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>> well, brian, the president will certainly like that to be signed. it would be a christmas gift to his agenda and his political fortunes. look, the president is planning to be in minnesota this week, and we can expect that i would imagine to see additional domestic travel between now and christmas. but he has a lot of pressures right now. converging on him, as yamiche mentioned. the economy and inflation is a huge concern. it is something that a lot of american families are feeling, right now....

His heels. he remains singularly focused on the electoral challenge and had blinders onto everything else. at least thats how everybody was rationalizing something close to his total failure, willful or not, to understand what was going on. at the same time no one in the white house was seeing this as the full-on assault on the capitol and the nail in the coffin of the trump administration that the world would shortly understand it to be. they were for perhaps another 90 minutes or so still seei...

Given it is outdoors, that extra level of ventilation can be helpful. the testing, the fact that hopefully most of those people are vaccinated. all of that will reduce the transmission at that place. theres an optics issue thats concerning. its a little bit of a signal that you can just go back to doing everything you were doing before, but that really has to be knew yauns. a nuanced decision based on where you are. i wouldnt do a large gathering outdoors where cases are starting to spike. that ...

>> i think the intent -- and im not in the state legislature, is to store confidence in the elections that fraud isnt taking place. now, you make a good point. im a federal prosecutor and in a court of law, you know, that hasnt really been born to bear. this may be more of an optics issue, storing confidence with the american people. and in my stay, you actually do believe there was tremendous fraud. >> i have so many questions, joe. what was he talking about in terms of restoring confidence? >>...

>> well, rosemary, i think was certainly the case of what the president said hes going to get the opportunity to prove whether or not he really believes that because i do think that members of congress are certainly going to want to talk to that translator and certainly are going to want to push to get this information. so i dont know that it will ever come out. i tend to agree with bob on that, its unlikely it will. but i think the president also has concern for because theres an optics issue h...

Come out. i tend to agree with bob on that that its unlikely that it will. but i think the president also has to be concerned because theres an optics issue here. you have vladimir putin and you have the president of the united states sitting down together. because theres no one else there, you essentially have the president and putin who have secrets with just each other, secrets that the intelligence community doesnt know, that his senior advisors dont know and certainly that the american peop...

Foreign officials said to me last night, is this the new normal? dont know. >> caseo. coming up, well explain how republicans are trying to solve an optics issue that reemerged during the confirmation hearing for brett kavanaugh. plus, dick durbin joins us. "morning joe" is coming right back. "morning joe" is coming ri back shield℠ annuities from brighthouse financial

Like, please, let it be her, because of her stumble with the native americans. thats nonsense, and shes going to get called on that every time she tries to say something about president trump. theyre going to go back to that. shes not authentic. you know, even her hometown paper the boston globe told her dont run. your time is past and we dont think youre the best candidate. i think shell be in a lot of trouble. but its such a crowded field. she has name i.d., and she probably has a good organiz...

They already passed a bill with a $1.6 billion. not for a border fence. not for a border wall. not for a slat wall as president trump is now calling it but simply border security enhancements. the senate already passed that bill overwhelmingly and sent it to the house. of course thats when things fell apart on friday and brought us to the point we are now almost a full day into a sthutdown. richard? >> full day in. 18 hours and six minutes. right, vic? and as has been said before, it is watching...