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With us from day beruit is bill neely. lets start with you, kelly. we are half an hour out from what we are expecting to be a white house press briefing. we are now into the time period where the president says a decision will be made. we know jim mattis walked into the white house just over an hour and a half ago. >> it was thanks to our cameras capturing the image of the defense secretary walking into the white house that we knew for certain he was here. we were talking to a range of officials...

Undermine above all paul ryan because paul ryan put out, was the one who ultimately had to decide to allow this to go forward and he said it was not designed to impugn the investigation, the doj, or the fbi. its clear from the presidents own words and tweets in the last 24 hours it was designed to do exactly that. what thats done is put the republican house majority on the battlefield with the president in trying to derail this investigation. >> and rebecca, its also important to share that trey...

Haitians america wouldnt be america. so we have to always remind ourselves of that. without haiti, the purchase would not have happened. it is up to us, up to the africans and the haitians to come together and rise up. >> so corey lewandowsky, hes making the same argument that the white house put out, essentially saying the president was making the case that immigration should be based on merit. is that a fair argument in your perspective? >> immigration is based on merit. i mean, lets go back a...

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Those early months. what kind of stuff would the investigators want to know from him? >> i think hes really a central witness particularly on fg related to obstruction of justice and the firing of james comey, which is sort of the central event in the obstruction of justice investigation. bopg is whats known as a specific intent crime. the issue is whats in the head of the person who is potentially charged with obstruction of justice. what did they intend to do? we know that the president fired ...

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For the president, not that any time is good, to tarke on the chairman of senate foreign relations, a member of your own party? >> bob corker is not just an average republican senator. hes not one of the ones who has been a renegade up until now on some of these health care votes. when the president has been trying desperately to get the 51 votes for some of these big pieces of legislation, the ones hes been courting, the ones hes been losing has been john mccain, susan collins, lisa murkowski. ...

Of the meeting, it took a revision to get this out, a comment was made by the president that said, "in fact, maybe it was mentioned at some point." maggie, it was unclear reading the pool report what exactly he was referring to by that one discrete comment. do you have any idea? >> right. my interpretation of what he meant by that -- and to be clear, the transcript that the white house put out, they did not include that bit in the press pool we did put that part out because it was a significant ...

The tweet that wikileaks put out, saying if he granted clemency to chelsea manning, julian assange would agree to be extradited to the united states. i dont think thats going to happen. i think what motivated him is the harsh treatment chelsea manning has gotten after being held in the brig. >> i think its an act of mercy. i think shes been cracking up in prison. i think its been a pretty rough go for her there. and i think that hes getting a lot of pressure on the left to do something. i think ...