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Over the weekend the president tweeted this russia talk right when the republicans are making their historic push for tax cuts and reform. this coincidental? not! does the president really believe blaming hillary and the democrats is his best defense tonight? for more im joined by bret stephens, columnist with "the new york times" and msnbc contributor and former congresswoman nan hayworth who is on the board of directors at the independent womens forum. brett, i want to start with you about str...

More than a declaration. they were voting for money and a sustained campaign. in that sense, it is on the president in a more personal way than someone who votes for tax reform. for instance, a lot of people who met the president and heard that promise. >> i want to also say a lot of the advocates say its fine. they are worried that the tone will be more on the law enforcement and less on the treatment compassion side from what they heard from the attorney general. its a combination of things. >...

Some of the persistent questions expressed by official investigators and two generations of conspiracy theorists. a cnn exclusive well go inside north koreas capital where kim jong-uns regime has launched the shocking propaganda campaign in which daily life revolves around patriot of america. ill speak with former defense secretary leon panetta. and correspondents, analysts and specialists, they will have full coverage of the todays top stories. lets begin with president trumps emergency decla...

Provide some cover for those in congress who may be also sharing the concerns, but so far have been unwilling or unable to speak out against it. thats the open question. i think the fact that the republican president has come out so forcefully on the heels of the very important speech of senator mccain, does create a space for honorable members of the republican party, who are concerned about the divisiveness of the first months of the trump presidency to say, mr. president, lets take a differen...

Going to need a lot more than alexander/murray for us to get behind this. and then the president goes out and completely undercuts that and appears to support the deal and then pulls it back by his evening speech. so a lot of this is just chaos within the white house and the president not understanding the basic nuances of the legislation thats being put before him. >> then lamar alexander is right, republicans and democrats agree chaos doesnt work, but the white house doesnt agree. the presiden...

Deal. what we have is an agreement to fund those csr payments, the subsidies for obamacare, through the next two years. thats what democrats wanted to get out of this. the question is whether republicans ended up getting enough. the concessions they got from democrats include allowing people over 30 years old to buy catastrophic plans. theres more flexibility and waivers for states to change the way they cover things and also to provide flexibility to buy insurance in compacts across state lines...

Youre going to 110, this is going to spin out of control. >> right. >> dont talk to me about economic benefits in the stock market because were headed for a cliff. >> sure. and much has been said about how the deficit hawks ofie yester yr are muted. >> nobody talks about the yester year deficit. voters dont look at the deficit, thats not at the top of their list. >> i think thats correct. but the issue here is, it sounds like theres an impasse putting flesh on the bone here. like, the question i...

With a majority of republicans potentially dont support it. thats the open question. >> country over party. were going to take a break. coming up, former press secretary sean spicer is back meeting with robert muellers investigators as another trump associate has to be subpoenaed to testify. the latest on the russia investigation. but first, we are finally hearing from the mandalay bay security guard who first encountered gunman stephen paddock. the night of the mass shooting in vegas. he op...

Going to be questioned. but he had a lot of visibility into what the president was doing and thinking on a daily basis. >> did he have to turn in all those notebooks? >> i dont know the answer to that. but i can imagine if he had notes and bob mueller was aware of his notes that they would be interested in what the notes said. >> who else are we expecting muellers team to interview? >> sure, were expecting don mcgahn, the chief white house lawyer in the next few weeks, hope hicks, top communicat...

For conservatives to get them across the finish line. president trump could be very helpful in that regard but theres been somewhat confused or mixed messaging because this is tough. they have to thread the needle between trying to achieve some kind of balance in the marketplaces while still being able to argue in favor of repeal and replacement of the law. the question will be does this take the pressure off legislators to act next year more broadly on obamacare. those will be the questions we ...