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Driveway briefing today, talking about folks on the left and elites. two of the widely quoted people in the book, rear tired from the military with four stars on their shoulder. thats been a bone of kwon tension with that white house. >> reporter: no doubt about that. brian, you have secretary of sta state -- secretary mattis talked about in the book. chief of staff john kelly and, of course, are quoted, john kelly calling the president an idiot. by the way, confirmation of a report we first air...

House at their word is profoundly naive here. and lastly, the administration clearly has decided to wage political war against the state of california. and i think this is just one more front in that war. one of the dynamics well see continuing to play out over the next year or so is this dynamic between the presidency to the sta state. >> eugene, it may be why you have a pulitzer prize. but you write very thought provoking columns. president trumps most urgent political problem doesnt involve r...

Yo-jong has been buy her brothers side. >> she has become unparalleled in political figure in terms of influencing kim jong-uns decision. >> reporter: over the week, sta state need ya announced a -- a role once held by kims aunt, kim jong-he who disappeared from public view after the murder of her husband. >> kim jong-uns aunt assumed a -- but his younger sister is perhaps at most, 30. it clearly shows shes on the fast track. >> reporter: also on the fast track, foreign minister, north korean di...

Skr secretary of state secretary of sta state, the confidence the world has that hes speaking for the president. if hes not, its making it difficult. >> when he says on a visit to china, im working on the diplomatic back channels to ease the north korea crisis and the president tweets, dont waist your time, what does that say to you. >> that was after he spent most of the day with the chinese leadership. the president is going 10 days to asia beginning november 3rd, working with the chinese who ...

Correspondent, of course. david chalian is a cnn political director, global affairs correspondent, elise labott, and kaitlan collins, white house correspondent. kaitlan, you have some new reporting on all of this. tell me what you have. >> reporter: so we have confirmed that the secretary of state, rex tillerson, who we just heard from there, did refer to the president addss a moron s summer. im told by sources from the white house that the president was aware about this remark, but that the sit...

To the wire. the former georgia secretary of sta state, karen handel is the republican. jon ossoff, the democrat. the battleground, a suburban atlanta district held by republicans since the carter administration. the stakes, huge. to borrow a favorite term of the president, who is very much the issue in this race regardless of whether the candidates like that. >> you look at whats going on in washington right now, the gridlock, dysfunction, atmosphere of scandal and uncertainty, the last thing w...

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To do. they could take a action for which there is no contingency plan. theres been rumors they could cut the state of new york, 2, $3 billion. i cant make up 2, $3 billion. it would wreak havoc in this sta state. so its their move and i want to see what they come up with. >> governor andrew cuomo. thanks for being on this morning. good luck. >> thanks for having me, mika. >> lets bring in nbc news national correspondent mr. incredulous, peter alexander. peter, your face when you were listening ...

So theres no real reason to be on the roads and we made that clear yesterday. the rate of snowfall is problematic. its about 3 inches per hour. 3 inches per hour is basically the point you cant keep up with it with the plows. but by and large so far so good. well see how we do as we go through the day. >> youre asking most people to stay home, nonessential state employees being asked to stay home. mass transportation is that operating at all on a limited schedule? >> subways, underground subways...

Hallie, you guys have like an nbc thing. >> they are like waving their arms, trying to say we want a straight answer, just please. here is a square. is this a square, yes or no sean spicer. am i making a square? its unbelievable. he cannot answer one question. >> make that square again. >> it was a triangle. >> its a circle. thats literally what the conversation is looking like and these reporters are incredulous. its incredulous. were going to bring in peter alexander. im going to ask how hes d...