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Uncertain everywhere. nobody knows quite where this is all heading after two years. and the u.s. government itself is increasingly in shambles. i was struck today by a tweet that andrea mitchell of nbc put out, just to listen to this for a second, the number of departments and agencies that are now headed by acting secretaries or deputies, d.o.d. is going to have an acting secretary, defense department, justice department, the epa, environmental protection agency, and the white house all were go...

Credit, they steal outright or force companies to share their most important technology. that hasnt really changed. that problem remains. then we had a problem on top of that which is that financial markets uncertain of what was going to happen as the u.s. and china kase lated tariffs. we have kind of solved problem number two. if we go back to problem number one. the concession of china was to continue buying stuff we dont care to make it home and buying soybeans and crude oil and some industri...

>> reporter: so let me read you a statement here. the justice department saying, with respect to their first amendment claim, the president and his staff have absolute discretion over which journalists they grant interviews to, as well as over which journalists they acknowledge at press events, meaning who the president calls on, right? no journalist has a first amendment right, the statement continues, to enter the white house and the president need not survive first amendment scrutiny wherever...

>> number one is human trafficking. not to mention with the aclu put out, the state department, the justice department, its an issue. jesse: nathan, you are looking at thousands of people moving up toward the united states border. because of the legal loopholes in the this country. once they set foot in this country and they have a child, they get to stay. >> we do have a process for people applying for asylum. and i agree we dont know who every single person is in that caravan. there were at ma...

>> number one is human trafficking. not to mention with the aclu put out, the state department, the justice department, its an issue. jesse: nathan, you are looking at thousands of people moving up toward the united states border. because of the legal loopholes in the this country. once they set foot in this country and they have a child, they get to stay. >> we do have a process for people applying for asylum. and i agree we dont know who every single person is in that caravan. there were at ma...

>> number one is human trafficking. not to mention with the aclu put out, the state department, the justice department, its an issue. jesse: nathan, you are looking at thousands of people moving up toward the united states border. because of the legal loopholes in the this country. once they set foot in this country and they have a child, they get to stay. >> we do have a process for people applying for asylum. and i agree we dont know who every single person is in that caravan. there were at ma...

Of this. and the bottom line as this took place, the president came in looking for the fight. he believes that the press as his foil reflects well on him and is good on him and makeses the base like him more, and if he had a issue with jim acosta, and we know that the two of them have tussled in the past, and he could have called on somebody else, and he didnt have to call on him, but he knows it is going to play well for him in his mind, and jim acosta the thinks it is going to play well on him...

Immigration instead of his successes in the economy is because hes addicted to the noise level. so thats thought going to change no matter who wins, democrats or republicans. >> ill tell you what, brian, i hear you. and ive taken your counsel on this before, but ive never seen -- for "cuomo primetime," i think theres three things ive never seen before that i saw today. one is -- well, ive never seen the media block out an ad. now, cnn did it first. we wouldnt run the racist ad the president put ...

Minority rule that is overshadowing all of this. now, thats just how our system is set up. you can have far more grievances with how the house, which is supposed to be representative, is not representative at all. but thats putting the question aside. youre asking, are they just trying to bring out the 40%? the answer is obviously yes. i talked to steve bannon about this about a month ago, and his point was very valid in that moment. he said, if were going to win this election, its not going to ...

Pennsylvania and paul butler former federal prosecutor and msnbc analyst. what a day, i think he started today saying hes going to vote i to get it out of committee. a lot of things happened. tell me how the sequence worked that led to this over time in the game, if you will? >> chris, it was really remarkable. we in the morning got this statement from jeff flake that said im going to vote for judge kavanaugh, and we all thought, you know, that was potentially that. that was potentially going to...