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ok. in theaters april 5th. rated pg. good day, im chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. yet another norfolk southern train derails this morning just as the ceo faces members of congress who have a lot of tough questions but dont always get clear answers. a full month after the train crash that got many residents sick, will the railroad keep its word to be in east palestine, ohio, into the future, and what are lawmakers willing to do to make sure he keeps his word...

punxsutawney, pennsylvania. get your arms around that. theyre waiting to see. >> i love it. >> will the groundhog see his shadow? >> fantastic. >> band is on stage. everyone is ready to go. >> we have to do the show live from there sometime. >> oh, my god, id love to do that. can we do the show live from punxsutawney? >> groundhog day for me is one of those things, i can never remember whether the groundhog sees its shadow, its good or its bad. it just doesnt stay with me. maybe becaus...

A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. Mandate was originally and whether or not there was any collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia to try to influence the election. In his response letter, mueller said, no, i want to talk about the issues that go to obstruction as well. Im not sure where that leaves things right now. I know that the president s attorneys are formulating a response. Theyll likely have that next week. They dont want to let the preside...

Ceiling. clean debt lift. if republicans want to negotiate on spending, guess what? we do it every year. thats called writing the budget. the house will write their version. senate will write our version. theyll be very different. then we sit at a table, hash it out. so speaker mccarthy and his republican majority, theyve got the negotiating tool in their hand, which is the budget that theyre writing for fy-24, that were working on right now. we shouldnt flirt with our credit worthiness. the ame...

Every year as part of the federal budget process. tsa has asked to discuss potential operational efficiencies. this year is no different. lets turn to stewart baker. he over saw fsas policy in the bush administration. good to see you. >> a pleasure. >> shepard: explain this to us and what you think about it. >> so this is a budget exercise. somebody asked them to say what they would do to save $100 million. one of the options was, well, maybe we can stop doing checks at small airports where the ...

Democrats and republicans, a value to that. democrat chris coons said this. >> this is not the time for us to splash developments in diplomacy around the world. the initial budgetary proposals from the trump administration suggests that a nearly 30% cut to the state department. this is exactly the moment where we need to be leading with diplomacy. >> bret: does he have a point? are you worried about cuts? >> i am worried about cuts longer term. we have undertaken a budget exercise to accommodate...

Long history with this young leader, only about five years. so we recognize that we are dealing with a relative level of unknown and uncertainty. that is part of the risk that the president has been willing to make in this approach. >> yet the senators over to the white house for that briefing. there were a few democrats like tammy duckworth who said she thought it was a dog and pony show, but most of them, democrats and republicans, a value to that. democrat chris coons said this. >> this is no...

Democrats and republicans, a value to that. democrat chris coons said this. >> this is not the time for us to splash developments in diplomacy around the world. the initial budgetary proposals from the trump administration suggests that a nearly 30% stat. this is exactly the moment where we need to be leading with diplomacy. >> bret: does he have a point? are you worried about cuts? >> i am worried about cuts longer term. we have undertaken a budget exercise to accommodate as best we can the pre...

Bloomberg is calling for more leadership from the white house. >> i think the mistake that was made here is we let congress write the health care bill so that its just a collection of special interests. you got yours. he got his. and i voted for both of those because i got mine. and it doesnt make any sense. nobodys ever read the bill. its just not going to work. the same thing is true with dodd/frank. congress shouldnt be writing specific laws. the president should send to congress the specific...

Blackwater. and blackwater implicating a character from south park in the latest thing that theyve been caught doing. it is all coming up this hour. but we begin tonight with an effort to clear up a big, fat embarrassing political lie. >> democrats have already decided on this so-called nuclear option, a reconciliation process. >> this would be the nuclear option. and i think it would be a terrible mistake. >> reconciliation, that sounds real nice and gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling. its the nu...