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investigated and i think you are right about this. >> sean: jay, mark simone, a friend of mine sent me a tweet from tom brokaw. director comey has had a lot of self-inflicted wounds. hes made a lot of mistakes. wow, has nbc changed since he left. just as a side note. where do we begin? with all that lou has brought up and all that sarah has brought up, theyre such criminality here. there seems to be a crisis as it relates to equal justice under the law. in this country now, as a result of jam...

And i dont know if he corrected himself, but making kind of the side note that he doesnt have to think himself that it matters. >> i think he caught himself, because look, the truth of the matter, kate, and its not partisan in any way, shape or form, they were singing off the 100-day song book until this morning. i mean, donald trump earlier this week had talked about hes gotten more done in 90 days than anyone else. go back to october 2016, he gives a speech in gettysburg where he says the elec...

Minister here in japan. you heard them also announce theyll be having another meeting, more discussions later in the year. today was about establishing a framework for how to proceed. how to develop poe penaltential free trade agreement. the goal from the u.s., opening up the japanese markets to more u.s. products and paving the way for greater japanese investment in the u.s. >> one interesting side note. as governor of -- now vice president pence had a very close relationship with japan, politi...

And north korea quiet for now after it failed a missile test over the weekend but the white house has plenty to say about the rogue nations behavior. vice president pence declaring the era of strategic patients is over. it is all "happening now" ." ♪ >> jon: we begin with the latest saber rattling from north korea and president donald trump who promises a united front to resolve mounting tensions with the road regime. welcome to the second hour "happening now," i am jon scott. >> jenna: i am l...

Theres no plans to visit the dmz, the demilitarized zone though, that border with north korea. that is not on the itinerary. interesting little side note, the vice presidents father actually fought in the korean war and was awarded a bronze star while fighting in that war, so very -- its a personal trip for the vice president as well, and this is actually his first trip to south korea. next stop, japan, tokyo. and this stop was really the impetus for the whole trip. commerce secretary wilbur ros...

Policy and the president asked to get steve on the phone, meaning the treasury secretary and he joined us and we talked about tax policy. >> do you see this as a sign of the growing influence of some of his sort of centrist-minded economic advisers? >> i think its still remains to be seen thats currently where things need to be trending. we asked him what to make of his comments to the "new york post" about steve bannon for instance and it was a very interesting answer. he said hes a guy who wor...

Put forward his aggressive vetting new policy, that would be a worldwide policy and not just selective nations and allegedly discriminatory. >> heather: that is a side note, lets get back to justice gorsuch coming and what about the cases on religious freedom, also same-sex weddings? >> this is interesting, there are three cases that he will probably be weighing in on. the first is church entitled to government funds for a neutral nonexecutive purpose like building a playground for kids? and the...

He did such a good job. i love that im going to toss it out to rick for some wet weather. it looks pretty nice where you are. rick: finally a lot of the country is looking really good a great day for almost everybody. at least we will say the eastern two thirds of the country. take a look at the maps and see what is going on. what we have not seen in a long time is warm temperatures across the eastern two thirds of the country. heres what you are going to have the next few days. look at sunday i...

Ferretive way? why did he refer to these people as whistleblowers? look, i agree with the bigger question. theres a bigger substantive issue, which is the russians hit our elections very hard. >> right. >> and there are questions about whether there was any collusion or not, and that is the main question. this is a brush fire that was started when the president made his allegations about being wiretapped, which has since been disabused. >> and this is a side note, because devin nunes, one thing ...

So first and foremost the congress people are thinking about their voters and not thinking about donald trump. >> side note on this bill is that the president at one point says i think its going to pass but this is just politics the problem is its not just politics. people were told this would change. but what were seeing is he has not put his arms around this.