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As the unwitnessing victims of kremlin investigation. lets bring in our leadoff panel chief correspondent for "the new york times" peter baker. white house correspondent for the washington post phil ruck ker, "wall street journal" eli stokels and jeremy bash also doing double duty hes former chief of staff to both the director of the cia and the secretary of defense. and jeremy im going to start with you because i feel like you and i have had conversations about the dossier, about what it is and...

Investigation or begin an investigation he could do that as the president. that is a central argument towards sort of who he is in terms of mueller because mueller was looking at the question of cob instruction and whether the president did anything wrong when he asked comey to end the flynn investigation. so by putting that forward, hes sort of saying, look, like the accusations of what i have done, nothing wrong there because im the president and head of the executive branch. >> a little bit e...

>> not looking good. its not looking good. its quite sad to see that. so my people are very upset about it. i cant imagine theres anything on them, frankly, because as we said, theres no collusion. theres no collusion whatsoever. but a lot of lawyers thought that was pretty sad. >> president trump, however, has tried to tamp down growing speculation that he might try to get rid of robert mueller. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]. >> no, im not. no. what else? >> this all comes amid fbi reporting that ...

Expect to get them today while adding kushners attorney abbe lowell is cooperating. while they work on those documents, "washington post" took an in-depth look at kushners work in the white house. the headline from our friend ashley parker reads "the shrinking profile of jared kushner." it says in the body of the piece, "his once sprawling white house portfolio, which came with walk-in privileges to the oval office, has been diminished to its original scope under chief of staff john f. kelly, an...

Accusers who surfaced during the presidential campaign. there are new poll numbers out on this front from quinpic university, whether the president respects women as much as he does money, 34% say he does. 59% say he does not. brings us to leadoff panel tonight. andrea mitchell, our chief foreign affairs correspondent, and jonathan swan, national political reporter for axios, and ashley parker, white house reporter for the "washington post" and msnbc political analyst. welcome to you all. andrea...

Hes happy its coming out, hes happy its being exposed. we add the following caveat. hes chosen not to believe roy moores accusers or his own accusers who surfaced during the presidential campaign. new poll numbers out on this front from quinnipiac university whether the president respects women as much as he does money. 34% say he does. 59% say he does not. brings us to leadoff panel tonight. andrea mitchell, our chief foreign affairs correspondent, and jonathan swan, national political reporter...

Deal." it also marked the deadline for his son-in-law to turn over documents requested by the senate judiciary committee. the committee said they did not expect to get them today. "the washington post" took an in-depth look at kushners work in the white house. the headline from our friend ashley parker reads "the shrinking profile of jared kushner." it says in the body of the piece, "his once-sprawling white house portfolio, which came with walk-in privileges to the oval office has been diminish...

After notebook away, filled them up with copious notes during meetings and his time with the trump campaign and white house. axios indicated the notebooks could be a bonanza for robert mueller. a white house official quoted as saying, "people are going to wish theyd be nicer to sean. he was in a lot of meetings." good point to get into our leadoff panel. elizabeth bulmeiler for "the new york times," veteran of the p t beat. robert kostkcosta, national poll reporter for the "washington post." we ...

Escalating tension between the president and secretary of state ricks tillerson. sources said tillerson called trump a moron and after a running theme has emerged in this white house with employees either resigning or getting fired on fridays, american urban radio networks reporter april ryan asked the very question that many in the room had on their minds. >> today is friday. could we expect a resignation today? >> i dont think so, april davis. >> we also have a you? gut -- have a new gut check...

Major legislative accomplishment." then the radiowaves lit up. >> what would you call a republican who sounds like jeb bush now when it comes to immigration and daca? you could call them a republican in name only, right? rino. the president of the united states is apparently a rino. >> imagine if he called out to the crowd, were going to build samples of the wall, samples of the wall, and were going to make the american taxpayers pay for it. >> is trump, im asking you, who voted for him, is he t...