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The sea of japan. the east sea. japanese saying that as well. the japanese are calculating the missile flew for about 45 minutes. one of the critical things were trying to learn is how high the missile flew nap wi. that will tell us a lot about the capability of the missile. it landed about 88 miles off the coast of japan. this is -- this is a destabilizing action by the north koreans, once again, but destabilizing more than ever before. so now, what happens? the trump administration publicly ha...

Then all of a sudden the new white house communications director levels this charge against reince priebus suggesting that he is responsible for some damaging leaks. >> anthony scaramuci has been busy communicating in his first week. its not necessarily the message we would have expected to receive. he is coming in and setting the whole place on fire. i think david makes an excellent point. a staff shakeup is not unusual. to air this dirty laundry in public at a time when your white house is sup...

Personnel at the justice department? >> it cant help. it cant help matters. the people, 100,000-strong people in the department of justice, most of them couldnt care less about these issues of the day. theyre focussing on doing their job. things that dont make the headlines that 95% of the time remain the same from administration through administration and theyre going to keep their head down and keep doing that. exactly what they should do. >> can i underscore what lindeyy graham said? he is a ...

He had done all of that rather than the drips. right now the president is focussing on health care. we democrats are wondering whether the republicans can get their act together to approve something. >> sean: we conservatives are wondering too. [laughing] >> at the least we support obamacare but thinks it needs to be fixed. >> i am want giving you a free pass. should the democrats be investigating ukraine and a political report that says the ukraine was trying to influence our elections for hill...

Law are ceremonial or routine, such as renaming a federal courthouse. typically those kinds of bills, they are not including legislative achievements. meanwhile, the president is touting made in america week, meant to emphasize products made on u.s. soil, and eliminating regulations, but it has also brought unwanted taxi. chief white house correspondent halle jackson reports. >> reporter: at the white house president trump is focussing on what got him there. jobs and manufacturing. showcasing ...

May have been involved in the unmasking of trump officials from the obama administration side? we know of susan rice, samantha power and john writtbrennan. cia, nsa and now we learn theres at least six more people on that list. >> i think its a false alarm. where i came from we send the fire department where the fires are. russia attacked us. we should be focussing on making sure that never happens again. theres been no evidence put forward that anybody wrongdoing was done by any obama administr...

Version of the health care repeal bill and then the first amendment hes promising would be essentially gutting that and instead replacing it with a straight repeal plan. that is up likely to get 50 votes. what were going to be doing today is focussing in on the moderate senators and seeing if they would be willing to even get this plan started. >> steven kornacki, youve got to weigh in here for me. giving the middle finger to your own party, how is that one going to fly? >> i think what kasie wa...

People together. >> of course a key topic in the meetings is north korea following the test on fourth of july. the trump administration has said its not ruling out taking military action against north korea, but in your view, is that an idle threat? >> yeah. you know, sometimes i dont think that anyone understands what donald trump says, not even donald trump. clearly not his members of his cabinet because they say one thing and he seems to say something else. you know, i think what has to be do...

For now the kremlin says they wont bring up russian meddling. >> putin will have an agenda, we should have one as well. and this needs to be on the agenda, what they did is totally illegitimate. and i think we also should put down a marker that if they continue against us or anybody else, there will be further repercussi repercussions. >> its interesting because you are someone that the president says he likes and listens to. i think hes a big fan of your commentary on tv. if the president is li...

Joining us for more on what is happening in syria, is the executive editor of "news deeply" which has been focussing on the conflict in syria. thank you for being with us. lets talk about the experience on the fourth of july, on our independence day where we make a big deal about the remarkable freedoms that america has. you have been covering a story where day after day for six years syrians have lost and more freedom. >> absolutely. in every corner of the country you have a different version o...