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Moroccan living here in brussels. they raided his house in the overnight hours. meanwhile as you can see behind me, the station has reopened. a relative calm has returned to this area. belgium prime minister saying that the opening was in defiance of this attempted terror attack. theres also scheduled for later this evening a coldplay concert here in brussels. that is expected to go ahead as normal as well. there is though an increased presence -- security presence throughout the city. more mili...

Should have been brought home much sooner. a statement from -- a statement from a spokesman for former president obama, ned price said this. during the course of the obama administration, we had no higher priority than securing the release of americans detained overseas. these tireless efforts resulted in the release of at least ten americans from north korean custody during the course of the obama administration. its painful that mr. warmbier was not among them but our efforts on his behalf nev...

Limits. it seems they werent able to do anything with otto warmbier. able to understand, its not working and trying to defend himself or justify himself by saying at least they tried, presumably, as opposed to others who not even tried. >> ambassador, we have nbcs peter alexander. are we getting anything prosecute administration about whats behind this tweet? >> some more information, not from this administration, the timing of which this tweet came out still remains unclear, but we are hearing ...

Date that we set in our bipartisan letter the white house will respond, yes, they have tapes, yes, they will preserve them and yes theyll turn them over or that no, in fact, there are no tapes. it was an idle threat, but one way or another we need to get an answer. if we cant get an answer, then i think we need to -- well ultimately need to subpoena those potential documents to make sure that we have them. >> so the question might be here, ned, who will absolutely know whether these tapes exist ...

House. thank you. now lets bring in ned price, a former special assistant to president obama and a spokesperson and legal analyst karen desoto. karen, you were listening to the reporting coming from kelly odonnell. youre aware of the back and forth when you look at this, does it appear that the president and the legal team -- theyre not on the same page and normally you are on the same page. >> yeah, usually attorneys are on the same page. thats part of your attorney job. i think the informati...

Those. >> interesting part about this, ned, we have the presidents personal lawyer being put out on the sunday shows. nobody from the administration if you will officially. and hes trying to clarify at least it appears hes trying to clarify what is happening from the president and his tweets. yet, it seems like theres less clarity based on what is being said. >> well, youre exactly right. the presidents personal attorney certainly didnt clarify this situation today. and i think kelly odonnell is...

Closely, is being pulled into this, its very bad news for the president and also shows that its not just about comey. its really also about russia and those personal and business ties. zds umz. >> the campaign, while it has not been asked by the fbi and congress to pursue any. he was also a senior adviser on donald trumps old campaign, the one that got him into the when it, to make sure that they preserve any documents, any e-mails, any text messages and the actual phones and other computer elec...

Nick watergate, ari melber, and ned price is a former assistant to president obama, analyst and national security analyst and political reporter for the "new york times" and an msnbc contribut contributor. guys, thank you so much for joining us. it seems like the president may be building a case against rosenstein. ari? >> so it does. these tweets sometimes are revealing. the r&b singer of the weekend say, i can hear the streets that you keep when youre talking in your sleep. >> or on your tweet...

>> with me ned price former senior director and spokesperson for president obamas national security council. nice to see you, ned. >> nice to see you, greta. >> so, ned, tell me what is the wisdom of going after special counsel mueller and what are all these intelligence agencies thinking when the president is undermining what theyre saying that the russians did meddle in the election? >> well, greta, whats the line from hamlett, the lady does protest too much. i think in this case the president...

That he cant do these things? >> i didnt,ing no. >> okay. >> why? >> i dont know. i think -- as i said earlier, i think the circumstances were such that it was -- i was a bit stunned and didnt have the presence of mind, and i dont know. you know, i dont want to make you sound like im captain courageous. i dont know whether i had the presence of mind that i would have said, president, sir, thats wrong. >> to your point, ned, the circumstances as david just said, its not like a movie script. >> bu...