Good tuesday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Joining us this morning, elie wiehl is on set and mike isaac. We will get to you in a couple of minutes. We start with mixed signals from washington over the president s reported conversation with Russian Foreign minister lavrov inside the oval office. National security adviser h. R. Mcmaster now set to hold an oncamera press briefing in about 30 minutes. We will bring it to you when it happens. John harwood is in washington to set the scene. Clearly the white house is taking this seriously, as it should. What do we expect to hear from mcmaster . Well, i think this is the most significant damage control this white house has had to do so far, because what we have been seeing is an erosion of republican support. Its not an outright jailbreak in terms of people fleeing him but you do hear more serious criticism of him because this does involve National Security, not just involving russia, but also involving isis and i would expect that genera
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