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Advers secretary of state rex tillerson had face time with his boss today. theres lots of talk whether rex tillerson is out of the loop tonight. he did not know a foreign diplomat was in the town. >> i think that the foreign minister of mexico was in town meeting with, according to the mexica, kune macmaster. is there no meet him. >> i was unaware he was -- foreign minister was in town. im not sure i cannot speak to whether theres going to be any meetings at the state department at any level.

Counterterrorism operations. the goal is to speed up the authorization process by allowing defense officials and field commanders to decide when to launch missions without the blessing of the white house. senior official says this does not mean the president would be left out of the loop. two more of the cabinet picks are up for a vote in the senate today. lawmakers are set to confirm dr. ben carson and secretary of housing and urban development. they will end the debate on former governor ric...

Focus on some of the things that donald trump has been talking about on the campaign trail. christine and dave. >> manu raju. misdirection play. >> senator chris murphy said that is a lie. unbelievable to throw out the shiny object and say look over here. >> immigration reform. if it came to my desk, that gets progressives about something happening. going to the speech and taking the hard line. >> it worked. >> interesting. misdirection play. the pentagon looking for more authority to approve ...

A pitch for bipartisanship to get his agenda done. while democrats and some on his own party accept the offer? plus. >> president trump: my administration has been working on improving vetting procedures and we will shortly take new steps to keep our nation safe and to keep those out who will do us harm. >> jon: the president expected to sign a newly revised travel order on emigration in the coming days after the previous one caused a political firestorm. also, severe weather takes aim at commun...

Candidate trump, if others were messing around and having improper contacts, they may have kept him out of the loop, which may explain why he gets so upset. theres another -- there is always another explanation. >> there is always another explanation, and that is certainly one of them. one would think that if he was -- >> do you think he protests too much? >> youre playing the -- youre playing devils advocate, which i appreciate. what concerns me more, i think, is just the demonization of the me...

The chief strategist is saying something completely different from the vice president. this is the second case where the vice president was out of the loop. when it came to what was being told to the vice president, he was left out of the loop of that. so it undermines the credibility of the white house. >> it does look like the vice president is not part of this inner circle and many times it is a circle of two. donald trump and steve bannon. >> i think you have to look at two dramatically diff...

>> but, mika, youve heard the same thing that "the post" is reporting today about tillerson being sidelined at state. >> for over a week now, ive been hearing from long time state department types that this is a mess and jobs arent being filled. he is out of the loop. hes in the wrong place all the time. and he needs more support. especially coming in from running a business. i mean, this is not -- he needs someone with really a deep interagency experience to lift him up and i hear they are shov...

Nationalism populism. so far it hasnt affected her own approval ratings, as much as you might expect in the upcoming elections. >> atika there for us in berlin. thank you. >> with more on this, we got this sort of dr. jeckyl, mr. hyde thing going on. mike pence looks very much like the main stream politician. in fact, someone said it had a subl and a verb. were not used to do. it is business as usual. saying the eu is essentially flawed. this just heaves strong traditional allies who stood by th...

Speaking on your behalf, and the question is do they have credibility. i think its very clear when he says were not going to torture and do waterboarding, and trump says we are not going to do that anymore, right? general mattis says we are not going to take their oil, and i think president trump will go along with that, and my concern is mike pence, is he out of the loop, and when he goes to nato and says something, i dont know that that really represents donald trumps -- what donald trump is g...

Great confidence that the team and this administration is providing the leadership and the direction to those agencies and also to the president of the united states to advance the security of our people. >> jeff, just to be clear, this is the first time that anyone from the white house is actually saying essentially that former national security adviser michael flynn lied to the vice president. >> exactly, poppy, this is the first time hes talked about it and he said he was disappointed to lear...