Weapons, but it was an okay briefing. What do you mean it was okay . You didnt really learn much . I it was okay. And good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington as we now learn that the pentagon expecter general is investigating michael flin who has Foreign Government payments, eli jah cummings firig back at the white house. The white house refused, absolutely refused, to produce even a single document, not a single document in response to the bipartisan document request that i sent with our republican chairman. Sean spicer made all kinds of excuses about how hard it would be to comply with our request. Come on, man. That excuse, in the white house will not fly. Nbc National CorrespondentPeter Alexander is at the white house. I want to get to this, why is the white house saying they have no pairp work, theyre not going to comply on this, it is a bipartisan request. We asked for any specific statement they have in response to the new information today. We learned about the Inspector General now in the comments made. Some guidance, some form of a statement will be provided in the course of the day. Perhaps during sean spicers briefing a short time from now. They have been distancing themselves from the former National Security advisor saying saying a lot of this stuff has been looked into before, but he was certainly a member of the administration. It is up to each individual member of this administration to fill out the forms as they are kind cased and to tell the truth in the course of that process. Theyre just trying to push back on this narrative . We understand that Jason Chaffetz is saying his Ranking Member broke protocol by sharing the d. O. D. Documents without checking. It could be a move to try to get them to subpoena the tumts. So i think there will be a lot of back and forth on this. Lets get to taxes, you have been looking through this, staying up all night studying that onepager, but more seriously, how do they explain it is a tax plan when they have no details . I think they are not framing this as a plan so much as is broad parameters. E rhetoric, their views on is, into a bill that we should all recognize is not going to happen perhaps not until late summer. Health care has to happen first. A Senior Advisor as conceded to me here, it is notable this lack of specificity is so significant. This is really a pr pitch, not only. Theyre trying to overhaul the tax code with a onepage outline that is wuchb page long and only uses seven minutes in it. What is notable is they need more people involved in the process. They need other groups to play ball. This is aspirational, and they hope that nothing can really be judged until you have more specifics. It was striking how often yesterday we heard from gary cohen and Steve Manchin and they said we just dont have those details right now. They feel like they started to address the conversation and get it going. Peter alexander, thank you so much. This morning our friends at nbcs first read gave us a reality check as we approach the first 100 days, first, the sales tax cut that was the biggest cut ever. Details tba perhaps not until august. Health care, a major breakthrough for house republicans. Conservative republicans in the Freedom Caucus are now endorsing that, but it is leading to defexs that are worried about the states provisions. The president was planning to drop out of the north American Free trade green as he promised in the Campaign Calling the leaders last night to say if they negotiate they would stick with the deal. Joining me now, andy card, former chief of staff to president george w. Bush. Welcome both to you. Two experienced pros. You not only were in the bush 43 white house and secretary of transportation for bush 41, but you were a lower level aid in the reagan white house. I was, yes. We want to talk about what he did when he proposed tax refort back in 1985. It was a tax overhaul. Takes a long time. This was reagans rollout. An Oval Office Address for 20 minutes. Lets take a larger working family, a husband, wife about and four children earning 26,000 a year. Right away under our plan, the value of that familys personal exemptions is 12,000. Add to this the new higher standard deduction, and if they save an ira, they could be lowering it by 18,000. They would pay only a 1200 tax. Again, an effective tax rate of less than 5 . The comparison is stunning. It is a different time president reagan came to office having been a governor he knew how to invite people to be part of the solution. He laid the ground work with some of the specifics that he could then take and put into an dress them. President trump, as a governing leader, it is a broad outlike, but it is also an inif i vags for kevin brady and the wanes and means committee, for them to get engaged, put some meat on the bones, knowledge into the process, to come up with a real tax reform system. He is inviting people to be part of the solution. He really laid a bear outlike of a tax plan, but it was really an invitation to come and be at the table and produce something that will take us in the right direction. But when he signed the tax bill, he was thanking them, was there any democratic input that he didnt reach out to republicans, and ternly not democrats. I think youre being very charitable to what we saw yesterday. I think it is hard not to look at this in light of Everything Else the administration has done every the past 100 days. Things are being put out with no consultation. They are not doing their home work and this is hard work. There is a reason the tax plan has not been overhauled because it takes hard work to bring people together to work out these details. Rather than doing the hard work, the president was so interested in checking something off and getting a potential win by putting out a bear bones plan that they could not do any of that work. I think it would be nice if the president took the time to governor rather than checking things off, the promises he made, and unable to let me ask you about nafta, how will be the base respond to him now saying i talked to the mexican leader, saying well negotiate, it and not rip it up. Im encouraged to see that he is working with people now. But that doesnt mean you can just throw them away. There are consequences that the president didnt anticipate, he is learning those consequences, im glad, and we should be celebrating that he is not stuck on stupid. Let me ask you both about mike flynn. The state department is looking into it, but there is a little dysfunction on the oversight side. They are breaking up over the release on these. He was National Security advisor for 24 days and he did not disclose payments, and now there are suggests by politico that the Turkish Company he worked for was close to putin. This is one of the tragedies of what happened. The transition process did not do the vetting home work if is about the president s ability to do his job. It is about protecting the country. The president wanted people around him that could earn confidence and respect. So we learned a lesson from it. I was lased with general mcmaster. Lets give them credit for having recognizing a problem and changing the nation and people. Yeah, i mean i think this is serious business, and they are claiming executive privilege because who knows what is in there. Particularly because the president has fired this guy. He took steps to address it. But they have to be forth com g coming this was the National Security advisor of the United States. And a big wake up call for everybody in the white house. Im glad it happened very, very early. This is among the most serious that we have seen, but every white house learns the vetting mistakes. That is great with sean spicer. I wish they would call him up and get some council. And the fitzwater fellows are being celebrated today. He is just a rock solid noble public service. Coming up, golden state warriors, californias attorney general, vowing to fight the president on the sanctuary citys threat. vo more doing chores for mom per roll more doing chores for dad per roll more earning something you love per roll bounty is more absorbent, so the roll can last 50 longer than the leading ordinary brand. So you get more life per roll. Bounty the quicker picker upper. I dont know why i didnt get screened a long time ago. I kept putting it off. What was i thinking . Ok, mr. Jones. 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Mr. Attorney general, with all due respect to the secretary, i would prefer to reference to people as undocumented immigrants, but in any case, what would be the impact of this new office . What is the impact . I have no idea. And theyre going they have been doing a lot of fun things. What they do is according to the law. Secretary kelly is the secretary of the department of homeland security. Whatever they do, make sure it doesnt violate the constitution and they allow us in california to do our Public Safety and general welfare the way they think is best. What options legally do you have to fight the sanctuary cities option . As you see we have had many options. And the Trump Administrations overreach. Rather than focus on Immigration Enforcement where they are targeting those that are most dangerous. They made it possible for california and other states to provide the kind of Public Safety they expect. When you break the bond of cooperati cooperation. 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Why could this not have been done on capitol hill where you have a secure room rather than in a gjerry rigged auditorium i an Office Building in the white house that had to be retro fitted . Of course it could have been done just a as easily here capitol hill most of the briefings i have ever participated in were done here. The last would use the room at the white house. This was an awkward setting. We did get to hear in detail from the chairman of the joint chiefs from the secretary of state, the one add on was President Trump who came and spoke briefly to us. I think it is a common challenge. Getting china to take its responsibility for having supported and facilitated. The hundreds of thousands of americans in south korea to the tens of thousands of american servicemen and women, and potentially to the american homeland. I think we should take is seriously and focus on trying to come up with a successful strategy. Is it your take away that were taking on more sanctions . More economic sanctions rather than preemptive military action . Prior to north korea doing anything more provocative. We are forward deploying more assets. And the Missile Defense system all to south korea and the waters off of south korea as a way of reassuring and being prepared to defend our allies in japan. We are going to pursue a diplomatic strategy. I think the Trump Administration needs to reck size an irresponsible proposal. It is an announced strategy. This is exactly the moment andrea when we need the foreign service. Engaging with our allies and potential partners in order to make this a focus for countries around the world. Secretary Hillary Clinton did a job of martialing the Nuclear Weapons. Making north korea a pariah and engaging a response. That means we need more, not less resources. There is reporting in the New York Times right now that the new secretary of state is not planning to nominate key positions. Right now he has a nomination for a deputy secretary, but no one else has even been nominated. And that he is not planning to fill those flots until 2018. We have emerging or pressing problems in many places in the world. North korea, south china sea. We have meant of challenges as well as ones that we faced for years now like Irans Nuclear threat. It is prornt that we have a full complim