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The preng providing mission-enhancing capabilities reportedly to the tune of 800 men and women. when we last checked, that caravan was in southern mexico, about 1,000 miles from the closest border checkpoint. this journey will take weeks at at least. jonathan, turn to you and ask you about this as a part of the president's platform. him talking about this. how much is this 2016 all over again? what's his sense of the effectiveness of this in the middle of all that's happening right now? >> you nailed it. he believes it is 2016 all over again. myself and a couple colleagues with the ap had on i...

Shell shocked when i found out it was him. i really couldn't believe it, ba you as far as an employee, he was on time. he was cordial, articulate. i never had problems with him. there was no theft. my customers liked him. but it was just his political views that scared me. >> on "up" this morning, the newest details and context with jonathan lanier, and marge gae other than and a legal analyst and an assistant professor of public policy at harvard university when she teaching in the kennedy school of government and also a national security analyst, former secret service agent and let me start ...

Local report. really, we're getting to the heart of the truth here. look at that, this is how this happens. this is, not a grand conspiracy here. it's really a challenging time. >> jonathan, back to tu lastly. i mentioned in the last block tension between the one way the president talks about law enforcement and another way. saw it on display yesterday. quotation mark misthe morning. praise finding a needle in the haystack yesterday afternoon. this is not shall i say the first time he cast doubt on the fbi. >> yes, and the attorney general everyone believes in in his last few weeks on the job....

President's job, he's clearly uncomfortable doing that. particularly with the midterms approaching. the strategy is, go back to the system that has worked. so that's why we so clearly see him fall into attacking the old boogeyman. right? the media. nancy pelosi. hillary clinton. barack obama. the democrats. you know? demonizing them. the media. because that is what he knows and what he likes and what has worked for him. >> you say a moment of crisis. jonathan, turn to you. a new piece looking at how republicans are dealing with this, how the president is dealing with it. does he grasp this is ...

President that of dly of tpart >> arizona senator jeff flake took to the senate floor this afternoon to urge his colleagues to fulfill their role as a check on the executive branch. >> we continue to act here as if all is normal, as if all parties are observing norms. even as the executive branch shatters them. robustlyrafficking in conspiracy theories and attacking all institutions that don't pay the president obedience. our justice system, the free press, the list is getting longer. we demean ourselves and our proper constional role when we act like we work for the president, that we are onl...