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Please. joining me now is barbara mcquaid, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan and an msnbc contributor. ben wittis, senior fellow at brookings institution. philip rucker, msnbc analyst. and michael allen, managing director of beacon global strategies and former special assistant to george w. bush. thank you all for being here. phil, let me start with you. based on your reporting, what's happening? the president is now at the white house on a tweet storm about a whole bunch of topics with nothing public on his schedule for another several hours. >> well, the president thi...

Just said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be but i really do want to see the server. i have confidence in both parties. >> dana: i'm joined now by michael allen of beacon global strategies was also a member of the national council. i want to have you listen to mike morel who was on cbs this morning, former deputy director addressing this issue. >> i do think that senior officials in the intelligence committee need to ask themselves whether they can continue to serve this president and represent the men and women of the intelligence committee in a way that ...

Hours after his former business associate rick gates plead d ed guilty to two criminal counts of his own. here with me, the managing director of beacon global strategies and the majority staff director of the house intelligence committee michael allen and cnn analyst and congressional reporter for the washington post cameroon. and so is this about prosecuting manafort or getting more information from him by taking the plea deal of gates? >> well, at least two parts of this. one, i think that it is checkmate on manafort. you know, whereas he may have wanted to go to trial, and you got one of hi...

Federal courts have issued injunctions that basically say the trump campaign can't implement or rescind the daca policy as it sees fit. future of daca remains unclr. on the larger issue of gun policy we have yet to see any legislative texts or framework that would give the trump proposals some heft on the other side of pennsylvania avenue and congress. that's what we're waiting for, to see if any of these proposals -- many that the president has floated, will take shape in any real way and will get some traction during this election year. david? >> jeff bennett joining us from outside the whit...

Losing their job or getting demoted. >> that of course was democratic senator mark warner. a member of the intelligence committee. reacting to deputy director andrew mccabe stepping down from the fbi. i want to bring in michael allen. the other mike allen. he's the managing director of beacon global strategies and the former staff director for the house intel committee. and he knows andrew mccabe from those years. michael, first, have you spoken to the former deputy director? >> i have not. i have spoken to some of his former colleagues in the last 24 hours but i have not spoken to him. >> i w...