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Here in las vegas today, saying he has total confidence in the secretary of state rex tillerson. that comment after tillerson praised the presidents approach to foreign policy while side-stepping a report that he called the commander in chief something pretty unpresidential. >> do you want to address the main headline of this story, that you called the president a more yon and if not where do you think these reports -- >> im not going to deal with pety stuff like this. i mean, this is what i don...

President trumps national security advisor under fire. the white house side stepping questions about flynns future. >> does the president still have confidence in his national security advisor? >> thats a question that i think you should ask the president. >> u.s. official confirming that general flynn did discuss u.s. sanctions with a russian ambassador before he was sworn in. contradicting denials. >> they did not discuss anything having to do with the united states decision to expel diplomats...

Move forward. >> reporter: putin also called on russians to be merciful in the new year which is exactly how the russian president tried to cast himself as he ended the old one, namely his dramatic refusal to respond in kind to the u.s. expulsion of 35 russian diplomats over allegations of election hacking. in a classic political theater putin publicly rejected the advice of his foreign ministry and said no one would be expelled over the holiday period. even inviting the children of u.s. diploma...

That made secretary of state nominee rex tillerson so appealing to president-elect trump is under scrutiny. learning more each day about the oil magnates business dealings often at odds with the state department he plans to lead. his special relationship with vladimir putin. nbc national correspondent peter alexander is outside trump tower. lets drill down on this "new york times" reporting a lot of details about exxon mobil, their dealings with the kurds, side stepping what washington wanted in...

Again. side stepping, stays on his feet and breaks another tackle. chris ivory, what a word. touchdown jets. >> bowyer running out of time. retreating and throwing for griffin towards the end zone. touchdown texans. >> here they compass across the middle and caught for the first. its baldwin shaking free and sprinting down the sideline for the touchdown. its third of the day. >> going all the way and the denver broncos win the game. >> new england patriots first loss of the season. manning manni...

Effective. telling people who are the religious majority theyre an abused minority will never make you go broke. >> no doubt about that. but she has been side stepping questions about another run for office. do you think she is testing the waters in iowa right now, kind of dipping her toe in, figuring out if its going to work, if its going to be successful or not? >> absolutely. and she should have done it last year. she wouldnt have won, but she would have, you know, hit the snooze alarm on her...

He said she has the post administration glow, he h joke ed. >> envious. >> ill bet he is. jay joked, when she comes over does she measure the drapes. the president said, shes been there before. she doesnt have to measure them . >> a little bit of side-stepping. he also talked about, i guess you could call it his romance recently with john mccain. they have quite a relationship. >> thats right. john mccain has been an ally of his when it comes to immigration reform. he called it a bromance and sa...

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Tax cut. >> you probably got romnesia. heres the good news. obama care covers preexisting conditions! >> with just 18 days until the election, president obama got some important endorsements today and mitt romney got an ailment that dr. obama diagnosed as romnesia. >> hes forgetting what his own positions are. and hes betting that you will too. i mean, hes changing up so much and backtracking and sidestepping. weve got -- weve got to name this condition that hes going through. i think, i think i...

President obama credit. he has a plan to do two and a half times spending cuts for one part revenue enhancements, and thats a formula, i think, that can turn the debt and deficit problems around. i think governor romney has to do that. he has to -- i think the base will hate to hear this, but he has to govern more like a moderate. whatever happens, democrats will have more than 41 votes in the senate. he has to get democrats to cooperate to make anything work, and were not going to solve the deb...