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The next obvious question is is that what prosecutors would want to talk to him about if he would talk to them instead of continuing to fight this thing? how much is this incredible pressure now, the jailing of paul manafort, about the big picture russia case? and as paul manafort continues not to cooperate and to fight these charges against him up to and including enduring jail tonight, what are his actual chances of being acquitted, of fighting this and winning? joining us is devlin barrett, n...

And also locking up the kids, but theyre locking them up separately. this new policy from the trump administration is jarring enough but we now know as of today that its also a very large-scale policy. 2,000 kids taken away from their parents and locked up already? the knock-on effect is hat trump administration is scrambling to find somewhere to put all of these kids that they have taken from their mothers. and remember, this isnt like older teenagers who got caught crossing the border on their...

Statement back to us within hours. so i think -- but look, in intelligence terms a dangle is a dangle. you throw the idea out there. and thats alarming certainly to law enforcement officials. i think a pardon would be -- you know, would be so politically damaging right now to the president that i think they understand the risks that even talking about it create. but look, somehow they keep talking about it, right? rudy giuliani is not the first of the presidents lawyers to suggest this. this hap...

More breaking news. the justice department inspector general just released its watchdog report on fired fbi director -- deputy director andrew mccabe. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams has been poring through this report the last few minutes. we have former chief spokesman at the justice department, matt miller, also an msnbc justice and security analyst. gentlemen, welcome. pete, just reading a few notes that have come in, including "the new york times" lead, that says the justice de...

>> youll have to ask michael cohen. michael is my attorney. >> youll have to ask michael. its c-o-h-e-n. call michael. when it comes to questions about the presidents alleged relationship with adult film actress stormy daniels and the $130,000 payment michael cohen says he made to her right before the election, the white house response, the presidents response personally has been to tell reporters they need to talk to the presidents lawyer, call michael cohen. were not answering, ask him. well, ...

Information. it was information that pushed the investigation further in the direction of looking at what hillary clinton was doing. >> well, thats right. i mean, two points about that, lawrence. one is, the article itself says that the fbi officials that talked to the journal reporter, who is devlin barrett, whos now at the "the washington post." the fbi pushed back at that suggestion that they were dragging their feet, they thought there was something to the clinton foundation investigation. s...

This seems to be one of the earliest versions and attempts to do that. >> devlin barrett, washington post, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> in the wake of the parkland shooting, florida passes its first gun control measures in more than 20 years. well talk to one lawmaker who ended the debate with an emotional account of the teacher who actually protected her son while her daughter was dying. >> put my kid in the closet when her daughter died. i wanted to say thank you at the funeral. i did...

Betsy devos, may have when would the truth about who else was at that meeting. george nader, ties with the trump campaign. devlin, nice to see you. you are speaking with people familiar with this whole investigation. what are you hearing about what exactly happened in the seychelles? >> the meeting has been a mystery for a long time. we originally reported that it was an important meeting to establish a back channel between the kremlin and trump administration. erik prince, who you mentioned, de...

Dont? please dont launch a military strike? s >> president trump and our allies in the region have agreed to delay our military exercises until after the olympics. president moon has appreciated that. were going to make it crystal clear that our military, the japanese self-defense forces, our allies here in south korea, all of our allies across the region, are fully prepared. >> reporter: fimilitarily? >> to take actions necessary to defend our homeland. >> chris jansing, senior national corresp...

Aware of for months and certainly doesnt pass the smell test because here are some other things that have been fireable offenses in this administration, a single anti-trump tweet. >> yeah. >> suspicions of talking to reporters, getting more media attention than the boss, having these kinds of serious allegations in your past and knowing that at one point they could come out and eclipse whatever it was trump was trying to do, that was a real liability that kelly allowed to fester. >> devlin, do y...