very raw. with us this morning we have from ms nbc mark pal person, and president test council on foreign relations and author of the book a world if disarray richard haase and national political reporter for nbc news carol lee, political editor for the daily beast and host of the podcast candidate confessional sam stein and nbc news capitol hill correspondent casey hunt. joe, of course, has the morning off. does anyone here know who gary kasparov is? he s the russian grand chess master turned political activist who has spent years speaking out against vladimir putin. he knows a thing or two about autocrats and yesterday he wrote on twitter, quote, autocratic distraction, who do my supporters hate? who can i get them to hate? how can i make this hated targets angry so they lash out? he was referring to donald trump s tweets yesterday,