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right now on "andrea mitchell reports," breaking news across capitol hill. a bipartisan group of lawmakers calling the presidents of elite universities on the carpet over their response to a spike in anti-semitism on college campuses. >> what is it about the way that you hire faculty and approve curriculum thats allowing your campuses to be infected by this intellectual and moral rot? >> leadership matters. you are leaders. in academia, at your institutions as well. new grave warning...

Not to comply with subpoenas. has trump gotten to him? >> i dont know. none of it made any sense. these were bizarre bedfellows to say the at least. kupperman no use for mulvaney. now withdrawn his own lawsuit. its a keystone cops operation at this point at the white house. theyre returning in circles. they have no idea what theyre doing, and the fundamental problem is, of course, much deeper than that. you have a white house with no moral compass to begin with. but you also have a white house w...

Themselves. these are giant wannabes. they want to tell him im about to testify, boss, dwhoot you think? im going into muellers office, boss, what should i say? its an opportunity for him to be that ringmaster and someone had to do it. and i think it is individual number 1 who is calling the shots. >> do you agree? >> yeah. i agree. and i think, look, its a complicated question for a variety of reasons. i think one of the things that we have all lapsed into because if you covered the presidentia...

Activity, the idea was not to help one political party over another, but to sew as much discord as possible. this was america that was attacked. david gersof richard told the a.p. this the new norm, its not going away. but was this really a sophisticate aid tack or something a little whacky? lets get a reality from cyber security expert morgan wright. i hear the groups and the memes sounds like the co-stone cops. >> keystone cops crow it aing special counsel investigation, congressional investig...

Activity, the idea was not to help one political party over another, but to sew as much discord as possible. this was america that was attacked. david gersof richard told the a.p. this the new norm, its not going away. but was this really a sophisticate aid tack or something a little whacky? lets get a reality from cyber security expert morgan wright. i hear the groups and the memes sounds like the co-stone cops. >> keystone cops crow it aing special counsel investigation, congressional investig...

Decision. >> she has some history here having gone out there saying i have full confidence in michael flynn right before he was shown the door. >> but i think as you were sort of saying the upshot of all of this is gridlock. because theres no clear direction coming out of the white house because trump has not chosen a side in what are ultimately ideological fights about what direction, what public stance the white house will take, and what kind of leadership they are going to exert and even what...

In washington was at the alfaila club dinner the other night. i was at one of the after gatherings. with many cabinet officers, cabinet officers in waiting waiting to be confirmed and advisers directly to president trump and i have to tell you that even among those people they report that this has been a keystone cops operation, they are distressed. then when you get to the layer of senators and people like john mccain -- >> so youre talking about branches of government. so before we get to cong...

A few days before the election theyre going on about how his staffer -- >> we should explain. the there is motivation. he was trailing in almost all polls. >> they had internals looking like he was going to lose. they had a libertarian running. running against a well-known, formidable opponent, and they said he wouldnt listen to their professional advice, didnt hire the right staff, his campaign was unfocused and -- get a load of this -- he was an ingrate because help he was asked twice whether ...

On the flip side, a sink loss and jolly win will rattle democrats because it would prove that the environment trumps everything else. national republicans have publicly griped about jollys campaign, airing blind quotes like this one to politico, calling it a keystone cops operation, marked by inept fund-raising, hundreds of miles away from the district in the state capital. poor optics. frankly, he has run a c-plus campaign at best. and he also happens to be a lobbyist. and if he can beat a cand...