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Pizzaga pizzagate. the decision to fire him came directly, sources tell cnn, from the president-elect. >> ive spoken to democrats and republican lawmakers who see mattis as balancing general flynn. many ive spoken to note he outranked flynn four stars to three when they were both in the military and don, that kind of stuff matters. >> jim sciutto, thank you very much. could donald trumps choice for defense secretary balance out concerns about general flynn? well talked about it, next.

Would be at this point as well. is that their focus wants to be on what are the things you want to see him get done initially? thats why they put out the video with the president-elects campaign priorities, et cetera. it would be interesting to see what happened if the tables were turned, no question about it. >> erol, one of the things the trump team tells us, this isnt moving the business of the nation forward. this stuff matters. theres reasons why the constitution writes about the emollients...

Care of our blue collar workers. if we dont do that, none of this other stuff matters. >> tim ryan and a lot of conversations going on not just for the thanksgiving holiday, but the future of the party. still ahead right here, taking obama out of obamacare. the reality ahead for the plans to dismantle the health care law. its not something you do now and then. or when its convenient. its using state-of-the-art simulators to better prepare for any situation. its giving offshore teams onshore supp...

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You know, when somebody is having fun, you start to have fun. >> but not everybody was laughing as trump impugned the patriotism of american muslims. >> i want surveillance of certain mosques, okay? i watched when the world trade center came tumbling down. and i watched in jersey city, new jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. >> and after cnn aired footage of a black lives matter protester being beaten up by trump supporters at a rally, ...

Couldnt discharge his duties but people like the eisenhower administration, reflect on it favorably. so long as you build a good administration around and you so long its not on your deathbed its not clear how much this stuff matters. on the other hand weve had some presidents who have been in great health and have done quite a bad job of it. in the bush administration dick cheney had some be pretty significant health problems. it didnt seem to interfere with him having a lot of power to exercis...

Quite healthy. aside from that pretzel incident. i think part of what this goes to is i feel like people really overrate this issue. dwight eisenhower had a bunch of very serious health troubles during his administration, spent a lot of time in the hospital, couldnt discharge his duties but people like the eisenhower administration, reflect on it favorably. so long as you build a good administration around and you so long its not on your deathbed its not clear how much this stuff matters. on the...

And donald trump refusing to back down on some of his most controversial comments. sunday on "meet the press," chuck repeatedly challenged trump on his claim that thousands of muslims in new jersey were cheering and celebrating after 9/11. take a listen. >> where did you see this? >> chuck, i saw it on television. so did many other people. and many, many people -- >> in jersey city, you saw jersey city -- >> ive heard patterson, ive heard jersey city. it was 14 years ago. but i saw it on tlefrti...

>> if youre going to get dumped on a horse thats what you want to do, slide down its neck graceful. >> you dont want it like in the kentucky derby, something like that. this is "first look" on msnbc. "way too early" starts right now. >> even yesterday i was in sarasota, florida, and people were saying they lived in jersey. they moved down to florida because taxes are lower in florida. >> if i said people -- mr. trump if i said well people have said mr. trumps not worth $10 billion and people wer...

The united states. your words matter. truthfulness matters. fact-based stuff matters. no? >> take it easy, chuck. just play cool. this is people in this country that love our country that saw this by the hundreds, theyre calling, and theyre tweeting. >> so nbcs katy tur joins me now. donald trump also having to cancel a news conference that was supposed to be going on at this very moment. lets start with the remarks about the muslim community. is donald trump rolling through this one or is some ...