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Other senior members of his team to meetings with our staffers. it seems to me like hes treating the vice president like a staffer himself, that he actually doesnt understand how this process works and how representation does matter to get to a solid conclusion. >> yeah. interesting interpretation of the optics. i see where youre going with that. >> you have the president considering declaring a national emergency to get his border funding. do democrats think hes serious? could they be powerless...

In iraq. he did generally talk about allies being able to take care of these problems not on our behalf but stepping up to the plate in their own backyard and defeating isis in a way that is beneficial to their own countries. it would have been helpful at the beginning if he said look, were getting out of syria because we have plenty of resources in iraq to deal with the isis problem. were going to continue to fight isis, taking away their territory. of course that were against the terrorist gro...

Keep as many troops in there as it can while it waits for this taliban peace deal and for afghan forces to step up. in terms of brett mcgurk leaving, what happened from my reporting is that the administration officials like national security adviser bolton, were talking about deflecting iranian influence in syria and keeping troops inside syria until that was able to be achieved. the turks heard this, were worried about the u.s. supporting, as they called it to me, a kurdish terrorist statelet o...

Was perfectly carried out. lets go back to andrea mitchell in houston and we have john mclaughlin and msnbc national security analyst joining me here on-set. start with you to answer this big question. what is the strategy in syria right now? and what are the big strategic questions facing the united states? >> kasie, i think there really is no strategy we can put or finger on here. there are at least three messages that come out of the administration. one from the president. one from the execut...

General votel said almost at the same time the president was speaking yesterday about a complete withdrawal. >> well, you can certainly understand from the presidents perspective why he would want to downsize the commitment that we have on the ground in syria and why there is a tremendous pull to try to pull troops out. yet if you look objectively at the situation we are talking about a situation where there is still a significant isis problem were dealing with. when you use words like "defeat" ...

Deficits weve got. anything you heard there that stood out that sounded like we got a real deal out of anything? >> only a few things. listen, on the whole, it sounded a little bit, you know, the same type of tone and rhetoric you hear from president trump almost like a very excited, i want to brag about this, very campaign-lisk. and on the whole, i agree with hans nichols that we didnt really hear many new things. there were three things that i will highlight that i thought were important. numb...

Thats a risk to u.s. national security. the continuing ability of the isis. whether they have control of raqqah or not, to be able to inspire attacks, direct attacks, plot and plan. president trumps so-called isis strategy has been the same as president obamas. bomb, conduct combat operations, train local forces to go after them. you know. do more war, if you will. but thats not really going to solve the isis problem. if you get them out of raqqah, theyve already moved southeast into the euphrat...

Heart attack, your retirement party. thats why -- they could do that before obamacare, and obamacareo put in a law that says they have to cover that. beyond that point, it doesnt matter what democrats do. you dont need us to pass this bill. donald trumps problem is not the democratic party.s its not elizabeth warren, its not bernie sanders but hisis problem is his nine republican senators, probably ten by tomorrow, who want to vote against it. thats the problem. dont blame democrats. dont blame ...

I like to see him dancing. why is everybody wearing hats? >> i dont know. its a barbecue. >> it was a hat party in brooklyn. >> greg does not like my one more thing. >> i liked the very much. >> thank you, kimberly. >> our colleague and friend has a brand new book out it is-f called the swamp, he talked about it a lot and it is finalll here. washingtons murky pool of corruption and cronyism and how can stay straighten it. this is all about the deplorables and hi has a dedication inside of ithe t...

Object to the means of collection, the way that they do investigative journalism does not change the content of the tape. thats the problem. >> my favorite sting video, if you love someone, set them free. >> i tried that with you. [laughs] more massive problems in seattle after yet another far left proposal goes awry. greg analyzes the situation after the break. the situation the situation after the at red lobsters lobster & shrimp summerfest, lobster and shrimp are teaming up in so many new dis...