to this and they say the president himself is still tempted by that senator rand paul of wing of the republican party that moved toward non-interventionism and isolationism. robert costa, thank you very much. former ambassador nicholas burns, thank you as well. andrea mitchell, we ll be watching andrea mitchell reports at noon eastern on msnbc. thank you, andrea as always. thank you, happy birthday. happy birthday. by the way, peter gammons we share happy birthday. today is peter s birthday? that s what he said, yeah. same age? yes and for those of you who don t know, peter gammons is a big red sox fan. you re lucky it s your birthday. and how about those mets? the amazing mets. 7-1. i knew the new york team was going to be great this year. you did. can we talk about patrick reid? no, we re going to talk about steve s charts as soon as we can get to them. also coming up, bob mueller s probe is targeting wealthy russian oligarchs including one former
sudden dismissal of johnny mcentee, the president s personal aide. he threatened to reside on multiple occasions, quote, it s sort of a weekly event said one senior white house official. kelly agrejedly grew so frustrated the day that trump fired david shulkin that homeland secretary nielson and mattis both reached out to calm him down. with us now, the author of that piece, white house bureau chief of the washington post and political analyst for msnbc and nbc news philip rucker and also joining the table msnbc contributor mike barnacle. mike, i begin with you with the most difficult, most important question, how is xander bogaerts doing? we ll find out later. the red sox for those of you at home who aren t keeping up with this the red sox are 8-1 and the new york team is doing
trump attacked the washington post again yesterday. this time he was critical of a report about john kelly s diminishing influence in the white house. we ll talk to one of the authors of that report. did you see that poll that fox news showed yesterday i think over the weekend about it s really something. it shows who do you trust more, cnn or trump? cnn 48, trump 35. who do you trust more, msnbc or trump? msnbc 45, president trump 32. who do you trust more, fox or president trump, fox 30, donald trump 20. donald trump is less trusted than those that he attacks. and the more he attacks them the stronger they get. this is just straight out of a new hope. strike me down. that was a tease. darth and you only make me
yesterday? no! also joining the conversation we did watch the red sox. how are the yankees doing? shh. let s go back to syria. wow. all right, former u.s. ambassador to nato and former state department spokesman nicholas burns, he is professor of diplomacy and international relations at harvard kennedy school of government. also with us, nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of andrea mitchell reports, andrea mitchell. and political reporter for the washington post and msnbc political analyst robert costa. a lot to get to this hour. i forget, joe stash roe went to see wes anderson s movie isle of dogs. you love wes anderson. absolutely love him. all right, happy birthday, it s over now. [ laughter ] you heard senator lindsey graham at the top of the hour talking about the president s response to the reported syria attacks. we ll begin there in syria where