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Relationship with the president trump ahead of the first official state visit. we begin with president trump's support for michael cohen and speculation that the long-time personal attorney could flip on him. speculation the white house is trying to dismiss, nbc's jeff benefit is traveling with president trump and joins us live from west palm beach. jeff, what's the white house saying? we saw the tweet a few moments ago from the president about the witch hunt. what's the latest from the administration? >> reporter: until today, white house officials had been reluctant to speak on the record ab...

Tillerson. earlier, reporters at the white house asked president trump about tillerson's status. this -- this is all he had to say. >> do you want rex tillerson on the job, mr. president? >> he's here, rex is here. >> do you want him to stay in his job? >> thank you very much, everybody, thank you. >> rex is here, as in rex is here, at the white house, like literally rex is here in the building. for more, nbc white house correspondent jeff benefit joins me. so does phillip rutger, "washington post" white house bureau chief and also an msnbc political analyst. jeff, what do we know at this poin...

It sounds like he's saying mind your own business, madam prime minister. does this at all worry republican, phillip? >> absolutely. you know, there was republican senators yesterday saying they thought it was highly inappropriate and not at all helpful for the president to be retweeting those videos which, by the way, are unverified and do not necessarily show what they purport to show. but, look, this has been a breach now between the united states and our closest ally great britain and theresa may this morning was asked at a news conference about whether the president should have retweeted t...

Learn. >> it's probably a good spot -- go ahead, really quickly. >> i just want to add one thing based on what lonnie said. of course he's exactly right, the nature of a tax cut of this kind is going to benefit the people at the top. the problem is the administration from the president to the top aides simply haven't admitted that. they've tried to obscure that. and that's one of the reasons why i think the president's credibility is low. if you look at any poll, you see very low numbers for credibility for the president. and this is another example of that. they're simply not fessing up or ac...

From him before. the issue on defense spending is something we heard from form are presidents barack obama and george w. bush. the way the president attacked the allies, the way he uses the rhetoric pierces the unity. >> as we're having this conversation, jeff, we should note for our viewers at home we're watching some of the world leaders walk into this dinner that is about to happen there in brussels where it is just after 7:00 local time. jeff, again, just to be clear here, are you saying that the president is suggesting or the president's suggestion that member nations increase to 4%, that...