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Msnbcs chris jansing has more from the white house. chris, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, louis. its road trip day for president trump. two stops, two big issues. the first place hes going is lapsing, michigan, where they make the self-driving cars. but the real issue is the automakers push against obama-era emissions standards. they want them rolled back and want an epa review. hell be meeting with both auto executives and union leaders. and then hell have a rally. rally number two, n...

Bit. obviously, chairman chancellor merkels visit was moved to friday. well con to give you updates as we go closer to friday. today the president had lunch with the minister of defense of saudi arabia. the president will swear in the administrator of centers for medicare and medicade services. the president looks forward to having the spectacular qualified and experienced administrator verma finally on board. especially as we continue to lay the ground work of our reform of our health care syst...

Surveillance. >> had it in quotes. >> youre interpreting. >> in some cases hell say -- >> ask about this tweet. >> i did. >> what did he say? >> quotes, referring to surveillance overall. its something that had been referred to in other reports. >> he cited other reports in his conversation with you. >> he did, yes. >> other reports, but steve, the problem with that obviously is there have been no credible reports to show there was any kind of wiretapping of trump tower. theres been nobody at th...

It took fire from the right and heritage action led by them, americans for prosperity. these groups that quite frankly, have effectively killed legislation in the house not that long ago. you put that in a vise against what moderate republicans want in the senate and rob portman and others are saying about how medicaid that could hurt low income americans in their states. that is a vise that is a potential death grip. two things here i think are really important. if you remember back to presiden...

Trump that were on the phone with different russian officials and they could have been surveilled and wire tapped. theres something somewhere out there. they seek to confuse the two issues. thats not the same as saying that president obama ordered a wire tap on his personal phone calls in trump tower. its a way to muddy the message. they sent it over to congress. congress is calling their bluff. if theres nothing, and, obviously, director comey who maybe no one trusts anymore but has gone out of...

Public 36 hours and to rush it through this week and then vote on it within the next few weeks really does harken back to some of the problems that obamacare was graded under. >> senator, if you went back to your state and heard from constituents that they were concerned about the presidents credibility and the white houses credibility, what would you say? >> its understandable. donald trump won a large majority in arkansas. but 39% of arkansasans voted for one other than donald trump. that is o...

Softball there to validate his existence wasnt swung on by the white house? >> i think he can but its getting questionable. jim comey is asking the new attorney general to come out and make a statement. after the clinton e-mail scandal, that controversy, he doesnt want to comment on an investigation himself. he doesnt want his boss, appointed by the president, nominated by the president. obviously, comey wasnt, to take the heat on this one. i think its fascinating. weeks in, the new attorney gen...

19-year-old kayla jones says she was at an all new low the day we met her at the tulsa county jail. >> the reason why i got here is because im going through heroin withdrawals. >> erin chose to stay on the floor because she needed to have access to the restroom if need be because she would have diarrhea. she had the bucket because she was continuously vomiting. to be on a top bunk where she was assigned, obviously, wasnt conducive for her going through this kind of a situation. >> im trying so h...

We need an independent media to hold people like me to account. i mean, power can be very addictive and corrosive and its important for the media to call to account people who abuse their power, whether it be here or elsewhere. one of the things i spent a lot of time doing was try to convince a person like vladimir putin, for example, the notion of an independent press. >> obviously, ari, when he was president, im sure there was tons of stuff that the media did that he didnt like and to hear him...

Have they hurt? reince priebus, sean spicer, kellyanne conway, not steve bannon. maybe steve bannon is the source of the leaks. >> no, i think bill is conflating two issues, what the president said earlier about the protests about the town hall meetings were organized by ofa, two groups directly tied to the president. and talking about leaks -- >> can i just ask? do you think he is instructing people to do this? >> no, i think folks directly tied to president obama have a great obviously have a ...