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And what it could mean for rising tensions with north korea. we begin with breaking news. o.j. simpson is a free man, he was released from a nevada prison early this morning. the nevada department of corrections released a photograph of simpson just before his release. in july, the nfl hall of famer won parole after serving nine years of the 33 year sentence for robbery. joe fryer is in las vegas and joe, can you give us the latest? >> reporter: yeah, good morning. this is what you would call ...

Spring, the report puts the taxpayer bill for his travel upwards of $1 million. with us touk ta buck this, and other topics pending, former chairman of the republican party, michael steele. hes also an msnbc political analyst. also with us, democratic pollster, cornell belcher who worked on the 08 and 12 obama presidential campaigns. gentlemen, welcome to you both. michael, as they say, this doesnt look good. >> no, it doesnt. >> you cant answer with, where do you want to begin. >> no way. it do...

Pollster, cornell belcher who worked on the 08 and 12 obama presidential campaigns. gentlemen, welcome to you both. michael, as they say, this doesnt look good. >> no, it doesnt. >> you cant answer with, where do you want to begin. >> no way. it doesnt look good. and the thing that kills me about this story line is that the folks are getting caught up in this, the same people who were rabid about government spending, were rabid during the obama years, about the least little price tag. so, you kn...

Continue to work together, work on the issue of the hurricanes, work on global health security, work on the issue of -- >> did he talk to you about this, though. >> hes talked about it and as he said publicly, he wasnt happy and he expressed that to me very clearly. >> health and human services secretary tom price telling fox news tonight before that new report from politico that we mentioned earlier in the broadcast had come out. that headline that price used military aircraft and additional tr...

President has, you know, some sort of subtle, thought-out plan here. >> no. we can bank on that, gene. were good. >> i mean, he doesnt -- he may be betting that in the end north korea doesnt attack and so he looks tough and he looks like hes sort of talked them down. although, to what end? its totally unclear. its a very, very dangerous game hes playing. its a dangerous situation he inherited. he didnt create the situation but hes making it worse rather than better. >> here is the problem. you m...

Might get senator paul to yes, and is that possible or at this point, this thing is essentially dead? >> i think that it is possible. i would not give up on it yet. i think that rand paul realizes if this thing goes down, his legacy and the guy who may be a future presidential candidate again, but his legacy could be the republican who killed the repeal and replace opportunity, and so, i mean, this would be a horrible 30-second sound bite for any republican, and i have to say that the president ...

And so i mean, this would be a horrible 30 second sound bite for any republican. and ive got to say, the president is right, what mr. mccain did to the republican party today as a guy who was our standard-bearer in 08, somebody i worked for, somebody that all of us had worked for at one time or the other, you know, he let us down. he let us down as a party. and his philosophy that he ran on in 2016 was repeal and replace. his ads were all over the state of arizona about repeal and replace. so i ...

Entering. gerald, youre going to take the shot. okay? the shotgun doesnt go in once you take your shots you back out. my name is sergeant bonilla. the time is approximately -- >> 7:08. >> 7:08 p.m. the inmate were extracting is kevin blanco, hes refusing to come out othe recreation pen. at thitime we going to proceed. >> coming out, blanco? this is your last directive to come out. come on. >> go ahead. >> not working. >> hes too far.

As you know, your former primary rival, hillary clinton, is on a book tour. she wrote a lot about you in this book. i just want to play one quick excerpt and get you to respond on the other side, sir. >> i was arguing with my supporters at the denver convention in 2008 about why they had to quit complaining that i didnt win and get out and support barack obama. and i didnt get that respect from him and support. >> as you know, youve probably seen at least some excerpts of the book. i dont know i...

The book. i dont know if youve fully read it yet. this is a consistent theme. she believes you didnt work hard enough to bring your supporters to the fold the way she did in 08, which is what she was pointing out there. if anything, your supporters may have undermined her candidacy in the general election. do you accept that criticism? >> wow. no, i really dont. look, chuck, right now were focusing on health care. were focusing on the daca issue. were focusing on infrastructure, high cost of pre...