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hour. a small aircraft caught fire after crashing into a bridge in miami, this afternoon. you see some of the images there. officials saying that that plane possibly crashed into some vehicles on the bridge. miami authorities confirming at least two patients were transported to an area hospitals. a total of five people were involved in the crash. we are going to bring you updates on this, as we get more. those images are starting to see. want to go to our nations capital, as well, thou...

Thanks for joining us. let me start with you on this one susan, talk to me about how much, we talk about the litmus test, we saw happen in ohio, we saw the power it seemed before the power the it seems the former president had. -- you got oz, then you have this outlier candidate mastriano, being endorsed by the former president for governor. -- >> it is going to be significant. we know donald trumps endorsement doesnt matter. in primaries, at least where there is no incumbent. im looking at on t...

Representatives even though the justice department just announced they will appeal this decision. and the president has been give an victory from the supreme court ruling the president, for now, not necessarily, for now, give up 8 years of his tax records to the house of representatives. significant on both fronts, susan. >> it is significant. they set a briefing schedule december 5th, intending they intend to move rather rapidly on this case and willing to grant an administrative stay indicatin...

Co-equal branches and you are accountable to us and we will see how these hold up on appeal and how various individuals respond to it. it will make it harder and harder for the white house to make it politically sustainable. the harder they fight, the less it looks like good faith interpretation of the decision. >> as far as the white house and justice department are concerned -- >> yes. the point susan was making, this is not actually what the constitution is laying out. the doj department of j...

Dont seem to understand what theyre saying. to piggyback on the point susan made about republicans, the other thing thats grafted on top of this here is that this is about the spending of money that congress has appropriated. this is something congress and congressional republicans ought to be up in arms about. the president has in effect and admitted to it today usurping their authority. they decided how theyre going to spend money on foreign aid and the president in effect decided theyre not g...

Obama, and an msnbc political analyst. susan, start with you, since youre sitting right next to me. what needs to happen for republicans to take a step in the direction of changing gun reform legislation in this country, for mitch mcconnell to get on board to actually change something, heavy been calling for mitch mcconnell to bring back congress into session early, since the el paso shooting, since the dayton, ohio shootings. that didnt happen. mcconnell said he wanted to get everybody on the s...

Case when we see these shootings monthly now, or sometimes even more frequently. so on the federal level maybe well see some weakened down background checks. im not necessarily sure about that but i dont think it will be very influential. but the work that needs to get done needs to happen at the state level. and as we just heard, the texas legislature isnt meeting until 2021. thats absurd. in florida when they were in session after parkland they were able to pass legislation 23 days after the s...

I think the governors appearance on jimmy fallon was pretty great. its not a great thing for chris christie to be starting out at the bottom here because the fact is that a lot of people across this country do know him and they have a negative impression of him. so he is starting out as sort of damaged goods even a more positive fitting where he may be unknown but he has potential for a lot of growth. christie has the opposite problems where he is starting out in negative place. >> susan, there ...

Ethics scandals as well. >> thats for sure. susan cab tree thanks for joining us this morning. >> thats a pleasure. headlines across the country. veteran tackled to the ground and arrested for standing up for the stars and stripes on a college campus. but now one may be standing up for old glory in a big way? what he just brought to that school. well explain that story. then we told you about this. university canceling the screening of the "american sniper" film after some students complained it...

A guy who won an awful lot of democrats to his side election of governor. >> thats why he was such a formidable candidate as late as 2012. all of that changed after bridge gate. predominant image is the one loud mouth possibly corrupt governor from new jersey. and its the corrupt thing thats knew. >> republicans new jersey thing thats mort of the problem. but, yes i would say to the extent that he was able to win over democrats and hispanics and women and, you know, all sorts of that durablely d...