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Foreign relations, a the white house says? or was he doing his familys business? >> evan, thanks. a lot more to talk about. joining us is former white house communications director for president obama jen zaki. matt, you broke the story originally for the "new york times." a, have you learned more about this? this is a story on two fronts. its a story about possible russian connections. its also a story about the conflicts of interest -- the white house is saying, he was a key transition figure ...

Businesses in the u.s. >> we need a level playing fee or between form products and made in america products here as well as abroad. >> the congressman says the house ways and means committee plans to take up house in the spring. they would make it so simple that nine out of ten americans could file their taxes on a postcard. >> wow. for more on this lets bring in evan, author of gop. author also jessica, senior director of research that bustled outcome. good to have you both. lets start with tax...

Businesses in the u.s. >> we need a level playing fee or between form products and made in america products here as well as abroad. >> the congressman says the house ways and means committee plans to take up house in the spring. they would make it so simple that nine out of ten americans could file their taxes on a postcard. >> wow. for more on this lets bring in evan, author of gop. author also jessica, senior director of research that bustled outcome. good to have you both. lets start with tax...

Businesses in the u.s. >> we need a level playing fee or between form products and made in america products here as well as abroad. >> the congressman says the house ways and means committee plans to take up house in the spring. they would make it so simple that nine out of ten americans could file their taxes on a postcard. >> wow. for more on this lets bring in evan, author of gop. author also jessica, senior director of research that bustled outcome. good to have you both. lets start with tax...

There was a lot of hue and cry, perhaps it was some sort of surveillance. fine. as part of an investigation im looking at what names came up and when were they unmasked. evan made an important point. the fbi was not doing this for fun. likewise when you are talking about surveillance and listening to electronic communications, that has to be done with a fisa warrant. if somebody was looking at a foreign power, probably russians involved in this and as names are unmasked, what we see is they were...

Now for tax rofrm which we could have done earlier but this would have worked out better if we could have had some democrat support. now were going to go for tax reform. >> evan, im going to start with you. the repeal collapsed. democrats are in the streets cheering. the collapse, the repeal. but they cant have democrats done to fix obamacare? >> well, right now theres just a lot of wishful thinking on the part of the white house that someday obamacare will have problems that are large enough to...

Yesterday, and there wasnt a popular plan to do it with. >> sure. also there is no republican support when president obama forced this down americans throats seven years ago. its something he did in the first three or four months of his administration. donald trump is going to get those done. >> evan, final word? >> i think its insane to think that you can do the exact same thing more than once and expect a different result. if theyre going to approach tax return reform without trying to reach a...

There yet and thats how the fbi works. you do have differences of opinion inside an investigation as its on going and part of it is the fact that you have intelligence. some of it in ways that you can never use in court so you do need more evidence and more information that you can present in court should you ever bring a case one of the reasons we did the story is we wanted to explain a little bit about why he did what he did. he felt not only with the information solid enough for them to share...

Campaign associates for contact with russians known to u.s. intelligence. all four have denied improper contacts. chris, one of the obstacles that the people were talking to say that the fbi now faces in finding any conclusive intelligence is that the communications between trumps associates and russians have ceased in recent months giving the focus on russias ties to the trump campaign. some russian officials theyve been watching have changed their methods of communications which is going to ma...

The reason i go back to the house specifically, evan, is when we look at the freedom caucus, and thats not -- that block of 40 or 50 votes in the house, depending on what youre looking at, nbc news is hearing about 20 right now or going to say no to this. 22 is that maccic line in the sand here. also other reports from cnn and buzzfeed saying they dont have the votes. and so the freedom caucus is something to be watched very clearly as we move closer to thursday. >> well, you know whats funny ab...