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They like to remind us that. today the president is tweeting, he's trying to drive the conversation perhaps in a different direction, white house will tell you, he's trying to talk about things that people care about. look at this tweet. just got to the u.s. women's open in new jersey. people are really happy with record high stock market, up over 17% since the election. now, while the russia story dominates washington, outside here -- outside the beltway here in new jersey, the folks are enjoying not only the u.s. women's open, they seem to be rather excited about the fact that the president ...

Voice to legitimate anger. do you stand by the diagnosis of temporary insanity? >> well, i think there are a lot of people upset. i'm one of them. the reason i left being a physician, you know, i'm not a career politician. i got involved with this because i was upset with washington. yes, congress has about a 10% approval rating. and i'm one of the 90% that disagrees with what congress is doing. so i think there is a vein of anger, yes, that represents some of those who are thinking about donald trump. but i think there's also going to be a serious debate, ultimately, starting this week in the...

The 300s. right now in the 113th congress, we have a year to go and they finished 56 pieces of legislation that has become law. the 112th congress was then a low of 283. we are living in unprecedented times. you have a blame game of who is responsible for this. the numbers speak for themselves. >> what's interesting is the lines of attack, this idea that the senate has been slow. we sent all these bills to the senate. the ways of parliamentary procedure, the senate was built to be slow. that is the reason as to why. there is a filibuster here. they can't pass as quickly as the house can. when ...

Anything done in washington these days. if you still don't like obama care and you know you don't, even though it is built on market-based ideas of choice and competition, you owe it to the american people to tell us what you are for. not just what you are against. >> nbc news senior editor mark murray is here with today's first read. mark, you went back and dug through the records and you went through how many bills were able to go through congress and especially when there was divided government and you found interesting stuff. this is historically awful. >> we are living in unprecedented ti...

Care, the economy and whether washington is working and ladies and gentlemen, set your comcast dvrs to this. do not miss chris matthews' interview with the president tonight at 7:00 p.m. chris matthew, live audience. president obama. get your popcorn ready. there will be fireworks and it's going to be great. 7:00 p.m., check it out. coming up next on msnbc "chris jansing & company." take care. there are seniors who have left hundreds of dollars of savings on the table by not choosing the right medicare d plan. no one could have left this much money here. whoo-hoo-hoo! yet many seniors who comp...