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But it is one great hoax. yesterday the department of homeland security notified 21 states that hackers targeted their voting system during the 2016 election although the attempting were not successful. among the 21 states confirming to the states are florida, ohio, pennsylvania and wisconsin. joining me now. chief washington correspondent for bloomberg and jonathan alan, national political reporter. and coauthor. jonathan, i want to start with you. are this weeks details about muellers invest...

Surrogates within the republican party, because when you listen to leadership and read between the lines of the messages coming out of them, theyre walking a tight political tightrope in order to continue to try to carry out the presidents legislative agenda without getting bogged down, if you will, in the latest political water cooler talk of the day. >> well, lets turn to that water cooler talk of the day. a lot of this is about the media. jonathan, about the late tweet yesterday, saying that ...

Limits came later than the founding fathers. the idea of the freedom of press is pretty well enshrined in that first amendment which came in the first package of the bill of rights. the president needs to have checks on him. hes made every effort he can to undermine every possible check on him, whether its the press or the judiciary. i understand his thirst for power in that way, but it is certainly unusual. >> jonathan alan and kevn vilc i cirilli, great to have you. the tough questions legis...

Heres more from the president, take a listen here. >> i turn on the tv, open the newspapers, and see stories of chaos. chaos. yet, it is the exact opposite. this administration is running like a fine-tuned machine. >> jonathan, president trump says, all this reporting of chaos is essentially false. whats the actual read behind the scenes, those inside the white house feel that chaos is going on, or is everything running smoothly? because "the new york times" reports that his advisers are suggest...

Columnist and republican strategiest nicole lepore, and jonathan alan, a columnist at roll call. good super bowl sunday to all three of you. hes standing by a campaign point, not backing down on it. we dont have data that supports any of the comments he made before. nor now. yet he continues. why is he doing this? if he doesnt have the data, as has been said, and as you saw bill oreilly saying, where is the data behind this. >> right. i think donald trump is someone more interested in winning th...

Are articulated. were seeing that with republicans on capitol hill today with some of the responses to what the president has been saying about russia. we havent heard as much about the judges about russia today, senator mitch mcconnell running as far away as he could in an interview, ben sass running away from the president. >> protesters are showing up at those particular -- many leaders on the right as donald trump moves forward. not just protesting over this president and his policies. jonat...

>> brianna keilar in washington, thanks. "outfront" tonight, spokesperson for hillary clintons campaign and dan phifer and jonathan alan and co-author of "hrc state secrets and the rebirth of hillary clinton,." mo, you have an apology from clinton and you have the sinking poll numbers and joe biden generating the excitement, frankly, that she isot. is hillary clintons campaign in trouble? >> i think trouble is maybe a little strong of a word at this point. i think there are definitely some wa...

In 2000 al gore distanced himself and that turned out to be a mistake but in 2008 in the general election and 2012 in the general election, bill clinton was a great suone. if hillary clinton can figure out how to get her husband to do that and stay on script is a big asset. >> well be watching. jonathan, dan and mo, thanks for joining us tonight. >> take care. "outfront" next donald trump ridiculing bush as bush apeepea on late night television. plus kentucky clerk kim davis freed to a huge ...

>> nbc announced president obama will appear on episode of "running wild with bear grylls." i guess it shows obama on a golf course that hasnt been mowed several days. disaster. what do i do bear? >> thats your morning dish of "scrambled politics." in washington, joined by jonathan alan, report per with vox. lets start with carly fiorina moved off the kids table by cnn. is this slippery slopes changing the rules as we go along? >> generally speaking it could be a slippery slope. could end up w...

The fight with jeb bush now. may be valuable for bush. >> do you think this is a panic move? >> it starts to sound that way. i dont think theyre hitting the panic button yet in the bush campaign but probably soon if things dont start getting better. >> in the time we have remaininging, when do you have the president gets the vote on the iran deal, and who is it in. >> might be on the floor when they put it down. there are several senators there i think the president could rely upon. in some ways...