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Media wasnt spending more time talking about the crime in chicago and spending so much time focussed on what happened in charlottesville over the weekend. this is a controversial figure. again, the president not hesitating to retweet something by him. finally, he just retweeted an article by fox news about the fact that hes considering pardoning the former arizona sheriff. hes a lightning rod, someone who was convicted for contempt, for failing to follow a judges order to stop detaining people b...

>> okay, but -- >> i think this is a turning point. >> you know what he echoed yesterday? he just echoed talk radio. they mauved to the statue argument. the erasing history argument, and hey, theyre just as violent on the left. is that what his base is hearing? is that what hes being -- >> first of all, i think one of the things -- >> i say his base. i dont want to call it a conservative base. that is a very, very stall small piece of the american social fabric and the electorate. and that is no...

Russia and the fact that we have this ongoing back and forth and the tweet red, in washington its become partisan because mr. trump insists any meddling in election is an attack on his legitimacy pg and we just had the president tweeting this morning right now about this. i mean doesnt the president look weak on this issue if he is not willing to talk about the strength of american democracy and making sure it is not something that can be meddled with? >> i think the president has said that. i t...

President in the long run. i think the director was being prudent. i dont think its necessary for the white house to trash comeys reputation and they should have a great infrastructure event and forget about it. let the lawyers take the stand and let your story get handled. >> jesse: greg, speaking of forget about it -- the moment where the president demanded loyalty, is not how people in new york talk? thats how people frame things in the city. >> greg: kind of, i think trump is guilty of being...

Prudent. i dont think its necessary for the white house to trash comeys reputation and they should have a great infrastructure event and forget about it. let the lawyers take the stand and let your story get handled. >> jesse: greg, speaking of forget about it -- the moment where the president demanded loyalty, is that how people in new york talk? is that par for the course? chris christie said that that is how bosses work in the city. >> greg: kind of, i think trump is guilty of being trump. an...

Going to accept a resignation from jeff sessions. the optics would be bad. it would be difficult finding a replacement. there would be uproar on capitol hill. the white house press secretary doesnt really have an answer when you ask if the president is on his man at the justice department. listen. >> how would you describe the presidents level of confidence in the attorney general? >> i have not had a discussion with him on that. >> last time you said that there was a development. >> im answerin...

The gang of eight, the bipartisan group of senators have made a lot of progress on this. we continue to be in close contact with them. the president is anxious for legislative action to begin on this issue, too. and, you know, we believe that that is going to start in early april and we hope that, expect that the gang of eight will have a bill introduced by then and the senate will begin legislative action on this. everything is always, you know, takes a little longer and harder than he would li...

Infrastructure event later on today and i know youll be there, hallie. >> taking the truck down fifth avenue to come join you as soon as this program is over. thank you very much. gabe gutierrez who is in charlottesville. gabe, some of the newest developments here. these new 911 transcripts talking about james fields past. walk us through what some of these allegations are from his mom. >> hi, there, hallie. disturbing allegations from james fields mother. these came back several years ago whe...

Had some very bad people in that group but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. >> let that soak in. weve got a lot to talk about this morning, starting with nbcs kelly odonnell live at trump tower in new york city where its been a busy few days. kelly, we heard almost immediately from white house staff that the president went rogue. i spoke to people inside the white house that said yesterday should have been a win. it was about infrastructure, the president was there ...

With a person actually getting smashed in the middle of it. now, important to point out that he deleted that tweet ultimately, also retweeted another tweet from a far-right conspiracy theorist. these are the types of things that could potentially get in the way of, create more controversy for him, and make it tough for him to pass his agenda. he is going to try to put the focus on his agenda today, steph. hes holding an infrastructure event here at trump tower later this afternoon. lets take a l...