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The trump administration, the many controversies it seems to be piling up. joining me for our daily fix is chris cillizza, msnbc contributor and founder of "the washington post" fix blog. is it bing crosby, accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative? >> yeah, i mean look hes the white house chief of staff. hes not going to say yeah, man, things are going really bad. its his job to say that and look, what they have done well is take a lot of action. how those actions panned out, the approach...

Controversy surrounding him and his administration. very similar to things he did during the campaign. >> the press honestly is out of control. the level of dishonesty is out of control. >> unloading on his critics. >> i turn on the tv and open the newspapers and i see stories of chaos. yet it is the exact opposite. this administration is running like a fine tuned machine. >> blaming others i inherited a mess. >> holding court for more than an hour, the president defending michael flynn fired th...

Naturally beautiful results® im not ranting and raving. im telling you. youre dishonest people. this is fake news put out by the media. i inn hherited a mess. >> that was president trump with an extraordinary condemnation of virtually all of his critics that has people asking what could happen next? welcome back to "early start." im alison kosik. >> im miguel marquez. it is 29 minutes past the hour. this morning, everything has th white house is running smoothly. fine tuned machine as the pre...

>> president trump: the prince has become so dishonest that if we dont talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the american people. this administration is running like a fine tuned machine, despite the fact that i cant get my cabinet approved. the leaks are real. you are the one that wrote about them and reported to them. the leaks are real. you know what they say, you saw it. the leaks are absolutely real. the news is fake. because so much of the news is fake. >> just for the rec...

Objections to him but now the fact that within a matter of five days 3,000 pages of documentation that his office was illegally withholding about communications between him and oil and gas companies, those are about to be released. how can the republicans possibly defend voting on him tomorrow when some time in the next five days were getting a 3,000 page document dump on him on the subject hes now being elevated to the federal government to oversee. so the president today held a press conferenc...

Quickly as possible and faces the stark reality, its very difficult to get done. he talks about a tax plan in place but does he really have one and can the senate and house and white house get together quickly to get one together? the republicans on capitol hill when they see these tweets, specifically in the morning, they have to reconfigure their day. everything gets thrown up in the air and quite frankly, while mitch mcconnell might publicly say that he likes what hes doing, the bottom line i...

Vice-president, very heavy hitters. so, short list and they shouldnt be nominating themselves. the white house should be approaching people saying, do you want this? >> the day of phil mudd. we were like what? so, that aside. mark preston, youre watching this go down. such chaos. is this just a data point and a larger graph? >> its a finally tuned machine. i dont know what youre talking about chaos. this is not chaos. bottom line 50,000 feet, the administration is moving along. ill preface this ...

This administration is running like a fan tuine tuned machine despite the fact i cant get the cabinet approved. >> reporter: and he is making news on russia. saying he is not aware of advisers in contact with russian officials during the campaign. that runs contrary to what we are hearing at cnn from sources who say there are former campaign officials who were in constant contact with russian officials throughout the campaign. in the press conference, president trump continued to speak glowingly...

Respected military leader. he is currently at lockheed martin. had a long and storied career in the navy se.e.a.l.s. this was very important for trump. he picked him to immediately replace general flynn, and the circumstances of him turning this down are what? >> well, were still trying to find that out and find the context of the actual conversation and why he decided not to accept the offer. i think we need to step back and look at the administration as a whole. this isnt uncommon necessarily....

Events. the president offered some gentle criticism of the media. >> the press has become so dishonest that if we dont talk about it, we are doing a tremendous disservice to the american people. >> tom: trump at one point singled out cnns coverage of his ministry can. >> the story after story after story is bad. i won, i won. and the other thing, chaos, there is a zero chaos. this is a fine tuned machine. >> tom: its a fine-tuned machine. later, a cnn reporter tried to ask a follow-up question. ...