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Be tainted by politics. youre going to see people try to discredit him. the more that all these investigations are viewed as partisan, through a partisan lens. youre seeing republicans misdirect and say its about leaks, about whos leaking this information. its about who in the obama administration unmasked names. thats what they want to focus on. and the more americans feel this is partisan, the less pressure that will ultimately fall on congress if this investigation proves something that is pr...

Actions that were taken in response to that interference? >> well, i think if they are, in fact, considering it, they ought not consider it very long. you look at these compounds. they were taken because of presumed russian interference. you can go broader, because they occupy crimea, not theirs, they have a war in eastern ukraine and they occupy a third of georgia thats not theirs, as well. what in those things has changed? >> nothing. >> nothing has changed. >> so why -- >> so -- >> why would ...

Tenure. hes just so early right now, he should still be in something of a honeymoon period. if he doesnt follow through on health care repeal, if he cant make progress on tax reform, which is going to be extremely diicult, do you not just see republican voters start to move away from him, but do you see some of these republican lawmakers willing to give him the benefit of the doubt start to move away and start to say, hey, i cant walk the plank for a guy whos got a 40% approval rating. >> i just...

Handing over the country to donald trump including donald trump. but two, this was something he waited and waited to do which was to offer some sort of sanction or set of pickup truun. it included expelling diplomats, sanctions, and it included seizing these compounds. now were giving it back to reboot the relationship? >> you can make 27 different facts, starting with donald trump jr. in 2008 saying, a disproportionate amount of our money is coming from russia and everything starts and goes bac...

Month seeking to gain permission to build a new u.s. consulate in st. petersburgn exchange for returning the compounds but the consulate condition has been dropped. joining me is msnbc terrorism analyst i know who has something to say about this, malcolm nance and steve kornacki and matt welsh. malcolm, lets start, why -- okay. ready. why shouldnt we give this back to russia? start from that angle? >> first off, these compounds, these two diplomatic facilities, were closed in response to the pre...

Payback. >> and the video we were just showing you with the red circle around a man, that was the mayflower hotel and that was ambassador sergey kislyak. you can see him right there. i was at this event. >> i was there, too. >> yeah, phil, you were. this was before we knew the fbi was looking into whether there was any coordination potentially between the trump campaign. they didnt start getting interested in this until july, right around the time that donald trump had a press conference talking...

But the post reporting is we have stopped that linkage, we think. i agree doesnt make sense. it does make sense or you can follow the logic if theres going to be some kind of trade swap here. i would like malcolm maybe can shed light on this, every major powers compound is going to have spy stuff in it. our diplomatic residencies everywhere have people who work for the cia and theyre not all just gathering information. great powers do spy craft. russia probably does more than anybody, certainly ...

Leveled at least part of a three-story corn milling plant. officials say the blast happened late last night about 40 miles north of the capital madison. officials say they dont have the information about the numbered missing or injured from that blast. president trump is expected to announce whether or not the united states will stay in the paris climate aexact. axios is the first to report the president will withdraw but the hasnt confirmed. if the president decides to do that, we would join ...

Certainly something that really started the cascade of these stories and that was his lie about barack obama tapping his phones. >> correct. >> right. >> and then all of the lies that flowed out of that. think about how many of these things are self-inflicted wounds. they reach out to russian contacts. they lie about reaching out to russian contacts. they lie on their disclosure forms. they lie before congress. they keep lying about russian contacts. theyre not lying about contacts they had with...

Up publicly. hes allowed himself to be tainted by politics and so youre going to see people discredit him. the more that all these investigations are viewed as partisan, through a partisan lens. youre seeing republicans misdirect and say its about leaks, about whos leaking this information. its about who in the obama administration unmasked names. and the more americans feel this is partisan, the less pressure that will ultimately fall on congress if this investigation proves something that is p...