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back to you. >> nbc mark murray, right now people are gathering for a rally here at the white house this evening. news 4 shomari stone is there. what's going on where you are now. >> reporter: people out side the white house are saddened. some outraged over the violence that occurred in charlottesville this weekend. you come right out here, you can see as i make my way through this crowd, there are signs that read such as, reject white supremacy, house divided against itself cannot stand. you move around, you can see all of these people here beginning to gather as people beginning to come here from the metro. they're protesting what they say is the trump administration refusing to condemn the white supremacy. they say the president and some members of his administration have been bold white supremacist, you'll now hear from one of the administration has not done enough to denounce white supremacy. a lot of white supremacists have supported trump. and as the president, it's his job to stop hate in the america and do more, to speak up against hate crimes that are occurring against american

nbc news senior political editor, mark murray, is standing by. why would the senate majority leader be taking aim at the president like this, mark? >> craig, i think it highlights some of the tensions and divisions we're seeing inside the republican party. particularly after the failed health care vote. and, of course, that's what senate majority leader mitch mcconnell was talking about. hey, one of the reasons we couldn't end up getting health care passed, there was some artificial deadlines coming from the white house, and from a white house that was pretty inexperienced in this. and craig, ended up having mitch mcconnell not understanding some of the senate processes. take a listen from mcconnell. >> part of the reason i think people feel like we're underperforming is because too many kind of artificial deadlines, unrelated to the reality of the complexity of legislating may not have been fully understood. >> reporter: so, craig, what we also end up hearing, though, in response from the white house, including from top white house aide, dan and

sarah facten is a cnbc contributor and mark murray is nbc news's senior political editor, i mamy partner in crime along with carrie dan, on all things first read. welcome all. sarah, you worked in the white house. i'll give you the first dibs on this. not to say there's any parallel in any universe about what just happened, but i guess, what was your reaction when you saw and heard this press conference an hour ago? >> it's dumbfounding. it's dumbfounding that he would have spent as long as he did to really get his statement right and then turn around and walk it back. i mean, these are just not things -- >> walk it back or did he beat it to a -- pulverized it, i mean, geez. >> he looked a little unhinged in that press conference. >> yeah? it's hard to describe it any other way. >> no president that, you know, certainly president bush, president obama, president clinton, it would never enter their mind, you know, to come out and say some of the things that he said today. you know, even if they were frustrated at a particular article or they thought somebody -- and you go back to his very

. >>> i am mark murray of nbc news. >> i am carry dan. the most recent week after a white nationalists rally in charlottesville is the worst week yet. >> the backlash has left him increasingly isolated. influential republicans have rebuked him, and fox even blasted him. >> and bob trump has not demonstrated enough confidence. >> most of all, after a painful week for the country, trump has appeared to double down on positions that divide rather than unite, and it's all coming as more potential crisis loom from the debt ceiling to north korea and beyond. >> from rooftop bars in arlington to parks in fairfax county. come with me and i will take you around northern virginia and show you the best he's asleep. finally. those powerful lungs have fallen silent. you lay there, with just the odd twitch or sniffle. and in this moment of bliss you think... oh, i should turn the lights off. and the tv. sweet dreams. enjoy the moment, wherever you are with the hive smart home plans from $9.99 a month. hive. let's get living. ♪ ♪ award winning interface

mark murray takes a look at the reality of bipartisan action on taxes. >> jim, tax reform is still thegest legislative agenda item left for congressional republicans and president trump. the big problem is they just don't know how they want to proceed. you have many republicans who believe this should be something that republicans do by themselves. but then you heard the president that he wants to work with republicans and democrats alike. they are divided on that. they are divided on what comes on the specifics. today pre they were just very broad principles that most republicans share. the challenges when you get to the nitty-gritty of legislation and tax reform is very complicated of what kind of trade offs and then the criticism from democrats. this is just a tax cut for the weltiest of americans more so the middle class american whose are all getting. this is a tough sledding but one of the biggest priorities left for trump and the congressional republicans. >> it is billed as a way to cure diseases by fixing the issues with the genes that cause them. a first today as the treatmen

mark murray has been emersed in the president losing his moral authority, do you think he has lost ithat can he do to get it back? >> the moment a person ends up becoming president of the united states you have the trappings of the office, the seals, addresses to the congress there is a certain moral authority that comes with the job. the question is how do you end up using it. i think the president by the remarks he made yesterday in addition to what he ended up saying on saturday about the violence in charlottesville does erodes a lot of that moral authority. many americans were offended that he would end up conflating the protesters, the white nationalists who are protesting with the counter protesters who are sticking up for their community and then you end up with people who were offended that he ended up conflating confederate monuments with those set up for george washington and thomas jefferson. many things. the president doing that and doubling down whatever you call it really did upend the do over that he tried to have on monday where he denounced the kkk and white supremaci

. >> mark murray put out a question this morning, what speaks louder, trump's tweets or his teleprompter reads? i think we just answered the question. tweets. in terms of free speech, you said this movement will continue. they want to g to boston. you've heard from the mayor of boston, he doesn't want the white nationalist movement there. we know texas a&m canceled an event. where does free speech collide with hate speech? >> there is no such thing as hate speech constitutionally in the united states. it's something we always trip on, but as a jurisprudence matter -- >> wow, the libertarian just showed up. >> the question is what do you d with the security angle? a lot of the campus protests, canceling milo, whatever, at berkeley, saying we can't guarantee his security and it felt like you're subsuming to the hecklers' veto here. now we're seeing violence. look at the screen right here. people are going there trying to beat the snot out of each other. not just at berkeley but anaheim and other places. the question is what are kochs and mayors prepared to d when these people get together?

mark murray in the house, normally in d.c., now get him in the building and nbc's national political correspondent steve kornacki who i begged to join me this morning. i saw him on "morning joe" breathing hot fire. i want to start with you, the president is asking for it. he wanted to relitigate charlottesville. charlottesville couldn't have been easier, i'm going to denounce the kkk and the president didn't. what he left out last night was many sides, that hung up so many people last night. what's your take here? >> this is certainly a president who has been frustrated for at least a week about the media's coverage of his response, what's interesting here is the timing, of course the night before gave the speech on afghanistan and many of the republican senators who had criticized his response to charlottesville and really harsh terms then turned around and praised him for that afghanistan speech and thought that he had stepped in to in some ways to that commander in chief role. any good will he might have established throughout the past 24 hours i think is gone now and especially a

. >> mark murray, nbc news senior political editor, tackles arguably the biggest unanswered question e blow it? hillary clinton's 12 days that stunned the nation. mark is here with us in new york city. it's a fascinating read, by the way. >> thank you, craig. >> boil it down for our viewers and listeners. what happened? >> the last 12 days were so important to understand what happened, craig. you had donald trump with some of the best 12 days for him of the general election. he was surprisingly on message and i know that was a shock to a lot of the people following the first seven months of his presidency. he was disciplined, fired off 138 tweets and retweets. not one of them was controversial during that time. everything was on target. he had a sharper message. and what ended up happening on the democratic side was hillary clinton had her worst 12 days as a candidate in the general election during that stretch. and you end up looking at what was really a volatile and unstable race when one candidate was in the barrel, their numbers would go down. when the other candidate was in the b

mark murray. you and i have been covering mitch mcconnell you very closely on capitol hill for years. nobody is a full-fledged mcconnell whisperer these days, but this is not the same as some of the fights donald trump has picked before with fellow republicans. >> yeah. that's right, chuck. you know, the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is a very powerful person in his own right. you can make the argument that he's going to be a top republican in the united states senate beyond 2020, maybe even beyond 2020 four and it's very hard to use those same kind of tactics that he's used on mitch mcconnell. and what's amazing here is that both men really do need other for a big legislative agenda in the fall when you're talking about tax reform, when you're talking about the budget, spending legislation, raising the debt ceiling and then chuck, also in the 2018 midterms as our friend amy walter this points hout, this divide and conquer type of strategy, these kind of critiques that he's level against

bring in jonathan with the "washington post" as well as an msnbc contributor and political editor mark murray. two people who can give us some context here. jonathan, obviously we're not just talking politics on a day like today, although politics is part of the problem according to those who believe, as congresswoman waters was just alleging, that there is a political distortion in donald trump's response to this who he may perceive as part of his supporters. you've written eloquently for a long time about the interplay. what is on your mind watching all of this here, heading into monday evening with some days behind us now? >> the problem the president has had from the very beginning of, when the images were coming out of charlottesville, he's got a moral problem. he didn't have the moral clarity to step forward and say that what was happening in charlottesville was wrong. he didn't have the moral clarity to step forward and say that david duke invoking his name to justify white supremacists, conversion on charlottesville, was not something that he supported. and i think that the president

when they come back in september, patty murray and the mark alexander, the republican on the health education and labor committee will start holding committees on the bill that would in theory sure of the markets and provide certainty. host: carl from montana, good morning. caller: good morning. george h.w. bush pass the law where a bunch of people get health care for free. there was 1300 voices throughout united states places throughout the united states. i was wondering when you tell me about that bill. i heard it from the doctor. unfortunately i don't know a lot about that bill. you have obviously got medicare and medicaid, the two biggest government provided forms of insurance. there is a lot of concern in congress over medicaid and the expansion of medicaid under obamacare. a lot of republicans have said too many people who should be in the employer market or the individual market are relying on the medicaid expansion. there is some concern about the. host: the cbo put out an estimate about the effects of what would happen if the administration did not pay for csr's. guest: the cbo under

driving his motorcycle off a cliff in the in the santa monica mountains, near calabasas.( mark ) matthew murray't get anybody's attention and started climbing the cliffside to get back to the road. he suffered several broken bones but is expected to be okay.( darya ) murray says he will never get back on a motorcycle again after the accident. (darya) coming up... weird summer weather continues to sweep across part of the country. we'll show you the damage left behind by a major hail storm. (james) and i'm tracking your morning forecast. what to expect as you head out the door right after the break. (mark)(darya) welcome back. lets get a check of weather and traffic... no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. richmond bridge drive less than 20 min from the toll to 101 an accident in oakland nb 880 at 5th, slow from high street and growing. (james)expect a couple of degrees of warming in some areas today, but overall conditions are expected to be similar to thursday. highs are forecast to range from the 60s to lower 70s at the coast to the 80s and 90s inland.

murray. "outfront" now, mark preston, april ryan and senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. thanks to all. april, 13 tweets. perhaps he perceives that to be his lucky number from this president in one day. almost all of them were attacks, and i used some of the words. a person familiar with john kelly's thinking tells cnn that he's not going to try to -- it's not a high priority to change the president's relationship with twitter. should it be? >> you know r, the question is,s the president able to listen to someone when it comes to his impulses and going on twitter. he's on vacation and 13 tweets today. he's president of the united states. the former white house press secretary and the question is, is the president going to allow someone, will he allow someone to curb his twitter habit and words matter even if it's in 140 characters. >> they do matter and they matter when they overshadow other words that he may wish or many in his administration may wish are getting more focus. sara murray is saying there's a new norm in the west wing. people work on an agenda. they are trying to do these

backing a controversial immigration proposal that has some critics fuming.( mark ) but the white house isn't backing down. sara murrayls. president trump -- áendorsingá proposed legislation to áslashá legal immigration in half over the next decade and shift the country to a so-called "merit-based" system. president trump:"this competitive application process will favor applicants who can speak english, financially support themselves and their families, and demonstrate skills that will contribute to our economy." the rollout of the bill, accompanied by a ácombativeá press briefing. senior policy adviser stephen miller -- facing off with cnn's jim acosta about whether the policy is in line with american values--jim acosta: "the statue of liberty says, give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to be free. doesn't say anything about speaking english." stephen miller:"the statue of liberty is a symbol of liberty enlightening the world - it's a symbol of american liberty lighting the world. the poem that you're referring to was added later. it's not actually part of the original statue of liberty." the c

murray, thanks very much. >>> susan page, paul begala, general spider marks and tim naftali.prised are you that john kelly was surprised by it but not shocked by what the president said yesterday? >> the idea that we'd be shocked by something donald trump says, we've all passed that point. but i think one reason the white house has been eager to say this wasn't scripted, this wasn't vetted, was so the north koreans don't take this seriously, you know, many people in washington, including senators, voters across the country, know that there are times when you take donald trump very seriously, every word, and there are times when you don't. and i think the white house is trying to make the case, you do not dissect every word of this, because if you did -- he's threatening a nuclear -- >> don't take him literally. >> don't take him literally, we have had a lot of debate about this. but i think this is an effort to say look, this was extemporaneous. don't dissect every word. don't take it too seriously. >> it certainly seems whether general mattis, rex tillerson, all of them sort

murray. lebron has a flashback to flashdance. and the cardinals have a throwback to cat scratch. we'll chat sports with woof dog in just a few minutes. (markall as a car barrels through a barrier and over train tracks. we'll show you what happened. (james) and here's a live look outside... golden gate bridge. (robin) no major hot spots. bay bridge wb 80 is less then 30 min from the maze to sf. (mark) take a look at this... the driver of a volkswagen and three passengers barely escape after their car plowed through a railroad crossing barrier in poland. it happened just as a high-speed train approached. the train hit the back of the car just as the woman driving managed to cross the tracks. nobody inside was injured. the driver apparently didn't see the barrier and drove right though it. she was fined 140-dollars. (mark) there was no winner in last night's powerball jackpot. (james) that means the next drawing will be worth more than 350 million dollars. the next drawing is saturday. the mega millions is also worth more than 350 million dollars and the next drawing for that jackpot is friday night. (mark) lamborghini has added some "ego" to

seems to be a marked contrafrt contrast to some of the statements we've heard from the white house about what robert mueller is doing. >>> let me move on to eye item we saw in sara murray's report. the president retweeting the fox news report that clearly contained some classified information on u.s. spying on north korea. cnn was later able to confirm the story, but at the time you heard the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley, she wouldn't confirm this information, saying it's classified. she doesn't discuss classified information. here is the question to you, senator. is it appropriate for the president to retweet what clearly includes some classified information? >> wolf, those of us that deal with classified information every day really are not authorized to discuss it, to comment on it, to confirm it, deny it or anything else. there is only one person that can do that and that's the president of the united states. he has the ability to declassify by simply uttering it, he does declassify it. every president has done it. i saw -- we all saw president obama do it almost a year ago right now when he discussed with the russians the fact that we knew that the russia

mark sandy discusses the potential that silly and the possible effect on wall street. georgetown university talks about the future of the children's health insurance program. in murray with the competitive enterprise use their recent report of the executive branch. watch c-span's "washington journal", 1170 stern on wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> book tv recently visited capitol hill test members of congress what they are reading the summer. >> i intend to read different books. i love reading history about presidents in the library of congress has a thing where every so often they will bring in the author of a book on one of the presidents. lesson we had just happened to be on andrew jackson. so there's a book signed by the author. we had one from lbj to jackson. one of the books i want to read now i wanted to read was the geography of genius. why is it that you have ancient athens and silicon valley there were separated by not only thousands of miles but also thousands of years apart. so why is it that you had this creativity in athens many years ago and now you look at silicon valley also any of this innovation and creativity. it looks as to what is the

mark bandy discusses the debt ceiling crisis and its optimal effect on wall street. kelly wagner talks about the future of the children's health insurance program. ian murrayse institute reveals their report. be sure to watch c-span "washington journal" live in 77 wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> they recently visited capital hill to see what they are reading. >> i'm into books that are faith-based. one of the books i read, a friend of mine wrote, it's called from the belly of the spare to the mountain mountaintop. it's a study of the book of the bible. what's interesting about this author, his son was my pastor years ago, but his son was a b130 pilot and crashed in the whole crew died. this is about how this particular pastor has lived and dealt with the trials of life, including losing a son. it's really a good book. it's an in-depth study of that particular book of the bible, but most times and probably throughout the summer, i'm a real big history buff. there is a book called the sacred fire which is about the history of the founding forefathers. i am reading that but that will take a long time because it's a pretty thick book. >> send us you

mark zandi discusses the debt ceiling and the possible imfact on wall street. kelli whitener talks about the future of the children's health insurance program andean murray with the competitive enterprise institute reveals the recent report on shrinking the executive branch. watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> today on c-span 2 a review of the accountability office list of agencies and program that list fraud, waste abuse and mismanagement. live coverage at 8:30 a.m. eastern. >> this week on c-span, tonight at 8:00, former presidents george w. bush and bill clinton on leadership. >> i always thought i would have a better life and have somebody else have a better life, too. and i liked it. i got lucky and don't care what anybody says, all these people that tell you they're born in a log cabin are full of bull. >> thursday at 8:00 p.m. with the budget for congress to handle we look at the budget and friday a profile interview with agriculture secretary sonny perdue. >> my political history is i tell people when i was born in 1976 in perry, georgia, they stamp democrat on your birth certificate and i made a