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Democrats want an independent commission. they dont want this to be investigated by members of congress or the senate, they want an independent commission which is basically code word for just something that lasts a long time and they can continue to make political hay of it. >> that was house intel chairman devin nunes in reaction to growing calls for him to step down from leading the russia investigation. joining me now is eliza collins and jeremy peters, msnbc contributor and reporter for "th...

Immunity. i want it in public. lets go. >> he says he is ready. we have president trump talking in a tweet about mike flynn saying mike flynn should ask for immunity and this say witch hunt. excuse for big loss. donald trump may have got even distracted when a reporter asked a question yesterday. watch what the president did. >> were you trying to tell the justice department to grant immunity to michael flynn? was that your intention? >> the president left the room and not evening signing the or...

Chuck, what do you need? what do you need? >> i need a load of corporate tax -- >> what cant you take? what cant you take? exactly. >> what cant you take? >> he cant take individual tax cuts that favor the rich, precisely what -- >> i can simplify. >> simplify is a code word. >> we understand, we all agree we want to flatten the tax code. we want to lower the corporate tax rate not for the most powerful corporations but for the people in upstate new york. >> joe, youre exactly right. >> this is ...

Helps me on sequestration. sequestration is code word for doing dumb stuff. $200 billion coming out of nondefense. 220 billion defense, that will give us the smallest army in the 1940 in the navy. thats insane. do you want to have less fbi agents in 2017 than we had in 2013? i dont. thats where were headed. so were all in this together. so if you want more spending for the epa, the state department and defense, youd better start fixing medicare and social security. one last topic about social se...

About the presidents own sales effort when it comes to legislation in the future. well have to see how and if that changes. ana? >> tal, president trump said yesterday we learned a lot about loyalty. whats the big loyalty question or lesson for the white house on health care? >> some sources are definitely saying that one thing the president learned about this is how difficult it is to negotiate with the freedom caucus. but its really interesting is while the freedom caucus is getting some of th...

In a pony. to me, that was very revealing. those talking points he used last night were very similar to ryan. for example, he talked about access to coverage, which is a code word for basically taking insurance away from people but letting people have credit so they can get, perhaps, insurance on their own. >> i want to talk about health savings accounts. they were introduced in 2003. seems to be a big plan of this replacement. more americans are using them. theyre like 401(k)s. they help you sa...

>> martha: you look at the protest, the picture we showed, the civil rights movement, the vietnam war, based in such deeply held beliefs. in some of these cases, richard, you just have to wonder, when you have students who have been taught that the require safe spaces around them, that hearing the viewpoint of someone who is different than them is not an education, its an offense. i think that we have to make sure that universities -- i get uc berkeley credit, in this case, they did come forward...

Back now, kayleigh mcenany is here. charles below. hilary rosen and paris dennard. you wanted to make a point about discrimination. >> kayleigh raised earlier pastors and religious figures feel they dont have free speech. im all for free speech but seen with sean spicer at podium and rumors from the white house, administration is considering executive order to declare so-called religious liberty for certain things but its really a code word for allowing businesses and organizations to discrimina...

Back now with kayleigh mcenany, charles bloerks hilary roens and paris dennard. you said you wanted to make a point about discrimination, hilary? >> well, kayleigh raised earlier that there are pastors and other religious figures who feel that they dont have free speech. im all for free speech. i think what we have seen, though, in todays conversation with sean spicer at the podium and in the rumors coming out of the white house over the last two days is that the administration is considering an...

You are saying hillary clinton and bill clinton dont associate with black people? her top aide in the state department was an african-american woman. >> black people didnt like her. you cant say that liberals quote-unquote racist. i think -- jesse: the point is, you cant say this is a token person, just to prove your point. thats what these people are saying. >> my problem with donald trump is his policies toward african-americans. on his website the first thing he put up is bolstering law enfor...