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shannon: brett stevens in the new york times, an opinion piece, he is calling out both secretary pompeoassador bolton. by continuing to serve the president pompeo and bolton and their top aides as they tell insulting humiliating moments, cleaning up after him, they are covering up for him. bolton and pompeo should be leading the conservative charge against the putin appeasers, they are effectively complicit. >> would brett stevens prefer less competent less conservative people in those positions, if they were to step aside and join the resistance from the right? i am not sure that is in the nation's best interests, and i am not particularly interested in that. watching the interview with pompeo, he was clearly trying to tow the line and walk that tight rope where he was backing up trump and downplaying the criticism of him while also reinforcing what the intelligence community has assessed over and over again and did a pretty agile job of that. jillian: talk about average americans at home. i don't know how into this whole russia espionage and intrigue they are this week. we have a poll

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joining us to have a closer look at this is brett stevens, "new york times" op-ed columnist and msnbc political contributor and noted conservative. he wrote a piece after the nato summit titled "america first, america hated, america alone." i just wanted to get a comment on what the congressman said. >> one true comment he made was you can't protect stupid. comparing boris yell zin to vladimir putin is like comparing angela merkel to adolf hitler, a regime that invades its neighbors, uses exotic weapons to assassinate its enemies on british soil and tried to temple fundamentally with our election, by the way, something we don't do in russia. we're not trying to make the state less democratic than it already is. that comparison blows my mind and reminds me of why i'm no longer a republican. >> but it comes up a lot. the fact rs america historically does not have its hands clean of interfering in other people's outcomes. that aside, looking at the very specific instance here, we seem to have evidence that russia interfered in the election. put that aside, too. we have all lieies for 70

brett stevens was talking to me, and said i don't know if donald trump believes in a free world. it is definitely something we do not expect from the president of the united states >> the way i would put it is the following. international relations if you are trying to figure out what are our core national interests, we are in a situation now where frankly i think the biggest national security threats to the united states resides in the oval office of 1600 pennsylvania avenue. i will defer to the legal question about the fact that it is a high statutory bar to proving treason. but in some ways it doesn't matter whether the president is radically incompetent or just malevolent. the point is that he is not suggesting anything in his place. now, to be fair, again, you would want, you know, the president to have, you would want the united states to have reasonably productive relationships with other great powers and you prefer negotiating with north korea to many of the alternatives. and there is doing this well and do it incompetently, and he is doing it incompetently. >> or somethi

and also columnist for the "new york times" brett stevens as well as commentary editor for the "washingtonow at the american enterprise institute tim carney. so, let's talk about what we just heard. brett stevens, obviously, you have a balancing act for an awful lot of people that work for this white house who actually feel like sometimes they feel they need to leave, other times they feel they need to stay there and keep doing the sort of thing that dan coats did yesterday and has been doing through the week. what's your take on the balancing act that they are making, and when they should finally just throw in the towel. >> i think over a lot of these guys they tell themselves privately that they are cleaning up for the president, but more recently i think they are covering up for the president. i think that goes particularly for john bolton and secretary of state mike pompeo. i've known both men for years, as i'm sure you have, and they've had one consistent view or two consistent views, first of all don't negotiate with dictators in north korea, they never keep their word. it's a fool's

and brett stevens, an op-ed columnist with "the new york times." peter, i have to go to you first, because you called kavanaugh a spectacular pick. why? >> well, because i think that he has intellectual and moral integrity. his opinions are outstanding. i'll give donald trump credit, he picked someone who is the antithesis of himself. intellectually and morally outstanding. i knew brett in the white house. he was staff secretary. before that, he worked in the legal counsel's office. he's meticulous. he's calm. he's conservative. he's reliable. everybody who worked with brett had a very, very high opinion of him. so i really do think he's a spectacular pick. i am a fierce critic of donald trump but i'm capable of saying when he does something right. i think in this case, he did something right. >> i want to ask you about politico's reporting that justice kennedy favored cavanaugh. not an i'll leave if you give him seat but do you -- does it surprise you that could have influenced president trump, who truly likes to go his own path? >> look, cavanaug

"the new york times" op-ed columnist and msnbc contributor brett stevens.nd former republican congressman david jolly. jonathan, let's start with you. you're there with the president. any word whatsoever from the administration on this summit with vladimir putin changing, not happening on monday? >> the president left england a short time ago. in fact, he has since landed in scotland and he's making his way to his golf course in turn bury where he is spending the weekend before that summit in finland on monday. in fact, press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said that is still on. it has not changed in light of today's indictments. it shows you this president is always shadowed by the russia probe. these questions surrounding his involvement with or the possible involvement of his campaign with russian officials back in 2016, whatever links he may have to russian president vladimir putin are just going to be that much at the forefront as we go into monday. you heard the president say yesterday at nato, again today in his press conference, rather wild press

and brett stevens, columnist for the "washington post." thank you. what just happened? they went from didn't collude with the russians, they didn't participate in this conspiracy to disrupt and discredit our electoral process, although if they did it it's no problem. what happened? is it the accumulation of that michael cohen story that's getting out that they're going to be caught so, they might as well deny the guilt of the crime because they can't deny the crime? >> hard to know what they're doing because from all appearances rudy giuliani is implicating his client in a web of criminality. by the way, it's more than just semantics. this country was attacked, as you saw from the indictment of 12 russian operatives and spies who were ordered by president putin to do -- >> they've been indicted for felonies, and this president has helped them do it. at least they're now saying, well, we don't deny that we did it. >> and the definition of conspiracy, and i've given this instruction to a jury, so have judges, is that there are spokes on a wheel. you don't have to be at th

brett kavanaugh's track record. i am joined by jammal green. you know, i feel like this thing ha happens, you clerked for justice stevens, and so did my wife, i am familiar with the world, elite legal world. a certain clubbiness. and then there is also ob fi -- f at the right hand of the president for years and years. so there is no doubt about his ideology or his political views. he is qualified for the supreme court, a smart guy. written interesting opinions and he is savvy. but no question about his politics and and this is what this process about. >> yeah, melissa, you have written about abortion quite a bit in your scholarship and something people are talking about. what do you say to those who say, oh, progressives are always saying roe is in peril. >> i don't think this is hyperbolic at all. the point of the nomination of roe and cassie. the ultimate end game is clearly in view. >> i want to get your response to a really interesting dissent that he wrote. scott lloyd a lifelong antiabortion crusader reached down and said this -- litigation. and he wrote a dissent, kavanaugh that read the following, the en banc majority reflects a philosop

steven dagger, he's a doubles machine. over the head of khris davis. that brings in gorkys hernandez to tie it up. smancha connects on a slider. that rbi single end md bretterson's night. brandon belt with was hauled out on a check swing. he let the third base umpire know. belt got heated and then got tossed. we have not seen him that mad. still 3-2 in the seventh. mark can ha in the pinch hit. he crushed that one on tony watson. the as first pinch hit home run in two years. the bleacher fans love it. bottom of the ninth, still one-run game, all-star versus all-star, end ng i would with the tying and winning run on base. the as win a tight one and the bay bridge series is even at a game each. >> it's -- that's a pretty significant homer. when it's cold and i mean you hope to just get it over the fence. he hit it more than halfway up. yeah, he -- he's making the most of his opportunity. >> we had some chances there. we had bases loaded a couple of times, at first and second a couple of times. we just missed that one hit tonight. it was a hard fought game. you need a timely hit somewhere. and they're pitching. they did a pretty good job tonight. >> the amer