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The choice is yours. ♪ lower your blood sugar with invokana®. imagine loving your numbers. there's only one invokana®. ask your doctor about it by name. president trump responding to reports robert mueller is looking into whether he tried to obstruct justice by intervening into the probe into russian meddling calling the probe "phony." i bring in msnbc political contributor and politics editor at theroot.com, traveled far and

Deeds. the phony trump/russia story was an excuse used by democrats as justification for losing the election. perhaps trump just ran a great campaign? so a lot of questioning from democrats on that score. perhaps some republicans as well. everyone, of course, interested in the status of that investigation into russian meddling. stephanie. >> i've got an all-star panel with me this morning and a big one. matthew miller, former chief spokesman for the justice department and an msnbc analyst. jonathan allen is the head of content for sidewire and also co-authored the book "shattered, inside hilla...

Saying we don't see peace with him in charge, the other is saying we need to have him gone. i think that's the point of both. >> all right. let's bring in tim carney of the "washington examiner," jason johnson, politics editor at theroot.com. ashley parker, white house reporter asey, let me start wyou st in terms of the question here of who is setting policy in the trump administration, how the foreign policy, how the syria policy is being constructed. i think it can be a little confusing to an outsider looking in. you have hawkish signals being sent by nikki haley, reserved signals by tillers...

Thank you so much for that. i want to bring in my panel, matt schlap, a trump supporter, jason johnson, politics editor at theroot.com as well as a journalism professor at morgan state university. good to see you both. matt, we've gotten to a point where this entire russia investigation at least on the house side is on hold indefinitely. we don't know when the next thing is going to happen over some surveillance information that the chairman himself says doesn't even involve russia. is this any way to run a railroad? >> yeah, i think he's actually being careful to make sure that the conversati...

The claim and says, its employees do not support unionizing. >> many activists claim president trump has ignored the concerns of people of color. and to that point, the president of the naacp met with attorney general jeff sessions to discuss a range of civil rights issues. take a listen. >> we were very candid about our concerns, about the fact that the department of justice seems to be taking a course backwards in terms of way from voting rights, way from the full-fledge commitment to addressing police misconduct in this country. it was on the conversation about the degree to which history r...