Goodbye to our executive director. Subsidize i have, tough in the best possible way and consistently to producing newscasts their h honest and objective which is obviously not always an easy task. In other words, nikki egan say great journalist and outstanding person. I like to say that it is our goal on this show to make you smarter and better every single day. And i firmly believe that we are all smarter and better because of nikki egan. Speaking for myself and our team, i want to thank you, nikki, for your friendship, leadership and job well done. That wraps up this hour. Im stephanie ruhle. You are in luck. My dear friend Hallie Jackson is here in New York City. What an amazing goodbye to our friend nikki. Thank you much. See you later this afternoon. We start this hour, though, with new reporting from our nbc news team out this morning on how exactly democrats plan to handle next weeks Mueller Marathon and
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get ready for new protests today and throughout the weekend in puerto rico as people there demand the governor step down. he s not doing it, but he is bu apologizing now for the explosive and offensive comments he made in leaked private chats. i want to bring in gabe gutierrez who is joining me now from san juan. gabe, we ve seen protests overnight, yesterday, we expect to see more today. how big do you think they re going to end up getting? reporter: hi there, hallie. today s expected to be the sixth straight day of protests. throughout the day we ve been seeing demonstrators in front of the security lines. there s still a heavy security presence in front of the governor s mansion which is right back there. yesterday, last night, there was another protest here, didn t turn violent. the night before there was teargas lobbed by authorities at the protesters. tensions are running high. i must tell you, there s also increase the frustration here after a new report for the center for inv