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She checked in on the interview from afar. nbc news kelly odonnell is following the president in palm beach, florida. what more did the president discuss in that interview? >> reporter: well, good morning, philip. this is a wide ranging interview from the president who has long acted as his own top press communications director. we saw that in his business life and it carried into his political life. you are right, it does cause a lot of heartburn for senior white house aides that were not aware...

The way he might carry that out. that said, this is yet another example of a pretty dramatic overstatement by the president. he cant discharge those authorities in a way that has a corrupt purpose or violates the law. its sort of a legal issue, theres a strong e normative tradition in the justice department. some decisions are made at the political level. some decisions are needing political accountability, but a lot of important decisions are made by career officials who really carefully are se...

Encapsulated for me how the president knowing so well how to move those perceptions inside the public mind, drew something out there, everyone went running for it and there we were. >> amazing thing, he drops that bomb and somehow walks away while the nfl is a mess. >> and the nfl is a mess. >> a mess. >> they lost viewership. everything. >> a real problem. >> the real deal. >> mr. wasserman, you picked doug jones. obvious, but -- explain. >> democrats had come close in four special elections an...

And is this something that would, two, actually be a good idea? >> i think that this offer would be laughable if the stakes werent so high. russia is the last person that we want mediating anything that were involved in. russia is definitely not an unbiased party in this issue. russia attacked our country. russia has consistently accused the united states, not north korea, of provoking war on the korean pains la, and until the last round of sanctions, russia had very little economic interests wi...

About. in other words, as the chinese withdraw their economic support for north korea, the russians have been filling in to fill in the vacuum. >> when i read evan from the new yorker or nicholas kristof from "the new york times," your work as well, the issue of misapprehension continues to come up. that president trump might tweet something that might be misinterpreted or something might be misinterpreted by the north korean regime. how big of a concern is that for you at this point? >> its alw...

>> iming about to talk to a man had has figured out how to fight back with a bang. plus did you ever talk about something on your phone and suddenly start seeing ads for it? is it a coincidence? or are our smartphones spying on us? and a look back at some memorable moments on both sides from 2017, including everybodys favorite blooper by yours truly. george pappadopolous. >> im a dope, im a dope. but first, were almost one year into a trump administration. and the end of any year is a time...

>> after a year, katelyn, of many of those people who are standing on those steps either publicly criticizing the president or privately criticizing the president, yesterday, it felt like they were almost all going to take flight. they were so excited about what had just happened. is this the beginning of something different between the president and members of congress? >> well, this has been a long term goal for the republican party at large as the president said. a lot of these lawmakers have...

Actually happening when you repeal this and maybe revisions happening. important to watch, too. i agree with ruth. can say he slayed the dragon, move on, check it off the list. >> interesting from chris coons, how he quickly said, and, yes, people will see a tax kwcut in e fix couple of years. he gulped a little on that. you could tell, i think democrats are nervous, ruth, when people see that, it may calm the -- improve peoples perceptions of are this tax bill. >> two quick points on this. one,...

The vast majority of people that they did not get a tax cut. it was just not significant enough for them to really feel it. in fact, something like a quarter of people thought their taxes went up. so, the perceptions of this bill are going to be very hard to surmount, even if people see a small lift in their paychecks, they may not notice it. >> thank you. david, good to have you, sir. thank you, come back. we have a republican congresswoman from new york state standing by. this is what she sa...

Of his numbers. he started out in our poll at 44%. his lowest number was 38% inspect now at 41%. his points have moved around six points which shows how perceptions of him are so locked in. thats a counterargument to people who say once this tax bill gets known by more people, hell become more popular and this will, given how baked in perceptions are about president trump, given all the news weve experienced over the past year. >> inelasticity. there was skepticism here when you used that word w...