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Tenor. so that the people who are hungry for the rhett meet, but not the key swing voters that race after race tonight have gone to the democrats. >> and trump in the closing hours of the campaign bringing it on stage. huckabee sanders and kellyanne conw conway. he couldnt help but play the culture warrior. he said i cant say my daughter is beautiful because you cant call your girlfriends and wives and daughters beautiful. how they move forward to try to close the gender gap. does he care? he ga...

But john didnt want him to come to the funeral, so he said nice things and stayed away. >> lackluster, half hearted, outrageous, those were some of the words used to describe president trumps initial response to the death of john mccain and now it veterans group it is speaking out again. cnns gary tuckman reports. >> reporter: there are nearly 2 million members of the american legion, one of those members was senator john mccon. >> i think john mccain one of the greatest heroes this country has ...

Morale low? or does this mean departures are in the work? >> i think the former, poppy. that was the upshot of my reporting and the comparison to charlottesville which came up in my reporting was so fascinateling. the two events share similarities of a year ago now at the very beginning of white house chief of staff john kellys tenure and share similarities in terms of a real gaffe by the president or some people would argue intentional statement and followed by attempted cleanup that didnt conv...

The president says he misspoke when talking about russian election interference. the fact that russia attacked the u.s. election in 2016 and, of course, he refused to defend u.s. intelligence while standing next to vladimir putin. not everyone accepting the presidents clarification this morning. democratic senator richard blumenthal called it back-handed and half-hearted. senator richard blumenthal joins us now. he sits on the judiciary and arms services committee. you were not impressed, senato...

Half-hearted, frozen snake. his pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew. poor thing, she cried, ill take you in and ill take care of you. take me in, o, tender woman, take me in for heavens sake. take me in, o, tender woman, sighed the vicious snake. she wrapped him up all cozy in a comforter of silk. and laid him by her fireside with some honey and some milk. she hurried home from work that night, and as soon as she arrived, she found that pretty snake shed taken in had been reviv...

Whats necessary to push the issues over the finish line. what bannon argued is that the effort on obamacare is half hearted. what is the responsibility of the white house to lead on these issues. >> no one is saying that the president is not leading. theres a lack of leadership on one side of pennsylvania avenue. and so, look, we want everybody to work together. i do. i want the white house and the senate to work together to get the issues on the table and legislative accomplishments through the...

Whats necessary to push the issues over the finish line. what bannon argued is that the effort on obamacare is half hearted. what is the responsibility of the white house to lead on these issues. >> no one is saying that the president is not leading. theres a lack of leadership on one side of pennsylvania avenue. and so, look, we want everybody to work together. i do. i want the white house and the senate to work together to get the issues on the table and legislative accomplishments through the...

I dont want anything. >> the whole thing with earmarks, too, the whole spirit of the tea party republicanism is to get rid of government. >> exactly. >> a lot of these tea party conservatives, their districts, thatter people are saying good job, are you sticking it to them. they are being spurned on by the people who sent them there. its a connection. when theyre looking at their calls, theyre not getting the same calls that maybe a senator is getting for the entire state or their democratic col...

Syria. expect everything. >> oh, my goodness at 46 past the hour live look at the white house. lights are on. time now for the must read opinion pages. joining us on set msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, harold ford jr. good morning. good to have you. eugene robinson, i know we touched on this, asking the question does the president really want to do this or not. im going read from your piece because i think its the key here and the key to the debate because i would say some...

Defendant, george zimmerman. the man who is guilty of second degree murder. thank you. >> trayvon martins family in the courtroom here in sanford every day. their lawyer, darryl parks joins us now. >> thank you for having me. >> always on the other side of the cases doing defense. thinking the family of the victim, how tough it is in the courtroom. do they feel hostile toward george zimmerman? what is the feeling? >> obviously, there is no leave and probably built the volume that for the fact of...