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A felony. >> it's one of the problems for sean spicer and everyone else going out there, including members of congress, to your point, joe, going out there trying to put a different angle on this. this began at one time and place with one individual and that was the president with a tweet. the word that struck me yesterday morning more than anything else was tone deaf. the way the members proceeded down -- >> republican. >> republican members was tone deaf. the country is objectively looking at this. the country doesn't want to believe something nefarious happened between the president, the ru...

Going on, individuals are going over to russia like carter page, roger stone is intimating that an attack is going to happen against john podesta's e-mails. i think this is convergence not coincidences. >> so yesterday we had this bombshell of the fbi, who clearly didn't want to do it but felt compelled at this point. was it the tweets, joe? if the president hadn't tweeted that saturday morning, would we be -- >> no, we wouldn't have been here. yesterday would not have taken on the importance that it took on. and here is just a note for reporters, stop talking about donald trump's tweets, dist...

Protecting his base would have taken control of this. he just didn't do it. >> as a thought experiment, say it started with infrastructure, and say he had decided to run the white house as a populist and somewhat independent president who worked for the interest of the people who elected him and decided not to go as far partisan as he did. you would have transformed american politics as opposed to be down to 39%. >> i'll anger democrats when i say this. he's doing exactly what i thought personally, send your hate tweets to me @joe nbc, what barack obama did. the day he got elected president, h...

House that donald trump said he spread pixie dust across 12 members and suddenly all in sight. >> beautiful. >> reports this morning we're getting from the hill is that actually the vote is in danger. they may not be able to find the 218 votes they need or 216 votes they need to pass this. what are you hearing? >> i think it's balanced on the edge of a knife right now, joe. i think what happened at the white house last week was enough to give paul ryan and leaders the confidence to at least schedule the vote. it took the temperature down a little bit, that meeting. but what you saw play out ye...

Scramble. >> what's that stand for. >> this is important, listen to him. >> the hill is over a scramble on health care. they are on scramble with national security concerns. so you give the speech. at this point, what do we as the american people come to rely on? you're not going to say i'll sorry to barack obama. you're not going to say i'm sorry to the country for putting us through this mess in the first place. so the expectation should be that it will go back to what it's always been. we'll have a day or two or three of quiet. by the weekend there will be another tweet on something. this r...