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