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Leadoff panel for tuesday night. mike schmidt, "new york times" washington correspondent who co-wrote tonight's breaking report. phil rucker, white house bureau chief for "the washington post" and an msnbc political analyst. and jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and the pentagon. he's also an msnbc national security analyst. mike, let's start with you and your reporting tonight. take us through this december episode and just how close the president came to firing robert mueller in december. >> there are reports out there that mueller had sent a subpoena to deutsche bank, a bank tha...

>> let's bring in tonight's leadoff panel, phil rucker, white house bureau chief for "the washington post" and an msnbc political analyst. the aforementioned catherine lucy, white house reporter for the associated press, who asked trump questions aboard air force one, and barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. let me start with you, catherine, since you put those questions to the president. i'm not sure when you were growing up you thought you would come to the day where you would ask the leader of the free world about an alleged affair with a porn star, bu...

Leadoff panel, phil rucker, white house bureau chief for "the washington post" and an msnbc political analyst. the aforementioned catherine lucy, white house reporter for the associated press, who asked trump questions aboard air force one, and barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. let me start with you, catherine, since you put those questions to the president. i'm not sure when you were growing up you thought you would come to the day where you would ask the leader of the free world about an alleged affair with a porn star, but talk to us about that exch...

Can you preview that for us? >> there's not too much i can say about that at this point. but that is another one of these relationships, as with russia, where within the administration there are large divides about how to handle the issue of xi and of these term limits. when we talk about democracies and supporting democracies, is this a moment where we should come out and say something? the white house has not. are they a friend of ours or are they an enemy? when it comes to issues hike trade? it is another area where i can see a lot of tensions underneath the surface of the administration ri...

Estate deals down in florida and the fact that when you go around his properties there are russians everywhere. >> so shannon, we always try our best to separate news, actual developments, from shiny object distractions. i suppose we'll have that job tomorrow when the president ishlg ewes what he's going to issue on china. can you preview that for us? >> there's not too much i can say about that at this point. but that is another one of these relationships, as with russia, where within the administration there are large divides about how to handle the issue of xi and of these term limits. when...