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>> reporter: well, kate, what we just saw there was the president of the united states saying -- confirming indeed that he wanted a foreign country in this case ukraine, to start a, quote, major investigation into his political rival, the former vice president joe biden. and the president, of course, went beyond that. not only confirming what was in the whistleblower complaint, confirming what is at the core of democrats impeachment inquiry, but also now saying that he wants china to also investigate his political rival joe biden. and, again there are kind of goes to what we've seen the presid...

Evidence since thursday. investigators say they got a tip that sayed farook and tashfeen malik may have visited the area that day. also, there are new questions over how malik passed the background checks as "the new york times" reports, she spoke freely on social media about jihad. nbc's pete williams joins me now with more on this. pete, we know the administration says it plans to look into that so-called fiance visa program. but you have people still asking, how were these postings missed and why isn't a part of screening? >> well, first of all, you're right, it hasn't been a parts of scree...

A, quote, race war, according to the fbi. a third man is also in custody accused of wanting to help them. let's bring in cnn justice reporter evan perez. how close did these men get to carrying out their plan? and what exactly was this? a race war? >> exactly. they wanted to rob businessmen to raise money in order to start this race war. now, they were according to the fbi which was conducting using confidential sources, wiretaps, surveillance to watch these guys. they had plans to kill a jeweler, rob him and use that money to purchase land to stockpile weapons for this planned race war accord...

Politics, senator? how much of this is about these particular senators being legitimately concerned about obama care. >> i think so much of it is politics. i mean, it doesn't come as a surprise people are distancing themselves from the affordable care act. the pact is you people can no longer distance themselves from the fact that, you know, what we are spending in this country on health care is a percentage of our gdpings is enormous issue in our economy. so -- you know, maybe they dent like the affordable care act. but what are their alternatives? the fact is that it is not a perfect bill. u...

Speaking to friends and family and staffers and people. and then when we started researching or resourcing the show, we got together and thought, you know, what are the major aspects that we need to get into this play. what is her personality. what came across, you know, we worked on every single word down to the "t" making sure that -- all of her -- the accent is exactly right and her movements and everything and i think that's what you see every night. >> hey, cecille, when ann richards won in 1990s, people forget, i believe, she was the state treasurer when she was the keynote speaker in '8...