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Now includes an examination of whether president trump attempted to obstruct justice. joining me now, former watergate prosecutor jill wine-banks and nbc legal analyst paul butler. paul, ive had you on before to talk about obstruction, and you have been fairly clear that you thought there was a plausible case for that. how do you imagine this inquiry goes now? >> well, chris, youre right. every day in this story it seems like there is breaking news. but make no mistake about what happened today....

Day 145 of the trump administration. it was all eyes on the attorney general today. his testimony today in front of his former senate colleagues was at times heated and combative. at times tedious and deeply unsatisfying. jeff sessions vehemently denied that he clued with russia and with voices raised at one point he and oregon democrat ron wyden sparred over something that james comey had just said about sessions while under oath himself last week. >> the suggestion that i participated in any c...

Preserve those records? >> i dont know, senator rubio. probably so. >> the attorney general doesnt know. the attorney general apparently slept through watergate. "the 11th hour" with brian williams starts now. tonight, a defiant jeff sessions denies colluding with russia while democrats accuse him of impeding the investigation. plus can the attorney general claim privilege on conversations with donald trump if the president hasnt invoked it? a former watergate prosecutor is with us to take tha...

Branding marketing expert. i want to talk about the american brand as i see it, what leaders do as countries and leaders. donald trump, use one of joes terms, is purely a day trader. even if we can go back and forth in the economics and the climate issues and line up 100 scientists. even if we are contributing more in many instances, the rest of the world, thats what leaders do. its the same argument in health care. its donald trumps point of view that, no, if you have more, that doesnt mean you...

Intent to move in a completely different direction. lets bring in arizona congressman david schweikert, a member of both the house ways and means and the joint economic committees. congressman, great to have you with us. how many health insurance carriers have dropped out in arizona on the obama exchange, and is that leaving a lot of people there unable to get coverage or afford coverage? >> yeah, no, arizonas been just brutalized. we had counties that a couple years ago had 14 apartments in thi...

Environmental reason, i think having some sort of center is part of that process. >> cool technology, but again it will come with a price. you remember president trump has maintained mexico will pay for the wall, but the neighbor to the south continues to say that is not going to happen before we mentioned at the top that border crossings are down. do we know why? >> border authorities attribute the drop to the support they are receiving from the trump administration and news coverage of immigra...

Having some sort of center is part of that process. >> cool technology, but again it will come with a price. you remember president trump has maintained mexico will pay for the wall, but the neighbor to the south continues to say that is not going to happen before we mentioned at the top that border crossings are down. do we know why? >> border authorities attribute the drop to the support they are receiving from the trump administration and news coverage of immigration bus across the country. w...

Part of that process. >> cool technology, but again it will come with a price. you remember president trump has maintained mexico will pay for the wall, but the neighbor to the south continues to say that is not going to happen before we mentioned at the top that border crossings are down. do we know why? >> border authorities attribute the drop to the support they are receiving from the trump administration and news coverage of immigration bus across the country. when you added up, the numbers ...

>> it comes to a central american immigrants crossing the border illegally from mexico into the united states has dropped dramatically. >> back in october, november, december, anywhere between 700 b. to 900 people a day. right now we average about once a year-145 on a daily basis to >> service attribute that receiving from the trump administration and its coverage of immigration across the country. >> is pretty speed is pretty high-tech. we will see what happens. arthel: the search continues for...

Had 750 and 900 people a day, oh occasional a thousand and right now we are averaging about 150, 145 on a daily basis. >> border authorities attribute that to the support theyre receiving from the trump administration and from news coverage of the immigration bus thats been going on across the country. eric. eric: interesting development. thank you. arthel: okay, eric, the investigation into russian meddling during last years election now hanging in the ballots after the firing of fbi director j...