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Politics editor for theroot.com. heidi, you start. what are the chances that trump will see the end coming and try to stop it by destroying mueller, getting rid of him? >> you see that the democrats are really concerned because they're look agent the president's own past statements, which is if mueller crosses a red line, which is looking into his finances, that that would be cause for firing him. and today we learned that's exactly what he is doing with these paul manafort charges. but at the same time, chris, i think right now there is just too much political potential downside to doing this...

Bush. donny deutsch. megan murphy, and jason johnson, politics editor at theroot.com also joins us from a remoets undisclosed location very, very nearby. i couldn't even get my thoughts together on the news the president made and the slander, really, against his predecessors to suggest they department call f -- didn't call families of the fallen. obviously, it's different. president bush took the country to war so it's a totally different thing. but it destroyed him, and he wanted to be destroyed by the grief that he felt for every family who made the sacrifice. he went to walter reed more tim...

Also joining us is jason johnson, politics editor at theroot.com. and msnbc contributor ron klain, former adviser to chief of staff to presidents gore. i do not think you ever expect you'd would live long enough to see the drama or whatever you want to call this thing that has just played out in alabama. steve bannon versus donald trump. and trying to convince voters in alabama that donald trump's judgment cannot be trusted. and the way to help donald trump is to vote for the bannon candidate. >> yes. cats chasing dogs. we're going into spake experian bizarro land here. i think now it will at ...

This highlights the strategy we've seen emerging out of the white house. they are going to be targeting red state democrats as they make this push for tax reform. we saw that last week when the president was in missouri when he took direct aim at senator claire mccaskill. this is what the president tweeted, we'll be going to north dakota today to discuss tax reform and tax cuts. we are the highest taxed nation in the world. that will change. he says it will change. but based on my conversation with officials here at the white house and on capitol hill, they still don't have a tax reform plan w...

Panel. political analyst and political editor at theroot.com jason johnson and msnbc national political correspondent steven kornacki. when i heard him use the word stability, i thought, wow, now we've gone to a whole other level, right? my question to you is what does the president do? can he get back on track? i just got handed this statement from mitt romney. he basically said this is a defining moment for this president. it's long statement but he says the president must take remedial action in the extreme. he should address the american people, acknowledge that he was wrong, apologize, st...