this would be something within his power and we'll see if he does it. >> susan page, michael crowley and peter alexander and eugene robinson. >> coming up, honor the veter s veterans. to preserve disableability paym. we'll talk to the woman who's behind all this. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" on msnbc. a mitchell reports" on msnbc ♪ spending time together, sometimes means doing nothing at all. holiday inn. we're there. so you can be too. >>> trump is now on his way vetl convention, just days before new bankruptcy protection for veterans are going into effect. it is going to fix the flaw in the bankruptcy code that protected disabilities for most americans but not veterans. joining me now is holly petraeus who worked and help to get this bill passed. >> congratulations. >> it is quite exciting. you did this having left the governme government, you were in consumer protection bureau for six years, working in military affairs. you were a military spouse and spent your life with your father, you lived on bases around the world. you saw this loophole. tell me what happens a

michael crowley and the table is back. tim, i ask you. >> i thought we were moving off of this topic. i got to come back. you know, it's been basically every day of the trump campaign and every day he's melting down. it feels like the groundhog day of stories but in some way given what's different now is not the quality of the meltle down but the quality of the chaos on the global stage so the stakes have risen in a way that makes it more alarming in some sense not that it's thought always been alarming but acutely sense against the backdrop eugene lays out. do you think he's getting worse? >> i think he's getting more panicked. i think he's always been worse. i think he's been worse than worse from day one. i think -- i suspect that trump when the mueller investigation ended thought that sort of existential threats to his presidency had been put to rest and in very short order i think trump the racist became a very appropriate and damning moniker that got attached to him after elijah cummings, trump the racist will be par

michael crowley, white house correspondent for the "new york times" covering foreign policy. and eugene robinson, pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the "washington post." welcome to you all. michael, i'd like to begin with you. content aside, is this the new normal? questions and answers spoken in a shout with the helicopter engines in the background. it strikes me we have had a new press secretary for 51 days who most americans could not pick out of a line-up because she has not briefed the press. >> that's right, brian. her name is stephanie grisham and she replaced sarah sanders, who left the white house weeks ago, as you say. and you know, sarah sanders shut down the daily white house press briefing, which of course was this fundamental american political tradition. well, it seems to be back but in a way that no one really quite imagined, which is that president trump basically anytime he goes anywhere or meets with someone where the press has any access just starts fielding questions for an y extremely long period of time. so we've had several times in the last just f

and other communities of color. >> michael crowley, this is reporting tonight thoroughly sourced by "the washington post" that said the nra chief wayne la pierre spoke with the president and said it would not be popular among trump supporters according to officials that spoke on the condition of anonymity and he also argued against the bill's merits, the official set. michael, pick your opinion poll, most of them are around 94% of popular public support for this and i guess this nicely raises the curtain for the next legislative drama. >> that's right, brian. it will be interesting to see how the president proceeds. after the parkland shooting, he specifically made reference to the nra and said senators were too to the nra and we learned the nra had been in touch with the white house. so if he changes course as a result, it wouldn't be the first time he did so after consulting with the nra. i want to add one other thing, brian. there is a lot of focus on the chronology of what happened during the trip. i thought maybe the most significant thing today was before the president even depa

. >> here with our lead off discussion on a wednesday night, michael crowley who remains in el paso tonight and in washington annie carney. both are white house conspo correspondents from "the new york times" and president and ceo of vote latino. michael, i'd like to begin with you as you are there and we are not, what's been the response to the president's visit that you've been able to gather? >> well, brian, you know, i would say even before the president was here today there was tension here at the site, the memorial site near the walmart. i witnessed an argument erupt when a woman showed up in a red make america great again hat and she and some other trump supporters got into an argument really nasty argument with trump critics here. it's actually a peaceful scene now. there was singing and music in the background behind us, but i do think there is also a sense here of a certain bewilderment as i think there is in large parts of the country about the way president trump handled this kind of classic almost ceremonial presidential role of coming to try to heal and comfort and console in

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michael crowley, susan del persio and basil sha michmichae. this issue about guns is what resonates. lots of different ideas out there at the moment. when we look at specifically -- this is number five for the control room in terms of trump voter issues, it lays out what's most important. immigration at the top. economy. when you get down to the issue of guns, gun control, not surprising, but 4%. how will this resonate with trump-based voters as he's considering potentially background checks. >> it's also up there with education and taxes. i find that very disconcerting. i think right now, if you want to seek a solution and going to republican lawmakers, i think the best solution is going after the high capacity magazine. there's no reason you need 100 bullets in a clip. that's something like the bump stock that they could get done. i don't know if it could be done by presidential order or not, that legislation would be clear and hit a lot of people. otherwise you have to look at state by state legislation. that takes time. it takes resources.

let's bring in michael crowley, covering foreign policy. and back with us, tiffany cross, cofounder and managing editor of the beat. michael, was this for real? do you think they were considering buying greenland? >> you know, i think that in this administration, when people say there's no way they were seriously considering this, you know, we can't say no it's not possible. no one could possibly be serious about this. i mean, president trump goes to places no one has gone and, yeah, i think that -- look, i don't think the process really formally started. "the washington post" is reporting some aides were tasked to find out more about it. this would be a long, involved process. it would involve congress and appropriating money. so i think it was in the earliest stages of seriousness, but i have to say, you know, i don't think it was just the president kind of making a joke at a dinner to crack people up. he thinks there could be potential here down the road and in fact, you know, something interesting i have learned from good coverage of th