mike barnicle, what's going on with vice president mike pence? help me out here? >> that was pretty definitive mika. clearly he answered the question we all had in mind, donald trump was tea uking to james k. polk in his dreams or president of home depot at some point at best? we don't know. but this particular another fallacy, lie, call it what you will coming from the president of the united states and leaving it to mike pence was clearly unable to do. >> yep. okay. it's hard to watch. joining us now, founding president of vote latino and msnbc contributor ma reesa teresa kumar, former republican congressman ryan costello of pennsylvania is with us and former chief of staff, dccc and former director of strategic communications for hillary clinton's presidential campaign, adrienne elrod is with us. she's the president of elrod statties. and kasie hunt is back with us as well. maria, well, i will start with the op-ed from "the new york times." it's entitled "the crisis in the oval office." "the new york times" editorial board writes this morning the president has exaggerated threats but ignored the hazards his policies created. and they write in this part -- how fitting is it president trump's first oval address was to stir up the american public about a crisis largely of his open making. while president trump proved a wily campaigner and political street fighter, as president he's been painfully out of