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From japan. we are people who adore -- or youre from china or youre from kenya or youre from scotland or sweden. in america we never lose faith. this is me speaking. >> thats the same man over the course of three days this week. with us we have senior political analysts mark hallparen, donny deutsche, shannon petty piece, and mark lebovich, catty k, and robert costa. >> mark, its dizzying. whats your take away from the past three days? >> i think one of the things we often think about is how to ...

Has been. but we know that moving beyond the failures of obama care is the right thing to do. we put a lot of hard work already into this. weve had important successes like we saw with the vote to proceed yesterday. we have to keep up the work now so we can get this done. >> in just a few hours well get a better idea of what the republicans can cobble together their caucus and come to aconsensus on health care. chuck schumer says his party will have no part of it, even though some democrats came...

She talks about the nature of the relationship. mark, under normal circumstances, what is the job of the attorney general of america in. >> to represent the united states. that person is the peoples lawyer. there are times when they have to interact with the president, particularly post 9/11. the skrus tis department and fbi do so much in terms of national security. theres an operational team there. when it comes to criminal investigations, anti-trust investigations, things like that, its suppos...

Position in the white house to publicly accuse someone of a felony when they did not commit a felony? >> is there history for that? >> no. im wondering what it is. isdefamation? it seeps dirty and destructive. >> its like "game of thrones" but with more viciousness. >> yes. >> mark was saying the people hes criticizing implicitly in his press officer are mostly reinces people. they came with reince from the rnc. it makes me wonder whether its more about the food fight and the battle. >> theyll a...

Mark? >> senator, good morning. what do you think is going to happen today on health care in the senate in lay it out for us. >> well, well vote on a series of amendments. i heard somebody earlier prognosticating that would end up voting on a so-called skinny package. the exception with that persons commentary, whoever it was, i couldnt see. it doesnt remake one sixth of the nations committee. it affects 4% of the people who are in the individual market. the skinny package will be a very skinny ...

>> the attorney general launches a leap probe, would that help his status with the president? >> i dont think thats the you know nature of the relationship. again i think the president is disappointed. he stated that. i dont think there is any more to add beyond that at this point. >> so mark halperin, curious, it seems this all unfolded as the president first sought to undermine the judiciary, now is seeking to undermine the attorney general, himself, it feels like some might argue that the pre...

I think were seeing it now with sessions? . >> the press and a lot of democrats have looked at the tolerance of republicans. how can they do this? i believe the most significant aspect of this is that republicans in congress will not put up with this. theyre already at their wits end. now what hes done in terms of sessions, theyre running the risk of alienating republicans and affecting commerce. >> theyre being very embarrassed on many levels. >> reporter: just to add to marks point. its not on...

Very raw. with us this morning we have from ms nbc mark pal person, and president test council on foreign relations and author of the book "a world if disarray" richard haase and national political reporter for nbc news carol lee, political editor for the "daily beast" and host of the podcast "candidate confessional" sam stein and nbc news capitol hill correspondent casey hunt. joe, of course, has the morning off. does anyone here know who gary kasparov is? hes the russian grand chess master tur...

>> well, thats been -- the point -- >> i wouldnt know. >> it seems like it. >> the president feels he cant have conversations in the oval office without things getting leaked. but the idea to focus on these lower level communication staffers, its -- anyone who has covered the white house understands that -- and particularly with this white house, there are different ways to structure it. they dont know very much. the fitypes of leaks out of thi white house, cant be coming from low level staffers...