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Michael flynn. End the investigation. Im joined noud by ken dilanian with nbc news it, Natasha Bertrand who covers is the russia probe with the atlantic and jill winebanks, all three of you, i want to know what you make of these two witnesses being called, comey already and sessions very soon. And then the president. Chris, what i think this shows is mueller is accelerating sat ob struskz justice aspect of the probe. The three pillars of this investigation, it looks like the Obstruction Case is ...

Was just some pundit on a fox morning show making stuff up, but this is the president making stuff up. the president also said that construction of his new border wall is under way, as we have shown you time and time again with our reporters on the border, it is not. theyre repairing existing fencing. he said his policy of separating parents and children was a continuation of the obama administration policy. that is misleading. it was done on rare occasions during the obama and george w. bush ad...

Was just some pundit making stuff up. but this is the president making stuff up. the president also said construction of his new border wall is under way. as weve shown you time and time again, it is not. theyre repairing existing fencing. he said his policy of separating parents and children was a continuation of the obama administration policy. that is misleading. it was done on rare occasions during the obama and george w. bush administrations, absolutely. the trump administration made it wid...

Trump, you are familiar with what the president has referred to i think in the art of the deal, or maybe a different book, truthful hyperbole. he says something thats not a fact, but the point hes making a clear. is that not possible in terms of whats going on for some of these claims? >> i think its related to that, and the ghost writer for that book said he was struck, he said more than any person hed ever seen, trump has the ability to believe that what he says is true or at least partially t...

Welcome back to "hardball." over the past few days, president trump has remained out of the limelight, the place he loves to be, the limelight. he finally resurfaced late last night spiking the football hours after the shutdown of the federal government ended. trump tweeted big win for republicans as democrats gave on absolutedown. caved on it. its not the first time hes taken credit for something he actually didnt do. here he is earlier today. >> were bringing business back to the united states...

>> right. >> and set the whole thing back that here is john kelly admitting, in trump world you never admit when you are doing -- using, quote, truthful hyperbole. >> if i were a democrat, i would try to buy trump off on the wall. because you could give him $5 billion or whatever for the wall and that -- that money is not actually going to be spent on building anything for a very long time. you could take congress and take the white house before anything happens. >> im with you. >> and the daca ...

Change some of that reality by just insisting it over and over and were seeing that again here. >> he wrote about it in his book "truthful hyperbole." hes not afraid to say things that are not true but he believes if he says them emphatically, people will believe them. thank you guys. joining me now is "washington post" opinion writer jennifer reuben and matt welch from reason magazine. guys, welcome. appreciate you being here. donald trump also in that interview was trying to distance himself...