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Nationals invitation to throw out the ceremonial first pitch on opening day. he cited scheduling conflicts. a surprising decision from the new commander in chief who discovered americas pass time long before he discovered the board room. >> did you always knew you were going to go? >> no, i wanted to be a baseball player. >> that was no childhood fantasy, trump was a star player at the new york military academy. his coach told rolling stone he was once even scouted by the phillies. >> i was capt...

Its about the government that we have a month into it. and all the posts that the administration has to fill, people who are senior enough to require senate confirmation, 549 jobs that are big enough to need senate confirmation, so far, according to vox, he has filled 14, others have been hired. this is a slow wind-up, is it not? >> its a slow wind-up. heres part of the problem, and by the way, i support repealing and replacing obamacare, but if they do it the way they have done some of their ot...

On right there actually, you know, eventually boom ranged because people overreached. but those people were polite, direct, had a certain homespun el begins about them that if im sitting in washington, okay, we have to treat these people with respect. we have to listen, and we will not succeed unless we can find a way to answer their objections. >> they are proud, theyre smart, theyre angry, and they proudly dont speak washington. i want to show you a graphic that was put together by the washing...

What the trump administration has done and for the sake of uniformity of approach, im going to apply this to the entire united states. and technically he has the right to do so because hes a federal judge. hes not a local judge. but its unusual. usually federal judges dont do that. >> and it was only a matter of time before the trump administration responded. the white house calling the order outrage ois, vowing to defend it. can they succeed? >> thats a great question. the boston appellate cour...

Clinton campaign there. you add florida to the mix and there is no way trump can come out on top. >> kasie hunt, thank you. lets go now to ben cam i sar, reporter for the hill. and alex seitz-wald. alex covering the clinton campaign for us. ben, i want to start with your impressions for the speech and did you hear anything new? >> we have seen this before, this long wind-up by the trump campaign, you know, that everyone was sort of teasing this as this big moment for the campaign, this big 100...

A fremont, california, man is accused of trying to travel to syria to join al-qaeda. he appeared in court last week. in rochester, new york, a pizza shop owner pleading guilty to attempting to recruit for isis. and in pennsylvania another man is charged with trying to provide material support to isis. police say the 19-year-old american citizen called for violation against the u.s. military and officers later found five m-4 rifles in his home. tom ridge is the former secretary of homeland securi...

Thats al-nusra. the islamic state hold the capital and aleppo. thats the central swathe of syria. so hes not targeting them at the moment. weve got to remember as well, when he does want to target them, hes going to have to get the intelligence first. put up drones, look at the intelligence, and that will take a little bit of time to work out. hell have the human intelligence side from assads forces, but it takes a while to gain the data and get the target sequencing in line and then launch the ...

>> what a wind up that is. >> im going to ask you a question, but dont answer it. >> actually, i think shes asking you to answer the question. >> chuck, she says it was allowed by the state department. was it allowed by the white house, which i believe trumps the state department? >> well, and no. >> hold on, youre stepping on it. >> that was not -- that wasnt the spirit of the regulation. and this is, obviously, shes trying to parse words here. let me tell you something about if she had used th...

The officer was responding to calls that the 19-year-old had assaulted two people and was running in traffic. police say robinson was unarmed, but attacked officer kenny. joining me now is msnbc chief legal correspondent and co-host of "the cycle" ari melber. a very long wind-up there from the district attorney. are you surprised by his conclusions? >> im not surprised. what he laid out was the factual case for why he found that there were no charges warranted, as we just heard. lawful use of de...

Any idea about where the breach was on the fuselage? >> absolutely. i think that would be a reasonable. again we dont want to jump to conclusions but you might expect if the hull fractures at a certain point that people who are sitting close to that event would more likely wind up, you know free. like in the case of air france 447, some bodies floated free. some remained fastened in the seat belts in the structurally complete part of the plane on the seabed. that would be a clue. but, again once...