appreciate it. >>> jeff mason and erica warner. you know, i used to be good at this.n you turn 40 and everything goes. tell me about it. you know, it's made me think, i'm closer to my retirement days than i am my college days. hm. i'm thinking... will i have enough? should i change something? well, you're asking the right questions. i just want to know, am i gonna be okay? i know people who specialize in "am i going to be okay." i like that. you may need glasses though. yeah. schedule a complimentary goal planning session today with td ameritrade. >>> this morning, a growing rift within the republican party over the controversial gop memo. the president says it vindicates him in the russia probe. democrats push to release their own memo. >>> plus, more to come following congressman devin nunes and his team have found other examples of wrongdoing within various government agencies. >>> and the eagles win the super bowl and fans have been celebrating in the streets all night long. >>> good morning,

jane: jeff mason, thanks for joining me. jeff: my pleasure. jane:as syriaccused the u.s.-led collision of war crimes after a series of air and killed 100trikes pro-government fighters. the american said advisers came in -- came under unprovoked assault and has the right to self-defense. moscow said it would raise the matter at the un security council. brish mp's gathered in washington today to grl tech giants about interference in the brexit campaign. representatives from youtube, ditter, and facebook, pus against the idea that their platforms were widely used by russia to sway results. aleem maqbool was at today's there and he joined us a short time ago. fake news is a broad umbrella. what was the actual focus? aleem: it is unhelpful, considering what they were looking at. they were looking at the dissemination of any infmation that was either incorrect or rmful, talking about things like google's autofill function on the searches from where it fills in the rest of the search. they questioned why that was directing people to hate. websit they talked about youtube's "upw

for re on the administration's response, spoke a brief time ago with jeff mason of reuters. just how troubling is this for the white house? jeff: it is troubling for the white house because this is somebody who was very important in the inner circle. he was essentially deputy chief of staff kelly.f of staff john a right-hand man to president trump, there a the time, and his role as staff secretary was to be gatekeeper of paper for t to thegs that make president's desk. so that is a very key role, and he was an important figure, and a lot of people in the white house were shaken by thesere rts, and that is one reason why it sounds like they are saying now that they didn't perhaps react quite as quickly to the allegations from his ex-wives. jane: that's right, they seemed to be defending him right until the 11th hour, particularly chief of staff john kelly. what changed? jeff: what changed is the photograph came out -- one of his former wives showed a picte of her having a black eye, saying he had hit her. the photographic evidence, rightly orrongly, was enough to change the tu

jeff mason covers all of this for reu the senate's back at 3 p.m. eastern to consider the -- to be secretary of commerce for intellectual property. and the director of u.s. patent and trademark office. a vote on that nomination at 5:30. 2. senate live on c-span >> tonight, author bill james talks about his book, the man from the train, in which he investigates one of the deadliest serial killers in history. >> many happened within 100 yards of the railroad track. us of the things that helped identify his crime as opposed to so many else's is they usually happened at the intersection of two railroad tracks. it's at the intersection of two railroad tracks because he knew, after he committed his crime he had to get out of town before dawn and he didn't want to be stranded there waiting for a train to come through. being at the intersection of multiple railroad tracks give him the opportunity to get out of town before the crime was discovered. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on a.pan's q and day -- q and about some of his districts prosecutions of people a t

let's bring back jeff mason.e are delighted you stuck with us to give us reaction listening to the president. he must have said complacent four times there. it seemedto be a real theme. the vice president spoke the day before and he warned the other side is motivated and mobilized . elections certainly are about who shows up at the polls. when you look across the political spectrum, the fact that the president is wanting to be complacent. the vice president sending a similar message. are republicans concerned when they look to 2018? >> i think they are for sure. and they have reason to be. the first reason for that is purely historical. it is historically the case that the incumbent party, the party that controls the white house loses seats during the midterm election that's something they are facing. and of course, they are facing the fact that the democratic party is very energized. there are a lot of people on the democratic side or just furious about the election from 2016 and who are furious about what's goi

jeff mason for reuters expecting anything out of them? traditionally the white house would be quiet until after the markets close. >> yes, indeed. it's hard to say. i think the biggest person to watch is the president himself. since we've been talking about this issue, he's tweeted about taxing and talked about how his tax reform and tax overhaul helped bring more money into people's paychecks and taxes down. he didn't say a single thing about the stock market. as far as the other white house officials, there's a briefing today because the president was out of town. the first time we might hear somebody talk about it is tomorrow. this is a president that loves talking about the stock market. now it's going in the opposite direction, it will be interesting to see if he addresses it. one of -- an earlier conversation you talked about taking credit or taking blame. there's nobody for president trump to blame here. you don't talk about political dysfunction leading to the drop. you can't talk about president obama's fed chair because he depar

so, jeff mason, the larger point here. the fisa warrant we're talking about is against carter page.sued in october of 2016, close to the presidential election. the reality is there are other reasons why u.s. intelligence, the fbi might be looking at carter page that have nothing to do with the president. >> absolutely. and dating back for a few years before then. so, he was clearly on the fbi's radar for sometime, and for a good reason, because of the ties that he apparently had. >> all right. well, we're going to leave this here. but we are going to have much more ahead this hour. congressman chris collins of new york, he says that the abuse at the highest levels of the d.o.j. is the stuff of hollywood and that the fisa warrant should never have been issued for carter page. >>> plus, the state of play for mid terms changing rapidly, we're going to talk about whether democrats are starting to lose their polling advantage and therefore their hopes of retaking the house. kasie d.c. back right after this. next time, i want you on my bowling team. [ laughs ] rodney. bowling. classic. ca

. >> we go to jeff mason, white house correspondent forwarders and -for reuters. this controversial memo is finally out. people have been #- - released memo. and now they've got it. >> it will certainly be more political fallout by the fact we are talking about and everyone else in washington. i think one of the questions is will anyone at the top levels of the fbi decide to resign as a result of this. there was a definite conflict and unusual and open conflict between the fbi and white house about the white house's support for releasing this memo. the fbi warning it had grave concerns about that. of course there will also be questions about any fallout at the justice department going forward as well. >> devin nunes as it there will be more memos. the next one focusing on the state department. is the deputy ag now in the crosshairs? >> he is certainly under pressure and president trump sort of eluted to that in the oval office yesterday when he was asked about whether he has confidence in him and declined to answer. clearly the president is irritated with the depu

let's get the inside scoop on all of this from peter baker and msnbc political analyst jeff mason. , do you think that the white house from your reporting is going to permit the schiff memo to come out because the president can block it. >> indeed he can. i spoke to a white house official like with the other memo this memo would need to go through the same process, needs to go through the intelligence committee, they need to make a decision there. needs to be looked at for intelligence, for methods and sources and he also mentioned that the white house hadn't seen it yet. that president trump with the previous memo had indicated sort of where he was going but hadn't actually seen it until it was delivered to the white house on monday evening. and that's the case with this one as well. >> peter baker, the fact is that some of what has been reported even in the memo itself, the memo's language about papadopoulos undercuts the basic argument the memo would invalidate the mueller probe. >> yeah. the republican memo speaks to the origin of the russia probe. speaks to one warrant. made cl

. >> jeff mason from reuters. >> i would like to ask you about an issue that i know you're passionate about. the death penalty. during president obama his second term, he asked the department of justice to do a review of the death penalty. i do not believe anything ever came of that. i'm wondering why and i am wondering if you ever decide to run for office, it is an issue that you would raise? >> yeah, no, work was underway by the time i left. i left i guess in april 2015. after having resigned i think in september 2014. but they just cannot quit me, you know? so i do not know. i do not know what happened in terms of results of that. i know what we did a similar study during the clinton administration, we release it publicly. i think i was a deputy attorney general at the time. i think we released it. i do not know what happened within the department and whether the work was completed or a decision to release, i just do not know what happened. i mean, i have spoken out about the death penalty. at that we have the greatest system of rljustice in the worl. our system of justice is compr

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i want to bring back jeff mason, jenna johnson for reactions from what you hear from the attorney generalnd what we're watching right now. >> yeah, any time you have an emotional moment like this, and we had one at the white house the other day wen these families are with the president. >> and families of other victims school shootings. >> exactly. the one thing i kept hearing over and over again is do something, make a change, we want to see something happen. there's this desire out there to see something change, to see lawmakers go something, to see the president do something. >> if that something, jeff end up being for example, the fix mix bill, does it require states to do anything, it requires more enforcement on a federal level that are reports when it comes to background checks. it was put in place and created after the sutherland springs shooting in texas, if it's taken up is it beginning to satisfy people leek the victims of the parkland shootings? >> i don't think so. the question will be will they continue to push for it and use the energy that has come from this terrible terri

. >>> joining me now, gabby rongiello and jeff mason. gabby, i'm curious about your biggest take-away from the memo. what did you find? >> i think the most important thing we saw, it sort of undercuts republicans' narrative on this. they said the entire russia probe originally came about because of the steele dossier. when in fact if you look at the contents of the memo released yesterday, it talks about george papadopoulos, being a person of concern for the fbi. and him actually being the reason that this investigation first opened. and so that kind of counters what republicans have been saying all along. and then in addition to that, i think there's been this whole conversation about this this memo among republican lawmakers like devin nunes and other who is say that it really suggests if you have malfeasance or misconduct at the fbi that immediately discredits the russia investigation and means it is unnecessary. and i think the contents of this memo did actually nothing to prove that yesterday. >> what sense to you, jeff, is there an

. >> jeff mason, reuters. >> i would like to ask you about an issue that i know you're passionate about which is the death penalty. during the presidents i believe second term, he asked the department of justice to do a review of the death penalty. i do not believe that anything ever came of that. i'm wondering why and i am wondering if you ever decide to run for office, the physician race? >> work was underway by the time i left. i left april 15 after having present in 2014. but they just cannot quit me. you know? i do not know. i do not know where, what happened in terms of results of that. i know when we did one, we did a similar study during the clinton administration and the publicly. i was deputy attorney general of the type you know will happen within the department and whether the work was completed or decision made not to release i just don't know. i mean i've spoken out about the death penalty. the greatest system of justice in the world. our system of justice is comprised of men and women who, whether they are judges prosecutor defense attorney terrorism, are trying to do the

. >> i'm lucky to have two white house reporters with me, jeff mason and asha rasco here.to ask you about this. here's what president trump tweeted. democratic memo response on government surveillance abuses is a total political and legal bust. just confirms all of the terrible things that were done so illegal. let's dig into it a little bit here. christopher steele is at the center of this and his so-called dossier. what did we learn about that and the role that he played in the fisa applications? >> the memo absolutely downplays his role. it acknowledges that some information in that application for a warrant came from politically motivated sources. it says that was a small part of the argument that was laid out for investigation of carter page and it makes clear that the fbi was also looking into carter page and his ties to russia several weeks, about seven weeks before that. so it acknowledges that that play a small role but it was a very diminished one. it said that carter page was already very prominently on the fbi's radar ahead of that. >> something that was said t

. >> jeff mason. >> i'd like to ask you about an issue which i know you are passionate about, the death penalty. during president obama second term, he asked for a review and i don't believe anything came of that. i'm wondering why and if you ever decide to run for office if that's an issue that you would raise. >> work was under way by the time i left by i guess, april 15, after having resigned in september of '14. but the republicans couldn't quit me, you know? so i don't know. i don't know what happened in terms of the results of that. i know we did one -- a similar study during the clinton administration and we released publicly. i was the deputy attorney general at the time and i think we released it. i don't know what happened in the department and whether the work was completed or if a decision was made. i don't know what happened. i've spoken out about the death penalty. i think we have the greatest system of justice in the world. it is comprised of men and women, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys and jurors trying to do our best. but human beings make mistakes. we have see

prosecutor and former deputy assistant attorney general during the clinton administration, and jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. gentlemen, thanks for being here. ned, this has been a partisan fight over these memos. does the house intelligence investigation still have any credibility with folks who are watching this process play out? >> well, i think, aaron, the credibility has diminished over the course of the past nine or ten months, really starting with chairman nunes' gamut back in the spring of last year when he secretly collaborated with the white house to launder intelligence to bring to the fore baseless allegations about unmasking and leaking. let's be clear, it's been chairman nunes and his staff that have done that almost singlehandedly. you hear from ranking member schiff and his staff, as well as, frankly, from other republican members of the panel, including mike conaway, who while nunes was recused from russia matters led the investigation, and led it with a much higher degree of success than we've seen from devin nunes. i don't think it's right to impugn

margaret: i thank my dear friend jeff mason. i was his wing man. look, with any new administration, you have the challenge of them wanting to do things their way and find their footing. in this case, you have an additional couple of layers because the point of the campaign is i do not care how everyone does things, this is how i will do them. and then there was the steve blow-the-hole-thing-up thing. there is a part of the brand, part of the pitch to the president trump base. saying this is how we have always done it is the worst. just because it was done wrong, we will do it differently. there was kind of a political wind towards the idea of him speaking about changing everything. it was the same challenge, but with an added degree of difficulty. there is a reason for journalism and the american public. to be in the room for oval office praise and such. there is an incentive for a white house administration to continue those traditions as well. i think the challenge was to be able to facilitate those conversations and encourage them to understand

joining us on the phone is white house reporter for reuters, jeff mason.hank you for being us op a sunday morning. i want to begin with where the week begins with the president the f.b.i. and the justice department. guest: well that's a good question, steve. the fallouts from the memo released last week and just kind of continuing ramifications from that is where we'll start on monday. whether or not anyone at the f.b.i. decides to step down, i think it's still an open question. and whether or not the president, you know, sort of responds to this ongoing questions and whether he will fire somebody else at the department of justice as a result. important context. the white house officials did say last week that he was not considering firing a deputy attorney general rod rose steen -- rosenstein. host: and christopher ray saying for everyone to carry on with their jobs. doesn't sound that white house insiders were concerned he may step down. guest: yeah, greed. there were those reports and you're right to say that that memo or that message that he -- to empl

national security of the national security law program at georgia mason university and also former senior adviser to senator bob corker. jeff, you're the lucky guy in warm florida today. what was the president doing this weekend and why did he got to angry on twitter? >> i can tell you that a white house official says the president opted against his usually weekend golf routine. instead spent saturday and sunday at mar-a-lago out of respect for the victims of the parkland high school shooting and their families. so he stayed away from his golf club. instead he watched cable tv in a you see and responded in realtime on his twitter account in the process of, elevating talking points where he suggested the fbi's failure to stop the gunman at the florida high school just 40 minutes from here was somehow linked to the fact agents were too much involved in the russia investigation. look, he said nothing to the point about vladimir putin or about how he would thwart continued russian attempts to interfere in the 2018 midterm election and beyond. >> quick side note, he said he didn't golf this weekend. where is he now? >> he just r

jeff white, kristin alexander, christina mason, thelma blair, damon preston. these are some of those that we thought about weaving into the conversation. in the days, weeks and months ahead i will take some of your e-mails and respond to them probably one-on-one directly in the form of video response. i want to thank each of you who took the time to weigh in. i want to thank the cabinet secretaries. it is nearly unprecedented that you would have a cabinet that two plus years in that is the same group that was here. i don't know where they are all sitting. right up here. i want to thank you for the work that you have done. how about a round of applause for our cabinet secretaries. [ applause ] thank you. the fact that they still all sit together and like each other, spend time another inside and outside of work trully grateful to each and everyone of you for what you do to lead the commonwealth forward. i want to thank our lieutenant governor who has been my right arm. i thank you for the job you do to represent kentucky so well day in and day out in so many or