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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not just what you heard last hour, our our own executive producer. this one, very exciting she s getting promoted to be the boss lady on the weekend. the weekend s gabe is our loss here at the 10:00 a.m. show. we love you, we miss you. craig melvin knows she was a news associate back in nine 94. you re aging her. she s only 27, she started when she was 2. we re going to miss her during the week. we re so excited for her. what an amazing adventure for her. did you come to new york just to say we re doing a big party and the whole thing. that s nice. i wondered why you wore here. you can come if you d like. i d rather get back out to the house. next time you come, could you lower the temperature in the studio? it s 90 degrees in here. good to see you, my friend. good friday to you. and good friday to you had the craig mediclvin here. president trump lashing out this morning hours after he tried to distance himself from those send her back chants that triggered a wave