play, that republicans seem to feel that yesterday's tax achievement was worth all of this. >> it's a grim state of play, because people are not doing what they feel is right for the country. they're doing, placing a party above the country's interests and are, you know, i think people are segregating the party even from donald trump and thinking the party is going down as well. >> all right. my thanks to mark, heather, rick, elise and john. does it for our hour. "mtp daily" starts now with the fabulous katy tur. >> hi. if it is thursday, both parties going to extremes. too high or too low? there ain't no in-betweens. tonight, drastic measures. >> it's a disaster for the american people. >> everything from funding the government to the russia investigation, why it seems to be governed by extremes. plus, puerto rico punches back at the tax plan. >> unfortunately, we haven't been treated as part of the united states here. >> the governor of puerto rico says he has a plan to hit back

at the ballot box next year. he joins us live. and later, "hamilton" goes global. ♪ my friends scattered to the wind ♪ >> this is "mtp daily," and it starts right now. good evening. i'm katy tur in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." impeachment proceedings, firing bob mueller and shutting down the government. is that where we're headed in 2018? yes, those are extreme measures but right now both parties are driven by bases with very strong opinions about punishing president trump, or protecting him in 2018. and the partisan forces driving these parties further apart seem to be getting worse as we close out 2017. we're following breaking news, because when it comes to the issue of a government shutdown, the house and senate appear

ready to kick that fight into next year. moments ago the house passed a short-term resolution to fund the government through mid-january. and the senate is planning to vote later tonight. but bigger picture? both parties seem unwilling to give an inch in this fight. democrats are demanding that daca recipients are protected in a long-term spending deal, and the president has all but told them, bring it on. he says it will backfire on them if they shut down the government to protect illegal immigrants. even if those immigrants were brought here as kids. the other big force driving the parties further apart right now -- the tax overhaul. republicans today did another victory lap on this bill, which passed with zero democratic votes. both sides are calling this a tax plan of biblical proportions. just in very different senses of the word. >> the president laid out his vision for a tax cut that would be a middle-class miracle, and that's exactly what the congress passed today.

>> this tax bill is armageddon. >> miracle versus armageddon. because of this tax plan, republicans are rallying around president trump like never before as we head into next year's midterms. but because of this tax plan, democrats sound giddy about their chances to sweep those contests as a referendum against this president, and this plan. and as mule ir's russia probe heats up, 7 in 10 democrats want congress to begin inpeachment proceedings against the president, according to our latest nbc news/"wall street journal" poll. and in response, republicans seem to be doing everything they can to discredit mueller and lay the groundwork for his ouster. multiple law enforcement officials tell nbc news that jeff sessions has ordered the justice department to revisit its uranium one investigation when hillary clinton was secretary of state, and bob mueller would have been fbi director. the top republicans on the house and oversight and intelligence

committees have already opened a congressional probe into the matter, too. the white house says it isn't trying to oust mueller, but some democrats don't believe it. >> firing mr. mueller or any other of the top brass involved in this investigation would not only call into question this administration's commitment to the truth, but also to our most basic concept rule of law. >> i want to be very clear and make sure that i address senator warner's concern for the 1,000th time. we have no intentions of firing bob mueller. we're continue to work closely and cooperate with him. we look forward to seeing this hoax wrap up very soon. >> we're going to sneak to a congressman where this goes from here. first joining me now, howard dean, former governor and a

contributor to our network. thanks for coming on. >> thanks for having me on. >> are you confident the white house is not going to try to do what they can to fire mueller? >> oh, i think they will do what they can. mueller is getting them in -- they're going to be in a lot of trouble. i previously said and i believe this, that -- no matter how much the actual russia part of this investigation turns out, and i don't know that we can make conclusions about that yet, it's almost certain that trumps engaged in things like money laundering in the part and that's in robert mueller's purview. they're going it find things and it's going to involve donald trump and donald trump jr. and trump will find it very difficult to restrain himself. >> we'll see what happens with that mueller probe. what should democrats run on in 2018? run on being anti-trump? being anti-this tax bill? run on bob mueller?

what do you think the best focus is? >> i think they should run on actually ironically, populist economics. you know, the numbers on this trump tax bill are awful. i mean, something like 61% of americans believe truthfully that -- that this 83% of the money is going to the top 1%. that, in fact, is what's going to happen. they don't feel they've gotten anything out of this and we have to let them know we have a different plan. i don't think we need to spend all of our -- i think, yeah, we can run on changing. i wouldn't repeal it. simply take benefits away from all the fat cats that got them and pass them out to the middle class people. taxes are actually going up on the middle class after five years. this is chick contain canary, a center-right organization co-chaired by a former conservative senator from new hampshire who think this thing will cause huge deficits and

that will cost our kids a hell of a lot of money and the public knows that. they're not fooled by this stuff. >> what about impeachment proceedings? a lot of democratic voters who want this president to be impeached if democrats take over the house and senate, but so far democratic lawmakers are not entirely onboard with that. do you think that's a good thing to run on? >> no, i don't. i think that -- i think that the right thing to do, wait and see what mueller comes up with. if there's a reason to impeach and remove the president then there's a reason to impeach and remove the president. right now he has terrible numbers. the most divisive person that's ever held the presidency in my lifetime. that's not enough reason to impeach him. i suspect there will be reasons to impeach him once bob mueller gets his investigation done which is why i think trump will try to fire him in the end. it's too early for this. the base wants it badly. there is a center in this country. i think a lot of people would like to see donald trump removed

from office, impeachment is a long, difficult fight, and i think we need to hold off on that until we have a good reason and a good case other than this guy's incompetent, which he clearly s. a lot of attacks are on bob mueller coming from the right, from trump loyals from folks on fox news. are you kwconfident whatever th truth is, the american people will believe it? >> absolutely. nobody believing the benghazi conspiracy. down to 32%. the maximum in the country. nobody else will support him. so i say let the facts take place. let mueller lay out his case, which he's doing, piece by piece. i think that the damage that michael flynn will do to trump is enormous. there's more coming, i think. i don't think the politicians should make this a political issue. if we need to remove the president all the american

people need to be behind that, or most of them, and we may need to remove the president. i don't think we're ready to go through that. i was a part of, in my young adult lifetime, went through the richard nixon farce. the republicans were much more statesman-like in those day es. it was very difficult for the country. i'm all for removing trump. i think he's incompetent and we need legal grounds to do so and am willing to be patient and let mueller do his job. >> governor, last question. democrats are on a high. won in virginia, won down in alabama. the enthusiasm for the party is growing. a lot of voters say they, most voters seems now, they want to elect democrats. how do they keep that up for the next 11 months? >> the enthusiasm is actually driven by people under 35. astonishing number, 69% of voters between 18 and 30 voted for ralph northam. a centrist in northern virginia. extraordinary. these elections are fueled by young people disgusted with a

president that's repudiated every value they have. they're for doing something about climate change. he's a denier. they like diversity. they like immigration. they believe gay rights is the civil rights issue of their time. trump stands for exactly the opposite, attacking national monuments and national parks. these guys want him out and are doing it the right way. piece by piece, seat by seat in the state legislatures. that's the awesome force that will put trump in a huge amount of trouble and broom the republicans not only out of the house but a good chance they lose the senate in 20918 becaus of this. >> former governor howard dean, thank you. and jim banks of indiana, republican, joining me. congressman, thanks for joining us. start with the tax deal. now the president has a pretty low approval rating. four in ten americans want to start impeachment proceedings against him. is it a good idea to embrace this president the way we saw republicans doing yesterday, given those numbers?

>> what republicans were doing yesterday, embracing tax reform and we'll see in 2018 the result of that it will be worth embracing. you saw announcement after announcement yesterday about job investment, job growth. major corporations in this company that are going to hire nor employees and invest in companies, more good, paying jobs that's good for the president and good for republicans. a gamble that republicans are willing to take. >> what are the individual cuts in this tax plan, why are they temporary and corporate permanent? >> end of the day, the lack of democrat support in the senate to get to 60 votes and the rules of the reconciliation process of the congress confined our ain d them permanent. >> why the corporate cuts permanent? >> corporate rate cuts to 21% is good for all americans. the individual rate cuts that last eight years is good for

americans, too. in my district that's a $2,000 tax cut for hoosier people in indiana. if i'm still here i'll be a part of that in four years. >> why do 80% of the benefits in the tax plan go to the top 1%? >> katy, that's, end of the day, hogwash. those are democrat talks point disputed over and over again. doubling the standard deduction. >> that's tax policy center analysis. not democratic talking poithtnt >> not at all -- >> so that's not from the tax policy center? because it is. >> those might be. there are a number of statistics and studies that show that tax reform passed yesterday awaiting the president's signature is a significant tax cut for the middle class for working class families in my district. business, corporate tax rate cuts and the also small business rate cuts that mean small

business my district will be able to create more good paying jobs. you'll see wages rise. and more opportunities for hoosiers in my district to find good paying jobs. that's good for everybody. >> and $2.3 trillion in cash right now. why are you so confident, even with the handful of businesses say they'll give bonuses, why are you so confident they will start changing their ways now for the long term and maybe not just one big, flashy bonus that makes a good announce bhment wh they are sitting on record profits? >> they're parked overseas and tax reforms provides an opportunity to reinvest in america and create more good paying jobs. a big deal for the medical device industry, vera bradley, major corporations headquartered in northeast indiana that will be able to use their corporate tax cuts to create more good paying jobs. that's good for families in my district. that gives me a great deal of

confidence that 2018 will be a great year for hoosiers as well as for republicans at the ballot box in november. >> will you explain this to a con stitch twhaent might come up and say, listen, i don't understand why corporate taxes are being cut permanently, but individual taxes are not jt you're going to say it's the democrats' fault? >> i've explained it over and over again to constituents in my district. to understand that those business rate cuts are good for the working class, higher wages, more good paying jobs. those individual cuts only last eight years, are really good tax cuts for eight years. hopefully we can extend in the future if we can gate broad support in eight years. i hope i'm around in eight years to vote to make the tax cuts permanent if we don't do it beforehand. >> talk about robert mueller. defended him in the past. seems there's a growing movement of people on the right, at fox news and lawmakers questioning his fairness, his integrity. do you still have confidence in

him? >> i have the utmost confidence in director mueller to do his job and complete his so we can move on from these conversations. appears to me there have been a few bumps along the road, the director handled himself with integrity and trying to weed out the barq bad actors and have confidence he'll continue to do that. >> if the white house decides to fire him what will you do? >> the president made it clear this week will there are no plans to fire the director. the rhetoric is obviously completely false as the president said earlier in the week. to even speculate that would happen would be irresponsible as the president made clear he's not going to do t. the president also called the russia investigation a hoax. sarah huckabee sanders said yesterday she looks forward to this hoax wrapping up soon and

blindsided by james comey. the president has a history saying one thing and doing other things in his own administration let alone those investigating him. >> a number of people on capitol hill, myself included, defended the investigation. we think it's an important step forward to move beyond all of the conversations about russia and move on to what matters which is tax cuts and the repealing obamacare. rebuilding our military. that's what matters most. so i'm hopeful that director mueller will complete the investigation and the near future and don't believe there are legitimate signs this president intends to fire director mueller and handle the situation in that poor manner. it's irresponsible to speculate what would happen if he did. >> congressman jim banks. thank you for joining us. merry christmas. >> same to you. ahead, are we bracing for an even more extreme 2018? we'll talk trump, mueller and whispers of impeachment with tonight's panel. next.

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call it stop gap, kirking the can down the road, a punch. whatever you call it, that's what happened in the house. covering the jockeying over the government shutdown on capitol hill, garrett haake joins us on capitol hill. what happened? >> reporter: call it punting on third down. the house voted just now to extend funding for the government through, towards the end of january. january 19th. they pass add package of -- of spending elements here. going to pay for the government. pay for a fisa extension. that foreign intelligence surveillance, they'll keep that operating. passed the c.h.i.p. program until later in the spring and added money for a veterans program that needed a fix nap will get acted on tonight. no appetite for a shutdown on the senate side and expect that to also pass. and also adding more disaster

relief but it's not expected to be taken up on the senate side today. john cornyn, number two senate republican said he still sees too many complicated elements to that bill and doesn't think his members want to do it, but we willcertainlity, this will pass keeping on the lights in the government until january 19th. >> no c.h.i.p., no flood insurance and a lot of the controversial stuff, no daca is going to be in this? >> reporter: no daca. c.h.i.p. was reauthorized through the spring on this. >> it was? >> reporter: not the long-term deal but chirp .h.i.p. included >> where is the next fight. >> reporter: i think daca. democrats drew a line in the sand, xufr ascuffled through an it go. they won't be able to do that in the spring. negotiations have been going on about coming up with a deal to do daca and border security at

the same time. katy, there were protests all day. pro-d.r.e.a.m. act protesters protesting against democratic members of congress saying they want this done. that's the big fight in january. >> democrats saying they were willing to shut down the government on it. no more, it seems. garrett haake, appreciate your time. we'll be back in 60 seconds. ♪ give ancestrydna, the only dna test that can trace your origins to over 150 ethnic regions... ♪ ...and open up a world of possibilities. ♪ save 20% for the holidays at ancestrydna.com. going somewhere? whoooo. here's some advice. tripadvisor now searches more... ...than 200 booking sites - to find the hotel you want and save you up to 30%. trust this bird's words. tripadvisor.

let's bring in tonight's panel. noah rahkman associate eder for a magazine and beth senior editor for politics for nbc news and msnbc and nbc news national correspondent peter alexander. good to see you, peter, on the fan. nice to see you in person. >> thanks. >> let's talk about the president. yesterday we saw a remarkable scene. all those republicans embracing him. do you need to embrace him and tell him you love him, as orrin hatch did, in order to get him to work with you? >> stunning to hear the roundrobin of people going up there.

the day before, lawmakers on the hill talking about their accomplishments, decades, doing. and the next day, grateful for the president for giving this opportunity and how great he is. what plays best with the president is praising him and what they came to do yesterday. paul ryan, orrin hatch said it. all of them. americans should take away for all the conversations we've had over the course of the year about the republican civil war, end of the day, end of the year, a united front with exceptions standing there with the president on an issue that matters to all of them. bob corker there. dean heller behind lihim. tax cuts they go home with and feeling good about it. >> the idea tackle spending. non-discretionary spending. >> meaning entitlements are out the door? >> they have to be on the table. there's no room for democrats to move on this and they don't have incentive to move on this.

donald trump's utility is diminishing rapidly getting into 2018. a tough year for republicans and they're now going to look at something extremely unpopular. pushed all the dessert forward and have to eat their peas. i don't think anybody is interested in that. yes. donald trump stops being an asset and starts being a liability right away. orrin hatch. very confusing. utah is not a very pro-trump state. he's under pressure to resign. i'm not entirely shoe what ki l support he's looking for. >> you can imagine mitt romney's reaction. >> he's made that switch emphatically a couple months. >> and four in ten americans want itch peoplement proceedings to start. grim numbers for this president. >> it's not going to happen anytime soon. 2018 is going to be a full year of excitement and roller coaster rides and a good chance the house will flip, but that doesn't even mean impeachment

stops then. such an extreme position to take. that's the final step you take only after every other avenue is exhausted. working with the president, helping to get him to become a little more professional. we don't know yet, meanwhile, what the mueller investigation will serve up. meantime, both sides, democrats and republicans have to figure out a way to get through the year. have the voters render a judgment and make a decision what to do the following year. >> get how that this year. you named two of the three things that are huge next year. mueller, what happens with him. impeachment proceedings. do they go anywhere? and then government shutdown. is there you-oany way for parti meet in the middle or will we see them more divided and a p t partisan yelling match in 2018? >> the first couple weeks of 2017, donald trump came out with a very galvanizing failed push as a travel ban creating this new democratic constituency in

the streets. there was no more room to negotiate after that point. a ready-made -- >> on day one, talking privately, acknowledge behind the scenes, had conversations in the last week and they say, were we to do it again and had our ducks in a row we would have done infrastructure. >> then why didn't they? was it just the president feeling i need to get something i promised done immediately? or who was not in his ear? >> a good question framed to us by throws closest to the president, talking about this forever thought it was a no-brainer. want to do it first. must have had a plan, would have got done. clearly didn't happen. thought it was an easy campaign pran promise to keep. >> he could have. be the president on the campaign trail. get public support. fix the roads, the bridges. i challenge democrats to come along. challenge republicans to not do it, deny the funding. that is not typically republicans want to do. throw a lot of money --

>> builds up capital quickly. >> instead adopted the more establishment republican priority. repealing obamacare. >> does he want to be president or does he like fighting? >> i think both. he likes fighting and i think he likes people who like him fighting. i think you have to really attribute that failed push at a travel ban to people like steve bannon who crafted this without running it through legal checks because it was pugnacious. that pugnacity is appealing to the people he believes is his wore base and he plays to them more often than not. infrastructure is still on the table. right? prefunk torely people say we'll do infrastructure. again, what's the incentive for democrats to work with republicans on this? >> miller and bannon are gone. does that mean that suddenly he's going to be more moderate? try and -- >> miller is still there. >> sorry. miller. apologies. >> banbannon's gone physically

certainly not the whatever of bannon certainly still in the halls of the west wing if not ringing the phone to the president. the president's calling. bannon had significant influence on this president. after the loss of roy moore maybe president trump would be done with steve bannon but that's not the case. they have a lot they shire and the president likes his instincts. that pugnacious tendency steve bannon has, the president has also. >> howard dean set the president should one on populist issues. 11 months left. virginia went well, alabama went well, can democrats make it focussing on populism instead of president trump? >> basically the ads write themselves. republicans had given $1.5 trillion handout to big corporations, to the wealthy, to wall street. they don't even ever have to say trump's name. just say this is where the money has gone. this is the priorities of the party that you thought was going

to be with you and they are not. they don't have to run against trump. they can run against what trump and the republican congress have done. >> and that was blamed on democrats. saying the corporate, the structure of the bill, corporate had to be permanent but individual could not because democrats refused to work with them. does that make sense? >> it does. weren't getting bipartisan support and couldn't do anything outside the reconciliation framework. again, that's beside the point. if democrats want to run on a populist message, that's an economic message and not against trump. look around, how have we overperformed in this current economic environment? multiple quarters of gdp growth, almost full employment, tightening labor market. new stock market highs every day and turning out every democrat and republicans staying home. why? nothing to do with the economy and everything to do with donald trump. if they hit the message they continue to perform. forget about it. talk about the economy. what's the argument there? >> really? just an anti-trump message will be enough for democrats?

>> performed so well so far, yeah. >> didn't work in 2016. >> if has in 2017. who's the president? >> and a combined, flip it, 101,000 votes right now. pennsylvanias, your wisconsins. those places, end of the day, will people based on the stuff we talk about? the president's remarkable tweets? calls for impeachment. tweeting, hey, more money in my paycheck, neighbors doing better feel going. that's the message that's going to be delivered home. >> peter alexander, hitting the nail on the head. good job my friend. >> the rest of you, stick around. coming up, puerto rico promises revenge. is america turning its back on its own people? the puerto rico governor is in washington with a warning for congress. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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welcome back. vice president mike pence arrived in afghanistan today on an unannounced holiday visit to u.s. troops. the trip is his first time 20 a war zone as vice president with a voice raspy from a cold and eyes showing exhaustion from a night of late votes, pence addressed 500 troops around 11:30 p.m. local time sending greeting from the president. >> before i left the oval office yesterday i asked the president if he had a message for our troops here in afghanistan. and he looked at me without hesitation from behind the resolute desk and he said, tell

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welcome back. moments ago the house approved $891 billion in hurricane and wildfire relief on a 252-168 vote. the senate is planning on voting on the package in the new year. it is the biggest round of funding for the 2017 national disasters, but the governor of puerto rico is worried the money won't get to his devastated territory. >> there needs to be some language that specifies how some of these resources go to puerto rico. otherwise, if it's just allegation into different buckets, we are competing against texas and we are competing with california. big states with a lot of representation, and puts puerto rico in a significant disadvantage. >> that is not the only reez as

the gocht is angry. saying the tax bill will hit puerto rico's already devastated economy especially hard and planning to make republicans pay at the ballot box saying he will organize puerto ricos living on the mainland to vote against republicans in 2018. joining me, the governor. ricar ricardo, thank you for joining us. talking about mobilizing latino voters because you say the tax bill will hurt the island of puerto rico. high will you are targeting in 2018? >> we're going to be working on that. right now do an evaluation of all of the congressmen and com wipp thcom -- congresswomen that pledged support to puerto rico and reneged on that work. there is time. we want to can do this in non-political fashion and have

to recognize that our voigt, we are second-class citizens and don't have representation but we do have 5.3 million puerto ricos in the united states and want to organize them to make sure that our voice is heard. >> part of your concern, companies currently operating in puerto rico will move back to the u.s. because of a tax loophole closed, or a tax oddity closed for puerto rico. marco rubio says it's not the case, taking issue with your remarks and you've been in a bit of a twitter spat. are you planning on targeting marco rubio? >> you know, what i said is, i was disappointed with senator rubio's action with this vote. he understood the situation in puerto rico, and it very clearly hurts the people of puerto rico. let me just put it into context. puerto rico's part of the united states, yet it is being considered as a foreign country in this tax reform. therefore, the tax that's being added to other foreign countries, the intangible tax,

the base irrose tax will be added to puerto rico. a new tax you didn't have before. of course, it's going to hurt and hamper our capacity to grow and limit keeping some of those stakeholders in puerto rico. >> what about congressman corbello? targeting him? >> we're working. some said they're going to target other vehicles. we'll see that. of course, we're going to be very vigilant about the actions. we're hopeful that there are other vehicles where they can fix what was done, and, again, this is not something that comes out of the blue. for the last year congress has had a policy, leadership in congress, has had a policy on puerto rico which is to establish an oversight board. to help grow the economy, and to sustain our fiscal situation in puerto rico. they establish add road map saying in future tax reform negotiations, puerto rico had to be considered, because it was always sidelined. they established the jobs created in puerto rico are jobs

created in the united states, and based on the situation, fiscal situation in puerto rico other incentives should be given. now, this was before the discussion in tax reform, and all of those three points were completely neglected when this process ensued. so we're hopeful that there's going to be some changes. we're looking forward to the supplemental, maybe some of that can get fixed there, but certainly there needs to be some action. in the meantime we're going to get organized and have a -- a group of people, puerto ricans, latinos and just american citizens that are tired of seeing our citizens treated as second-class citizens. making their way, making their voices heard and making changes here in congress. >> do you think it's time for puerto rico to have congressional representation? >> of course. of course it is. if there was one time in our history where we can see what it means to be a colonial territory, versus what it means

to be a state, right now it's that time. we've been working on this for the past four months, saying how devastating this tax reform would be on puerto rico, if we are treated as a foreign country. many of the congressmen and senators have heard it. yet nothing was done about it. the main reason -- we don't have political power in congress. we don't have equal treatment in federal programs, and until we show that we can muster some muscle in some other jurisdictions or until the united states calls upon what i think is a moral imperative to finalize colonial inch in theist century favored by puerto ricos in the past 25 years then we will be with this lingering dilemma. >> you embraced the president in the immediate reaction to the disaster in puerto rico. are you regretting the way that

you interacted with him today? >> no. no, i do not. as governor, my job is to call strikes when i see them, and to call balls when i see them as well. and the president, as i stated and i reiterate, was very responsive to all of our frustrations in the onset and as i stated. you know, he was responsive, but there was a lot to do still, and there is still a lot to do in puerto rico. >> is he still responsive? >> we'll be working with the white house on some of the things but certainly a lot more has to be done in puerto rico. these decisions in congress are going to be critical. they define our economic baseline towards the future with the tax reform. they define how many resources we get to rebuild. a new and better puerto rico so it's resilient to these sorts of storms and, of course, the speed and the urgency of the recovery

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like our new feast with lobster-wrapped scallops and a juicy steak. or a new lobster and seafood-topped filet. tempted? better hurry in, it ends soon. with that it's time for "the lid." let's talk about robert mueller. there is a conservative, a concerted effort by conservatives on the right, some conservatives on fox news and trump loyalists to discredit robert mueller. is there concern, a wider concern among republican that's this is going to be problematic down the line? >> it looks that way, doesn't

it? just based on their behavior. >> i don't know what they see coming. what you've seen so far is a roll-up. you've seen the indictments of several members of the campaign. now the first national security adviser, that's not nothing. the president's first national security adviser is working the probe. i would be concerned. it seems justified and valid. and you saw a lot of republican who's were sending warning shots saying don't do anything rash with this probe. now seeming like they're getting cold feet about it. entertaining the prospect of pushback. >> what does that mean for the state of our democracy, when you can one moment say this man is unimpeachable and then at the next when it starts to be clear that he might come to a conclusion that will be uncomfortable or problematic for you, suddenly, he is impeachable and there are all these reasons we shouldn't trust him. >> i don't know what it says yet. i don't want to jump to a

conclusion. we're in a very tribal, partisan atmosphere and that is dictating how the white house behaves. >> is the white house concerned? >> yeah. well, there's nothing that gets under this president's skin more than the topic of russia as evidenced that he will walk directly to the cameras sometimes and just rif about how furious best something he heard about this top frick fox and friends early. what struck me as we talk about, john cornyn in the last several days talking about the concerns he has about the corruption within the fbi right there. when you give guys like john cornyn this, it is different than fox news saying it. that means real publics at high levels are talking about the concerns they have, discrediting this investigation that's been taking place. to get to the bottom of it, there president who routinely called it a sxhoex a witch hunt,

at the end of the year, you have two indictments, two members of the president's team, one of whom served in the west wing cooperating with investigators. it is hard to say that's a home or a witch hunt. >> what's worse for the republican party? a president who is found to be guilty or found to have obstructed justice or colluded or coordinated with a fortune power? or losing? >> in a normal presidency, in a normal time, the notion that the president or any members of his team knowingly colluded with a foreign entity, particularly russia, they would take the steps they needed to to remove that president or somehow mitigate the disaster that has befallen the country. we are not in a normal time. we are in a very tribal moment in politics. this fox news conservative media war on mueller and the investigation is having an

impact. we had an nbc news "wall street journal" poll. >> we have that poll. negative view. 33% among republicans. positive view, 13%. >> right. so assuming that trump keeps mueller in place, he concludes the investigation, the outcome will be so tainted among members of the president's party that they may think twice before taking steps. >> i think you have to say the notion that there's a collusion bombshell coming seems unlikely based only on the behavior of this president when it comes the russia. we've seen a variety of sanctions imposed on russian officials, the imposition of sanctions on the pro putin strong man in chechnya. and now the weapons in ukraine. >> why not have the president

come out and say we are taking this seriously. >> tom bossert came out to speak to us a couple days ago and talked about the frustration, calling out north korea by name for this malware. >> wanna cry. >> from back in may, i think it was. you're coming out with an orchestrated campaign that said north korea did it. why not do the same for rush? why not say, they meddled and we want the world to know. >> i don't know. what did he say? >> he said i think we have. i think we dispute that. >> no doubt about it. good to have you here. good to see you in person. guys, thank you very much. coming up, the british are coming, the british are coming. to a much anticipated musical debut.

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in case you missed it, we hold these truths to be self-evident. that's not all broadway. that is not, all broadway shows are created equal and 241 years later there are no hard feelings, right, great britain? ♪ >> in case you missed it, hamilton has officially crossed the pond. the broadway music debuted tonight at the victoria palace theater. like tea in the boston harbor, fans are going overboard with

excitement. the creator is feeding the frenzy too. he just released this video with the londs cast. mashing up music from the show with well known british hits. ♪ >> never mind. we all know how the story ends. especially the british. london is all in on "hamilton." "the beat" starts now. we begin with breaking news right now. details emerging on why some democrats may still try to oust bob mueller and many vowing that they are ready if it happens. >> i catch the first plane smoking, i would be here with one minute's notice if i could get here. w