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Plan one that can pass? here with me tonight, robert trainum, former senior advisor on the bush-che anyway campaign and steve kornacki, nbc national political correspondent. steve, politics aside, promises about when things are going to get done has not worked particularly well for this administration or congress. sometimes it doesn't work well at all. it's sort of a thing people try and stay away from. >> i think this is where the urgency really is going to come more from congress, more from the house especially because every single member of the house is up in 2018, they understand that they...

Here with me tonight, robert trainum, former senior advisor on the bush-che anyway campaign and steve kornacki, nbc national political correspondent. steve, politics aside, promises about when things are going to get done has not worked particularly well for this administration or congress. sometimes it doesn't work well at all. it's sort of a thing people try and stay away from. >> i think this is where the urgency really is going to come more from congress, more from the house especially because every single member of the house is up in 2018, they understand that they have not put new achiev...

In it, she says she learned of a deal between the clinton campaign and dnc that essentially allowed clinton control of the committee even before she secured the nomination. it says the deal, quote, specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the dnc, hillary would control the party's finance, strategy and all the money raised. all right. this thing needs to get unpacked. i got my panel here, jason johnson and robert trainum. you and i spoke before the show. donna brazile is a dear friend of yours. walk us through this. >> i think three things. one, donna is and was a loyal de...

Platforms, twitter is only used by 15 to 20% of the american people. most people who are on twitter and using twitter are actually journalists and the media so he's not really using twitter to reach people. he's using twitter to command media coverage. it's working in a way. when we're talking about his tweets we don't have time to talk about the failure of trump care and the people who will literally die as a result of his policies. >> most people via twitter, a lot of us, i know i use it to consume news headlines and find out what's going on, also reaction. 45 only follows 45 people, robert....

Threat to a weak president than a strong press. they're attacks on the media and the fact that donald trump feels threatened by that and takes time out of his day not only to attack journalists, to attack mika brzezinski, many journalists. katie turnen had to get security. he's going after reporters and journalists and that's a dangerous thing to do, for people to feel like they can't trust anyone but the president. this is to distract from the many stories you talked about. >> it's working. robert, i want to give you the last word here. it's the weekend, a nice holiday weekend. give us someth...