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We understand the president trump national security advisers were on board when it came to striking iran. possibly more than even he was. but he didnt listen at the last moment and reversed course. why? what does it tell us about how he handled this and going forward. lets bring in trump biographer. who studied the president closely. welcome back to the "prime time." i will set aside my argument this should have been congresss decision from the beginning. lets talk about the process. if we accep...

Welcome back to the "prime time." i will set aside my argument this should have been congresss decision from the beginning. lets talk about the process. if we accept the presidents reckoning. which i dont. i dont believe that the discussion of casualties only came up at the last second. if we accept it, he didnt think about to ask about what the human cost would be until the last second. surprising. >> i think its actually much worse than that. on military commanders understand proportionality. ...

>> the presidents 2020 campaign to make sure we can continue to work on those things that he has done. its been a great two and a half years and were looking forward to another great four more years on top of this. >> surprising. joining us now is nbc news political reporter monica alba. what exactly are you hearing from people at the rally? what are they most excited to hear the president talk about? because he is not leading with the economy or infrastructure and health care. he is going big o...

Harris rounds out top five with 7%. this historically crowded field has 9 candidates unable to crack in the state. another nine struggling to register in the poll. lets go live to jeff zeleny in iowa at the democrats hall of fame dinner in cedar rapids. jeff, what message from the candidates stands out today? >> one thing that clearly stands out how they can respectively beat president trump. thats a constant theme from speech to speech to speech. they are sprug themselves. most of the candidate...

Already expressed this is not necessarily the best timing based on all of the other things that are happening. and we were putting on screen from the "new york times" a partial count or what they were calling a count of about 29 ongoing investigations. jills list probably including all of those and potential and probably other angles that we have not discussed as of yet. what are you hearing? >> not much from the white house, but i was texting with some democratic sources on capitol hill, from t...

I was guilty myself in the opening. theyre pointing out that he often bucks the party and whos not a reliable conservative. which all is true but deal with what hes saying in the tweets. hes saying this is obstruction of justice. hes saying mueller basically put out a road map for congress to follow and hes also saying to me the most surprising and eye-opening thing i shouldnt be surprised bu this is a lot of republicans didnt read the report. a lot of his colleagues havent read the report. >> t...

What hes saying in the tweets. hes saying this is obstruction of justice. hes saying mueller basically put out a road map for congress to follow and hes also saying to me the most surprising and eye-opening thing i shouldnt be surprised bu this is a lot of republicans didnt read the report. a lot of his colleagues havent read the report. >> thats the point. if you listen to what bill barr says and the president says and the people who speak for the president, they say one thing. but if you read ...

Surprising. look at the reaction when they heard this. >> this is my class, 2019. and my family is making a grant to eliminate their student loans. >> did you see his face when he said that? thats tech investor robert smith serving as a commencement speaker this year for the all-male historically black college morehouse. the donation expected to total $40 million for the class of 400 seniors. that would be my reaction, as well. what a moment there in atlanta today. congrats to many of them. that...

He told flynn, quote, arguably you sold your country out. and that went on for a while. and ultimately flynn finally did get the message, the very unsettled message from the judge maybe that would not be the best day to go through with the sentencing. maybe it might be better to come back a different day, see if there was any help flynn could maybe provide to anyone else if there were any other investigations flynn might possibly contribute to to help his country, the one with that flag there in...

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