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Brand an your back. >> she says she's not going anywhere. >> i think i'm worth the trouble. >> for democrats to win the house do they need a new candidate for speaker? democrats on both sides of the issue join me this morning. also, russian election meddling and this stunning statement from an obama administration official. i feel like we sort of choked. what we now know about what the obama white house knew and when it knew it. joining me for insight and analysis are syndicated columnist george will, helene cooper of the "new york times," nbc news's hall jackson and mark leibowitz. welcome to...

Welcome back. panelists here, former republican senator john sununu. heather mcgee and andrea mitchell and mark leibovich from "the new york times." who does still live in this town. welcome all. >> thank you. >> i want to talk about the -- start with sort of the week of donald trump and his evolving positions. john sununu, what do you make of it? >> growing into the job maybe. on issues like nato, i think everyone knew that we weren't going to pull out of nato. everyone knew and understood that his rhetoric was in one place in the campaign and then it was going to be met with a reality. that ...

Pouring into this, it doesn't seem like the coast guard believes this is a hoax. they really are searching according to the spokeswoman we heard there. they're searching all over for this family. jon: all right, rick, keep us up-to-date. jenna: iran is sitting down for nuclear talks, the first in eight months, n.. iran says it's prepared to make an offer to the west in return for easing some of the sanctions in place over the last several months. in the meantime, in germany secretary of state john kerry is calling on iran to choose diplomacy. >> what i will do in the middle of these talks toda...

Specifically to finish the program is a fool's errand. what we really need to do is create massive economic crisis and put khamenei to a choice between his bomb and his regime. the physics of the program is beating the economic pressure that we can't impose. we may be heading to a confrontation where we have to start looking at using military force to stop this program. i hope it won't happen, but sanctions may be too little, too late. jenna: mark, thank you for the time today and the analysis. we always appreciate it. >> thanks so much, jenna. gregg: and coming up, we're going to be checking ...

Effect to clamp down on iran and oil sales key to its economy. this is all part of an effort to put so much pressure on iran, the regime will simply stop its pursuit of nuclear power. now, before these tough sanctions go into effect u the obama administration has granted waivers to 8 countries allowing them to keep buying iranian crude if exchange if they just buy less of it. but why? do we really need all those waivers? mark leibowitz, do we need those waivers? >> hi, jenna. you know, we needed those waivers at the end of last year when oil markets were very tight, and the administration was ...