john heilemann, let's go to you for a quick response. what did you learn today?here, joe. >> that's not nice. i'm sitting next to you. >> i don't believe it. katy tur, what did you learn? >> there are a lot of questions that need answers. right now, the answers are not going to come out unless there is a special prosecutor. >> rick? >> i think article v should be revised as something that triggers a defense agreement of nato. >> all right. casey, what did you learn? >> i think jeff sessions has a lot of questions to answer so far. joe? >> thank you, casey. thank you everybody. there are a lot of questions being asked today for good reason. it seems like everything that the trump administration has said the last month about contacts with russians may not be true. well, that's all the time we have for this morning and this week. thank you so much for being with with us. let's stick around and get more news coverage from stephanie ruhle. stephanie? what are you looking at today? >> so, so much. breaking news overnight. president trump firing back, calling accusation

john heilemann is literally unafraid to ask anyone anything at any time in the same pursuit. mr. heilemann: one of the ways you know you are doing your job is if you are kissing people off with some frequency. at this moment, the most important thing is to hold powerful interest to account, without fear and with a certain kind of oppositional attitude, because that is what we are there to do. we are there to be the representatives for people who live in this country. >> i remember mark back in the day in new hampshire, 1991 and 1992, when bill clinton was first running for president. mark was always first, and i knew what the competition was going to be like. mr. halperin: the times when governments to do things that are dangerous, even a time of national crisis, when the press must be vigilant. mr. heilemann: we have a new president who is novel in almost every way, challenging boundaries and norms that have gone unchallenged for a long time. mr. halperin: it is an age in which people are concerned about whether the media is fair, accurate, whether you can trust different sources

political analyst john heilemann. and mark and john have big news to announce and get to that in a moment. congratulations. we love it. joe, you're down in washington for some meetings but you couldn't make it back up because of the weather. did you see the little girl? speaking of the weather. we will explain this to you. >> oh! >> we will have that. bill karins will talk about the incredible wind and rough weather across the country j new a moment! she is okay. she's okay. but before we dive into new. >>> joe, what is your take in washington? you had meetings yesterday on where things stand across the board. >> two big takeaways. one, everybody is questioning why the house did what they did, why they handled health care the way they did. the senators, tom cotton is right. so many senators believing they made a mistake by repeating the mistakes of the democrats in 2009, rushing into this. and the concerns also being whispered in the white house. really surprised that the house gop team didn't have everybody together,

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plawz welcome the host of showtime's "the circus," mark halperin and john heilemann.u. hugs. he hugged me. i want to point out, i want to point out that he hugged me. he shook my hand. >> you still need comforting from election night, stephen. >> i was afraid if i hugged you, i would need to cradle you in my arms you. >> stephen: are not a big comforter because the last time we were here together, this is what you said. i asked both of you what you that you want the election meant. i asked both of you what you thought the election meant. and this is what you guys said. >> donald trump stage aid hostile takeover of the republican party on the right and now we are where we are. >> world war ii, and 9/11, this may be the most cataclysmic event the country has ever seen. >> stephen: oh, well... we'll be right back after this message from calgon. >> i might have understated it. ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: so in all seriousness, do you see-- in all seriousness on a comedy show-- inule seriousness, do you see anything in the first 45 days that is sort of fruit of tha

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hacking of the dnc, insisting that chats were innocuous, but he also appears in the circus with john heilemannt the russian tea room where he admits to having a mutual friend and a back channel to julian assange. so, is there something more here to come out from roger stone and his behavior behind the scenes? >> well, he has repeatedly said that they have a mutual friend that he has received information from and stated it as a legal back channel, and so, he says that he's done nothing wrong here. i think the key thing is that he does not work at the white house. he did not work for donald trump after 2015. he was dismissed. and so, if that is the case, it's not clear how often he is talking to president donald trump or white house staffers at this point and what people at the white house may know as a result of his conversations. >> all right. we'll wait to see what comes out of all of this. again, that date to circle, march 20th. francesca, thanks so much. pema, thank you. appreciate your time. another question we'll be exploring in a bit, white house democrats are threatening to pull out alt

david ignatius and john heilemann are there. you could not stop reading breslin, no matter what you thought about him or what he was writg, he was addressing issues in a way that, you know, people could become instantly familiar with it in about 900 lines of typewritten words in a newspaper. he was a magical, magical writer. i cannot say enough about him. >> mike, we will get more from you on jimmy breslin's impact on journalism later in the show. thank you, mike. >> david? >> jimmy breslin was a man who bled on the page if he had something to say. >> right. a good way of putting it. >> he was so visceral. mike barnicle was one of them and bill from my paper "the washington post" just captured the way cities lived and people read him every morning the way, i hope, people watch "morning joe," that wanted to connect with the story. but jimmy breslin was a rare man who said everything that was in his heart and found a way to speak and was loved by his readers for that. >> and he was a new yorker above all else. one of the quotes th

c john heilemann, and mark halperin. they're the co-creator s circus" on showtime. let's talk about mike mulvaneny talking to reporters saying, this should is not come as a surprise. >> everything that trump does should surprise people. but so much is so undecembprece and shocking. but it's what he said he would do been. cuts at the epa, and 21% at the department of agriculture. is this donald trump the businessman and the negotiator? is this an opening bid? >> it's an opening bid. and it's a strange political risk to take because it isn't going to happen. the headlines about the percentages, the specific programs. there's a lot of pushback, not just from democrats but from republicans. this is what business people think about washington, right? programs are too big. too departments fur was asked to , john. do you or do they have n laj ogic. up in a net ofthate's led them i way from new york and washington, whether you think -- it's a serious accusation. but do people care about this? especially on a day when they're learning more about pocketbook issues? >> i don't

john heilemann, among others.ighting the trump administration on not one but two, but three fronts. health care, immigration, the white house budget proposal. democratic governor of washington state is jay inslee joining us here. >> good morning. >> we have heard from republican governors like john kasich and john brewer and rick snyder that the medicaid expansion rollback the next couple of years proposed in this bill would be devastating to their states. how did is it it hit yours? >> it hits states led by republican and democratic governors. in my state, 600,000 people would be thrown overboard on health care. these are people with cancer, respiratory problems, veterans, seniors, kids with long-term chronic disabilities. and they would be simply thrown over, 600,000 people and that is six super bowl stadiums full of people that today in the house might be tossing them off of kor coverage. i think the governors understand the personal consequences of this and the financial ones as well because it will bust our b