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That does it for us tonight. It is time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Sorry to eat your last 45 seconds. Its tough to watch. There are reports that said he was able to wave to people on the way out. He seemed to be coming back even when he was on the floor. Thats right. His aides and family both say he will be fine but obviously nobody likes to see that. We will be watching reports. Thank you, rachel. A new lawsuit could force President Trump to release his tax returns and finally revealing who he owes money to and other details because of the emoluments clause of the constitution. Laurence tribe is part of the lawsuit thats been brought about that clause. He will join us tonight. I wonder what its like when you are telling a kid about the story of George Washington cutting down the cherry tree and saying to his dad, i cannot tell a lie. I cut down the tree. Are kids still buying that story, or are they saying it wasnt a lie . It was a falsehood. I have a running war with the media. They are among the most dishonest human beings i know. This is off to a terrible start. This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period. I dont trust anyone who ends a sentence with the word period. Imagine if someone said, look, im a doctor, period. Our secretary gave alternate facts. They are not facts they are falsehoods. You are worried your country is in the hands of this unpredictable man. Relax, i got this. The framers wanted a president who had undivided loyalty to the american people. Whats your reaction to lawsuits today . Hes not going to release the tax return. We litigated it throughout the election. People didnt care. They voted for him. President trump, i did not vote for you. I want to be able to support you, but first i ask you support me. We have our work cut out for us. And its going to get harder before it gets easier. Our right to fight back. Fight back so we have now entered the president ial era of falsehoods and footnotes. Parents and teachers around the country who have been trying to teach kids to follow George Washingtons example of never telling a lie are now busy explaining to those kids what a falsehood is now that much of the news media has seemed to arrive at an informal agreement to call a lie a falsehood. This is a big step forward for those sections of the media that spent a couple of years now, or more than that, tweeting trump lies about president obamas birth as trump being trump. Major newspapers an the country started to use the word lie in reference to things trump and his staff were saying and now they seem to havelanded on the softer sounding falsehood. In some cases it is a more accurate description and in some less accurate. A falsehood is a statement that is untrue. You can pass along a falsehood not knowing it is untrue. In that case it wouldnt technically be a lie because the lie is a deliberate use of a falsehood with the intention to deceive. The word falsehood removes that intention. It allows the intention to remain a mystery. Heres one of the falsehoods President Trump delivered on saturday when he delivered the cia, the institution dedicated to operating falsehoods from facts. I made a speech. I looked out, it looked like a million, 1. 5 Million People. Now that is a falsehood. Donald trumpas never looked out a as a crowd as what he saw at his inauguration, he never tried to estimate such a crowd. And it was a relatively small turnout as far as inauguration crowds go. But it could have looked huge to him. Im sure. From where he was standing. Thats where the crowd looks biggest. But the same man who said he saw a million, 1. 5 Million People, also told you he saw this. I watched, when the World Trade Center came tumbling down and i watched in jersey city, new jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. I watched thousands and thousands of people. Now, we all know from absolute fact that he did not watch that because that never happened. Thousands and thousands of people cheering as that building was coming down. So we know thats a lie. Thats what donald trump looks like when hes lying. Now, im fine going along with the new convention of calling some of these things falsehoods, but when we know it is a lie,s if we call it a falsehood than we become the liar. Today the New York Times introduced something new to its coverage of the Trump Administration falsehoodhood. The times included two footnotes, one correcting something that White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said on saturday and another thing that the president said on saturday. In a lifetime of reading newspapers around the world, i have never once seen a footnote before in a newspaper. Falsehood correcting footnote might be the best new thing in the newspaper world for 2017. The footnote shows that the New York Times is thinking hd how to deal with the trump presidency. They know this is different. The times seems to be trying to come up with new rules for handling the flow of information from the Trump Administration that they have every right to expect based on the campaign will obtain an unprecedented level of falsehoods. Today sean spicer explained why he wasted his first appearance in the White House Press Briefing Room trying to push falsehoods about the size of the inauguration crowd that were instantly proven to be untrue. Its not just about a crowd size. Its about this constant, you know, hes not going to run, than if he runs hes going to rop drop out. No way he can win in pennsylvania, michigan, theres a constant theme to undercut the enormous support that he has. I think its unbelievably frustrating which enyou are told it is not big enough, not good enough. You cant win. A constant theme to undercut the enormous support that he has. Wow, its a good thing nothing like that happened to previous president s or we would have seen how frustratinged they get. Sean spicer is saying its okay to lash out with falsehoods from a white house podium when you are frustrated or demoralized. Okay. Lets compare this just to Donald Trumps immediate predecessor. When donald trump went on the today show and said he sent investigators to hawaii to investigate president obamas birth and you wont believe what they are finding, do you think that was frustrating for president obama . Frustrating for Michelle Obama . Maybe demoralizing for the obama children . Did president obama tweet about it . Did he say a word about it . Or did he process the years of donald trump lying about him and his birth with the fullest possible version of president ial grace and dignity. All that we could possibly expect from a president. Who probably was a little frustrated. The president s most recent falsehood, President Trumps most recent falsehood is a gem he delivered tonight, to a meeting of bipart congressional leaders at the white house where he explained to them the reason Hillary Clinton got millions more votes than he did was voter fraud, pure and simple. And that is how every trump supporter ive spoken to privately since the election has explained Hillary Clintons vote total to me. Who needs facts when your followers believe your falsehoods . Joining us now david corn Washington Bureau chief for mother jones and msnbc political analyst and washington columnist in for the boston globe and contributor to politico magazine. Just to work backwards from our most recent news report, here we have reports coming out of that discussion the president had with congressional leadership tonight where his full, straighton explanation for why Hillary Clinton got almost 3 million more votes than he did is just plain voter fraud. Of course not a shred of evidence. Is that a falsehood, or is that a lie . Well, i love your distinction between the two. I would say this is one of those cases where it speaks to sean spicers original point, which is the delegitimizeation. He is concerned about his legitimacy and doesnt like the fact people can say that Hillary Clinton got 3 million more votes than he did. He continues to repeat the thing that has no verification or evidence behind it or Illegal Immigrants voting and continues to say he won a landslide in the Electoral College, when we know it was one of the lowest Electoral College victories in history. You can say it is a falsehood in the sense that donald trump has convinced himself and believes it and it ties back to the point you are making about children and George Washington. I want to bring this up. For the womens march on saturday in washington, i went to observe and report and i brought along my fifth grade son. He pointed out to me one of the signs in the crowd that he liked that had George Washington saying i cannot tell a lie Richard Nixon saying i cant not tell the truth and donald trump saying i cannot tell the difference. It is a legitimate question. Can he tell the difference between the falsehoods or is he intentionally lying . Either way doesnt matter. Alternative facts are not true and we cannot be lulled in a to another version of reality. It is orwellian. How old did you say your son is . Fifth grader. His political education is way beyond mine in the fifth grade. Thats impressive. David corn, our nbc news reporting on what donald trump said at the white house has two sources confirming to nbc news that donald trump spent approximately the first ten minutes talking about this and about the vote totals and saying that between 3 million and 5 million illegals, that was his word, illegals, voted in the 2016 election. So in this country, where illegal voters cannot vote because they dont have acceptable i. D. S to certain states, somehow 5 million illegals, as he put it you can see he needs a number that is more than 3 million, i think, david because he needs to have he doesnt want a tie with Hillary Clinton. He needs to beat her by a couple of million. He can do that basic math. Take some comfort in that, lawrence. Your wonderful opening, you set up a dichotomy between lies and falsehoods. I think you got it right but there might be a third option, which is delusions. Im not being overly glib when i say that. He may really believe that he saw thousands of people protests, cheering on the 9 11 tragedy in jerse city, he may really believe there are 5 Million People because its convenient to believe this. He may really believe he wasnt making fun of a reporter. During one of the debates, Hillary Clinton said, you called Global Warming Climate Change a hoax created by the chinese. He said, no, i did not. That was exactly what he had tweeted. She was quoting him accurately. He may have believed he never said it. Maybe he forgot. So i think theres something about his processing of information, to maybe be charitable about it, that still leaves a lot of mystery. Its mystifying. When he goes to the cia headquarters, as he did on saturday, and says i have been on Time Magazine cover more than anybody. Well, he probably believes that even though it is not true. Its going to be a big problem for the media to cover this well and fairly. Lets take a look at the big moment in the alternative facts moment that happened this weekend on meet the press with chuck todd. Lets just look at this exchange with Kellyanne Conway. Answer the question of why the president asked the White House Press secretary to come out in front of the podium, for the first time, and utter a falsehood. Why did he do that that . It undermines the credibility of the White House Press office. Dont be overly dramatic about it, chuck. What you are saying is a falsehood and our press secretary gave alternative facts to that. Alternative facts. Four of the five fact he uttered, one thing he got four of five were not true. Alternative facts are not facts. Thefs falsehoods. Of all of the reviews you can give to chuck todd on meet the press, overly dramatic is the single most unfair are view chuck has ever gotten. He definitely stays under dramatic. But there are you are. I mean, chuck really hit it there with the alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods. He was completely right in calling that out and saying alternative facts arent facts. You cant just rename things. This i think is a real problem. When we talk about Donald Trumps tenuous attachment to the truth, i mean certainly the fact that he catapulted himself in to political prominence through the whole birther thing, promoting the lie that barack obama was not born in the United States, he continued all of these other falsehoods with have talked about, about claiming he had a landslide victory. I guess we shouldnt have expected the day he became president he was going to have a come to jesus moment with the truth. At the same time, we cant allow the Trump Administration to turn the watch dogs on the press. Sean spicer actually used the term were going to hold you accountable, you the media talk about accountability journalism we are going to hold you accountable. I say go ahead and hold us accountable and every administration before this one has had the perfect right and should call out unfru, unfair coverage. What you can not do is push back against factual coverage. This is where i agree with some of my colleagues that reporters that work in a authoritarian regime and that first briefing reminded me of the briefings i have been to in beijing. A lot of reporters who worked in china, russia and cuba might have a pretty good advantage covering the Trump Administration. Have you seen footnotes in a newspaper article before . I never have. What im interested in, it clearly indicates to me the times realizes they are dealing with something they have never dealt with before. They are working on this and having discussions how to handle this. Do you think the media needs more of that or has a good grip how to handle the trump esidency . For the last ten years, i have been writing president s and how the press covers leaders who dont tell the truth. I think they have been scared to use the word lies and scared to Say Something was a false statement. Often it is four or five paragraphs and you have to have somebody else say it is false so therefore it is a he saidshe said situation. Donald trump, this is one 0 his great accomplishments has pushed the major news organizations to think of putting in the headline, in the lead that he said something that was false, that was not true, that was inaccurate. I think that they need to continue to do that in a very, very clear manner. I think that should always be the lead. The lead isnt that the president said something that later, you know, you say is wrong. The lead is that he said something that was false. At cia headquarters or sean spicer today, their false misleading statements should be the top of the news. You know what, i know its going to get boring, lawrence because it will happen almost every day, if not several times a day. The media will be, you know, attacked by sean and kelly anne and the right wing media. Why are you dwelling on this . And they will have to say because its important. If they keep accusing chuck todd of being overly dramatic they are not going to get away with that lie. They are not going to. Thank you for joining us tonight. Appreciate it. Thank you, lawrence. Coming up, a new unprecedented lawsuit because it involves the trump presidency, and hopes to force donald trump to release his tax returns and divest the ownership of the hotel in washington and other assets. Laurence tribe will join us for an interview on that. And later, a look at the history made on saturday. A day unlike any we have ever seen in the history of protests of president ial inaugurations. Your Insurance Company wont replace the full value of your totaled new car. The guy says, you picked the wrong insurance plan. No, i picked the wrong Insurance Company. 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The clause in the constitution says no Person Holding any office or profit or trust under them shall without the consent of the congress accept any present emolument office or title of any kind from any king, prince or foreign state. Heres what President Trump said today about that lawsuit. Totally without merit. It could force donald trump to release his tax returns that he repeatedly said he cannot release because they are under audit. Heres what his Senior Adviser Kellyanne Conway said about those tax returns yesterday. Hes not going to release his tax returns. We litigated this all through the election. People didnt care. They voted for him. That of course was a complete change of position for the trump campaign, now trump white house. Then this morning Kellyanne Conway tweeted out this tweet. Our taxes, answers and repeated questions are same from campaign are under audit. She forget to use the under audit excuse and promised to release after the audit is over. Remember, theres no evidence or proof that Donald Trumps tax returns are under audit. Hes never shown us the audit letter he would have received from the irs to commence that audit. Whatever you want to think about those tax returns, you dont know if they are under audit. Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe will join us to discuss this lawsuit next. Imy moderate to severeng crohns disease. I didnt think there was anything else to talk about. But then i realized there was. So, i finally broke the silence with my doctor about what i was experiencing. He said humira is for people like me whhave tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohns disease. In clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief. And many achieved remission. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. 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What are the sources, the primary sources, or any range of sources that you see that are basically profits from foreign governments or foreign entities . The sources are leases. They are private arrangements between businessman trump and foreign governments. They are hotels. They are easements, all kinds of financial instruments, all intricate, complicated like a doll that rests iide of one another, corporations inside of will, will, cs but all complicated ways of doing one thing and one thing only, funneling money to donald trump. When foreign governments decide they want to benefit him by making it easier for him to expand his aberdeen golf course, or making his venue the venue they choose to put their foreign diplomates, it enriches him. It enriches him even if they dont pay more than top dollar for the hotel rooms. The issue isnt how much they pay, but they are paying anything. The constitution basically says if you are president of the United States you will have or have a high office you should not be in bed with business partners. If you are theres no way for the American Public to know when you make a deal with one of these countries whether you are making it in the best interest of america. You know his slogan, america first, or whether it is because you want trump to be first. Thats the problem. Its a big one and he hasnt solved it. How could he have solved it . Very easy. As we explained, when i say we, i mean norm and the ethics czar of president obama and george w. Bush, as they and i have said in our papers, all he has to do is dissolve his assets. He has to sell off his interest in the hotels, liquidate them and then convert them in to assets that can be put in to a genuinely blind trust. So he has no way of knowing which governments are greasing his palms, but what he has done instead is simply put them behind the oneway mirror, he still has these properties but he said it is enough for them to be managed by his sons and by longtime employees. That doesnt solve the problem at all. It just exacerbates it by creating an optical illusion that im afraid some people maybe deceived by. Theres always a question of do does the group involved here have an actual right to sue the president . Are they in a position to do that . Whats your right. How do you see that in this case . Well, the group is called citizens for responsible ethics in government is positively harmed by this labyrinth maze of emoluments that the president is involved in. Its whole mission is to devote its resources to getting corruption out of government, especially when money is involved, and it has had that mission since its founding in 2002, but now money and resources that it could over wise ha other wise spent on other forms of corruption have to be used going down the rabbit hole, trying to track down the Mysterious Ways in which trump is enriching his empire day by day. And thats the kind of harm that the Supreme Court in a case lled Havens Realty said gives you standing to sue. So thats something we will have to deal with, but not something im very worried about. Its a topic i have studied for decades. When donald trump said the case has no merit, i wonder what constitutional law course he took at wharton. I dont think he knows what he is talking about. A lot of people are wondering, well, if the president is instantly taking the oath of office in violation of the oath of constitution, why doesnt every citizen have standing to sue the constitution entitles me to a president who doesnt have this kind of problem or compromise . I have received 10,000 texts or emails asking that question. Unfortunately or maybe fortunately because otherwise we would be tied up in 300 million lawsuits all the time, the doctrine of the court has been that just being a citizen, who can say that my constitution is being shredded doesnt give you the kind of particular injury that is distinctive to you. This group has it, and this lawsuit is the first im sure of many and its going to go far. Professor tribe, thank you for joining us on the first day of this lawsuit. Really appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, lawrence. Coming up, when is the last time you had a president entertain the possibility of committing a war crime . 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Keeping iraqs oil isnt a new line for donald trump. He said it during the campaign. Even before he was president ial candidate. Heres donald trump talking about iraqs oil in the 2011 interview with the wall street journal. I always heard when we went in iraq we went in for the oil. I thought, hu, that sounds smart but we never did. Thousands of lives and wounded. You would keep troops in iraq. I would take the oil. I dont understand how you would take the oil does that mean keeping troops there. You heard me. I would take the oil. Last week at a preinauguration dinner, donald trump joked about Rex Tillerson his nominee for secretary of state taking the oil from his countries in miss previous job as ceo of exxonmobil. We have a man that i wanted right from the beginning, Rex Tillerson and these lights are bright but hes around here some place. But wheres our rex . What a job. Thank you very much. Thank you, rex. I think its tougher than he thought. He goes in to a country, takes the oil, goes in to another country. Its tough dealing with these politicians, right . He really likes to take the oil. The Washington Post points out seizing the Natural Resources of a sovereign nation would violate the geneva conventions. Thats why the United States went to war with iraq for the first time. In 1990, iraq invaded another sovereign country, kuwait, to take its oil reserves. So, is donald trump advocating a war crime . Steve clemens is joining us ter the praek. Break. Coaching means making tough choices. Jim youre in but when you have high Blood Pressure and need Cold Medicine that works fast, the choice is simple. Coricidin hbp is the only brand that gives powerful cold symptom relief without raising your Blood Pressure. Coricidin hbp. Stop clicking around. Travel sites to find a better price. The lowest prices on our hotels are always at hilton. Com. So pay less and get more only at hilton. Com. vo do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of the light. Do not go gentle into that good night. When you become the president of the United States your words are important. You can say one sentence and the dollar will lose its value. For example, he said that should have taken the oil from iraq and maybe we will have another shot at it. I mean if you are iraq, you taking the oil is a war crime. Joining us is steve clemons, editor at large for the atlantic and msnbc contributor. Your reaction to donald trump still considering if we get another chance to go back in to iraq and take the oil . Its astonishing. I once wrote after the iraq invasion that the iraq oil belonged to the people of iraq, Just Like Oil in alaska generates benefits in Alaska Permanent Fund for citizens in iraq. One way to get rid of it is to get iraqi people a chance. Donald trump is talking openly to the victor goes the spoils. It is a valueless, really gross comment. Steve, the fascinating thing about listening to trump in the 2011 discussion with the wall street journal he said i heard we went in to iraq for the oil. He said it as if thats what president bush was saying. Heres the president saying im thinking of going back in there for the oil. Theres a lot of criticisms people can have about why we went in to iraq, the wmd issue and others. But those as someone you and i read every speech george w. Bush gave on iraq and also cheney, who was an oil man. Much more so george bush. He wrapped it around democracy and the fact that these were victims of Saddam Hussein inside iraq and we were going to try to tip over a domino effect and create democracy in the region. That failed but had nothing to do with oil and the rhetoric that came from president bush. Lets listen to sean spicers answer when he said what is the president talking about to go back to iraq and get the oil and dont expect an answer. What the president has been clear about is too often the United States goes in with a lot of money and manpower and losing loss of life. We want to make sure our interest are protected. If we are going in to a country for a cause he wants to make sure america is getting something out of it for the commit and sacrifice we are making. Its clear that sean spicer knows it is an defense defensible comment and he cannot defend it in particular and quote it so he he does this general blabber thing. One thing is to give trump just a small bit of credit. I think Many Americans feel they have been playing a global cop in the world for a long time. And the quid proquo used to be the American Worker did well in that. They feel its become broken. That doesnt mean you go raid and steal the assets of other countries, but it does mean the global system, that the notion that the United States fought the cold war and china won feels very real in kansas, oklahoma and michigan and that is something that is a legitimate discussion that can be had, certainly not where donald trump is articulating but still an important one. Thank you for joining us. Thank you, lawrence. Coming up, should you sign up for the Affordable Care act now, now that you realize that donald trump and the republicans are trying to abolish it and what does the executive order the president issue 0 then first day mean . What will happen to your coverage. Could you lose it soon because of what President Trump has already done . That is coming up with steve brill. After expanding our Fiber Network coast to coast. These are the places we call home. We are centurylink. We believe in the power of the digital world. The power to connect. 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Was able to declare here on msnbc that the womens march on washington had already become the largest inauguration protest in history. From that point on,s the crowd in washington more than doubled in size. Soon the whole world was watching history being made in washington, in boston, in los angeles, where the biggest protest crowds in the histories of those cities had taken to the streets. There was at least one protest in all 50 states, as well as one in paris and other cities around the world, even antarctica joined in protesting the inauguration of donald trump temperature i had a chance to get to fifth avenue here in new york city on saturday and saw the same kind of march that everyone around the world saw in every city, a peaceful, united gathering of mothers and grand mothers and daughters and sons and fathers and friends and people who became friends by meeting in the march. When the final marchers passed st. Patricks cathedral at 7 38 pvm, a new York City Police officer standing there all day said he never saw anything like it. The most peaceful protest gathering he had ever seen. I saw toddlers sleeping in strollers during the march because it was that peaceful. Others riding on their fathers shoulders. Like all of the marches, fifth avenue was a very safe place to be. Theres a short history of inauguration protest in this country. We have had only four significant inauguration prot t protests. The first two re for ricrd nix nixons inauguration in 1969 and 1973. In 69, 8,000 people gathered on pennsylvania avenue the day before the inauguration and in 73, 100,000 gathered for the second nixon inaugural protest and then went 28 years without a significant inaugural protest. And in 2001, 20,000 people came to washington to protest the inauguration of george w. Bush a he lost the vote to al gore but won the Electoral College, thanks to the Supreme Court decision on how the votes would be counted in florida and that was it. Thats the history of inauguration protests in america. 58 inaugurations, four protests. Yesterday, in washington, d. C. Alone, more people gathered to protest Donald Trumps inauguration than all of the people who have gathered in the entire history of this country to protest all protest all previous inaugurations that were protested. It has become fashionable to anyone who didnt expect trump to win the Electoral College to live in a bubble even though more people voted for Hillary Clinton than donald trump. You are still accused of living in a bubble if you didnt see the Trump Victory coming. Are you living in a bubble if you didnt know that saturdays protest was going to be record breaking in every way . Are you living in a bubble if you dont love, or least know someone who marched somewhere in the world on saturday . The history of protests, of this scale, against american president s, is something that all president s should fear. Lyndon johnson was the first president to endure protests of hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets against his vietnam war policy. When those protests began, he expected to cruise to reelection in 1968. By the spring of 1968, those protests drove Lyndon Johnson to surrender and decide not to run for reelection. He was succeeded by Richard Nixon who became the most protested president in histy. The year after the second inauguration protest against Richard Nixon, he resigned from office in scandal. At the time of the second inauguration protest against Richard Nixon, the news media did not think there was much point to the protest. After all he was reelected, sworn in for a second term. Why protest that when theres nothing he can do about that . A year later, nixon was gone. In the middle of the nonstop decade of protests of the 1960s, the decade when Martin Luther king jr. And the civil rights protesters eventually joined protesters, the protests seemed hopeless to the people that never seem v participated in the protests. But the protesters succeeded in give getting this civil right and voting bill passed and eventually the war in vietnam ended. The American News media was not filled with predictions of the protests future successes. In the middle of that decade of protest, bob dylan wrote something is happening here and you dont know what it is. If you talked to anyone of the millions of people who protested on saturday, they will tell you that something is happening again. vo maybe it was here, when you hit 300,000 miles. Or here, when you walked away without a scratch. Maybe it was a the times it got you safely out there. Or all the times it got you out of there. Maybe it was the day your baby came home. Or maybe the day you realized your baby was not a baby anymore. Every subaru is built to earn your trust. Because we know what youre trusting us with. Subaru. Kelley blue books most trusted brand. And best overall brand. Love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Are you enforcing the mandate or not. Enforcing the mandate. Yeah, the obamacare mandate. Look, the president made clear he will work with congress, and part of the discussion he will have tonight with some of these leader and then again with paul ryan is how to work to implement both the are peel and replace act. We are joined by steve brill, journalist and author of americas bitter pill. The definitive book on the aid fo Affordable Care act. The president said to his department heads, use whatever authority you have to waive, defer, grant exceptions to, basically the Affordable Care act, to an estate, an individual, medical provider, to insur insurers, to anyone. Well, first of all he didnt have to do that. They had the authority. Second, insurance is about risk. The kinds of people who run Insurance Companies are the kinds of people who worry about risks. When you introduce that uncertainty, as in is the mandate going to be taken away immediately, in a year, whats going to happen . And Kellyanne Conway says one thing and spicer says ather thing. You get the insurance compaes even more nervous than they were. That destabilizes the market. It makes it hard for the Insurance Company to calculate how much they should be charging in a World Without an unforcible mandate. They are supposed to submit their plans, depending on the state, by march, maybe april, what will they know by march or april at this rate . They wont know anything. Or they may know the mandate is no longer what does that do to their rates. Their rates will be so high they wont bother to sell. This is a way of unraveling obamacare and they will continue to say that is because obamacare didnt work. They wont say it is because we ston stopped enforcing the following elements of obamacare. People out there wondering, should i enroll in obamacare right now. What should they do. If they enroll they have a contract with an Insurance Company. The Insurance Company has to honor. And they know what their premiums are because they are enrolling based on those premiums. The issue is so no one will be able to take that policy away once it is issued . Not unless they really changed a bunch of state laws about insurance, which i dont think that anyone will do. Yeah. So, Going Forward in this state of uncertainty, all we can say is enroll if you can and well see what happens. It is multiple uncertainty. You have various members of the senate and house on the republican side who are proposing all kinds of different and wildly inconsistent plans. If they try to compromise those plans together they get again, the basic problem is that the republicans dont have a plan because obamacare was historically the republican plan. My favorite is susan collins, if you like obamacare, you can keep it. It is her plan. Thank you very much for joining us. Msnbcs live coverage continues with brian williams. Thats next. Tonigh what President Trump is still talking about at the white house after his first full working day in office. Plus a change in tone in the press room today after a disastrous first weekend. What press Secretary Sean Spicer had to say. What we are now learn being