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Of the letter it was civics 101 congress and 47 senators stating what they believe was their proper role in this process. i think if you -- if there is a legitimate criticism or concerns about the diplomatic wisdom of it that's fine. but if you listen to senator kaine, and you listen to senator wicker today, they're actually in unison on their criticism of the president and the white house's not bringing them into this process more. and not including them more. the white house should be building support with this congress. >> it does seem like despite what the 47 republican senators did, it di...

He also writes about the growing lack of trust in government, something that was on display in our new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll that showed one unifying number, 89% of the country believe the president and congress want to stick to their partisan positions instead of working together. barney frank joins me now. congressman, congratulations on the book. >> thank you. >> there is a simple statement on the book that a few reviewers have made. and noted that you're chronicling and trying to answer this conundrum. gay rights were once viled publicly ly publicly. attitudes have flipped. h...

Negotiate it in june and only then will a co-equal branch of the united states government be allowed to weigh in. i would think senator kaine would be frustrated by that. >> i'll leave it there. senator kaine, senator wicker, thank you for coming on this morning. important topic. i bring in my panel now, matt bai, karen finney, kevin madden, andrea mitchell. the white house was tolerating this idea of congress ghoeting involve not getting involved until march. now they look at the calendar it is march. can we wait until june? senator kaine, that's an important moment. he said, no we're going t...

Weeks showing an unacceptable level of contempt for the office of the president. however, let's be realistic here. the deal that is being negotiated with iran is about what will iran do in order to get out from under congressional sanctions? and so it is unrealistic to think that congress is not going to be involved in looking at a final deal. i am a pro diplomacy senator and i've supported the negotiations to this point. but any deal that touches upon the congressional statutory sanctions is going to get a review of congress. and the only question is are you going to have a constructive delib...

In congress? yes, it was. a lot of my colleagues were mad they didn't get invited. on the other side, i think the fundamental issue, it goes back to clinton campaign statement, it is the economy, stupid. i think what happened is, if you look at the world, in the post world war ii era, if you were working class guy, and you were willing to work, if you were white and male, you made a good living in steel and coal and then what happened was the world economic situation shifted to the disadvantage of white americans, well, working americans without a lot of skill. paradoxically, i think some of t...