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Eoyang, vice president national security program at third way and joy advance, msnbc contributor. start with a subjective view of trump. whats trump think, robert be? >> his camps divided. the president wants to do the interview. hes telling his lawyers and officials he wants to sit down. a lot of people around the president are saying do not sit down with the special counsel. >> could this be a fly trap this whole thing. >> mueller is trying to get the president 0 sit down. >> youre not a targe...

White house and the state of california for their refusal to cooperate with immigration officials. lets bring this our panel mark water is a former special assistant to president trump. former press secretary to vice president pence and jim kessler is former legislative and policy director to senator chuck schumer of new york and senior vice president for policy and co-founder of third way. thanks to both of you for joining us. >> thank you. >> melissa: mark, what do you make of this bags so far...

Could make it a real third way. he could actually really make a -- a coalesce, political constituency around an idea if he could stick with it. >> and the united steel workers endorsed the president for 2020. and sticking around. steel city and steel college. the next governor of new york state could be nixon. no, no. not that nixon. that nixon. the sex and the city star may take on cuomo for the democratic nod.

Tim kessler, a co-founder of third way. thank you, gentlemen, for joining us today. so often things dont get done in washington because its unclear what a path forward would be. in this case at least there are terms on the table. there is the wall, chain migration, ending the visa lottery system as a trade from the white house for daca, potentially for dreamers and yet the compromise seems to just not be found. they seem on the cusp of it. it seems like the white house became the final obstacle ...

Contributor, joe watkins as well a republican strategist, former aide to george h.w. bush and matt bennett, gunsafety advocate who is with the think tank third way. matt, let me start with you. i mentioned your work on gun policy in the past, an adviser to sandy hook promise, that group created after the shooting in newtown. let me ask you a question ive imagined youve asked yourself too many times. is this time different? >> yes, thats exactly right. thats the question we all ask ourselves ever...

And get your friends out, too. >> thats tappy lightner. in this case with a couple of students at marjory stoneman douglas high school today during the shooting. tonight im joined with a long list of tragic school shootings. columbine, virginia tech, sandy hook as well as a community college in rose berg, oregon. im joined by matt bennett, co-founder of third way and the founder and director of americans for gun safety. anita cume mar from mclatchy and everyone what, do you think? i think the fi...

Back now live on msnbc. another big headline from that senate intelligence hearing. nations top intelligence officers all agreeing that russia will keep meddling in future u.s. elections. >> we had then and continue to have now grave concerns about the accuracy of the memorandum because of omissions. we provided thousands of documents that were very sensitive. and lots and lots of briefings. its very hard for anybody to distill that down to 3 1/2 pages. >> robert costa, msnbc political analyst. ...

Jon. >> jon: bipartisan deal to help the so-called dreamers struggles to gain footing in congress as lawmakers today vote on short term funding to keep the government open past this friday. immigration is key to the vote. the proposal stops short on president trumps primary demand. >> i have to give it to senator coons and mccain congratulations. it takes a special kind of person to write a bill that is worse than graham-durbin. they did it. you have to have a border wall and security package. >...

Third way. take us into the mind of lawmakers. how are they going to be reacting publicly and privately to this? we know the president loves to say, the russia situation is a hoax. thus far this year, when you look at the gop, they kind of like want to ignore the russia situation because theyve had, we just got taxes through. lets focus on policy. can they continue to focus on policy when youve got jeff sessions being questioned by robert mueller? >> it is important to remember that lawmakers ha...

U.s. attorney general under president clinton. he is now a professor at ucsd school of political science. and mieke eoyang vice president for national security program at third way. harry litman, i want you to take us into the world of the special prosecutor, special prosecutors, when a book like "fire and fury" comes out, and steve bannon is quoted at length speculating about possible crimes and misdemeanors of the trump circle, is that something the special prosecutor grabs, starts reading and...