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Welcome back, everybody. before we toss it over to "morning joe" lets get a check of the stories youll hear in the days ahead. president trump is set to scheduled to attend an infrastructure event in florida today and spend the weekend at his mar-a-lago resort. in his address to the nation yesterday hes announced hes making plans to visit parkland, but no indication if that will take place this weekend. and floridas two senators are set to meet with the victims families and officials from the ...

On the presidents mind but the president did not answer questions about him, and the whole matter of security clearances just a short time ago here at the white house when he was doing an infrastructure event with governors and others from around the country. but the white house chief of staff was front and center in the room with the president, and he is indeed on the job here. now, this certainly has given an opening for many people who dont necessarily like john kelly to voice their concern. ...

Other in weeks, and then theres this quote. mr. mcconnell has privately expressed uncertainty that mr. trump will be able to salvage his administration after a series of summer crises. i want to get my panel to weigh in. jason johnson, kate kelly, okie doke. mitch mcconnells spokesperson denying the story but did say they have a lot of shared goals. tax reform, infrastructure, funding the government, not defaulting on debt, passing the defense authorization bill. okay, sure, that was a very easy...

Endo or read between the lines, its a time to lay blame on bigotry and white nationalism and hatred. >> on wednesday merck ceo announced he was quitting the council over the many sides response. and he was followed later that day by ceos of under arm our and intel. the president did make another statement on charlottesville. >> as i said on saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred and bigotry and violence. it has no place in america. >> he didnt say m...

Trump tower yesterday. remember this was supposed to be an infrastructure event. thats what went off the rails, and since then, hes just been embarrassed. hes been disappointed. one of his associates said it wouldnt be a surprise if he does contemplate quitting. but of course, cohn has had his eye on jobs bigger than the one he has now, possibly being the next fed chair. these are the things that people are weighing as theyre deciding, look, should i jump ship in the administration or can i hold...

Today, the unapologetic, unmasked donald trump. yesterday was a fake donald trump. thats apparent now. and we see a man who lashes out, who cant control himself. hes only a short way away from the nuclear button. hes the man who tells them whether to go to war or not. so yes, theres some dangers to the country. >> david axelrod, weve seen this president stepping on the white houses own message. today there was a lot of positive things the president could have been talking about. north korea seem...

Yeah, i would love to have been a fly on the wall in general kellys after action meeting on the infrastructure event. i dont think it went very well. but look, you know, michelle obama said in her convention speech last summer that the presidency doesnt change people. it reveals who they are. and as you said at the outset, this is who donald trump is. this is who he was throughout the 2016 campaign. there was this hope that somehow the presidency with all its responsibility and all the majesty a...

Voters you talk to, hes fundamentally mislead reading what they like about him. >> he was elected to be a doer and also in the succession of presidencies that have been politics of conflict. and what people have been looking for is politics of result. the right? there havent been enough results for a lot of these voters. he is fundamentally misreading these voters. they want him to do something. the this isnt the thing they want him to do. the they dont benefit from his grudge with the press. i ...

Of an unease that has been around those who are close to the president. he, of course, did something they did not expect with his remarks, with the tone of his remarks, with the combative nature of it. that was not something that was planned. it put some of those around him really off of what they had expected was going to be a positive infrastructure event that might have turned the corner from what had happened saturday. one of the people that ive talked to today through our communications has...

Staff? we had your reporting and others of your colleagues saying that they were surprised and shocked by the presidents comments, he was supposed to speak, doing an infrastructure event, that got drowned out. if theyre shocked, what are they doing about it? >> well, andrea, when the president doesnt follow the plan as he did not yesterday, that does put the staff in a position of having to figure out how to react and respond to it. today we had very little from the white house except behind the...