the affairs of other countries. it s part and parcel for what they have done for many years. there is a feeling on their part they are simply retaliating. this blame us, blame the united states for meddling in their neighbor when ukraine and the ballotics and georgia and so forth. and even the election of vladimir putin. they blame hillary clinton for rousting out protesters in the streets. they said that was hillary clinton personally doing that. that s one reason why you saw them take off after her in last year s election. it is deja vu. it s surreal seeing it now on this end as opposed to that end. that does not mean there is necessarily links with the trump people. that s still something that s an uncertain part for us. we are still waiting for real conclusions by investigators on that. vivian i m guessing the sunday morning shows will be something to watch. we may have some democrats actually passing out from hyper ventilation over this. it started today.
this plays out. even with sergey lavrov coming to down this week a lot of reporters asked him what do you think of the firing of james comey and he joked and said oh, my god was he fired? he kind of blew it off but i m sure a number of foreign leaders overseas are going to be asked because there are a lot of eyes on this situation. russia and the united states have been basically in a struggle for power, especially in the middle east, for many, many years now. the syria situation is a very significant one and on the mind of a lot of people. a lot of people want the know is he going to give russia a free pass or not? this is not something that is just impacting washington or the united states. all eyes around the world on this issue and everybody is going to be asking about it. three terrific journalists to start us off late on a friday night as we put trump administration week 16 in the books. peter, vivian, matthew, thank you all for coming on with us
micolle wallace played the clip. that i can t talk about. i won t talk about that. all i want is for comey to be honest. i m sure he will be, i hope. you reacted in real time. i m not going to talk about that. you think this is a very serious moment right there. i do. it s very striking. it s been 40 years since we had a president that we knew of anyway who wasrd recording on any regular basis, tape recording his conversations. there is a reason why other presidents haven t done it. because it didn t work out well for richard nixon, obviously. the idea that he is putting out there is either he is in fact taping conversations with the fbi director of all people or he is bluffing or misleading in order to intimidate somebody who might have conferring that he considers to be damaging i guess. either scenario is stunning i think for any white house. vivian, this would appear to be a second straight interview done perhaps outside the authority and track of the press shop in the west
three terrific journalists to start us off late on a friday night as we put trump administration week 16 in the books. peter, vivian, matthew, thank you all for coming on with us tonight. coming up after our next break, jim comey in his own words and in the eyes of his coworkers will be joined by two former colleagues of his when the 11th hour continues. hey allergy muddlers
elliot necessary found it so hard the believe that he would have reassured the president that he is somehow not under investigation note once, and certainly not three times. let s bring our kickoff panel on the, the veteran new york times chief white house correspondent peter baker is with us, who happens to be our newly minted msnbc political analyst. vivian solana, and matthew nussbaum. good evening to you all. peter, i was watching you on live television slight after 4:00 p.m. eastern time.