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Looks like judiciary is going to be in the lead. have no doubt, nancy pelosi going to have tight control over this process over the next couple weeks and months. >> jake sherman, your reporting on this has been extraordinary. if you come up with anything else in the next 22 minutes while were on the air, call back into our control room. well get you right back on the air. >> thanks, nicolle. >> jonathan lemire, this is going from bad to worse for the president. road block coverage, bad for him, ...

As polls show voters blame him. joining us now, matt miller, former chief spokesman for the justice department and here at the table, john heilemanns back, co-host and executive producer of showtimes "the circus" and the chairman of princeton african-american studies and the host of "amanpour and company" and contributing editor. this is not where a normal president -- i hate to use that word -- expects to be the day after harnessing the communications value of what they call road block coverage...

How do you think this white house is going to deal with this spectacle of what will surely be road block coverage of a fired fbi director who the president, as i said, called a nut job an crazy, testifying in an open session? >> well, we learned today that one way theyre going to try to deal with it is to not answer anymore questions about it from the podium. sean spicer said he referred questions today to the outside counsel, whos handling russia matters for president trump. but, you know, lets...

At this point, if your original proposal came to a vote on the senate floor, would you vote for it? >> it wont. it wont. thats why we went through the debate. >> it did. >> no, i would not. >> i would not vote for my own proposal. of course not. as president of the united states, there are a few very specific tools you have at your disposal in terms of influencing the national opinion. you have tools that other politicians dont have. you can convene a joint session of congress, which president o...