>> heather mcghee?eather: thank you so much for being honest and for opening up this conversation because it is one of the most important ones we have to have in this country. >> you said more, but i will let you tell us what happened after that. heather: that was a remarkable moment. to stepi took a moment off the set. was.owerful it there was something in his voice that touched me and i could hear it. it was so authentic as he searched for the words to say that most of us would not admit in our homes, i am prejudiced, and the way he ended his question, what can i do to change and be a better american? just reached right in and grabbed my heart. i had to just kind of had to pause. i was trying to communicate with this person, who really reached a hand out to me. as ahe said things that sister and daughter of a black hear, ands painful to i knew there were many more stereotypes of black men that he said, but at the same time, i know that we are all swimming in , sea of racist stereotypes that the media

>> heather mcghee? ather: thank you so much for being honest and for opening up this conversation because it's simply one of the most important ones we have to have in this country. brian: you said more, but i'll let you tell us what happened after that. heather: that was a remarkable moment. i didn't really realize until i kind of stepped off the set because there were more calls after that -- we just had to keep rolling -- how powerful it was. there was something in his voice that touched me, i mean you can hear it. it's so authentic as he searches for the words to say something to a national audience that most of us won't admit in our homes, "i'm prejudiced." and the way he ended his question, saying, "what can i do to change and be a better american?" just reached right in and grabbed my heart. i had to kind of just pause and it felt like the set sort of fell away and i was trying to communicate with this person who really reached a hand out to me. i mean, yes, he said things that as the sister of a

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beth fuehy, noah rothman and msnbc political analyst and distinguished senior fellow at demos heather mcghee. thanks to all of you for being with us. let's start on the comments from the president this afternoon. just heard the congressman react. i think he said that was one of the more wretched statements that he'd heard a president make on a topic like this. given the vehemence with which people in the trump administration who say they are appalled by these conditions, it's not their fault, it's the democrats' fault, does the president's message undercut that? >> it's very consistent that the president will go after the people who are in the middle of this, the migrants, the folks that are coming. it's at the heart of his appeal to his voters, he's fighting back against these alien throngs. this is such a failure of governing, of policy, of politics. we have hundreds of thousands of people coming across the border our system is not equipped to handle. we have these detention centers which are clearly inadequate and in fact far worse for treating them, for caring for them. there's no good p

heather mcghee, former managing editor of "time" magazine and veteran of the obama administration, and my freak sidekick rick stengel. let me start with you, peter baker. part of normalizing all that is not normal is reading a sentence like they plan to jail babies and not just stopping for a minute. how is that even done? >> we're 2 1/2 years in, and every morning you wake up and you think, i can't really be surprised about anything new today. and then you're surprised by something new. we will see what the rest of the day brings. we will see what tomorrow brings. it's been an administration that has not been afraid to shatter norms, to do things others wouldn't and to push the boundaries, if you will. the census thing is an example where it seems like the president has been thwarted in his desire. the supreme court said no, you can't add this to the main census because we think the reason we've given for doing it is contrived, that's the word the lead justice used, not a liberal. the president seemed willing to accept that ruling and but stymied because he said you cannot continue wi

joining me msnbc political analyst, heather mcghee, msnbc contributor and columnist and msnbc contributore were running through the numbers with trump. this is a president who had had more crisis, charlottesville, the michael cohen, i can go through the whole list. it seems like at worst his approval rating will drop four or five points and returns to this lukewarm baseline. that might be the best way to describe 45% approval rating. do you expect anything to happen outside of that tomorrow. can you see anything like that happening tomorrow? >> there's not enough time in the show to list all the crisis he's created. there's some that could happen tomorrow if mueller is particularly compelling. there will be democrats on the fence about impeachment that might drift that way. i don't think there's a sense that public opinion will change that much. they believe, the president there, they have been very persistent as to what their case is. they believe the testimony is part of overreach, purely partisan, no longer about getting the truth but just about trying to score political points. they a

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