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Meetings, hes talking about rallies that thousands and thousands of people went to. >> its completely ridiculous. and i think theres kind of a broader push back point that i have with regard to the media, it seems that every time that president trump is starting to put together a very good week or even a very good day. when one of these stories pops up from these baseless allegations from anonymous sources. this story had four reporters in the by line, theres not one single quoted source in that...

She said i know i bring out the worst in people. i dont know why that is. it is. the aide said to her, it will be tougher when youre in the white house. she said yeah, it is. >> she wasnt alone thinking she would win on election night. most of the country thought she would win. including we have reports from the trump campaign thought she would win. you guys had lots of sources. obviously, on the inside. now publicly, people involved in the campaign are saying this is not true. that they didnt s...

Process. basically you have the use of the drugs that were not gnsied for execution. you have incredible pressure and expert concern about whether this is a proper use. this is, quite frankly, the improvisation done by a single state and now spread to 31 states. they used the three-step chemical injection and the countries say they dont want to be a part of it. thats the original reason why there was this arkansas deadline. they cant get any more of the drugs for one of the steps here many the s...

And then the national security council, which he objects to in that form, in the united nations. everybody knows russia and china can stop anything. thats what theyre looking to do. so if trump isnt tougher than tillerson was this afternoon, then everyone has to question why neither one of them are willing or able to take on putin, lavrov and russia, especially over syria. >> melissa: chris, did you watch that and see a pushover in rex tillerson? >> no, i didnt see a pushover. i saw someone who ...

Syria. i thought it was a very aggressive offensive by sergei lavrov without much push back by tillerson. tillerson stated his positions, but he sure wasnt in the mood for an agreement with lavrov. >> melissa: do you think he should have hit back harder? >> well, look, its not my job to say what the secretary of state should do. i just think it was interesting to note the difference between the two. lavrov went on very aggressively stating the u.s. position and several cases making strong charge...

States regarding assad? i think its clear from ambassador haley and secretary tillerson, that the trump administration believes assad has to go. i think its pretty clear they view the russians differently. if you dont believe the russians aided and abetted assad, thats naive. heres what i would tell the president, its not how the babies die, its the fact that assad is just slaughtering his own people. hes changed the military equation on the ground by using air power with the help of russia and ...

And this following on the defeat of vices, which i do think we will eliminate at least in syria and iraq is very commensurate importance that. maria: its really important point to make because the president is getting really strong support and praise for this move because most of our friends around the world feel that assad needs to go. thats what all the candidates said during the election season as well. now you see the u.k. push back, canceling a meeting to moscow. the u.k. basically saying, ...

Now with him stepping aside fro the probe, it puts a cloud over that story that was sort of helping the white house push back. i think what the white house is hoping though is that now with nunes stepping aside from the probe, that distraction may dissipate and the focus can get back to the president who in the last 24 hours has been very aggressive about saying hold on folks, the real story is about susan rice. why not bring her in for questioning, as well as maybe evelyn farkas, the former oba...

Going forward as it relates to the top issues. trade is one of the issues. president trump made a theme as to tariffs, that that might not be on top of the trade agenda. here is what he said in an interview that he gave to the financial times earlier this week as relateds to tariffs. he says "i dont want to talk about tariffs yet. maybe the next time we meet. i dont want to talk about tariffs yet". when i spoke with that white house official, i say is now is not the time, when would be the time?...

He was not officially involved in the transition. so the push-back has been as one of the administration sources told nbc news, this is ridiculous, basically they said. greg, i want to get your take on that. should that be the end of the story? >> thats true, and thats what our story says. however, that doesnt mean -- he has multiple, you know, web of connections with trump people. >> he is betsy devos brother. >> he gave $250,000 to help the trump campaign. we have people saying he was in the t...