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He doesnt understand that this isnt about him and about his ego. this is about the inability of his administration that he directs to ensure that the appropriate help got to puerto rico in time. so, you know, the president is all about political posturing. its all about how good hes going to look. >> joining us from "the new york times," chief white house correspondent peter baker. here at the table, republican strategist rick wilson. elise jordan, a former aide in the george w. bush white house...

>> you still support mueller, right? >> this as congressman tom cole, former head of the national republican congressional committee, has advice for fellow republicans. quote, keep your powder dry and dont rush to attack or defend anybody because you just dont know enough to have a reaction that you can still defend three months from now. with me now director of progressive programming for sirius xm zerlina maxwell. former republican congressman, david jolly. david, in the mcconnell case i think...

Conflicts also. directly yourself. so you know that. mr. mueller is highly conflicted. in fact, comey is like his best friend. i could go into conflict after conflict, but sadly, mr. mueller is conflicted, but let him write his report. we did nothing. theres no collusion, but if youre doing an honest report, hed write it on the other side. >> donald trump keeps trying to discredit robert mueller. as the russia investigation targets trum s trumps inner ci. special counsel team recommending up to ...

And an zmbs contributor. also join ughs is zerlina maxwell, senior director of progressive programming at sirius xm radio and an msnbc political analyst. and john heilman is with us, national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc. he is co-host and executive producer of showtimes "the circus." professor glod, please start us off with your reaction to what weve seen today. >> its profoundly disturbing. it suggests that we are standing at the precipice of a crisis. it obviously reveals that the p...

A break. how deeply crazy is that? how crazed is the thinking? how perverse is the working of the mind that composed that presidential tweet this morning? and what does it mean? for the country and the world. the most incompetent, the most ignorant, the most unstable president in history is not getting better. he is getting much, much worse leading off our discussion now is eddie broad, chairman of the department of african-american studies at princeton university and an zmbs contributor. also j...

Higher! parents arent perfect, but then they make us kraft mac & cheese and everythings good again. the legal immigration system, more than 20 million immigrants could be affected. the administration is expected to issue a proposal just weeks from now that would make it harder for legal immigrants to become citizens if they have ever used popular welfare programs. the administration is including obamacare in this list of welfare programs. nbcs national security and justice reporter julia ainsl...

Back. he wasnt comfortable with it. now he is walking it back in the other direction. i dont know. >> its very confusing and i believe that it would be helpful if the president were to issue a very strong, very clear statement. >> helpful, certainly. likely, not so much. a republican strategist and nbc political analyst and zo lean a maxwell is the director of progressive programming for serious xm guys, i know we talk about why republicans arent breaking more forcibly, and how they want to get ...

The shop, made for tv unveiling of the supreme court pick brett kavanaugh. shine controlled details like flattering lighting for trump and the timing. it happened to coincide with the a-block of fox host and trump pal/adviser sean hannitys primetime show. trumps adoration of all innings fox serves as the backdrop of his trip to europe as he consistently bashes any other outlet as fake news. joining me is gabe sherman, vanity fair, eric bowler, senior writer. lillian maxwell, director of progress...

>> a candidate for this important position who would overturn roe v. wade would not be acceptable to me because that would indicate an activist agenda that i dont want to see a judge have. >> president trump will announce his pick a week from today on july 9th. nbc news has learned that trump is said to be leaning toward a nominee who went to harvard or yale according to individuals familiar with his thinking. so far at least five names, all of them federal appeals court judges, have emerged fro...

Thats hard to get used to. youre redoing the post-war alliances only this time were with the axis powers. >> joining us now, zerlina maxwell, senior director of progressive programming at sirius xm radio and msnbc political analyst. maria teresa kumar and evan siegfried are back with us. we have the quotes from politico, former president obama talking to a group of democrats last night. the thing that struck me was, he was describing himself, he was describing how democrats reacted to him when h...