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Presidents actions and the fbis response. here to break it down, kimberly atkins, david korn. and msnbc political contributor, and co-author of "russian roulette." ben witis, legal analyst and senior fellow at the brookings institution and a former fbi official and former u.s. attorney. all-star panel to talk about these two explosive reports. david korn, do you first in washington. the "washington post" wrote it this way. on at least one occasion the president took possession of the note of his...

>> go back to the campaign. during the campaign the russians attacked the election to cause diz order and help trump. po publicly know and reported by the media and obama eventually said it was the russians. throughout the summer and the whole campaign donald trump said it wasnt the russians. repeating, amplifying, boosting the russian moscow disinformation that were not doing this. so there you have collusion and a cover-up and when questioned i guess if youre an fbi counterintelligence officer...

Longer for us. and day 23 of the shutdown and new numbers out show trump and republicans shouldering much of the blame. how does the president get out of the mess he created? and were going to get the thoughts on what democrats would accept in terms of a deal from historiesmaking congresswoman who will join us live. ive.hop.ht call me back! if your ex-ex- ex-boyfriend isnt a lawyer, call legalzoom and well connect you with an attorney. legalzoom. where life meets legal. if you have postmenopau...

Purl purcha being furloughed, and he cant pay his bills, his mortgage and there are incidents at the border recently president trump has used to stoke fear and anger about the -- and the need for the border wall. such its a migrants approaching the fencing in san diego and a tear gas incident, but no answers exactly what happened at the border, for example, on new years, because public affairs for customs and border protection and immigration and customs enforcement are furloughed and not answer...

Belittled her. i can tell you confidently that in number 10 and that in the british foreign service, the attitude of emnity towards this white house is something unseen since before the first world war. >> jonathan lemur, ben judea, nina, thank you for waiting with us during this hour, we appreciate it. staying with the presidents trip overseas, the queen welcomed president trump and the first lady to windsor castle a short time ago for afternoon tea. you may remember windsor castle from the r...

Think the fact that that didnt dissuade the justice department and the special counsel from moving forward on the time schedule that they thought appropriate is a real show of strength on their part. i thought it was interesting that rod rosenstein said today that he had briefed the president on it which -- and that he did that so that when the president goes and talks to vladimir putin he knows the truth about what russia had done and that he was armed with appropriate information. i thought th...

Its one of the most startling successes of recent times. what does this mean for vladimir putin going forward? i think it means that this technique of trying to identify where out of a mixture of inertia, inability to recognize threats and of partisan blindness, america has left doors wide open into its national security. there was clearly no serious locks or serious defenses placed in this sort of cyber dimension. we see another one, which is the doors of the united states are wide open into it...

Really tried to get me and the fake news media, as we are here being called, can you imagine reported it during the time that i was meeting with the queen. so theres a lot of ways that donald trump the showman and the alpha male to present it to his benefit in his meeting with vladimir putin. of course for vladimir putin, this indictment can also be a wonderful thing. you think its going to embarrass him. no. these people are going to get medals, theyre going to be at the service of the nation, ...

James comey because of the russia thing. the president said he wanted russia to find hillary clintons e-mails. oh, no, no, dont listen to him, we hear from donald trumps staff immediately after when the comments proved to be problematic. ben, what do you make of the timing of the indictment? this comes a day after the hearing on the hill with peter strozk and a couple of days before the president will sit down with vladimir putin. >> yeah, i think it is an enormous show of strength on the part o...

At the time i left in 2004, about 93%, 94% of all criminal defendants resolved their case in a plea and virtually all of those with some element of cooperation. so think about that. add to the mix, katie, that to get a search warrant, which is what happened here. to get a search warrant for a lawyers office and a lawyers home, definitely not a mickey mouse kind of thing. you had to go through all kind of hoops to establish that you basically had the guy dead to rights. so they definitely got a c...