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Example of a president losing control of his narrative, writing the past few days have offered a head spinning series of revelations that conflicted with the version of events mr. trump and his associates had previously provided. baker adds the shifting statements also illustrated starkly why some of the presidents lawyers have urged him not to submit to an interview by the special counsel robert mueller. lets bring in the "hardball" roundtable. erica warner, a congressional reporter for "the wa...

Think its a disgrace. >> lets bring in the "hardball" roundtable, jason johnsons politics editor of the root.com. dan eberhardt is a gop fund-raiser and ceo of canary llc. annie linskey is a reporter for the boston globe. i want to start with you, annie. trump, he does bring it back to himself, but it does seem to be this is a messy game being a trumpy. >> it really is. the amount of turnover revealed in that story today, its kind of stunning to be reminded of that. there do seem to be two bucke...

Starbucks ceo has penalty met face-to-face with the two men who were a arrested in philadelphia. the two men were waiting for a friend, they asked to use the bathroom, the manager asked them to leave because they didnt buy anything. the ceo said that the manager is, quote, no longer at that store. the politics editor at the root.com and also an msnbc contributor, jason, these protesters say theyre not going to stop this boycott until they see significant change. what would that change look like?...

Biden today after the vice president said this at a rally wednesday. >> they asked would i like to debate this gentleman, and i said if we were in high school i would take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him. any guy who talked that way was usually the fattest, ugliest sob in the room. >> president trump firing back in a tweet, crazy joe biden trying to act like a tough guy. actually, he is weak both ebb mentally and physically and yet he threatens me for the second time with physica...

Burns, national political reporter for "real clear politics." jason johnson, politics editor at the root.com and nbc contributor. jason, lets go bigger context to start with. whatever happens tonight, weve seen a 20-point swing in this district from the 2016 result won by trump, its not the first district weve seen this in. >> right. this is getting worse and worse for the democrats. even as a political scientist, ive been the contrarian, ive never been in love with the congressional ballot, i t...

Completed. that theyre now doing the scan, the ballot scan in those 40 remaining precincts, when that is done, if this holds we will then know who won those 1200 votes, 1195 to be exact, in washington county, those absentee votes. and remember, it needs to be, saccone needs a big number here. hes trying to cut into a 579-vote lead for conor lamb. thats where they stood. we got that update in the last two minutes. any update i get i am going to share with you. i promise you, whatever happens to o...

Johnson at the root.com. jonathan alter, caitlin huey burns. they are back with us. caitlyn and jonathan, i was saying at the break, im almost running out of questions. maybe i take a minute to appreciate the, you know, if youre anybody watching at this hour either an election junky or an insomniac. lets talk to the election junky. you dont get nights like this. this is exciting. >> this is cool. this is an exhibition of every vote counts in this case. i think were talking about the actual resul...

The consequences of a trade war and are urging the white house to not advance with this plan. reporting that congressional republicans are considering legislation that could prevent that could block trump from imposing his tariffs. lets britain in shannon peteypiece, for bloomberg. my friend, jason johnson. politics editor at the root.com and also an msnbc political contributor. jason, lets start with paul ryan. how significant is this split? i mean, we know paul ryan has aligned with the presid...

Justice department and needs to be released for that reason. but thats the only real division among republicans on this. over the last few days. in large part because of ryans support i think for the releasing this memo on that transparency argument. you have seen house republicans especially say the time has come to get this done. stephanie. >> a mystical weapon. paul ryan coming in on a unic n unicorn. my panel, jason johnson. also the political editor for the root.com. and cnbc contributor ro...

Welcome back. lets bring in tonights panel. matthew cont netty from the washington free beacon and susan page from usa today and jason johnson, politics editor at the root.com and an msnbc contributor. welcome. lots of breaking news today. lets start with andrew mccabe. the white house said they didnt get involved in this in any way. this was all andrew mccabes decision and you would have to ask the fbi. they may say that, but the reality is donald trump was putting a lot of political pressure o...