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Wright is joining us from washington. the white house has been talking for some time about a big push on voting rights. so far the president hasnt given a major address or gone on the road. what is the holdup? >> reporter: it is unclear. officials cited scheduling conflicts as reasons that prevented him from doing so but said it is still his intention. one thing that is clear though is that that meeting with civil rights leaders yesterday amounted to a pressure campaign with them telling the pre...

Elijah cummings is the racist. hes also trying to bring the reverend al sharpton into this entire thing. the president is escalating these attacks. two weekends ago the president was attacking the four congresswomen of color. just this past weekend the president is attacking the well regarded head of the oversight committee. the president in his tweets try to paint baltimore as some rat infested hellscape. the average income is higher than the district jim jordan represents. the president was ho...

That can shoot cruise missiles in the vicinity, and they were in the vicinity, as always, last night. there are aircraft capable of dropping bombs always on station. so, you know, the military would have in fact been ready to go, awaiting that final presidential thumbs up, because thats basically how they operate. they dont go from a cold start. they have everything in place, ready to go, ready to execute any time any president gives the final thumbs-up. the interesting question is did the presi...

Of experts on all of this. dana bash, so when youre hearing this from matt whitaker where hes saying hes not going to talk about conversations with the president, yet he does talk about some of them, saying he hasnt given the president assurances about the mueller probe, he hasnt discussed the probe. what do you make of that? >> hes trying to have it both ways. hes trying to be very cautious, as pamela was saying earlier, noting that it really did not go very well when he was not under oath but ...

Your ability to govern. >> the press conference, mark, it just -- it went from bad to worse, i think. i just want to play a little bit more of that, when he talks about dressing up as michael jackson. >> do you have to? >> just for people who missed it. >> terrible, terrible. >> i had the shoes. i had a glove. i used a little bit of shoe polish to put under my -- or on my cheeks. the reason i used a very little bit is because -- i dont know if anybody tried that, but you cant get shoe polish off...

Argument with what looks like clean hands. i think that one of the reasons there is such overwhelming pressure for the governor to resign is that national democrats want the clear contrast with president trump, want to be able to make these arguments without the counterargument that, obviously, a democratic governor is accused of these awful, racist things. >> and theres -- i mean, we talk a lot about the politics of this, but what about just the simple morality of this? just making a statement ...

Through, but he did say a few days and this has been a monumental trial, huge, over two months long as you mentioned 56 witnesses. there are ten counts that this jury has to go through. theyve got to wade through all of that evidence that boils down to whether or not they go through bit by bit and they have to look at video and text messages and documents and read through some of that explosive and often very colorful testimony that has been given and in the end decide on these ten counts whethe...

And address those issues. thats really, i think, the question at hand. about the leaks, who knows? this white house has been leak prone. >> but let me ask about this. i mean, first of all, when you were chief of staff, i cant imagine you would let this go. i mean, somebody took information, three months worth of information that, clearly, they wanted people to see how little, in a traditional sense, this president was doing. what -- what do you even do with that? that is a hostile act. >> it is....

About politics. it should be about doing the decent thing, the right thing. he never -- he doesnt seem to understand exactly what he did and why that photo, even if he is in the photo or not, it is on his yearbook page. he doesnt seem to grasp why that is so offensive, why that is so horrendous. he goes out and has a press conference. he denies what he said 24 hours prior. then he makes this weird comment and talks about how he wore blackface, he couldnt take the shine off his face, how hard it ...

What happened during the 2016 election. so they are tuning a lot of that out, andrea, as the president digs in. for him this is about his base and this is about that key campaign promise of building a wall, andrea. >> but kristen, what about the possibility now with lamar alexander, a republican, circulating this letter, that he gets enough support to have a veto-proof majority in the senate, what about mitch mcconnell being pressured by his own colleagues? >> he is getting pressure. but andrea,...