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Chief of staff has sought a ruling, however, has baffled current and former white house insiders. mulvaney wants to join a lawsuit thats already been filed by the former deputy for john bolton and charles kupperman, a lawsuit boltons attorneys sited as potential bell weather for his own testimony. its an odd choice for mulvaney, given that according to witness testimony, biden viewed mulvaney as an active participant in the shadow campaign to pressure ukraine. a court will hear arguments about m...

That is something joe biden is going to do any minute. we understand he is expected on the grounds at any time now, and he will be up here with a $1,000 check and a declaration of candidacy. michael bloomberg, though, tipped his hand because he sent staffers down to alabama to try and get on the primary ballot. which seems like an odd choice at first until you realize that the deadline to get on the ballot there is today. now the chairman of the democratic party in new hampshire new hampshire an...

There are real concerns theyre going to contribute even more to climate change. its an odd choice, perhaps, for the president to reach out on this specific issue. but i think what weve often seen with the trump administration, brooke, is this kind of simultaneous good cop/bad cop. on the one hand im pulling out of this imf missile treaty, and on the other hand im calling about the fires to see if i can help up out at lot. some people call it mixed messages, others call it chaos. some sap its a c...

Freedom of navigation and global commerce. >> iran is giving a different assessment of what happened. joining me now, nbc news ali arouzi. ali, good to have you with us. lets begin with what we are hearing from the iranian government of what happened here. a short while ago, we heard the president once again say that the u.s. is confident they shut down the iranian drone, thats not the case from teheran, right? >>. >> thats right, confidence is an odd choice of word, is it? it suggests you are p...

Benefits his pocketbook right now. >> remember the night of the glowing orb in saudi arabia and the dance of the swords, how unusual unusual of all the places on the planet, all our allies, this was his first overseas trip as u.s. president, how unusual does his reaction continue to be to this crisis, what may be this scandal compared to the way our presidents used to respond to things like this? >> well, it was an unfortunate first choice of a place to visit. the obama administration that i was...

Continue to be to this crisis what may be this scandal compared to the way our presidents used to respond to things? >> yeah, it was an unfortunate first choice of a place to visit and the obama administration i was part of had lots of problems with the saudis. president obama remember called them free writers, which is what a president does when he wants to be tough on people. its an odd choice. now part of this comes from this alliance supposedly of the two princes. you know, mohammed and jare...

>> rick, remember the night of the glowing orb in saudi arabia and the dance of the swords. how unusual was it of all the places on the planet, all our allies, this was his first overseas trip as u.s. president? how unusual does his reaction continue to be to this crisis what may be this scandal compared to the way our presidents used to respond to things? >> yeah, it was an unfortunate first choice of a place to visit and the obama administration i was part of had lots of problems with the saud...

You put out a tape of your client. you then make believe it says something it doesnt say. believe me, there were three other versions of this before we got to this one that were even worse. the transcript, if you have the patience to analyze it, and now he is saying give the ball to my client. >> laura: i dont mean to harp on the clinton connection here but it is interesting that cohen chooses the longtime confidant, booster, defender of the clintons. after everything that happened during the ca...

Its an odd choice. >> i dont know. i cant comment on that, laura. i dont want to do that. i question the whole tactic, the comments tonight, shifting the thing to cohen. >> laura: rudy, finally here -- >> you have to be able to answer for your client or not answer all all. we do finally on the issue of talking to mueller, special counsel here, reports came out that you all will talk about collusion and nothing else. is there any developments on that you can tell us? >> no, i think we have been d...

Like this? you put out a tape of your client. you then may believe it says something it doesnt say. there were three other versions of this before he got to this one that were even worse. the transcript, if you have the patience to analyze it, and now he is saying give the ball to my client. >> laura: i dont mean to harp on the clinton connection here but it is interesting that cohen chooses the longtime confidant, booster, defender of the clintons. after everything that happened during the camp...