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With my staff. >> wouldnt you pick up the phone and say, tell me more. >> i would be surprised if somebody in the presidents party didnt reach out to the administration to let them know what happens. >> what about the center of the 25 amendment, as serious as it gets, impeachment by a name or vote in the house. do you think thats appropriate the duly elected president would be removed under the 25th amendment as to incapacitation. >> you put your finger on it. that is the starting point. is this...

>> good choice. good morning, everyone. >> smart, smart candidate. >> love her. . we welcome to "morning joe." we have joe, willie and me, national affairs analyst, executive producer of showtimes "the circus," john highly maeil. >> he doesnt watch morning even when hes on morning joe. >> rick tyler is with us. washington bureau chief for "usa today," sharon page and glenn kirschner back on the show this morning. and what a day to have you on. >> what a day to have him on. also, mickey, yesterda...

Theyre doing a good job and you dont impeach people when there was no collusion, because there was no collusion. >> trump referring to what he says nancy pelosi told him in the white house today. those comments coming after freshman democratic congressman rashida talib, hours after being sworn into congress, said this. >> and when your son looks at you and says, mama, look, you won, bullies dont win and i said, baby, they dont because were going to go in there and were going to impeach the [ ble...

National rifle association, who had influence over the gop. butina worked more extensively than previously known with american conservative activist paul ericsson whom show describes as her boyfriend. ♪ ♪ beauty and the beast >> the two look lovingly at each other in this video released by ericssons attorney, but prosecutors say ericsson allegedly gave butina information about prominent u.s. political figures and insight into the 2016 presidential election. as part of her ploy, butina propos...

Have this political branch thats not functioning at all because it doesnt -- >> ill challenge you on that because you have to assume that the checks and balances work, otherwise our whole system breaks down. you may be right we dont have the checks -- >> are we broken down? did you see the footage from the hallway yesterday? all these republican congressman saying, doing a graduate jeat j- >> "the new york times" is the tip of the spear on covering a lot of this. is this a question you ask wheth...

Aleksandr torshin, who was the deputy governor of the russian central bank and somebody who was close to putin and was somebody who was focused on infiltrating the nra and, through the nra, republican politics. >> i want to play this for you. this is a clip of butina asking then-candidate donald trump a question. it was at a campaign event in 2015. here it is. >> im visiting from russia. >> ah, putin. good friend of obama, putin. he liked obama a lot. go ahead. >> if you would be elected as pres...

Butina is cooperating with federal prosecutors as part of a plea deal. so lets bring in max boot. hes the author of the corrosion of conservatism, why i left the right. max, what kind of information could butina provide to american investigators? >> well, its very interesting, don. this really seems like something out of a sequel to the manchurian candidate, but this is fact, not fiction. the reality is robert muelle has already indicted 25 russians on charges of interfering in the u.s. election...

Government much of this would have been wilegal, but she was doing it secrecy and trying to cultivate influence with the trump administration and at one point in 2015 she appeared in the audience a q&a and asked donald trump a question on sanctions of russia and he answer ed th answered that he wanted the to build good relations with putin and he did not feel that sanctions were necessary. so what can she give the government about any relationship between the russians and the national rifle asso...

Everybody was expected to behave professionally and problems were worked out informally. now theres going to be a code. its pretty clear there will be some sort of written down rules which will make it easier for the white house to eject reporters in the future because of this. >> laura: i was looking at some old reagan footage today and during one of the turkey pardons. and hilarious. it was chris wallace shouting a question at reagan. but it was aggressive but it was such a different era. it w...

There was not a code. everybody was expected to behave professionally and problems were worked out informally. now theres going to be a code. its pretty clear there will be some sort of written down rules which will make it easier for the white house to eject report ores in the future because of this. >> laura: i was looking at some old reagan footage today and during one of the turkey pardons. and hilarious. it was chris wallace shouting a question at reagan. but it was aggressive but it was su...