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The green new deal, right, green new deal. i encourage it. i think its really something that they should promote. i should have saved the pocahontas thing for another year. because ive destroyed her political career and now i wont get a chance to run against her and i would have loved it. >> hmm. president trump mocking democrats at cpac yesterday in a warm-up for his re-election campaign. lets bring in democratic strategist bishop garrison, inter -- executive direct are you of the truman projec...

i said in that campaign rally was meant to be a joke, i mean, is he just the worst joke-teller in history? is there anything funny about that? was he meaning it as a joke? >> well, i think thats where we have to wait for the mueller investigation. thats where we have to wait to see about the backdrop of the setup for what he is calling a joke, what others are calling might be something more. i think that the mueller investigation and the proof is going to be in the pudding. and that pudding i...

Know, first lady, i said, melania, im doing something today. im doing it because it really has to be done. >> and then the president again framed 2020 democrats as socialists. >> this is the new democrat platform. socialism is not about the environment. its not about justice. its not about virtue. socialism is about only one thing. its called power for the ruling class. america will never be a socialist country. >> lets go now to the white house and nbcs mike viqueira. with a good morning to you...

Street journal" poll giving us great framework to talk about the news coming up. >> youre so lucky it starts at 9:00 and youll get a first crack at it. thank you, david. >> thank you. chris christie says the presidents biggest concern in the russia probe is not robert mueller. the bigger threat is next. is ne. you might take something for your heart... or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally discovered in jellyfish, prevagen has been shown in clinical...

Enforcement or the intelligence experts are not overturned like haphazardly. >> but heres something, sir. if the presidents allowed to share top-secret information with anyone he deems it being important to do so with, why is it a big deal into how jared kushner has gotten his clearance? >> well, this particular act purposes that any relative or someone thats a business associate of the president, right, this would apply exclusively only to those folks. and its important because very often the p...

Agreement with north korea that collapsed -- >> and now add otto warmbier to that. >> thats correct. so he tried to lighten up. he had a very lengthy speech filled with old trumpisms, right? and it didnt go well. i dont think it went -- any time you have to speak for two hours to get your message across, something is going wrong. >> but do you believe that he was just joking back in 2016? i mean -- >> no, absolutely not! >> i mean, hasnt it been proven that that was the very first day that russi...

E-mails. now, the special counsels office says russians that very same day in july 2016 made their first attempt to hack clintons personal servers. >> if you tell a joke, if youre sarcast sarcastic, if you say something like, russia, please, if you can, get us hillary clintons e-mails! then that fake cnn and others say, he asked russia to go get the e-mails. horrible. >> later on, he slammed robert mueller, revealed a conversation he had before firing then fbi director james comey. >> all of a s...

Good job of putting it all out there, why does it matter? i mean, is it all about the southern district of new york and that investigation and less about mueller? >> well, i think the talks about the pardon definitely matter, and they matter to the american people. why? because it shows a consciousness of guilt. why would trump need to have a conversation about issuing a pardon if there wasnt anything that happened that was wrong, if there wasnt anything that he had guilty knowledge of? and so i...

Consciousness that the president let loose. and again, as you correctly point out, after a difficult week politically, and perhaps even legally, with the testimony from michael cohen, with coming home empty-handed from his summit with the north korean leader in hanoi, the jared kushner situation where the president is reported to have interfered and overruled top officials in granting his son-in-law a top security clearance. so, all that added up to a very frustrated president trump. you saw him...

It overall? do you agree this was the ultimate kickoff to the 2020 presidential campaign for trump? >> remember, alex, that state of the union address where donald trump called for unity? yeah, i dont really remember it either. >> yeah. >> i mean, kevins right, it is kind of a ceremonial kickoff to the campaign. but donald trump has been preparing for this moment, for this kickoff, literally since the day he became president of the united states. on the day of his inauguration, he filed paperwor...