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Understand what is happening around these different threats to the american people including by the way the threat of white supremacist terrorism. and instead of investing that capacity, trump is hollowing it out, right? so hes disarming the capability of the u.s. government to understand what is happening either abroad or with threats that are coming here at home. and by the way this is expertise you cant get back, nicole. if youve got hundreds of years of experience walking out the door on a r...

Th nicole. should democrats talk about these things or should they talk about pocketbook issues like health care? if you want to be president of the united states, you have to lead and you have to talk about everything. you have to be willing to call out these profound trends that are shaking cohesion in our society and threatening the lives of the american people. and you have to talk about pocket book issues like health care and education and other things. and so im glad that democrats arent s...

Intelligence and law enforcement agencies. >> yeah. well, look, someone like sue gordon who had decades of the intelligence community, i hadnt the slightest idea what her politics are. and i obviously overlapped with her for eight years. and the idea that the intelligence community were career people. and the way in which the meeting could function, nicole, as you know, you go in a situation room, the intelligence kick it off by telling you what the status of a situation is. and then the policym...

Multitask and fight, fight, like a fight against domestic terrorism, its hard to find everyone how far from normal we are functioning under this president. i want to get, too, on these ties to the fight against islamic terrorism because i feel like democrats are already retreating to something of a defensive posture on their agregula regression. so i want your honest assessment of what the democrats should do to stay on the offense against domestic terrorism and the ties to white supremacy that ...

Do you justice here, ben, but just your thought on how these stories get lost. robert mueller did have the nations attention in response to will herd. as we sit here right now, russia is attacking us. >> and i think russia gets better each time they should attack us. and to connect what we were talking about earlier, nicole, what happens if there is a massive russian interference in our election, what happens if they actually try to effect the vote tabulation. and theres a very close election an...

Are. >> and i think just at a strategic level, the political strategy, and its disgusting but the strategy is to paint the democratic party as extreme in their policies. but race -- and i dont know what they tell the toddler in chief, but the actual politics of being thought of as a racist are devastating in swing counties. i think the strategy, and, again, its disgusting. but at its best, the perception is to paint the entire democratic party. i saw some of the reporting, i think axios has it, ...

Back to deal with this now. thats the problem, john. thats the problem that the american people are fed up with, and now people are starting to pay attention. >> and that is where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends from the washington post "white house bureau chief phil rucker is back. the rev al sharpton, host of "politicsnation" here on msnbc. also the president of the national action network. maria teresa kumar is here, president and ceo of vo voto latino. and fres...