says he taught sports, math, and german at this school. he was even his home room teacher. he was a good student, but he wasn t extraordinary. reporter: the school says from august of 1998 to fall of 2000, a north korean teenager was at our school. he left on short notice. the boy was well integrated, di ambitious and his hobby was basketball. soon president trump will sit down with him. what is your advice? try to find a sense of humor. back with me now is nbc s kristen welker in washington, jeffrey lewis from middlebury institute, and here in singapore, shauna thomas, washington bureau chief for vice news. welcome all. kristen and jeffrey, let s talk first about the young kim
presidents are not supposed to be able to start wars without congress. i assert the missile strikes were illegal because he had the time to come to congress and he chose not too. i was heartened to see that secretary mattis understood that getting congressional approval would be a good thing. we re working on an authorization and to clarify it s an authorization for the military action against non-state terrorists groups. it would not allow military action against a syria or iran or north korea without the president coming to us directly and saying we need to engage in military action against a nation state. it would put duration and geographic limitations and find who the enemy is in the war. thanks very much. absolutely. let s go back to kristen
plaintiffs want in the washington case. they asked for up to a year of discovery and up to 30 depositions to find out exactly what was in the heads and motives of the people framing this and that is the road that in mandel the supreme court clearly said it was not going to go down subject to the nary bad faith exception where you have an affirmative showing of bad faith. here you would need official capacity statements unequivocal post inauguration to show president and members of the cabinet were acting in bad faith. let me ask the same question that my friend robert king asked you a week ago. has the president ever disavowed his campaign statements? has he stood up and said i said before i wanted to ban all members of the islamic faith from entering the united states of america. i was wrong. i consulted with lawyers.
i take this job if i know i m going to get thrown under the bus and he doesn t want to listen to me? that is a huge problem for the party right now. you want to work there? pick up on that point. that s the critical point. this is a big problem. the problem isn t the staff. the problem isn t the plan. the problem isn t capitol hill. problem is the president. he s acting as he has for the past five decades keeping a loose organization, changing had i mind all the time. you can t get things done in washington that way. interest there people here saying to work at the white house, it might be worth it? of cures. there s always people willing to take that chance. i don t know they re going to get the quality of replacements they would if these people could trust the president to have their back. the fundamentally fix the problem, you ve got to bring in somebody who has real at steuer. who has the authority to run the white house like a big organization. he doesn t want to do that
the second part is whether these are good ideas being implemented well. really quickly. likelihood that senate democrats decide to somehow block this nomination all together? i don t do predictions. i m not that smart. i will say this. there is history here. the history according to senate democrats is that a very qualified federal judge i described why, the two names on trump s list are qualified federal judges. a federal judge as well from the d.c. circuit similar situation was none nated by the previous president did not get a hearing did not get a vote. what will happen, i don t know. anyone s guess. ari medical better, thanks to you and kristen welker in washington as well. delaying the committee s votet on jeff sessions is at the top of the hour here on msnbc. and we ll be right back. americn help you take on a new job,