Page 7 - Sum Total News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Conversation going after a second round of talks with congressional leaders yesterday led nowhere. white house deputy press secretary today placing the blame squarely on democrats, saying they are prioritizing illegal immigrants over americans. >> for the life of me, i can't figure out this watershed moment in politics, in which an entire political party has decided they are going to stand with people who are here in this country, hundreds of thousands of them, come every year illegally and unlawfully as opposed to hundreds of millions of american citizens. >> we have fox team coverage for you...

Serve. >> they just don't want to be on the committee. >> it's a lot of work. i mean don't forget compared to a lot of committee meetings, we have an executive every thursday. so it's a lot of work. maybe they don't want to do it. >> as they say, that happened today. with us today, maura gay, a member of the "new york times" editorial board. both are msnbc contributors. so we have that and we have the sum total of today. you this week wrote a poignant personal piece in the opinion section of the "new york times" about your life experience. what do we do about the entire community of american w...

Member of "the new york times" editorial board, josh gerstein white house reporter for politico. both our msnbc contributors. mara, we have that and we have the sum total of today. you this week wrote a poignant personal piece in the opinion section of "the new york times" about your life experience. what could we do about the entire community of american women who look at a dr. ford, look at a mara gay and say yes, you, that story, that's me? >> it's a really -- first of all, it's a sad day. should be a sad day for all-americans. it's very difficult for those of us who are sexual survivors. i...

At all. i think the president is making it up as he goes along, michael cohen has made it up as he goes along, and that's what happens. you can't keep the fraudulent facts straight and you trip up. that's what we saw today. >> president also seemed to throw michael cohen under the bus. he said he was a good guy but that mostly he's a businessman and he does his -- a lawyer as well but he only does a sum total of mr. trump's legal needs, he only does a tiny, tiny fracti fraction. that does seem to argue against what the president's attorneys and what michael cohen's attorneys have been arguing ...

Said "call me by my first name." one of them is this guy. it's very rare in politics to say just call me joe. i think it works with him. he's giving a speech, by the way, for working people. going back to the roots of the party, fall river technical school, that's where he's going to give the speech tomorrow night, responding to trump. >> you said something on your broadcast tonight that got our attention. you called the sum total of today's developments, where we stand, a slow motion saturday night massacre. why? >> because he's purging one person after another. trump is giving away his motiv...