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Few shady characters along the way. so all im saying is that its entirely possible that those -- thats the beginning of the nexus. whether you take it to theth degree and s there was collusion or blackmail, i cant say that. but the so-called mystery about why donald trump is interested in russia, there are many different reasons why he is, and theyre not all that unclear. you know, money. he likes power. he likes powerful men. he thinks of himself as a powerful man. he really disdains old forms ...

College-educated voters are very, very difficult, and when you look at the challenges facing republicans in congress to repeal obamacare and replace it, that is very complicated is difficult because youre going to create a class of victims, people who lose benefits that they currently have. were going to see a lot of the evidence this week at town halls that republican members of congress are facing and tax reform, difficult as well, disagreements between house and senate, uncertainty over wheth...

Trump watch, february -- actually, february 8, wednesday, 2017. a disturbing thought for tonight. could the cross currents in this case of the trump travel ban have kept us from the central constitutional question? suppose youre a judge and you have to decide whether to step in and stop a president from carrying out an executive order dealing with national security? if its clearly unconstitutional the answer is easy. if the order says islam is the countrys enemy and its beliefs should be kept fr...

Was so successful economically at home, lost as many seats in the house and the senate and as many governorships as he did and that is something in 2017 at the beginning of 2017, none of us really understand. >> such complex cross currents here. you cant overstate that the degree to which he took over the time of streextreme prices and country going into a depression and he troo had to stimulus and right the ship. the economic of the country is very solid and u.s. is doing better than other u.s....

Barack obama and tim geithner and saving the economy is going to be a huge, huge story. much bigger than it is right now. >> yep. >> it certainly is. and the fact that we dont really remember that eight years later, that it was those four men working together with a lot of other people. an example where democrats and republicans worked together to get something monumental done. and that is, i think, that is a great part of the legacy. also, i think the auto bailout is an important part of the le...

Be a good idea even though he hates the law as much as his fellow republicans, to have repeal vote in place with a simultaneous replacement. he said he would bounce it off the president-elect trump and trump agreed. that would be a good idea. lo and behold, donald trump earlier today indicates he would be open to a quick repeal followed by a replacement measure in quick order. the read on all of these cross-currents right now is speaker ryan, has said that he would lean now in favor of a concurr...

To go after the terrorists. so its all a very fascinating circumstance, and, you know, security will certainly ramp up here in the united states and around the rest of the around t rest of the world as new years has rung in he but we shouldnt have -- should have expected something occurred somewhere. >> malcolm, stand by for that. nbcs matt bradley is still with us, too. you out of london are trying to get the latest information as well. are you hearing anything new. >> not a this very moment, b...

Police say there may have been as many as 500 people inside this nightclub in the center of istanbuls most crowded party districts. the dust appears to have largely settled on the crime scene and youre seeing some of the pictures of that here. but the killer remains at large. now how hard could it be to find a gunman dressed as santa claus? well, some of the cctv footage from the nightclub that surfaced on social media shows the man who is believed to be the killer quickly changing clothes. thos...

For the wheels to come completely off, because the philosophies, the energy of the two parties is very, very different. >> you have four parties. you have the trump party and the paul ryan party, trump republicans, and donald trump republicans, and schumer democrats, and -- >> and also with us, mike barnicle and michael steele and kasie hunt is still with us. >> you have a lot of cross currents we never had before in modern american politics. >> you will continue to have them. steve is right. i ...

Adam schiff. tim kaine and others have been working for a long time to try to make this happen. the same way that president obamas words on muslims yesterday and the importance of not discriminating against muslims, in the same way those words yesterday were not new but theyre now newly resonant given our current political climate is it possible that his calls for congress to debate and vote on more are also not new, might also be newly resonant. might something actually happen. are the cross-cu...