dan stein is wrong about one thing. a bipartisan group of former high-level national security officials has come forward in the courts below and come forward in the supreme court again to say, there is no national security justification for the president to discriminate against this group of people in this way. the president has said while he was a candidate, again during his presidency, and as recently as june 5th. you know what i meant. i said i was going to ban immigrants from the united states and that's what i'm doing and reaffirmed it. put that issue squarely in front of the court. this is not about national security. i'm doing something as president to carry out my promise to exclude muslims because of their religion. >> in the fall we'll see if the court decides on the lower courts on that. thank you to both of you. chris? >> good conversation, brianna. thank you for that. >>> things take time. no question about it, but president trump, he often says he's going to tell us in two weeks. you've heard that about a

joining us to debate dan stein, journalist and radio talkshow host jim mil, i heard this before, why clinton understood the center of the issue and the democratic party was very different. what we have now is collective stupid 24/7 but back then bill clinton understood the dynamics of the issue. republicans to congress in 1994, first time in my lifetime. one of the first priorities, been illegal immigrants from welfare for five years and they passed that law and find it. cash-based federal assistance. into the country, poor education skill levels, welfare use is skyrocketing and all kinds of loopholes. the bathtub is overflowing commuters pick up a spoon, you turn off the spigot. what trump promised the campaign was levels of immigration down to a more refined, highly skilled flow that wouldn't need welfare at the same level. >> a broken clock is right twice a day. i don't that is a bad policy. my issue is there are a number of loopholes that make it sound as if trump doesn't understand the way politics works right now. welfare reform and welfare policy is reserved to the states. dep

rob rope and stein -- cn -- national intelligence, dan coats, and director admiral rogers. on the camilla harris intelligence committee freshman senator from california in her bestioning was told to yesterday,equested c-span was on capital to talk to members about how they are preparing for today's hearing. here is angus king. >> how are you preparing for tomorrow's hearing? >> basically reviewing the to prior hearings, discussing these issues and doing all the reading i can and trying to think of the questions. i will not be questioning until fourth or fifth down the list. a lot of what i will do will be filling in on the questions that have not been offered. >> what do you think you will get to? >> you have to wait until tomorrow to think -- to see that. host: that was senator angus king on capitol hill. he will get his turn later in the hearing. it will begin with opening statements of the chair and vice chair and then mr. comey, we will hear from him and he will be reading the words he put out yesterday. openingges, his statement, detailing conversations, and one-on-one

director mike rogers, deputy attorney general rob rosen stein, and f.b.i. and dan coats, director of national ntelligence. senator westerner: everyone wants to interfere or down play or halt the ongoing investigation not only the justice department taking on but this committee as taking on. i hope as we move forward on this you'll realize the importance that the american public deserves to get the answers to these questions. thank you. >> senator, i would like to respond to that if i could. director coats: first of all, i told you, i committed to the committee that i would be available to testify before the committee. i don't think this is the appropriate venue to do this. given that this is an open hearing, a lot of confidential information. relative to intelligence or other matters. i just don't feel it's appropriate for me to do that in this situation. then secondly, when i was asked yesterday to respond to a piece told was going to be written and printed in "the washington post" this morning, my response to that was in my time of told was service, which interac

today the senate intel committee, dan coates will be there, rod rosen stein. that's a prelude to what's going to happen tomorrow. mika has the morning off. msnbc contributor mike barnicle, seor political analyst for nbc news and msnbc mark halperin. senior political editor and white house correspondent for the "huffington post," sam stein, chair of the department of african-american studies eddie glaude, junior. nbc news capitol hill news correspondent kasie hunt and "new york times" reporter michael schmidt. good morning all. >> willie, they're all here for one reason, mike barnicle, and that reason is the red sox-yankees series matters again. kimbrel matters again. that's what america wants to talk about. >> kimbrel comes out last night and shuts them down. wril lee? >> i saw. >> i'm sort of like comey and jeff sessions with willie. >> don't leave me in a room? >> don't want to be with him. >> we have our reasons. let's dive in. fbi director james comey is set to testify tomorrow, and we're get to new reporting on that in just a moment. first today we'll hea