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Our viewers have been hearing about this, republican-only briefing, about the informant that the fbi used in 2016. now there's going to be a separate briefing with the traditional gang of eight that gets the intelligence briefing. but what these leaders are saying is don't politicize intelligence oversight. by having a separate republican briefing, you're bringing in the possibility that not only would there be a perception of politization, but it could actually affect the investigation. >> some major experience in that recommendation, former c.i.a. director john brennan is an msnbc contributo...

Teleconference video -- he was in the white house watching that as all of that went on, he had an intelligence briefing around 11:00, and lunch with mike pence, the president has been here at the white house all day, to the best of our knowledge, but of course as kate said, we expect the president to go visit the first lady, according to the statement from her communications office, she's going to be spending the rest of the week there recovering. it would be unusual if we did not see the president go visit her. where the president was not too long ago, where he was getting his physical. we ex...

Are those who are rightly concerned about the potential cost of failure in the talks. >> if the talks fail, the likelihood of options are dramatically reduced to potential conflict. and that's a huge worry. i want to give president trump credit for getting to this point. he has moved the needle on this when it hasn't been done in the past. given the stakes, it is a very much high-risk, high-reward opportunity. >> this is a very delicate circumstance as you well know. we'll continue to watch the build-up as we get to that particular date. today on the president's schedule in addition to the fes...

That relate to mike flynn and jim comey's firing that i think are in this obstruction bucket. to amos's point. the reporters from "the new york times" yesterday basically alluded to the fact it was people on team trump, not part of his legal team but people on his side that had given these questions to them. so one of the questions i had is why? >> bill: all right. what would be the motivation? >> i don't know, bill. >> bill: if you look from the tweets of the president early today he is making the case there is no collusion and charges are trumped up. what did you think about mr. comey's inte...

No. churchill proved it, reagan proved it. peace through strength works not bribing dictators like clinton and obama with $150 billion. >> right. we're taking productive steps. i'd highlight a couple things about these negotiations. first of all, we're building muscle memory in north korea hermit kingdom for diplomatic negotiation, which is really important. mike pompeo's trip out to north korea and the current negotiations between the two leaders, north korea and south korea, are steps in the right direction. i can tell you from the optic of a retired intelligence officer, one of the things t...