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a to be suing account sitting congressman for this. i mean, its really amazing what were seeing happen. it is. its very uncommon. and of course, i mean, donald trump is the first former president to ever be indicted. and so thats also unprecedented, so were seeing measures. between local courts, and prosecutors and congress play out on a field that weve never really seen before, and this is a huge escalation in this back and forth. i mean for weeks now weve seen the tensions between ji...

post. the latest missing records are from two officials inside of the trump administration acting homeland security secretary chad wulf, and acting deputy secretary ken cuccinelli, we will get to all of those stories and more throughout the course of this hour, but we start with the latest efforts of the united states to win the release of wnba star brittney griner from a russian jail. russias foreign minister now says he is open to talking to secretary of state anthony blinken about t...

Sorry, folks, election silly season has returned in full force.

This is what happens. people get caught up in trumped up charges and get sent to jail and treated for somebody. on the other, hand we can be very unhappy that paul whelan is still in there and not out. but this weird outrage and this outrage cycle thats moving around republican circles seems to have missed the fact that we actually got brittney griner out. and even paul whelans family is sort of saying, this is misplaced outrage. >> i agree. and i think its pretty scary, to be honest, because if...

Solution. >> this is the cost of telling thousands of people that there is a legitimate shot of overturning the election. >> in the year since the attack on the capital, the vast majority of republicans have refused to condemn the former president or the actions that led to the uprising. the new york times with this headline tonight -- trumps hold on the gop is unrivaled. quote, his rehabilitation, to the extent one was even needed among republicans, is the latest example of an enduring lesson o...

Exhausted with defending this president, day in and day out, and it means defending t ining indefensible. and we saw them step out in the case of syria, mitch mcconnell has an op-ed in "the washington post," condemning what donald trump did there. i think were starting to see republicans move away from this president. >> and olivia, you wrote about that this week, the exhaustion. >> i think the way that the media or liberals have trump fatigue, that exists on the right, as well. its just differe...

Actually, there are ways of chronicling is there a change in our condition. i think partially it does speak to the fact that the outrage cycle demands ever and ever greater levels of outrage. it also suggests the president himself has been angrier in the course of august, that he is feeling defensive and boxed in. and again, if you just look at the tweets and put them all together, you might have a sense that he insults people. but when you see this scale and nature of it coming directly from th...

Little bit. >> neil: but theyre not chilling, congressman. >> somebody has to say it. i did. >> the rhetoric is way over the top from all angles quite frankly. but i personally expect leadership to come from the top. i hope that at some point we can get down to really tackling the issues that matter to the american people. >> neil: by the way, what teamed these two guys up, theyre talking about the pension plans that are on the verge of going belly up and could respect in one million retirees se...

Okay. thats not a fully new message and frankly is a very populace message. if you dont like it here, leave. there are still enormous things wrong with that message but he has already stepped away from what was the racist core of his sunday message. it is hard to focus on that because we dont want to because its heart breaking. we suffer the outrage cycle. it should be heart breaking that the president of the united states suggests that if you are a person of color who dissentence and in his min...

Theyre bringing drugs. theyre bringing crime. theyre rapists, and some, i assume, are good people. >> that really happened. as i said, that was four years ago tomorrow when donald trump gave us his first outrage-inducing comment, and since then its been one cycle after another. lets bring in some people to break down the outrage cycle. leigh ann caldwell, cornell belltry, and michael steele, former adviser to jeb busch and john bayoehneboehner. i do like to remind people, michael steele, that do...