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This that are going to hurt our reputation our national security . >> we do know that he went explicitly against the advice o the intelligence committee, the department of defense for state department in all of the foreig policy establishment which has been very much in joe biden's camp. >> they couldn't wait for him. >> i could i want to say one thing about the trump compariso in that because i think it was absolutely misplaced right i think the speech in some ways i you were giving a speech about when to leave, and why to leave okay, but that wasn't the topic today. there wasn't a failure to...

Under some kind of cloud of controversy and returned having regained control of the message. we saw that when he took his first trip to saudi arabia, israel, and europe. he left about a week after firing fbi director comey. he left a few days after the comey memos were coming out. special counsel robert mueller was appointed in the time frame. controversy was reaching what seemed to be a fever pitch at that time. he came back in control of the message. folks were talking about the g-7. they weren't talking about russia. by the time he returned stateside. fast forward the g-20 summit in hamburg...

In public, but generally, hearings can be very partisan. and with something like this, i think where you have seen, at least on the house side it become overly partisan, and i think david raises an important point. i think from both sides, probably, it would be better to have an independent investigation, and there are people who say, well, you can never find a non-partisan person in washington. that's probably true, but you can find somebody who actually wasn't advising president trump on the campaign. so you know, that would be something that i think we have in both committees we have a situ...

Chris is back with us. chris, in the next 24 hours, the president is going to be leaving south korea after a security briefing and going to malaysia. right in the center of the storm that malaysia the government has been experiencing over the missing plane. >> when this trip is planned it was a historic visit for president obama. first u.s. president in 50 years to visit malaysia. anything other than the search for malaysia flight 370 has gone out, you know, off the board. there's been a lot of criticism internationally of how the malaysian government has handled not only the search but also t...

Minutes? how defensive was mubarak? how aggressive was president obama? i think this is pretty transparent for the most part but, clearly, there's a big chunk of that conversation that -- that we don't know about. >> chuck todd, nbc news chief white house correspondent, thank you very much for joining us tonight, chuck. >> reporter: you got it, sir. all right. >> joining our live conversation of the situation in egypt, the executive editor of "the bloomberg view" and chief spokesman for the state department, jamie rubin. jamie, 30-minute call, president to president. there's some translation i...