windmills. joining me now char lie sykes editor add large of the ball work and jeremy peters from the new york times. both are msnbc contributors. charley, let me begin with you. you tweeted about the barrage of headlines that are impacting the president. it s a list we re all familiar with. the president s comments about it, on and on and on. with all of this, he continues to go to these rallies and lash out against some of his political rivals. explain the dynamic of what is happening. there s no secrets about trump world. this is exactly what you re going to see in 2020. he s going to be defiant. he s in sort of the, yeah, i did it, so what mode. get over it, mode. counting on his base to stick with him. look, privately a lot of republicans that i ve talked to
also, msnbc political analyst and president of the foundation for research and opinion editor add forbes. welcome to you all. general, i have to talk to you. my colleague, chuck todd, tried over and over to ask steve miller if lying to the vice president is a fireable offense. i m talking general michael flynn. stephen miller didn t seem to want to answer that. what do you make of that? the key question here is, does president trump know what mike flynn is up to? if they did, they have to move this along quietly. at the end of the day, you hope all the enormously important things going on in the world, north korea, dealings that russians and the chinese, you wish you had a dr. condi rice, rob portman, somebody of that caliber in the white house as chief of staff trying to make it run on time.