elise jordan, jennifer palmieri, admiral allen who spent the hour here with us.es it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. craig melvin is up next on msnbc. >> thank you so much. >>> good afternoon to you. craig melvin here. we continue breaking news coverage of harvey's impact at this hour as it continues to wreak havoc throughout east texas. it's also threatening louisiana and tennessee. this is the scene in beaumont, texas. as casey mentioned, no running water now, that caused one hospital in the city to shut down. they had to evacuate at least 200 patients so far. some of the patients by helicopter. you watched those images play out over the last hour or so. rising flood waters in beaumont, knocked out the main pumping station. that's why there's no running water there. kerry sanders is on duty in beaumont for us where lack of running water forced a hospital shutdown and evacu

. >>> speaking of perfect guest, joining me by phone, jennifer palmieri, for hillary clinton's presidential campaign. jen, let's talk about what happened when she walked off stage, because i'm told that she really was overcome a bit by that moment where he was looming over her and she said, you know, it always -- it is tough. this is really hard. that was really hard. >> it was a hard debate in general. the -- it was set up to, you know, you talked about the facebook live press conference, that trump did ahead of time. it was the whole setup with the debate was to intimidate her. and coming on the heels of the access hollywood tape, that had been released two days before, we were very concerned, we knew that trump could be unhinged, that he would try to make it very uncomfortable for her in any way he can. so, she did doubt, you know, in the moment, and then she did share with us later if that had been the right thing to do, to not call him out on it. and i think it is a -- i think of it as a riptide that she has constantly been caught in, in her adult life, where, you know, as a woman on t

joining me is george will, syndicated columnist and msnbc contributor and jennifer palmieri, former whiteons director for president obama and former communications director for hillary clinton's campaign. welcome, both. george, your response to the president's, what seemed like a halting and sort of forced concession that nazis and white supremacists and other hateful groups, the kkk, had been involved. >> it was tardy and he was not reading the teleprompter as though he was reading something he was familiar with. or deeply invested in. all that aside. but we're watching this with the executives bailing out from various white house commissions, doubtless getting pressure from their customers, and from their boards of directors, larry summers writing today saying why are these people complicit with the president? that's a very interesting choice of words. what we're seeing, i think, and frankly those of us who think the inflated presidency has been destroying the equilibrium of our constitutional, constitutins entirely too much. we're seeing the incredible shrinking of the presidency. ther

jennifer palmieri under president obama. she also worked on the clinton campaign. joshua green of blockberg business week, author of another great book, "devil's bargain" about the trump-bannon relationship. and we also have with us the source of all this problem, ryan lizza, the washington correspondent at the new yorker who interviewed anthony scaramucci, and that was i'm told the tipping point. let us remind our viewers of what mr. scaramucci told mr. lizza. quote, i'm not steve bannon. i'm not trying to suck my own [ bleep ]. i'm not trying to build my own brand off the [ bleep ]ing strength of the president. i'm here to serve the country. he called reince priebus a [ bleep ]ing paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoid. did you think this would result in anthony scaramucci being shown the door or did you think he was going to be able the get away with it, i guess? >> you know, when people asked me that after the column came out, he said he'll either get fired or promoted. you just never know with trump. and it seemed like he was on the promotion track when reince pri