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good night and i am symone sanders townsend in for stephanie ruhle. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. ♪ ♪ ♪ the capital of the great state of mississippi is of course jackson. the airport in jackson, mississippi is called jackson medgar widely evers international airport. that airport in jackson is named after medgar evers, the civil rights leader. he was a decorated u.s. army veteran in world war ii. after he came home from the war, after the united states supreme court ruled on brown versus the board of education. in may...

Jeff is going to stay with me. i want to get to the other big breaking news this hour and that is the president today also meeting with his embattled nominee to head the department of veterans affairs, even as a source tells cnn that dr. ronny jackson is not withdrawing his nomination as of now. trump and jackson meeting in the official office this afternoon and the allegations against jackson are serious. they include excessive drinking, overprescribing medication, all of this while he led the white house medical unit, was the doctor for the president of the united states, for this president ...

Ends of 2017? >> it's very hard. you might remember, i certainly do. the democratic party was always a party of coalition. not of united ideology. you always had the segregationists in the south. which was the solid south, necessary in every presidential election, necessary in every congressional vote. that's why the democrats were the majority party. then out the southern segregationists the white people down south who had nothing in common with them except jefferson, the party of jefferson and of course jackson. the republican party is a lot like that. i don't think people like charlie dent ...

Which was the solid south, necessary in every presidential election. necessary in every congressional vote. that's why the democrats were the majority party. but they didn't agree. the big cities of the north had minority people who were voting and liberals who were voting, ethnic people who were liberal and many things and then you had the southern segregationists, the while people down south who had nothing in common with them except jefferson, they were the party of jefferson, and of course jackson. the republican party's a lot like that. i don't think people like charlie dent from allent...

>> he has a way of sounding anti-gay. it is day rainbow flag of -- >> yes, alec baldwin was at it again on wednesday getting into another on-line spat that hinted at another homophobe yaw. rett jackson, if with mitt that's his real name. he referenced jackson's profile pic by tweeting, quote, you are on your knees in that photo. what is up with that a? of course jackson promptly retweeted baldwin adding, coming, being 5* homophob [sic]. >> and he deleted the tweet. here is a dramatic re-enactment of the twitter fight.