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Subset question one, is it still your contention that getting talks at all with the american president is baseline victory for the north? and when the president talks about these talks maybe not being over in one session, maybe several, maybe weeks, is that the kind of talks that should precede presidents sitting down at the table? >> its become clear today, brian, if it wasnt clear before, that our president is an enormously ineffective negotiator. he has made massive concessions even on the ro...

Intel. catherine lucey is back with us, white house reporter for the associated press. and also brian bennett returns to the broadcast, senior white house correspondent for "time" magazine. good evening and welcome to you all. jeremy, im going to begin with you. is it still your -- first of all, whats going on here? subset question one, is it still your contention that getting talks at all with the american president is baseline victory for the north? and when the president talks about these tal...

Subset question one, is it still your contention that getting talks at all with the american president is baseline victory for the north? and when the president talks about these talks maybe not being over in one session, maybe several, maybe weeks, is that the kind of talks that should precede presidents sitting down at the table? >> its become clear today, brian, if it wasnt clear before, that our president is an enormously ineffective negotiator. he has made massive concessions even on the ro...

As hollow as that rhetoric is. but to donald trump he needs to say these thing tuesday make himself feel good. you talked about general kelly who does not express his feelings all that openly and talk about himself, this is president who spends a day doing that alone. >> peter baker, i dont mean this sarcastically, but what part of the trump agenda advanced today say from the white house to the hill? >> well, there is a deal tonight. we hear a republican and democrat coming together to puts a tw...

Republicans in congress have offered. >> former republican congressman david jolly in florida, who went onto say with our guest, the republic may be safer with the democrats in majority. were happy to welcome david jolly back with us tonight. gentlemen welcome both back to this broadcast. ill give you a little while longer, to explain what must have been a discussion among your republican friends. >> im not a republican who all of a sudden adopted nancy pelosis politics. but the question is, and...

Out, the president has stated that he wants to repeal and replace obamacare. thats what his actions were doing. thats what undoing these payments was part of that effort. and so i think it is an interesting question. he may sort of want credit for this deal or this win, thats something the president is always interested in. but as he said today and as the senators said, this is a short-term fix. there remains a question of what happens in the long-term. and there could be the potential to reach ...

National security council chief of staff, lieutenant general keith kellogg was interviewed in september. also today, nbc news learned the senate intelligence committee has subpoenaed former trump advisor carter page. page says he plans to testify, but the committee expects hell invoke his fifth amendment right. with us for more on all of it, shannon petty piece, white house correspondent for bloomberg, and paul butler. paul, i think you lawyers call it exposure. what possible exposure does sean ...

American presidents, pulitzer prizewinning author and presidential historian, jon meacham, whos also an msnbc contributor. you and i are both obligated to quote once a week, so were off the hook. >> its actually in the contract. >> thank you for being here. is the plight way to ask this question, is president trumps modern era antithesis bush 41, both in terms of his years of service in the navy, youngest ever. >> the first time herb rt walker bush wrote a letter like this, he was 20 years old b...

Decided when to intervene should the president act erratically. we know there are measures from russia to matters of private travel. we know there are encroachments on free speech, free press, free expression. and so imagine if we have these concerns, what it would look like in a democratic congress who was providing accountability to this president. and so that a question i think some republicans are wrestling with. are we safer first as a mesh of national security with stronger accountability ...

>> you know a lot of us -- not just us but people we represented, people we fought with performed well in difficult circumstances. p pows perform well in five years, seven years, getting tortured every day with a view they would never, ever go home. those are the tough guys and we all look up to them, and look up to them, because they are tougher than anybody. >> why pick a fight with a former pow member of the senate? >> theres an argument that says, if youre an expert, youre not very good on y...