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Bbc anchor katty kay. From the Washington Post euGene Robinson, New York Times reporter Jeremy Peters and in new york veteran columnist and msnbc contributor mike barnicle. Good to have everyone with us this morning. We begin with this, former state department speaking out the Trump Administration planning to roll back punitive measures against russia almost as soon as he took office. Dan frooed who served until late february said colleagues asked them to appeal to congress after they were directed to develop a sanctions lifting package and to arrange a summit between trump and russian preside...

Thats clever. Today the white house is yet again attempting to mop up yet another selfinflicted mess. A day after insisting that russia was no longer targeting the u. S. , the president went on a tweet storm. He deemed his summit with putin a success. He dubbed the media the real enemy of the people and thanked fox news for their defense of him this morning. Quote, trump recognized russian meddling many times. Many times . Many times . When . If it is russia, nobody knows. Its probably china or it could be somebody sitting in his bed. You dont know who broke into dnc. Now, whether that was rus...

Solicitor general and no prosecutorial experience and compared to bob moouler who has been a professional prosecutor all of his life. and so you can see that starr really didn't have the experience, background to make a lot of the critical judgments about what he was doing to do, and what he shouldn't be doing, and how far to the take things, and that is reflected in some of the most controversial decision s, and the most controversial decision of all was of course to get involved in the lewinski matter in the first place. he had been appointed to the investigate the land deal, and whitewater,...

Without bail charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent on behalf of the russian government. a "gq magazine" correspondent and daniel goldman, guys, russian roulette, that book by david corn and michael isikof talks about that moment we saw when butina is asking president trump -- or then candidate trump a question, how she got there, how she asked the candidate that and why the candidate said he would not be for sanctions. it was ithe first time he said that. they said much later trump's campaign advisors would watch the video of this encounter and wonder about it. steve bannon rais...

Way? >> look, i don't know. >> april, would you know that? >> i don't know, either, but i will tell you this, today in the white house briefing, i asked sarah huckabee sanders, you know, if donald trump jr. did collude with russia, and she said, absolutely not. she said, certainly not. so she was firm with that. i asked her about other people and she could not give as firm an answer, but she's saying he did not collude. so, i don't know how the family operates, but this -- they're standing by him, at least earlier today, they were standing by donald trump jr. >> so i ask you, mark, i asked the...