nicolle wallace, our thanks. let's bring in our panel of journalists who will from time to time tonight we'll lean on for reaction. vivian solana is with us, we're proud to say an incoming nbc news national political reporter, after, if you ask us, spending way too long at that wire service, the associated press. but we're so happy to have her on board. matthew nussbaum, political white house reporter, is back with us. here in the studio, a "boston glo globe" columnist. indira, you're here with us. same reaction, same question as to nicolle, your reaction to these twin stories. and we're just getting started, there are others. >> triple, quadruple, quintuple. >> these two lead stories from the white house. >> certainly the arpaio thing, the president had telegraphed for everybody clearly, by saying let me tell you he's going to be okay, i'm not going to do it tonight, but you can be comfortable, all but promised it. this was clearly telegraphed. it is shocking. it's shocking because this is a man who flagrantly,

political journalist john heilman appearing with nicolle wallace this afternoon. and on that same broadcast, former four-star u.s. army general barry mccaffrey. >> the president's words this week were extremely unwise and rash and unsophisticated. you have to be very careful when you threaten a nuclear war. you do not want to back your adversary into a corner. >> it is ridiculous. it's like movie language. this is the movie of comic books, like he's playing a president. he's doing this thing, which he's talking away action heroes talk, not the way presidents talk with the power of life and death in their hands. >> we've turned to the north koreans and kim jong-un, if he takes a provocative measure, if he fires on guam, i think we're going to take military action. i'm almost sure the president can't retreat from this position. once military blows are exchanged, i think the chance of going to all-out conventional war are significant. he still doesn't have a usable nuclear capability. i don't think we're going to go there. but i do think the president is saying he's

jack jacobs, you were on the air during nicolle wallace's 4:00 p.m. hour.ut to see you in a clip. matt dowd was on talking about the president's historical limitations and how it colors what he says and doesn't say. we'll play that clip. one of the quotes of the day on this network, and we'll talk to the colonel right after this. >> he has no concept of history. today is the anniversary of dropping the bomb on nagasaki. when he announced that transgender people would not be in the military, it was on the anniversary of desegregating the military. >> right. >> he has no concept of what he says and how it relates to history. >> if those are indeed the president's limitations, were you surprised to learn that general kelly, alongside him, chief of staff was surprised to hear those words on north korea? >> not at all. i think general kelly has the mission of trying to corral him, but he knows he can't. he is trying the best with the people around the president, but at the end of the day, there's no way you can tell this guy how to act and what to do. he is goin

host, nicolle wallace, who let's not forget was communications director in the bush 43 white house. >> look at the need for that regime in they have nuclear weapons. it's intolerable from the president's perspective. so of course we have to provide all options to do that, and that includes a military option. now, would we like to resolve it short of what would be a very costly war in terms of the suffering of mainly the south korean people, the ability of that north korean regime to hold the south hostage, to conventional fires, capabilities, seoul being so close. we're cognizant of all that. so what we have to do is everything we can to pressure this regime, to pressure kim jong-un and those around him such that they conclude it is in their interest to denuclearize. >> eli stokols, i'm going to say something that may be too provocative for sort of the times we're in. but the last time i heard a white house national security adviser talk about a gathering threat like that in public was when we were talking about the threat posed by iraq when we thought they possessed weapons of massiv

i'm nicolle wallace.s right now. >> well, if it's friday, president trump is facing two storms. tonight irreconcilable differences. who wince in the president's parent divorce from his party and whose party is it any way? plus, tracking hurricane harvey. >> texas is about to have a very significant disaster. >> we'll have the latest forecast as the biggest storm to hit the u.s. in more than a decade barrels towards the texas coast. and lessons from katrina. we'll talk to former fema director michael brown about the potential pitfalls of disaster response. >> what everyone is focused on right now is ensuring that we do all we can to protect life. >> this is "mtp daily," and it starts right

nicole wallace, "mtp daily" starts right now.you know as well as anybody when you're president, don't assume august will be nice to you. >> that's right. >> august can be very cruel to sitting presidents. thank you. happy friday. well, if it's friday, it's the best of times, it's the worst of times. and actually, just depends on who you ask. tonight, president trump throws out red meat in a red state. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. >> but while the base cheers, the president is facing push back from his own party's le

"deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace begins right now. >>> hi. everyone. it's 4:00. donald trump appears like the presidential version of a cartoon character with a good angel on one shoulder and a devilish troublemaker on the other shoulder, one who amplifies his most divisive instincts. today, his prince of darkness officially parted ways with the white house. steve bannon fired exactly two weeks after general kelly took over. the white house press secretary releasing this statement. quote, white house chief of staff john kelly and steve bannon have mutually agreed today would be steve's last day. we are grateful for his service and wish him the best. two trump advisers telling me today that bannon's departure was one inevitable, and two, a good day for the west wing. two prominent leaders aligned with bannon's politics both said that the decision to remove him from the west wing was quote fine as he clearly had become a distraction. let's get right to our reporters. jonathan swann of axios, one of the first to break this news. and phil rucker from "the washington

. >> nicolle wallace, former white house communications director. are you surprised at all? >> not really but i have to really underscore what peter baker is saying. these two -- reminds me in jerry maguire, you complete me. steve bannon was donald trump's soul mate in terms of embracing and advocating and advancing the nativism, isolationism, without steve bannon -- racism. without steve bannon, donald trump isn't any less ismy. this came down to one of the oldest stories in white house history, an internal civil war that was under the surface for a long time, remains under the surface. bannon would still have his job and still be advocating all sort of the ugliest instincts on the president's behalf. his era was what sort of brings down a lot of men if you will, sorry present company xlutded i'm sure. he took the fight against mcmaster into public and fight against his colleagues to the air waves and print press. that he became so emboldened by what he view as the soulmate agreement with donald trump on the instincts for all of these efforts to blow up everything the repub

i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now.myself, it's just august. it's just somebody that's bored. >> you promised august pain. i blame you. >> maybe the rhetoric is just due to boredom. thank you. if it's tuesday, president trump sends quite the new warning over to north korea. >>> tonight, going nuclear. >> north korea has passed a significant milestone. >> what north korea's latest advancement in their nuclear program means for the safety of the united states.

i am nicolle wallace. we've been watching together as donald trump makes big headlines of his own in an effort that began with elaine chiou, his secretary of transportation, serving as his easel in the announcement that over permitting is a disgrace. donald trump proceeded to double down on his all sides are to blame for the violence in charlottesville, virginia, this weekend. donald trump proceeded to engage with the reporters for about 25 minutes. let me go to you, frank bruni, for your thoughts with, one, his attacks on john mccain and, two, his posing the question that maybe george washington's monuments and thomas jefferson's monuments should come down next. >> let us not forget him taking this serious national moment to tell us how large his winery is. we'll talk about the 25 minutes not just for the rest of the week but for aening long time come. i was shaking my head. i felt like, minus the flames it was an act of self-imolation by a man who can't take criticism. he obviously meant what he said on

and that seems to work but msnbc for anybody on the right or anti-trump has now hired nicole wallace that are three republicans but not conservatives. >> but there still figuring out where they are. >> every now again chris matthews falls and hits his head to say something that is surprising. do you know, what i mean? just want to stay in the middle of the month. >> like trumpet became president tonight when he did something. >> we need to watch the time. >> let me get psycho questions from the audience. >> do you miss them?. >> i missed the five. so taken aback six years when roger ailes said i am leaving the of 5:00 to go do my thing at the end of december this was july. so roger ailes has a new issue. and with his to say i want five people and used to be a broadway producer with that broadway production i want somebody like the girl next door i need somebody freddie. kind of like foster brooks type of character may be even bob beckel. [laughter] it was july 11 to launch the big boys show and this is not going anywhere. this is a true story but once in awhile favoring some stuff ou

and earlier today in this very room on the air was nicole wallace, her fellow veteran of the john mccain campaign and life long republican steve schmidt picked up on those ominous words from the senator while calling the other republicans flat out cowards. >> good for the chairman of the foreign relations committee that he said it because they are cowards, nicole. simple as that. you would see the yellow streak running down their backs and when you look at the behavior, the lack of rectitude on the commander in chief, of course the nation is in peril. we live in profoundly dangerous times and when you see someone acting with the recklessness and the lack of preparedness, the possibility of their being great tragedy should not be -- should not be lost on anyone. >> that gets your attention as well. and joining us tonight, to talk about it, correspondent edward ike -- isaac, and christina bell bellantoni at "the new york times". and isaac, will we start seeing a trickle you think, to listen to both of those men, steve schmidt bleeds republican red. he is mourning for this wing of his party

moments ago, he told my colleague nicolle wallace that this was the wrong time for president trump to visit. the mayor also wrote in "the washington post" -- america is hurting largely because trump has doused racial tensions with gasoline. with hess planned visit to phoenix tonight, i fear the president may be looking to light a match. there was fear the match might be pardonening joe arpaio, the controversial sheriff who is facing jail time for violating a court order stemming from a racial profiling case. but moments ago the white house said he would not, at least not today. tension from what happened in charlottesville are still raw, just ask the president's allies in congress and the white house who crisscrossed the air waves in the past 24 hours. >> i do believe that he messed up in his comments on tuesday when it -- it sounded like a more equivocation or at the very least moral ambiguity. >> what were you thinking last week when you saw the president blame both sides for the violence, when he said that very fine people were marching with the white supremacists? >> i picked up t

nicole wallace, former bush 43 white house aide asked again on air which members of the cabinet will resign over the president's words. it was with great interest today that the political world heard what you are about to hear, the words of tennessee republican senator, bob corker. he is chairman of the former relations committee, and he is known in the senate mostly as a thoughtful, hard worker and going into today he had a good working relationship with donald trump. here is what republican bob corker said about the president today back home in tennessee. >> i do think we need radical changes. the president has not yet -- has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful. he also recently has not demonstrated that he understands the character of this nation. he has not demonstrated that he understands what has made this nation great and what it is today. >> corker was not alone. republican senator tim scott of south carolina called on trump to act with moral authority. >> i am not going to defend th

today appearing with nicolle wallace on our 4:00 p.m. eastern hour our 9:00 a.m. host stephanie rule, a veteran of the investment banking business, was having none of the trump claim that he decided to dismantle these business councils. >> first of all, president trump's tweet today that he dismantled the councils is a lie. so we're going to walk through the timeline. president trump made those comments on saturday. the ceos were furious about it. by monday they settled down because he restated and warmed up a little bit and they stayed fine. but last night, they said enough is enough. not because they're calling him a racist or nazi sympathizer, because these men and women have businesses to run. they're pragmatists, risk managers and don't want to deal with this nonsense. >> many are now closely watching members of the cabinet and the trump white house staff to see if there will be any resignations to see if anyone will depart over principle from the president who equated the nazis and white supremacists with those who are gone to charlottesville to protest agai

hour of nicole wallace's broadcast today and i'm going to play something she said in the moment on the air. remember as you watch this, this was the communications director for president bush 43 and a lifelong republican. >> who resigns, who resigns over this? who resigns? which one of you can't live with yourselves for working for a guy that elicits praise from david duke. tell me who resigns. mcmaster is a general, deena powell used to be an executive on wall street, kellyanne conway owned a company. his kids. what do they do. >> so ashley, what are you hearing from the west wing tonight and how will tomorrow look or seem any different for them in. >> well it's in the west wing frustrated, exacerbated, even stunned but not quite surprised. they were stunned that he would go out and say this publicly and undo all of their hard work and undo his agenda but again they weren't surprise fd for president to go off script and to hear these sentiments expressed from their boss. the reaction was more muted than you might expect for a day like this. i do think tomorrow all eyes are on general

i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now. >> hi, nicolle.f it is thursday, new threats from the president against the gop. tonight, the president versus his own party. >> i think the relationships are fine. certainly there are going to be some policy differences. >> who would america blame if the government shuts down. >> it's really important that the president succeeds because it he

. >> earlier today again on nicole wallace's show, he talked about his five linemen theory, the fiveo are protecting the country in his view, it's hailey tiller son, mattis, mcmaster, and kelly. that last name, kelly, the subject of this segment, are you surprised with all the ballyhoo about the systems he was going to enact, the controls that the statement comes out of the president's mouth on north korea yesterday kelly is as surprised as anyone else, are you surprised there wasn't work that goes into something like that? >> there's going to growing pains. but there were conversations about it, and general kelly's been clear talking to people inside and outside the white house that everyone -- he doesn't want to be there to manage the president, he wants to manage the president's inputs. ultimately the president was elected by the american people, and general kelly feels it's not his role or that he has the capacity to change donald trump. he goes into that eyes wide open. he feels if he can control the inputs, he can have some sort of impact on the outputs. the phrase we're going

i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts now. >> hi there, nicolle.y, forever is going to start tonight. tonight a total eclipse of the presidency? >> i think the president failed to meet the standard that we would have expected a president to do in a time like that. >> after charlottesville, president trump tried to turn the page, but changing the subject won't change the divisions in the republican party. plus, after slamming the war in afghanistan on the campaign trail. >> wasted six trillion dollars on wars in the meelgds east. we could have rebuilt our country twice. >> president trump will address the nation tonight on the path forward. >>> and

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"deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >>> hi, everyone. it's 4:00.ot have a rain plan in bedminster where he's spending a 17-day working vacation. he hit twitter early and hard in a tweet storm that encompassed the known triggers. the size of his base, quote, the trump base is far bigger and stronger than ever before. despite some phony fake news polling. look at rallies in pennsylvania, iowa, ohio and west virginia. the fact is that the fake russian news collusion story, record stock market, border security, military strength, jobs, supreme court pick, economic enthusiasm, deregulation and so much more have driven the base even closer together. will never change. at 7:18 a.m. he moved on to his disdain for the press, quote, hard to believe that with 24/7 fake news on cnn, abc, nbc, cbs, ny times, "washington post" the

i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now. hi, chuck. >> i keep trying to comfort myself, it's just august. it's just somebody that's bored. >> you promised august pain. i blame you. >> maybe the rhetoric is just due to boredom. thank you. if it's tuesday, president trump sends quite the new warning over to north korea. >>> tonight, going nuclear. >> north korea has passed a significant milestone. >> what north korea's latest advancement in their nuclear program means for the safety of the united states. >> north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. >> don't know much about geography? can democrats plot out a successful plan to beat back their geographic disadvantage in 2018? the password is -- why everything you know about those pesky, complicated, tough-to-remember online passwords is totally wrong. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> good evening. welcome to "mtp daily." i'm chuck todd here in washington. we, of course, end

deadline white house with nicolle wallace starts right now. >>> hi, everyone. it's 4:00. donald trump today returns to the place where it all began. phoenix, arizona, at a rally there tonight president trump is expected to wrap himself in the themes that animated his campaign from its infancy, a border wall with mexico. a hard-line on immigration, support for controversial sheriff joe arpaio. phoenix was one of the first official stops on donald trump's campaign. and the rally catapulted him to the top of the gop field where he remained. >> i don't blame the mexican government. i just wish our people were smart. they're really smart. they're sending them to us and we're either putting them in jails or letting them go free, which is even worse. by the way, they're coming from all over the world. including the middle east. why not. come on. come on in. we're stupid. we'll take care of you. we'll pay. >> as the "washington post" chronicles in a new article this afternoon about the significance of the july 2015 rally in phoenix. quote, the rambling speech hit on immigration,

i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now with chuck todd. >> good luck to that person who wants to be the twitter editor. >>> if it's tuesday, does the white house have a flake news problem? tonight, taking on trump. >> to be conservative, you can't embrace conspiracy theorys or to talk about alternative facts. >> is this just one senator's searing indictment of the president and his party or a canary in the republican coal mine? >>> plus -- >> i do want to be clear, the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement. >> the story out of the white house on that don junior russian meeting has changed, again. >>> and controlling the chaos. >> somehow they've got to restore some sense of discipline. and frankly, the chief of staff has a responsibility to do that. >> i'll speak to the man who, among a lot of other things, is a former white house chief of staff brought in to right a ship. this is "mtp daily." and it starts right now. >>> good evening, i'm chuck todd in new york. welcome t

i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now. >> hi, nicolle. and if it is thursday, new threats from the president against the gop. tonight, the president versus his own party. >> i think the relationships are fine. certainly there are going to be some policy differences. >> who would america blame if the government shuts down. >> it's really important that the president succeeds because it he succeeds, then the country succeeds. >> plus culture wars. >> i love all the people of our country. >> does his rhetoric trump his lack of accomplishments. and the democrats, no leader, no agenda and no majority in congress. could their future lie outside of washington? we'll hear from colorado governor john hick enloorp, who may run for president. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm katy terr in new york in for chuck todd. and welcome to "mtp daily." the president has a lot of jobs but perhaps two of the biggest are leading his party and running the government. so why is he scorching his parties leadership, threatening them

deadline white house with nicolle wallace starts right now. >>> hi, everyone. it's 4:00. trump today returns to the place where it all began. phoenix, arizona, at a rally there tonight president trump is expected to wrap himself in the themes that animated his campaign from its infancy, a border wall with mexico. a hard-line on immigration, support for controversial sheriff joe arpaio. phoenix was one of the first official stops on donald trump's campaign. and the rally catapulted him to the top of the gop field where he remained. >> i don't blame the mexican government. i just wish our people were smart. they're really smart. they're sending them to us and

"deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >>> hi, everyone.empt, donald trump outed racism as evil and specifically condemned the kkk and neo-nazis as repugnant. it was a response more than 50 hours in the making and it followed two days of public remarks from the president and the white house that came up well short of what many members of his own party called for in response to violence incited in charlottesville, virginia. here's the president this afternoon at the white house. >> racism is evil. and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs. including the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as americans. we are a nation founded on the truth that all of us

i'm nicole wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now. >> hi, nicole. thanks fork making me swallow a little bit harder, gene, with that final comment. true words for sure. if it's wednesday, the republican party has a choice to make. tonight, the search for moral authority. after the president's two sides conflagration, will republicans continue to allow the president to define their party? >> i stand with the president, and i stand by those words. >> plus, going out of business. the president zols his business advisory councils after an exoh did you say of ceos. is president trump too toxic for corporate america? >> and confronting the challenges of dealing with hundreds of confederate monuments still standing in public spaces throughout the country. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> well, good evening. i'm chuck todd here at headquarters in new york city. folks, for all the republicans who criticize the president for missing the moment on charltszville, this is arguably their moment and frankly the rest of the republican party seems pa

i'm nicole wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now. >> hi, nicole. a little bit harder, gene, with that final comment. true words for sure. if it's wednesday, the republican party has a choice to make. tonight, the search for moral authority. after the president's two sides conflagration, will republicans continue to allow the president to define their party? >> i stand with the president, and i stand by t

i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts now. >> hi there, nicolle. in it's monday, forever is going to start tonight. tonight a total eclipse of the presidency? >> i think the president failed to meet the standard that we would have expected a president to do in a time like that. >> after charlottesville, president trump tried to turn the page, but changing the subject won't change the divisions in the republican party. plus, after slamming the war in afghanistan on the campaign trail. >> wasted six trillion dollars on wars in the meelgds east. we could have rebuilt our country twice. >> president trump will address the nation tonight on the path forward. >>> and challenging the first amendment. should extremist groups have the right to rally? we'll delve into the power and pitfalls of free speech. this is m pt daily and it starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm katy terr in new york in for chuck todd. it was a remarkable day and it promises to be a remarkable night. today the country saw a celestial spectacle. tonight they'll get something of a pol

i'm nicole wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now. >> watch the forecast, nicole.e really telling, right? >> if it is monday, surrender to the flow. tonight, divided sky, the wind blows high in gop country. how can the party in power get back to track after its 200-day agenda goes down? plus, kim jong-un's end game as pyongyang promises retaliation for u.s. sanctions. what further action is the u.s. ready to take? >> stop these missile launches. >> and seeking sanctions waer. will california take the feds to court over immigration enforcement. >> resolve in in a judicial forum rather than the rhetoric of p

i'm nicole wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now. >> watch the forecast, nicole. that's going to be really telling, right? >> if it is monday, surrender to the flow. tonight, divided sky, the wind blows high in gop country. how can the party in power get back to track after its 200-day agenda goes down? plus, kim jong-un's end game as pyongyang promises retaliation for u.s. sanctions. what further action is the u.s. ready to take? >> stop these missile launches. >> and seeking sanctions waer. will california take the feds to court over immigration enforcement. >> resolve in in a judicial forum rather than the rhetoric of politicians talking past one another. >> this is "mtp daily," and it starts right now. >>> good evening and welcome to "mtp daily." i'm katy terr. welcome to day 200 of the trump presidency. that's right. 200, not two,000. day 200. president trump is at his summer home in bedminster, new jersey. congress is on recess, and despite the dog days of summer, the same problems persist for this white house and its party. after 200 days, president trump s

i'm nicole wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now. hi, chuck. >> hi, nicole. so the four o'clock breaker. >> you get a little bit of news sometimes. come on. >> good work ask approximate a good start to this. good evening. another whirl winld day in the city. lake breaking news on guess what, russia. wall street journal is reporting that special counsel rob mueller has impaneled his own grand jury in washington for the russian probe. not just using somebody else's grand jury but using his own. that's a significant deal. the paper calls the move a ramp up in the investigation and a sign of the investigation's growing intensity. that news is breaking on the same day republicans on the hill produced legislation to make it harder for the president to fire the special counsel bob mueller. let's get right to the breaking news here. and we bring in our nbc news intelligence and national security reporter. so, ken, i want to clear one thing up right at the top. have we confirmed that special counsel bob mueller has impaneled his own grand jury, because this would be u

i am mike barnicle, filling in for nicolle wallace.try turns to the president today, who is in texas, as he faces the first natural disaster of his presidency. emergency crews have been working around the clock, and thousands of people have been rescued as the texas coast and greater houston area battle catastrophic flooding from what is now tropical storm harvey. some areas are expecting to see an additional one to two feet of rain. right now the president is in austin, texas, but this afternoon he visited corpus christi, one of the coastal cities that initially felt the brunt of harvey as a category 3 hurricane but has not seen nearly the same kind of flood damage that the houston area is suffering through at the moment. the president was briefed on relief efforts by fema, the coast guard, and the national guard. and he delivered the following message. >> i can tell you that my folks were telling me how great the -- your representatives have been in working together. it's a real team. we want to do it better than ever before. we

. >> what did you hear in that as you told nicolle wallace at 4:00 p.m. today? >> i heard a president who is aware of the reaction and a person who as we all know, when you cover him, he never goes back. he never walks anything back, but, you know, to phil's point, this was a guy who went out today twice. clearly wanted to speak. he wanted to create a lot of news, but honestly, didn't seem to have a ton to say that was new or substantive that provided clarity on these subjects. there was more of the same brashness and bluster on north korea, and i think it was phil when he was asked, what does fire and fury mean? he said, you'll see. the same question came up at the second briefing. the answer again was, you'll see. they will see. nobody knows what that means. it's so opaque, and that's typical of his statements too. he throws a lot out there to see what sticks and what gets a reaction. one of the things this does, it obscures and drowns out a lot of the news about the russia probe and the fact that the fbi is raiding paul manafort's home, and now he has everybo

nicole wallace, "mtp daily" starts right now. my, chuck. >> hi, but as you know as well as anybody when you're president, don't assume august will be nice to you. >> that's right. >> august can be very cruel to sitting presidents. thank you. happy friday. well, if it's friday, it's the best of times, it's the worst of times. and actually, just depends on who you ask. tonight, president trump throws out red meat in a red state. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. it's just an excuse for the greatest loss in the history of american politics. >> but while the base cheers, the president is facing push back from his own party's leading lawmakers. plus, the latest white house staff, the trump base loves to hate. why the knives are out for the national security advisor. and august, it's the cruellest month. why the dog days of summer soften dog u.s. presidents. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> well, good evening. i'm chuck todd horror noo washington. happy friday or should i say sun happy friday. because right no

the most anti-trump than anyone on the right has now hired hugh hewitt, greta van susteren and nicole wallacethose are three, not conservatives but three republicans which i never thought they would do. my point is i think they are still figuring out where they are. every now and again chris matthews falls and hits his head and says something that surprises me. >> lately, yale. i don't know what to make of him. do you know what i mean? one tuesday in the middle of the month they might say trump might be onto something. >> at one point he said something like trump he came president tonight when he did something. i care remember what the event was but that was for chris matthews when he became president. >> he probably got reprimanded. we are here, why not. let me get to some questions from the audience. do you miss greg gutfeld and the five? [applause] >> i definitely miss the five. so here's the thing. i was there from, so take it back six years glenn beck said to roger ailes, i'm leaving at 5:00 and i'm doing my own thing. roger said okay, fine at the end of the summer, right? he said no at

"deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >>> you need to find in your heart thaty. let's have the uncomfortable dialogue. it ain't easy sitting down and saying why are you upset? it ain't easy sitting down and going, yeah, well, i think this way and i don't agree with you. but i'm going to respectfully listen to what you have to say. we're not going to sit around and go kumbaya, it's not all about forgiveness. i know that's not a popular trend, but the truth is we have differences and we'll be angry with each each other. let's not channel that into hate or violence or fear, but let's channel that difference, that anger, into righteous action. and that's how you're going to make my child's death worthwhile. i'd rather have my child, but by golly if i have to give her up, we're going to make it count. >>> hi, everyone. it's 4:00. it turns out that there is a group of individuals who have a red line when it comes to donald trump and his toxic rhetoric on race. by taking steps to disband two of their own advisory councils according to reporting from "the new york time