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Competing for our time and attention. with us tonight, eugene robinson, pulitzer prize winning columnist for the "washington post," david jolly, former member of congress on the republican side of the aisle from the great state of florida which were thinking about tonight because theyre getting the bad end of a storm but more on that later in our broadcast. so eugene, but i wanted to talk about the presidents tweets. i guess it was oh, yesterday that have been almost normalize into the conversat...

Talk about all the many stories competing for our time and attention. with us tonight, eugene robinson, pulitzer prize winning columnist for the "washington post," david jolly, former member of congress on the republican side of the aisle from the great state of florida which were thinking about tonight because theyre getting the bad end of a storm but more on that later in our broadcast. so eugene, but i wanted to talk about the presidents tweets. i guess it was oh, yesterday that have been alm...

>> and shannon, let me quickly add, he is very anxious not to take on the roy moore case if he can avoid it and very anxious not to address it. >> i was in an event yesterday where we shouted questions at him about roy moore, he could have answered them. there was a group of reporters there, he didnt. today on the hill, we shouted again. they have clearly made a strategic decision not to address the roy moore controversy. >> so eugene, this topic, what were witnessing, is clearly going to be one...

Add, he is very anxious not to take on the roy moore case if he can avoid it and very a bunch of issu -- and very anxious not to address it. >> i was in an event yesterday when we shouted questions at him about roy moore, he could have answered them. there was a group of reporters there, ehe didnt. today on the hill, we shouted again. they have clearly made a strategic decision not to address the roy moore controversy. >> so eugene, this topic, what were witnessing, is clearly going to be one of...

Working so he will get rid of it. >> it is possible, christi. it is not a bad theory. people may see president trump publicly haranging and disagreeing with the secretary of state. the president is correcting what he is doing. do they realize playing it out in public may imperil both of their abilities to get their jobs done effectively and dealing with the crises we have going on in the world. general kelly was brought in to help control the chaos. has he done any work? for example, gets t ting...

Would -- tillerson would understand what trump wants to happen in the white house based on shared professional background. that hasnt seemed to be the case. >> kelly jane and eugene, i appreciate your thoughts. thank you. >> thank you. >> thanks. lets turn to the caribbean where the recovery mission is very slow, but continuing there in puerto rico. vice president was there and he is explaining how fema is now finally getting much-needed aid to the island and the most remote areas. you will he...

Are these just personal issues and policy discrepancies? >> i think it is. it is concerning. you wonder can rex tillerson do his job effectively at all. we are talking about north korea with a nuclear weapon. iran is trying to get one. you have a guy spending his time doing damage control on his boss. and worse, you wonder will his counterparts in other countries. do they trust him? do they believe he has the presidents authority to do what he needs to do to do his job? >> so eugene, i want to p...

Korea. he said there is no military option, that there was no way to solve this militarily, which is directly contradictory to donald trumps fairly bombastic rhetoric. then he starred trashing colleague and said he was in a war with gary cohn and the goldman sachs crew. we all of this stuff but for him to say it to someone hes never spoken to before, youre going to hear some people say hes playing some kind of, i called it five dimensional chess. this is part of a devious strategy. i guarantee y...

Goldman sachs crew. we all of this stuff but for him to say it to someone hes never spoken to before, youre going to hear some people say hes playing some kind of, i called it five dimensional chess. this is part of a devious strategy. i guarantee you its not. its just plain sloppiness. >> i should point out, cutter inity the writer appeared on television tonight and said, his word, this is not bambi he said about steve bannon and indicated this is a guy who ran breitbart. he comes from our worl...

Trumps fairly bombastic rhetoric. then he starred trashing colleague and said he was in a war with gary cohn and the goldman sachs crew. we all of this stuff but for him to say it to someone hes never spoken to before, youre going to hear some people say hes playing some kind of, i called it five dimensional chess. this is part of a devious strategy. i guarantee you its not. its just plain sloppiness. >> i should point out, cutter n inity the writer appeared on television tonight and said, his w...