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Us an inside look at how that company deals with people who live or used to live in some of its apartment complexes. joining the pam nnel, alex mcgis who wrote the piece for "the new york times" magazine and msnbc contributor jason, politics editor for the root.com. thank you for joiningous motley crew today. the piece is stunning for me. ive never worked in real estate. give us some of the top lines but also answer for me whether this is standard in the industry, or whether these practices were...

On this vote, the ayes are 54. the nays are 45. the nomination of neil m. gorsuch of colorado to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is confirmed. >> the supreme court seat stolen from president obama with 14 months left in his term was awarded to donald trumps nominee, neil gorsuch, on friday. after mitch mcconnell and senate republicans responded to the democrats filibuster by invoking the so-called nuclear option. gorsuch will be sworn in on monday. and joining m...

Was taking all of these illegals. >> well, the joint press conference between the two was a stark contrast in leadership and left you wondering who was the adult in the room. not wondering for long. joined by jason johnson, politics editor the root.com and carnie from politico and jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. why does he hate merkel? what is this about? shes the best leader in the world right now? the public likes her and she is functional. >> i think theres a lot going on ...

>> i think she made one very catastrophic mistake and that was taking all of these illegals. >> well, the joint press conference between the two was a stark contrast in leadership and left you wondering who was the adult in the room. not wondering for long. joined by jason johnson, politics editor the root.com and carnie from politico and jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. why does he hate merkel? what is this about? shes the best leader in the world right now? the public likes h...

Functioning and in touch with foreign leaders. just to give you a quick example of that, on march 14th, angela merkel will meet here. these are introductory meetings, planning meetings. the white house is giving me one collective yawn about the story. clearly, its getting a lot of attention and gaining currency and controversy on capitol hill. stephanie? >> i want to bring in my panel. ari, jason johnson is politicsed dor at the root.com and a process sor and matt welch making his debut with us,...

Completely agree osomethin, som we agree on is we need to secure our border. the physical barrier on the border is all about. we have security concerns given this age of terrorism and the fact we have drugs coming across our border, an opioid problem. lots of reasons our focus is on border security. >> thank you, mr. speaker. >> all right. were going to break away from this press conference. it was the gop weekly leadership press conference. lets talk about what just transpired. i want to bring ...

According to a new "usa today"/suffolk university poll 54% of americans agree with him and approve of the job hes doing. whats up for debate is whether or not the affordable care act is his greatest achievement or biggest failure. 24% of americans ratist as greatest achievement, then the recession and his moral leadership. the same americans were acted a what ranked as president obamas biggest failure, 27% said it was -- wait for it -- the affordable care act followed by the wars in iraq and afg...

Obamas legacy will be written, im joined by heidi perez bill la, jason johnson politics editor for the root.com. przybyla. heidi, to you on that poll, its interesting. the obamacare life -- the affordable care act is loved, six more million people signed up for it today. or its hated. why is that? >> if you look at the partisan correlation, youll sigh why. its heavily based on what part you you fwlong or identify with but the interesting thing about obamacare is that even if the republicans are ...

Our laws. the executive branch does not. >> okay. so president-elect trump is also not opposed to using executive orders. just two weeks ago in louisiana, mr. trump outlined how he planned to act without congress. >> one of my first executive orders will be to ask the department of labor to investigate all visa babuses tht undermine jobs to america and the workers. this is about our country now. >> in november, mr. trump also outlined a list of executive actions he would take in his first 100 da...

Votes when a judge ordered a halt to the recount and the states high court agreed with that decision. in pennsylvania a federal judge says he will rule on monday whether the recount should go ahead. in wisconsin, with 89% of the ballots recounted clinton gained only 49 votes and trump still maintained a 22,000 vote lead. joining me, politics editor for the root.com. thanks for joining us today. >> glad to be here. >> what about michigans quest to recount? >> its a waste of time. its to determine...