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Direct criticism of federal law enforcement in that clip certainly doesnt help him. but, you know, these people are professionals. theyre not going out of mike flynn out of a grudge or revenge play but because he broke the law and probably multiple laws and he knew he had done it when he was giving that speech and thats really unbelievably offensive and i hope that when he is on house arrest after hes arrested and he doesnt make bail they make him watch that clip over and over and over again in ...

That there was not a prosecutable case there so that is an attack on the judgment of the justice department and the fbi when hes saying it. thats whos investigating him now. how do they feel about something like that when they look at that? >> well, i think its certainly not going to help him. i think that his defiance and direct criticism of federal law enforcement in that clip certainly doesnt help him. but, you know, these people are professionals. theyre not going out of mike flynn out of a ...

Shes now the director of progressive programming for sirius xm. joe watkins, republican strategist for president george h.w. bush and rick tyler. cruz campaign spokesman. he is an msnbc political analyst. as always, glad to see all three of you. lets get to this report, guys. you just saw it was about the changing stories about what really happened here. who met with whom? who had contact with russia? who did not have contact? so where do you see this story taking us, joe? >> well, no place good...

Keep many mind, he did vote with the president 90% of the time. now, former republican senator and presidential candidate, rick santor santorum. senator, great to have you with us. you just saw that piece and throughout the day, virtually no one that she spoke with was supporting jeff flake. obviously, he is a conservative. i just mentioned his voting record. but i want to mention to you, this new fox poll. the presidents approval rating, according to fox news, 38% and the big drop was with his ...

States senate, led by republicans in the senate foreign relations committee. so they have undercut him, whatever he says people are going to know that, you know, you have to pay attention. he is the president. hes got his finger on the button, but there are a whole lot of sober minded americans in both parties who arent going to let him get away with this stuff. that doesnt help him. >> i want to ask about the whole daca deal and the senator schumer off-mike moment when he says he likes me. how ...

Keep tweeting, 110 million people want the truth out there basically. his republican colleagues on capitol hill have not always been quite so down with all of the online talk. listen. >> i dont really respond to tweets. >> about the president and his tweet -- >> i dont read that stuff. >> jeff flake says that is part of the problem, republicans who dont respond to the presidents tweets, he has this line where he says, its like fz noah were to say if i spent my time obsess bg the flood i would ne...

Asked a question. >> do you think robert mueller should recuse himself. he hired some attorneys that were part of the hillary clintons foundation. should he recuse himself? >> hes very good friends with comey, which is bothersome. hes also -- were going to have to see. look there has been no obstruction. theres been no collusion. there has been leaking by comey, but theres been no collusion, no obstruction and virtually everybody agrees to that. well have to see. >> well have to see. not exactly...

On james comeys testimony. the president indicated he kind of cleverly bluffed comey into telling the truth. thats the point of tapes. >> the truth doesnt help him. >> but the presidents lawyer the day after comey testified said its false that the president asked comey for loyalty and its false that the president he wanted to deny. the president asked him to go easy on flynn. what is the presidents position on comey. did he tell the truth or make up these two things that are rather importa impor...

Presidential collection. jim comeys involvement is when he was the victim of an attempt to obstruct justice. that doesnt relate to the underlying investigation about russias conduct. >> do you think that bob mueller will investigate whether or not the president was trying to intimidate him with that tweet? >> i think its very clear that by the presidents own administration today his hope was to force jim comey to tell the truth. i think most of us believed he would tell the truth any way. >> do ...

>> obamacare is just blowing up. and even the white house, our president announced 25 or 26%. that number is so wrong. that is such a phony number. you are talking about 60, 70, 80% in increases. >> so what this is going to say is the first thing he said, i can say all of my employees are having a tremendous problem with obamacare. a then the reporter asks so do you provide insurance or not? and he says well actually they are not on obamacare. confusing the message. does this help him to drive t...