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They think they caved. >> uh-huh. >> yeah. thats an understatement. the democratic base which has been so enraged, so energized and thats one of the reasons aside from the policy which democrats and a lot of republicans believe in, keeping the dreamers in the united states legally, just the political side of that, one of the main reasons that the democrats felt really compelled to fight hard and take it past the brink and allow the government to shut down was because they had the base behind the...

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Deal to theres no jail time and no criminal fine. if hed been a hot dog like fitzgerald, he wouldve gone out and done what fitzgerald did which is go to the max. >> at this point, there is nothing public on the presidents schedule so unlikely will hear from him on any of this today other than the tweets. you have a briefing this afternoon and is bound to come up as someone like syria, national security council again this afternoon. coming out of the final decision on the way forward. >> eric: bo...

Shes very shy. shes actually a very shy person, but shes a great person. shes done an amazing job. >> reporter: before that, in trump tower, as an assistant to the billionaire businessman. a former model, she joined the family working on ivanka trumps fashion line. now, she helps run the white house. her handwriting right there on the presidents note, reminding him to tell those grieving families from parkland, "i hear you." within minutes of news of her departure, the president releasing a stat...

Efforts to pass a massive spending bill before tonights shut down deadline. its passed. hes got to sign the thing. good morning. welcome to "happening now." im jon scott and im julie banderas. we begin in washington. president trump said he made veto the sweeping $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill over immigration issues, including funding for his long-proposed and promised border wall. and of course, a fix for the daca program, which wasnt included in the final version of the bill. so what cou...

The good in some places but right i am very concerned about the situation of human rights in europe today we have a lot to do across so many issues so many groups migrants older people at the disabled theres a huge programme of work to be done but much the challenges with the achievements but you have said that quote twenty seventeen was not a great year in terms of respect of protection and the promotion of human and fundamental right not a great year thats an understatement now i agree it was ...

Included unsolicited, unverified allegations in his asettlements you, apparently some of those allegations came from hillary clintons own associates, thats that seems odd sings the clinton campaign was helping to pay for the dossier in the first place. there you go. as memo puts it dry understatement. all of this quote raises additional concerns about steeles credibility. yeah, thats for sure. in fact, its hard to see how any fair person could disagree with that sentence. yet, sore some reason, ...

Just thursday as "the 11th hour" begins now. and good evening, once again, from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 413 of the trump administration. just a few hours ago we learned that north koreas leader, kim jong-un, has invited president trump to meet about its nuclear program and the president has accepted. this is a giant gamble that takes both countries and their leaders into uncharted diplomatic territory, and thats an understatement. andrea mitchell and bill richardson bot...

It really is good. now the question everyone is asking is, whos going to be the next to leave? steve miller or melania? thats terrible, honey, but you love me. right? with that, lets bring in the panel. msnbc political analyst, "the washington post" white house bureau chief and analyst phillip rucker and former press secretary and ken delandian. thank you for coming in tonight. lets start with the gridiron dinner because this is -- the president to say that the president has had an uneasy relati...

Understatement of the week. >> i think its fair to say that, you know, we all could have done better over the last few hours, the last few days. >> wait. what was that? was that rarest things with the white house an admission of a mistake? the president, president trump didnt like that much that raj shaw said what he said, that they admitted they made mistakes. it is true. the mistake is not how it was handled since the allegations became public. its about how they were handled from the very beg...