i want to give a warm welcome to michael byers and buck owen, i visited buckhorn high school, it is a great high school. and very innovative offices. and we have clemens high school in jonathan stuck cool of providence. they will be in alabama. it is inspiring to me to see so many of you here, so many young people are committed to battling for the future of the republic that we hold dear. [ cheering ] i was about to -- when i got involved in politics, i don't really know how, nobody in my family was particularly involved. i had a couple of high school teachers, one taught government and her brother taught english. mr. dickey. one of the most formative people in my life. he was a brilliant man. i grew up on a farm, fought in world war ii, was a fabulous student of literature and he had conservative values. he said to me one day, sessions, you are a good young guy, you've got a future ahead of you. you need to be armed before you get to college. they will lead you astray if you don't watch it. you need to be prepared. so he encouraged me to read the conservative national review. so ever

been quick to pass the buck when things have gone wrong on his watch, and it began within the first weeks of his administration with the death of combat navy seal william ryan owens>> well, this was a mission that was started before i got here. this was something that was, you know, just -- they wanted to do. my generals are the most respected that we've had in many decades i believe, and they lost ryan. >> the president has fallen into a familiar pattern of shifting the blame for failure in his domestic agenda, blaming the democrats for his decision to rescind daca as well as his administration's family separation policy at the border as well as his lack of funding for the border wall. >>> this morning we are also following news that president trump is considering allowing russian investigators to question u.s. citizens. for more on all of that i want to bring in nbc news national political reporter heidi prisbella. hi, heidi. >> hi. we are see that vladimir putin is trying to come for american citizens. the white house is entertaining whether to permit russian prosecutors to question some of vladimir putin's biggest critics within the united states. the propose