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Resigned. >> that's not what we heard at the time. he has a habit of not liking other people and having chief of staff kelly do the firing. or if you quit on him, he wants people to think you're rejected. so there's a lot of moving explanations. i don't think people are really buying this one. but i would go back to what he said about iraq and what he's saying about iran because he tends to have these precooked notions going back sometimes 30 years about things and he cannot be moved off with any new facts. from his previous decisions. so iran right now is in his crosshairs drowning over the h...

At the incompetently executed immigration policy and federal workers are probably still on the phone with credit agencies trying to right the wrong from the shutdown, nothing is functioning. what is the defense for a president who doesn't get up and go to the office? >> a lot of times they will point to the economic numbers and larger indicators, economic growth, job numbers that came out as proof the president is doing a great job. in fact, in the interview yesterday on cbs before the super bowl, the president responded to a question about poor ratings in terms of how he's handling racial iss...

Quote, two intelligence officers even reported they had been warned to avoid giving the president intelligence assessments that contradicts instances he's taken in public. joining our conversation, the national security reporter for "the washington post" and msnbc political analyst. a.b. and betsy are still here. in your world and in your beat, you come across presidents -- i put the administration in which i serve in this category -- would take the intel and make decisions that are controversial and seem justified by the intel but you don't see a lot of examples of a president who is the numb...

What's going on, hard to get him to input information from experts and other people who in traditional administrations advise the president to move towards smart decisions and away from bad ones. this president does not have a lot of advisers. a lot of his advisers are people that he calls outside friends, people that he talks to during executive time, and people that he listens to on the television. >> phil drucker has joined our merry gang here, white house chief from "the washington post." he covers a lot of these days, alexi, you and your colleagues have reported on. phil, let me read you ...

He had one 30-minute meeting and seven hours of executive time. and as we noted already, if things were going beautifully, you could argue this is a brand-new way to run the united states government. but your incredible reporting from the weekend with your colleagues, this is a white house in crisis. this is a white house at the low point for historically unpopular presidency. >> yeah, just -- first, nicolle, a couple of things from the executive time and some of the others on the panel have touched on this but i think it's important to underscore that trump makes a ton of phone calls. yes, he...