. >> got to go to john heilemann, but quick question, yesterday, nancy pelosi said forget all the nonsense you're hearing, yes, we want pro-life catholics in our party and if they run, we can support them. you certainly showed that in pg pennsylvania, that a pro-life catholic -- >> i cot guild and criticized. >> but he's still the senator in pennsylvania. >> and a great senator. >> a vote your way. >> look, we're a big tent party as nancy pelosi said, but we are, let's make no mistake about it, a strongly pro choice party, we think that's where the american people are and moving more in that direction. >> but, you welcome -- >> big tent party. >> welcome pro-life catholics to running. >> big tent party. >> gave you my answer. >> that's a yes. >> john heilemann. >> you've seen presidents in office of both parties and know there's a steep learning curve when you get in. just assess what you've seen, if anything, from donald trump that suggests personal or political growth and learning over the course of this nearly 100 days? >> look, i'm not in the internal debates in the white house, john,

>> rose: welcome to the program, we begin this evening with mark halperin and john heilemann, they are cocreators and executive producers of the irsus, inside the biggest political story on earth. >> the system is perceived to be rigged a people, and it is. and so people who say that and t specific about remedy, evenre if they have other aspects of their message that are less connected to economics, that is a reality of a lot of people in america today. and its' a reality, you know, 85 days too donald trump's president he see that again you go to these townhalls now, you hear a lot of grieveance. and you hear a lot of people whether they are targeting their member of congress or not, they feel the system is rigged. >> we continue with dan lamotte lamothe of the washington post talking about a huge bomb that was used for the first time in afghanistan. >> when you look at it, something that has been in afghanistan for years and not used, which is basically what we are hearing about this particular bomb, that it had been in storage there, but it never was used anywhere, the question becom

. >> except and again, the reason i was shocked by that john heilemann, it does have an impact if you have a gerrymandered house and districts overwhelmingly republican. if donald trump is getting 96% support from people who supported for him in districts he won by 70%, those house republicans are going to move away from him. the senators with. ernst with. those numbers are significant because they hold onto the house. >> this is the number that says donald trump is not collapsing. it's the number that says donald trump can't do any of the large, big, ambitious things he wants to do. they are both true. he's not in free fall. there's a time a few weeks ago he could be down in the 30s. he gets there he'll be in free fall, his normal supporters in congress say you have no ability it sway me, intimidate me, forget about you, buddy. right now he's for the in collapse but he's equally not able to do anything large at this level. >> he's got this big marker coming up. so among subgroups in nbc poll the president has a positive 95 point net approval rating among his own voters and 69 point r

john heilemann, i would go to you and talk about david ignati ignatius' point about who the president is listening to. it appears to be the tight inner circle. steve bannon looking to be marginalized. i think trump would say, yes, bannon helped me to become president, the decisions he's made on the muslim ban, the travel ban, health care repeal, he wants to go with people who have gotten him wins. >> i think for a lot of people, willie, who are concerned about trump as commander-in-chief, certainly people who on the left side of the political spectrum, but a lot of people on the mainstream conservative side of the political spectrum, they look now at the notion, as john mccain said to us last week, that the biggest thing he took out of the syrian strike last friday was, it looks like donald trump is listening to the generals. that gives me cause for some degree of greater comfort and confidence. i think that's true, as i said, across much of the mainstream political spectrum. you may disgre or agree with any given policy decision or preference that those people have, but people like m

this is a clip from sunday night's episode of "the circus" and john heilemann is asking killer mike, i saw killer mike in the barber shop, a rapper and activist from atlanta about what he thinks trump's first 100 days so far. >> what we learned is democrats have timely got mad enough to go vote. john ossoff might win based on the fact that young democrats are pissed on and the democratic party held on to the old guard even longer what they shouldn't even when the people are telling them there's a new wave happening, a new type of democrat. >> do you think that that's democrats already know how they will vote in 2018? >> oh, yeah. as he reflects, the activism is real. i think that runoff is going to be a real test because it's been traditionally a republican district and ossoff got close, but the thing that killer mike said that i loved in that zone is he close it had by saying what's real important is what happens the day after trump. >> yes. >> and the democrats have to get focused on that. >> that was a great interview. >> can you tell mark halperin to stop dancing, he's not a grea

the washington post" david ignatius, washiton anchor for bbc world news america katty kay, and john heilemann. good to have you all, this morning. we begin with the breaking news. the united states has launched cruise missile strikes against a syrian air base. yesterday evening 59 tomahawk missiles were launched from the u.s.s. ross and u.s.s. quarter in the eastern mediterranean sea targeting the shayrat airfield near the city of homs. it follows a chemical attack on tuesday by the syrian regime against a rebel-held area that killed nearly 100 people including dozens of children. turkish authorities say autopsies supervised by the world health organization show sarin gas was most likely used. the pentagon says the strikes targeted syrian aircraft and infrastructure including fuel supplies, storage, ammunition, air defense and radar systems. according to u.s. officials extraordinary measures were taken to avoid civilian casualties and no personnel were targeted. a syrian military spokesman claims at least six people on the ground were killed. russia, which also operates out of the targeted ai