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MSNBCW MSNBC Live March 11, 2017

Push for the health care plan. Its home to senator rand paul, one of the opponents of the health care measure. Heres President Trump in his morning weekly address. Through seven long years of botched rollins, soaring costs, canceled plans, and bureaucratic mandates, americans have called out for relief. And relief is what we are determined to give them. If we do nothing, millions more innocent americans will be hurt and badly hurt. So fallout this morning over the justice departments sudden firing of the 46 remaining u. S. Attorneys hired by previous administrations. It happened yesterday afternoon when the acting Deputy Attorney general called the federal prosecutors asking for immediate resignations. A source tells nbc that one of the u. S. Attorneys initially found out he was losing his job through media reports. One of the president s key supporters in congress is taking his wiretapping claims a sfep further. Heres what steve king told my colleagues yesterday. What we do suspect strongly is that general flynn was wiretapped. We believe that President Trump was wire trapped in his conversation or, excuse me, wiretapped in his conversation with the president of mexico, wiretapped again in his conversation with the Prime Minister of australia. And weve got the fairly definitive stories about the fisa warrants being requested. Those things seem to be factual, but we actually dont have any facts to work with on this. Neither the president nor the white house have provided proof of wiretapping. Trey dowdy, one of the members of the House Intel Committee this morning, on what to expect from its wide ranging investigation. I would encourage all of your viewers were going to start the evidentiary process on march 20th. So have an open mind on all facets of this from the interference to the influence to our american response to it but also the leaks. Want to go to the white house. Kelly odonnell is standing by. Whats the white house doing to help as we have watched in the last hour Vice President mike pence leave for kentucky and the goal of getting this Health Care Bill off the ground . Reporter hes departed washington for what you could call a Public Engagement over the health care law. The white house isnt saying this visit is exclusively about the health care law, but kentuckys governor issued a statement before this visit today saying he was encouraged by potential the white house has suggested for some changes to the republican version of this health care overhaul. Changes are something that paul ryan is very concerned about because of some of the strict requirements in trying to pass this legislation with democrats not being supportive. Pen mike pence on the road today. The president has no Public Events but he, too, has been having these personal meetings with lawmakers trying to persuade them. Of course it comes at a time when we see the white house still has some controversies to deal with but eve an bit of good news. The president is flexing his boardroom skills to pitch an obamacare overhaul. This is the time were going to get it done. Were working together. We have some great results. Reporter hampered by resistance from some conservatives, Vice President pence has been making his own rounds. We move beyond the failed policies of obamacare. Reporter to different groups to push the Republicans Health insurance plan. Were going to have an orderly transition to a Better Health care system. Reporter from health care to jobs. Remember this campaign bravado . I am going to be the greatest jobs president that god ever created. Remember that. Reporter back then, he discredited government job figures. Dont believe those phony numbers. When you hear 4. 9 , 5 unemployment. Reporter but suddenly friday those same Labor Department statistics had newfound credibility when President Trumps first month in office showed a trop in unemployment. Specht sean spicer revelled in the contradiction. I talked to the president prior to this and he said to quote him very clearly, they may have been phony in the past, but its very real now. Reporter a dose of good humor sorely needed in the Trump White House after new disclosures about ousted National Security adviser michael flynn. Last fall, flynn worked several months for a foreignowned turkish company. His Consulting Firm paid more than 500,000. The press secretary acknowledged flynn had provided some information to the trump transition team. Al personal lawyer of general flynns contacted a transition lawyer and asked for guidance on what he should or should not do. Reporter but the white house insisted it had not known flynns consulting client was helping the turkish government. Spicer said the retired general submitted documentation for his outside work but did not register as a Foreign Agent until this past week. You wouldnt know that until he filede didnt file until two days ago so therefore nobody would have known that because he hadnt filed as a Foreign Agent until two days ago. Reporter once during the transition and then again with a white house counsels office. They say flynn through his attorney was asking how he needed to deal with this issue of his outside business and was told by the transition and later again by the counsels office, according to the white house, that this was a personal business matter and he had to follow the law but they could not give him specific legal advice. So that raises the question, thomas, what did they actually know, had they been given some sort of a heads up about his outside work and at the same time the white house says that the president and Vice President were not aware of this turkish connection. Kelly, great to see you. Thank you. New developments in the controversy over President Trumps wiretapping claims. We have the Ranking Member of the House Intel Committee, adam schiff, telling politico he believes the claims will be debunked on march 20th in an open hearing. That statement coming amid continued calls for the release of evidence to support the claims. Heres a portion of Peter Alexanders report last night on nbc nightly news. Nearly a full week after his explosive accusations that president obama tapped his phones, President Trump still ignoring calls to no provid any proof. Mr. President the house Intelligence Committee, republicans and democrats asking the department of justice and fbi if they have any evidence to back up the president s claim. Were going to put to rest this bogus claim from the president that he was illegally wiretapped by his predecessor. Reporter it comes as the entire Senate Intelligence committee has been granted access to the most sensitive materials from the investigation into russian interference in the election. An unprecedented move. We have Peter Alexander reporting, givings aing us an u the moment where the reporting stand right now. I want to get into the details of this with a member of the house Intelligence Committee and the house judiciary committee. Good to have you with me. We heard your colleague say its a bogus claim that president Obama Wiretapped trump tower, that we do not have any evidence from the department of justice. Is there any evidence that youve seen of wiretapping for trump tower or his campaign . Good morning, thomas. Thanks for having me back. Zero evidence. And these are just smoke bombs that the president and steve king and others are trying to put into an investigation where the dots continue to connect. And what they are showing are very deep personal, political, and business ties between donald trump and people on his team and russia. When you say smoke bomb, kai kaye i dont say usually creates that type of smoke and for others it creates opportunity. Theres new information from one of your colleague, congressman steve king, who is now adding on to certain claims about wiretapping and eaches dropping. Take a listen to this. What we do suspect strongly is that general flynn was wiretapped. We believe that President Trump was wire trapped in his conversation or excuse me, wiretapped in his conversation with the president of mexico, wiretapped fen in his conversation with the Prime Minister of staaustralia. And we have the fairly definitive stories about the fisa warrants being requested. Those things seem to be factual, but we ak humly dont have any facts to work with on this. We know that the white house was very upset for the calls between the president and mexicos president pena nieto and also the Prime Minister from australia, turnbull. The fact that those calls went sideways and it became public knowledge, the white house said they would get to the bottom of those leaks. What can you clear up beyond innuendo . Because right now there are smoke bombs coming from the right about this, but also from the left that want to point a finger that, you know, hasnt, you know, just out of pure defense, you havent proven the point yet of what youre trying to say either. Thomas, when i hear comments like we believe or we suspect, to me that means we have no evidence. Were just kind of winging it. You raise a fair question because right now we have only found deep political, personal, and financial ties, and the question that americans have is do these ties extend to working with the rugs as they were attacking us. Isle pull out one piece of evidence we certainly want to investigate more in the house Intelligence Committee. June 2016 its revealed that russia is indeed attacking us through this interference campaign. One month later, carter page, who President Trump cites as a Foreign Policy Senior Adviser on the campaign, gets permission from the campaign and travels over to moscow. Now, its very interesting that a Senior Adviser to the trump team would visit moscow at a time its known across our country that russia is attacking us. Youve also launched a website and a specific page, and i think people that have looked at ancestry. Com might get confused by this because its the links. You give all these different links of the people within trump and his team and the potential connections to whether its the ambassador to the u. S. Sergey kisly kislyak, or vladimir putin, russian business interests, and certain people within the trump orbit that have had contact havent proven theyre all related yet, thomas. Were just working on the personal, political, and business ties. Its a living, working website because as we see, its updated as far as info on this every day. Its being revealed just as we speak that roger stone, another adviser to the Trump Campaign, had extensive dealings with the hacking team that was releasing documents during the campaign to embarrass Hillary Clintons team. So we are encouraging people to go through the website, understand why russia is not our friend, understand the ties between trump and russia, understand how positions have changed within the trump team since meeting with russia, and then of course understand the evidence behind the interference campaign. We tell people what you can do about it is ask people to support ask members of congress to support the protect our democracy act which calls for an independent commission. A lot of people would say, well, what the heck was everybody doing in 2016 when this was going on and why werent proper alarm bells going off then if certain democrats are to be believed today . We have the fbi director james comey, he held a closeddoor briefing on thursday with the gang of eight, the top democratic and republican lawmakers from the house and senate there. Have you been hearing any information that came out thats come out of that meeting from your colleagues . What i know is on march 20th, director comey is going to testify before the house Intelligence Committee in our russia investigation. One of the first questions i know members of our side will be asking is what you brought up at the top of the hour was President Trump wiretapped . Now its a ridiculous question because we might as well ask him about roswell and who was the real o. J. Killer but it is important for the American People to put this to bed once and for all and we expect director comey will say no, that is a destructive claim, that did not happen, and hopefully hell shed more light on the investigation into any u. S. Persons who had prior tie if that did exist with russia while they were attacking us. Do you think that the testimony just from james comey alone is going to be enough to reveal, you know, whats we have congressman adam schiff saying he was the former british spy, christopher steele, the author of an unverified dossier about the president to testify as well. This is someone that the fbi was going to pay for his work. They ultimately ended up not paying him for this work. Yeah. This will not be the first and last hearing on this. We expect many hearings and wed like many witnesses, including christopher steele, who wrote the dossier. Whats interesting about the toss yay is that we have not seen at least in open reporting that dossier discredited, but we have also not seen many parts of it validated. So he would be a very key witness as would carter page, roger stone, members of trumps security team, who traveled with the candidate or donald trump in 2013 when he was in moscow for the Miss Universe competition. These are all people who i think would be interesting to talk to and shed more light on the personal, political, and financial ties that existed with russia. What makes you think theyre going to tell the truth, though . Weve seen from certain people within this atmosphere of donald trump whether its Jeff Sessions not remembering having, you know, time with the Russian Ambassador, the u. S. One, sergey kislyak, or the fact that there are certain members of the team, whether its mike flynn, who was not transparent about being a Foreign Agent, being paid by turkey during his time advising the president prior to his election. What makes you think that you can really get the truth out of certain people youd like to have go under oath . Thomas, when i was a prosecutor, i would tell juries that we actually sometimes learned just as much when we prove that somebody is not telling the truth. When we saw that mike flynn had lied to the Vice President and Jeff Sessions had lied twice under oath about prior contacts, thats a consciousness of guilt. They were asked about important dealings with russia and both of them denied it and then later it was revealed. That actually shows that they were attempting to cover up their prior contacts. And that i think kind of is another stream that leads to this wider body of water, a lot of the questions around personal, political, financial ties with russia. Again, as you pointed out, right now there are a lot of dots that are connecting and what the American People want to know is were any of these individuals working with russia as they attacked us. That investigation begins on march 20th. All right. Simplest explanation is usually the correct one. Thats right. Well wait for march 20th. Congressman eric swalwell, great to have you on. Millions across the u. S. Are bundling up after a big swing in the temperatures. Theyre going from hot to cold. Weve got record highs and winter storms overnight. Joining me, msnbc meteorologist bonnie schneider. Bonnie, explain what were seeing and when theres any good news in sight for next week. March 20th for spring, but thats not next week. We have to get through the rest of winter. Bitterly cold, thomas. We have negative numbers for our current windchill right now. It feels like its negative 15 in boston. Youre getting ready not only for cold weather but snow. Well be watching for highs today that will be cold across the great lakes and the northeast, but two areas to keep an eye on for the weekend for potential nasty weather and snow. Storms in alabama wapd watch out for snow in the western piedmont of south carolina. Really cold temperatures as well across much of the South Central appalachians. As we look towards minneapolis, we could see snow impact your monday morning commute, but overall this isnt going to be too bad. A bigger storm is emerging as we go through monday through wednesday, especially tuesday. And this could be a big noreaster as low pressure develops and bombs out off the coast. Were likely to see rain, wind, snow, the whole thing, and even heavy amounts of snow for interior new england, possibly along the i95 corridor, also looking at the coastal threat for flooding and gusty winds. Going to be big news for monday and tuesday, a monumental storm headed our way. All right. Dont put away the snow boots just yet. Bonnie, thanks so much. Appreciate it. Coming up, we have the accusations of duck and cover. Why are there questions over next weeks asia trip for the secretary of state Rex Tillerson . Especially since hes leaving the media behind . Various shouting heigh ho its off to work we go woman on the gulf coast,

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