in terms of his shifting tone, the president on twitter accusing his critics of suggesting that basically he can t change tones and he says dmal democrats need to find someone to change tone. he was somber on the afghanistan speech, dynamic and fun speaking in arizona, and more respectful and strong in his most recent remarks. but it is not so much the tone that s drawing a lot of these questions, it s the shifting messaging, the contradictions, preaching unity and harm me ony in the middle sandwiching it with a series of comments most would agree were heavily divisive, and that s frankly where a lot of criticism is coming from now. on the government shutdown on building the wall, i would be remiss to not ask if mexico is paying for it. what s the white house saying about that? that s a question we re going to be posing to sarah huckabee sanders soon, that people are asking us. if the president all along said mexico was going to pay for the wall, why is he threatening a
president said mexico was going to pay for. last night threatened the u.s. government to shut down because of it. mark murray in the house, normally in d.c., now get him in the building and nbc s national political correspondent steve kornacki who i begged to join me this morning. i saw him on morning joe breathing hot fire. i want to start with you, the president is asking for it. he wanted to relitigate charlottesville. charlottesville couldn t have been easier, i m going to denounce the kkk and the president didn t. what he left out last night was many sides, that hung up so many people last night. what s your take here? this is certainly a president who has been frustrated for at least a week about the media s coverage of his response, what s interesting here is the timing, of course the night before gave the speech on afghanistan and many of the republican senators who had criticized his response
speech on afghanistan telling americans why we needed more troops in america s longest war. steve bannon is gone from the administration. he s not gone from the conversation. maybe that s why, but why return to the charlottesville message? well, i m not sure, you know, a lot of people were wanting steve bannon to be fired. they were frustrated that his point of view was in there. i think it s becoming clear that steve bannon s point of view is the president s point of view. it has less to do with steve bannon than it does with tarrant county at this point for him to turn around and go and pick these wounds in arizona last night the way he did. yeah, it s you know, going back, he just can t let that go even though as though it seems his team is trying to wrap it up, button it up yesterday in the beginning of the afghanistan speech, the day before yesterday, move forward and the president just has to go back and be right. he has to be right on this. last night he attacked the media
downplayed what angered critics in the first place. good morning, welcome to early start. i m christine romans. t. 1:00 a.m. in phoenix and for those who think it s the liberal media criticizing the president s speech, the standard saying quote, the president was whining about unfair treatment in washington, underkuting his employees and telling obvious lies. one night after preaching to the nation about healing president trump does a 180 at a campaign rally in phoenix. the president again defending his response to the violence in charlottesville. he spent nearly 15 minutes recounting his words but with one glaring omission. he initially blamed those clashes on many sitdes. here s what he said last night and what he really said ten days earlier. here s what i said on saturday. we re closely following the
childhood he deserves. her comment coming after the conservative daily caller website criticized the 11-year-old s fashion choice saying the least he could do is dress the part when he steps out in public. the story getting strong pushback from both sides of the political aisle. first lady tweeting this response to chelsea clinton. thank you, so important to support all of our kids. he s a cool kid. he s 11 years old. move from new york to go to the white house. that s what he s supposed to wear. interesting the timing of melania s tweet during a speech which some say was bullying in and of itself. all right. how about this story? a lot of people talking about online. espn decided to pull announcer robert lee from the university of virginia s college football season opener because his name. robert e. lee of course was commander of the confederate