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Night. >> theres no question that the president and steve bannon had a tight relationship during the stretch run of the campaign, although they knew each other before that. and certainly in the first few months of this administration when bannon was a power player in the west wing. it faded over time, but that relationship did not end. they continued to speak even after bannon was fired or left the white house this summer. and i think youre right about this president. hes staffed differently. ai...

Leadership. for me, this written document, which i think is not that bad will only hold up and be as good until the first tweet. i did not think there was a whole lot in that speech that i liked. i know that its surprising. i think the overall strategy. again, parts of it takes a conventional look at the threats we face. his speech was focused on a whole host of other things, and it did not lay out, i dont think, beyond slogans how we will look at north korea. >> katie: the documented. >> marie:...

Exist in america, because we have laws. i want to make one point about the situation with russia, a comment that this guy made. it is ridiculous. donald trump is ready to deal with russia. in fact, he initiated policies that were don pro- russian, and that democrats are silent. this is a guy that will help america in any aspect, but it will a pro american policy. >> katie: they do acknowledge russia and china are adversaries trying to redo the world order, and they do admit, marie, the russians ...

>> they done know what he will say or do. a list of tweet-like sentences he could bring up with putin. it will include russias efforts to disrupt the 2016 election to the presidents benefit. efforts that are now the subject of a criminal investigation involving some of the presidents closest aides and associates. im joined by the msnbc reporter. and lawrence, the former secretary of defense now with the center for american progress. >> describe how preparation would normally be going into a meet...

General. michael, last word to you, 60 seconds left. he said, clearly, if there was no cause to fire bob mueller, it would not matter to me what anybody said, noferdz, he would not do it. >> if he were given an order to fire him without cause, hed quit before he executed that order. but he said something also that i think was very important, and it goes back to the testimony he had and the conversation with senator harris, where she was asking about his independence. i think he was pretty clear ...

>> peter baker i trust you are not a lawyer either. but can you explain to the audience how his tweets hurt his case exactly? >> well among other things you know he uses the phrase politicly correct, watered down version to describe the revised travel ban to use his phrase that he signed when the first got got blocked in court. you know that undercuts him because it tells the judges that in fact that is not any different than what he originally intended. and it allows people willing it to make t...

Politically correct watered down version to describe the revised travel ban to use his phrase that he signed when the first one got blocked in court. and you know, that undercuts him because it tells the judges that in fact this is not any different than what he originally intended and allows people who are challenging it to make the case he just dressed it up. its just as bad legally and therefore you should treat it like the first one. any lawyer is going the argue will tell you they dont want...

Comey can say himself, but the memos are kind of a written document, contemporaneous notes, which are admissible in legal proceedings. and not seeing those, particularly if its a decision coming from the justice department, that would be tell welco ing, as well. >> richard, now that jim comey is a private citizen, what could he say that he couldnt say before as the head of the fbi. does it actually change things? >> i think hell be freeing to talk about what happened in his private situations wi...

Memos that he wrote. >> obviously, coyles memos will play a big role in this. i understand they have not been provided to congress yet. and they dont havent expect to see them before the -- are they actually going to see the memos? is comey going to be able to read from the memos? >> it looks less and less likely. the republican chairman, richard burr, and the ranking democrat, mark warner, were asked about this again today. and they say they asked the acting fbi director, andrew mccabe, about t...

This will be used against him in the supreme court. >> peter baker, i trust you are not a lawyer either, but can you explain to our audience how his tweets hurt his case exactly? >> well, among other things, you know, he uses the phrase politically correct watered down version to describe the revised travel ban to use his phrase that he signed when the first one got blocked in court. and you know, that undercuts him because it tells the judges that in fact this is not any different than what he ...