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Example of a president losing control of his narrative, writing the past few days have offered a head spinning series of revelations that conflicted with the version of events mr. trump and his associates had previously provided. baker adds the shifting statements also illustrated starkly why some of the president's lawyers have urged him not to submit to an interview by the special counsel robert mueller. let's bring in the "hardball" roundtable. erica warner, a congressional reporter for "the washington post." adolfo franco, a republican strategist and rnc surrogate. and jason johnson is a p...

Think it's a disgrace. >> let's bring in the "hardball" roundtable, jason johnson's politics editor of the root.com. dan eberhardt is a gop fund-raiser and ceo of canary llc. annie linskey is a reporter for the boston globe. i want to start with you, annie. trump, he does bring it back to himself, but it does seem to be this is a messy game being a trumpy. >> it really is. the amount of turnover revealed in that story today, it's kind of stunning to be reminded of that. there do seem to be two buckets of people that get chewed up in this trump machine. there are people who come in with a sterl...

Starbucks ceo has penalty met face-to-face with the two men who were a arrested in philadelphia. the two men were waiting for a friend, they asked to use the bathroom, the manager asked them to leave because they didn't buy anything. the ceo said that the manager is, quote, no longer at that store. the politics editor at the root.com and also an msnbc contributor, jason, these protesters say they're not going to stop this boycott until they see significant change. what would that change look like? >> i don't know, honestly, craig, because when it comes to what happened at starbucks, there are ...

Biden today after the vice president said this at a rally wednesday. >> they asked would i like to debate this gentleman, and i said if we were in high school i would take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him. any guy who talked that way was usually the fattest, ugliest sob in the room. >> president trump firing back in a tweet, crazy joe biden trying to act like a tough guy. actually, he is weak both ebb mentally and physically and yet he threatens me for the second time with physical assault. he doesn't know me gleshlgsd go down fast and hard crying all the way. don't threaten peo...

Burns, national political reporter for "real clear politics." jason johnson, politics editor at the root.com and nbc contributor. jason, let's go bigger context to start with. whatever happens tonight, we've seen a 20-point swing in this district from the 2016 result won by trump, it's not the first district we've seen this in. >> right. this is getting worse and worse for the democrats. even as a political scientist, i've been the contrarian, i've never been in love with the congressional ballot, i think it sort of generalizes too many things. what we've been seeing is this. the special elect...