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If you see him, by you. if i see him, by me. if our panelists joining us on set, see him, by them, as well. vivian, nbc news national political reporter, and eli, also a msnbc political analyst. i dont know why youre working on a holiday but im glad you are. theres a lot to talk about. any story that starts, quote, during a night of heavy drinking at an upscale london bar, probably not going to end well. >> ironic, its the morning after new years eve. but one thing, the role of p papadopoul papa...

So with the first calendar year of the trump administration in the books, the "new york times" took a look at how this president is re-inventing the office. quoting his chief of staff, john kelly, saying, he very seldom asks how other presidents did this. its true. for a chief of staff view bringing order to a chaotic white house that, certainly, has been a unique challenge. think of the presidents use of twitter alone, setting him apart from his predecessors. president trump is creating this un...

Presidents abilities to get anything passed. >> obviously the mueller probe continues into 2018. what vivians getting at is the key unknown. that is what happens that we arent prepared for that the white house isnt expecting thats out of its control. we didnt see a lot of events in this first year for all the chaos, there were not a lot of unforeseen tests for this administration, challenges on the foreign policy front. eventually that will happen to this administration, this president. and that...

Being a truth check here for the president and paul ryan. both the president and the speaker of the house said they want to look at entitlement reform. they want to look at welfare reform as big issues to try to get done this year. mitch mcconnell has a lot of chips on the table with the president right now after getting this tax deal done. i suspect in the meeting, he will tell them what he has been saying on capitol hill, which is, you cant do that sort of thing without bipartisan buy in. you ...

>> and darlene, tomorrow, this is almost hard to believe, but its on the presidents public calendar, trump -- trump to visit fbi academy after saying the agency was in tatters. he just got finished trolling the fbi and tomorrow hes going to preside over the new graduating class. how does this work, exactly? >> it will be very interesting to hear what the president has to say to these graduates tomorrow after going on twitter a week or two ago and basically trashing the fbi and saying that the re...

Be made public tomorrow and the negotiating is far from over. >> darlene, theres another aspect to this, mitch mcconnell cant look bad again. >> thats right, mitch mcconnell also needs a win in the senate, remember earlier this year, he couldnt get the health care bill through the senate which was another priority of the presidents that the president and republicans in congress really wanted to get done. so, mitch mcconnell has some work ahead of him to get this bill over the finish line and to ...

Giveaways to the corporations and the rich, if you do increase the size of the child tax credit, i dont know that thats going to blunt all of that criticism, if you did it by raising other percentage point, something like that, it might be a political winner for republicans as well as marco rubio, but the negotiations, the bill -- the. conference committee bill will be made public tomorrow and the negotiating is far from over. >> darlene, theres another aspect to this, mitch mcconnell cant look ...

To hear what the president has to say to these graduates tomorrow after going on twitter a week or two ago and basically trashing the fbi and saying that the reputation, its reputation was in tatters and the worst in history. hes going to have a pretty fine needle to thread tomorrow. >> well, thatll be interesting to watch. certainly interesting for the fresh crop of fbi academy graduates. eli, darlene, thank you both as always. coming up for us tonight, its about to get more difficult perhaps...

Cant look bad again. >> thats right, mitch mcconnell also needs a win in the senate, remember earlier this year, he couldnt get the health care bill through the senate which was another priority of the presidents that the president and republicans in congress really wanted to get done. so, mitch mcconnell has some work ahead of him to get this bill over the finish line and to the president by the end of next week. >> eli, lets talk about the speaker of the house. whatever people think about memb...

Well, eli, this math is tricky, lose three republicans, youre looking at 48 to 52, remembering the vice president would cast the deciding vote. you can lose three to whatever combination of principle and/or illness, but theyre talking about potentially more than losing three votes, correct? >> well, the math is pretty simple, you laled it out there, and this thing really is sitting on the head of a pen right now. i think most people anticipate that one way or another this thing gets across the f...