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the barack obama website outlining how the president will get to the all-important 270 electoral votes. nbc keeping close track on all of this and joining us live from the nbc washington bureau is the senior political director, mark murray. thanks for being with us. >> thanks. >> as we look at your map and look at the math right now youre saying that the edge is with the democrats. let me again repeat numbers. the new electoral scorecard courtesy of your network, nbc, barack obama 227,...

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Acknowledged in an ef den tear proceedings in manhattan yesterday donald trumps in-house lawyer, michael cohen, made audio recordings of some of his conversations. and today national public radio correspondent tim mack released on mpr his audio recording of a threatening phone call he received from michael cohen about a story that tim mack was writing during the presidential campaign for the daily beast about donald trumps first wife and mother of his first three children who testified under oat...

Different than they have in the wake of previous donald trump/white house crises. the republican chair of the house oversight committee jason chaffetz sent a letter to the fbi tonight asking for this comey memo. he said tonight he does have subpoena power. and according to tim mack of the daily beast, at a dinner held in his honor tonight, senator john mccain said, quote, i think weve seen this movie before. i think it appears at a point where its of watergate size and scale. the shoes continue ...

Been quite so vocal. >> mr. speaker, any comment on the trump story? >> how are you doing? good to see you. >> are you reading the story? >> im reading something about -- >> that is not entirely representative. other republicans are sounding different than they have in the wake of previous donald trump/white house crises. the republican chair of the house oversight committee jason chaffetz sent a letter to the fbi tonight asking for this comey memo. he said tonight he does have subpoena power. a...

Playing golf. i have a place that. that costs almost nothing because its hundreds of acres and security and they dont have to close up streets, et cetera, et cetera. i like to do that as much as possible. >> lets bring in tonights panel. john dean, former white house counsel during the nixon administration. selena is a defecty, and tim mack from the dily beast. im going to come to you first sabrina. he goes to a safe space, fox news, donald trump does, to talk about the same things he has been t...

Been able to get much done even with republican control. >> what they failed to do is bring in a staff that really knows what they are doing. there are a lot of people in washington who understand how the system works. they didnt hire people of that caliber or that nature. they are paying the price. they have not filled any of the subcabinet posts where they can generate a lot of activity within these agencies and departments. so its a total incompetent is what we are seeing from mr. trump. and ...

>> lets bring in tonights panel. john dean, former white house counsel during the nixon administration. sabrina siddiqui, and tim mack from the daily beast. im going to come to you first sabrina. he goes to a safe space, fox news, donald trump does, to complain about the same things he has been talking about the last 99 days. reading the transcript of that, before watching it -- what do you think is going on with donald trump at this point? >> i think this is a president as we know who is obsess...

They are paying the price. they have not filled any of the subcabinet posts where they can generate a lot of activity within these agencies and departments. so its total incompetence is what were seeing from mr. trump. and it should be no surprise that he is accomplishing nothing. i think what he likes about the job is the attention on him. he doesnt like to have to succeed in the job. he just likes being in the spotlight. >> yeah, clearly. and tim, you know, he keeps on calling the russian inve...