zte where we can implode a company. >> but the action has been to throw a life line to zte. >> remember, the whole thing about the grand bargain with china do we set the geostrategic balance with china for the next 50 year...