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Conversation going after a second round of talks with congressional leaders yesterday led nowhere. white house deputy press secretary today placing the blame squarely on democrats, saying they are prioritizing illegal immigrants over americans. >> for the life of me, i cant figure out this watershed moment in politics, in which an entire political party has decided they are going to stand with people who are here in this country, hundreds of thousands of them, come every year illegally and unlaw...

Serve. >> they just dont want to be on the committee. >> its a lot of work. i mean dont forget compared to a lot of committee meetings, we have an executive every thursday. so its a lot of work. maybe they dont want to do it. >> as they say, that happened today. with us today, maura gay, a member of the "new york times" editorial board. both are msnbc contributors. so we have that and we have the sum total of today. you this week wrote a poignant personal piece in the opinion section of the "new...

Member of "the new york times" editorial board, josh gerstein white house reporter for politico. both our msnbc contributors. mara, we have that and we have the sum total of today. you this week wrote a poignant personal piece in the opinion section of "the new york times" about your life experience. what could we do about the entire community of american women who look at a dr. ford, look at a mara gay and say yes, you, that story, thats me? >> its a really -- first of all, its a sad day. shoul...

At all. i think the president is making it up as he goes along, michael cohen has made it up as he goes along, and thats what happens. you cant keep the fraudulent facts straight and you trip up. thats what we saw today. >> president also seemed to throw michael cohen under the bus. he said he was a good guy but that mostly hes a businessman and he does his -- a lawyer as well but he only does a sum total of mr. trumps legal needs, he only does a tiny, tiny fracti fraction. that does seem to arg...

Said "call me by my first name." one of them is this guy. its very rare in politics to say just call me joe. i think it works with him. hes giving a speech, by the way, for working people. going back to the roots of the party, fall river technical school, thats where hes going to give the speech tomorrow night, responding to trump. >> you said something on your broadcast tonight that got our attention. you called the sum total of todays developments, where we stand, a slow motion saturday night ...

Attention. you called the sum total of todays developments, where we stand a slow motion saturday night massacre. why? >> because hes purging one person after another. trump is giving away his motive, which is really i think obstruction. he got rid of comey because comey was doing the russia investigation. and today he pushed out north carolina camccabe and clearly going after rosenstein now. he want to cleary get rid of anyone involved with the prosecution. to me its prima facie. >> he may not ...

>> you said something on your broadcast tonight that got our attention. you called the sum total of todays developments, where we stand a slow motion saturday night massacre. why? >> because hes purging one person after another. trump is giving away his motive, which is really i think obstruction. he got rid of comey because comey was doing the russia investigation. and today he pushed out north carolina mccabe and clearly going after rosenstein now. he want to cleary get rid of anyone involved ...

First question is what every american waking up wants to know -- how much danger is the united states in right now? >> well, were still along that predictable arc that i think most people watching this problem expected. i mean the timing may have been a bit of a surprise. but the north, i believe, was going to do this. this is their plan, there is where they were going. theyre doing it for their own purposes. i dont mean to criticize the current administration, i think some of the things theyve ...

And the majority were rated as cleared or minimal at 12 weeks. be the you who talks to your dermatologist about stelara®. more breaking news tonight. as we said at the notch ttop of broadcast, it involves carter page. weve had him on the program. page, as you know, was on candidate trumps national security advisory team, but seems to have very little actual contact with him. seems like he may have never met president trump. however, "the washington post" is reporting hes had plenty of contact...

You have been talking to your sources on the hill. you have four more women. the numbers have been going up. they are telling you, the leaders of the gop, that this is causing panic. >> absolutely. it is not just one groping allegation or another. it is a sum total of events that is causing this alarm within republican circles. and it is the national polling. when republican officials are telling me they cannot see donald trump afford to lose this race from anywhere from 7, 8, 9, 10 or 11 points...