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Secretary of state for legislative affairs. jill and phil are back. jill, starting with you. with the comments from angela merkel. alarm bells going off. you saw donald trump tweeting, quote, we have a massive trade deficit with germany, plus, they pay far less than they should on nato and military. very bad for u.s. he says. this will change. walk us through whats happening inside the state department right now. take us there based on your experiences and the presidents posture on germany. what...

Extension of what donald trump probably would have done anyway. now, the idea of him not having any government experience and reaching out to foreign leaders and saying, lets have a private communication, it really shows the lack of experience and what damage it could cause to an incoming administration. this is a person who never worked in government, who, you any, sort of got brought into the campaign as it was sort of bumbling along. to want a private communication, you know, with the russian...

Fairytale, are two very different things. >> polar opposites. >> at the end of the day it is a fairytale because there will be nothing to back up there was collusion between trump and the russians to influence the elections. what are we talking about? >> you have had experts who have testified in front of the congressional hearings and talked about how russia used active measures to tip the election towards donald trump. >> can i go back to -- >> these are experts with integrity, character, who ...

Adviser was subject to blackmail by the russians. what do people think when they hear that? >> what youre seeing around the world is many of our allies and free agents slowly walking away from the united states. thats happening for a number of reasons. first they dont see any consistency in our foreign policy. its foreign policy by improvisation, these scandals that continue to unfold dont help. then they see an intentionality to the lack of personnel in the state department. no assistant secret...

Celebrate the first person that sort of crosses the line. and whats sad is that that first person has to be celebrated, that there is not more of a challenge of five or six people who are competing in this kind of arena, that people dont say, look, we have a catholic thats running. look, we have a mormon thats running. the idea you have to celebrate and wave the flag, a national moment weve never had something like this before, hillary clintons campaign is going to lead to many more women steppi...

The administration because of the evidence of the meddling. all of that is a trove of information that congressional investigators want to know more about. >> guys, stand by. this is not the only head scratching, mind numbing development from washington in the last 12 hours. another firestorm. several media reports that staffers in the donald trump white house shared intelligence files with the embattled chairman of the intelligence committee, devin nunes. nunes took that information back to the...

Zaiflgs with somebody elses babies. lawmakers in his own party even turning against him. lets bring back our panel, abby phillip, patrick healey, matt lewis. abby phillip, i was surprised. we have steve king on a lot. and i know he gets a lot of heat for things. sometimes, i think hes just trying to provoke conversation. but this one left me with my head scratching. i dont understand where he was trying to go with this. and we saw a very quick rejection of him by a lot of his people. even jeb bu...

Of undermining the legitimacy of his own win? i mean, it really is head scratching as to why this is a topic that he was talking about. >> thank you, both. and "for the record" tonight a secret service agent, a serious message and what we should all agree on.

Everyone as well and intersubjectively acknowledged it. the obama administration is sharing this speech 23 days left in office. they can do little now to nothing in order to make it meaningful with marshaling its political pressure. >> how do you make sense of the timing here? because theres a lot of head scratching about the timing. theres head scratching about the timing of these things that happen in quick succession. that the critic of the obama administration say that youre a coward, that y...

Meaningful when marshalling political pressure. >> so how do you make sense of the timing here? theres a lot of head scratching about the timing. theres head scratching on the timing of both of these things that have happened in quick succession that the critics of the obama administration say youre a coward, that you made sure to sign the aid deal in the runup to the election because you knew that would be popular then in the lame duck session you allow this to come forward to the security coun...