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Change, perhaps setting himself up for more evidence to emerge. unlikely they'll talk about the climate change news, the paris accord and what they make of that, india and russia announcing a deal on nuclear power just this week. >> keir, you're so polite when you're aggressively trying to get the answers. keir simmons, thank you so much. >> it's the best way. >> joining us now, former chief of staff of the cia and department of defense, now an nbc news national security analyst, jeremy bash. >> jeremy, we're trying to sort through a couple big stories leading the news today. first of all, thi...

Relax the sanctions in two dimensions. first, obviously the sanctions against russia for harking in the election, sanctions that the obama administration announced on december 29th. more broadly, the ukraine-related sanctions. this itzkoff report showed that people inside the obama administration were very concerned about this, they talked to folks on capitol hill and were getting a lot of pressure by the transition teams to make these policy changes early on. >> this meeting between kushner and the banker, there doesn't seem to be a good explanation. if it's about money, as the russians say i...

Position is on a lot of the controversies that erupted in israel. it's everybody just going in their own different direction. we'll keep talking about this going in different directions, talking about president trump and president trump reportedly having a personal message to michael flynn last month saying, quote, stay strong. read into that what you will. we'll have investigative reporter michael itzkoff here talking about the former national security adviser who is still in contact with the man who fired him. he joins us with that reporting next on "morning joe." you seek audience. yes, wis...

It is very sad that an innocent man like alan gross is going to be exchanged for a criminal, somebody that wanted to do so much harm to the united states of america like gerardo hernandez because he's not only tied to the shoot-down and murder of my son, marlene's dad, and two other americans. he's tied to espionage and wanting to do harm to the united states of america. >> he has completely disrespected and dishonored my father who was a vietnam veteran, voluntary vietnam veter veteran. when he was 19 years old he went to fight for this country against communism. the only thing we have as a f...

That that was the complication, that conspiracy murder charge. frankly i, and a lot of other people, were surprised that president obama took this step given that count against him. we'll see what the political blowback is. i wouldn't be surprised if senator rubio and others want to revisit that, maybe bring the fbi agents and federal prosecutors who worked the case to see if they were consulted on this. the bottom line is gerardo hernandez is now free and he's in cuba. >> that is true indeed. michael itzkoff, thanks for your insight. i appreciate it. still to come in the "newsroom." we're n...