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Here at the table for the hour, Steve Schmidt and matt miller. But first, to react for the first time, single threads different threads of a single story. Questions about russians and contact with people in the president s inner circle. Former cia director john brennan, lucky for us, now a Senior National security and Intelligence Analyst for msnbc and nbc news. I understand now, sitting here today, why donald trump a week or so ago said dont believe what you see, dont believe what you hear on t...

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He might be talking about. i asked for an example. no, i dont want to do that, ryan replied. thats more than what i usually say. what is he talking about? >> donald trump got the nomination. i was on the u.s. senate trail, marco rubio was running for president. and when he secured the nomination, i believe coming out of indiana, every republican candidate was expected to say we support donald trump. paul ryan and i on the same day said comments that were uncoordinated where we both said, im not ...

Save israel. >> we reject the criticism that this vote abandons israel. on the contrary it is not this resolution that is isolating israel, it is the permanent policy of settlement construction that risks making peace impossible. virtually every country in the world other than israel opposes settlements. >> in his four years as secretary of state, deal between israelis and palestinians escaped kerry but he rejected the idea that he failed. >> i didnt fail. we didnt fail. united states didnt fail...

And interviewed him many times about this issue. where do you think his head is right now? >> reporter: i think the vote and what happened, the israeli settlement construction, its exactly why secretary kerry wants to lay out his vision. you know, this settlement issue has been with the u.s. and israel for the last eight years. u.s. officials say that theyve been unable to convince israel that this is really hurting the peace process, and what the u.s. sees is that two-state solution nap idea of...

Know, within reach of a peace deal but they ran out of time. i think this is an effort by secretary kerry to show how he sees a deal playing out and i think everyone knows what pretty much the parameters of a deal are. really the question is whether the party is willing to make the compromises to make that deal. i think thats another thing secretary of state john kerry will get into. when i interviewed him a couple of months ago, thats exactly what he said. he said i didnt fail, the u.s. didnt f...

They like seeing stamper his assistant being invincible. if it was easy for frank, if he didnt stumble, didnt fail, then the show would become a parody of itself. im not interested in that." the way youre portrayed in the new series is being president creates a lot more challenges than getting there even for the machiavellian way he got there. what does tell you about what were watching in washington now, how difficult it is for obama to get things he wants? >> i think its interesting in case of...

Not being deferential, thats a different story, what secretary gates seemed to be alleging now is that even there, though, the president didnt believe in his own strategy. he did the surge, he knew he had to do the surge, he did not believe in it, and in fact secretary gates suggests he may have known -- he may have been convinced that it was going to fail, even though it didnt fail, he may have thought it was going to. >> youre absolutely what you just articulated, the difference between a poli...

Not being deferential, thats a different story, what secretary gates seemed to be alleging now is that even there, though, the president didnt believe in his own strategy. he did the surge, he knew he had to do the surge, he did not believe in it, and in fact secretary gates suggests he may have known -- he may have been convinced that it was going to fail, even though it didnt fail, he may have thought it was going to. >> youre absolutely right, what you just articulated, the difference between...

>> source in the spirit of compromise, we started with a compromise position, where is where the house of representatives was, that it should be defunded. that went over, passed the house. >> failed in the senate. >> it went to the senate, and majority leader harry reid said, no, absolutely not, no discussion, we vote it down. it then went back to the house. the house compromised again. they then came back with a one-year delay. that was a promise from defunding. >> but it failed against in the ...