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Communication strategy and outside legal team but at the end of the day you still have a president trump who will regularly and without thinking twice about it under cut his own senior staff and white house messaging, whether on twitter or in interviews with "the new york times" or washington post or on tv. so this is a white house that at the senior ranks does understand that the president could call in as many reinforcements as we wanted but at the end of the day, trump is going to be trump. >...

A setback for a u.s. backed coalition fighting the taliban in afghanistan as u.s. airstrike kills at least 12 friendly afghan police soldiers -- police officers i should say. it happened yesterday during an operation against taliban insurgents in the southern province. their deaths come amid increased fighting in that area which is controlled by the taliban. nato and u.s. troops are assisting afghan troops in that area. and the u.s. offering its condolences to the families of the security forces...

>> zack freedman. thank you. it is something we are watching because it effects so many young people across the country. that does it for this hour on msnbc, stay with us. much more on the fallout as the president shakes up his communications team. will there be more? and were diving into the latest on the russia investigation and the health care battle as republicans try to pick up the pieces after the latest setback over the last week. all of that and more straight ahead. stick around. mom, ...

Him. >> rick: 50 years old! >> sandra: oh, stop. >> rick: there are new questions surrounding the future of jeff sessions after criticism from trump. was he calling out one of his most loyal backers a smart move? >> sandra: president trumps executive order cracking down on sanctuary citys suffering and other legal setback. will the supreme court having another fight on his hand? >> the century city stuff is unbelievable, its unbelievable, its unbelievable that we can allow to happen in this coun...

But we want to brag about the plan because this plan really -- you know, obeen talkiive been about a plan with heart. i said add some money to it. >> its mean where. >> thats my term, mean. >> 48-4. thats a pretty impressive vote by any standard. were not going to own it. im not going to own it. i can tell you the republicans are not going to own it. im sitting in the oval office pen in hand waiting to sign something. >> we shouldnt leave town until this is complete. if were weak on anything, it...

manafort spokesman did not address whether the debts might have existed at one time. he maintained that the cypress records were stale and do not pir port to reflect any financial arrangements. joining me here is daniel lipman, co-author of political playbook. also with us capitol hill reporter for "the hill" molly cooper. daniel, good to you have with us. tough diagnosis for john mccain. obviously, this is going to be a personal setback. a difficult situation for the senator. we wish him we...

Under former president obamas health care bill. theyre dealing with insurers pulling out of the markets because of issues with former president obamas health care bill and the reason they voted for president trump, the reason they elected him was to solve this problem. not to point his finger at the democrats and so far, from this white house, we dont have a good sense of where this goes next. what the president would do next to fulfill his promise to voers. >> cnns ryan nobles on capitol hill w...

Before, and at least until the senate demonstrates what it can do. tax reform im actually more confident about, although again, look, success breeds success. we did not have success here so thats a setback. you got to be honest about it, but i think tax reform will give us an opportunity to come back and if the senate can get something together well go to conference. we need to do something to fix this health care system. its not working for lots of americans. the premiums are going up. the cove...

Invited all the gop senators to the white house tomorrow. whats going on? >> well see if that meeting is kumbaya symbolism with the republicans four of whom at least defected in terms of the senate bill that first version and the repeal notion, as well. >> is this an attempt to stop marginalizing them and try to at least say nice things about them and butter them up? >> possibly. its probably going to be hard for this president to get much done in terms of substance in a meeting with 50 other pe...

Good morning to you. think of this as one of the epicenters of that political earthquake that jolted president trump to power. its a county that flipped, supported obama in 2012, trump in 2016. here despite the stinging setback for the president and senate republicans on health care, they still back president trump but are waiting for results. this morning with senate republicans still licking their wounds after a third straight defeat in their bid to get rid of obamacare, the president is defle...