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never indicted or incited an insurrection. he loves his children. he doesn't hide classified documents. vote dernald turmp, and he'll make the united states goodest, as it once one. i approve this message. >> i didn't know. >> good morning. welcome to "morning joe." it is thursday, december 21st. great to have you with us. also with us, we have white house editor for "politico," sam stein, who intimidates people who work for him to say that he is their favorite. we heard that, sam. also, msnbc contributor mike barnicle. washington bureau chief for the "usa today," susan page. and sta...

Challenges that president donald trump will have in 2019. remember, president trump didn't meet with putin at that summit. they haven't had a meeting since. they still have that dispute about that shipping lane in ukraine. and i think it's important to note putin in that year end press conference absolutely denied that they would hold any american hostage for leverage for maria butina but in the past from russia we see when they telegraph something by actually denying it beforehand. >> would this be for specifically, for maria butina specifically? >> potentially, right. when we're talking to e...

The 72 hour limit but there's a window that has to close before they're able to get consular access to paul. >> nbc news correspondent hans nichols is at the white house. the family seems to be really confused here about why he was detained. the russians are accusing him of being a spy. what's the american government saying? >> we haven't heard much. you can understand why the family's concerned. why they're confused as well. they still need to get access to their family member. they're in touch with the family. they seem satisfied with their response. when you think about the potential for ti...

Rallies and thought, listen this guy is completely nontraditional. he's somebody who's not a politician. he's going to throw a bomb into the system and get it working again. there were people who thought he could reach across the other side of the aisle and start making deals. it wasn't uniformly build the wall and expel immigrants. that's not all of trump's support. is there anybody in the white house that's pointing that out to him saying listen, you did have a number of people who wanted you to figure out a way to make the government work and making it work would mean working with democrats...

He's the one saying it out loud, major general. but there are others who it's reported will say that pretty privately. >> yes. well, general jack keen, my good friend, old friend, we used to be vice chief of staff of the army, also turned it down. just a couple of weeks ago. petraeus said no i think pretty forcefully. after you get beyond those two guys if you look for people with policy experience, perhaps combat experience, pham mifamil with the military, the list gets pretty thin. i haven't heard legitimate names thrown out as potential secretaries of defense, you know, at all. a few politi...