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Welcome back. i'm stephanie ruhle. you're watching msnbc. president trump is doubling down on his defense of his eldest son don junior. one problem, his messaging does not seem to have reached his own communications office. on monday, president trump tweeted most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one don junior attended in order to get info on an opponent. that's politics. three hours later, press secretary sean spicer said this. >> the president's made it clear through his tweet and there was nothing as far as we know that would lead anyone to believe that there was anything e...

Essay. >> they are pressured to be more like facebook and they want people to not link off from twitter. they want people to stay on twitter and to read long form articles in assisted of reading art will -- articles on other sites. >> expru saying they won't be successful? >> it is iffy. if you are a news site that depends on display advertising you want people to click off your twitter feed and read your article. and twitter will be bullying publishers into putting their articles on twitter. >> you know. you are a media guy. that's a smart answer. jedediah, you are an instagram gal. you do tw...

At some point there's a laugh test. that doesn't pass it. he is not operating under the rules of traditional politics. the rules of traditional politics would have had him losing support already, particularly among women, although a poll out this morning shows he's one of the big -- where he's ahead by 14 or 15 points nationally, one of his biggest gains is among women. i wish that i had a cogent smart answer for how that is happening given his comments. megyn kelly, carly fiorina, et cetera. i don't. if someone does, andrea, i would be suspicious because i don't know that we've seen this befo...

Industry yesterday. take a look at how he answered this one about his colleagues in the house. >> without naming any names, how many members of congress do you think use marijuana? >> used or use? i don't think more than five or ten i would guess. but i really wouldn't know. because i haven't seen them use it. i would be completely guessing. i don't know what percentage of 60-year-olds use marijuana, but it's probably similar in congress. so if it's 5% of 60-year-olds, it's probably 5% in congress. >> smart answer. up next, republicans in wisconsin are eliminating weekend voting. and guess w...

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