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Certainly whether or not hell continue with the sanctions. in europe, they get renewed every six months. now theyve been renewed through june, but in june, there could be some interesting conversations in brussels if they should continue these sanctioning russia if the u.s. has in fact lifted them. steve. >> all right. hans nichols, thanks for that. joining us now to take a closer look, nile starnd, and alaina johnson, national reporter at politico. heres what im trying to figure out, when donal...

The pan european view is on this. concern though i think is pretty safe. steve. >> yeah, hans, the other issue there, the other question, something else thats causing i know generating a lot of buzz over there. donald trump talking about vladimir putin on the one hand. angela merkel on the other hand. and essentially not saying -- creating any distance between them, one currently our staunch ally, at least officially. the other one, wed just imposed sanctions on, but donald trump is sending a si...

>> reporter: and you lived in america my whole life? >> i worked for the post office. >> reporter: paid taxes, everything an american does. >> everything an american does. i have two kids there. >> reporter: what would you tell them if they said can you come back and live with us? >> they know im in a waiting process for a visa. theyre just waiting. theyre patient. >> reporter: would you be here without all the deportee coming from the united states? would this business be the same? >> no. not a...

So theyre trying to protect the national mall. this is also around me is where that giant, massive fence willing go. all of these are different zones. all the way from the capitol back to the washington monument. are different zones. and theyre securing the mall. now tomorrow what they will do is they will start securing the roads on thursday. thats when youll start to see roads closed and the influx of people coming in thursday night and of course friday morning as you sort of played that sound...

Martin luther king stirred the nations soul. >> traces of bigotry still mar america, each year on martin luther king day, not only recall dr. king, but rededicate ourselves to the commandments he believed in and sought to live every day. >> for more i want to bring in alvin tillery junior thanks for joining us. thats interesting just to look back to the political debate around the mlk day holiday and realize, you think of it being a slam dunk now 30 plus years later, at the time, this was a cont...

Uncharacteristic based on everything were hearing so far, you have had people around donald trump, special people around john lewis suggesting there be some attempt at a reconciliation here if not on the substantive issues, just in terms of getting them on the phone, any chance that could happen this week? >> reporter: sure. listen. i wouldnt rule it out, youve heard publicly members of the trump transition team say that of course that is a possibility. right. that the olive branch would be exte...

Talk to the media. kings son however telling the press that meeting was productive, but he disagrees that john lewis was all talk. >> absolutely i would say john lewis has demonstrated that hes action. as i said, things get said on both sides in the heat of the motion. and at some point, this nation, we got to move forward -- people are literally probably dying. we need to talk about how do we feed people? how do we clothe people? >> and hallie jackson is on capitol hill covering the trump trans...