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Pressure, agreeing to turn over 3,000 russianlinked ads to committees investigating russias meddling in the 2016 campaign. Were looking to foreign actors, including additional russian groups and other former soviet states, as well as organizations like the campaigns to further our own understanding of how they used all of our tools. And no laughing matter for the Third Straight night. Jimmy kimmel using his late night comedy show to go after republicans who are trying to repeal obamacare. A lot ...

Bother me because i hope that hes going to be fair. A different message than vocal Congressional Republicans who call the former fbis investigation biased. He has the right do what i want to do with the Justice Department, which is carrying out that russia probe. And he tweeted about the frigid temperatures. Saying in the east it could be the coldest new years eve on record, because we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our country but not other countries was going to pa...

Portraying the indictment was nothing to celebrate. What followed was a twoday tirade on twitter. Slammed democrats, blamed barack obama, even so far as to suggest the fbi missed the Florida Shooter because of the russia investigation. But again, no blame for russia except to suggest the kremlins operation was a success saying if it was the goal of russia to create discord, disruption, and chaos within the u. S. , they have succeed beyond their wildest dreams. It is clear that this issue is incr...

>> tammy leitner, thank you very much. survives of last weeks shootings are turning their angry into action. >> they say that tougher gun laws do not increase gun violence. we call b.s. >> students from marjory stoneman douglas high will head to tallahassee tomorrow to push for stronger gun control laws. they are also planning a march in d.c. next month. there was a lion outside of the white house who showed the president folks want action, but the president was at his golf club in florida. over...

Backpack saying i hate, fold bay racial slur we cant say on television. despite this, counselors determined he was stable and he didnt need to be hospitalized. nbcs tami leitner is in florida. >> there was a tip that came into the fbi in january that the fbi did not act on. governor rick scott is demanding that the fbi turn over all of the information from this tip. he is saying that it is inexcusable that they did not act on it and the family deserves answers. lets go over what we know about th...

Looking past that, looking past the statistics. >> yeah, i can tell you that. weve been talking to people. theyre excited, theyre buying their tickets. theres one drawing tonight, another one tomorrow night. weve taken up a pool out here and weve already got ours. >> tami leitner joining us from miami this morning. thank you very much. next were honoring monumental americans, shining a light on instrumental people who might deserve statues of their own. stay with us. youre watching msnbc.

Four times as likely youre going to hit by an asteroid. 104 times more likely to make it on the big screen than to win the powerball. dying from a hornet, a wasp, a bee sting arent likely, but its still more likely than winning either of those two jackpots. your bowling a perfect game is still more likely than winning the lottery. youre over 265 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to win the powerball. with all that said, plenty of people are not dissuaded. tami leitner joins us fro...

Powering through turks and caicos. its expected to hit the bahamas, take a turn and avoid most of the coast. were seeing flooding along with the destruction of the storm in puerto rico. most of the area without power. could be months. people desperate for the bare essentials to survive the next few weeks. tami leitner is amid all of this in san juan. tami? >> reporter: andrea, this entire rescue mission started with a single s.o.s. text message that went to the mayor of san juan. it came from th...

We saw a lot of people that were trapped. eight rescues made within an hour and a half. half of those people were elderly, the other half had medical issues. we did see some people that chose to stay. the waters came up to about our chest. we were walking through the water with her, and i was asking her, why are you doing this? why are you risking everything right now? and she said, this is my neighborhood, these are my people, and i just want to help them get out safely. so again, eight people ...