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people living in new hampshire in places that are drug-infested dens, let's bring up dartmouth grad sam steinmom. i'm just joking. sam. >> yes, joe. >> these are the kind of polls that we see, like, year three into a presidency, right? they'll pick the strongest democrat to run against clinton, or they'll pick the strongest republican to -- here we are six months -- well, here we are six months in, and you are seeing john kasich trouncing the sitting republican president of the primary, and you're seeing trump's numbers go down -- the president's numbers go down also, and i just wonder if it's at the end of the day the fact they just haven't succeeded in doing anything. nothing succeeds like success, and they just haven't passed any legislation. >> that's definitely part of it. i think ridiculing a state for its opioid crisis doesn't endear you much to that state. mike mentioned health care. if you look through the issue numbers in the cnn poll, health care just stands out. the numbers for his handling on health care, 31% approve. 62% disapprove. that's an anchor around his neck, and i think

we have our steve cornacki and former director for ted cruz, rick snyder and sam stein.thony scarramucci was not a glitter in our eye. >> wow, what you have missed and what a short amount of time. our story crystallizes the challenge of the new chief of staff. now those advisers reportedly pushed for full transparency but were over ruled at the president's percent directioson. i want to put that in quotes because it is important to keep in mind that the biggest issue is the president himself, that maybe the biggest challenge. the washington post cited multiple sources reports that the misleading was dictated by the president flying home from the g-20 summit on july 8th. it gets away from everybody, there is attorneys and everybody wants to talk to him. he gets on the plane and over ruled his inner circle, his kids. the presidentireport says he wie white house director of strategic communications puddled with christian's lawyers and advocated for a more transparent approach. in one scenario these people said chris' team shared with everything. and hicks also spoke by phon

>>> message sam stein at mitchell reports. take it away, craig melvin. >> sam stein, who hates an eclipse? >> not your mom. >> no. good to see you. good tuesday afternoon to you. craig melvin at msnbc headquarters in new york. campaigner in chief, donald trump headed to arizona for another campaign-style rally. will he rally republicans, go after the two republican senators there once again? pardon the controversial sheriff? or all of the above? tonight maybe a more tempered announcement since he's changed his position on afghanistan. how will his new strategy be different or will it? and who's responsible? divers prying remains from the "uss mccain"'s crash in singapore raising new questions about what's behind the surge of faycal accidents involving u.s. warships. first, president trump addresses his base. a campaign-style rally tonight in phoenix. those chemoing track at home, this will be the eighth campaign-like event the president has held since his inauguration in january. if you notice, all of the rallies have happened

i'm going to go to a break with our thanks to sam stein and colonel jack jacobs.onversation tonight. thank you for that, jack. that was very special. coming up, what's the ceiling? what's the floor? numerically, politically for the trump base? steve kornacki? our studio tonight will break down the latest polling numbers we have into us when "the 11th hour"" continues. welcome back to our broadcast. president trump's approval rating is down in the latest poll from quinnipiac university, but the number remains fairly close to where it was days after the inauguration. here to explain all that as only he can do, steve kornacki, our national political correspondent at the big board here in the studio to explain. steve? >> yeah, brian. i guess it's down today from something we had a few days ago. sometimes it's up, sometimes it's down. let's take a step back and take a bigger picture look. i think it's time to ask a different question all together about donald trump's approval rating and what it means. and the question basically is, does this approval rating mean what i

. >> powerful stuff and with us now to talk about politics editor for "the daily beast," sam stein rejoins our broadcast and u.s. army retired colonel jack jacobs, military affairs analyst and recipient of the medal of honor for his combat actions in vietnam. jack, you're not active duty anymore. do you share his concerns? >> yeah, it's very concerning. there's not much between pressing the button and the president. i suppose whoever is carrying the football could keep it away from him but would require some collusion with the rest of the chain of command in order for that to happen and have to happen in a moment's notice. yeah, that's very concerning. > sam, how many people are you hearing about, again there's this is discussion and carl bernstein keeps quoting sources in intel and business and military and gop on the hill. having this discussion about fitness for office and what manifestation of it will we ever see if any. >> you do hear it a lot and you hear it a lot in private settings, in the green rooms of these cable shows but not on the cable shows themselves. increasingly though,

joining us now, sam stein, politics editor for "the daily beast," also with us, ron klain, former chief of staff to vice presidents joe biden and al gore and a former senior aide to president obama. ron, i want to start with you on the matter of jeff sessions' job security, which has been assured to him now by the white house chief of staff and the president has been silenced on the subject by the white house chief of staff. >> as you said, there's a new sheriff in town and it's general kelly. we'll see how shiny that star is for long. if you don't think that donald trump is still sitting in the white house sweating the mueller investigation, for all the reasons you said at the outset, lawrence, because of anxiety about what putin has, what putin knows and what mueller will find out about it, that's still the fundamental reality of the trump presidency. while jeff sessions' job may be safe now, ultimately the day will come when donald trump wants to fire bob mueller, and he will give the orders and tear up the justice department to make that happen. and i don't think anything that's hap

he thinks he is a superstar in this administration. >> congressman, sam stein here.l with his disappointment with republicans in congress to repeal and replace obamacare. do you think that is a fair criticism he has? my second question is with respect to the debt ceiling which you and other members will have to address come the end of september is. is it your preference to do a clean debt ceiling bill and just get the issue over with, or do you join like tom cole did a couple days ago saying there should be spending cuts attached to any debts in the legislation. >> i basically agree with what president reagan wanted, what president trump wants. a clean debt ceiling. i don't want to be a dead beat nation. as far as the health care issue, the president led people to believe this could be done more quickly than it can. let's get some quick tax cuts like reagan did in '81. he waited five years before he went from tax cuts to tax reform. if we can get tax cuts in, corporate taxes, small business tax, that will fuel the economy, get the jobs flowing. and health care reform

joining me, amber phillips who writes for "the washington post" fix blog, and sam stein, politics editoror the daily beast and msnbc contributor. sam, so nice to see you. been awhile. >> great to see you too. >> i want to talk about the change in tone. the president said this is just him, fitting into essentially the different scenarios he is put in front of. >> it could be. do we actually know what's going on inside his head when he's getting up on the podiums and giving these speeches, i don't know. >> in front of a place like folks, an arizona rally, campaign rally, he wants to hear the crowd roar. >> he seems like a guy that likes adolation from the crowd. he likes to be comforted by enduring audiences, the way to get them to cheer is throw them red meat. there's a political strategic element, he wants to play role of victim, wants to lash out at critics, you can do it at campaign rallies, less so when you talk to veteran associations. then there's a simplistic element to it, if he feels like he should be reading off the prompter, he will read off the prompter, if he wants to rif, he

let's get the inside scoop from ann gearen and sam stein, daily beast politics editor and msnbc contributor well, stephen mill aer strikes again. he's trying to build for this. several several misstatements all around. jim acosta, his father game here when he was 11, did not speak english and green card holders do not have to speak english before they come. >> is miller trying to build support for this or did he emerge as someone who does well on the president's behalf, in their view throw red meat. this proposal stands almost no chance, it doesn't have support, even among republicans. a number of republicans came out against it immediately, including lindsey graham, and the primary purpose of that theater yesterday at the white house briefing appeared to be to kind of taunt journalists and make a show out of it. it was entertaining. >> and to show the boss, who is watching presumably, that he can beat up on reporters if he's got the podium. >> the audience of one. >> i wanted to play a little bit of tape that the new yorker has released, they're going to play all of it this weekend apparen

let's get the inside scoop from sam stein, daily beast politics editor and msnbc contributor. i try to pull myself together. >> i'm glad you went from really important conversation about north korea and then brought in the real experts on the mooch. >> let's just take this down a notch. about missile defense -- >> i would probably leave the set. >> in terms of scaramucci, john kelly, trying to decide who is -- will they even have a communications director? there are a lot of potentials, stephen miller has -- auditioned. >> if you can call it that, yeah. well, you know, what i was struck at this week is, we thought we had sort of left the circus a little bit when scaramucci was dismissed from his position. there was all this talk of general kelly bringing order to the operation, maybe taking down the level of chaos a notch. and we find ourselves right back where we have always been, which is an impulsive president, obvious reacting via social media to the television that he watches. and really rif f'ing rhetorically on hot-button issues. and it says to me you can all of the han

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studies and an ms nbc contributor, and in washington host of the podcast candidate confessional, sam stein post" column that talked about steve bannon -- i know you know about hot tubs. you have an advanced degree in hot tubs from tristate college that asked me not to mention your name because you went there. in steve bannon, in the article, it says what? >> i don't want to talk about this anymore. >> he had acid in a bathtub in his home. he left this place and put acid in a bathtub and padlocks on interior doors and banned the place. you know about baths, ja chot t. >> something called an acid dance. i don't know if it had anything to do with it. >> i have no idea. >> all right. so we will move on. but it is, willie, it is fascinating. absolutely fascinating that steve bannon is undercutting the president's foreign policy to such a degree that you're the secretary of state and the secretary of defense that has to go out and correct him. >> who do we believe? if steve bannon is the man with the ear of the president, if he is, in fact, the senior advisor, was he speaking the president's tru

stein mart and jcpenney slightly to the downside. walmart, target, some of the names that also have exposure. sam'sbviously, merchandise, but food retailers, watching anything related to food. sprouts has about 15% of their stores, walmart almost 13%. and those are trading to the downside. so we'll see what the impact is going forward. back to you. stuart: nicole, thank you. i want a weather forecast for south texas, and who better than janice dean who's got it dead right so far? storm totals so far, please, and how much more is coming. >> reporter: over 30 inches of rainfall, stuart, over the last couple of days, and you can see the worst of it in the shaded, the light pink here is where we've receive ised over two feet of rainfall. and an additional 18-24 inches on the way. historic amounts. if we get over 50 inches, that'll be the biggest rainfall event from any tropical storm we have ever witnessed in the u.s. so pasadena, sugarland over two feet, houston hobby, 24 inches and, again, the rain continues. as long as the center of circulation is west and south of houston, we have the potential for