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here from our nbc team, with the department of justice saying to republicans on the hill, hey, bring it on. the new letter to house oversight. and what it said about any possible cooperate on new congressional investigations. plus the white house going public against a private group who they are now labelling a transnational criminal organization, we'll talk about the sanctions imposed today. and i'm hallie jackson and i want to bring in senior white house correspondent kelly o'donnell joining us live from outside of the white house. i want to start with you here. and what we've ju...

They feel like they need to squeeze them with the sanctions but russia is not going to like it. >> putin sees this as a provocation. >> he sees everything as a provocation. this is probably lower down the list but a way of adrawing attention to it and there is a certain amount of political warfare and propaganda here where it is a way of embarrassing russia also. and you heard kirby talking about how this group is becoming more prominent and it is ruffling feathers in the ministry of defense. so it is a p.r. war going on here. >> what is next here. because could you see the white house, the u....

Contributor. i guess let's start with just where we are right now over the weekend. drone strikes on the saudi oil refineries. the houthis, the rebels in yemen fighting with the saudis in yemen saying it was them. what do you make of the situation? >> well, chris, first of all, we have to be very clear. we would not be at this point were it not for trump's foreign policy. pulling out of the iran deal. piling sanctions on the iranians. giving a blank check on mohamed bin salman to wage war. it is logical it would follow from that and was predicted by many of us that if he followed that the iran...

Advisor under president obama. he is now an msnbc political contributor. i guess let's start with just where we are right now over the weekend. drone strikes on the saudi oil refineries. the houthis, the rebels in yemen fighting with the saudis in yemen saying it was them. what do you make of the situation? >> well, chris, first of all, we have to be very clear. we would not be at this point were it not for trump's foreign policy. pulling out of the iran deal. piling sanctions on the iranians. giving a blank check on mohamed bin salman to wage war. it is logical it would follow from that and w...