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Why . Because information is powerful. Thats our closing thought for you. And that does it for the beat. I also want to say a big thank you to Ayman Mohyeldin and Chris Jansing for anchoring all last week. I will be back here at 6 00 p. M. Eastern tomorrow. Hardball with Chris Matthews starts right now. Big bad wolf. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews back in washington. Well, the president spent the weekend defending his mental stability. And look, ive been away for two weeks and ucome back to that kind of news. And perhaps more telling, his defense of his military or mental ...

This is largely to meet trump's demands for more executive time, that's in quotes, which almost always means tv and twitter time alone in the residence. trump's days in the oval office are relatively short, from about 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and during that time he usually has a meeting or two, but spends a good deal of time making phone calls and watching cable news in the dining room adjoining the oval office. for more i'm joined by jonathan swan -- i didn't mean to be sarcastic. jonathan swan of axios along with susan page and "washington post" eugene robinson. this is a great group to star...

Members to testify and the impact it's had on them. the defense will put on what's lled mitigation. what they'll then try to do is put on evidence to suggest he shouldn't be killed, he was a misguided young man, any number of things, his family, his friends, all these things to try to suggest he is a person that should not be put to death. in a case like this where the defense lawyers are putting on the case, they will generally try to put on some kind of mental defense. not saying he was crazy of some kind but some kind of psychological defense. however, he has fired his lawyers and that woul...

It through. both are okay and the suspect is behind bar it's probation violation. we hope the officer gets better soon. >> that is maze, meanwhile lawyers for dzhokhar tsarnaev are back in courting and asking the judge to ease prison restrictions on him. >> will he get. judge napolitano is here with us. i am looking at your talking points and you think he has a point? >> he has a point if the prison regulations interfere with his ability to defend himself and the strongest point on that is not solitary confinement and he can't pray, that makes him unhappy. but the strongest point. if he gives...

The secretary of defense spelling out the ultimate punishment here that this american soldier could face, execution. at the same time, panetta cautioned against overreacting politically and militarily by changing course in afghanistan. >> we seem to get tested almost every other day with challenges that test our leadership and our commitment to the mission that we're involved in. >> reporter: sixteen afghan civilians were massacred including nine children and three women. villages stay the soldier stalked from house to house. now, a mental defense may be invoked by the soldier's lawyers. he su...