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Say you are north korea. you are about to have a summit with the president of the united states for the first time in history. you are about to have that because you are about to start talking about a deal, a negotiated deal to stop your nuclear program in exchange for something from the united states. what does it say to you that the united states just today unilaterally broke the last deal that it did with another country to try to stop a nuclear program? right on the precipice of the north ko...

And conquer. the president stays focused on duties at the white house and giuliani focuses on the legal case. that was short-lived. the president went on the attack on twitter sending out three tweets about the russia investigation. including this one. he says, is the phony witch-hunt going to go on even longer so it wrongfully impacts the midterm elections? what the democrats always intended? republicans better get tough and smart before it is too late. that said, rudy giuliani also says presid...

Court could find itself deciding whether a sitting american president could be forced to cooperate in a criminal investigation involving his own conduct. joining me now is john conison, maya wylie and matthew miller, justice and security analyst for msnbc. this is an all star panel. joe, you are one of the very people i would want to talk to about this. in the clinton case you wrote the book "the hunting of the president" that talked about the lengthy get clinton kind of campaign, but in the end...

These targets to mitigate the risk of russian forces being involved and we used our normal deconfliction channels. those were active this week to work through the airspace issues and so forth. we did not do any coordination with the russians on the strikes, nor did we prenotify them. >> and just to tie it all up for the week, a short time ago, here at the pentagon defense secretary james mattis said that bashar al-assad would be ill advised to ignore the warning that the u.s., the french and the...

More breaking news. the justice department inspector general just released its watchdog report on fired fbi director -- deputy director andrew mccabe. nbc news justice correspondent pete williams has been poring through this report the last few minutes. we have former chief spokesman at the justice department, matt miller, also an msnbc justice and security analyst. gentlemen, welcome. pete, just reading a few notes that have come in, including "the new york times" lead, that says the justice de...

Welcome back, everyone. im alex wkx witt at msnbc headquarters. governors in texas and arizona are sending national guard troops this weekend to the mexican border after a request from president trump. >> ive been speaking with general mattis. were going to be doing things militarily, until we have a wall, well be guarding our board with the military. >> joining me now, nicholas rasmuss rasmussen, an msnbc national intelligence and security analyst. 400 national groups total from texas and arizo...

Spokesperson from the justice department matt miller, also an msnbc justice and security analyst. okay, matt, help me understand why this is significant. paul manafort filed for a motion to dismiss his indictment and toss out the claim, claiming these charges are tied to businesses in the ukraine and they were outside the scope of the investigation. >> you know, one of the rules sometimes in law is the same in boxing. the punch -- the counterpunch can be stronger than the initial punch. i think ...

White house. and matt miller, an nbc justice and security analyst is joining me here as well. pete, first to you. tell me about the van der zwaan -- the sentence and everything that went into this. >> reporter: well, this was a prosecution and a sentence largely meant to send a message that you shouldnt lie to the special counsel. thats really what this case was all about. this was not a prosecution to try to get his cooperation so that the government could learn more, the special counsel could ...

Russia expelling diplomats as a result of russias role in the poisoning of a former russian spy in the uk and separately after the u.s. imposed sanctions on russia for meddling in the 2016 elections. so you can imagine what a stunning sight it might be if vladimir putin and president trump stood side-by-side here at the white house. the last time vladimir putin made a visit here, 2005. >> peter alexander, thank you for that. meantime, president trump renewed his attack against the justice depar...

Act of retaliation by russia today, shutting down the u.s. consulate in st. petersburg, russia, giving them one week to get out. that is exactly the same number of russians kicked out of the u.s. last week as a result of a poisoning by a nerve agent on a former russian spy on britain soil. we have the security analyst and former direct i have national intelligence under president obama. thank you for taking the time. >> so in the midst of a tiff for taft here between the two. >> right. >> does i...