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This as we are learning about this. mike m thank you to you and your team, michael sheer, maggie haberman at "the new york times" for this remarkable piece of reporting, michael crowley, tessa barrenson, ben rhodes, thank you to the three of you. coming up, if these tensions lead to war, how do you prepare? how do you define success. we are going to ask a retired four star general. and later, hope hicks said she lived the mueller report but hasn't read it. we have new details from the 273 paged transcript of her closed door testimony. the 11th hour just getting started on a thursday night. e 1...

Moment and that war with iran makes sense. which donald trump do you think you saw? >> right, so i think it's interesting too, that ben used the word rhetorics and rhetorically, because that's something president trump talked to us a lot about on monday. and as we were discussing the specific incidents of aggression from iran, trump -- president trump was emphasizing to us that he feels that on a rhetorical level, iran has soften his stance toward the united states, and president trump was saying in his mind back in 2015 you were hearing death to america from the country, and he says he doesn'...

On donald trump. >> mike memoli, and now to msnbc contributor, and a democratic political strategist with us also. percio, numbers going one way for him. up, up, up. >> they are. >> where else can we go from here? only down, as mike was saying. that's a concern? >> we're so far away from the first. >> debate. >> caucus. and the first debate and everything. interesting to watch those numbers, if biden is in fact going to lay low for the next six weeks and prep for this debate, how will that affect the numbers? what numbers will he go into -- s. that too long? six weeks? >> my guess, pop in and ...

Trailing by 18 points. now that same poll also puts biden 11 points ahead of president trump. polls and votes, well, you know, they change certainly, but for today, if the election were held, the polls say biden would comfortably be president of the united states. nbc news road war your mike m journalist is with the former vice president. if you were to make a comment about today's as he finishes this long kickoff what to that point be? >> yeah. hey there, richard. for the biden campaign it's all about reinforcing biden's strength and his perceived strength is perhaps that biggest strength. yo...

Ready, taking shots from all sides from his primary opponents and from the president and going to get ready to take on those fights as well. richard? >> mike, six-week preparation i guess. practice makes perfect in stuff like this. hey, how confident are the staff right now? the numbers, as you heard, the leadup here, if we follow the polls today, had would be top democrat, beat president trump now. how confident are they? a concern because so many months are ahead of you? >> reporter: listen, a lot of people saying to the biden campaign, i know this personally, that perhaps the vice president...