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>> jeremy bash, your take on that. >> i think the best argument for republicans like lindsey graham and christie is the fbi cannot investigate a commander in chief for being a counterintelligence threat because only the president can set the direction of american foreign policy. however, that line of argumentation will lead them to the exact place that democrats want to go, which is then therefore this is an issue for corning and an impeachment inquiry. in fact, the mueller investigation is only...

Vladimir putin? and the fact that he doesnt do that raises suspicion and i think rightly so. we need to understand why he wont carry out the policy of his own administration. its not the democrats and the opposition and the obama people that are saying you should do this, that and the other. his government is saying it and he chooses a different strategy. why is that? we need know the answer to that question. >> greg miller, concealing the contents of these conversations is fundamentally in vlad...

Bbc world news, katty kay. shes co-author of the book "the confidence code for girls." also with us justice reporter julia ainsley and former chief of staff at the cia and department of defense, also msnbc national security analyst, jeremy bash. and in birmingham, alabama, former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor joyce vance. its great to have you to talk about a very momentous weekend in news. jeremy, i want to start with you and just from kind of a broad perspective, did this headline and ne...

Clear how the government gets reopened. what does he sign? what comes out of the house that the senate agrees to? so this looks worse almost by the day. >> and the degree to which he has miscalculated and misunderstood nancy pelosi at this early stage in the game is quite striking. in the first situation room meeting right after the first of the year before she became speaker, he said, once you get past the speaker election, once you get the gavel, youll be more willing to make a deal with us. a...

Id rather see the democrats come back from their vacation and act. i want to give them a chance to see if they can act responsibly. they should act responsibly. >> so no national emergency, for now but the fundamentals of the impasse. governments say, no, or at least no for now. their demand, first reopen everything except the department of homeland security and then negotiate over the border. >> lets separate our disagreements over border security from the government shutdown. reopen all the go...

Absurd question but he never said, no, this and this never happened. so blanket sort of dismissal of the entire question in line of inquiry. but never any affirmative steps to point out what was wrong and show what he thinks actually happened in those meetings. it also goes to the fact that russians, obviously, know what happened in those meetings. putin likely has the transcripts of those meetings. that means they have leverage and know things the american public doesnt know and trump knows the...

To germany bypassing third countries and it is in addition to an already existing pipeline north stream this would allow russia to double the amount of gas sent to europe now there are fears in washington but also here in europe that this pipeline would give russia leverage over european countries and also do away with the need to transfer gas via ukraine as a. is doing now this is important because ukraine and russia have been in the conflict for the last couple of years largely over the easter...

Bypassing third countries and it is in addition to an already existing pipeline north stream this would allow russia to double the amount of gas sent to europe now there are fears in washington but also here in europe that this pipeline would give russia leverage over european countries and also do away with the need to transfer gas via ukraine as a. is doing now this is important because ukraine and russia have been in the conflict for the last couple of years largely over the eastern part of u...

Thats really outrageous, basically holding 800,000 upper government employees and literally the entire american public as leverage to obtain five points $7 billion to build a wall. its outrageous an earlier report in trump and rush. the american government. the fbi. go ahead. >> will get to put nanosecond. i know you want to talk about that. this is about politics for democrats. $5 billion for a wall is a wall is a drop in the bucket. less than the federal government spends on medicare fraud for...

Partner with them to move the u.s.-southern border, not with an invasion or anything, but move the border to the mexican border with guatemala working with mexico to prevent the trip from beginning. >> were in day 23 of the shutdown. do you see that the democrats, any cracks that they might come to the traibl? table? and i have one other question for you too. one of the things that president trump put on the table as a means to negotiate with the democrats is daca. anyou and i know a lot of reci...