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Brought us nothing but poverty at home and disaster overseas. thats what we have. disaster. the wars we never win. youre tired of the reckless foreign policy to crazy wars that are never won. >> but in he cent weeks, his administration has been struggling to defend the continued presence of roughly 5,000 troops at our southern border. the ploy to fight the ultimate phony war against asylum seekers. president trump has been under increased criticism from skipping two veterans events over this wee...

Doing the nobel peace prize and i think voters will follow trump wherever he goes -- >> the only thing i have to say about that -- and michael -- you were so smart, you were so brilliant. michael, you have this phony war leading into a campaign and then the 30-second ads run and then they start hammering everyday and when the phony war ends and the actual campaigning begins suddenly all of these things that donald trump has done, that everybody is saying hes getting away with that melts away. do...

With us we have msnbc contributor mike barnicle, associated editor of commentary magazine noah rothman, washington anchor for bbc world news america katty kay and joining the conversation, senior writer at politico and co-author of "the play book" jake sherman. so, joe, the thought of doing this all over again, will it amount to something? is it a productive process? at least the way the stage is set now? >> yeah, i think so. it was a phony war, as i said last hour, borrowing from the first six ...

Appreciate an august vacation and certainly wont hold it against their hero. they are not the key figures in the story now. the key figures are those attorneys working at the u.s. justice department under bob mueller. those attorneys with a mandate to look at any matter that might arise in this investigation. pay attention to the look on those people doing the investigating. compare them to those west virginia folks hooting and hollering and cheering up a storm at the trump event last night. cau...

Plan is, obamacare replacement is in some swamp somewhere and immigration, people are just talking about, i think the chances of his having a bad year legislatively, not passing the tax cuts, not passing obamacare, repeal and replace, are not trivial. >> it seems to me he needs to get the freedom caucus, chief party and republican party on board, if he loses them, hes going to have a bad year. thats almost a guarantee. >> the conservative republicans in the house, needs susan collins, more moder...

Out of the sky, what should our response be? >> when i was in crew ukraine last month, they were talking the intelligence and military officials in ukraine said this is a phony war, vladimir putin has invaded our country. thats what we now see is true. he did invade their country. he continues to invade their country. >> same territorial ambitions as crimea. >> but smoothly so. >> they cant speak out because they need the pipelines coming in, something you and i have discussed at length why we n...

Out of the sky, what should our response be? >> when i was in crew ukraine last month, they were talking the intelligence and military officials in ukraine said this is a phony war, vladimir putin has invaded our country. thats what we now see is true. he did invade their country. he continues to invade their country. >> same territorial ambitions as crimea. >> but smoothly so. >> they cant speak out because they need the pipelines coming in, something you and i have discussed at length why we n...

Out of the sky, what should our response be? >> when i was in crew ukraine last month, they were talking the intelligence and military officials in ukraine said this is a phony war, vladimir putin has invaded our country. thats what we now see is true. he did invade their country. he continues to invade their country. >> same territorial ambitions as crimea. >> but smoothly so. >> they cant speak out because they need the pipelines coming in, something you and i have discussed at length why we n...

Clip we played earlier, conservative narrative now is it was a phony war on women in 2012. goldie, what do you think? we have this phony war going on now. there are no womens rights issues being attacked by state legislatures across the country, all phony. your response to that. >> well, you know, its just as phony as they would say some of these discrimination laws are. i think that -- weve heard some republicans say just that. they have said that, you know, when i launch a lawsuit about equal ...

Putin a way out of crisis. latest from ukraine, jared morgan joins us from kiev. whats going on there. >> whats going on here? well, people are sleeping. it is 2:30 in the morning people have been watching developments today especially with a visit from john can kerry. developments. we are very much in a phony war. almost military game of chicken. nothing has really happened. >> do you have a sense that the people in kiev are aligned with the united states of course in the crimea area it is russ...