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state of tennessee, afte representatives justin pearson was reinstated to a seat in th state house. justin pearson, of course, one of the so-called tennessee three, who led the protests on gun reform in the tennesse house last month, just in th aftermath of a brutal mass shooting state republicans expelled justin pearson and legislato justin jones from the hous last week over, frankly, tenuous, to say the least, decorum rules violations stemming from that protest representative jones w...

Trump. Its very sad. Jen is here, joe is here, a few of the guys, but just me and donald trump in the lobby of the plaza. Go to the plaza, maybe youll see the donald there. Maybe Michael Jackson will wander around, all of your friends. Anyway, the white house is so bad at what theyre doing everybody is trying to think theres a grand conspiracy, there may be. Just on the surface, theyre so bad that donald trump in his press conference yesterday says, first of all, and throughout the day, well, i ...

Bbc anchor katty kay. From the Washington Post euGene Robinson, New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters and in new york veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. Good to have everyone with us this morning. We begin with this, former state department speaking out the Trump Administration planning to roll back punitive measures against russia almost as soon as he took office. Dan frooed who served until late february said colleagues asked them to appeal to congress after they were direc...

Small gestures and larger gestures. i think this may be a sense that the president has that he has acceptance among a european leader. >> ron brownstein, what did the president know and when did he know it? its a cliche question. its really in play right now because of the new reporting from cnn overnight that says a lot of the white house aides might be in jeopardy of being investigated by the special counsel because how this unfolded. michael itzkoff told yahoo news alan garten, chief legal of...

Clinton. bill clinton lied about everything. donald trump did, too. but it was a scattered shot. bill clinton would have lied about the sun being out. here on russia, while trump lies about everything, also, you can key in on russia and on this one topic, the trump administration, they all are lying. people that are running our government have all lied about meetings with russia. >> the trump administration foreign policy is, shall we say, scatter shot, theres no coherence to it except theyre ve...

Change, perhaps setting himself up for more evidence to emerge. unlikely theyll talk about the climate change news, the paris accord and what they make of that, india and russia announcing a deal on nuclear power just this week. >> keir, youre so polite when youre aggressively trying to get the answers. keir simmons, thank you so much. >> its the best way. >> joining us now, former chief of staff of the cia and department of defense, now an nbc news national security analyst, jeremy bash. >> jer...

Relax the sanctions in two dimensions. first, obviously the sanctions against russia for harking in the election, sanctions that the obama administration announced on december 29th. more broadly, the ukraine-related sanctions. this itzkoff report showed that people inside the obama administration were very concerned about this, they talked to folks on capitol hill and were getting a lot of pressure by the transition teams to make these policy changes early on. >> this meeting between kushner and...

Position is on a lot of the controversies that erupted in israel. its everybody just going in their own different direction. well keep talking about this going in different directions, talking about president trump and president trump reportedly having a personal message to michael flynn last month saying, quote, stay strong. read into that what you will. well have investigative reporter michael itzkoff here talking about the former national security adviser who is still in contact with the man ...

It is very sad that an innocent man like alan gross is going to be exchanged for a criminal, somebody that wanted to do so much harm to the united states of america like gerardo hernandez because hes not only tied to the shoot-down and murder of my son, marlenes dad, and two other americans. hes tied to espionage and wanting to do harm to the united states of america. >> he has completely disrespected and dishonored my father who was a vietnam veteran, voluntary vietnam veter veteran. when he wa...

That that was the complication, that conspiracy murder charge. frankly i, and a lot of other people, were surprised that president obama took this step given that count against him. well see what the political blowback is. i wouldnt be surprised if senator rubio and others want to revisit that, maybe bring the fbi agents and federal prosecutors who worked the case to see if they were consulted on this. the bottom line is gerardo hernandez is now free and hes in cuba. >> that is true indeed. mich...