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Some sad news to share with you. nbc news has learned that otto warmbier released by north korea last week has died thats according to the statement from his family. according to officials he had been inthe coma for more than a year. eli, we both reach out to our contacts at the white house and i know this is a heavy foreign policy and national security crisis day for them. >> nothing back from them yet. you can expect a statement. >> you hear anything well get right to that. we are going to m...

President has a reputation for paying his bills. that may help. >> kasowitz has one distinction among all the lawyers in america which is hes a repeat lawyer for trump. no one else is a repeat lawyer because he never pays his bills. >> let me get a white house reporter back in this. eli, what does the white house say about the presidents actions potentially making things -- i mean, his own son-in-law has the kinds of lawyers that i think david is talking about. lawyers with a pedigree. jamie gor...

Though im not sure thats really been the subject of conversation. >> whats your take on that, eli? >> it depends on what were talking about. depending the president said, if there were other people, not myself, meddling with russia, yeah, i want to know that. that gives him a little credibility, saying he wasnt trying to squash the russia probe. but comey made it plain, as it reta pertained to mike flynn, the president put his hand on his shoulder, so to speak, and said, itd be nice if you could...

Expected to open next year. >> this road is going to bring business. this is our future. all we have. >> and that road will depend on what trump does next. nbc news, west virginia. >> let me bring my panel back in, elena johnson and eli, white house reporter for "the wall street journal." this is something thats going to affect, as james comey might say, actual humans that were having conversations with. this is important and a priority for the president. but from a policy perspective, hes talki...

Russia probe. the questions for him about his meetings with the russian banker, the russian ambassador and of course that back channel th was reported, the allegation that he tried to set up a back cnnel with russia. >> eli, clkristen, thank you. all of the action today is right here at the white house. but on capitol hill theres plenty of questions about james comey and we have our own questions for republican congressman tom reid about it all when he joins us life after this break. n this en...

About honor and integrity and -- >> but, which witness said there was collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. which one said it? >> i am just saying that you cannot -- before people start testifying like jim comey. >> theyve been testifying. >> your strategy, the strategy it seems on your side, is to discredit these men. lets let the investigation play itself out. i dont think as a human manner that discrediting these two guys publicly is a good strategy on your part. >> lets go t...

And trump daughter, ivanka both are reportedly urging the president to stay in while epa chief scott pruitt and steve bannon want the president to ditch it and fulfill a campaign prom thoos base. if trump withdraws from the climate pact, the u.s. would join a lonely club that includes just two other countries, syria and nicaragua. nicaragua because the deal didnt go far enough. jonathan lumere of the asociated press is back with us having survived the overseas trip. and stokal has agreed to stay...

>> the president and a small group of people know what he meant. blake? blake? blake? >> what is covfefe. >> blake. blake. blake. blake. blake. >> good time bring in the members of tonights starting panel starting with white house reporter for the wall street journal, waw neatau who attended the aforementioned briefing with sean spicer and defense secretary during the obama administration. eli, home field advantage. im going to begin with you and the seemingly the least important of all the top,...

The time time and even written a memo, which people had seen and sources had talked about. do we know if he would actually read from those notes or would be allowed to? >> that remains the question here. if whether or not comey has actually seen these memose. its unclear if he will take out these memos he wrote and read from them. it remains to be seen. well see next week. >> jessica, schneider, appreciate the update. want to bring in the panel. jason miller, legal scholar jay skeklo, and eli, l...

Investigation to michael flynn. if the president in fact dismissed the other two gentleman, it means he did not want anyone else to know about that conversation. were going to know about that conversation next week. >> eli, the subpoenas are going to keep coming. there are too many people investigating too many prongs of this and i know it already is in your life a huge subplot. >> right. there are too many subplots to keep track of. the comey thing is going to get a ton of attention. it doesnt ...