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The press and 40% of the american people approve of the way that you are doing things. >> well, as jamil said, that is the modus operandi and to keep it muddled and confused. >> and so for the -- >> and let me get through it. going back to the chart. bill clinton at 51%, and i dont know if it was 34 days, but the early weeks and months of the clinton administration was rowdy, and we had travelgate, and some bartender looking through the fbi files, and we had his lawyer commit suicide and so thes...

The tea party, guys. >> yes. and so here we are 36 days into the trump administration, a & more to go, and thank you, jamil, and cath rip, and maya and rich. that is our show for this hour. join me tomorrow for "a.m. joy" at 10:00 a.m. eastern. and coming up next, richard lui is going to have the latest of the votes at the dnc chair.

Its just an outright admission of that. clearly by trumps statement, he would rather have general flynn in his office today, which is frightening. and also, you got to wonder if he is going to pull a corey lewandowski in this particular case and flynn is going to continue consulting trump. like trump apparently trusts flynn on all kinds of matters, including whether or not a good strong dollar is a good thing or a bad thing. i imagine he is going to continue to call flynn. and flynn will be cons...

Immigrants are an important part of the economy, an important part of the social fabric. and, you know, its actually just today i actually happened to be sitting down for lunch and overheard this party next to me talking about a friend of theirs whose husband was undocumented and was now being deported. and i dont think people realize like this -- the affect that this is going to have not just on the immediate families, but in our, you know, fairly cosmopolitan, diverse cities. start to pull on ...

If there is nothing there? >> i mean, go figure. also, the blaming of the media is such a cowardly act. if youre going to blame, say, a "washington post" report that sally yates, acting attorney general at the time warned them that flynn was susceptible to russian blackmail, then why is that not more alarming to you the fact than the fact that it was reported? and thats the thing. these are the questions that we would love to be able to ask the president if he would call on us at some of these p...

Guy gets away with and what kinds of things he tries to get away with. and part of me feels we might try taking rather radical steps. im not sure if traditional journalism is going to work in terms of keeping tabs on this guy. i think in general, maybe the thing -- the scoops that are coming out of the white house are not coming out of, you know, people being on the ground in the room with donald trump. theyre coming out of people who are knocking on doors and making phone calls without donald t...

As miley cyrus said, if you mean it, ill believe it. if you text it, ill delete it. jamil smith, thank you for being here. ana stays. trump officials insisting the presidents power is beyond questioning in the courts. we have new reports that theyre writing a new order that could dial down parts of the travel ban. this as trumps lawyers argue next week that border agents can shoot mexican citizens without any court oversight. its a case you may not have heard about yet. but that is about to chan...

A reporter in the room or not. the idea is having people in the room at least puts the question to the president. he ignores it and the world at least can see the type of questions he is ignoring. you cant literally make him talk. >> i mean, i think thats what is going to happen. and im not opposed to that. but i guess im trying to think outside the box. we have a president that is very much not in the box. we are through the looking glass with what kinds of things this guy gets away with and wh...

Serious assessment of the trump administration saying our government continues to be inunbelievable turmoil. i hope they sort it out soon, because we are a nation at war. joining me now is charlie sykes, editor-in-chief and msnbc contributor and my good friend jamil smith, who is the senior national correspondent at mtv news, which apparently is still a thing. >> still a thing. >> still a thing. charlie, what are we to make of this? >> that quote, thats where i think people, now we have to offic...

Like trump apparently trusts flynn on all kinds of matters, including whether or not a good strong dollar is a good thing or a bad thing. i imagine he is going to continue to call flynn. and flynn will be consulting the president without even having the margial oversight of being an official part of the white house. again -- >> go ahead. >> go ahead. >> jamil, that raises the question of what kind of e-mail he would use. [ laughter ] >> well, we already know that the president is still using his...