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The media also has a responsibility to set a civil tone and to stop the endless hostility. >> president trump casting blame hours after the assassination attempts on several of his favorite political targets and us here at cnn. it is being treated as domestic terror. and a manhunt is under way. rough day for the markets. dow and s&p 500 erasing all gains for the year. the nasdaq in official correction. and no winner in last nights powerball. welcome back to "early start." im christine romans...

Welcome back. president trump casting doubt on saudi arabias story about the killing of journalist, jamal khashoggi in an interview with "the washington post." the president now says and im quoting, there has been deception and there has been lies. in that same interview, he praised the monarchy as an incredible ally and when asked about whether the crown prince ordered the killing of jamal khashoggi. nobody has told me he is responsible and nobody said he should not responsible. i would love if...

For the church in ireland. jon? jon: kitty logan reporting from london, thanks. president trump casting doubt on democrats hopes for a blue wave in the midterms. some new polls showing which party could catch a wave come november. plus nfl broadcasting partners announced a new policy regarding the national anthem and president trump is not a fan. >> were not going to let it happen because we need our law enforcement. we need respect for our national anthem and for our flag. alice is living w...

The president said hes not going to tip his hands. thats something that we heard from him when he was a candidate. he said unlike his predecessor, hes not going to talk military strategy. hes not going to publicize it. he did have very strong words for former president obama, essentially said that he laid out this red line and then never did anything about the red line that he laid out. now, what contradicts past statements that weve heard from this president is that he was urging former preside...

All of this comes as his chief strategist, steve bannon, we are learning, is no longer going to be on the national security council. this is a big move. we are told bannon was brought in to oversee michael flynn, the initial national security advis adviser, to make sure he was following the presidents agenda when it came to the national security council. but clearly this is a step back for steve bannon, still i am told hes going to be in all of those top meetings with top officials, steve, movin...

National security council. is this part of the normal growing pains for the new administration or are we watching a power struggle spill into public view? and trump telling "the new york times" today that he believes susan rice may have committed a crime by asking for the identities of trump associates mentioned in intelligence reports. the president, though, declining to cite any specific statute she may have provided or to proprvi evidence to that. we begin with our top story, a potential ...

Now the move sparking criticism, the move i should say to put him there initially sparking criticism from democrats and republicans. bannon telling the ""wall stree germ" ", susan rice operationalized the nsc during the last administration. i was put on to make sure it was deoperationalized. h.r. mcmaster returned the nsc to its proper function." >> these are very highly valued members of this administration. going to continue to play important policy roles. but i think with h.r. mcmasters addit...

Days and lose track of what the real story is, what its his inability to move a disastrous health care bill, whether its this russian collusion, on and on it goes. so i think what we need to start doing is focusing on what the presidents doing and not the outrageous things that hes say ing and protect the american people from the agenda he has which is going to be devastate g ing for this country. >> that is interesting. take this issue here, reporting by susan rice, what its bookended by are tw...

The allegation is that somehow obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes. thats absolutely false. let me explain how this works. i was a national security adviser. my job is to protect the american people and the security of our country. >> former obama national security adviser susan rice with msnbcs andrea mitchell yesterday. president trump now in a new interview with "the new york times" says hes not ready to, rice from any wrongdoing. "when asked if ms. ric...

>> that closes out this hour for me. ill see you back here tomorrow afternoon 3:00 eastern, noon pacific. always find me in the meantime on snapchat, twitter, instagram, facebook, all that stuff. tv kate snow. up next, my colleague steve kornacki. >> thanks for that. good afternoon, everybody, im steve kornacki.76 of the first . topping our agenda, the crisis in syria. >> the world is a mess. i inherited a mess. >> president trump casting blame at his predecessor for that apparent deadly chemica...