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Andrew johnson that is more than relevant right now. joining me now is michael harriet from the root.com. ill start by reading you some of this. you wrote about andrew johnson, johnson was also dumb. seriously, he might be the only president dumber than trump. after he became president, he went around the country holding political rallies where he just talked about himself and in one speech he referred to himself 200 times. he called his opponents traitors. and the disasters toward one of the ma...

House floor vote next week. watching us here this morning, with us, jason johnson, politics editor at the root.com, steve smith, former republican analyst, former democratic senator fromna missoi and msnbc analyst claire mcskas kill, former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official, msnbc legal analyst chuck rosenberg and in washington host of "hardball" chris matthews. we have heidi priz ba la standing by. we will go back into the hearing as news breaks. you will not miss a thing. but for context...

Bribery or other high crimes, where is the impeachable defense in that call? are either of you here to assert there was an impeachable defense in that call? shout it out, anyone? >> if i could just spnrespond, me just reiterate -- id just like to say im not here to do anything, anything having to do with deciding about impeachment. this is your job. >> im joined right now by david jolly and jason johnson, a politics editor at the root.com. let me ask you about this performance by the members of ...

President trump and the first ladys attendance. >> we are joined by the president and first lady. >> as you can hear, that went on and on. the crowd followed up with some chants of, quote, lock him up, throughout the stadium. thats reaction of some members of the public. meanwhile, many anonymous republicans who appear to be sending up flares, one republican senator saying that the problematic public arguments from donald trump combined with a series of evidentiary bombshells all makes it feel l...

Is with us. jason johnson, politics editor for the root.com, and the daily beast, betsy woodruff swan is with us as well. matt, let me begin with you. what do you make of the president subtly invoking the supreme court and that this battle is likely to end up there? >> i think they would love for it to end up in the supreme court because that means we wouldnt have a decision on whether the documents theyre obstructing congress from obtaining had to be turned over until some time next year, maybe...

Relationship with president trump than they do with barack obama. the argument then was its a slippery slope. dont trust him. they have more trust in the president. he could actually do something here. >> yeah. i completely agree. so the president needs to either neutralize or ignore the nra and get republicans behind him. >> all right. peter alexander, jake sherman, thank you. i want to bring into the conversation my friend ashley parker pulitzer prize winning white house reporter for "the wash...

As the president often promises. >> if we achieve sustained 3% growth, that means 12 million new jobs and $10 trillion of new economic activity over the next decade. thats some numbers. i happen to be one that thinks we can go much higher than 3%. there is no reason why we shouldnt. the economy now has hit 3%. nobody thought it would be anywhere close. i think we can go to 4, 5, maybe even 6% ultimately. >> growth under president trump has continued at a very steady pace but with no acceleration...

I fundamentally disagree that if you criticize somebody that happens to be a different color of the skin, that makes it a criticism. the congresswoman pressley says if she was brown, you have to sleep with a brown person and if you are black, you have to -- >> steven miller was the white houses choice to put on tv to defend donald trumps racist attack against the squad. like most of trumps base he continues to deny this. here is tiffany cross and jason johnson from the root.com.

Legally. it is going to be subject to challenge. all right. kelly, pete, thank you both so much. let me bring in my lead-off team here joining the conversation, former spokesperson for the house oversight committee, a registered member of both parties. also with me jason johnson msnbc political contributor and politics editor at the root.com. help me out. this wouldnt work. these things are already being printed. there will be major legal challenges. is this anything more than a political show f...

The author of "black ethnics" and jason is the political editor for the root.com. i laid it oall out there, help s put it together. >> this is reminiscent of the black history month where it was just assault after assault from the president. we have a president that has always exhibited racist tendencies. we know what he said and he is very cozy with people who have racist tendencies. this isnt just about black americans feeling a certain way.