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When he speaks this afternoon. let's see the way that, you know, he kind of rises to the occasion on the whole question of people seeing this disaster and looking to the commander in chief to be the person who tries to rally, help rally support. so far, again, it seems to be going okay considering. but it's unfortunately for the people of houston and the surrounding areas, is the beginning of this crisis. >> yep. we mentioned the more controversial news items that got slipped into the ether friday night. here's the quote from the senior editor of "the atlantic," david fromm. he said, president...

Particularly and frankly people in america also are looking to the president of the united states for a certain degree of clarity and consistency. now, trump embraces the fact that he's constantly changing his mind. he says, look, i'm a very flexible guy. i'm proud of my flexibility. how to to make sense of a flexibility that i said nato is obsolete, now it's not. he embraces the new position with a kind of bizarre enthusiasm as if he had never taken the oath. >> he says he believes the world has changed. the world hasn't changed. >> but he's -- >> how the world -- that's why i think sean spic...

Could have caused much more devastation with much more precision. the air force wanted to use this device, and they did. >> david fromm, the reports today, it wasn't just the british picking up something involving trump world and the russians, estonia, poland. it sounds like there was a lot to pick up. >> and the polls have particularly sophisticated intelligence service, and have been very interested in the ukraine case. poland and ukraine are neighbors with deep histical relaonships. poland contains many more consulates in ukraine than the united states does and it knows a lot about the care...

But when he is up at 6:00 in the morning, i don't think mattis or mcmasters or even his wife are looking over his shoulders. so there still is a lot of instability there. >> should nbc have some kind of corporate ethics officer in the "saturday night live" writings room saying please don't say anything about nikki haley overnight. >> no, no corporate interference there. >> but maybe for the sake of the country they should. we don't want those jokes. >> they're all patriots at "snl." they're all patriots. >> that's right. they're right upstairs. david frum, a pleasure. coming up, nbc news exclu...

A lot of earthquaking, knock down tunnel, destroy people and tunnels that are out in the field. it's just another bomb. and i think people are sort of looking over the fact that it was dropped in a combat zone. a b-52 carrying 32 j-dam bombs could have caused much more devastation with much more precision. the air force wanted to use this device, and they did. >> david fromm, the reports today, it wasn't just the british picking up something involving trump world and the russians, estonia, poland. it sounds like there was a lot to pick up. >> and the polls have particularly sophisticated intel...