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Discussing a number of policy issues. im also suspicious of that 73 number. thats very impressive. >> bill: ill leave that to you. an honest game. i wonder what john mccain thinks of this? guy benson, thanks. a lot of tweets rolling out this morning. comments about bob corker. i would take a 73. >> sandra: any day, are you kidding me? >> sometimes for nine holes. >> sandra: still to come "americas newsroom" a power packed political lineup including mike huckabee, newt gingrich and ari fleischer ...

Establishment did lineup quickly behind senator feinstein. kamala harris within a few endorsements. gavin newsom and we have the congressman who was a freshman who said i dont want to run for senate, but there should be a primary challenge on the left. a very liberal democrat from the bay area most well-known for the opposition to the war in iraq and afghanistan. there is that clamoring there. its a lot of the reasons you just mentioned. it is generational. its a different time for politics. she...

Of course, san juans been wrong once before and had to eat not crow, but a boat? >> i hoping to get back to data and thinking creatively about policy issues. having said that saying good morning to everyone out there on both sides. see this -- here it goes. okay. ♪ an i kick it? ♪ ♪ yes you can ♪ can i kick it? ♪ yes you can ♪ can i kick it? ♪ yes you can ♪ well im gone lets get the lady of the house back on her feet. and help her feel more strength and energy in just two weeks. ...

Qatar, north korea and that is not a bad thing to have debate about different policy issues. >> sandra: the president took to twitter on multiple occasions and using it as an opportunity to hit the media. he tweeted this, rex tillerson never threatened to resign. fake news put out by @ nbc news. low news and reporting standards. no verification if me. however, critics have responded and said there is mixed messages coming out of this white house when it comes to the state department and presiden...

>> im not going to deal with petty stuff like that. >> he didnt deny calling the president a moron. >> the secretary did not use that type of language. he did not say that. >> made up by nbc. they just made it up. >> for the record, nbc has total confidence in its reporting. >> fake news. it was a totally phony story. >> the president can call this fake news but he himself has made it very clear that hes broken with his own secretary of state on a whole host of policy issues. >> he ends up not b...

That trump cabinet members memoirs will be the best ever. >> nbc reporting that rex tillerson called donald trump a, quote, moron. >> im not going to deal with petty stuff like that. >> he didnt deny calling the president a moron. >> the secretary did not use that type of language. he did not say that. >> made up by nbc. they just made it up. >> for the record, nbc has total confidence in its reporting. >> fake news. it was a totally phony story. >> the president can call this fake news but he h...

Adviser. demanded -- resign after recused from the russia investigation but also seen officials take issue with the president, not only over policy but way he leads. chief of staff john kelly spotted head in hands. downtrodden when the president defended neonazis in charlotte the week before and gary kohn reportedly thinking of resigning. mattis directly contradicting the president on iran. says he believes u.s. should stick with the deal. undercutting trump. and now nbc has exclusive new report...

State on a whole host of policy issues. >> and those policy issues, kristen and carol, is a critical backdrop to all of this. were talking about the secretary of state, as you have, the crisis in north korea thats been intensifying in the last few months. you got what was happening with the u.s. relationship with iran and questions about what happens with the nuclear deal next, carol. >> right, and those are just two of the issues that secretary tillerson and the president have clashed on. we al...

Creeping in over and over again, just as president trump tries to talk about tax reform or health care reform, and these are the meatier issues, the policy issues, we always end up right back to the culture war. >> they are irresistible because they are the closest to our hearts, they matter the most to us. unfortunately, they are the issues that governments are largely powerless to resolve. yeah, there are things around the edges that governments can do but when you get right down to it, no gov...

Remarkable and i want to get your sense of this because youve been in congress so long. you know senator mccain and graham. they are close friends. how difficult do you think this was for senator mccain at the end of the day to essentially torpedo his friends legislation? >> they are close friends and partnered together on policy issues. but i think this is a different issue. i think it goes to john mccain himself and what he believes is best for the country. what each american is entitled to in...