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Scrutiny on the decisions that the white house makes and that the actions of the president that we in the news media do every day. >> do you want to jump in? >> lets not forget we have to take these threats quite seriously. i was on one of the outlets blacklisted during the campaign. i had to wait three hours to get into the events to cover them specifically because of the way my outlet covered trumps campaign. they were upset about negative coverage. they took steps to punish reporters. this is...

Peter baker, of the "new york times" and msnbc political analyst. great to have you all here on-set. peter, within the last, i dont know, 48 hours give or take. you had rudy giuliani issue whats was, i guess, sort of a retraction or correction, at the behest of the president. but then he goes on tv. he talks about maybe hush money for some other women who are not stormy daniels. he talks about potentially the fifth amendment against incrimination. this is -- wasnt he brought in to smooth waters ...

Yet in the same interview giuliani tried to make the case that trump had nothing to hide. >> mayor, if the president has done nothing wrong as you say again and again and he tells the truth -- >> he hasnt done anything wrong, george. >> and he tells the truth as you advised him to do, what is the danger in answering robert muellers questions? ary >> theyre trying to trap him. >> its only a trap situation if he doesnt tell the truth. >> no, it isnt. its only prosecutable if they have some built-u...

Information, bill. >> bill: thank you, more to come on that. >> sandra: for more on this lets bring in guy benson political editor and fox news contributor. joins us on set. good morning to you. first up is this threat real? >> well, i think what you are seeing from the house freedom caucus is an attempt to step up pressure on rosenstein to get documents that theyve been asking for -- demanding for a long time. and so this might be their way of sort of lighting a fire under the d.o.j. saying if ...

Journal." great to have all three of you with us on set. daniel, let me talk about michael avenattis strategy here. is this a fight worth picking now with the president when you have all of these other legal fronts that youve opened up? >> well, i think michael avenattis strategy is all-out warfare. that he is pressing every single button he can. hes trying to hold the president accountable for whatever it is that the president is doing. the interesting thing about this is its just another examp...

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Was perfectly carried out. lets go back to andrea mitchell in houston and we have john mclaughlin and msnbc national security analyst joining me here on-set. start with you to answer this big question. what is the strategy in syria right now? and what are the big strategic questions facing the united states? >> kasie, i think there really is no strategy we can put or finger on here. there are at least three messages that come out of the administration. one from the president. one from the execut...

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Likely to respond to these air strikes? we have the video there of the last time you met with him. you know his mindset better than any of us on set. how do you think he is going to view these strikes and respond? >> look, i mean, he had russian backing before. hes got it now. that plus iranian backing is what props him up. i dont see where he would perceive this as being any great setback to him. or, necessarily, cause him to change his calculus, which is the only justification for the raid its...