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Con fli conflict by accident or design could disrupt the world's energy supplies. his acting defense secretary patrick shanahan stepping down and withdrawing from consideration to become the permanent defense secretary, trump today naming an active replacement, army secretary, mark espe rescuers, which leaves his department of defense without a permanent leader as some of our most delicate global conflicts escalate. that upheaval starts with favorite reporters and friends. joining us national political reporter, robert cosca and barry mccaffey also an msnbc military analyst, lucky for us, with...

Hitting those hard lines so controversial about immigrants in 2015, calling them rapists and criminals and he will be hitting that hard line again and again. we saw it today and bet we will see it tonight and going forward into election day. >> robert, i guess one of the differences, if you hit those notes having run the country and your own party having run the congress and one chamber still and you haven't done any of those things, do you look weak? you were talking this morning how completely obsessed he is with his ratings and poll numbers. how about the idea he's run the store for two yea...

Robert, could i ask you to add any of your own reporting. i think of the picture general mccaffrey is painting on iran and the point made around this table about the influence of jared and ivanka in a serious way, they are predisposed to the kind of foreign policy priorities of israel, saudi arabia, uae, which would have the president lean forward even more than maybe he wants to. who are the influencers? who are the people donald trump is talking to, other than the hosts we can all see on fox news? >> based on my reporting the people that matter, secretary of state and national security advis...

Are not taking offensive actions against him but i think they wanted that story out, the nsa and national security council, they want to put the russians on notice, hey, you better stop screwing with our elections here an in europe. >> robert, i would say you have your ear to the ground for trump's gop better than anybody, i'm thinking of bob corker and i can't think of anybody else who said out loud what you must hear all the time, to the degree whether the "access hollywood" tape or charlottesville, that trump is unacceptable, these foreign policy gaps that are the most troubling. what are y...