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And author of "winners take all." the root.com political editor and msnbc political contributor and a professor at morgan state university and rick tyler, republican strategy ikist and msnbc political analyst. when i saw this i'm like holy cow, this is a rageing ball of fire at the heart of everything you have worked on. these parents, we know it's the system. we know that college is now a business. okay. admission officers have metrics to meet. what used to be a college admissions process is now a system. they need to up the amount of applications, they need to lower the amount of acceptances...

They are going to have to deal with the information, and that makes the difference. jefferson said a nation that expects to be ignorant and free expects what never was and never will be. the people are going to get the information and they are going to react to it, i believe. >> fascinating. john, thank you. barbara, i'm going to see you later in the show. we have to fit something in right now. breaking news on this friday night. house democrats are now moving forward on what is widely expected to be an epic showdown to get legally donald trump's tax returns. we have nbc reporting from washi...

Quo quote, the coming days, a significant advancement of the story we've been covering all evening. i want to turn to two experts who follow the probe a lot for us, jason johnson from the root.com, and former federal prosecutor john flannery. we just got this from "the washington post." it echoes the reporting at the top of the hour it does advance it, john, puts it in days. who knows? one, post reported moments ago trump's inner circle has, quote, palpable concern that there could be damaging material in the mueller rrt that's not technically illegal but is, quote, damaging to him and, two, r...

It comes with that type of announcement. all eyes on the twitter feed. again, all signs pointing to yes, steph. >> i want to bring my panel in. analyst and "washington post" national political reporter robert costa. also the moderator of "washington week qtd on pbs. former congressman costello. and at the root.com, jason johnson. roberto, think the president could throw a curveball? >> because he's getting some room from the freedom caucus, from sean hannity, they're all saying we don't like the deal but we're not going to fight you if you sign as long as you take some action with executive au...

Meaningful and effectively less special because it was an anomaly but not because it represented what he really thinks but perhaps so much was written for him at times it didn't. stephanie? >> peter, all right. i want to bryn my panel in. anna palmer, politico correspondent, jason johnson, politics editor at the root.com, kris wilson, republican pollster and my dear friend john weaver, former senior strategist for the mccain and kasich campaigns. anna, to you first. this speech was billed as bipartisan. hours before the president gave it when he was having lunch with reporters, he took a jab a...