sam stein, politics editor for the daily beast is back. betsy woodruff also a reporter at the daily beast is is here. eugene robinson, "washington post" columnist and associate editor. phil rucker, let me start with you. the white house, at least the staff level, very much aware of the resistance in the community to the president's visit today. >> i'm sure the president is aware of that as well. huge embarrassment for the president of the united states to go to pittsburgh this afternoon and not be greeted by the mayor, not be greeted by the govern governor, not beofficials -- >> you report they were all invited. >> they were invited. think the white house wanted them to be there to greet the president. it's important to the president, this president in particular, that he be greeted with respect. he made such a big deal about president obama going joioverse when sometimes the red carpet wasn't rolled out to him. he's going to pittsburgh without any carpet at all. it's an embarrassment for him but effort by the president to show some respec

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and there's more good news for sam stein sentence in november guitarist close but with release his that solo album with his sideline project and the great those desperate for a sneak preview can check out the single i know for i fear an english one two three four which also features benyamin called violet rich off billy talent fame. clay. and now to a somewhat mellow a sound and they. found his way to a creditable fourth place at the euro vision song contest but how has his career fit since then we've visited him in his hometown of bucks to order and also checked out a very special of his there. michelle shootout live in books to who doubt. playing in his hometown is a labor of love for the singer. it's been almost six months since the red vision song contest is impressive showing that made him very much a local hero as was evident on his homecoming the way. it does when the senioritis i thought it'd be pretty sad if only ten people show up especially if there are t.v. cameras there but as i came out onto the balcony the place was packed for thousands of people there to welcome me back

joining me is david ignatius, and foreign affairs columnist, and sabrina siddiqui and sam stein who is a msnbc contributor and former columnist for the daily beast. and we gather that the president and certainly john bolden and the secretary of state were not surprised. the secretary of ostate has been traveling since friday in asia, and seoul, and david ignatius, he was in seoul, tokyo, beijing and got back last night, and now, according to the "post" and your columnist, that the white house had posted the resignation, and so that it was on that day october 3 snrd >> it appears from the documentation that it was known by the white house for a week. and we will be getting the reporting that helps us to understand better what prompted nuk can ki haley to submit this r -- nikki haley to submit this resignation letter and the implications to the president. and when you lose the most prominent woman in your administration at a time when tr trump's relationships with the women, and dealing with issues that matter to women are a key concern of the country, that has to be trouble for trump. >

joiningous set, sam stein, politics editor for the daily beast and jason johnson, politics editor for root. i want both of your thoughts on what happened today. let me just play a little bit of what trump has been saying about democrats on the stump lately. >> they want to turn america, these democrats, and that's what they want, into a giant sanctuary for criminal aliens and the ms-13 killers. democrats want to abolish america's borders and allow drugs and gangs to pour into our country. as we speak, the democrat party is openly encouraging millions of illegals to break our laws, violate our borders and overwhelm our nation. that's what's happening. the democrats have launched an assault on the sovereignty of our country, the security of our nation and the safety of every single american. >> here's the thing. we don't know what happened today fully. we know that thesis boe bomb th were made to liberal boogiemen -- i should say conservative boogiemen. we've had a ramping up of this type of rhetoric. and instances of violence. and after those instances, nothing has changed. trump went

. >> sam stein and bari, i want both of you on this. bari, go ahead first. exactly what you described. >> that's exactly what it is. i have to say one thing, just about being in squirrel hill, and being in pittsburgh at this moment, which is, i hear that, and that could not be farther from the reality here and the reality of the community where i grew up. this is anti-trump country. in its heart. people here are decent. they are kind. they are open-hearted. i mean i have always known this about squirrel hill. and anyone who lives here can tell you that. the only positive thing to come out of this is that we now get to show, and model, what a real community looks like to the world. and our leader, donald trump, might not be doing that, but the people in this community really are, and it is ju -- jews and nonjews and the community here is the opposite of what donald trump ran his presidency on. >> sam stein, you write, for those who are subjected to bigotry who have seen their communities targeted or secluded or portrayed as threat, it is not a shock to the sy

sam stein, politics editor for the daily beast. ashley, let me start with you on the sheer political enormity of the entire trump brand, the self-made billionaire, falling apart based on this investigation. >> well, it certainly does undercut his inception story and his narrative which is sort of the crux of being donald trump. right? and the irony is that story really comes from for a lot of voters what they learned about the president on "the apprentice" which is actually sort of -- it is reality television, and it's quite fictitious. so now you have actual reality bumping up with the fiction of reality tv. and so that is huge and cannot be overstated. at the same time, again, what we'll have to wait and see, this literally just broke, one thing that struck me especially about the president's core group of supporters, the president has often been able to say to things like making products overseas that otherwise would be unacceptab unacceptable, wouldn't you have done the same thing? wouldn't you, too, have avoid e taxes if you c

sam stein, i was touched by the piece you wrote about your own kind of experiences and reflections onhrough your mind as both a journalist but also a person over the last 24 hours. >> and a jew. it's been tough. the piece i wrote was about my experience going to a concentration camp when i was a young kid and the camp was in poland and i remember standing over the ash pits and i couldn't cry. i just couldn't will myself to cry, and i felt incredibly, i don't know. i felt like a fraud because i felt this was supposed to be the most poignant part of my spiritual existence. it wasn't that i was a fraud but incredibly blessed i was brought up in a country where i was surrounded by fellow jews but we never felt any form of anti-semitism overtly, certainly nothing comparable to what happened in poland. >> certainly not looking at that in history. >> yes. that has been roughly my existence forever until about a year ago and chart litlottesvils a wakeup call to see people comfortable enough to walk through a major american city, college town where i had been chanting was harrowing to say the

sam stein, i will just let you take it from here.m do this on every issue. >> yeah. >> basically sowing doubt and leaving people hanging. >> my dad is a doctor, you wouldn't want me performing surgery on you. >> now you tell me. >> you might have a natural instinct for surgery. >> you wouldn't want me delivering your child. this is just absurd. it would be funny if it wasn't like so serious. i mean, this u.n. report, if you look at it, the u.n. report basically says we are at a tipping point where if we don't do something within the next ten years we will have suffering, death, drought on a magnitude that a planet has never seen before. now, if we were to sit here and tell anyone that credibly we have determined that terrorists have plotted to destroy a huge chunk of the planet with weaponry, with bombs and they would starve a bunch of people and they would cause massive economic damage in their plot, with he as a government and society would do basically everything in our power to prevent it, we wouldn't dismiss it by saying there i

globalists. >> you hear that, sam stein. to everybody that in politics you go out on the campaign trail, ant ant anti-se anti-semites will talk about it. i don't have to explain it. the second that donald trump said globalists the pavlofian p in the audience started chanting soros, soros. so it is a dog whistle, ant anti-semitic dog whistle. >> three of those clips involved teleprompter reading or advertisements which means those were scripted remarks. it's clearly a strategy. second i would just point out it's not just trump, obviously. you noted in the last hour that kevin mccarthy, congressman from california and somewhat establishment figure, reasonable person was advertising this stuff on twitter. the campaign committee that's designed to elect house republicans ran a soros-themed ad two days after a bomb was scents to soros' house. this isn't dog whistle at this point, they are bull horns. i know that we can't jump to conclusions necessarily about who is responsible for any of this stuff, but i will say this. i think i

we have ashley parker, sam stein, politics editor for the daily beast. lisa, national reporter for the "new york times." ashley, i would like to begin with you, and just the optics of all the sitting justices of the supreme court, some big time lawyers in that room. the congressional leadership, the people who know enough to know it's not correct that this man has been -- whatever you want to say about him -- proven innocent. >> that's right. these swearing-in ceremonies are generally fairly pro forma. it's a nice thing to do sometimes for the justice or the president may want to take a victory lap the way president trump did, but it is very striking for the president to go out as he did this evening and begin by apologizing to justice kavanaugh on behalf of the nation, which is not, frankly, a sentiment the nation at large shares. that was the whole point of these past three weeks we went through, is that the nation is deeply divided over this. and then most striking of all was the president saying that you have been under deep scrutiny and you were pro

peter alexander, and carol lee and sam stein and gadi schwartz out there in arizona. thank you, all. >>> and awe whisper c-- and a whisper campaign to discredit jamal khashoggi. that is ahead on "andrea mitchell reports." it on my own. not until i tried chantix. chantix, along with support, helps you quit smoking. it reduced my urge to smoke to the point that i could stop. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. some people had changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, or suicidal thoughts or actions with chantix. serious side effects may include seizures, new or worse heart or blood vessel problems, sleepwalking or allergic and skin reactions which can be life-threatening. stop chantix and get help right away if you have any of these. tell your healthcare provider if you've had depression or other mental health problems. decrease alcohol use while taking chantix. use caution when driving or operating machinery. the most common side effect is nausea. my favorite role so

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there was a piece sam stein wrote that i thought captured their feelings as well. and to me, as someone who believes in this country that's probably one of the most disheartening pieces i've ever read. >> i would say in a word, sad. we know we're in a very politically toxic environment. but when you start seeing violent actions take the lives of citizens and you start asking yourself, how do we get beyond this, it makes you really sad for where we are as a country. >> you know, i think about south carolina, dylann roof murdered those people in that church, and one of the responses was they took the confederate flag down from the capital. that confederate flag didn't cause dylann roof to kill those people, about it was symbolic, we want to stand against this ideology. keep that in your head. should you expel steve king from congress? >> my answer would be no. he's going to be -- he's either going to win or lose an election and the constituents this his district will either vote him in or vote him out. but when he says something that is inappropriate, he should be ca

. >> as the daily beast's sam stein put it, those screams from the protesters seemed primal.ke one primal scream, one that's revealed even deeper f h fissures. even top republicans were downbeat on saturday afternoon as the vote neared, cognizant of the cost of the political and cultural reckoning that has been sparked alongside the confirmation process. that sentiment was echoed by susan collins in her floor speech friday and it's really the only thing senators on both sides of the aisle have been able to agree on through this entire process. >> we live in a time of such great disunity as the bitter fight over this nomination both in the senate and among the public clearly demonstrates. it is not merely a case of differing groups having different opinions. it is a case of people bearing extreme ill will toward those who disagree with them. leann, we've been covering this the last 20 days. one thing that became clear to me and it was clear to me before dr. blasey ford came forward, the way the protesters approached susan collins and across the board, showing up at their house