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Donald trump. you want to look at jeff flake of arizona who understands he will have a primary opponent and who thinks and knows full well the president will oppose him. if he feels i can weather that, then all of a sudden things have turned. i dont know were there yet. theres going to be a lot of pressure for people to get beyond politics and defend the institution. >> i take your point, chris, about the seriousness. this is really just about checks and balances. the one thing is republicans ar...

Correspondent pete williams and nbcs peter alexander at the white house. pete williams start with you, there seems to be upset from president trump this morning as you can tell by his tweets specifically around statements coming from people close to james comey, people who are saying, well thats not exactly what happened. james comey may not have said that three times, james comey may not have requested that dinner. what have you learned? >> lets go back to the tweet to start with if we can look...

Comey to be gone. just now, other people have other concerns. however, however, the burden is very much on the white house now to come up with a proposed nominee, who is beyond reproach. this is going to be somebody like a judge who has a track record of performing as man or woman of integrity, in difficult circumstances, and theyre going to have a hard senate hearing. thats going to be the case. and the burden is on them. point two. look at who the acting director of the fbi is? hes essentially...

Two points jumped out. number one the point you raised of sean spicer saying the president uses russian salad dressing and people call for a russian connection. perhaps a light hearthed point convinces someone of what the white house feels theyre asked about this, point two, questions being raised about former acting attorney general sally yates. reminder for everyone who doesnt follow this closer. she was a deputy attorney general under barack obama and under the normal course became acting att...

Point, the president might have not heard her correctly. could have heard cdc. thats why she clarified what they meant by cbc, congressional black caucus but thing i wanted to point to to your viewers that the cbc letter they tweeted out to president was addressed to president-elect sent on january 19th day before the transition to the office. and point two, never asked for a meeting with the president. and point three, tone and diction used in the letter was not very inviting to me. so if they ...

>> look, i understand that, but i guess i go back to if you do that -- if this was about the security of the country, why wasnt afghanistan, pakistan, saudi arabia, egypt -- i can keep going down the list, where we have had foreign nationals from those countries that ive listed attempt terrorist acts in this country? >> well, thats a great question. first of all, 72 individuals according to the center for immigration studies have been implicated in terroristic activity in the united states who ...

Missile tests in iran, we have seen the administration of sanctions, we saw sanctions in response to ballistic missile tests. what go you think is going to be different about this administration from the previous one. >> it seems like theyre determined to abide by the terms of the iran nuclear agreement. secretary mike flynn went down to put them on notice, were calling out iran on a variety of other issues, but not the nuclear agreement. point two, you clearly are going to see a toughening of a...

Would sign a contract to send their voters to elect who ever wins the popular vote. thats a way of changing the electoral system and the electoral college without the constitutional limit. there are things of the limit that you do the change it. point two in terms of the democrats right now. i do think that democrats lost their election and they need to stay focus on it. they did not have an economic message that appeals and for most of the geographic area of the country. >> all right. >> democr...

Chain, hardys, carl jr.s with significant number of labor violations under the obama administration a study found 60% of the carls and hardys looked at violation of some form of labor laws. you want a secretary to enforce las. point one. point two, yes, even though too high of a minimum wage can certainly hurt small business. something policymakers need to take into effect, most larger businesses think about walmart, starbucks, actually raising wages for workers, and thats because we live in an ...

Im interested in what everyone else -- but from the detail we have, it looks to me like we dont have any evidence there will be the kind of separation you would need to remove conflicts. >> you mentioned in your question there the idea that this is the brand of sort of who he is, right. >> yes. >> remember who he is becoming and that is the president-elect and the president. his brand will become a presidential one which trump -- the president-elect seems to be making the calculation is perhaps ...