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>> he was right about this as time goes on especially when they take control of the house in january, but that doesnt mean that the president will back down. it means he is even more backed into a corner, and if we know anything, it is this president will declare victory here. even if it is a hallow one and we dont know what that will be yet. >> it will be a continuing long day for you. and maybe a night. lets go, find out what the reaction mass been. jeff benefit is joining me now. there are th...

Korean issue sugigesting that hr ethnicity should define her path. he was surprised according to people in the room when they did not know him, why would they? ben carson never served in congress. the presidents own approach to issues of race and ethnicity have affected hiring process across the white house. >> jeff benefit, thank you to you both. >> well talk about trump on the trail. not the president. donald trump jr. boosting republican candidate. is he an access or a liability. >> six month...

President trump. this agrees with that assessment. >> it is appropriate that we conduct oversight of the executive branch and that we get full compliance with the executive branch on our document requests. do i support impeachment of rod rosenstein? i do not. since i have gotten involved, i have been getting a lot of compliance from the doj on document requests. we dont have full compliance and we have to get full compliance and we have been making progress to that point. >> the house has him pe...

Among journalists, well, should we cover every tweet? world leaders are watching donald trumps tweets where he announces foreign policy thats completely in contrast to, say, his sacramento at any giecretar. hes the commander-in-chief and we have to take him at his word. that puts other policies in question. >> as jeff benefit reported at the top of the broadcast, the president in a conversation with the world leader said 2%, scrap it, we want 4% now of your gdp. sarah huckabee sanders essentiall...

Sure -- who is that shaking the presidents hand? i cant make out from the back. can you, jeff? i didnt see who that was. >> i cant see it at all where i am. so ill have to leave it to you. >> all right. geoff bennett is in brussels, cant actually see the class photo. craig melvin here in new york city, able to make out all the faces except for that one. i do want to continue our conversation about judge cavanaugh. for the second time in four minutes, im going to put you on the spot. the crept ju...

Relationship with the president trump ahead of the first official state visit. we begin with president trumps support for michael cohen and speculation that the long-time personal attorney could flip on him. speculation the white house is trying to dismiss, nbcs jeff benefit is traveling with president trump and joins us live from west palm beach. jeff, whats the white house saying? we saw the tweet a few moments ago from the president about the witch hunt. whats the latest from the administrati...

Tillerson. earlier, reporters at the white house asked president trump about tillersons status. this -- this is all he had to say. >> do you want rex tillerson on the job, mr. president? >> hes here, rex is here. >> do you want him to stay in his job? >> thank you very much, everybody, thank you. >> rex is here, as in rex is here, at the white house, like literally rex is here in the building. for more, nbc white house correspondent jeff benefit joins me. so does phillip rutger, "washington post...

It sounds like hes saying mind your own business, madam prime minister. does this at all worry republican, phillip? >> absolutely. you know, there was republican senators yesterday saying they thought it was highly inappropriate and not at all helpful for the president to be retweeting those videos which, by the way, are unverified and do not necessarily show what they purport to show. but, look, this has been a breach now between the united states and our closest ally great britain and theresa ...

Learn. >> its probably a good spot -- go ahead, really quickly. >> i just want to add one thing based on what lonnie said. of course hes exactly right, the nature of a tax cut of this kind is going to benefit the people at the top. the problem is the administration from the president to the top aides simply havent admitted that. theyve tried to obscure that. and thats one of the reasons why i think the presidents credibility is low. if you look at any poll, you see very low numbers for credibili...

From him before. the issue on defense spending is something we heard from form are presidents barack obama and george w. bush. the way the president attacked the allies, the way he uses the rhetoric pierces the unity. >> as were having this conversation, jeff, we should note for our viewers at home were watching some of the world leaders walk into this dinner that is about to happen there in brussels where it is just after 7:00 local time. jeff, again, just to be clear here, are you saying that ...