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National security council. is this part of the normal growing pains for the new administration or are we watching a power struggle spill into public view? and trump telling "the new york times" today that he believes susan rice may have committed a crime by asking for the identities of trump associates mentioned in intelligence reports. the president, though, declining to cite any specific statute she may have provided or to proprvi evidence to that. we begin with our top story, a potential major shift in president trump's policy on syria or is it just a lot of words? that's what everybody...

Now the move sparking criticism, the move i should say to put him there initially sparking criticism from democrats and republicans. bannon telling the ""wall stree germ" ", susan rice operationalized the nsc during the last administration. i was put on to make sure it was deoperationalized. h.r. mcmaster returned the nsc to its proper function." >> these are very highly valued members of this administration. going to continue to play important policy roles. but i think with h.r. mcmaster's addition as our national security adviser, man of extraordinary background, military, this is just a nat...

Days and lose track of what the real story is, what it's his inability to move a disastrous health care bill, whether it's this russian collusion, on and on it goes. so i think what we need to start doing is focusing on what the president's doing and not the outrageous things that he's say ing and protect the american people from the agenda he has which is going to be devastate g ing for this country. >> that is interesting. take this issue here, reporting by susan rice, what it's bookended by are two sweeping and major accusations by donald trump. one, he started a few weeks ago with that twe...

The allegation is that somehow obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes. that's absolutely false. let me explain how this works. i was a national security adviser. my job is to protect the american people and the security of our country. >> former obama national security adviser susan rice with msnbc's andrea mitchell yesterday. president trump now in a new interview with "the new york times" says he's not ready to, rice from any wrongdoing. "when asked if ms. rice who denied leaking the names of trump associates under surveillance by united states intelligen...

>> that closes out this hour for me. i'll see you back here tomorrow afternoon 3:00 eastern, noon pacific. always find me in the meantime on snapchat, twitter, instagram, facebook, all that stuff. tv kate snow. up next, my colleague steve kornacki. >> thanks for that. good afternoon, everybody, i'm steve kornacki.76 of the first . topping our agenda, the crisis in syria. >> the world is a mess. i inherited a mess. >> president trump casting blame at his predecessor for that apparent deadly chemical attack in syria, but also saying that the crisis is now in his hands and suggesting he may be wi...