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Daily beast" and msnbc political analyst jonathan alter. jason johnson politics editor for "the root." and jackie. plus, in washington chris lieu, former senior white house aide to president obama. before that he was deputy chief counsel for the house oversight committee. 90 minutes between the end of that call and the drafting of that email from omb to the pentagon, does that strike you as suspicious? >> yeah. that's not normal at all. i worked in the white house for four years, and i staffed many presidential calls and if there's action that needs to be taken after the fact, first of all you...

Politics editor at the root, and mike murphy, republican strategist, codirector for the center of the political future at the university of southern california, and at the big board tonight of course our national political correspondent steve kornacki, good evening, and welcome to you all once again. senator, i loathe the word by narr binary, but these days you can't be on cable news, do you buy the binary choice that you can have -- >> i think you can have both. all of these candidates have progressive, bold ideas. some go much further than others, you know, bernie's f universality, he wants ...

President's attorney general william barr and the u.s. attorney mr. durham who he tapped to investigate some of the same issues, have in the last hour undercut some of the report's conclusions. joining us now, chuck rosenberg former u.s. attorney and senior fbirn official, jason johnson, politics editor atso the root, former u.s. senator claire mccascle, frank, former assistant director of counterintelligence at the fib heidi, nbc news correspondent is here. frank we've been listening to this riveting and sometimes rancorous testimony but we've been pouring through this. >> i am p working thro...

And whatever was wrong with this, despite the fact it was endangering our elections, despite the fact that it was endangering peace in europe, despite the fact that every expert, even those that donald trump had himself appointed, were telling him what he was doing was not good for the country, he did it anyway. that is astounding. and that should give us pause. >> it's an argument i'll call contemporary standards, for lack of anything better. jason johnson, politics editor at "the root" and among our contributors has also been watching and listening with us. jason, your assessment thus far. >...

No-malarkey bus tour. he is campaigning at a pace we really haven't seen from him up until now as he tries to cut into the lead buttigieg has established in iowa. meanwhile, buttigieg is spending a second straight day in biden country. he is in south carolina trying to win support from black voters. a critical demographic in the democratic primary. and one that he is struggling to win over. we've got reporters traveling with both of the candidates today. mike memoli has been covering joe biden. and joins us from iowa. vaughn hillyard has been with pete buttigieg and joins us from orangeberg, s...