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Monday. Chris, first to you. Whats happening now . Are we seeing senators fill in for the Committee Vote . Walk us in to the mood. Its at devcon one. This would be blowing ifrg up that we know about the senate to invoke the Nuclear Option. Let me back up a minute as we watch the conversations that are happening inside the hearing room which is expected to get started any minute now. What you have just here in the Senate Judiciary committee, nine democratic members, seven of them have decided the...

Taiwan came calling for donald trump. The phone call between the leader of taiwan and the president elect broke with 40 years of diplomatic protocol. And china is sending a warning of sorts to washington. Yesterday donald trump says the president of taiwan called to offer her congratulations to them. They talked about political and economic ties between the two nation. No president or president elect has spoken directly with the leader of taiwan since 1979. Thats when america began adhering to t...

The back exactly. So we should be looking for a line going into the justice department. At least eight more people we know are being considered to replace fired fbi dr. James com comey. They have all been seen going into the department of Justice Building this weekend. As for President Trump he tells fox news he could make a decision on the hire before leaving for an overseas trip at the end of this week. So lets go to ryan nobles. He has got some more information for us this morning. Ryan, what...

President trump announce his Supreme Court pick coming up. Well be announcing a Supreme Court justice who i think everybodys going to be very, very impressed with. Cnn has learned that the top two candidates, neil gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman, both were summon Todd Washington today. Hardiman driving himself from pennsylvania. This drama oshg straighted by trump resembling an apprenticestyle announcement tonight, not tipping his hand on who hes saying youre hired to. The reason, one person says, t...

Trump campaigns alleged ties to russia. A leading voice of the intelligencen community telling cnn he feels the government system of checks and balances is eroding. Lets listen. Our institutions are ushd assault internally. Internally from the president . Exactly. Because hes firing the checks and balances. I think the Founding Fathers in their genius created a system of three coequal branches of government and a built in system of checks and balances. I feel as though thats under assault and is...

Senate republicans vowed to block anyone president barack obama chose to succeed him and thats what they did, refusing to hold a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee judge Merrick Garland. It worked and now theres a republican in the white house. Joining me from the east room where President Trump will announce his choice, msnbc National Correspondent peter alexander. Give me a sense of what its like. We got the twominutetelepro. This room is filled with republicans right now, the lead...

Hearing those words. Independent investigation does not mean a policy prescription. Its a talking point that was formatted by strategists, disseminated by operatives and repeated on television by hacks who have precisely zero interest in and pendants or investigations except when theyre politically convenient. Partisanship posing as patriotism. Lets take its hearsay for a second anyway just for fun. Democrats say they want to make certain that any Russian Investigation remains above politics. Al...

Do it. Im okay with it. I have a decision to make and i have to make the decision. He agrees that i have the right to do it. Everybody agrees. We begin with a stern warning from the former director of National Intelligence who says u. S. Institutions are under assault because of President Trumps decision to fire the fbi director. James clapper made the stunning remarks during an interview. He discussed everything from the allegations of collusion between russia and trump aides to the possibility...

Space for a different kind of reaction. It would seem what is routine and there is a routine because this does happen so frequently is that the National Security council has convened. That meeting has happened this morning and that the president is in on the meeting. This is particularly interesting, though, for people closely watching what is happening on the peninsula because we know that president moon during his campaign had spoken about a different kind of policy towards north korea, of mor...

Hearing those words. Independent investigation does not mean a policy prescription. Its a talking point that was formatted by strategists, disseminated by operatives and repeated on television by hacks who have precisely zero interest in and pendants or investigations except when theyre politically convenient. Partisanship posing as patriotism. Lets take its hearsay for a second anyway just for fun. Democrats say they want to make certain that any Russian Investigation remains above politics. Al...