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And welcome back. here are the headlines at the half hour right now. house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes confirming today that he met with a source on white house grounds regarding the presidents wiretapping claims. in a statement, a spokesman says nunes "met with his source in order to have proximity to a secure location where he could view the information provided." president trumps son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner will be interviewed by senate committee, part of the o...

The president, nbc just learning that. were going to take a quick break. on the other side, the white house signaling that president trump may potentially be open to reaching out to democrats. this comes, though, as democratic opposition is solidifying. there are more senators today coming up against his pick for the supreme court. the possibility of a democratic-led filibuster is increasing. and that means the possibility of a so-called nuclear option is there as well. im going to talk about ...

Currently five open seats in the house of representatives which means there are going to be five special elections in the next few months to fill these seats. these are special elections in some cases people will be looking at very closely to see if there are signs that the political environment is shifting since the november election. democrats especially want to see if they look stronger now than they did in november. now, you can see here, four republican seats, these are republicans who left...

President trump or speaker ryan. this was our membership, you know, weve been the opposition party against president obama for eight years. weve been the governing party for all of 67 days. i think there is a bit of a learning curve there and i hope, you know, lets hope we learn something from this, ill call it a debacle, thats what it was. lets hope we learn from it. tax reform is not as emotionally charged as was the debate on health care reform. i think some lessons were learned here. im the ...

Aisle and thats not something that weve seen any of in the trump administration. >> yeah, and karen, could you even see just looking at this issue, could you even see the potential basis for a compromise? an area where trump, republican leaders could reach out to democrats and get some buy-in, especially when you see these polls where trumps approval rating with democrats is, like, 3%? >> well, i think that there was actually some talk about tax reform during the obama administration as well. i ...

Republicans solidly favored there. same thing here in south carolina, mick mulvaney left this seat. the rock hill area in south carolina. solid trump district. even kansas, mike pompeo, cia director, again, trump country. that leaves one other race on the board and it is a fascinating test of where donald trump stands politically a few months into his administration. look at the 6th district of georgia. where is it? the suburbs. densely populated suburbs right outside atlanta. look at the shift ...

Led him to believe president trump or his associates were inappropriately included in u.s. intelligence reports. in an interview with "bloomberg view" nunes clarified he was on white house property to use a computer that could access the correct intelligence network. and that he met with an intelligence official and not a white house staffer. very confusing revelations here. joining me to discuss, more, break them down a little bit, michael allen, former republican staff director on the house in...

Ratcheted up the temperature here on capitol hill to the point that it forced jim comey to come and acknowledge that there was an investigation and of course say there was no evidence of wiretapping. then a day later, you suddenly have nunes, we learned, going to the white house grounds to look at this information and then on wednesday, having a press conference about it. i just think its important to remember kind of that story arc because its unlikely we would have learned the information that...

Is a sort of acceptable scenario where this would be on white house grounds, this could be a whistleblower. the next step, that is, he obtains this informaon and does not share with it his colleagues on the intelligence committee, does not share it specifically with the democrats on that committee out there saying, why would you hold a press conference to announce this? why would you go to president trump and tell him about it, share it with him and not tell us? again, you know this committee ve...

Big-ticket item. that is tax reform. the question is, how? option one for trump, he could smash the freedom caucus, or at least he could try. thats the conservative bloc in the house that just said no to the health care plan even after trump gave them concessions, even after he pleaded with them, even after he tried to strongarm them. they have been doing this for years now. defying pressure from republican leaders, making it awfully difficult for the party leadership. could trump amp up the pre...