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When you announce is to lay hout who you are, what your vision sand what you'll do for america. i look forward to hearing that from her. >> laura, we look at the other candidates out there, seem as if many are on to the moniker of progressive. is amy klobuchar, will she be the first moderate candidate in this race for the democrats? >> well, there's telsa gabbert. sherrod brown jumps into the race, he'll be considered a progressive. the other candidates in the race really kind of are mushing together in people's minds. so i do think that klobuchar really needs to make the case for how her poli...

You have to ask is it like apple without steve jobs in those days or is it that big of a deal that if he were forced out, extreme as it may be, could the company continue? >> it will be a real problem from an optics standpoint. the sec is looking at this, looking at a statement. doesn't look like it's accurate, the funding secured on one hand. the other hand -- >> neil: the funding to go ahead and go private presumably. he said the funding is secured. >> from a legal standpoint, it wasn't. he's a ceo and he should be issuing legalistic statements of fact and potential. he says it's potential. ...

Highly classified information. >> now this key shift from grossly negligent to extremely careless may seem like mere semantics but it actually reflects a decision that the fbi could have had a potentially serious legal implication here as the federal law that actually governs the handling of classified materials establishes criminal penalties for gross negligence. so the change there actually is legally significant, but from an optics standpoint, certainly the news obstructs direct role that ultimately cleared clinton, combined with the fact he was dismissed from special counsel robert mueller...

With the positive again, i think from an optics standpoint, i give this -- i give the trump white house a b-plus, a-minus. in terms of the substance we don't know. but in terms of the optics i have to give the white house a solid b-plus for this. i think they did a pretty good job. >> all right. we'll take a very quick break. but up next, more dangerous clashes as protesters and police face off near the g20 summit. nbc's keir simmons is right in the middle of it all. he joins us when we come back. there's nothing more important to me than my vacation.

It would essentially take off the table the argument democrats have made pretty effectively that this is a tax cut for the wealthy paid for by cuts to health care for poorer people. we are hearing republicans say it's one of the things they want to take off the table. conservatives won't like that. one of the things they want to see are the obama taxes. still a wide berth before they get to any kind of agreement. >> jonathan, is that the big surprise, let's get rid of the taxes? from an optics standpoint, a conservative could say these taxes make no sense but they're there for a reason. if the...