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Suitorman, Senior Editor at reason magazine. Kasie, let me start with you. Weve already seen far right groups like Heritage Action criticize the plan, Club For Growth as well, freedom works, rand paul calling it obamacare light. You tweeted this a few hours ago. Here it is, it is still early so caveats apply but events of today suggest Gop Health Care bill is already on life support, if not Dead On Arrival. How can that be so early, kasie . Reporter well look, craig, this bill has run into extra...

Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. We havent seen that in a while. So unlike this white house really. Any chance well get answers to any of these big russiagate stories making headlines today . Well, we got plenty of questions on those topics. Its likely Sarah Sanders, particularly as it relates to the personal opinions on the mueller investigation, whether he will do an interview that she will kick that over to his outside counsel, Rudy Giuliani who has spo...

Names here, and the president said today when a reporter asked him about mattis, what are you talking about? but then he went on "60 minutes" and said mattis was sort of a democrat. all eyes are on all of these different cabinet officials as we see what the president decides. >> what are you -- >> jeff sessions is so out of there. i dont know about the others, but, i mean, the abuse heeaped n him, the best he can hope for is to be allowed to resign as opposed to, you know, getting fired by tweet...

Name. to lift this cloud that has been hovering over the west wing since he took office, since before he took office. what we saw, its all happening sort of at once here. his tweet storm yesterday morning was -- remains rather striking here, 24 hours or so later. in which he called for jeff sessions to end this probe. now, of course, we heard sarah sanders in yesterdays white house briefing say that was just hemorrhagesterring an opinion. it wasnt an order. and of course sessions himself cant do...

>> lets start with nbc news kristen welker in the white house briefing room. kristen, the long list, as per usual of headlines to cover today in the briefing. jeff sessions, of course, roseanne, what stood oud to you today. >> some of the top headlines do relate to jeff sessions. in the wake of that "new york times" report, casey, that president trump asked jeff sessions to reverse his recusal in the russia probe. of course sessions recused him because there werel revelations he had met with rus...

Trump told comey i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go. letting former national security advisor michael flynn go. hes a good guy. i hope you can let this go. march the president reportedly asked the white house counsel to pressure jeff sessions not to recuse himself from the russia investigation which of course sessions did. >> i am disappointed in the attorney general. he should not have recused himself. almost immediately after he took office. and if he was going to recuse hims...

Corrupt intent. what does that mean? that he was doing it to mess with the investigation and its goals. the president has flatly denied that specific crime, so theres going to be no easy route to knowing why he did what he did until perhaps this latest reporting about his order to fire mueller and the timing thereof. lets start with the first in a series of actions that investigators may consider. last january, thats when then fbi director jim comey says the president told him, quote, i need loy...

Campaign trail and since then saying he supports states rights. you think about where were at right now, denver, colorado where weve had these legal sales for nearly four years. nothing is going wrong. the world isnt falling apart. the state is making money. people are operating for the most part very safely and responsibly. and trump was okay with that. but of course sessions, being the wild card that he is, i mean this is what weve been reporting on and hypothesizing on for years. and now this...

Would expect them to touch on a sessions involved in the firing of james comey. we know that comey said he believes he was fired because of his handling of the russia investigation. and of course sessions was suppose to have recused himself from the russia investigation. thats one of the many questions we expect congressional investigators to have for the attorney general. the main question right now is when hell testify and whether well be able to watch it. back to you. >> well democrats and re...

Are indeed tapes. >> are there tapes, sir? >> youre going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer. >> if there are tapes, the house intelligence committee is demanding that the white house turn them over within two weeks, then next week, you have of course sessions testifying before the senate intelligence committee on tuesday, so as much as this white house would like the russia problem to go away, it is here to stay, at least for the next few weeks, months, if not longer. julie? julie...