due to the president's travel to new york, "washington post" white house reporter ashley parker is able to join us here in the studio for the first time ever this evening. also political reporter and moderator of washington week on pbs, robert costa. all three are msnbc political analysts. ashley, this falls into a pattern in that while the words today may be judged more egregious than most, than all. the president says something that creates a hubbub. maybe the next day, signs of a staff intervention, he says something to clear it up. then on repair occasion, you get what we got today. no one can argue that wasn't donald trump we heard from today. >> i was struck by something that the vice president in argentina said. this is a president who says what he means and means what he says. this was president trump off teleprompter in an area where he's most comfortable, the lobby of his gilded tower doing what he does -- i don't want to say best because that implies a positive connotation. but riffing and speaking his mind unfiltered. >> and if you ask him, he'll say that's what got me this

charlie: ashley parker of the "washington post." back in a moment.y with us. ♪ charlie: this week, the continuing drama of the trump administration. steve bannon is out as the president's chief political advisor. the administration was pulled off topic by the fallout from charlottesville. president trump's comments put him at odds with many americans. including top military and business leaders, as well as fellow members of the republican party. joining me in washington with more on this is mike allen, the s, and theof axio editor of the "axios" newsletter. tell me about steve bannon. what is the latest we know about his survival? mike: he's not surviving. the president has decided he will go the highest profile firing from the white house. steve bannon is telling colleagues he resigned on august 7, but to be effective a week later. that would coincide with the one-year anniversary of him coming into the trump campaign. charlie, we are told that the offenses for steve bannon, the reason he ran afoul one,e president, were, leaking -- which is ironic i

thank you. >> rose: ashley parker, "the washington post." back in a moment. stay with us. >> rose: this week the continuing drama of the trump administration. steve bannon out as chief political advisor. the administration was pulled off topic this time from the fallout at charlottesville. president's comments put him at odds with many americans, top business leaders and fellow members to have the republican party. joining me from washington with more, mike allen, co-founder of axios and the editor of the axios a.m. newsletter. tell me about steve bannon, what is the latest that we know about his survival. >> yeah, well, he's not surviving. the president decided he will go. the highest profile firing from this white house. steve bannon is telling colleagues he resigned on august 7th, to be effective a week later, that would coincide with the one year anniversary of him coming into the trump campaign. charlie, we're told that the leading offenses for steve bannon, the reason he ran afoul of the president were, one, leaking, which is ironic in this white house.

charlie: ashley parker of the "washington post." back in a moment.y with us. ♪ ♪ charlie: this week, the continuing drama of the trump administration. steve bannon is out as the president's chief political advisor. administration was pulled off topic by the fallout from charlottesville. president trump's comments put him at odds with many americans. joining me in washington with more on this is mike allen, the editor of the "axiom" newsletter. tell me about steve bannon. what is the latest we know about his survival? >> he is not surviving. the president decided he will go , the highest profile firing from this white house. steve bannon is telling colleagues he resigned on august 7, but to be effective a week later. that would coincide with the one-year anniversary of him coming into the trump campaign. the leading offenses, the reason he ran afoul of the president, were leaking, which is ironic in this white house. charlie, you know how everyone --much everyone weeks, including the president. but the president believed steve bannon was leaking on we

. >> joining me now are julie pace, washington bureau chief for the "associated press," ashley parkerte house reporter for "the washington post" and heidi przybyla senior politics reporter for "usa today." i hope nobody was playing a drinking game, taking a shot every time the president said "congress" today. because heidi, the president seems to be setting this up the same way he set health care up. that he set health care up. this is congress's bill. this is congress' problem. congress will be to blame if it doesn't work out. >> i believe trump when he sent out a tweet this week that said, i just want tonight #maga. make america great again. the problem is he wants congress to figure out how to do this. this is circa health care where donald trump went out to the american people. he made all kinds of promises during the campaign about health care and then he patted paul ryan on the back and mitch mcconnell and said you guys figure out how to get me a win and get back to me. it's the same thing with tax reform except he's being very clear about the politics of this, ali, with all of

larry sabato, ashley parker, ron nehring, i appreciate it. and kelly o'donnell, of course, at the white house for us. >>> the attorney general says the evil attack in charlottesville meets the legal definition of an act of domestic terrorism. but could police have done more to prevent the violence that occurred? >>> and the rise of hate groups. just how prevalent are these groups? does a tragedy like charlottesville only help them recruit new members? there's nothing more important to me than my vacation. so when i need to book a hotel, i want someone who makes it easy. booking.com gets it. and with their price match, i know i'm getting the best price every time. visit booking.com. booking.yeah! >>> just a short time ago, president trump affirming that a civil rights investigation into the violate weekend in charlottesville, virginia, is under way and he said it just hours after the suspect in the deadly car attack appeared in court. i want to bring in nbc justice correspondent, pete williams, for us. pete, first tell us about what it means t

. >> here with me is peter alexander, ashley parker, also an msnbc political analyst. nprs jeff bennett is here with me in the studio. but peter, i want to start with you over at the white house, since we listened to what the president said about tax reform. he's not pleased currently with the congress. what's the expectation of how quickly they want them to get tax reform through? >> well, the bottom line you can hear a shift in strategy, not just in his words but in his very appearance compared to the way they handled health care. that was a dramatic failure. here the president making a stop going on the road to a state where there is a senator that is a democrat. a red state with a democratic senator, claire mccaskill there as well. the president is making similar stops and similar speeches in the weeks and months ahead. remember, he didn't make any such stop or a single speech on health care behind this. his singular focus was on the why they needed this. the sales pitch for tax reform. not so much on the how they were going to go about doing it which is some of th

for more on the bannon era and exit, i'm joined by "washington post" white house reporter ashley parkershe's also an msnbc contributor. ashley, talk to me about whose decision this was, because it sounds like he was fired at the request of general kelly with a sign off by the president. then he said he resigned and then some people reported and then there was talk that this was a mutually agreed upon thing. what happened? >> so to be clear, nothing happens in this white house without president trump signing off on it, so it was approved by president trump. but this was at its core a general kelly decision. i think it's an open question how successful he will be. we saw tuesday's news conference as an example of some of the challenges he still faces. but this was a clear sign of his power, his authority. he came in. his mandate and his mission was to staunch sort of white house infighting and factionization. bannon was one of the people he was particularly frustrated with. he didn't have any personal an mouse towards him, but bannon repeatedly refused to stay in his lane. the classic exa

nicolle. >> ashley parker, i monitored a little bit of conservative media last night, and he did get credit, even on the right, for the statement yesterday, for finally singling out the kkk and the alt-right. i thought conservative media went out of their way to cleave themselves away from racism. donald trump put them all back in the same boat together today when he returned to his "many sides" analysis. he said that we still don't know all the facts. there is blame on many sides. he called the protesters ugly people, talked about what they were wearing. can you talk about what he undid. and i wonder if you think that you -- you are the west wing whisperer. i know a lot of his senior staffers are spending some time with their families this week. i wonder what kind of mess they wake up to tomorrow morning when they see that their boss eradicated and erased any good they did with that statement yesterday, which was obviously carefully crafted and with sort of sealing the fate of any staffer who tries to help him help himself. >> reporter: well, there is a lot there. to be clear, that

late tonight, ashley parker and robert costa of the "washington post" gave us this headline. trump's lack of discipline leaves new chief of staff frustrated and dismayed. of course, some of that was visible in realtime yesterday as general kelly kept his head down and seemed to wince more than once what the boss was saying. politico reported the president was left in good spirits according to a white house adviser and felt the news conference went much better than his statement on monday. more from the "associated press" just tonight. "the president told associates he was pleased with how his press conference went saying he believed he had effectively stood up to the media according to three people familiar with the conversations who demanded anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about them." business leaders felt differently. that brings us to the big blow, the president did suffer today. it was public. put simply, for the first time in memory, a republican president has been abandoned by leaders of big business. members of the president's manufacturin

fairly standard joint press conference between two world leaders or as the "washington post's" ashley parkert, two blonds walk into a press briefing. that headline and many jokes like it, stem from an unscripted moment after the world leaders took the standard two questions from reporters from each country. president trump decided they should take a few more questions and seemed to confuse one finnish reporter with another. >> i know there might be a couple more questions but do you want to take one more? would you want to take one more? go ahead, pick. >> please -- >> again. you're going to give her the same one? >> she's not the same lady. >> go ahead. >> they are sitting -- side by side. >> we have a lot of blonde women in finland. >> a different reporter asked both presidents a question. here they are sitting side by side at the press conference. an american reporter for pbs posted a photo confirming that yes, they are definitely two different people. that's our broadcast for tonight. thank you for being with us. goodnight from nbc news headquarters in new york. >>> tonight on "all in."

ashley parker, phil rucker, the really significant thing here is that the president is the moving hand that misleads the public, the press. the it's not a lie to mislead the public or the press, but it is a major problem for the president, and everyone who is involved in crafting this statement with him, because we have a special council who's investigating obstruction and any effort to lie or mislead is part of a narrative of potential obstruction if indeed the special council finds evidence of that, this helps play into that pattern, why did the president share something that wasn't true? why did he order that information be concealed? >> so you have potential illegality, that's for the special council. then you have just wrong. the being wrong, doing the wrong thing. jay, one of the president's attorneys on this show, said the president had no role in the drafting of that statement. what do you make of those types of answers? is this just protecting the president? do you think everybody knows within that white house and the legal community that is representing different members of t

. >> how do you have that without an election sf joined by ashley parker, and political report he, analyst, sam with the daily beast, paul, an msnbc legal an list, and the director of home grown violent extremism studies at usc in california. thank you. let me go to paul butler. let's talk about what trump is up to apparently staying washington monday sxumt the jefferson memorial are in danger. this isn't about marching or hanging around with people who are nazis. what do you think about him trying on squirm out of his reputation problem? >> this is about deflecting and pivoting with his coziness from white supremacists. this week he sounded like a bigot who just doesn't get that the white supremacist side lost the civil war and we now live in a country that should not honor terrorists who use violence and rape to keep black people down. >> do you think he allowed himself to be identified with the cause of the civil war? to support the continuation and extension of slavery into the territories? do you think he got that bad off? >> you know, i think that he is just being more open and trans

a fresh new hair cut i'm going to say the an excellent one, ashley parker, msnbc contributor, white house reporter for "the washington post," and matt welsh, doesn't have a great haircut but still looks really good today, and editor at large for libertarian magazine. ashley, i'm a business girl. start with the ceos. three ceos this quitting the council and the head of the afl-cio, the manufacturing union, saying this council is ine fk chul anyway. the president and ivanka to tweet these picture, bring these ceos in. nothing has actually happened with them. what is the significance of them distancing themselves from the president now? >> you're right the councils are more sort of photo-ops, the ceos get summon todd washington, jared and ivanka like it, but they're not holding a ton of meetings and working on a lot of big projects. i think you can't understate the significance of them meeting because it shows that some of these ceos, just like many house members and members of congress, they no longer fear the president and are willing to stand up to him and leave. a negative tweet by presi

>> the phrase "dictate" is one that my colleagues, phil rucker and ashley parker, who as you know, cover house full time, picked up from their sources. what we understand is that this was really a decision led by the president and that the statement that was ultimately issued is one that he decided and is often his way. he's not an e-mailler. he suggested the language in the statement that was ultimately used and released to "the new york times." and to a certain extent, had to be walked back or amplified upon in the coming days. >> it's interesting, it's not clear to me, the president's attorneys i believe had previously said it was donald trump, jr. and donald trump jr.'s attorneys who had been the ones craft thing statement, that the president had nothing to do with it, and they denied "the new york times" story which said that on air force one this had been discussed with advisers and the president signed off on it. so the idea that the president was even more involved in that runs counter to what the president's own attorneys have said. are there any -- did you get any responses fro

. >> so the phrase dictate is one that my colleagues phil rucker and ashley parker who, as you know,over the white house full-time, picked up from their sources. what we understand is that this was really a decision led by the president and that the statement that was ultimately issued is one that he decided and is often his way. you know he is not an emailer. he suggested the language in the statement that was ultimately used and ultimately released to "the new york times." and to a certain extent had to be walked back or amplified upon in the coming days. >> it's interesting -- i mean, it's not clear to me -- you know the president's attorneys i believe had previously said that it was donald trump jr. and donald trump jr.'s attorneys who had been the ones crafting the statement, that the president had nothing to do with and any denied the initial "new york times" story which said on air force one it had been discussed amongst advisers and the president signed off on it. the idea the president was more involved is something running counter to what the president's own attorneys have

ashley burg woke up to banging at her front door. it was the police. >> they're like, "are you corey parker?" i said, "no, i'm not."id, i point at the kind of like the window next to me, which was her house. and i said, "she lives right there." >> reporter: moments later, officers were in corey's apartment. >> and i heard what, you know, they had said there she is. and i just fell to my knees. >> reporter: 25-year-old corey parker was dead. it was clear she'd been murdered. investigators called state attorney angela corey, then an si >> the police were all there when i arrived, and so they walked me through the scene. >> reporter: how hard was it seeing corey parker in that way? >> it was brutal because you could tell that she had fought for her life. you could tell that she was at her most vulnerable. alone and in bed and that she had been, you know, brutally and viciously stabbed in the middle of the night. >> reporter: stabbed more than a hundred times. this was a sick individual who did this. >> very, very. >> reporter: it didn't take long for word of corey's death to spread from the tiny apartment. aymee ladan