I know you have other duties for the network so well let you go. But with eappreciate we appreciate you being with us. Jonathan swan, im sure you have more of the conversations than i do, but aides increasingly want you to one, give them credit for all the quote crazy stuff that doesnt happen. I think i have seen that in axios and other places, and two for the scripted moments which are sort of milestones that they are proud of getting him to hit. Whether its ultimately affirming the commitment to article 5, whether its delivering a decision on afghan policy. And they want to sort of separate out judgment or responsibility from these wild, unhinged performances like last night. Yes. Its doubly strange because you really have a white house at the senior level where if you take the family out of it, if you take jared and ivanka who obviously voted for their father in law and their father, if it was any other election they werent related to him they would have voted for hillary
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when he s on the campaign trail. it should be a non-partisan issue. looking at both sides to bring attention to this in the midst of the chaos. if it wasn t the normal state of affairs of the white house right now, this would be top, breaking news. this would be wall to wall on every news channel. because of the other chaos, our veterans are below the radar and we need leaders to step up and show they care. great point. thank you very much for your time. we ll keep paying attention to this important story. appreciate it. coming up, spy games. a former russian operative and his daughter poisoned in an attempted murder plot. this is andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc.
bear for some score setting that wasn t the normal donald trump sort of in the round. and when he pulled that paper out, i thought, uh-oh. i leaned back and i got ready for the tirade. but i want to play for you so i want your thoughts on what you think his state of mind was when he went into this rally first. but then i want to play for you some of the sound that i think really underscores what jonathan alluded to which is this cold war that may be spilling out into the public with republican senators. just your thoughts about last night. jonathan s right that it was the same trump that we saw on the campaign trail, but there were certainly some moments that stood out from others, nicolle. to my mind, this was one of those moments when for example during the campaign trump felt that he was personally under siege or that he was struggling in the polls. you would see him ratchet up this language about there being a rigged election. about how, you know, he is under attack from his en
make sure that white children like myself and black children who were my friends, who i played football with in first grade and baseball with in first grade, would go to school together. that was the normal. that was normal for me. let me al, let me go to you quickly here. it is incredible how that was normal for me and yet for my sister who was six years older and for others who were just a little bit older that wasn t the normal. because of king s speech in 63 and because of the work of everybody in the civil rights movement, because of that courage and because of this speech that inspired so many an integrated school in meridian, mississippi, that was the new normal and that has always been normal for me. you know, my mother cried when dr. king was killed.
important thing to remember today and i brought it up just to say it wasn t just for african-americans that martin luther king speech that changed america. it was for all of us. it was for 5-year-old kid like myself who was taught just by his surroundings what was acceptable and what was not acceptable. extraordinary speech and extraordinary time. we still learn from listening to that speech again and looking at the crowds to reflect and remember and keep the voice of dr. king in our minds. having said that even some of the guests we have on today, we are going to be talking about issues that also show we have a long way to go. we want to get to the other top head lines of the day. senior u.s. officials say air strikes against the assad regime could begin as soon as tomorrow. leaders from england and france