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Question -- how do you cover a dishonest proposal from the president of the united states honestly? so today the president proposed doing away with birthright citizenship, the constitutional right that any child born in the united states automatically becomes an american citizen. now, what the president really is proposing is that we stop talking about bombs sent to his political opponents by a political supporter, that we stop talking about whether a mass murderer was somehow influenced by his words or policy proposals, that we stop talking about the connection between his rhetoric and a spik...

They are. >> i would say we've gotten three or four indications from president trump he's planning some dramatic border security announcement tomorrow in the coming week. god knows what exactly it is. it's some sort of troop presence on the southern border. this is a test for the media. at some points the media has to step back and say will he be our general assignment editor. does he tell us what we cover. i don't know if the media has the capacity to say we'll ignore the shiny object over there. because the president is tweeting about it doesn't mean we have to talk about it. >> any serious ...

Out? did he come to work this morning thinking he still had a job? tell peter baker, get to work on your tick to be. >> peter baker, do you have anything to add to that? you're on the receiving end of a lot of your tick tocks. you'll have the answer at the end of the day. >> hans is a great assignment editor. we'll try to get these answers. it's exactly right. what was the precipitating event, what was the hammer that finally fell. my colleagues who have been reporting on this stuff a long time came out with the story shortly before this dropped about, you know, a scheduler who was fired becau...

That great sobering depressing tale. i had an hour to kill after a third graders potluck and i went to a mecca for bright and elite kids from all over the world, a multinational group of kids all looking for their mba's, and i looked at a lot of those students ambling about at the sun filled achroom, mostly men when i was there this morning it seems and those are future leaders of government philanthropies of world business. and somewhere in there is probably the future head of the bank, and i would like to know if they get it. >> don't need to be an assignment editor to see you have your assi...

Multinational group of kids, all looking for their mbas. and i looked at a lot of those students rambling about the atrium, mostly men. and those are the future leaders of government, philanthropies, leaders of government. somewhere in there is probably the head of deutsche bank. and i would love to know if they get it because they'll have to if they know anything about tomorrow. >> don't need to be an assignment editor to see you have your assignment for tomorrow. thank you so much for being with us as we thank our colleague stephanie ruhle. a tough topic, terrific conversation, though, tonig...