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For the very latest, i'm joined by nbc's chief global community -- set the scene, what is the latest in crimea? >> well, behind me in the parliament and there have been several hundred pro-russian demonstrators there all day chanting russian slogans, chanting for vladimir putin. and just about 45 minutes ago, chasing an opposition leader who for some reason came here to address them, chased him down the street and chased him through the city. it looked very dangerous at one point. but a lot of the attention today has been not here in crimea but ross tafl, which isn't far from here on viktor ya...

And it is -- it's that simple logical basic logical level, that's where i think the suspicion, what feeds all of the suspicion around chris christie, there's no smoking gun right now and until and unless there is, he'll certainly continue az governor. but the reason there's so much suspicion there's more out there, is something like that. people look at her, if this guy was just finding out for the first time, was this horrified and recognizes the magnitude of potentially what he's dealing with here, wouldn't anybody's first question be, why did this happen? >> and steve, just very quickly, we...

Saying you can call -- it's not a racist thing to say. >> it's an in culture joke from hawaii and this is become an article -- >> because of the aloha lifestyle? >> listen. michael, you have to respond to this. this has become an article of faith among conservatives. i hear conservatives say he just sits around and golfs. hold on a second. he golfed 104 rounds in the first term. eisenhower golfed four times as much. never called lazy. boehner himself golfs four times as much and he says 100 rounds of golf a year. nobody calls him lazy. why is that? i hear this all the time from conservatives. ...

And i worked very closely with john brennan and i feel incredibly privileged to have worked around him because i've seen some of the worst crisis our country has faced. he is one of the most able and decent and capable people i have worked with. the president needs him at the cia now. he needed him there a month ago or two months ago and to hold up critical nominees like this over issues that are not related to their fitness for the job is harmful to our national security and we shouldn't do it to get headlines. >> and mike, to th point, here's something else senator paul said today. >> it wou...

Practical and policy level is we would not do this. the president's ruled it out and that if we needed to deal with the terrorist threat in the united states, we would use local law enforcement or the fbi or other means to deal with that threat. >> let me play what the attorney general had to say because this is important. senator paul said i'm not going to halt the nomination if i get a detect answer. eric holder sent him a letter in response. eric holder did during a senate hearing this morning. here is what the attorney general said. >> what i said in the letter was that the government has ...