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Who has spoken to the president many times over the years and is under scrutiny over his contacts and his talk about wikileaks. roger stone appeared over the weekend and said he would not testify against president trump. >> theres no circumstance under which i would testify against the president because i would have to bear false witness against him. i would have to make things up, and im not going to do that. ive had no discussion regarding a pardon. the only person i push for a pardon for is m...

In washington. its a critical moment in the early weeks of the trump presidency. the president going back to the drawing board as you see the flags and the marines out there positioned for the arrival of japans prime minister, and today that meeting with japanese prime minister shnz shnz about to come at this hour, after the president made a key concession to china in a late night phone call. feeling the political sting of his first big judicial defeat, the unanimous decision from the ninth circ...

Gives him an opening to score a political point which is the media is somehow biased or out to get him. i think its especially important in the trump -- incoming trump administration that the media is a fierce crusader for what is true and what we can prove and that is why buzzfeed airing an unverified dossier is so damaging because we dont know if its true and trump thrives in a culture where we dont really know whathe facts are. he can just sayn the one hand or on the other, and the media need...

Change. >> presidents dont let you raise your hand anymore. they have a list of names. john heilman, i miss you. please come on again a lot. robert costa, my favorite. thank you, sir. from bucks county, pennsylvania, robert costa and the "washington post." coming up, trumps pick to be secretary of state also faced tough questions today. both democrats and republicans also about his ties to russia. and marco rubio was leading the way grilling tillerson over vladimir putin and the deaths of some...

Telling you, but you should trust us. i think you could say that was a good era or say that was a bad era. that is not the present day. when you have an object that is in play, that is having consequences for the way our elected leaders a erers acting to ask the question of why should i suppress that? there are then good reasons. once it emerges as it did last night in the public conversation that there is this secret document floating around full of dark allegations we will not repeat to you, t...

Was identified, tagged, marked, clearly as disinformation. i believe cnn would have listed it that way and reported it that way. whoever gave it to them didnt tell them who it was. >> i think thats a fair assessment, i think they looked at it and said its significant this is included in a classified intelligence report, why is it being transmitted this way, not some other way? thats the question i still have. >> ken dilanian, youre the pro. joining me right now, hallie jackson, a reporter with n...

"washington post," two great reporters. how did trump do today? first time hes met the press in months. >> look at the polling we saw in the last few days, trumps approval rating is falling right now and concerns by americans about the big question, is he presidential? when will he start acting the way they think the president should act? thats not every american but a lot of them. i cant imagine that anything that happened today made any progress for him in that area, that any american who saw ...

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And he sort of dodged that question. but pointed to the fact that hes trying to get to the bottom of -- >> reasonable question, maybe you can answer it, but whoever leaked it didnt leak the fact that material was last disinformation. anybody who put it out was probably trying to hurt trump. now, theres a number of suspects you could say. the eight members of the congress in the senate, leading and ranking members and chairmen of the intelligence communities. eight suspects there. you might go wi...

This, singling out -- >> the salacious material. >> now weve risen in his esteem because of that and wants to thank us and congratulate us for doing our jobs. >> so you dont want the pat on the head. >> no, i dont. tomorrow there could be a report that nbc comes out with that he does not like. >> okay. >> and he will call it fake news regardless of whether it is scurrilous or regardless of whether it is disinformation. hes picking and choosing. >> gabe, you cover the media and i think the new te...