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That kind of day. stuff like that has been happening today, today is the federal holiday honoring dr. martin luther king junior. all presidents acknowledged this day by honoring and participating in public service products. do something. our current president is actively embroiled in a controversy over what racist he used to describe africa and haiti several years ago. in the middle of that controversy he decided he would clear his name on mlk day by spending today golfing instead of doing any f...

Trouble handling this because the president called conservatives on thursday after the meeting bragging about what he had said. bragging about what he had said. >> well, the white house is having trouble handling this because its -- >> its horrible. >> it involves the truth. they have a problem handing the truth. lindsey graham, we just listened to him, gets to something we were talking about last hour. lindsey graham is one of the few republicans who recognizes that demography, political demogr...

>> i also took note of the fact that one of the things that lindsey graham said, you know, he really had the sense that this guy who hes gone golfing with now, the president of the united states, was serious about wanting to be -- im trying to remember the word that lindsey graham used. but, you know, he wanted to help people. and really come to an understanding of the immigration issue. he said, i dont know where that guy went. and this has turned into an "s"-show. is there any concern at the w...

Came to the end, he said monday, the holiday, today is not a day of relaxing or power around, today is a day of service. of course, today the president was golfing in florida before returning to washington today. the montage of the president sort of checking history with race and predating any of that. the foundation of his political career in many ways was based on birthism. the idea that the only black president in this country was not born here. it was a lie and most accounts are a racist lie...

States use their alert systems for other things besides incoming missile threats. but the federal government is taking a look at what it can do to kind of help coordinate our backstop to try to minimize incidents like this from ever happening. >> was the federal response in the immediacy, was it appropriate? the president was golfing at the time. he said it was good, the white house was stepping up, taking accountability. this is james clapper, former director of intelligence, who says he thinks...

Under pressure and the first mlk day was in 1986. >> and on this day, the united states of america celebrates for the very first time, a federal holiday honoring dr. king today, january 20th, 1986. then vice president george bush was standing with desmond tutu. weve seen president after president stand in front of the nation and at least make an effort to reflect in different ways on dr. kickng kings lega. president obama did service, words into action. you can see it right there. compare all of...

Where can you go? i mean, kids are watching church hill movies and the president of the united states says, im not going to england because of the location of embassy. come on. we have a president that everyone has to deal with whether or not hes stable. he cant get along with -- i mean, he doesnt play well with other heads of state. and he desecrates dr. king and heads to golfing. you want to know why were panicking? i mean, a lot of people are really, really nervous because we dont know whose ...

>> well, that was a state thing. were going to now get involved with them. i love that they took responsibility. they took total responsibility. but were going to get involved. >> here to help sort out how things unfolded, nbcs white house correspondent is back, geoff bennett, there in west palm beach. so this false alarm happened saturday. the president spoke publicly about it on sunday. do we know when the president was briefed? was he briefed as it happened? and what are the official statemen...

Is little precedent for something like this but the president was golfing at his beach resort yesterday when the alert came out, made no comment. his latest tweet, tweets about many things, about hillary clinton and emails. right decision to stay silent or would you have expected something from the president? >>. >> im not sure how much information he had immediately. im sure they told him there was a false alert in hawaii, but im not sure he understood the dynamics of all this and what it cause...

Welcome back, our big breaking news at this hour, a false alert, a ballistic missile is headed to hawaii and people should take immediate shelter. the time it was sent out, president trump was golfing at mar-a-lago, it was included a blow backlash of report. . deep in the heart of trumps nation, there is still broad support for the president, no surprise there. with that said, the ripple effect for the presidents comments are giving some folks pause, listen. >> the president using that word, how...