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Immigration facilities. and i think that will be a really interesting split screen moment for the president. >> barry -- peter, theres a lot of talk from white house officials and spokespeople and hogan gidley, the deputy press secretary, that this is a non-political speech thats meant to, i dont know, achieve what. and that the presidents going to stick to the script. hogan gidley said theres not a political bone in the speech. im struggling to remember times when president trump has done that ...

Saying the feds didnt have a good enough reason to include a census citizenship question, trump orders the d.o.j. to get it back in. neal katyal helps us make sense of it as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a wednesday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. im ali velshi in for brian williams. day 895 of the trump administration. there could not be a more stark split screen on the eve of the nations 243rd birthday. on the left preparations for trumps j...

Pride in the things we should be proud of. in donald trumps mind it works for him. >> exactly. and i think what he is doing is hes daring democrats and people who oppose him, his critics, to basically criticize what his advisers hope will be a very patriotic speech and a speech that draws on american history. and its basically putting them on the defensive, or at least he hopes to. and thats something weve seen him do again and again. when i talked to white house officials, they kept emphasizing...

As "the 11th hour" gets under way on a wednesday night. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. im ali velshi in for brian williams. day 895 of the trump administration. there could not be a more stark split screen on the eve of the nations 243rd birthday. on the left preparations for trumps july 4th salute to america are under way on the national mall in washington, d.c. a celebration featuring tanks, military flyovers, and a speech from the commander in chief...

And that is my concern. >> i want to you listen, director, clapper to something that president trump said after this meeting. >> president obama wanted to meet and chairman kim would not meet him. the obama administration was begging for a meeting. they were begging for meetings constantly. and chairman kim would not meet with him. and for some reason we have a certain chemistry or whatever -- >> i wish wed had a split screen with your face because you had a very puzzled look as you listened to ...

North korea. so just from a fundamental point of bargaining, it doesnt seem like so far weve got a good deal other than great photo ops and that is my concern. >> i want to you listen, director clapper, to something that president trump said after this meeting. >> president obama wanted to meet and chairman kim would not meet him. the obama administration was begging for a meeting. they were begging for meetings constantly. and chairman kim would not meet with him. and for some reason we have a ...

That situation, that dynamic very different last night. take us through sort of the differences and what you think the president thought of each night? >> well, the president claims he found each night boring. im a little skeptical of that, in talking to people in his orbit, it has sort of shaken up a little bit those who are theyre more worried about, those who theyre paying attention to, which i could get to in a second, but basically, the two nights kind of illustrated perfectly in a literal ...

Whole scene played out. it was like "a few good men," right, with jack nick tholson o the stand. >> you cant handle the truth. >> i mean she led him through this discussion, and its almost as if she knew exactly how it was going to play out. >> she also was waiting -- i mean because she brought up the subject in a very personal way. it was very moving. he responded, and it was interesting just to watch it on the split screen. when she began to talk about it, that she was that little girl, he loo...

Joining us the aforementioned ashley parker. ashley, its a great piece. its a question we were all asking wednesday night. its sort of one of the burning passions in the democratic base, the person who could best prosecute the case as we have been talking about against donald trump. why didnt anyone remember him wednesday? that situation, dynamic very different last night. take us through sort of the differences in what you think the president thought of each night. >> well, the president claims...

Conleys democrats gather for debate round one. >> i want to learn more about all the different candidates. >> i want to be able to refine and kind of pick up which ones seems to be more electable really at this point. >> a lot of them do have really similar positions but i think this is their opportunity to really take assertive stances and kind of make themselves stick out. >> but for the first half-hour the crowd seems to find few stand out moments. that changed when the split screen started l...