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not having security clearances, worried he didn t put the right people around him. case in point, these tariffs today. paul ryan, conservatives for generations, his own economic adviser, the people around him say we know you want to win right now, we know you hate the headline, we know you blame us. we get it. what i m saying you know is right because you re not the only one who has access to the white house. then, he does it anyway. tanks the futures and the markets. he shouldn t govern by what happens in the markets. you ve put a lot of pressure on the markets as an indicator of all this prosperity. how do you explain that as something other than chaotic and a reflectix reaction he promise friday day one of his campaign, not just as president, america has been abused by terrible trade deals for decades. it s wonderful for the elites. it s been fantastic for the 1%, disastrous for the american worker. by the way, the very workers that elected him, blue collar
constrained. what he said tuesday on a thursday. i don t know that s all that different than what we re seeing right now. i think you re right, alisyn, to say we can all be proven wrong because someone who is unpredictable does what? unpredictable things. the past is not necessarily predictive of the future. i like being unpredictable sometimes. it takes us back to a rolling theme we ve had here. the president would be well served to make his case more often directly to the american people. there s a lot of confusion going on, people don t know where you stand. there s mixed messages coming out of your surrogates. you re your best advocate. that s why we think you should be making your case more. some of this confusion would be going away. a.b. stoddard, chris cillizza, thank you very much. we have live pictures of this extreme weather from bon ton. this is situate, massachusetts.
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what was the public messaging going to be around had a and on down the line in all these moments, the statement on the plane. she s going to be valuable to robert mueller. guys, thank you very much. appreciate it. thank you. we should note that the markets while we ve been having this conversation have dropped down 500 points right now. that s partially at the very least because of donald trump making the announcement he did on tariffs today. we ll talk about this later in the hour and keep our eye on this. meantime, for months the belief has been that special prosecutor robert mueller was more likely to be building a case of obstruction against the president. but my exclusive nbc news reporting with carol lee found the scope of mueller s investigation is, in fact, much wider. the possibility that he still might be investigating collusion, that is not off the