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>> what do you make of this, shannon? >> i do agree that there are racial tensions underneath all this obama attacking and maybe he doesn't even intend it to be that. but it is perceived that way and certainly by the alt-right and racist elements in the country. they perceive it to be about race. same thing with the persistent attacks on black athletes. >> i forgot. the take the knee guys. making it into s.o.b.s. they called them -- you can say i disagree with them. it's a good argument on both sides. i can see the argument. maybe it's not the proper way to show your anger but to call them s.o...

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About it. those kind of inside stories always are designed to make a present look bad. >> everyday, press hammers trump, they always do it, i think the balance of the administration has reached on this issue is a smart one, it's good and the president would be mad that his advisers are saying keep the deal but it's called the worst deal ever on the campaign trail. of course that would frustrate him. they seem to have found a middleground and an accommodation that applies more pressure on congress and the regime. >> it's okay for presidents to get mad sometimes. a lot of the stories portray him...

Didn't derail it. the press kind of hammer trump about it. those kind of inside stories always are designed to make a present look bad. >> everyday, press hammers trump, they always do it, i think the balance of the administration has reached on this issue is a smart one, it's good and the president would be mad that his advisers are saying keep the deal but it's called the worst deal ever on the campaign trail. of course that would frustrate him. they seem to have found a middleground and an accommodation that applies more pressure on congress and the regime. >> it's okay for presidents to ge...

You and this question we've been talking about throughout the hour so far which is what will the ultimate impact of harvey be? does it mean we see more getting done on capitol hill or do you think that they get through funding for hurricane relief and then it goes back to being just as dysfunctional as ever. >> well, the default to dysfunction is always a smart one to go with, kristen, because that's where we've been for the last yearment it's quite frankly where we've been for longer than that. what harvey does is it focuses congress at least for a short period of time on being functional, an...