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Francisco, not boyy a long shot. take a look at another local paper. same deal, not on the front page at all. "new york times" front page but still on the right, not the far left where you'd want a big story of yours to land. what do you make, both of you, in order, starting with michael, of the very divergent responses out there and the worst response that you can have which is it not make the front page at all? >> yeah, that's the most important part and those little squibs on the bottom of the "san francisco chronicle" and others. there's great anticipation among liberals inside the beltway...

Think in the method he took to get there, which is read the report. >> final thought, michael? >> my final thought is that if the democrats want to pursue impeachment hearings, pursue an inquiry, they need to do more of the work to massage public opinion. they're not going to get any more out of robert mueller. they're not going to get more out of him. he may go testify, but he's made it pretty clear what would the point be. so the ball is completely in the democrats' court right now. >> and the larger point here that is where the constitution meets the public discussion is, this isn't the fir...

Reprehensible and you'll think he'll take one last chance to try to give red meat to the base. there is another hypothesis. there's no doubt, no doubt the fbi informed the white house. but they could have informed the chief of staff and, you know, it's possible that he could have decided to keep trump in the dark for a little bit until the guy was certain to be apprehended, knowing the recklessness and the erraticness of the commander in chief. so one possibility is he actually didn't know. although, i think by 10:00 a.m. he has to. and then that he's still in his mode of partisan, blaming the...

>> for the last two nights people have chanted "lock her up" and "cnn sucks," they have made comments about george soros. the president has in no way intervened. matt, thank you for being with us. harry and michael, thanks to both of you. as investigators were frantically searching for the bomb maker, some on the right were stoking this conspiracy theory this assassination attempt was simply a false flag. that's next. and later, former president obama who was the intended target of one of the bombs had a few things to say about president trump today. out president trump today. if only harr...

>> joining us now harry litman, deputy assistant attorney general under president clinton, michael tomaski, and matt miller, former spokesman for attorney general eric holder and an msnbc contributor. thank you to all of you for joining us on a friday night. harry, let me start with you. what do you make of what they've got on this guy? it took them three days to find him. most people who know about these things were fairly confident they would because bomb making leaves quite a trail. what's your sense of this? >> well, they've got a fingerprint, that's big. and there's some suggestion that t...