as a from one of the bill supporters jonathan alexander represents a u.s. national pro-life center he joins us from washington welcome to day it must be feeling very pleased with this decision thank you for having me i think it's a decision that reflects the citizens of alabama asking and answering the question what does life begin in the life begins at conception what legal steps need to be done to protect that life and when critics say that you are effectively with this bill trying to. significantly limits women's rights to tell me how do you respond. well there is 2 patients there during an abortion procedure 2 patients there what a woman availed herself to the procedure of an abortion and now we have a law in alabama that recognizes that there is a life in the womb that the life they began at conception also deserves legal protection it's a young girl inside of that womb and that young girl's demands and shall receive under the alabama law that legal protection so that life can be carried to term and the birth into this world and you see the difference

. >> joining me now nbc white house correspondent peter alexander and jonathan lamire. peter, first to you. the president was fired up and ready to go this morning. >> reporter: you're exactly right. you have challenging hour ahead because there's a lot of fact checking that needs to be done of the assessments that we heard out of the president's mouth this morning. his first reaction on camera to the mueller report. let's focus on what you started with there. some of those attacks on robert mueller. here is a tweet the president posted. the president wrote robert mueller came to the oval office along with other potential candidates. he had been in that position for 12 years. i hold him no. the next day he was named special counsel. a total conflict of interest. nice. chief strategist back in the day. told mueller's team of investigators. they told president trump that he wasn't conflicted. robert mueller was not conflicted and bannon's words were ridiculous. this is volume two, page 80 if you're looking for it. he said other things that bannon did not come into the ova

reporter john allen wrote about this and peter alexander is at the white house. jonathan, here's what surprises me, i thought this was not going to happen. the president didn't want it. sources close to don jr. said no we. what happened here? >> good morning, stephanie. i think what happened here is basically donald trump jr. decided it was in his interest to come and talk to the senate. i spoke to a source close to him yesterday. their version of the story was he was ready to defy the senate and ultimately got an agreement to come in and limit the scope of the topics he would talk about, five, six topics he would limit the amount of time to two to four hours. but in reality there's nothing that would stop democratic senators from asking him whatever they want to ask him about. and there's nothing that would stop donald trump jr. from basically taking the fifth at any point or getting up and leaving. the real question with all of that being the case and backdrop, why would he make an agreement to come in and talk to the committee, and the answer is he decided it was bette

surveillance" football punditry jonathan ferro, he said shut up and watch it so i guess i will watch it. that i would like to point out, something really unique, trent alexandercorner kick in the history, started out working with the liverpool youth league when he was 14 years old. there is something different about this than american sports. this kid's homegrown from day one out of liverpool, and as the coach said, it is the greatest corner kick since time began. francine: whether you are a sports fan or not, this was against all odds. the odds of liverpool piercing through the barcelona defense four times without their best strike, i don't know if there were odds but it probably would have been 1000-1. maybe it follows to other businesses as well. tom: they go in this weekend with really important games and that battle against manchester city. i have no idea what i'm talking about. francine: sounds good. tom: we will think michael mckee for a great conversation with richard clarida. >> inflation has been running on the soft side and we think there are temporary factors so inflation will move up towards our 2% objective, but we are looking at the data closel