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Mick mulvaney. acting chief of staff. >> they always insist on calling him acting. >> i guess i would disagree with you slightly by the idea that this administration has never seemed to be that cleverly strategic in the kinds of things they do. its chaotic in the way they operate. my sense on the doral decision is hes just got too many fronts hes fighting right now, and just take some of the pressure off, back away. and give his republican friends or allies or critics an opportunity to say, well...

>> mister speaker, i totally understand the frustration and fatigue across the country and in this house but we simply cannot vote for a deal that is worse than the one house rejected three times. carley: to your question where do we stand? theres a lot of head scratching, no vote on boris johnsons plan today. downing street will put out a statement later on saying what the prime minister expect to do but the fact he said to the speaker of the house and lawmakers im not going to ask for a delay ...

Boris johnson says, uh-uh not going to do it, by 11:00 local time he must send a letter to brussels, please give us extra time, three months to the end of january of 2020, but who knows what he has up his sleeve. maybe he could send a second letter, please ignore what i asked in the first letter and still be complying with that law. lots of head scratching. what happens next? no one knows. and you know weve been covering this since this was past on june 16th, back in 2016. nothing has been easy ...

The hill covering congressional leadership, scott wong, vice president for the security program, and first we go to msnbc white house correspondent, kelly odonnell, with the very latest, and kelly, we will start with you on this, and day 19, and where do you want to pick up in terms of the latest? certainly rudy giuliani and the investigation into him causing a lot of talk in the building behind you. >> reporter: well, and now, what were hearing, richard, from the president is a more supportive ...

What hes doing he tweets out a policy and that and several hours later realizing that the policy could harm those that the u.s. has worked with has decided to reverse course and call for the destruction of the turkish economy so i think a lot of people washington are head scratching but increasingly worried about the presidents decision making ability and what that means for u.s. national security that of our partners including turkey and he is getting a lot of blowback not only from democrats i...

Angry. ive been surprised by the level of almost resignation about this decision. i think thats mainly because as weve been saying erdogan has been threatening this for so long and the u.s. military knew there would not be a policy decision here where the military would side with the syrian democratic forces against the nato ally turkey. thats really what make this is tweet that we just saw from president trump in the last couple of minutes all the more head scratching. that the u.s. has made a ...

Republican controlled senate intelligence committee is launching its own crucially bipartisan inquiry requesting an interview with the whistle-blower as well. quote, no later than friday, september 27th, as in this friday. and then in an unexpected development and sort of a head scratching one were still trying to parse, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, a man whos backed president trump at nearly every turn, allowed the republican-controlled senate to unanimously pass a resolution calling...

Total of trumps behavior, not just a phone call. also yahoo news reporting the republican controlled senate intelligence committee is launching its own crucially bipartisan inquiry requesting an interview with the whistle-blower as well. quote, no later than friday, september 27th, as of this friday. and then in an unexpected development and sort of a head scratching one were still trying to parse senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, a man whos backed president trump at nearly every turn, all...

Coming. it came in really at 5. it was a category 5. i never even knew a category 5 existed. got hit as a 5. category 5 storm, which literally never happens. it actually touched down as a category 5. never seen anything like that. this has been a category 5 which few people have ever heard of. category 5, nobody has ever heard of a 5 hitting land. category 5 hurricane. category 5. never heard about category 5s before. category 5 is big stuff. >> and of course dorian was a category 5 and thnow do...

Its an occams razor. >> big business doesnt want it. >> thats what makes it so head scratching. >> on the methane rule, the big companies said look, were going to go ahead and start to cap this because we know this is the future. we know -- theyre reading the polls. >> thats right. >> they see the public wants us to deal with climate change. >> i think it was the head of bp put an op-ed out saying we believe in these regulations. they dont want to be the wrong side of public opinion 70-30 in the...