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♪ you're with us for a brand new hour. good to have you along. i'm victor blackwell. today the fbi is helping michigan state university students and staff return to the building where the shooting that happened -- they can recover any personal items today. the campus will stay closed until at least monday. community leaders, university staff, students begin to gather to mourn and show an overwhelming sense of outrage. >> i think that, when 20 kindergarteners were mowed down in sandy hook, not much changed. my hopes are low that something will change now. we're in a position where...

Away from the stale names and ideas of the past. a key point of applause in the group was when she talked about american is not past its prime, but many politicians are past their prime. that's the key message she will have moving forward. i think it's great to have more people in this race, a robust republican primary is great for democracy. it's also great for the party. the key is to make sure that everyone goes out to these early states and test your message, test your ability to connect with the people and in the end galvanize behind one candidate that's not donald trump. that's how we wi...

Let's bring in cnn's senior political analyst, ron bro brownstein. good to have you with us. >> thanks, george. >> let's talk about the tariffs, starting june 10th and increasing each month, if that nation doesn't, as he said in a tweet, stop, immigrants crossing the border from mexico illegally. as far as the nation is concerned, what would it mean for the united states? what would it mean for mexico? >> we've seen the mexican government, to a striking extent, really, try to avoid conflict with trump, even though it is a left-leaning government. it will be interesting to see how they react to...

And it will be a tarnished legacy. i think it will be immense pressure not only on the department but on the attorney general to be forthcoming. >> with me now is ron bro brownstein, senior adviser. former white house attorney, do the democrats have the law on their side here? can the special counsel be subpoenaed, and that includes mueller as well? >> yes. look, the congress has substantial equities here in terms of getting at the information that it's seeking. there obviously are restrictions on what the attorney general is required to report, but the practical realities here are important. ...

Contributor. the senior editor at the atlantic and cnn's senior political analyst, ron bro brownstein. let's begin with russia and roger stone. stone now saying he's open to cooperating with the mueller investigation, willing to tell the truth and he has nothing to hide. so ron, is he changing his tune, or is it just the way in which he is speaking? >> that's really a great question. certainly the tone today was a little different than it has been. whether it leads to anything substantive going forward, i think you'd have to be dubious. if there's anyone who has signaled that they do not inten...