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Better relations with the new president, relations with russia are as bad as they've been: in 2012 you had barack obama s whispering, i'm going to get re-elected and things will be better. donald trump has put himself and all his people in position about lying about meetings with russians that ey couldt do anything. >> we had a phone call with putin about the st. petersburg attack. interesting he chose that opportunity. >> still ahead on "morning joe," we'll talk to senator rand paul who just hit the links with president trump. the don't democrat on the democratic oversight committee, elijah c...

Egyptian president, it's hyper realism. we're not going to talk to you about what you're doing to your own people inside your country. he's very much outside the debates that have defined the republican party for a generation. >> if you were in the house or the senate and you're a republican trying to figure out where you stand with this president, how would you handle it, answering mckay's question he puts out there? >> for a real conservative, you can't measure yourself with this president. he's erratic on every front. on 11% of the budget he's a slash and burn cost cutter. on the part of th...

Period. >> are you concerned that the president -- he seems to be tweeting, look over here. look over here. he seems to be getting involved. when you said, you know, it would help if the information was just allowed to come out and the investigations were not ddwith. isn't the president himself meddli wh these investigations when he tweets about them? >> yeah, i do think so. i practiced law for over 30 years and i've never seen anything like this. usually when you have a client and that client is being investigated, your response is simply as a client and as a lawyer, we are cooperating with t...

He might need some help. a back-up son-in-law. tiffany, no pressure, but hook somebody. >> joining us now, ranking member of the committee on oversight and government reform, elijah cummings of maryland. great to have you on board this morning. let's start with the russian investigation and former national security adviser. are you feeling comfortable that all the information will come out, regarding general flynn especially, and the russian investigation? >> i think if we allow the investigations to go forward. my advice to the president is to do everything in his power not to try to interfer...

Scrutiny, if you will. i think these are big questions. it also raises questions what people on the nsc mig be doing. the national security council has two jobs, coordine foreign policy and national security and there to be an adviser to the president, a foreign policy counselor. why people on the nsc are doing this kind of tactical work, this is not their job. >> can i ask you, richard, because you've been there. let's talk about the transition between george h.w. bush and bill clinton. could you imagine brent scowcroft, then the national security advisor sorting through political information...