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. >> more i'm joined by the roundtable tonight, glenn thrush, white house correspondent or "the new yorkes." april ryan, white house correspondent for american urban radio. ken vogel, chief political reporter for politico. let's put it together. the three big stories tonight. let's start with the one that nunes, chair of the house intelligence committee came out and tried to, well, mess up the perception that trump was not, was not under surveillance, when in fact, what he said today has something to do with the trance sigs period, vaguely surveillance, something being picked up incidentally whereas trump's charge of a couple weeks ago in his tweets were very clear. he said president obama wiretapped me at trump tower during the campaign. i don't think a word of that has been challenged effectively. >> well, we've been reporting for weeks and weeks and weeks that, you know, wiretaps may have picked up vary members of trump's campaign at trump tower. and, again, i remember -- i'm old enough to remember when the white house was saying that was an intentful wiretap. look, the president said

out ahead of melissa mccarthy's material, when as he did tonight, he got in a twitter war with glenn thrush of "the new york times." for how long can this go on? >> i'm not entirely sure. it was sustainable during the campaign. the sort of -- i don't want to call it controlled chaos but the chaos of the campaign worked in donald trump's -- to his advantage. he was at the front of the headlines every single day. he dominated the news cycle. all the conversation was about him. it worked in his favor. in the white house, it is a different story because you can't just talk, you've also got to get things done. and so far, they're not getting things done. the biggest loser of today was neil gorsuch. nobody's talking about neil gorsuch. his supreme court nominee. that is a huge story that played second, third, fourth, fifth fiddle to the news of the day, the other thing that's on everyone's mind, health care. >> yeah. >> no one's talking about health care. donald trump needs to push that forward in order to pass the house and pass the senate, get on his desk so he can sign it and so far that is no

glenn thrush, of course, white house correspondent for "the new york times." senator, i was impressed, i thought i was watching a classic real senate hearing today. you and lindsey graham i thought gave credit to the institution of the senate. grown-up behavior there. any evidence whatever have you seen that president obama wiretapped trump as a candidate? any evidence? anybody have any evidence? >> zero, but the way you settle that question is by asking for the warrant applications that would have been filed in order to get permission for the wiretap. and it's a little hard to understand why the department of justice is not disclosing those. we've allowed them to redact them as they wish. it may be nothing but paper with lots of black lines, but -- >> yeah. >> -- it would provide the actual factual answer to that question because you don't go with the wiretap unless you've applied for it and that's something that gets done in writing. >> within our constitutional system, could the president of the united states, the chief executive, call up the fbi dictor and

we'll begin with a quote tonight from "the new york times," the journalist glenn thrush. he writes "mr. trump's allies have begun to wonder if his need for self-expression often on social media will exceed his instinct for self-preservation with disastrous results both for the president and a party whose fate is now tightly tied to his. mr. thrush's colleague, maggie haberman, goes on to say, "this was the start of confirmation hearings for a potential new justice on the supreme court yet that's not the lead story tonight. this is." can you chock this up to an unforced error on the part of the president, the white house? >> the tweets? or, look, this is the way i look at it, as a former undercover officer in the cia who's dealt with classified information, i spent a lot of time overseas, now that is confirmed that the fbi is doing an investigation. everybody should give the fbi the time to do their investigation and conclude it however the fbi sees fit. and there shouldn't be any interference or talk about it and then once that investigation is complete, that's when the h

i watched reporters at the table that morning, including jim fallows of the atlantic and glenn thrushf the new york times, and their jaws literally dropped. the president of the united states has divided not only the electorate of this country but also has refused to call on representatives of major news organizations at press conferences, singled out for inclusion, favored print and broadcast organizations, and literally banned others from attending meetings. where does this take us? now, i would like to read for you a few paragraphs from a book written in 1995. quote, "i have a foreboding of an america in my children's or grandchildren's time. when the united states is a service and information economy, when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries, when technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issue, when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledge of the -- knowledgeably question those in authority, when clutching our crystals and nervously chec

"the new york times" piece this morning, glenn thrush wrote of the president's speech, he said in presidentrump's world, boring is disruptive because i guess he was maybe boring last night, and it got everybody talking. >> jon: by his standards, he probably was boring. i heard you ask john on the other side of our talk here whether this is a pivot. i am not personally ready to say this is a pivot because as you kind of noted they are, donald trump, if you remember during the campaign, he had many pivots, he said we are now seeing the general election donald trump, now seeing the professional donald trump and he always went back to who he was which is not a bad thing, it won him the presidency obviously. listen, for this moment, donald trump has a lot of momentum. he did not do anything that was particularly offensive to republicans, and he has democrats on their heels now. democrats come on the other hand, the one miscalculation that democrats are pointing outs that as much as he might not want to admit it, donald trump needs nancy pelosi. i know some of your viewers may not want to hear th

we have reporting last night from glenn thrush and maggie hab haberman that the president or people close to him were cutting paul ryan loose and trying to blame him for what could be a defeat here. you have nancy pelosi the cheshire cat saying if you can't count the votes why do you go to the floor. >> sure. >> the very good vote counter she is. >> she is. >> despite being in the minority and at the same time you have open warfare between the chair and the vice chair of a bipartisan committee house intel. >> the house is a mess and it's funny you bring that up. speaker ryan has a crisis on his hands in the intel committee that right now is a backburner issue. he has to deal with it. i think it is, there is, two ways to look at the situation. unin one he's a man on an island. nobody is coming to his defense among house republicans. nobody rallied around him. >> he did something nobody does. >> correct and he's not gotten that -- usually your boss, if you're not going to, if your job is not in trouble might give you a look, don't worry, that was a hiccup, don't do that again. you haven't g

. >> joy reid, david ignatius, glenn thrush, wearing his trusty hat. love that hat.e we have to leave it this friday. i'm katy tur. it's been one heck of a friday, hasn't it? kate snow picks things up right now. also, if you want to see more of me, i'm filling in for chuck todd on "meet the press daily." >> i called you the hardest working person in journalism the other day. katy, thank you so much. >> i like show biz. >> i did, but then people gave me a hard time i said show biz. it's a saying, you're just hard working, okay? that was an amazing interview that just happened, by the way. i'm kate snow. here are our top stories. general flynn resigned weeks ago but questions over his lobbying and what the trump transition team knew about it or didn't keep dragging him back into the narrative. tough questions for sean spicer. has the white house story changed? >>> details, details. president trump meeting with house republicans as they move to move their obamacare through key committees but could security questions of mike flynn distract from that process? when it come

glenn thrush. >> reporter: so the follow-up on the follow-up.ms of you were given an opportunity on air to say whether or not the president still supported director comey. does the president support director comey, and a quick follow-up? >> i have no reason to believe he doesn't. he has not suggested that to me. now to the nonfollow-up. >> reporter: have you seen evidence yourself? had the evidence been shared with you or other members, senior members of the president's staff as to why he made this particular accusation? >> as far as me? no. i am not in the position that would be part of my daily duties for the president to do that. that's a level above my pay grade. as i mentioned, i think the president believes that the appropriate place for this to be adjudicated is for the house and senate intelligence committees to have the clearances, the staff, the processes, to go through this, look at it, and report back. as the president made very clear -- i'm not going to -- as the president said in the statement issued on sunday. we're not going to h

did you also notice the confirmation of last night's overnight glenn thrush, maggie has be haberman, new york times story, that what he wanted was tax reform, which quote, i've always liked. so they moved the band on to the next challenge. >> this will be the monday morning quarterback. what should they have started back? tax reform -- here's the wild card, here's the one a lot of people expected or thought might be happening after the election. infrastructure. he's talking about democratic support. he got blue-collar support in traditionally democratic states, union support. he talked about infrastructure. what if he started on day one and said, i'm going something on infrastructure. i'm going to prove i'm a different kind of republican and prove i'm a republican they can vote for with the hard hats and in wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan, that would have forced a lot of the democrats from donald trump districts to think about getting on board early. what if he started with that to put a win on the board with infrastructure and then pivoted to something like this? might be a differ