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Appointed to oversee the russia investigation. here we are. a lot to discuss this afternoon. we have two people who know the subject extremely well. chuck rosenberg has been following the investigation closely and knows several of the principals involved. he worked alongside robert mueller and james comey. we also have ambassador michael mcfall with us, u.s. ambassador to russia when barack obama was president. hes now back at stanford university. both i should say are msnbc contributors. chuck,...

Political commentators mary catherine hamm and alice stewart, nice to have you all here. mark preston, this is not just our reporting. this is "the new york times" this is multiple outlets, the president asked about it this morning in davos. he doesnt say no, i never did this, he just again brushes it off as fake news, which we can attribute it to just news he doesnt like. >> if i try to put this in perspective for everybody out there, couple of things that are important. one, four sources told ...

According to the "new york times" he backed off after don mcgann threatened to quit rather than carry out the order. is this obstruction of justice? we discuss with former counsel to george w. bush, alberto justice, dean of belmont university college of law and author of "true faith and allegiance a story of sacrifice in war and peace" dean gonzalez, thanks for being here. >> good morning. >> giving an order to fire robert mueller, is that obstruction of justice? >> first of all, theres so much ...

Judges. >> susan hennessy, now we know from our reporting, "the new york times" reporting, our outlets that the president asked mcgann to fire mueller in june of last year, what does that do to the on going mueller investigation when it comes specifically to potential obstruction of justice? >> its important to note that trump actually didnt undertake this activity. so its a little different than how we would consider the comey firing -- >> what about intent? >> one thing thats a striking resemb...

How are senate republicans and congressional republicans reacting to the news this morning. thats going to be more significant than the technical legal ramifications. >> paul callan, final question to you. is it possible, if the president chooses to reverse course here -- this morning his answer was totally fake news, none of this is true, even though multiple outlets have this reporting. could the president claim, look, bob mueller can no longer lead an unbiased investigation because he thinks ...

Other outlets, as many as there have been, confirm your reporting. >> i ask because what sean hannity said is that the white house poured cold water on it but the quote from ty cobb is "we decline to comment out of respect for the special counsel and its process." michael schmidt, thank for your reporting. go to "new york times".com and read it. this reporting has overshadowed the presidents trip to davos today. in just over an hour hes scheduled to give a speech to the world economic forum. wel...

One was from yesterday "i know nothing about these people." said the president. similar to his "i dont know david duke" defense. joe, he was sitting there with piers morgan saying "i didnt do it" as if amplifying them to a million twitter followers is nothing. of course britain first is a well-known anti-immigrant anti-muslim organization in great britain and everyone said so the minute he retweeted them. >> and he did know it. he knew after he retweeted them because it was a big news story over...

A piece one of the things i think hes done is hes become our own assignment and were letting him tell us where we should be spending our time and i think thats exactly the offices should be i know that you wrote i think it was last year you wrote an article about the media about obsessing over trumps tweets but if you compare trot the past presidents and i was just looking at the numbers here trump does not talk to the media clinton bush jr president obama they all held a minimum of seven press ...

Do that in your own networks and outlets and the federal government cannot allow people to act independently and completely ignore the law. major? >> how closely did the president and his staff work with the house republican leadership? >> weve been working with house and senate members. weve had dozens of conversations with them. the framework that you see on monday will be born out of a lot of those conversations that weve had with a number of members, both republicans, democrats, house and se...

Do that in your own networks and outlets. federal government cannot allow people to act independently and completely ignore the law. >> in the development of this compromise framework that you will release on monday, how closely the president and staff worked with house republican leadership? >> weve been working with house and senate, members weve had dozens of conversations with them. and framework that you see on monday will be born out of a lot of those conversations that weve had with a num...