this firefight. >> that was gadi schwartz reporting from california for us. thank you and our thoughts and prayers to all of those out there deal with the fires. tune in to "kasie dc" here on msnbc on sundays. thanks for watching. "deadline white house" starts right now. hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. the me, too, moment sweeping the nation seemed to knock the wind out of sarah huckabee sanders' sails for a little while today. >> i wanted to ask you about the women who came forward today against the president. they first were on a television show and then they were at a press conference. and they said that he should resign and then also that there should be a congressional investigation. and i know that you have says this has already been litigated in the last election, but i wanted to get your specific reaction to this idea that there

should be a congressional investigation. >> the president has addressed these accusations directly and denied all of those allegations. we feel like these allegations have been answered. >> he has accusers as well. >> the president has firsthand knowledge on what he did and didn't do. he can speak directly to those and he has and has addressed them. i don't have anything further to add. >> this is spinning and it's focused on him now. >> and he's addressed it directly to the american people. trey? >> more people are now speaking out. >> april, i'm going to keep moving. >> but will the president address the nation on this? this is a huge issue, sarah. >> the president told howard stern in 2005 he walked into a teen beauty paggent dressing room where they had no clothing on because he could get away with things like that. is that not an admission? >> the president has spoken about this directly. i don't have anything further to add. >> who were the eyewitnesses who dispute these allegations against the president? and can you stand here right now and say without a doubt 100%

certainty that the more than dozen women who have come forward to accuse this president of misconduct are lying? do you wrefstle with this personally? >> i am here on behalf of the president and the president has responded. >> she refused to say the accusations were false. simply that trump denies the accounts of the more than a dozen women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. three of those women spoke out today. >> he shook my hand and kind of gave me the normal double cheek kiss but then he held on to my hand and kept kissing me. he kept asking me maybe a question. where are you from and kissing me again. >> they served a meal. after the meal was cleared, all of a sudden, he's all over me kissing and groping and groping and kissing. >> their descriptions of being victimized by trump sound nearly

identical to the way donald trump describes his own behavior around women to billy bush. >> i'm automatically attracted to beautiful women. like a mag net. i just start kissing them. and when you're a star, they let you do it. you can do anything. >> the accusers got a boost from the highest ranking woman in donald trump's cabinet this weekend who says they should be part of the national discussion about sexual harassment. >> women who accuse anyone should be heard. they should be heard, and they should be dealt with. and i think we heard from them prior to the election, and i think any woman who has felt violated or felt mistreated in any way, they have every right to speak up. >> let's get to our reporters and guests. withes from washington, "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker. ashley parker. msnbc contributor steve schmidt, donna edwards, now a senior fellow at the brennan center for

justice and jim vandehay, co-founder of axios, the scoop machine. let me start with you and ask you if you think sarah huckabee sanders' line of defense today feels sustainable. her claim is twofold. one, the president's addressed this and denied it and, two, i've never heard her use that podium to say, i just speak for him. i thought that was an interesting line in the sand she seemed to draw today. >> it was. she said she just speaks for him but she wasn't really saying that much other than what has been says in the past that the president has already addressed these allegations and that the voters have already spoken because these allegations came out before the election. i suspect that that is something we'll hear again, particularly tomorrow, if roy moore wins the senate race. that will probably be the refrain from the white house and some other republicans who back him that the voters have spoken and we can dismiss this.

but it is difficult. clearly she was, you know, flustered to have to address these questions but they're coming at a time that not only are these accusers renewing their claims and coming out and stepping forward in a way that they didn't do after the election because of the climate that is changing after the weinstein allegations and other allegations against members of congress. but also, after nikki haley, the u.n. ambassador, said that women who have -- who are making these allegations should be heard. and i think those things are going to sort of give a new platform for these allegations to come forward and move forward whether it's in the press or in the courts. >> donna edwards, there's some controversy around the pressure that was applied on al franken to resign. do you think it was the right thing for him to do? >> i think it was. i think democrats clearly did not want to be saddled with defending what was indefensible

behavior. and i think it was appropriate. >> and have they, by seeking to purge their own party of offenders, have they now seized the high ground, and do you think they see the trump more alliance as a real vulnerability for republicans among female voters? >> i think whether or not franken had resigned, the trump moral alliance is a vulnerability for republicans going into 2018. and, clearly, this sets a much brighter line for democrats than it would have been otherwise. but the fact is the president has endorsed a child molester, a predator and, you know, we'll see tomorrow or see in the election in alabama whether alabama voters will go in that direction as well. but i think this san albatross for republicans who have to bear it into 2018 and 2020. >> and beyond. peter baker, you have one of my favorite pieces written about the trump presidency in the paper under your byline and your

colleague maggie's and glenn thrush's. inside the hour by hour battle for self-preservation. i wonder if you've picked up anything in the period including ivanka saying there's a special place in hell forl lepeople who what roy moore has done. and then nikki haley, bookend that comment from his daughter with nikki haley's comments yesterday. picking up any consternation about the two highest profile women in trump land? >> yeah, no question. i think he was definitely irritated by his daughter's comment. he found that sort of boxed him in, and he was determined to break out of it. i haven't heard about his reaction to nikki haley, but you can imagine it's pretty much the same. there's been an interesting pattern with this white house going back to the beginning in which you have people in the president's inner circle and the next circle out in terms of the cabinet and his family saying

things in direct contrast to what the president says. we've seen that on policy, on politics. we've seen that on things like this sexual harassment case. and it makes you wonder, of course, who really speaks for the administration. i think in the end, of course, it's the president. but you understand why our americans and people overseas at times find themselves whipsawed trying to reconcile these conflicting messages. >> i tohink to put it less politely, you see it after things so rep hencively offensive. and you see it after all of these other men have been taken down, really without much due process and the president sits there in the highest office of the land maligning women for their face-lifts. he stands accused of more than a dozen accounts of sexual harassment. it's more than policy differences. he's beyond a line that even his

own daughter and his, you know, the ambassador to the u.s./u.n. can stand for. >> to be clear, they still stand with him. they don't leave the administration. they're still by his side. but nikki haley has friends. >> that's true of charlottesville, too. >> she has friends, family and political ambitions. >> donald trump can ride this out as long as he has a majority of the republican base behind him. maybe roy moore wins in alabama. but if you are any republican other than the two of them and look at what happened in virginia with the women's vote and what will happen with alabama being an anomaly. they're getting clobbered among women. and that's not sustainable. that's what worries republicans. you have to -- beyond the morality, just the politics. you have to separate yourself from him, from this because there's this massive movement that's sweeping across every sector of society. and one person will be able to stand above. it's donald trump. no real way to go after him on this. he's not going to fire himself over it. and, clearly, there's nothing he

can do to get his daughter, his son-in-law, nikki haley, members of his cabinet to leave in protest. >> l.a. times has a piece out that says trump lawyer presses argument for presidential immunity in defamation case. made a point about how this suit could jeopardize trump in the same way a case by paula jones jeopardized then-president clinton by forcing him to answer questions under oath. it's not unforeseeable this could trip the president up in a legal way, is it? >> no doubt about it. one of the things sarah huckabee sanders was saying is this was litigated during the election. it certainly was not. the way we choose presidents is that 3 million more american voters chose hillary clinton but by the thinnest of margers, he won, thus winning the electoral college and thus the question of who should be the president of the united states between

hillary clinton and donald trump was settled for all time. but the question of whether these women's accusations have been heard, have been vetted, have been litigated in the court of public opinion, certainly they have not. until now. so this discussion, i suspect, is going to continue to go forward. so long as this massive hypocrisy continues to surround this white house on these issues. of course, tomorrow we will find out the answer. can a credibly accused child molester be elected to the united states senate. if the answer to that question is yes, there will be a profound implication for the republican party, for republicans running in any suburban leaning district as roy moore becomes the most famous republican in the land next to donald trump and becomes the face of the republican brand heading into 2018. >> kimberly, is it your sense that there's anyone outside of the president that's hoping that

roy moore comes up short tomorrow night so they don't have the optics of two men accuse of being sexual predators joined arm in arm as political allies against the rest of the gop establishment that has largely stood up? there are a handful of ultra conservative allies of the presidents who have said that they are also for moore but mostly it's just donald trump, accused sexual harasser and roy moore accused by more than nine women. is it a bigger nightmare for him to win or for him to lose for the president? >> well, there are a lot of republicans who see this as a lo lose-lose situation. they're not just worried about someone like roy moore coming to washington, having the party saddled with somebody who is seen as a child predator and battle with mitch mcconnell and making it more difficult to get anything done. they're worried a victory for him will encourage, as one gop

strategist described it, crackpots, to get the backing of steve bannon and start running for office and really jeopardize the republican party and discourage people who would otherwise be seen as strong republican candidates from even running from office -- for office on the local and national level. so there are a lot of republicans who are very worried about this election tomorrow. >> peter baker, you have a great insight in your piece about -- that for me helped fill in some of the why. the president hasn't -- the presidency hasn't made donald trump any bigger. he really has shrunk the presidency. and you explain it better than anyone has so far. he doesn't see himself as a leader of the country. he

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aneurysm. >> you and frank -- >> 40 years ago was 1977. 13 and 14-year-olds were not getting married in alabama in 1977. they weren't. this is a credibly accused child molester who is on the precipice of being elected to the united states senate. and look, for the state of alabama, this is a seminal event. i say this as the vice chairman of the largest public relations firm in the world. there's not enough money in alabama to fix the brand alabama problem should roy moore be elected. they have a multibillion-dollar investment policy from the toyota corporation. i suspect that goes to north carolina. direct investment to the aero space industry, other companies, alabama from an investment perspective will be an athema.

the jerry falwell juniors, the franklin grahams, the indecency of all of this. the attacks on the women. not to attention roy moore twice removed from the bench for failure to follow lawful orders. someone who talks about the good old days of slavery. someone who by any reasonable definition is a legitimate christian theocrat. he doesn't subscribe to a pluralistic nation, a constitution that protects religious liberties. he's an extremist through and through. and he will bring the republican party low. and think about this. it's the vice president of the united states who is president of the senate who swears in new members of the senate. imagine -- it will take a nuclear fission moment of hypocrisy as mike pence gets to stand there and swearing in to the united states senate this credibly accused child moleftser should alabamans make that

decision tomorrow. >> robert costa, donald trump isn't the only one with everything on the line. it seems like this is an important moment for steve bannon. this has been his -- this was sean hannity's pick over luther strange, too. those two men have a lot riding on tomorrow. where -- are they lacking a moral compass? are they -- is it agenda? i want to ask this in -- the trump agenda at any cost? what is their rationale as the highest profile national champions of a credibly accused child molester? >> when you listen to bannon's words in alabama and he's supposedly heading back there today, he said he does not believe the reporting of my newspaper, "the washington post." and he echoes roy moore and doubting the reporting but these are credible accusations that have been reported by "the washington post." bannon is also fighting a larger proxy war against mitch

mcconnell. a battle for control of the republican party. he is not particularly close to roy moore but politically, they are locked together because they are part of this effort to usurp the republican leadership and take control. >> peter baker, steve bannon's name is one of the latest names to be sort of rumored to be coming under scrutiny potentially in the mueller investigation. sort of his actions during his time in the white house, what he knew and when he knew it, some recommendations he gave the president around the firings of flynn and comey. i wonder what the current state, to your knowledge, of the trump/bannon relationship looks like and how the outcome tomorrow my alter that. >> that's a great question. they are still in touch. bannon has played an important role for the president on the outside. he says things the president doesn't necessarily want to. he does thing the president may want to have happen but not

necessarily out of his own hand. i don't think they are as close as they once were, obviously, but bannon provides a useful function for this president. in going after republican incumbents, in stoking the trump populist base, he is in effect reminding those voters who their president is and why they should support him. now, you know, what he knows about the details of the russia investigation is a really good question. he was a critical player in that white house for several months, for eight months. he was presumably involved in a lot of very important meetings. we haven't yet to this date, though, understood what exact role he played in that. it's not surprising the special counsel may want to know about that. >> peter baker and robert costa, thank you for spending time with us. when we come back, bob mueller's timeline. exclusive new nbc news reporting today about the exquisite detail that the special counsel investigation is paying to 18

days in january and february and why they might lead directly to the oval office.

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nbc news is out today with some exclusive new reporting on the special counsel's focus on the 18 days between when acting attorney general sally yates warned white house counsel don mcgahn about mike flynn potentially being targeted by russians for blackmail and his eventual firing 18 days later. from that nbc news report, multiple sources say that during interviews, mueller's investigators have asked witnesses, including white house counsel don mcgahn and others who have worked in the west wing to go through each day that flynn remained as national security adviser and describe in detail what they knew was happening inside the white house as it related to flynn. mueller appears to be interested in whether trump directed him to lie to senior officials, including pence or the fbi. and if so, why, the sources

said. that line of inquiry made all the more interesting by this tweet from the president's twitter feed the day after news broke that flynn pleaded guilty. "i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. he has plead guilty to those lies. it's a shame because his actions during the transition were lawful. there was nothing to hide. let's bring in julia ainsley, national security and justice reporter who shares a byline. talk about this 18-day period and who else might have exposure and who else may be an interesting witness, if not subject of that part of the mueller investigation. >> so, nicolle, right now what special counsel mueller is doing is he is trying to figure out what the president knew and when did he know it. and now he has his key witness to answer that question, which is michael flynn, who we know is now cooperating. now mueller will be able to use flynn's testimony and compare it to what other people say. people like don mcgahn prpth

people inside the white house. people like reince priebus. people about flynn and his discussions with the russian ambassador sergey kislyak. if mueller can determine that flynn was directed to discuss sanctions and that he was directed to lie to the fbi and then if he was directed to then lie to pence, that can be used in this possible obstruction case against the president. >> you covered a lot of generals who rise to political prominence both through their successes on the battlefield and their political acumen. does mike flynn seem like a rogue actor? >> he seems very much like a rogue actor. and he seems like a pressure point. the minute that he flipped, now every single one of these interviews with everybody who is in the inner circle in the white house has to worry that he's going to contradict him. he has someone to help capitol

-- contradict him. >> do you think inside the white house he would have acted alone? >> this story was interesting but to me it's not surprising. it would be criminal if mueller was not asking these questions about obstruction of justice. look at the public record of what happened between those dates. he has to ask each and every one of those people. he has to call in mcgahn, hope hicks, reince priebus, jared. there are only a few people in this inner circle that would be relevant to flynn. that's where he's going with this section of the investigation. when you hear these tidbits, this is what investigators do. could be it significant? yep. might it not be at all? yep. and that's what happens in these investigations. when you get these drip, drip, drip leaks. they are all interesting because all of us try to put them together and try to figure out what the mosaic looks like but it's clear what you know based on public documents. they are most vulnerable on obstruction of justice. most who look at the publicly

available documents would say he probably already has a plausible case against him. now he's got flynn talking in one ear and able to pinch each one of these one by one. there's so much nervousness inside this white house and so much upheaval about to come. dina powell leaving. just the beginning. i know of six people right now actively looking to get out of there. so many people are trying to get out of the white house at a time there's so much chaos because of the mueller investigation. when they're trying to actually run the country. >> it's debatable whether they are pulling that off. trying is the key word there. this line of questioning about hat the president due about mike flynn, is the one that has his friends nvd s and allies who ha insisted for two years. their lying goes like this. he's innocent of collusion with russia. he couldn't even collude with us on the campaign. their reaction and response both in body language and in what they'll say on background is

completely different to these questions that jim raises. there is concern among republicans closely aligned with this white house and who supported his agenda that he very well could have and i'm not suggesting there's any evidence that he has, but this is a line of questioning that could trip up the president. >> i think it is. it's the question both what did he know n when did he know it but also, what did he do when he knew? how did he act on the information? and there is a small circle of people who were around the president. each one of them, as jim has said, is going to be asked. and when the president is asked, because i think it's inevitable that mueller has to talk to the president. has to talk to the vice president because they were in the circle. and in any number of these cases, somebody could say something different and the president who, you know, as we've seen in a couple of these interviews where he's volunteered information and it's later come to harm him, is in great danger of harming himself

in the questioning. >> steve, how exposed do you think the president is in this line of questioning? you says what he did. we know what he did. he fired jim comey. they fired sally yates. but the reactions are it happened in full view. >> if we were able to look at this through time lapse photography, we start out with a blanket denial that there's no collusion, nobody talked to a russian. no one knew a russian. no russians anywhere around. we know a year later, literally everybody involved in this campaign knows a russian, met with a russian, had meetings through -- >> papadopoulos has a book deal about russia. >> roy moore speaks fluent russia. there's russians everywhere. it's moving closer into the oval office. and in any administration, the indictment of the national security adviser would be a titanic event. enormous. and what we know for sure is that the deal that the special counsel gave to flynn means that

he's looking to hall a bigger fish out of the ocean. and the thing about flynn is he's a pretty big fish. that's a big, giant, 500-pound marlin on the end of the line. so when he's looking for the bigger fish, there's only a couple of people that it could be. that's the significant of where we are, what we know in this investigation. and now that they are looking inside this window that we know that gives us a little bit more information to assess how close this is, how proximate it is to the president of the united states, to the oval office. and also, as was pointed out by a guest on air earlier, it's not just what did the president know and when did he know it, it's who did the president direct and what did he direct them to do? and i think we're moving closer to answers to all of those questions. >> jeremy? >> i think there's a lot of assumptions that we used to have about politics and the presidency and decency and civility that have been completely broken by this white house. who would have thought that it

wasn't disqualifying for the president of the united states to endorse somebody who is accused of being a child mole s molester. we've gone so far beyond the pail in our politics at this point. yes, to steve's point, absolutely. these indictments are going to be a stain over this presidency and we're just seeing the beginning of it. >> last week might be the best week for trump of his presidency and not because of tax reform. because of those three big epic media screw-ups give him something to point to to say, nothing is real. that's what this is all about. there's nothing real. once an indictment comes, nothing real. nothing to be trusted. mueller is dirty. clinton is dirty. am i dirtier than them? maybe, but should i be removed from office? i don't think so. that's what he's going to argue. guess who gets to determine that? house republicans. how many house republicans speak out against him? hardly any. guess if they do impeach him. who will decide in senate republicans. we've talked about it before. there's hardly any senate

republican who will speak against him when he's sitting at 70%, 80%, 90% support of the republican base. >> donald trump doesn't need the media to make mistakes that they correct and apologize for to smear the media. they didn't believe us on day one. >> i do think it's important that where the media wins long term is when we get things right, when we try to stay down the middle, when we, obviously, screw something up, correct ourselves. those were three epic screw-ups. so it does call into question the credibility of the media for those who may be persuadable. there are those still throughout persuadable. i take this seriously because i worry about the battle against truth. every time we lose one person who believes in truth, it's bad for us. >> you know who never gets things wrong? >> you. >> no, i screw up the 400 times before 9:00 a.m. julia and her partner with the byline on this story.

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we've been talking about reporting from "the new york times" that takes us through donald trump's hour by hour battle for self-preservation in the white house and his staff's hour-by-hour battle to keep his rage and twitter tirades in check. as the times puts it, for most of the year, people inside and outside washington have been convinced that there's a strategy behind mr. trump's actions. but there is seldom a plan apart from his preemption and impulse. >> you get through that and you're like, yeah. jeremy, i want to ask you. i worked for a president who

went to bed early and got up early. an early start will cut down on the tweet storms. mr. kelly is trying to reduce the amount of free time the president has. mr. priebus tried with moderate success to get trump to arrive by 9:00 or 9:30. >> what time is he going to work? >> they have siesta hour. it's just about over. >> he sends all of the self-destructive tweets between 6:00 and 9:00. this is insane. >> you are assuming this is a white house that has discipline and order and structure. none of which exists. that's the thing. trump is -- like the title of corey looey lewandowski's book. "trump will be trump." what is he doing? >> he is up late. he has always been a night guy. during the campaign, he would

always be huddling with his aides until well after midnight. he gets up late. no, he gets up early and watches tv. he just doesn't come out of the residence until later. >> and he wears his jammies. that was also in the piece, which i loved. but the idea on -- people statement that trump spends at least four hours a day, sometimes as much as twice as that. not good at math that means eight hours in front of the tv. sometimes with volume muted in the no-holds-barred. that's what the 400-pound guy in his basement does. >> churchill often worked from bad in his self-designed romper. >> he was churchill. >> but focused on big things. >> right. >> this story is about there's nothing too small, too trivial, too meaningle lesless for this t

to be focused on. the story shows completely how completely out of his depth the president of the united states is. how unfought it he is for this and unfocused on the country and the 330 million people that are known as americans to the rest of the world. this is a self-interested man. obsessed with trivia. narcicisstic at a level we've never seen in a president of the united states before. it is a extraordinary and chilling story. again, i do think we should spend a second where we go back to earlier in the show when we played the robocall for roy moore. again, we hear the president of the united states commander in the chief of the world's most potent nuclear arsenal sadly slurring his words. slurring them clearly. >> we should reveal to viewers we look eed around the table an asked each other if he was indeed slurring.

contrary to his belief, reluctant to point that out. and some of the people that rile him up, not that it takes much, and jeanine pirro is it? >> just pulled over going 100 miles an hour on the new york freeway. >> she drives fast. i like that. these are not the sorts of people on the brisk of nuclear conflict with north korea. doesn't seem like the figure you want in there, as steve said, focused on his job. she's ripping him up and characterization assassination against bob mueller. >> seems like a leading question. >> we all read the same article. i don't want to lead you and smear axios with my bias. an hour they'll never get back as ms. piro whipped up the

president against comey and employed the ex-director of whipping things of you. speak about getting judge jeanine poirro to stop whipping up things against mueller. >> one of the things in the piece captures everything about donald trump, he told aides view every day like it's an episode of the tv show. that's how he looks t s at it. only sleeps a little. up at 5:30, watching tv. how she shahe shapes the messag thinks everybody views the world through conventional television mainly and that's where all of his energy and rage comes from. what kelly did, somewhat

successfully, say, keep as much nut job information away from the president because he react to it. in work hours done a good job keeping really bad information he would react to without thinking it out, researching it, but that's the only thing that has changed. half of the day way level of discipline. kelly deserves credit for it but not an appreciable act on the president's behavior or his actions. >> sneaking in a break. when we come back, an update on the terrorist attack in new york city. what police are learning about the suspect and his motive. i've asked for a luxurious new buick suv. ( ♪ ) fingers crossed. ( ♪ ) ring in the holidays with buick. get up to 20% below msrp on most 2017 luxury suv models. that's almost $7,400 on this buick enclave leather. experience the new buick

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we're learning more about this morning's rush hour terror attack here in new york in times square and the man suspected behind it. a 27-year-old man lives here in the city originally from bangladesh. law enforcement say he detonated a low-level explosive device. nobody died. the suspect injured himself and four others. going to chris jansing who's near where it happened. is the suspect in condition to talk to investigators? >> reporter: sources tell nbc news he is indeed talking to investigators. akayed ullah said he did it in the name of isis. wanted to avenge the deaths of muslims worldwide, and there's no indication was in direct contact with anyone on isis, he said he watched propaganda videos and that was how he learned to build this device. it was a very low-tech device an nbc news learned that it was put together with a pipe, a 9 volt

battery, christmas lights and matches. that tells you just how amateur-ish it is. governor cuomo said it did not fully detonate, that it did, in fact -- the chemicals detonated but it did not explode the pipe. the five-inch pipe he had strapped to himself with velcro. you can just imagine the scene it caused underground, just below the sidewalk where i am. a tunnel that links 7th and 8th avenue when it filled with smoke, chaos ensued. there was a large police presence quickly. we learned since then this 27-year-old was living in brooklyn with his family and we spoke to a neighbor. take a listen. >> are you shocked by this? >> i am actually very shocked. you know, he's a religious person, and very quiet. not very outgoing, and our whole neighborhood, everybody's close-knit and friendly with each other. >> reporter: akayed ullah is in

a local hospital in serious condition. moments ago we got a statement from the white house, from the president, who is once again using a terror attack to call for stricter immigration and saying, where necessary, the death penalty. nicolle? >> chris jansing, thank you. my thanks to my guests. that does it for our hour. i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts now with the fabulous katy tur in for chuck. >> so good to be back and see you. if it is monday, 20, 20, 24 hours to go. and what be the final plot twist in the unbelievable alabama senate race. has everything changed, or that nothing changed? >> is alabama going to stand with our daughters? plus the president's accuse er