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Better relations with the new president, relations with russia are as bad as theyve been: in 2012 you had barack obama s whispering, im going to get re-elected and things will be better. donald trump has put himself and all his people in position about lying about meetings with russians that ey couldt do anything. >> we had a phone call with putin about the st. petersburg attack. interesting he chose that opportunity. >> still ahead on "morning joe," well talk to senator rand paul who just hit t...

Egyptian president, its hyper realism. were not going to talk to you about what youre doing to your own people inside your country. hes very much outside the debates that have defined the republican party for a generation. >> if you were in the house or the senate and youre a republican trying to figure out where you stand with this president, how would you handle it, answering mckays question he puts out there? >> for a real conservative, you cant measure yourself with this president. hes errat...

Period. >> are you concerned that the president -- he seems to be tweeting, look over here. look over here. he seems to be getting involved. when you said, you know, it would help if the information was just allowed to come out and the investigations were not ddwith. isnt the president himself meddli wh these investigations when he tweets about them? >> yeah, i do think so. i practiced law for over 30 years and ive never seen anything like this. usually when you have a client and that client is ...

He might need some help. a back-up son-in-law. tiffany, no pressure, but hook somebody. >> joining us now, ranking member of the committee on oversight and government reform, elijah cummings of maryland. great to have you on board this morning. lets start with the russian investigation and former national security adviser. are you feeling comfortable that all the information will come out, regarding general flynn especially, and the russian investigation? >> i think if we allow the investigation...

Scrutiny, if you will. i think these are big questions. it also raises questions what people on the nsc mig be doing. the national security council has two jobs, coordine foreign policy and national security and there to be an adviser to the president, a foreign policy counselor. why people on the nsc are doing this kind of tactical work, this is not their job. >> can i ask you, richard, because youve been there. lets talk about the transition between george h.w. bush and bill clinton. could you...

Around. you pick that up and pick up their talk among themselves, about who they met. in terms of how frequent it was, was it different in character this time, did it have a political edge this time, i just couldnt get anybody who could make that comparison. i think the point is there is a context here where there was a lot of noise out there and people wanted to ask questions. >> i think you make a great point about sort of the atmosphere of this election, mark halperin, which could have played...

Analyst for nbc muse mark halperin. president of the council on foreign relations and author of "america in world array" richard haass. columnist and associate editor for "the washington post" david ignatius with us as well. willie is back. welcome back. we missed you. >> missed you. did i miss anything? >> no, nothing going really hard. were working hard to drum up something interesting. thats for sure. we we e begin with the new scrutiny on susan rice. reports from multiple outlets citing sour...