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Time enacting policies. so, alex, well see whos next in time to become acting labor secretary after alex acostas official departure, but just one of a growing number of officials that have left. alex. >> the numbers tell us a huge part of the story about this trump administration. thanks very much. for more we are joined by congresswoman katherine clark, a democrat from massachusetts. a vice chairwoman of the democratic caucus and a member of the labor subcommittee on the house appropriations ...

Well, im david gura. president trump torpedoing his meeting on infrastructure with democratic lawmakers choosing instead to blast their investigations and their comments about those investigates in a rose garden press conference made to look hastily arranged. theres something familiar about this. smack in the middle. volume 1, james comey testified before congress. nine subsequent iterations of infrastructure week have come and gone each derailed by the purported plans lack of specificity. the a...

>> sandra: good morning. so much news to get to with the big interview with the attorney general. his first interview since joining the trump administration and first interview since the mueller report saga unfolded. one of the big things he told you in that sfwir view is that he is still trying to wrap his head around what went down during the origins of the russia probe, bill. >> bill: exactly right about that. you get a sense as to where he is going. this is in the very early stages now. you ...

Manchin or donnelly, and you want democrats to come out in big numbers in the general election so you can win, you cant vote for donald trumps supreme court nominee, or you will have the political mark of can efr ka kane on you for the rest of your life. >> in order to make this a salient issue they cannot talk about it being unfair for mcconnell to give this nominee hearing when he didnt give merritt garland a hearing back in 2015. what democrats are saying is we need to focus on the fact that ...

I want you to listen to these famous words from the mccarthy hearing back in 1954. asking senator joseph mccarthy this. >> youve done enough. have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? have you left no sense of decency? >> an op-ed published today in the "the washington post" senator corker says this. the moment was a shock to the system. a powerful dose of cure for an american democracy. we have temporarily fraughten who were supposed to be. we face just such a time again. and the paralle...

It will definitely take the opportunity, the russians, the chinese, and of course the koreans to find that the americans are always a line and they dont mistake in because they are living up to the actual terms of the deal. is it the spirit of the deal something that president trump has a problem with? of course. his own secretary of defense has said they are sticking, they are compliant. its in the eye of the beholder. do they do all these bad things? yes. if they are sticking with the terms of...

Donald trump who is president of the united states? >> donald trump as the president. i think if i can make one comment about billys story the information theyre seeking on the personality and the psychology behind president trump that tells me buyers remorse. why is this public? why did bill get access to the officials and get this information? the russian media pulled back from covering president trump favorably. thats one aspect of this. the other aspect for our european allies wanted to hear...

Rejected the possibly of increased military ties between the united states and russia. he also would not commit to putting combat troops into syria and iraq to fight isis. but nbc news has learned a proposal to put forces on th ground could soon beresent to president trump. ining us from munich, germany, nbc news foreign correspondent hans nichols. what can you tell us about this proposal? mean troops on the ground? >> reporter: it could mean combat troops on the ground in syria. we are hearing ...

>> 1980. >> you left in the heap of the cold war. dana was on your side in 1980. he thought tyranny was a bad thing back then. >> yeah. that was his go to, right? i was a speech writer for ronald reagan. dont you know who i was? i was a cold warrior and things are different now. things are different with vladimir putin. he was just like gorbachev. i think a lot of people would question that thought process. >> it was fascinating. i dont get that, by the way. because he was such a cold warrior. i...

With families across the spectrum. we need to be dealing with it with law enforcement, going after the pushers, but we need to provide the support that families need. too many families are being ravaged. in new hampshire, were losing about one person a day to drug overdoses. >> heres what im curious about too. this is an issue, three months ago, six months ago, if youd asked anybody nationally, reporting on the presidential race, what are the main issues to drive the 2016 campaign, this would no...