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You see two lecterns there. the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson and the mexican foreign minister, louis videgaray will be speaking. making statements following their meetings there. they are both trying, we understand, to smooth tensions between the united states and mexico over president trumps proposed border wall, his repeated assertions that the mexicans will pay for that wall. so theres a lot to discuss, a lot to access. i want to go back to our panel. and gloria borger, once again, a...

Conference where he does call on the nbc and abcs of the world. what was your interpretation of it in. >> i think the idea of reaching out beyond like the big four paper, networks is fine. my concern, to me its at the center of a lot of this and why i think the words matter. what donald trump is saying to his supporters is when you hear things on the news that challenge me, dont believe them because they are fake. what were talking about is basic factual assertions or false assertions where ther...

On donald trumps potential conflict of interest here in office. mr. schmits ill begin with you. dishonest assertions and scapegoating. i have come to know you as a patriot and constitutionalist what do you think were looking at, what do you think were in for and how did it go where you are tonight? >> we never seen any behavior like that from an american president democrat or republican, the constant to victory, going after hillary clinton, self-pity, attacks on the media, you never seen an amer...

How putin cyber spies and wikileaks tried to steal 2016 election. but most importantly he was special counsel for president obama for ethics. richard painter is speaking out on donald trumps potential conflict of interest here in office. mr. schmits ill begin with you. dishonest assertions and scapegoating. i have come to know you as a patriot and constitutionalist what do you think were looking at, what do you think yowere i

How would you characterize these claims that there are thousands of people who are bussed in? >> balderdesh. i couldnt explain it. >> reporter: al hotaling perplexed. >> i think its insane. i think hes literally crazy. >> reporter: does it offend you as someone who lives here and votes here? >> yeah, like our votes dont matter. >> reporter: this durham the ballots are still under lock and key. >> if president trump has any doubt he can come down and feel the vault himself. >> reporter: a registe...

He provided for new hampshire voter fraud was none, other than saying talk to kris kobach, the secretary of state in kansas. kobach has agreed with donald trumps assertions that 3 to 5 million people voted illegally in the elections. hes a strong proponent that there was widespread voter fraud and illegal votes in the election. whats your message to kris kobach? >> ill tell you, bussing people into new hampshire, no one has seen the busses. theyre like the yettis, a great part of myth that doesn...

Acts in the future. thats where you are see judges stepping back and saying had is not the same as other assertions of, tiff authority weve seen. >> there are about 20 different cases going on right now about this. we seem to be focused on had one but there a lot. whats the strategy about just waiting it out and seeing whether goes their way. there have been so many rulings again them. there is a temporary restraining order against the travel ban. i think, you know, ratr than try to fight this o...

Record youre referring? >> it is not in the record. >> joining me now is ari melber, msnbc chief legal correspondent. ari, its difficult as a layperson to listen to these hearings and get a sense of whether one side or the other got the better of the argument. yourself as a lawyer when you listen to it, did it seem that one side had an argument that seemed to draw more of those judges affirmation? >> on the lawyering -- meaning how good a job they did -- the doj had a harder time. there were tim...

But the special counsel tried to offer this. >> well, i was just about to at least mention a few examples. there have been a number of people from somalia connected to al shabab who have been convicted in the united states. >> is that in the record? can you point us to where in the record youre referring? >> it is not in the record. >> joining me now is ari melber, msnbc chief legal correspondent. ari, its difficult as a layperson to listen to these hearings and get a sense of whether one side o...

Business is not going on. she separated herself from her business at least in name. what do you make of the tweet that says this is an attack on her? is that an example of ivanka still being entangled in her own business? >> i agree with charlie. it is an example of why donald trump and his family needed to step away, make a more definitive break. i think it is an abuse of the office of the presidency. he is putting the bully in the bully pulpit to attack this company on dubius factual assertion...