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More normal, less dysfunctional, less unpredictable, less faction driven, less diplomatically clumsy and inept. other memos go into more policy areas with a huge range. these go from 2017 right up to the president day on iran, for instance, the ambassador calls the administrations policy in iran incoherent and unlikely to change any time soon. he actually questions the presidents claim that he called off a missile strike on iran last minute, saying that account doesnt stand up. on the allegation...

Memos. they date back to 2017 all the way through to the present day and cover such a huge range of topics. scathing about the u.s. president and about the white house. for instance, in one the ambassador writes we really dont believe that this administration is going to become substantially more normal, less dysfunctional, less unpredictable, less faction driven, less clumsy and inemmpi more are policy specific on iran. he writes he believes the policy on iran is incoherent. on russia, he said ...

Going to become substantially more normal, less dysfunctional, less unpredictable, less faction driven, lez diplomatically clumsy and inept. the memos were leaked to the rupert murdic tablo rupert murdock tabloid, the london daily mail. the u.k. foreign office has issued a statement which does not deny the voracity of the leak. joining me now author of "trump nation." natasha, msnbc contributor and national correspondent for politico. let me go to you first henry in the u.k. what has been the re...

This story. what more can you tell us about this leak. >> reporter: well, as you say, they are absolutely explosive. these memos date back to 2017, right through to the president day. so they cover a really broad range of topics, highly damning of the president and the white house at large. ill bring you one of them just looking at the administration that says we really dont believe that this administration is going to become substantially more normal, less dysfunctional, less unpredictable, les...

A art film doing in prime time television? >> american network television has long been considered the home of the blands, the cautious and the predictable. so it was with some trepidation that it the abc network launched a new series that was none of those things. "twin peaks" has already described by one critic as the series that will change tv. its directed by david lynch. >> david lynch was a filmmaker known for his taste in the eccentric and memorable. the idea that he would do television i...

One will go by. i will stay at the white house. you enjoy the party. you all get a good show and i get credit. >> and he would have gotten the normal suburban d.c. crowd down there. but thats not the way hes doing it. i talked to senator ermz the other day and i said who are you expecting? she said i think most of the people will pop u late on the capitol side of the mall. for the band, and he will have his crowd there with the vip tickets. she thought he had to do that even because of the unpre...

Has the effect of making some allies nervous about well if you join a coalition with the u.s. to say push back on china, is the u.s. a reliable ally? is this president, they know this presidents unpredictable. will he stay with you? will he stick with his allies? i think the answer that most of our allies have, is no. >> lisa, jeff mason, good to have you on this morning. democrats are set to make a decision the week on robert mueller. will they subpoena the special count counsel to testify? w...

Be sympathetic to that decision, sympathetic to the declared reasons for it. and sympathetic or supportive of the idea hes thinking about this and hes got a lot of different people and he listens to them and then he makes a decision. >> ill tell you, i dont believe he ever would have ordered the strike. the person ive interviewed and known for a long time and his position on this, but he -- he was reveling in the fact he had everybody confused. >> this was the classic articulation of trumpian de...

Citizen representative embodied by donald trump. obvious yoobvious you say "unpredictable" because he is successful. the success for the swamp is something they havent seen before it. welcome to it. bring it on. there will be more. six years more but there is more to do. exciting time. >> dan: congressman, quick word from you. are we going to see the economic rebound now from this? this is going to be, this is big news. i know the stock market got jittery about it. >> yeah. we will see a rebound...

Citizen representative embodied by donald trump. obvious yoobvious you say "unpredictable" because he is successful. the success for the swamp is something they havent seen before it. welcome to it. bring it on. there will be more. six years more but there is more to do. exciting time. >> dan: congressman, quick word from you. are we going to see the economic rebound now from this? this is going to be, this is big news. i know the stock market got jittery about it. >> yeah. we will see a rebound...