president? he is one of five in the national cathedral in mid-week, a week that will see the kinds of details that come out that barbara and chuck are talking about. the president has not exhibited and i will speak with great under statement grace under pressure in public settings. it has been be galling to him to be excluded from the mccain funeral. the notion that he can attend this one is of great comfort. he is not being asked to speak. the president is remarkably unreflective and intro expectative. he s not a person and he is always thinking about himself, but not how other people think about him. he is a classic narcissist. he has no sense of how people see him. it s possible that for any other normal human would be a remarkably awkward moment to be
what genuine courage, what genuine service, george h.w. bush, you know, gave to his country as opposed to donald trump. and in so many ways, what trump represents has been this repudiation of all of the values civility. of all of the values compromise. exactly. of all of those things. and so when you have a moment like this, little bit like the mccain funeral, you do get the chance to sit back and go, okay, there is an all teternative his, an earth 2.0 where we honor men like this, where we have a different view of what leadership and strength actually look like. and whatever anybody says at this funeral, that contrast is going to be very, very stark over the next few days. all right. a new report in the new york times that could be of interest to robert mueller. we ll bring it to you next. george woke up in pain.
absolutely. jon meachum, we are possibly going to be seeing on wednesday act two in a remarkable public public play where we move from a mccain funeral, the john mccain funeral, which was unlike anything that either mika or i have ever seen in our life, a coming together basically of leaders celebrating what washington once was and what people believed washington could be again, and i can t help but believe that s what we re going to see on wednesday as well, republicans and democrats and independence and others saying this is who we have been, this is who we will be again. i suspect i suspect we may leave with many of the same feelings on wednesday that we
the plane and he had nothing to say about president bush. he was in gracious frame of mind and i think he will try to bring that to the table at the washington cathedral assuming he speaks. we don t know for a fact he will speak. it will be traditional for him. it would be hard to imagine him not speaking, but they haven t confirmed that as far as i know. linda is right. sitting in the audience, if other messages are towards him, it might be a complicated scene. it might be less overt than i think the mccain funeral because george h.w. bush might not have wanted it that way. he is someone who would have wanted a service that was, you know, not a political statement so much as a moment of reconciliation. a moment of reconciliation. as we remember h.w. bush, this fits with exactly the way most are remembering him today, and that yes, there may have been disagreement, especially with his son jeb bush and this president, but he is still going
enthusiasm gap. msnbc national correspondent steve kornacki, and author of the red and the blue. we have you positioned before your magic board. confirmation of kavanaugh, steve. there was talk it would send the democrats to the polls in droves. but do you still think republicans are going to come out? even though he is poised to win, has this been a big enthusiasm generator? it feels like if the election were going to be held today, that surge from republican base voters that republicans have been hoping for might actually be there. they might be able to keep the house. might be able to keep the seats in the senate. that is a wild card. events move so fast in politics. three weeks ago, we were talking about manafort and cohen and trump s reaction to the mccain funeral. today we re talking about a republican base that s been re-energized for the first time in a while.