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jewish people. what about greenland? >> can't make it up. welcome to wednesday. one of the moorhead-spinning days of this head-spinning presidency. and it begs the question can anything at all that comes out of this white house actually be trusted. plus, the parkland plan sick of waiting on congress unveil a very aggressive proposal to combat gun violence. we'll unveil it here. what a wednesday. what a hump day. welcome to "meet the press daily." i'm tt here in washington. and welcome to a day when we do feel compelled that what is now the norm in washington is not normal and in many ways it's very unamerican. i can't believe i have to say it but it is not normal, nor is it american to call jewish-americans dislochlal. greenland after saying the trip

to denmark i know you got to keep track of your denials. it is not normal to deny a kax cut is on the table then confirm a tax cut is on the table then deny it and expect any of us take you seriously. it is not normal that we can't take the president seriously because taxes in greenland are just on a long list of things he's tried to reverse. and maybe the most important inconsequential piece of all of it, it is not normal for the republican party to sit back. elected republicans are allowing the president to keep behaving i erratically. and, oh, by the way, conditioning the entire base of the republican party that this is somehow normal behavior. it is not normal that a 30-minute head-spinning press availability has become the normal. >> i thought that the prime minister's statement that it was absurd, that it was an absurd

idea was nasty. i am the chosen one. somebody had to do it. so i'm taking on china. i'm taking on china on trade. i'm not looking at a tax cut now. we don't need it. the fake news of which many of you remembers is trying to convince the public to have a recession. let's have a recession. we already have very strong background checks, but we're going to be filling in some of the loopholes as we call them at the border. i think russia should be a part of it because we are looking for world peace and other things, trade and other things, and it would be a lot easier to have russia in where they had always been. i think that if you vote for a democrat, you're very, very disloyal to israel and to the jewish people. >> yes, there are a number of things that he said that are just patently not true in some of those things, let alone half-truths. but as we wrote in our first

newsletter this morning, this is no way to run a country, this is no way to talk about a country's citizens. it's no way to treat ann ally. and everybody in washington knows this. staff members at the white house knows this. top officials inside the republican party know this. in fact, that's probably why -- no, it's not probably, this is why white house aides keep leaking all these crazy anecdotes that we hear about because they're concerned about this. these are republicans trying in their own way to reign him in. let's leak the greenland business. let's see if maybe that will get a rise out of the republican party. and republicans on the hill know none of this is normal, that's what they admit to all of us in whispers off the road, almost begging us to believe they're off the record because they don't want to have to do nothing publicly. maybe it's fear the voters, fear of all of them. let me bring in some experts to join any conversation. jennifer horn.

she's the former chair of the new hampshire republican party and was formerly working for governor bill wald. doug thornell head of -- >> skdk. >> you guys keep changing your initials. the whole knickerbocker thing. and michael steel the former chairman of the republican national committee, msnbc political analyst. jennifer, you're on satellite. and you made -- you did something that many people in your shoes talk about doing quietly, maybe talk to their spouse about doing but feel uncomfortable doing which is sort of going public with your concern about donald trump. explain what kind of blowback you've gotten going public on something like this. >> well, first of all, thank you for having me here. i appreciate being part of the conversation. and certainly i've gotten some blowback, especially from within the tightest circle of the republican party.

but in general the response to my comments in my leg of resignation has been overwhelmingly positive. but i have been somebody who has been publicly opposed to this president before he ever got into the race. i first went on the record against donald trump in april of 2011, and i have tried to be articulate and clear and principled about my opposition to him ever since. >> what do you say to fellow new hampshire republicans that i'm sure you've had conversations that i know kasie and myself have had multiple times with elected republicans who sit there and say this is insane, this is crazy. we got to do something, and then you sit there and you're like, well, you're elected to do something. >> right. but, i say exactly what. you have to speak up. and it's not just in new hampshire. the united states senate is full of republican leaders who have been elected to lead who are not doing their job right now. we are facing -- i mean, i am

just beside myself when i hear that clip of donald trump calling himself the chosen one. chosen for what? how absurd is it that we are talking about greenland? this is a president who has, you know, who has not been a friend not just to the lgbtq community but to any community, any group of people in this country who have ever had to fight to fit in, to be accepted, to be included. he is not a fiscal conservative. he is not a social conservative. he is not a republican. and it kills me that our party leaders have been so silent and so paralyzed in the face of what in any other circumstance would be, you know, called a weak and ineffective person. >> and, look, you feed in kasie hunt, i want to show you the lee zelden tweets from today. lee zeldon is an elected

republican who happens to be jewish. a lot of people have been waiting to see how is he going to handle what the president said. and it underscores jennifer's point here. there's a whole series of tweets. he starts with trying to walk this line. hey, the president is prioritized delivering important victories for the jewish people. as for jewish voters, they don't universally vote the same way. some jews are liberal, moderate, and conservative. support for these issues should be bipartisan he says. it's been a very rough year with some new house dems who feel very differently. he tried to walk this line, kasie, in some ways, doug, you would probably be impressed with the crisis communication in trying to straddle like he's trying not to offend anybody. but this is what it's come to. lee zeldin knows what the president said and did is destructive to israel, pure and simple. and he's afraid to say it. >> and it is another example of

a republican who otherwise would say very different things. can you imagine if this was ilhan omar or rashida tlaib who said and then doubled down on what the president said about loyalty? the entire republican party would be collectively losing their minds. and instead he's got to try to figure out a way to explain it so that he's not, you know, on the wrong end of it. and that is the story time and time again. part of me wonders why he even took to twitter to do this. they are not here. >> except he is one of the few people that has constituents who are voting for him and for democrats for president. he is going to be in one of those seats. so he is thinking about his own future here. >> sure. but he also is somebody who has, and it's not just in this instance. we've seen him crop up in some of these other places, things to do with mueller and the intelligence community that, you know, raised some questions about exactly. i'm with you in that i don't fully have my head around it either. but he clearly has decided that loyalty to trump is the number one. >> it is.

michael, look, as with jennifer horn, you are not -- maybe she was on the anti-trump train longer than you, but you've been on this train a long time too. [ laughter ] >> yeah. >> i feel like i need to ask you. the>> and i do wonder at what point do you say to yourself i'm not a member of the republican party? >> for me it's much more fundamental than trump. and that's why responses like the one you just referred to and others from elected officials are so gauling. the question who is trump to the republican elected officials you are referring to? he is their messiah. that is that simple. he's made it very clear. >> sorry about that one, jennifer, about the chosen one. >> and let's just put it on the street that now we all know where everybody stands. and because in the face of everything over the last two and a half years, cannot find one

scintilla to stand in opposition against charlottesville, against baltimore and against now this latest affront to the jewish people, then clearly you do not have it within with you to buck your messiah. >> on one hand, you would think it's not coalition to unite against this behavior. but how could democrats screw this up? >> well, before i get to that, i do want to say that the reasons why trump is abnormal in many ways. but in many ways he is a typical republican when it comes to policy. tax cuts for the rich. trying to take away obamacare. regulations, appointing judges that are anti-choice, right? so that's why a lot of these republicans, they're scared of primaries, but they like that. that's their sugar high. they get these policies so they forgive all this crazy stuff he says. now the way that democrats i

think -- i don't think they're going to screw it up. but they need to make an argument in 2020 that they are going to be good stewards of the economy the way that obama was, the way that bill clinton was because if you take the economy argument away from trump, he collapses. >> jennifer, is there -- is it worth challenging trump in new hampshire? mark sanford says he came away thinking there's a path to 30, 35%. that's if you can get a path to 30, 35, that's worth doing. but it doesn't sound like the republican electorate's really that open to this. and if you have the conservative echo chamber the way it is, they're not really going to open the doors for these candidates, right? >> well, actually, no. i think that there's absolutely value in challenging donald trump in new hampshire. first of all we know that there is an in spite of the high numbers of republicans who say that they are satisfied with the president, there is a

significant percentage who consistently say that, yeah, i'd be open to a primary. the president should see a primary appear. but more important than that is that there has to be somebody who stands the -- who holds the ground for those republicans who have always rejected what donald trump brings to the table. i've said many times we cannot allow history to look back.

because americans are on the side of this president that are also that they need to vote for them as well. and, you know, that is the fundamental problem. >> i think that's a -- by the way they are also being told that this greenland stuff is normal. what's happening on the conservative echo chamber in this business on the other channel beyond enabling. >> it's beyond enabling. it's just the worst kind of, you know. but you put your finger on a

very important point, kasie in, terms of how these voters look. and none of these individuals are willing to lose their seat over principle as jennifer noted. >> and everyone who has, has gotten punished, the most recent being justin amage. >> that does seem to be why these elected fear this. the punishment is severe. do they care about their careers that much? >> well, you know, i hope that's not it. but my belief has always been that itf all of them stood together, they would be the force to be reckoned with. it is incredibly disappointing to realize how many of them individually had been -- are apparently personally weak that they feel that they did not hold

their ground. i feel that the american voters will reward principle that, they will reward strength and people who will stand firm. and i always look to the suspect because the senate is the body that we look to. and had the majority of the republican senators stood together when the president took office and said we are not going to tolerate this, we will stand with you when you are right on policy, but you're going to hear from us when you behave in this manner, i think we might've had a very different last two and a half years. they do have the power and the ability, and they are choosing not to. >> the ben sasse twitter feed in 2017 was strong. he is now running for re-election. jennifer horn. >> they are trying to fix this in private. it's not working. >> this isn't working. that's what i say about covering trump. what we're doing is not working. jennifer, thank you very much.

i know this was a crazy day for you. so i appreciate you making time. >> i very much appreciate the opportunity. thank you. >> stick around. aup head, as some republicans continue to enable the president, how are the democrats supposed to handle this chaos? we're going to break down their potential options. but first the new trump administration plan that is drawing a lot of outrage and soon a lot of court challenges. they want to make it easier for the government to hold migrant children longer. they think they can get around a lawsuit. we'll be back to see if they're right. every day, visionaries are creating the future.

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i am the one that kept the families together. you remember that, right? just remember i said it. and now it gets even better. president obama and others brought the families apart. but i'm the one that kept the families together with what we're doing now, we'll do even more of that, but it'll make it almost impossible for people to come into our country illegally. >> that was president trump earlier today when he was asked

about this new rule that will allow the administration potentially to detain migrant families with children indefinitely. right now a court ruling limits the detentions of migrant children to 20 days, whether they are with their family or not. the trump administration has been trying to find a way around that, it goes back to the '90s. well, today's announcement is likely to hit a number of legal speed bumps because president trump believes it's all part of his effort to deter illegal immigrants from coming into the country. here is julia ainsley, of course our person who is all things immigration for us at msnbc news. i guess the shorter way to say it is he wants to be able to detain families together and deport them together. the bottom line is they do not get to spend any time out of a detention facility, when the it's in this country or mexico. >> this is the selling point,

but what's really happening is they want to deter families from coming here altogether by not letting them out. right now if you come here as a family you go into a family residential center. we have two of those in texas and a smaller one in pennsylvania. and then you're released after 20 days and you have a court date that can be set years into the future. and if you have a lawyer or you're under some sort of monitoring program, you are more likely to show up. and that all immigrants, 82% do not show up for their court date. and so that's a big problem so they want to detain them to make sure they go to court. >> and i've seen whether it's j. johnson or kevin mcaleenan say both make the case that this law has been exploited by the coyotes. and that is that there is certainly if you take your views of president trump out of this, and it is hard for a lot of people to take the personal -- this is not a law that's worked.

>> so in 2014 when we saw the rise of families come across the border, the obama administration started this place in artesia in mexico to hold families. they were the first to have these family residential centers. in 2015 that flores settlement agreement, the judge said it applies even to children with their parents. >> and you are violating it. >> and you did see the numbers of families go up. the thing here, though, is the way they are trying to get around it. they are saying that because the judge says that you cannot hold a child in a facility that isn't state licensed and no state has ever licensed these facilities, we'll have i.c.e. license them. it's sort of like waving a magic wand without actually going to court and getting something changed without having congress work on this. so they know they're going to have a challenge on it. >> can they implement this policy before the court battle is finished? >> no. officials told us this last night. they say there is no way this is going through in october. >> this is summer of next year

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welcome back. as we said at the top of today's show and as we have said on this show many times before, what is happening right now in this white house is not just not normal, not just unamerican, i mean, it is wildly beyond any

imagination other than the onion could've come up with. what is happening in all of american politics right now is not normal. comedian john melaney summed up the trump presidency with i think the single best piece of satire that i've seen with this metaphor in his netflix special in 2018. >> it's like there's a horse loose in a hospital. [ laughter ] it's like there's a horse loose in a hospital. i think eventually everything's going to be okay. but i have no idea what's going to happen next. and neither do any of you, and neither do your parents because there's a horse loose in the hospital. [ laughter ] >> whenever you're trying to explain greenland, you're better off just saying there is a horse loose in the hospital. the democrat running against president trump, whoever that turns out to be, will have to confront this unprecedented moment and this unprecedented president. no matter the messages and plans put forward by the two dozen candidates, there are some democrats out there who just

want to vote for the person who think has the best chance to get the horse out of the hospital. let's bring back our experts. kasie, doug, and michael. so, doug, let me start with you. this seems to be the heated debate in the democratic party right now, which is there are times when you see the performance of him in the last 72 hours when you say are you guys really debating medicare for all in the public option right now when you've got that? >> right. >> like, how do you -- how do you do this? i don't think it's easy. >> well, i think -- and that's why for someone like joe biden, a moment like this is going to probably strengthen him because it's easy for him to say, look, like you may not necessarily agree with me on medicare for all or certain things i did in the past. but we've got an absolutely crazy person in the white house. >> the horse in the hospital. >> who is unstable, who is rambling and incoherent and is also deeply divisive. so the number one priority that we need to put forward as a party is to get him out of office. so at a moment like this, this is a good moment for joe biden,

bad for the country, good for joe biden and some other -- i think you could also argue kamala harris and some other more folks who are in the pragmatic lane when trump recedes, that's when i think you see someone like elizabeth warren who sort of touches people's hearts and bernie sanders maybe, you know, gain some strength. >> alex had a great little piece about this, kasie. he wrote this back in june, our buddy alex wrote this. at time it's can feel like the democratic primary voters are playing a giant game of apples to apples, where win not by picking the cards you like the most, but by guessing which ones you think your fellow players are like. only this one the other players are imaginary swing voters from the future. they get all these iowans to come up with them and say tell me your plan of how you're going to carry this county. they're all gaming this out, even the voters at least in iowa. >> and that is the electability question.

and, you know, i kind of wonder, i mean, on the one hand, electability,,quote/unquote, is a huge trap. john kerry -- >> it's such in the eye of the beholder. in other times when the party's played it safe and it hasn't worked out. i think this may be a slightly different situation just because of all the things that you've laid out in the last half an hour. i think voters really are feeling as though this was a huge thing that broke the country's been broken for two years now. we don't know if the hospital is going to get put back together the right way, and all they want to do is fix it. and, you know, i think that the challenge for each one of these democratic candidates is how do they rise to that occasion because it really is, you know, the moment demands it. but at the same time these are imperfect people running imperfect campaigns. and to a certain extent, that is a lot of pressure. and joe biden, quite frankly,

you know, can he survive 15 months of these moments over and over again? >> here's the other thing. how much is the public going to enjoy what will become a daily back and forth that might look a little something like this? here's our man peter alexander today with the president talking joe biden. >> sir, joe biden's gaffes, you like to attack joe biden for his gaffes. >> this guy is the most biased reporter, nbc. i made a lot of money for nbc with "the apprentice," and i used to like them, but they are the most biased. peter is such a biased. he should be able to ask a question, same question, in a better way. >> i'll ask the question. >> you are so obviously bias and that's why the public has no confidence in the media. >> sir, i just said joe biden's gaffes. i'll ask my question. >> joe biden doesn't -- >> you that the mass shoot being happened in toledo.

>> joe biden doesn't have it. >> first of all, peter alexander is an extraordinarily fairly colleague reporter and an upstanding citizen. >> but the idea that there is nothing better for a journalist than to get attacked by donald trump. obviously you are doing your job when he's attacking you. in that sense, peter was doing his job. >> no, he was. and hats off to peter because he didn't get an answer to the question, and that's what a lot of journalists have been faced with. >> but this is what trump wants to do.

>> sometimes you've got to play. do you want to go into a private chamber? just give us the real feeling. >> i think one of the big challenges is to not fall for all the things that trump does and not to follow all the different shiny objects and focus in on a couple different things where he is very vulnerable. i think one of the biggest ones is he is out for himself. and voters believe that he is out for himself. these are the ones who like them. one really good example of this is north korea. north korea has not changed their behavior at all. but the reason why he is cozying up and defending kim jong-un is

because kim jong-un likes him and he says nice things about him. and you can apply

welcome back. when congress returns from august recess, one of the first major legislative battles is going to be about the gun issue.

today the organization march for our lives rolled out a sweeping proposal. the march for our lives of course was founded in the aftermath of the high school shooting in parkland, florida, north of fort lauderdale. they are calling this plan a peace plan for a safer america. and it goes beyond the typical debates we've been having. this includes an assault rifle ban. an extensive licensing process which would require upwards of a ten-day waiting period. reforms on mental health, voter registration and more. a younger generation says they are ready for some bigger changes. joining me now is a march for our lives. and chris brown. she is the president of brady, an organization of course that works to prevent gun violence. i appreciate you both coming here. you're not of the same organization, but you have similar goals. you guys had the headlines

today. the washington smarty pants people are going to say, yeah, that's too bold, it's too big. explain what many people said that's a bold plan, good for you, but i don't know if congress can pass it. >>. >> they talk about it being too overly ambitious. but show us another plan. let's collaborate. let's do because our country is in a state where mass shooting has become normalized and kids are experiencing gun violence every day. we need to strategize. we need to hold our government accountable for what they're doing and we all need to have a plan. because what are we doing? what are we going to wait for? >> chris, you've been in an organization that's been in some ways trying to fight this. and this had a hard time. >> the nra has a stranglehold or did. i think we are finding out. and we'll see. they have their own reckoning they are dealing with.

but sometimes if you go too bold and you lose, then suddenly you can't -- is there a down side of trying to go too bold? >> i think that first of all i want to applaud march for our lives for movement to say what the north star is. >> to change the debate and we don't want to start with a compromised position. we have epidemic. >> the last administration did that too often. here's what we'll accept. no, no, no, go for the unacceptable and then accept. >> to lead the way and to say to the politicians in elected office, if you want to actually meet the feeds of thneeds of th that elected a gun prevention majority in the house of representatives, here's what you need to do. the kinds of things they're outlining states have done and brady has long embraced many provisions in that plan. >> is this something, how are you guys going to push this plan? are you hoping to go to state

legislature by state legislature and then put the pressure on congress? what are some of the ways you want to see the plan get out. >> it's a trickle effect justice happening long-term. >> we want to put the hold on politicians, this needs to happen now in effect and the plan we talk about decreasing -- >> keep going. >> we talk about saving lives, 200,000 american lives every year within ten years of our plan. that might seem unattainable but we want the plan to happen and let congress know this needs to be implemented as soon as possible. >> how often have you seen a firearm in and around school? >> i just graduated from white suburban but live in inn daily. i've seen people shot. and kids release a plan of how to save our lives.

it's important if we need to these conversations can together and also holding people accountable who aren't enforcing legislation, this enwhat's the conversation? >> chris, the reason i asked it that way, i've been, our younger staffers here a little bit older than you are, briah, when we've talked about safety concerns and the trail, multiple of these younger colleagues of mine, oh, yeah, i survived this shooting or i had this happen where i grew up. and it isn't -- there's no longer just a bad neighborhood nine of thing. it is universal. it tuesdayed to be the debate was policy people. the personalization of this is changing the debate. >> i think it's deeply personal for people. we basically have an entire nation right now that is suffering some form of ptsd. look what just happened about ten days ago in new york city. it was all captured and recorded in times square, there was backfire. it was motorcycle backfire but

people thought that it was gunfire. and they ran for their lives. people are having issues walking into movie theaters. walking into school. and the thing is, this is uniquely american problem. for a lot of kids, what really is important for people to understand is the lock down drills in and of themselves that they're going through at school is creating anxiety that's a permanent state of beinging. > i think you bring this up, the lock down drills can, have these been a good idea for you? >> definitely not. in my experience, we would have a drill and kids were burst out and cry and so much anxiety. tsd did, you think of kids never being asked if you're okay living in inner cities or after experiencing a mass shooting because it's normalized. you have to go through it and move on because there's no one saying this is not okay. i shouldn't have to ask you are you okay. you shouldn't be going through drills and hearing an gunshots outside of your window.

>> chris, what would you say -- bre has probably asked you already and explain how can you explain why this is -- why something like expanding background checks that has 0% can't get through congress? >> it's very, very hard to explain when you have an issue like americans. sometimes i even hate putting out that number because it's almost unbelievable. >> and then it makes you feel even less, we can't get this done? >> the reality is, the stranglehold has happened at the federal level because of the nra. their star is diminishing. let's not forget the new york attorney general and now the d.c. attorney general have both issued investigations. we know all the issues with the nra and outspent them significantly in the last election cycle. based on what we've just discussed, all of americans are really internalizing this differently and state after state, we have expanded

background checks, more than half of states have expanded background checks, 17 states have extreme risk laws. congress needs to get the memo that the american people want this. >> briah, your generation feels more post partisan. i hope you stay that way. we'll see. but you know, you guys are having a conversation that has not gotten politicized. how do you -- how do you give us advice to not politicize it? >> to be honest if you, if i'm shot and killed, the bullet doesn't discriminate. it doesn't matter the party. this transverses all party lines, racial lines, everything. a bullet does not discriminate. we cannot politicize this issue and polarize people's lives. people are dying each day because a bullet didn't discriminate to kill them. if we show politicians boys killed bid police, maybe they'll understand the bullet didn't

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that's all we have for tonight. we'll be back tomorrow with more "meet the press" daily. if it's wednesday, there's an all new chuck todd cast. my guest this week matt bayh. politico's gabby orr and "the

wall street journal" rick timorose. "the beat with ari melber" starts right now. >> good evening, chuck. thank you very much. a lot going on tonight. donald trump picking fights with a u.s. ally. donald trump caving to the nra over background checks and democrats say whistleblowers warning about improper influence in donald trump's infamous tax audit. we begin with what you call the ridiculous obscuring and extreme power power grab which may fail in the courts. there's a lot of news this week that could be from the onion, denmark punking trump over his musings about buying green lond. trump canceling a visit to a u.s. ally. and, of course, t