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Than the daily politics of this. i do think there is a giant public trust problem here and often in the news cycle it feels like youre sitting at the madhatters table and theres nonsense coming from every single direction and were all trying to parse it and thats a really deeper issue than the daily politics. >> thats right. before we take a break well come back to the details of the russia stuff and the investigation later on in the program and this happens at a time when you talk to people in ...

Obama went to the fbi, got a fisa warrant, fisa court agreed to tap donald trumps phone. first of all, theres no probable cause to ask for it. the fbi would go into full revolt. this would have been leaked. there would be a record of it. which the president could get right now. so its ludicrous, and i think hes under a lot of pressure, under this russian, this russian thing which we still dont know what it is. and hes striking out against obama. to say his phones were tapped, you know, i would b...

Meddli meddling. so i think youre hearing speaker ryan stay as far away from that adventure as possible. >> but doesnt this come -- it does in the midst of all the reporting about russian meddling and jeff sessions and everything else, it seems like it is only fanning the flames. >> sgakexactly. usually there is a logic to what durd does. hes lashing out at somebody in a way that-to-make them feel small or hes lashing out at the media to create a cloud of uncertainty about what exacts are. he ju...

Russias u.s. ambassador including jared kushner. if all of these meetings were above board and the trump campaign is saying nothing was wrong with it, then why is it now the sitting president is now accusing his predecessor of perhaps wire tapping, learning of these meetings among other things that something sinister is blind aehind all of this. >> president trump and its team have been on the defensive over this russian story that it feels like hes sort of lashing outgoing to his favorite metho...

Running the investigation is that we have no indication that this is going to be over anytime soon. >> all right. ron brownstein, alex burns, thank you so much. stick around, guys, theres a lot going on on capitol hill. weve been waiting to hear from democrats who are lashing out at the attorney general. right now were looking at the vote to confirmba ben carson toe the secretary of housing and urban development. stay with us. many people clean their dentures

It still does. tempur-pedic. this sleep is power. ♪ >> sandra: new reaction tonight to what some democrats they are serious calls to impeach president trump. with just over five weeks since inauguration day, are democrats considering putting the president on trial? is this just a tactic to oppose president trumps agenda? doug mckelways life with the answers in washington. >> among democrats, there was talk of impeaching president trump before he had taken the oath of office. to republicans, th...

Manufacturing ceos who are going to be working to bring back those jobs, and i mean really good paying jobs. >> that was president trump in the weekly presidential address this past weekend focusing on african-americans. mark halpern, how would you describe the presidents weekly address? what he said? >> he set the tradition up and this was well written and seemed like emotionally delivered than is norm. its surprised to me the addresses prior to this one havent gotten more attention. >> we have...

Who is trump speaking to now? because the fringe of the republican party seems like its become main stream now. what these people want to hear is precisely what trump is telling them, but i mean, where is the republican establishment? weve barely seen them at cpac and the people that were there and you know, they were applauding him for lashing out against fake news against the media, against the threats to the u.s. border, promising deportations, people who want to hear what trump is telling th...

Fake news. it looks like a discrediting campaign thats preemptive to me. im concerned about it. >> is there a future story, they tries to discredit it now so by the time we get there, it wont be as big of a blow? either one of you, what do you think? >> i think theyre masters of distraction and thats what theyre trying to do right now. theyre saying, look at that fire over there while we put out the real fire behind you. and yes, anything that has to do with russia they end up creating some sort...

A white house and media outlets that were banned. jake tapper said it was unamerican. could it also be a continued effort by the white house to distract, to confuse from the issues at hand like russia? >> well, george, i mean, its becoming quite amusing because the president is just in the habit of lashing out against the media and saying and doing all sorts ever things that would have been unimaginable up until a month ago. and im not sure if its just a distraction because actually its angering...