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desperate to get trump that they paid a russian agent to spew anti-trump lies for three years. they also knew directly from him in early of 2017 that the dossier was completely false but people like jim comey continue to sign off on the fiza warrants even though they knew without the lying dossier would have never been approved. wheres the rate of comemys home. where is equal justice in america? seems to be dead for the moment. second explosive report from john solomon involves january...

A real shutdown. its very bizarre. >> yeah. i think his terse no comment. that question was shouted a couple of times it wasnt if there wasnt a moment to realize this is somewhat they are talking about and big catch up play after that. and then karine jean-pierre came out the next day. we are taking this super seriously. the president is going to go there. this is one of the moments in a presidency where he is playing catch up. goes to the question of how attune he is to what is going on and how...

Impact on the 22 election campaign for him? >> i think biden is at this moment in a split screen presidency. on one screen, he is moving steadily if bumpily toward historic lenlgislative achievement. this congress just in that single reconciliation bill is poised to pass the most significant democrat-led agenda since 1965, a massive array of programs that virtually every american will feel in their daily life from universal pre-k to expanded child tax credits. on the other hand, on the other scr...

Moderate option of medicare buy-in fprograms for folks unde 65. and medicare for all is only 41% approving of that. and we have hans nichols in houston and there is more for what the president had to say about this whistle-blower story, and set the scene where you are. >> well, it is quite loud and i my apologies and ted cruz is speaking, and republican electability is what this rally is about. they are expecting some 50,000 people here, and we have this stadium at capacity, and we know that don...

Andrea mitchell will join us from d.c., i want to ask you about the split screen. ben rhodes had a great comment to the washington post that was included in the piece by phil rucker. he said at home, we can see these things as just another turn in the tabloid dr amdrama e trump presidency. help us understand why its the case. >> well, its absolutely the case, when we talk about the split screen presidency, in eight of the 11 foreign trips the president has made of his presidency, theres been ano...

Expected to call trump a racist, a con man, a cheat. he will be producing checks that were signed by the president potentially in office as well as don junior and allen weisselberg. these are reimbursements for payments to a porn star. the big question today was set the scene by the vice chair of the house overite committee katie hill was on moments ago. the big question is, did the president commit crimes and did he commit some of those crimes while in office. that does it for us for now. steph...

As a statement. i choose to believe it was not meant as a statement. but, it does speak -- it does -- >> she cares, its just a jacket. shes a model. she knows the power of clothes. >> she does. the important thing is it does speak to the layers of theater this president deploys. one thing theyre good at, this is probably conspiratorial, a split screen presidency. one screen for different audiences and one is what we saw at the rally, the other is the first lady making nice at the border. maybe t...

Still have been about the russia controversy, largely because the president fuels that himself. largely because of all of these developments of course with his long-time lawyer and fixer. the mueller investigation is indeed alive and well. but the white house officials and supporters of the president actually hope he can focus on something substantive like the release of these three americans, and indeed this diplomacy here. it is something that could actually lift the president. it is something...

"reliable sources" mr. brian stelter, new dad, and frank sesno, director of the school and media of public affairs at george washington university, long time dad. frank, what do you make of the assertion that trump does his own pr. nobody can last in that job? >> well, lets keep talking about dads, adult supervision is a good thing. nobody may last in that job, but trump needs a communications director. every president needs a communications director. communications director brings the message t...

We see the president toasting the president of brazil almost at the moment hes ordering air strikes in libya. weve seen the president do a little bet of sight seeing at cultural events and well see some of that today, as well. but the white house has said this is a president who is able to do both given the state modern communications. he just did another one this morning with his national security adviser traveling with him. so hes very much keeping an eye on whats happening overseas. he also g...