with me now is phillip rutger, and he joins ruth marcus. michael steele, a former rnc chairman, and christina bellantoni, a veteran reporter through the years from the l.a. times and role call. nice to see you, christina, everyone seems to be a little stressed out, kudos to you. phil rutger, there are some days the president is angrier than others. he went with the enemy of the peop people. it is usually when he makes a mistake. >> yeah, that has been the pattern, chuck. and this is a president whose moods have fluctuated through these two years, and and he has a number of things on his plait. he has the mueller report that is departmented to be finished at any point now. the lawyers felt it fls a target period, it could also stretch into march, the president know it's is coming and it may not deliver good news for him. and that is under his glare at the moment and he is still reeling from this defeat on the border last week. it was only a week ago. he had to take this emergency declaration action that invited legal challenges and that is a

thanks, susan panel, ruth marcus. they have an impromptu service was the tweet, on the plane.hink of a better person than john lewis to be at that service on a plane. a man raised of course in the southern churches that led the civil rights movement. thank you again so much. that does it for a busy breaking news edition. remember, follow us online on facebook and twitter. i will be heading to europe to warsaw with the vice president and the munich security conference and reporting from there. here's velshi and ruehl. >> thank you, and a great trip. i'm ali velshi. >> i'm stephanie ruhle. it is tuesday, february 12th. let's get smarter. >> a verdict has been announced in the trial of mexican drug kingpin el chapo. >> just now hearing he was found guilty on all ten of the counts. that he was being tried for. this is a huge day forever the prosecutors. >> breaking news right now. nbc news exclusive reporting on the senate intelligence committee. their investigation into russian election interference. >> the senate intelligence committee has not uncovered any direct evidence of a

and ruth marcus, "washington post" editorial page editor, and msnbc political analyst michael steele,mer chair of the republican party. michael steele, that's your former republican party in maryland, where you were the lieutenant governor. >> it's interesting, david bossie is a national committeeman from maryland. the governor obviously is the newly-reelected governor. and at one level there's no news here in the sense that this process began going back to the previous administration, in the '16 cycle. the rnc was sort of gearing up against preventing a floor flight and someone challenging donald trump from the floor then. there were rules changing made in that regard. this now, particularly given that there is a national drumbeat that's beginning to develop some rhythm out there for the idea of a larry hogan coming into this race, bill weld is already there, but hogan now, a two-term, very popular governor in a very blue state, republicans are outnumbered in maryland two to one, with support among democrats at 50% on a slow day. so yeah, the white house should be concerned. and i th

. >> ruth marcus, thank you as well. on the political crisis in virginia and why "the washington post"'s karen timilty says the governor resigning should just be a start. more "morning joe" in just a moment. (clapping) every day, visionaries are creating the future. ( ♪ ) so, every day, we put our latest technology and vast expertise to work. ( ♪ ) the united states postal service makes more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, affordably and on-time. (ringing) ( ♪ ) the future only happens with people who really know how to deliver it. >>> all right. joining us now, op-ed columnist for the "new york times" david leonhardt and columnist for "the washington post" thing. it's important to nut in the context of what's happened in this country in the last 40 years. middle class people, lower income class people had very little gain in wealth and slow gain in income. what do we do about that. people at the top have huge gains. to me the status quo is the radical thing. >> i agree. i feel like these