Philippe Reinus News Today

You on this second hour of Chris Jansing reports. At this hour, Kamala Harris says shes ready to go. What were learning about her final hours of practice before debating Donald Trump, and her plans to launch a major Campaign Tour right afterwards. Standing by on the sidelines, Nikki Haley says she told Trumps Team shed campaign for him, so why havent they asked her yet . Plus, major developments in the case of a man accused of murdering four Idaho College students as they slept. Why a judge rule...

>> well, you know, kelly alluded to this. and you know, when i was there, i worked with hundreds if not thousands of foreign service officers and ambassadors, career ambassadors. these are folks that joined the state department years ago, sometimes decades ago. some of them joined when nixon was president or when reagan was president or carter. they didnt sign up thinking that for the rest of their life there was going to be a democrat or a republican. so they know that their role is to execute ...

Substance of the matter says basically i dont care. his response was unless bill taylor was deposed publicly, unless he was in some sort of public setting, a public hearing, that what he said, what he told house investigators behind closed doors does not matter. so that is sort of the convoluted and conflicted response that were getting from republicans who, by the way, still have not defended president trump by and large on the merits. they have not defended his interactions with his ukrainian ...

Joining me from capitol hill, nbc news correspondent geoff bennett. also with me "washington post" senior political reporter aaron blake. former assistant secretary of state and former spokesman for hillary clinton philippe reinus. and from the center for american progress kelly magzaman. she served on the nsc for the bush and obama administrations and worked with ambassador bill taylor. everybody, thank you. geoff bennett. steve scalise ordered pizza for the press. i was just speaking with a de...

And philippe reinus, co-host of unredacted. and joining us from d.c., "washington post" colleague eugene scott. moments ago on fox news, white house acting chief of staff -- oh. i actually am a little ahead. sorry about that. >> its my face. >> its not you, its me. you are there in the d.c. bureau. bring us up to speed if you can on the impact of mick mulvaney and that press conference and his standing in washington overall at the white house in general. >> that press conference was a defining m...