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♪ youre with us for a brand new hour. good to have you along. im victor blackwell. today the fbi is helping michigan state university students and staff return to the building where the shooting that happened -- they can recover any personal items today. the campus will stay closed until at least monday. community leaders, university staff, students begin to gather to mourn and show an overwhelming sense of outrage. >> i think that, when 20 kindergarteners were mowed down in sandy ...

Away from the stale names and ideas of the past. a key point of applause in the group was when she talked about american is not past its prime, but many politicians are past their prime. thats the key message she will have moving forward. i think its great to have more people in this race, a robust republican primary is great for democracy. its also great for the party. the key is to make sure that everyone goes out to these early states and test your message, test your ability to connect with t...

Lets bring in cnns senior political analyst, ron bro brownstein. good to have you with us. >> thanks, george. >> lets talk about the tariffs, starting june 10th and increasing each month, if that nation doesnt, as he said in a tweet, stop, immigrants crossing the border from mexico illegally. as far as the nation is concerned, what would it mean for the united states? what would it mean for mexico? >> weve seen the mexican government, to a striking extent, really, try to avoid conflict with trum...

And it will be a tarnished legacy. i think it will be immense pressure not only on the department but on the attorney general to be forthcoming. >> with me now is ron bro brownstein, senior adviser. former white house attorney, do the democrats have the law on their side here? can the special counsel be subpoenaed, and that includes mueller as well? >> yes. look, the congress has substantial equities here in terms of getting at the information that its seeking. there obviously are restrictions o...

Contributor. the senior editor at the atlantic and cnns senior political analyst, ron bro brownstein. lets begin with russia and roger stone. stone now saying hes open to cooperating with the mueller investigation, willing to tell the truth and he has nothing to hide. so ron, is he changing his tune, or is it just the way in which he is speaking? >> thats really a great question. certainly the tone today was a little different than it has been. whether it leads to anything substantive going forw...

They could be protechted by executive privilege. >> thank you so much. awaiting house members who will try to avoid him and will fail. joining us to discuss, ron bro brownstein, and jeffrey toobin. the wikileaks thing yesterday such big news lost in the sphaoesmoke of it, this key legal fact which is now with the revelation, donald trump could be open to legal exposure, how? >> its illegal under american law, under campaign finance law to receive contributions or solicit contributions from a f...

Whether people are taking the money and using it for welfare and dont deserve and taking the medicare or sort of people who arent paying taxes like you are and taking advantage of the system. hes sayinging this skewed to a more older white population and an activist says basically it reinforces the framing of forward and back ward. i wonder what you make of that. is that the best way to read this, the romney campaign is going after a narrow, specific demographic here and driving up the support w...

Billion for his wall in exchange for a pathway to citizenship for dreamers. and a month later a bipartisan group of senators unveiled a new blank, which included $25 billion for the presidents border wall in exchange for a pathway to citizenship. the white house then fought to stop that deal from passing. throughout the series of rejections the president has repeatedly blamed democrats for not wanting to reach a deal on daca. lets discuss this with cnns senior political analyst ron bro brownstei...

>> one step up for the president, owning that this actually happened and two steps back of lets blame everybody else. lets discuss this and, of course, whats going on with health care. cnn political analyst ron bro brownstein, a.b. stoddard and cnn political director david challen. were waiting on the cbo score. the health and human services secretary, tom price and kellyanne conway were out there, making big claims about why this bill was the way to go. lets play tom price. >> the plan we have,...