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Promise, that he would cut down on illegal immigration, and would target skilled workers to try to build up the american workforce to make it more robust and effective, thats part of the messaging youll hear a half hour from now. >> i do find this stunning, today mike bloomberg joined on "morning joe" and talking about small business growth in the united states. one of the things that helps drive small businesses is immigrants, immigrant workers both low skilled and higher skilled. if you look a...

In this country. something that may help us understand this crisis better and here to help us understand the study is nbc news medical correspondent dr. john torres with the details. thanks for being with us and walk us through some of these numbers here. they are, frankly, stunning. >> good morning. what happens in 2015 they did a big survey across the country looking at opioid use here in america. what they found was stunning. it surprised them the results and, frankly, most doctors will be ta...

The unfathomable situation of tom price, secretary of hhs and president trump will have to administer the affordable care act. >> so john heilemann, take this wherever you want to go. its kind of stunning, it seems in the past 24 to 48 hours, a lot of different angles, the president is getting the word no, no, mr. mr. president. people are pushing back. people with power. >> its a great setback to his agenda, his possibility of the getting things done the rest of the year. this is a much larger ...

Personnel at the justice department? >> it cant help. it cant help matters. the people, 100,000-strong people in the department of justice, most of them couldnt care less about these issues of the day. theyre focussing on doing their job. things that dont make the headlines that 95% of the time remain the same from administration through administration and theyre going to keep their head down and keep doing that. exactly what they should do. >> can i underscore what lindeyy graham said? he is a ...

>> they dont choose to be transgerunds. they are born that way. why should we hold that against them. they are human beings. many of them are extremely talented human beings. we should be open to everybody. >> from the conservative at a time of utah, reminding his constituents that transgender folks are born that way. >> i think theres a growing sentiment in the republican party over last few years that has moved away from some of the old thinking in this regards. a lot of it comes from the fact...

Throughout the united states. >> that was significant because to find one would be a career maker. to find multiple illegals? stunning. >> how did you learn about them? >> unfortunately that remains classified. but i can tell you that any foreign government that spends resources to insert an entire network of trained intelligence officers here, thats a threat that we take seriously. at any time, the illegals could be that person with access to information and a vulnerability that could allow the...

General who i continue to assume is an honorable man. if the president were to reach out and do something like fire mueller, i have to imagine you would see widespread resignations within the justice department. i dont know how other honorable people like h.r. mcmaster and jim mattis, people i think who are people of honor, who have this countrys interest, and how they can still serve with a president who is so obviously, you know, seeking to stop a terribly important investigation. >> i know we...

My vote is to grant your parole effecti effective. >> i grant parole. >> i concur with the commissioner and agree to grant parole. >> mr. simpson, i do grant to vote parole when eligible and that will conclude this hearing. >> thank you. >> the whole thing has a lot of people thinking back to simpsons double murder trial in 1995 and how the stunning not guilty verdict divided america and changed the way we cover tv. allen dershowitz, part of the defense team and ariva martin. as i said do you re...

Back inside to loyalty that even though absolutely sean has taken a lot of bullets for the president, has been extremely loyal, but the perception is that the president still didnt think, never quite forgave him for some of the stuff during the campaign. he wasnt the, the rnc folks werent fully onboard and same with jeff sessions. someone who was one of the presidents earliest backers. first senator to endorse, and someone who -- once very close and talked frequently. now, because he cant get ov...

He and the attorney general, theyre on the same page on a lot of issues, most importantly immigration, which is central to this presidency, but this one point of conflict, this issue with the recusal has poisoned the relationship. can you go on as an attorney general under those circumstances? of course its more difficult. on the other hand, in some ways jeff sessions is no hero to the left. but this gives him a certain credibility with people who dont normally support him because now hes seen a...