great champion of our armed forces. i think you see it in what you alluded to earlier with the tweets that don t really jive with reality, brian. you have the president talking about not just what we saw in florida in the recount and there being instances of infected ballots that he never offered any proof for, but he s also gone on and on about the commander in charge of the bin laden raid, also not appearing to understand that it s not the armed forces that was responsible for finding bin laden. it was responsible for taking him out. not for finding him. that s the intelligence apparatus responsibility. so in addition to insulting this known military hero and making something up about him, that he s a, quote, hillary clinton supporter, in the president s words, you have the commander in chief fundamentally misunderstanding the role that
jeremy, mike flynn might have been the guy who delivered it with the most gusto of all, but let s remember, lock her up was about e-mails. that chant was born of e-mails and nowjeremy, here come the democrats and that angered every last one of them. oh, yes, absolutely, not just because of the hypocrisy of it all, brian, but because donald trump has always believed that he gets to live by one set of standards and rules, and set the norms and everybody else just has to do what s right. what s the law? he never really thought that the law or the constraints of history or the office that he now holds as president applied to him. so i find it hard to believe that he s going to see that there s much wrong with what his daughter has done here because, you know, we are, after all, talking about his daughter. i think to your point, the fact that democrats are now in charge
parodies after they heard the president s comments. be that as it may. our thanks on a monday night as we start a new holiday shortened week. kimberly atkins, jill colvin, jeremy peters, thank you so much for joining us tonight. coming up, more on the president s attack on the man in charge of the raid that killed bin laden. john brennan was in the situation room that night. he s standing by to join us now. and later, the performance grade the president says he hates to give himself, but awards it, anyway. the 11th hour just getting started on a monday night. wednesdays. at outback, they re for steak and beer.
everything that we sold them could be put in one cargo plane, and there would be plenty of room left over. if i may, the polls show a lot of american people simply don t believe you. it was virtually pandemonium. everybody was scrambling to try to get the story straight. top officials in the reagan white house go into complete coverup mode. i mean, destruction of evidence. this happened, secret war, secret deals, airs this sunday, september 9th, at 9:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. that s tonight s last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. tonight, the president intensifies his hunt for the author of that anonymous op-ed. he is asking his attorney general to find the leaker under the guise of national security. plus, sentencing day for george papadopoulos, the man at the table with candidate trump, who offered to broker a meeting with putin. tonight, his lawyer is blaming president trump. 44 goes after 45. obama is back.
fiction. i don t speak that way. i m highly educated. and, always did well. always did well, no matter what i did. how this president talks can be something, as you can tell, he gets sensitive about. if he feels someone is calling him out on his intelligence or schooling. tonight, we had a visit to the studio by one of the smartest guys we know. he studies words and the way people say them for a living. we often ask him about how this president talks, other than a lot. here now, our guest, armed with a phd in linguistics from stanford. these days he s a professor at columbia university and a contributor at the atlantic. professor, welcome. is every day in this presidency a word festival in your line of work or groundhog day? brian, i don t like to watch