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Today, the president has mobilized these troops to go to the border, it's 5,000, up to 15,000, inclear, reporting today that the pentagon has shot down, to use a metaphor, a request from dhs to compel law enforcement, et cetera. what do you make of that? >> this is unprecedented use of military for a political stunt. there's no mission for them down there in the reality. this is not the finest trained military, what they're supposed to be doing, engaging in this kind of border enforcement. it's not necessary to deal with a caravan that's a thousand miles away. it's not necessary to deal with a...

Democrats take back the house. that's going to shape the political dynamic of this country in the presidential election. that's going to matter a lot to who gets elected in 2020. >> final question, which is slightly off topic, but since i have you here, it's in the news today, the president has mobilized these troops to go to the border, it's 5,000, up to 15,000, inclear, reporting today that the pentagon has shot down, to use a metaphor, a request from dhs to compel law enforcement, et cetera. what do you make of that? >> this is unprecedented use of military for a political stunt. there's no...

>> welcome back to "hardball." that was was director of national intelligence dan coats learning that president trump invited vladimir putin to washington for a second meeting. the invitation comes amid a week of dizzying answers from trump over russian meddling in the 2016 election. answers that put him squarely at odds with his own intelligence agencies. "the washington post" reporting today, quote, inside the white house trump's advisers were in an up roar over coat's interview. noting at moments coats appeared to be laughing at the press, playing to his audience of the intellectual alete i...

He would have said, know what? we're being set up. this meeting was being offered to us, and it's obviously nefariously being orchestrated. he didn't do that. instead he concealed it only when he was cause and we now now he was about to be caught, because michael could pew on, the communication officer for the campaign, had told this to bob mueller's investigative team. roger stone was about to be caught red-handed, so he now falls back on, you know what? it was an fbi setup. if they believed that, that's what he would have told the house intelligence committee. reasonable stone may very well ...

. there is new cnn reporting today, painting a picture of rampant staffing shortages in the white house, only made worse with seemingly endless flow of aides leaving. just this morning, cnn confirmed that house legislative director, mark short intends to leave the white house in the weeks ahead, and with the mid terms just a few months away, the white house struggling to fill vacancies in the west wing. pamela brown, one of the reporters who broke this story, joins us now. how big is this outflux? >> jim, my colleague, sara westwood, and i have learned that the white house is quietly reachin...