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january 6th committee zeroing in on what could be a key phone call. a source telling nbc news the call was made from from her president trump to a support staffer, it may be rando but the aid is in talk with the select committee. the backdrop to all of it, 2024, with a new interview out today with the former president, saying hes made up his mind about whether or not to try again for the white house and that announcement may be sooner than you think. one of the reporters behind this ...

Have plans to be able to run. and i do think the context of the last month is really important in this conversation, in that, this has been a really rough last month for the former president, from the revelations that we ended up giving from the january 6th committee, certainly, the last two committee hearings in particular, one with cassidy hutchinson, as well as the focus on the people who ended up storming the capitol, and so, when we are kind of looking at the potential plans for the former ...

Because "the washington post" reports that it could be good for his best interests. if the government shuts down, it could affect social security payments, the cdcs ability to respond to outbreak could be slowed. how do you see the president spinning this as a victory? he could try. >> hes no spinning. a government shutdown says one thing, we cant govern and the republicans are in power. theres no upside for a government shutdown for the party in power. zero. >> what do you think, david? >> i to...

I guess he could try. >> not spinable. theres no history to support that. a government shutdown equals one thing. it says we cant govern and the republicans are in power. theres no up side to a government shutdown for the party in power. zero. >> what do you think, david? >> i totally agree with that. the last time a government shutdown actually benefited someone politically is when republicans shut down the government when bill clinton was president, because he refused a deal that would have cu...

Forced to because of three members. bob corker and jeff flake as well as ron johnson. what theyre concerned about is what we have been talking about over the past week and its been really solidified today is that this tax cut bill is really going to add a trillion dollars to the deficit. if youre a conservative and the definition of a conservative is that you are a deficit hawk, you dont want to add to the fact that we have 21, $22 billion that were in the hole. thats what theyre dealing with. >...

Its an enormous break. as mark points out, hes going to have to cut deals now individually with japan. philippines, vietnam. >> ill bet the next president goes back to the other model. >> ill bet, too. im just saying this is a break. change forever, no, but a break from what, 50 years, 60 years, 70 years? >> yeah, the paradigm. >> my point is things are happening here. >> yeah, things are happening, and they are being reported, right? these are all big stories. you have to report it all. you hav...

Now, as mark points out, she got a lot of criticism for that. she addressed that tonight. lets listen to what she said tonight. >> i made it very clear that we walk -- we balance a very fine line between giving protestors -- giving pro tets tors peaceful protestors space to protest. what i said is in doing so people can hijack that and use that space for bad. it is very unfortunate that members of your industry decided to miss characterize my words and try to use it as a way to say that were inc...

Its very clear that many members take their cues on this issue from the gun lobby. >> when we spoke earlier this year, asa, you did indicate a readiness, an openness, to consider greater background checks. let me play the clip, the exchange that we had back in april. >> what i hear you saying is youre open to expanding background checks personally. >> yes. absolutely. im open to expanding background checks, if you can do it within a way that does not infringe upon an individual and make it hard ...

So in effect, the irony, joy, that you just laid out here is pathetic. that it is morsi who called for assad to leave months ago being ousted and assad is still in power. >> i want to go to joel rubin on that. we now have seen tunanesia, libya, egypt twice. shouldnt bashar al assad get the message perhaps the arab spring has bled into an arab summer that could lap into his country, as well? >> the situation in his country is deplorable as mark points out. its horrific to watch. what we will see ...

Walk-up so well, featuring him in an ad, talking about how hes going to campaign in the fall and barack obama, referring to him in a favorable way. i dont think theres anything but upside here. you can anticipate the republican critique of various things based on what bill clinton says, barack obama doesnt really believe it but for the matters who matter in this race, both the base and the swing voters, its all upside. >> as we speak, hillary clinton is in beijing tangling with another foreign p...