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>> florida lawmakers can w disney on the docket, the one that ended the tax district after the magic kingdom came out against the dont say gay law. im hallie jackson in washington, but lets start with nbc news foreign correspondent molly hunter, and nbc news meteorologist bill karins. lets take a look about what we know about the story that has developed quite a bit over the last 18 hours or so. very strong earthquakes, two of them, in a region that includes part of turkey and syria. t...

Discussion. >> as you remember from your time covering a previous vice president, mike memoli. take off your vice presidential cover hat, and put on your presidential cover hat. im going to ask you to do an annoying pivot here. theres brand new reporting that you and our white house team as put out, as it relates to china. this spy balloon drama, what we have seen. theres new reporting on how the white house is pivoting a bit themselves to maybe changes tone, safe to say, mem, check me on that, ...

Interference in our elections, with regard to the attempt to murder mr. navalny with a chemical weapon. i dont think well get a clear and definitive answer from one meeting, but its the start of testing the proposition of whether russia also seeks a more stable, predictable relationship or not. >> reporter: so, there you hear secretary blinken saying he doesnt think well get a definitive answer out of this meeting. we heard jake sullivan before he left washington to travel with the president say...

That people are disputing and made us look very bad. the payment was due the following day so they eventually let them go, which they had to. i disagree very much on that, and i also think, and youll be seeing something next week, because you look at whats happened in syria with respect to isis and the caliphate. we took over a lot of area in the last two weeks. weve done tremendous in the last couple of weeks. at the same time were consolidating and a tremendous amount of good things are happen...

Due the following day, so that you eventually let them go. which they had to. i disagree very much on that. i also think -- and you will be seeing something next week, because you look at whats happened in syria with respect to isis and the caliphate, we took over a lot of area in the last couple weeks. weve done tremendous and the last couple of weeks. at the same time, we are consolidating and a tremendous about of good things are happening. you look at whats going on, i can tell you that this...

A precipitous withdrawal would be similar to what the obama administration did, and it would clearly not be productive. speed when im taking some notes he because we have breaking news inside the oval office. the presidents meeting, hes going to sign an executive order strengthening by americans. we know that his assistant for trade and manufacturing, peter navarro, has been given some notes. we also have reporters in the oval office right now. as this video becomes available with the president ...

On a foreign policy basis. you look at north korea, many of you are going to be traveling with us to north korea. and for the meetings with north korea, most of you most of you the location is. well be anopsing the exact date. it will be the end of february. weve made tremendous progress. when i came in, or lets say at the end of the half the administration, frankly, it looked like we were going to watch with north korea. now theres no nuclear testing. we got back our prisoners, hostages. and we...

If you look at the fact that he went to iraq yesterday, its -- it has nothing to do with anyone in the pentagon believing that he has any value to add on a foreign policy basis. its about the pentagon looking for other channels to influence and communicate with president trump who so far has eschewed conventional channels. >> theyre trying to get time or at least get the presidents ear, right? so they brought jared kushner in so that they might be able to do that. thats an interesting strategy, ...

Way, reform all the federal government. tis is insane. lets just be honest about this, okay? this is a 36-year-old guy who probably has some intelligence but has no actual knowledge about any of the policy areas were talking about beyond the two months hes been in office. and demonstrates no staff or no ability to implement solutions. his one qualification is that he married well. >> what do you say after that? >> i would agree with dan to a large extent. i think its preposterous to talk about t...