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Msnbc political contributor rick tyler. and joining the conversation, senior editor for national review and bloomberg view columnist. and professor of international politics at the fletcher school of law and diplomacy at tuft s university, daniel drezner. we ll start with hans nichols live from west palm beach, florida. hans, what s on the administration s plate this morning and the president s conspiracy theory about ukraine well, putin s actually that continues to be put out on sunday interviews and other interviews the administration holding strong on that? and one of the per vieweurvi that has been rudy giuliani over the weekend. you get the sense that the president is going to get a lot of different inputs when he s on holiday at his club where he can ....
Panel on this thursday. nationally syndicated talk show host michael smerconish, msnbc political analyst and bloomberg view columnist, jonathan alter, and lois romano. good to see all of you. michael, let me start with you. issue number one. should news organizations attend that off the record meeting with attorney general holder? i think in order for their to be a meeting where they can hash out a way forward, it would have to be the sort of meeting where sausage is made and you can t have the trans papercy that we would demand in another circumstance. i don t know what the alternative might be, i guess is what i m saying. i think a lot of folks would say the alternative would be a meeting on the record. a meeting on the record for attorney general eric holder to talk about the ap case and the james rosen case, that s fine. i think that s a fair request. if it is a meeting where you re going to prescribe rules and solicit input for how this relationship ought to function ....
Pentagon over ten years, should the sequestration take place. house speaker john boehner said, quote, today the president advanced an argument republicans have been making for a year. his sequester is the wrong way to cut spending. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell insisted more than three months after the november election, president obama still prefers campaign events to common sense, bipartisan action. and joining us now for more on this from washington, the former chief economist of the international monetary fund and bloomberg view columnist, simon johnson. he s the co-author of white house burning: our national debt and why it matters to you, now out in paperback. simon, good to see you this morning. nice to be with you. simon, if you could help us through this over the next week or so, it doesn t look like there s a path to avoiding the sequestration if you listen to the two sides. so how damaging would this be? because we ve heard a couple different versions of it ....
Has been what they say, an abdication of the united states on the world stage. somalia or gadhafi probably doesn t agree with that assessment, for he wasn t around he probably would not agree with that assessment. obviously we helped put together and lay the groundwork for liberating libya. when it comes to egypt, i think had it not been for the leadership we showed, you might have seen a different outcome there. but also, understanding that we do nobody a service when we leap before we look. joining me now, msnbc political analyst, bloomberg view columnist, jonathan alter. great to have you with us. thank you, jonathan. a rare interview, a rare occasion needs special assessment. what do you think of what you just heard? i mean, i thought it was good interview. could he have had a couple more zingers? sure. but it s really hard when it s a, two-on-one, which it was in this case, and b, when you re interviewing a president, i ....
somalia or gadhafi probably doesn t agree with that assessment, for he wasn t around he probably would not agree with that assessment. obviously we helped put together and lay the groundwork for liberating libya. when it comes to egypt, i think had it not been for the leadership we showed, you might have seen a different outcome there. but also, understanding that we do nobody a service when we leap before we look. joining me now, msnbc political analyst, bloomberg view columnist, jonathan alter. great to have you with us. thank you, jonathan. a rare interview, a rare occasion needs special assessment. what do you think of what you just heard? i mean, i thought it was good interview. could he have had a couple more zingers? sure. but it s really hard when it s a, two-on-one, which it was in this case, and b, when you re interviewing a president, i ....