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Wright is joining us from washington. the white house has been talking for some time about a big push on voting rights. so far the president hasn't given a major address or gone on the road. what is the holdup? >> reporter: it is unclear. officials cited scheduling conflicts as reasons that prevented him from doing so but said it is still his intention. one thing that is clear though is that that meeting with civil rights leaders yesterday amounted to a pressure campaign with them telling the president and vice president that time is running short to enact voting rights laws. to protect them, ...

Elijah cummings is the racist. he's also trying to bring the reverend al sharpton into this entire thing. the president is escalating these attacks. two weekends ago the president was attacking the four congresswomen of color. just this past weekend the president is attacking the well regarded head of the oversight committee. the president in his tweets try to paint baltimore as some rat infested hellscape. the average income is higher than the district jim jordan represents. the president was hosting a meeting of his wonderful inner city pastors. the white house hasn't given us an update. it ...

That can shoot cruise missiles in the vicinity, and they were in the vicinity, as always, last night. there are aircraft capable of dropping bombs always on station. so, you know, the military would have in fact been ready to go, awaiting that final presidential thumbs up, because that's basically how they operate. they don't go from a cold start. they have everything in place, ready to go, ready to execute any time any president gives the final thumbs-up. the interesting question is did the president take a final additional look at all of this and is that when he made the decision he just was...

Of experts on all of this. dana bash, so when you're hearing this from matt whitaker where he's saying he's not going to talk about conversations with the president, yet he does talk about some of them, saying he hasn't given the president assurances about the mueller probe, he hasn't discussed the probe. what do you make of that? >> he's trying to have it both ways. he's trying to be very cautious, as pamela was saying earlier, noting that it really did not go very well when he was not under oath but in a press conference when he went further than perhaps he even intended to. it looked like i...

Your ability to govern. >> the press conference, mark, it just -- it went from bad to worse, i think. i just want to play a little bit more of that, when he talks about dressing up as michael jackson. >> do you have to? >> just for people who missed it. >> terrible, terrible. >> i had the shoes. i had a glove. i used a little bit of shoe polish to put under my -- or on my cheeks. the reason i used a very little bit is because -- i don't know if anybody tried that, but you can't get shoe polish off. it was a dance contest. >> does that sound like a man who understands the seriousness of what he...