decision. so the big question is will we and the american public ever find out if these people were held accountable for their actions. julia ainsley for us. i want to go now to the senator floor where senator chuck schumer is talking about the president s attacks on minority congresswomen. do not want to carry out or are too difficult to carry out in a fairway because they can t be done fairly. perhaps it s even to distract from his administration s attempt to dismantle our health care system through the courts. but maybe the president just feels comfortable stoking racial divisions in this country. maybe that s his millieu. after all, this is part of the pattern of behavior that began with the birther treatment of president obama and his characterization of mexicans in his announcement speech, continue with his attack on an american-born judgment of
and acting? what is the answer in government? the effect is you have a white house unable to govern. this is a white house that, again, you ve heard me say it before that i think donald trump is somebody who does not understand the difference between campaigning, which is demonizing and disrupting and dividing and governing, which is actually getting something done. the way you do that is by empowering people to get it done. you do that by having officials who are not acting but who actually have authority. if you re acting, you re always sort of scared the day you don t do the president s bidding, you re out. wilber ross wasn t acting and the day he didn t succeed this reminds me of medieval europe. you re up and you re down, you re in or you re out. ross may be out soon but the bigger fundamental problem starts with mulvaney, chief of staff, who s not been empowered to really act as white house chief of staff and may not be interested in doing that. but especially after this
necessarily map over to election results? well, we saw that obviously in 2016. you could say it was kamala harris, take that, for instance, she leads the president by a point right here while hillary clinton won the popular vote by a couple of points over president trump in 2016. of course, that didn t add up to an electoral college victory which, i think, when you look at the biden campaign and the electability argument they are trying to sell democrats, that s one thing they want democrats seeing in these polls. it s not just that biden leads because every candidate can say they leads. biden s campaign wants democrats to look at that and he s leading by such a wide margin. but every poll that comes out like this reinforces that biden argument. steve kornacki is our nbc news national political correspondent. coming up, former vice president joe biden, he unveils his health care proposal, a plan
while it s, you know, ruling on the merits, considering the claims in a more fullsome manner, or will it allow it to go forward while a court challenge proceeds? clara long is the acting deputy washington director at human rights watch. how would the presidential candidates fair against donald trump? a new nbc wall street journal poll. ali, we took a look at the four top polling democrats in the head to head democratic race and said, okay, how do they do if you match them up against president trump? because obviously democratic voters, we ve seen, they re very interested in that question of electability. here s what the wall street journal apology found. the democrat right now faring the best against president trump. you see biden over 50%, a lead over trump of nearly double digits. a 9-point lead there for biden. biden more than any of these candidates, of course, running
epstein s mansion. plus, reports president trump is considering firing his long-time friend commerce secretary wilbur ross after the supreme court rejected his attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. after the break we re going to look at who s still left in the president s cabinet and how they re surviving this long. you re watching msnbc. award winning interface. award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90. the most awarded luxury suv of the century.