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Government. can you give us an explanation as to why the cameras are off. >> can we get this out of the way? can we address the cameras issue. >> yeah, some days we will have them, some days they won't. the president is going to speak today from the rose garden. i want the president's voice to carry the day. look, this is nothing inconsistent from what we said from day one. >> still with me. joy reid, >> miguel goldberg and michael isikoff and michael schmidt. jason, things have happened, officials channels have been squeezed. state department, which is a huge deal for the rest of the world, d...

Know about them that's fuelling the investigation. that's important for people to remember. but how do you square that with secretary kelly, the homeland security secretary coming out and saying the back channel stuff with kushner doesn't bother me? >> he works for the president, right? he's a respected man with a long military career. he comes from inside the administration. and listen, you're going to have different views from democrats and republicans, but also within democrats and republicans. you saw john mccain who is a republican. you have a fundamental disagreement as to whether this m...

That's what add flavors. it was a real back channel. >> right. the emirates are viewed as an ally by the state department. you usually give a heads up if you're coming to the united states to have meetings. so people again say why all the hush hush? >> think about the timing of this, too. i mean, you had the controversy over russia with trump was sort of boiling. you knew the obama was taking actions to go after russia and sort of penalize them for some of those things. yet the trump administration incoming was still sort of doing this back channel stuff. trying to -- eric prince says this was...

>> trite. >> of the united states government. can you at least give us an explanation as to why the cameras are off? >> can we get this out of the way? can we address the cameras issue. >> yeah, some days we will have them, some days they won't. the president is going to speak today from the rose garden. i want the president's voice to carry the day. look, this is nothing inconsistent from what we said from day one. >> miguel goldberg and michael isikoff and michael schmidt. jason, things have happened, have been squeedsed. state department, which is a huge deal for the rest of the world, dail...