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"atlantic." how tough was it working with jeffrey goldberg who, i understand, walks around with a revolver and shoots computer screens he doesn't like. is it rough? >> it's a real pain in the ass, it's the kind of guy manafort would take on as a client. [ laughter ] no, the beauty of the "atlantic" is that you get to spend months working on a piece like this and just the care that goes into even fact checking it i think we spent maybe four or five weeks fact checking this piece so there's a rigor that comes with working at a place like the "atlantic" and with a guy like jeffrey goldberg, so i'...

By the way, chairman nunes i believe was taken off this investigation and made to recuse himself. what is he still doing out there? doing his own investigation separate from the committee somehow or next door to it? he was suppose to be conflicted out of it. it's surprising to me that everyone has forgotten that a bit. >> it is absolutely -- noah, let me bring you in here. it's also -- i found it very revealing this weekend that you had a lot of trump people saying they didn't think he should testify and in part they said he couldn't testify because he can't be trusted to not perjure himself. ...

Sometimes calls the trump justice department. on saturday, white house special counsel ty cobb responded, there is an onslaught of false stories circulating in what appears to be a coordinated effort to distract and deflect from new revelations about already reported bias and corruption. shannon, i want to ask you first of all if you feel from the folks in the white house that you talked to that the panic is setting in and what is the timeline as to when trump could possibly meet with muler? >> i think they know a storm, if not a storm, a circus is certainly coming with this interview with the...

Prepared for such a compliant congress. this is the part of the equation that i find vexing. >> right. let's be honest, trump is not alone in this crisis. there's a whole bunch of folks, paul ryan, mitch mcconnell and other republicans. >> i'm stunned at the complicity. still ahead on "morning joe," hillary clinton makes a cameo at the grammys and nikki haley didn't like it one bit and what the u.s. ambassador said afterwards on twitter. plus, two big stories on russian influence on paul manafort's outreach to oligarchs to donald trump's questionable real estate deals. we follow the money ...

Manafort. frank foer writes the cover story for the "atlantic" entitled "american hustler." in it he details manafort's interactions with the governments of russia and ukraine before the 2016 election began. he writes in part "a paul manafort deputy once boasted to a group of lobbyist that in every ministry he has a guy. only a small handful of americans, oil executives, cold war spy masters could claim to have ever have amassed such influence in a foreign regime. the power helped fill manafort's bank accounts, according to his recent indictment he had tens of millions of dollars stashed in ha...