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>> right. do as i say, not as i do. he basically chastised the george w. bush administration and the barack obama administration, prior administrations when it came to iraq. but, this president has made this pronouncement. he needs victories. th thats one of the reasons he came out of the box to say, look, we are doing this. i talked to an intelligence official who worked in various administrations on intelligence. the president basically has as win here. he is doing the right thing, winning and...

Said no, no special counsel, there is this guy who you trust, who is going to be an outside source or outside individual who is very fair, who was appointed by obama but has worked for both administrations and for from what we have heard, he seems like a solid guy. todd: solid guy, right. ainsley: many republicans are still complaining because they are saying we still need a special counsel and this is missing the mark. congressman mark meadows was on with laura last night. listen to. this we ne...

Nbc news justice koescorrespond pete williams. so no second special counsel. but there is a u.s. attorney investigating. explain whats going on. >> right, you could sort of think of it as like special counsel light. in the sense there is someone whose job it is to look at this but that person also has another day job which is being the u.s. attorney in utah. its john huber, someone who has bipartisan credentials. served under both democratic and republican administrations. he says hub ers been d...

Sanctions and ex pelling diplomats? >> ill tell you, i cant make sense of it. i want to underscore at the beginning how very strange this situation is. democrats and republicans until the white house had a consistent policy between the president and the administrations, but when it comes to russia policy, the trump administration has one policy and that is the president doesnt seem to want to endorse it. now my theory is that he wants to keep open, as you just reported, as you just talked about ...

A department like the veteran affairs, some of the most respected people in the country, to fire someone in that way after dangling it on for so long, just also kind of speaks to this whole thing. >> im not saying -- this is not about optics at the end of the day. we are seeing things that were never allowed in prior administrations to go forward with very little questioning. it may have embarrassed the president in some instances, as a consequence have left the cabinet. but the president himsel...

John huber to lead that investigation of the fbi. john huber one of a handful of u.s. attorneys not ousted by president trump a year ago when he issued the blanket firing of all federal prosecutors. apparently, this is not a new probe being lead. john huber according to jeff sessions already been conducting this investigation of the fbi for sometime. but for some reason, attorney general jeff sessions decided he would make it public today. and again, john huber is a respected prosecutor that wor...

We looked into was arms sales to ukraine. the proposal to send javelin antitank missiles to ukraine in their fight against russia sat on the presidents desk from august until december. now outgoing secretary of state rex tillerson along with other administration officials had to really continue to press president trump to approve this deal and to send the weapons to ukraine. >> courtney, do you get any sense from being in the building that you cover that, you know, these military relationships, ...

Administrations. and in order to get this fixed, i believe i was on the right track which is working in a bipartisan way with congress, doing what the veterans groups wanted us to do to strengthen the va. at the same time giving additional choice in the private sector and this is a very complex formula to move an organization this big in the type of transformation that it needs to undergo. >> you were on a phone call with the president. is it in your understanding in ret pro expect that was a ca...

And now you have donald trump who wont say anything about public putin perfectly, but he says he actually seems to be taking tougher policy stances at times that even barack obama did. this is a dysfunctional relationship and worse than it was at times during the cold war. >> it is inherently a kind of difficult relationship. after the cold war i think theres been a successive fail your to kind of figure out the outlines of a porkable relationship going forbard and a lot of that can be laid at t...

Administrations. and in order to get this fixed, i believe i was on the right track which is working in a bipartisan way with congress, doing what the veterans groups wanted us to do to strengthen the va. at the same time giving additional choice in the private sector and this is a very complex formula to move an organization this big in the type of transformation that it needs to undergo. >> you were on a phone call with the president. is it in your understanding in ret pro expect that was a ca...