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Nice to have you with us, we appreciate your time. >> thank you very much, good morning. >> give me a sense of what you think about the dinner between gop senators and the president and what was genuinely accomplished out of this coming together. >> i don't know what was genuinely accomplished frankly but i think it was a positive sign. i think the senators that went obviously wanted to talk to the president about whether or not they could reach common ground on a lot of very important issues including most importantly a compromise that we could get this country on a fiscally sustainable path ...

Come together. >> compromise is necessary and possible. the issue is how do we get there. that's why these dialogues are so important and there needs to be more of them. >> in a few minutes we'll speak with steny hoyer. the president's dinner date as well as rand paul's filibuster. questions from jurors coming fast and furious from the jodi arias murder trial. day after answering more than 150 questions from the jury who listened to her testify for 15 days. it does seem the jury may be skeptical. >>is it that you have no memory of stabbing travis? >> i can't really explain why my mind did what...

Result in any major agreements, but it was viewed as a positive step in the right direction. >> that's why these kinds of dialogues are so important and there needs to be more of them. >> reporter: now, cnn has confirmed that president obama has invited representative paul ryan, the chairman of the house budget committee, here to the white house for lunch today along with a top democrat. this is yet another sign of a significant shift by this white house in strategy as the president reaches out to republicans in a bigger way. soledad. >> dan lothian joining us this morning. thank you for the u...

President xi. more only in a minute but first, the latest surrounding the russia investigation and former national security adviser michael flynn. joining me, hans nichols, ken delaney who covers intelligence and national security, msnbc contributor michael, a former u.s. ambassador to russia, and congressman jim himes who was nice enough to stick around with us as well as mychalen with our d.c. bureau. he had national security roles in the george w. bush white house. he is now managing director at beacon global strategies. hans, let's start. but i want to talk about the press briefing. wasn't...