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>> as i said, the british tabloids of course pounced on. willie geist who is in london for the olympic coverage has the best of them. lets listen to willie. >> the covers are all about the opening ceremony. but inside the daily mail, who invited party pooper romney. >> oh no. e. >> and in the london times, it says nowhere man romney loses his way with gaffe about the games. >> lets start over here again, simon, and talk about the special relationship. i know that somebody way back in the obama a...

Differently as well. there are so many words we use differently. bottom line, is there going to be a lasting impact of the kerfuffle we have just described? simon, you first and then chris. will this thing be something you people in britain remember in the pride you have for your olympic games for the next couple of weeks? will it be recalled at the end of them and in the months ahead that the american presidential candidate, mitt romney came there and caused trouble? >> i think the lasting impa...

Hearing. >> congressman denny heck is a member of the house intelligence committee. simon marks, and david cornish, washington bureau chief. congressman, let me ask you about this. what do you make of this investigation and the fact that comey, the fbi director, is really kind of focusing attention, creating a special section to go into what happened between russia and the trump people? >> so one former fbi agent indicated that this represents a surge in resources. anybody associated with the tr...

Something in common perhaps. we said nothing, all we did was quote a certain very talented legal mind who was the one responsible for saying that on television. i didnt make an opinion on it. that was a statement made by a very talented lawyer on fox, and so you shouldnt be talking to me. you should be talking to fox. >> anyway, fox news wouldnt cover for him. shepard smith responded to president trumps attempt to pass blame. lets watch him. >> fox news cannot confirm judge politanos commentary....

Are some republicans digging. >> were going to start seeing the president, its teasing us. im going to hold off on that one. thank you. greg, great reporting. and simon. coming up, tomorrow perez united to defeat trump. why did warren beaty get handed the wrong envelope. president trump made media enemy. finally let finish with trump -- by the way msnbc will have

Whole town, washington, especially those on capitol hill, republicans and democrats, are talking 24 hours a day, it seems, to the press background, on the record, everyones talking about whats going on inside of this white house. so you may have a meeting where you put phones on the table in the communications office and try to plug the leaks but this is a bigger ship than that. >> thank you, robert costa, simon marks and greg miller. up next, democrats pick their path forward and the bernie s...

Greg miller covers the intelligence community for the "washington post." right on this story. simon marks is a chief correspondent with "feature story news." i want to go to robert, im watching poor sean spicer on the nanny cam basically being watched every minute by the president. the president clearly wants spicer and priebus to tell top intelligence officials to squash this. theres no secrets. hes trying to shut down any interests in his russian relations such as they were. >> not only a mess...

With a combination of sanctions and a diplomatic way out of ukraine. but the russians dont seem to be looking for a way out. president putin claims the military action is protecting the minority ethnic russian population. some russian protesters seen here in this video beating up a pro-ukrainian protester. others have been tearing down ukrainian flags and raising the flag of the russian federation. simon, do you agree that this could be the most important foreign policy decision president obama ...

Tonight, sir. >> thank you. while washington scrambles to counter president putin, a number of experienced russia watchers are wondering why anyone is surprised by these events. many feel they have been laid out quite clearly for many years. simon marks is a former bureau chief. simon welcome. you just heard the back and forth i had with congressman engle, and john mccain and president obama. theyre talking about international law. who -- does putin care about any of that? >> i think thats the...

Spectrum now, who are saying youve just got to get much tougher. theres a whole range of options out there that stop short of putting military boots on the ground in ukraine. >> i want to get through some of those, simon. the u.s. -- you know, should they attend the g-8? should they say russia cant be a part of the g-8? should they move u.s. and nato forces into poland? should they set up anti-ballistic missiles in poland, which obama scuttled in 2009? these are just some of the options in front...