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You. cousins of its not normal. one of them is never before. so, brian, never before have we had a president who would publicly threaten, prod the justice department and his own prosecutors to go after the opposition party as the president has done over the donna brazile incident and the democratic party. never before, brian, have members of the presidents own party been so reluctant to say publicly what they say privately. publicly you have just a couple of senators, senator mccain, senator fla...

So the last time we talked the president had -- the little clip you showed, the president attacking the mayor of london. after the terror attack on the bike path in new york, you have the president attacking the leader of the senate democrats, chuck schumer, saying that he was partly responsible for immigration policies that allowed this individual to be in the country. brian, thats just not normal. >> thank you, michael lesson, for preserving your role as the guy who reminds us of what normal i...

Senator, including john mccain. we had a great conversation yesterday about the military. i think we had a -- i called it a love fest. it was almost a love fest. but maybe it was a love fest. >> now, michael lesson of axios reports he did get standing ovations. you also heard the president cite those as a party united. keeping him honest, though, this isnt about what were saying. its about what other republicans are saying. >> privately a of any clegz super fresd concern about the decks of your ...

Where donald trumps base of support -- and this is a guy who has never had anything more than his base of support. when people say you talk too much about trumps base, this guy never tried to reach beyond his base. thats how he got elected. and the weight of evidence when we look back two years is if theres a point where he loses that base, we p havent found it yet. and he has taken that base through no political figure has ever taken a base through him before and they have stuck with him. its a...

Party, hes not using the term we, us republicans. its just like him saying, you know, ill go campaign for whoever wins this alabama race. its them. and thats a difficult position for the republican party. for susan collins and lisa murkowski, what do they have to loses voting against this? theyve already voted against it once. it didnt go forward because of them. theres no political captain involved there. so when you watch a speech like this on president trump on a turf like this where people a...

Up ] >> youve got to speak to jeff sessions about that. >> michael lesson, what in your view did we witness tonight and how must mr. mueller and the 16 or 17 cocounsels he has hired view an event like this tonight? >> you know, the president, of course, really happening it up. that was the perfect clip and making the gesture. what am i gonna do? usually these rally speeches are sort of the greatest hits. tonight, though, we had new stuff. so rocket man tonight was little rocket man. and the pres...

Lisa murkowski. both of them were no votes the first time around. neither of them has much political snen it i have that i can see to turn around and support it this time. if one of them decides theyre against this now, that would sink this thing. and certainly with john mccain coming out sort of preemptively and making this announcement today, a lot of people think if there was any hesitation on murkowskis part, on colins part, mccain has given them extra cover now to go out and vote against th...

For them. so its a test of that. the electric tort in alabama are very different from the electric tort particularly here in orange county, california, right where a lot of changes here, changing demographics. a lot of people are registered as independence. so the question is really what trump can bring to the table for the republican party. and the idea when youre getting campaigned for by the president you want a headline about yourself, right. the next days newspaper is going to say candidate...

Moment for trump. and you know what? and i told luther, i have to say this, if his opponent wins, im going to be here campaigning like hell for him. >> our lead-off panel tonight to talk about all of this, whether they like it orment, christine that bell an tony is with us, michael lesson is back with us, and here with us in new york, steve kornacki, who is being our msnbc national political correspondent. steve, you and i just had the treat of watching that sitting here together in new york. pe...