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Nbcs keir simmons joins from us st. petersburg where he is covering a topic at the world economic forum. from the white house, associated press reporter jill colvin. at the table, brett stevens, "new york times" op-ed columnist. mike murphy, republican strategist whos advised bush, mccain, and romney, the good old days. heather mcgee, now president of the advocacy group dimos action, all msnbc contributors. what is the latest from the white house? i had heard that some of the backlash about how ...

Do brief off the call today? so i can frame letter. he texted that about steele, who put together the anti-trump dossier, of course. warner added, "okay, i would like to do preliminary call, you, me, and him, nobody else, so we just have to trail to start, want to discuss scope first before letter, no leaks." waldman noted that steele was concerned about leaks, so warner texted on march 30th... the committee got the text messages from waldman last september and a warner -- they said that out of ...

I wants to make a comment about sarah huckabee sanders, i almost feel her pain. she knew what she was getting into when she took this job. i will say if i were her i would quit. >> why? >> what trump did last night. lets put aside his disdain for the american people every time he lies to them. which is almost every single day. if not more. the disdain and the disrespect that he showed not just his legal team, but the communications team, the person that goes out every day to represent him, and t...

Fill yagt affiliation. he made that clear to us. he didnt like the fact that mccabes wife had run for the state legislator in virginia and received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the democrats. and that was the attack of president trump. the man was about to retire in 26 hours. so he was already out of the loop. had taken a leave of absence months ago. so why the rush? i think we know why the rush. and now we have the attorney general of the united states mr. jeff sessions saying, well, y...

Served. that was a remarkable omission. one other note on the alliance between tillerson and secretary mattis, they have breakfast about once a week. i should say, they would have breakfast about once a week. they would be in constant contact. the two of them really tried to massage the presidents public postures, his private conversations with foreign leaders. now that tillerson is out of the loop, the question is, will secretary mattis and pompeo, whos much more hawkish than tillerson, pompeo ...

She knew what she was getting into when she took this job. i will say if i were her i would quit. >> why? >> what trump did last night. lets put aside his disdain for the american people every time he lies to them. the disdain and the disrespect that he showed not just his legal team, but the communications team, the person that goes out every day to represent him, and the government of the united states at that podium and then put her in a situation where she had to say, after she has already b...

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Own best strategist. he only needs to see what happened when sean hannity interviewed rudy guiliani. >> everybody, except the president, seemed to be out of the loop. the white house was of of not aware of what was going on. when you have the president deciding hes not going to be his best press schenectady, own best lawyer, which is what we saw happen the last week, that becomes problematic. you can bring in the best chief of staff and that person will fail because he will refused to be handled...

Here. rex tillerson, obviously, saying what he did earlier, the pentagon saying last night they were caught off guard. what can you tell us about how this developed and who knew what and when did they know it? >> clearly, the state department was very much out of the loop, that this was, in fact, according to a lot of people we talked to last night an audible that the president called during the meeting with the south koreans. i think they were all aware that there had been a lot of progress. th...

Gone. and in terms of being out of the loop, the president made clear this morning that he did not consult with rex tillerson in any way on his decision to meet with kim jong-un. he made that crystal clear today. the president said i just didnt see the need. >> exactly. >> elise labott, you have more on how the president -- the secretary of state, outgoing secretary of state, found out about all of this, shedding light on what michelle means by saying he found out the same way we all did. >> he ...