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Welcome back. this morning, hundreds of u.s. newspapers coast to coast are banding together with a clear message -- the message, we are not the enemy of the people. meantime, minutes ago the president tweeted this, quote, the fake news media is the opposition party. its very bad for our great country but we are winning. lets go to anchor john avlon who joins me now. reality check time so necessary this morning. >> a reality check with the presidents tweet. hes doubling and tripling down, there...

Potentially she gets unseated. >> dagen: the people are worried about in their own party of this, putting this mood, giving bonuses to people because of tax reform crumbs and then doubling down a tripling down on it. they were afraid of that being a commercial that somebody cuts in the midterm. >> josh: shes long been a liability for democrats and not because they believe in exactly what they said. they all believe its crumbs and they all believe in open borders and abolish ice and impeaching pr...

Its either his general fondness for dictatorial figures, or it may be that having been criticized for this, he is in trumpian fashion doubling down, tripling down, just compounding the error. or it may be that the russians have something over his head, that the russians have been laundering money through his businesses, or theres some other leverage the russians have, which is obviously the subject of our investigation. any of those are possible. all of those are possible. >> secretary mattis se...

. welcome back. joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m. this morning, national political reporter for axios, jonathan swan, good morning to you. talk to us about axios one big thing. >> well, as usual, theres two narratives going on with donald trump. theres the public on twitter, where hes with the family separation crisis, where he looks completely unapologetic and brazen, doubling down, tripling down. but last night when he met with house republicans, according to sources in th...

Broadly or specifically about that problem of separating families, separating children on the border. that really sums it all up there in that speech, wolf. >> he has to show some daylight, a willingness to move away from that zero tolerance policy and let kids stay with their moms and dads. he was doubling down, even tripling down on that policy, not budging at all. kaitlan, were going to get back to you. right now i want to go to capitol hill, susan jackson lee of texas is joining us. congress...

Is closing in or as i often tweet at him squeezing in on him, just squeezing him, that he does something ridiculous and offensive and often the go to is immigration. its interesting that paul manafort went to jail on friday and today here we are. >> and this is a little different, though, mika, because this separation of families, this is images and theyve been so powerful already. the little girl having her shoe laces taken off, the children crying, the sounds of those children crying. the pres...

Crossed but it is yet another line that we have crossed with this president. >> well, in fact, theyve now done a commercial. theyve done a campaign ad and put that out there. so they are doubling, tripling down, i dont know what the ad buy is and whether its just online or on tv but they have actual little done a campaign ad to amply fie that message to their base. so its going to be a midterm message as well. well, well have to wait and see what happens with the parade. because, as you say, we ...

Eventually it would get to the point where republicans would peel off more of them and say this is too much, were done. republican leaders, okay. no matter what the base is. but thats not what happened. whats happened is now theyre doubling, tripling, tripling down. now willing to sacrifice, as matt explained very well, our national security and to impugn the reputation of our institutions in order to protect their partisan president. i mean, its -- its deeply troubling. >> okay, thats deeply tr...

And robert reich. this is a huge majority of experts on one side saying to steve moore, youre wrong. >> but bob, all of those economists youre talking about and the ones you talk to and consort with, those are the economists who said we couldnt grow the economy at 3%. theyve been completely wrong from the day donald trump -- its an important point, erin. >> it is important. imt to give you this point. its an important point that the economy is growing much more quickly than many thought it was. ...

They seem to be building these missiles faster than the u.s. can impose sanctions that will actually matter. what are the best options? >> right now were seeing a doubling down, a tripling down, if you will. one of the things you have to realize is in the border region, there is a marketplace. in that marketplace, when you restrict quantity, price goes up. some of that smuggling is happening in the water between china and north korea as well. we have to anticipate these type of activities as wel...