just real quickly on katy tur's point. perhaps the most revealing part of this briefing is the most untruthful is paul manafort was only involved in the campaign a limited role. spicer was given an opportunity to correct that. he issued a further untruth saying he was here from june or ran the campaign from june to august. as katy just said. he was there for five to six months, depending on how you count the weeks. that's a good fourth of the duration of the campaign. it gives you an indication they may potentially be worried about what paul manafort and his contact with the russians as this now is in part of a formal investigation. the first time it's confirmed from comey on the hill. and now the white house is saying, well, we always knew that. well, how do we know that? anonymous sourcing. guys? >> hans nichols in the white house briefing room. katy, one more bite at this. we'll have ample chance to look back on the contemporaneous coverage of the arrival of manafort, you and others, but he was painted in the moment as

here to talk about that, katy tur remains with us.ng us, andrew rice who wrote the definitive article on jared kushner. andrew, that's where we'll start. when you meet someone who knows your work knows your subject matter, when they ask, because he is suddenly an important national figure whose fault is not that he has no experience governing, who is jared kushner? >> he is somebody who is fiercely loyal to the president. his ethic even before any this happened was family first. you know, it's what he always said. and i think that means, you know, that he is somebody who is just there to do the will of donald trump. >> and beyond th, the business experience we hear the president touting. were you in your report able to glean anything about its transfer nlt into this unwieldy position, being in the west wing of any white house is an other worldly experience? >> i mean, jared is very much like sort of part of this cad ray of young businessmen in manhattan highly influenced by silicon valley. his brother in fact is a venture capitalist,

i am katy tur in new york, in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily" and welcome to march madness. congress has broken, wikileaks is targeting the cia, and the cloud of russia continues to darken over this white house. faith in these three american institutions -- congress, the cia, the white house -- may be a the a breaking point. at a moment when the country faces a daunting combination of domestic crises and foreign threats. we're going to spend most of the hour diving into these three major story lines, the

. >> our panel is back with us, jeremy bash, katy tur, philip bump. jeremy, you know, an obama former ambassador to russia has called it an act of war. centrist tv viewers who never liked anything that dick cheney ever said surely will look at that and say, yeah, that's how we used to refer to russia, before all this other russia talk threatened to become normalized. that was normal. >> yeah, brian. i think the vice president -- the rm forevice president has it exactly right, which -- the former vice president has it exactly right, which it's not an issue of the president's legitimacy. ist he is the president. his legitimacy comes from his ability to preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states and not have his presidency or his policies undermined by a foreign power. that's what is so gravely serious about this situation. and to have the investigations compromised, to have all these schenn an begans to get out from the core issue which is a national security threat to our country and to our constitution, that is what must change

role in the campaign and to suggest that those are the basis for anything is a bit ridiculous. >> katy turp convention was called paul manafort's show. contemporaneously at the time. there was no larger figure other than the candidate, himself, in the campaign. >> and that was in july. not june. and paul manafort started in march. so the timeline that sean spicer just laid out is incorrect. he was there for much longer than that. he was there for five, going on six months. he was there for longer than steve bannon ran the campaign. paul manafort was brought in to professionalize the trump campaign. to add some experience. you just heard don jr. call it amateur hour with corey lewandowski.

i'm katy tur. can you follow me on facebook and twitter. kate, it was so striking to see this hearing going on on one side of the screen and donald trump coming out, taking the stage in ypsilanti on the other. a lot of folks on social media were saying they believe he timed it that way. the timing was that way to begin with during the day, so we can -- >> mostly. although he was a little late. we were running a pool upstairs about how late he would be. he was a little late. it was striking, though. katy, thank you so much. we have so much to cover this afternoon. i'm kate snow. top three stories we're following right now on this busy day. president trump just wrapping up that speech. you saw it. it was outside detroit, michigan, after he met with auto industry ceos and union leaders. the president spoke about jobs and manufacturing, saying he's going to fight to keep auto production here in the united states. we'll bring you a full report from michigan in just a moment. also bombshell news from the department of justice today. the doj is ch

up next, katy tur. >>> hey, good afternoon, i'm katy tur in for steve kornacki live in new york. today is day 57 of the first 100 days and topping the agenda right now, not backing down. >> as far as wiretapping, i guess by, you know, this past administration, at least we have something in common. >> president trump holds firm on his claim that president obama wiretapped him after his first face to face meeting with german chancellor angela merkel. >>> also on the agenda, was there an apology? what the white house says now about whether they regret suggesting the british helps wiretapped trump tower. the president crediting the claim to fox news. fox says they can't confirm it. >>> and rounding out the agenda, whipping up the votes. >> all of these noes were potential noes are all yeses. every single person sitting in this room is now a yes. >> the final house vote for president trump's health care bill scheduled for thursday. donald trump going face to face negotiating for support. all of that still ahead this afternoon. >>> but we start right now with our top story. president t

up next, katy tur. >>> hey, good afternoon, i'm katy tur in for steve kornacki live in new york.y is day 57 of the first 100 days and topping the agenda right now, not backing down. >> as far as wiretapping, i guess by, you know, this past administration, at least we have something in common. >> president trump holds firm on his claim that president obama wiretapped him after his first face to face meeting with

nbc's katy tur is with us as well.ical science and director for the institute of national studies at stanford university. good morning all. ambassador, let me start with you. you are qualified to talk about everything that's been going on the last 48 hours or so. do you find it unusual, we could put the testimony of jeff sessions under oath to decide, but do you find it unusual at all that the russian ambassador would seek a meeting with a member of the armed services committee? >> do i find it unusual he would seek a meeting with the member? the answer is -- it's unusual to meet with a generic senator on that committee. but, most certainly, it's not unusual for ambassador kes l kislyak to meet with senator sessions. he was a close confident of donald trump. i have dealt with with kislyak for many years. he would try to get information to inform his government about a possible future trump administration. that's exactly what he was doing. >> what do you think the meeting would look like? obviously you don't have detail

i'm katy tur from new york. in for chuck todd. to the president involving embattled attorney general jeff sessions. moments ago sessions held a press conference announcing he is recusing himself from any investigation involving the trump campaign. >> i asked for the candid and honest opinion about what i should do about investigations. se certain investigations. my staff recommended recusal. they said that since i had involvement with the campaign i should not be involved in any campaign investigation. i believe those recommendations are right and just. therefore, i have recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. >> sessions' announcement comes after a growing chorus of republicans joined countless democrats in calling for the a.g. to step aside from an investigation into contact between trump campaign officials and russian officials. many democrats even wanting him to step down. the fury comes after the department of justice confirmed reports that sessions met with sergei kislyak. he said under oath, quote,

good evening i'm katy tur in for chuck todd. more than ever, trump's white house needs a w on the board. and more than ever, that w seems to be in serious peril. the white house's credibility took another major hit with fbi director comey rejected the president's wiretapping claims. their opposition, got a shot in the arm after comey said he was investigating the trump campaign for possible criminal activity. democratic led fill buster is now a very real possibility. you're looking at live pictures of judge gorsuch's confirmation hearing right now. they're going on about hour nine. the white house's agenda is also in peril. they're plan to repeal and replace obama skair on the brink as the house readies for a vote on thursday. here is the biggest question right now for trump's white house. with less than 48 hours until that vote. can an embattled president who's on the fog of an fbi probe close the deal with an anxious republican party? and what if he can't? according to our nbc news count, 26 house republicans now say they cann

here to talk about all that, katy tur joins us, also matthew wright. andrew, that's where we will start when you meet someone who knows your by line, subject matter when they ask because he suddenly is an important national figure whose fault is not that he has zero experience governorin governing, who is jared kushner? >> somebody fiercely loyal to the president. anything before this happened was family first is what he always said and i think that means that you know he is somebody who is just there to do the will of donald trump. >> and beyond that, the business experience, we hear the president touting, were you in your reporting able to glean anything about its transferability into this unwieldy position being in the west wing of any white house as any other worldly experience? >> jared is part of this cad re of young men brought by silicon valley and bringing these ideas of innovation, disruption into the public sphere is something that he's talked a lot about doing. of course the transferability of that is a big question, i think i saw in the "w

mtp daily starts now with katie tur in for chuck, katie. >>> if it's monday, wiretaps, conspiracies,ost-truth presidency. >>> good evening, i'm katie tur in new york. welcome to mtp daily. today the white house doubled down on president trump's call for congress to investigate his unsubstantiated claims that president obama wiretapped trump tower during the campaign. this is not the first time president trump has made baseless and bizarre claims, but it's certainly the most provocative and potentially the most damaging. without offering any evidence whatsoever, the current president of the united states says he knows for a fact that the former president tapped his phones. and now he's calling on congress to investigate, and they have agreed, this is going to get messy no matter what. either the president is right or he is wrong. and if he is wrong, he will hav abused the -- he will abuse the office of the president to prompt a congressional investigation into a political faux. and not just p

i'm katie tur alongside cal perry and louis burgdorf. this morning the world is learning more about donald trump's taxes. the president refused to release them throughout his campaign, the transition and his administration. but last night rachel maddow got ahold of some of them. she revealed two pages of the 1040, but no itemized pages. it showed $38 million paid to the federal income tax, $150 million in income and $103 in losses. nothing to show how he made his money were included. these were obtained by someone from dc.org. the filing apparently came in the mail. who sent them? it's a mystery. >> if you haven't solicited something -- by the way, let me point out, it is entirely possible that donald sent this to me. donald trump over the years has leaked all sorts of things. >> the president paid a tax rate of 25% because of the alternative minimum tax. mitt romney by comparison paid 14% and took heavy fire during the 2012 campaign. as maddow prepared to go on the air, the white house acknowledged the documents writing, quote, before b

katy tur in for chuck. >>> in it's monday, a historic moment at a hearing on the hill deepens. the president's credibility crisis. tonight, tapped out. fbi director james comey shoots down the president's wiretap claims. >> i have no information that supports those tweets. and we have looked carefully inside the fbi. >> and confirms a probe into a possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia. >>> plus supreme pick. a battle 13 months in the making begins today. >> i'm dying for somebody over there tell me why he's not qualified to be sitting here. >> and how today's hearings on the hill took a page from this '80s classic. >> bueller. bueller. bueller. >> this is mtp daily, and it starts right now. >>> good evening, i'm katy tur in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to mtp daily. we begin tonight with a stunning rebuke of a sitting president by his intelligence chiefs. today, both the fbi director james comey and nsa director mike rogers, both holdovers from the obama administration, testified publicly in front of the house intelligence committee. and questioned the

katy tur is here with us inside the studio, having covered the trump effort from the very beginning. as i said to peter alexander, in normal times, while you talk, we will wait and watch for the president to come up the steps. his car is just over the horizon there. in normal times, right now a president would be campaigning. campaigning maybe even whistle stop tours to get health care sold. there have been a few other subjects on our minds. >> not campaigning for re-election, but for the health care bull his trying to push through. we saw him do a little of that yesterday in kentucky, in louisville, kentucky, when he spoke to the crowd and emphatically called out senator rand paul, who has been one of the most outspoken critics of this bill, as it stands. somebody who said they would vote no against it as it stands. you can see right now, donald trump, you can tell because his personal security guard towers above the rest of the group there. there is the president making his way into the bowls of capitol hill. for him, right now, this is a do or die moment. he's got to be the closer

charl charlie sykes, katy tur, joel benenson. , you enjoyed a little time off camera, heard what he said, look, katy, he's pretty sure exactly how putin operates and more definitive about what happened in his mind probably because he's witnessed russia doing these things, oh by the way, he's had his own life threatened by putin over the years. there isn't that definitiveness in the united states on this yet. >> no. >> there is a lot to glean from him. >> there's not that definitiveness. a lot of smoke, so far no fire. one group of people say, listen, with all this smoke, by now you should have found a fire. you can't keep saying is and saying and saying it. >> the best spin the trump people have right now. >> there's a whole other group that says, listen, you can't have all this smoke without something going on and if there is all this smoke, why would the trump campaign not go above and beyond to be as clear about their connections to russia as they possibly can? and there are others who say but a thebecause there is so much conf

. >> nbc's katy tur and julie page joins us with reporting.tradition, barack obama was the last -- stop. don't say it. why did they let him? >> before that it was george w. bush. >> whee. >> look at that. that's how you throw a baseball there. there he goes. with a vest on. that's what i'm talking about. look at that. >> okay. okay. so why has president trump declined the honor? i know why. we'll talk about that. >> at the home plate. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ sfx: engine revving ♪ (silence) ♪ knows how it feels to seees your numbers go up, despite your best efforts. but what if you could turn things around? what if you could love your numbers? discover once-daily invokana®. it's the #1 prescribed sglt2 inhibitor that works to lower a1c. invokana® is a pill used along with diet and exercise to significantly lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. and in most clinical trials, the majority reached an a1c goal of 7 percent or lower. invokana® works around the clock by sending some sugar out of your body through the process of urinati

katy tur is up next. >> i'm katy tur in for craig melvin at msnbc headquarters in new york. >>> criticalican health re plan facing more opposition from outside the beltway. the president of the american medical association shares why his organization is rejecting the plan. >>> and jobs, jobs, jobs. february a huge month for hirings according to new employment numbers released today. can president trump though take credit for job growth in his first full month in office? >>> epa backlash. scott pruitt getting a lot of heat for saying carbon dioxide does nothing to global warming. nbc's al roker is here to respond. >>> but we start with health care, a short time ago president trump met with top republicans in the house about the bill. >> this is the time we'll get it done. we have some great results, we have tremendous spirit, and i think it's interesting that's just going to happ

good afternoon, i am katy tur in for craig melvin. in washington and happening right now. any moment sean spicer will take the podium as the health care replace and repeal bill hangs in the balance. paul ryan is at the white house meeting with the. right now. vice president pence arriving at the capitol hill club meeting with the freedom caucus, part of a desperate last-minute attempt to get the votes to pass the legislation. after the president issued an ultimatum. do it now or move on. our nbc news tally has 32 republicans voting no, or leaning no, but remember, that could change at any moment. so let's get right to our reporters and analysts covering the story.

i'm katy tur. you can follow me on facebook and twitter. kate snow picks things up. >> our top stories right now starting with a tense visit. president trump wel

katy tur is up next. >>> good afternoon, i'm katie tur in for craig melvin on a busy thursday afternoonstories we are following this hour, health care fight. president trump meeting with members of the freedom caucus this morning pushing them to support the gop health care bill. as more conservatives say they will vote no on the plan. is there any way it can survive a house vote today. >>> spy games. tensions between member of the house intelligence committee reaching a fever pitch amid new accusations of presidential survey clans and russian collusion. we'll sort through all the claims from democrats and republicans. >>> american killed. a man from utah is one of the three victims of yesterday's terror attack in london. isis is now claiming responsibility for the attack. we'll go live to the uk for the latest in the investigation. >>> and high drama on capitol hill right now where it's down to the wire for president trump and republicans looking to pass the gop plan to repeal and replace obamacare. as of this moment -- and remember, it could change, nbc finds 30 house republicans oppos

i'm katy tur.right now in new york. >> nice to see you on a very busy news afternoon. i'm i'll pick up coverage on our breaking news. as we continue with the president this afternoon, voicing total confidence in his attorney general, jeff sessions. you just heard him say that again as some democrats call for his resignation. all of this after "the washington post" reported then-senator sessions met with russia's ambassador twice last year while sessions was a key adviser to the trump campaign pop a fast-moving day it request be hard to figure out what's going on. kasie hunt joins me live from capitol hill. give me the update at this moment. we just heard the president on that carrier speaking to journalists, saying he's confident, he doesn't think jeff sessions should recuse himself. what are they saying on capitol hill? where are we at? >> reporter: well, kate, at this point we are -- we still have a small but still growing slowly pile of republicans who are saying that jeff sessions should recuse

katy tur is up next. >> i'm katy tur in for craig melvin at msnbc headquarters in new york. >>> critical condition, the republican health re plan facing more opposition from outside the beltway. the president of the american medical association shares why his organization is rejecting the plan. >>> and jobs, jobs, jobs. february a huge month for hirings according to new employment numbers released today. can president trump though take credit for job growth in his first full month in office? >>> epa backlash. scott pruitt getting a lot of heat for saying carbon dioxide does nothing to global warming. nbc's al roker is here to respond. >>> but we start with health care, a short time ago president trump met with top republicans in the house about the bill. >> this is the time we'll get it done. we have some great results, we have tremendous spirit, and i think it's interesting that's just going to happen very shortly. >> despite the public profession there appears to be major case of mixed messages. whether there's room for compromise. reports from inside the white house say president trum

mtp daily with katie tur in for chuck todd, starts right now. >>> if it's friday, we're hitting the halfway100 days. tonight, a new report says at least 15 million people will lose coverage under the gop obama carrey placement. so what's the rush? >> this is the time we're going to get it done. >> is the act now sales pitch really the right way to go? >>> plus state of play. whatever happened to rex tillerson? why this secretary of state appears increasingly powerless. whose foreign policy is it anyway? >>> and how the job's report evolved into a roar shock test. >> may have been phony if the past, but it's very real now. >> this is mtp daily and it starts right now. >>> good evening, i'm katie tur in new york. in for chuck todd. welcome to mtp daily. it's halftime in trump's america. welcome today 50 of the first

i'm katy tur.picks things up for kate snow. >> i really enjoy that conversation with ron paul. we've had our debates and disagreements over the years, but he thinks very clearly. >> does he. >> he does talk fast. >> he does talk fast and he keeps going and he's a great interview. >> he really is. a lot of personality. >> i think you meant it as a compliment when you said he talked really fast. >> i did. >> you're a fast talker, so am i and we have to work fast as we have a lot of news. i'm ali velshi in for kate snow. our top stories. it's a big final hour on wal

. >> katy tur, the gop convention was called paul manafort's show. contemporaneously at the time. there was no larger figure other than the candidate, himself, in the campaign. >> and that was in july. not june. and paul manafort started in march. so the timeline that sean spicer just laid out is incorrect. he was there for much longer than that. he was there for five, going on six months. he was there for longer than steve bannon ran the campaign. paul manafort was brought in to professionalize the trump campaign. to add some experience. you just heard don jr. call it amateur hour with corey lewandowski. that is how the family felt and that is how some of those very close to donald trump felt going into the convention. they felt like they needed somebody to come in and shape things up. that is why they brought on paul manafort. yes, it is also true that donald trump and paul manafort didn't really get along all too well and ultimately what led to paul manafort's demise within the campaign were news reports about his alleged ties to russia through viktor yanukovych, president of u

. >> katie tur that's going to the nth degree.t franken saying the attorney general must recuse himself. >> and representative elliott engle is saying the same. we'll see more and more types of responses from the democrats. we have to find out what we're going to see from more of the republicans, not just under lindsay graham or potentially john mccain. is this something that mitch mcconnell will end up supporting? will he need to support it. will he see the tide turning against him and have to find a reason to get on board with an independent investigation as to what happened with russia hacking the election. is paul ryan going to get behind this? so far, the two of them have stone walled it. they've said there is no there there. paul ryan has dismissed it when having the opportunity to do so. the zemgs will seize upon this. how much pressure will the republicans be under to make some move calling for senator sessions to recuse himself. >> is it still the thing that public pressure is felt in washington and may change the minds a

i want to show you a moment between our friend and colleague katy tur and congressman dave brat, republican of virginia, that took place on our air earlier this evening. >> do you believe this vote is going to happen on thursday? >> right now we're aiming for it. >> aiming for it sounds like you're not very confident that you're going to have it. >> i'm not sure. i don't think there are the votes. i think there's 20 or 30 conservatives. there's 10 or 20 moderates and focuses in tough races in the northeast corridor. >> so no. >> right. it's a problem right now. >> did you hear that phrase, coverage issues? he's talking about actual health care. and kristen, congressman charlie sykes here that the studio has an optimism about this vote that is not shared by dave. you have conservatives and moderates against this because of regional issues, local issues, and as bianna was saying, the folks back home. >> something striking has happened, brian, which is obamacare is more popular than it ever was under president obama, so the republicans are having to contend with that. there's a real concern th

katy tur is up next on msnbc. >> thank you. good afternoon, everyone.or craig melvin in new york a two-hour block on msnbc. any moment we're expecting the daily white house briefing with press secretary sean spicer, and while there is a blizzard watch up and down the east coast, d.c. is battening down not just for the snowstorm but the political storm surrounding health care. the nation's official number crunchers in the congressional budget office are expected to tell us today or tomorrow how much the republican health care bill will cost, and how many people it will or will not help. president trump today blaming who else, but the media for the poor reception this bill has already received. >> the press makes it look wonderful so if we end it everyone will say remember how great obamacare used to be. it was so great. it's a little bit like president obama, when he left people liked him. when he was here, people didn't like him so much. that's the way life goes. that's human naturnature. >> when all

i'm katy tur. it is 2:50 on the east coast. whole lot to talk about from that briefing. a lot about obamacare, even more about this cia wikileaks story, the dump of cia spy methods. sean spicer refusing to confirm those leaks are authentic, that is a government position not to confirm those things. he also talked about leaks in general and how they don't approve of any leaks. bringing it back to what has been going on with the trump administration, the leaks that have been affecting donald trump himself. and also criticizing the media and politicians for what he calls a double standard. reacting differently to the hillary clinton leaks and white house leaks. it's important to differentiate that the circumstances aren't quite equal. one according to u.s. officials, intelligence officials, are leaks by a foreign government. the other is leaks by officials here in the u.s. we have a very big panel of folks to talk about. you see them on the screen. we have bill crystal from "the new york times," charlie sykes, jon walsh, john mclaughlin, former director of cia, and hallie j

before we pass to katy tur for "mtp daily." ari melber has been a part of the conversation for more than the past hour. we have seen the attorney general recuse himself. you have to stop and kind of take some of what we have just witnessed and the "new york times" now talking about new conversations that will cause new questions and with new questions come new leaks. traditionally in this administration. >> absolutely right. i thought it was fascinating, the question of how do we know what we know? you were pointing out and chris matthews that a lot of it is from dogged reporting, the former spokesman to attorney general eric holding pointing out, spokesmen. what are they doing? put an end to things or give people a sense of what's coming. the recusal is significant. the question of whether it is partial or full and how the debate unfolds and finally, will there be a full inquiry either through a special prosecutor who reports to no one with trump ties or in addition or separately some sort of 9/11 style commission as some have

good afternoon, i am katy tur in for craig melvin. it is a huge day in washington and happening right now. any moment sean spicer will take the podium as the health care replace and repeal bill hangs in the balance. paul ryan is at the white house meeting with the. right now. vice president pence arriving at the capitol hill club meeting with the freedom caucus, part of a desperate last-minute attempt to get the votes to pass the legislation. after the president issued an ultimatum. do it now or move on. our nbc news tally has 32 republicans voting no, or leaning no, but remember, that could change at any moment. so let's get right to our reporters and analysts covering the story. kristen welker is at the white house, kelly o'donnell is on capitol hill, along with jake sherman, senior writer at politico and former republican congressman from florida david jolly and anton gunn, farmer director of external affairs for the department of health and human services and philip klein managing editor and columnist of "the washington examiner."

katy tur, to you. leader kevin mccarthy says the vote will happen by 7:00 tonight and that might be optimistic. is there a chance in those 12 hours some freedom caucus votes move and the bill gets through? >> certainly a chance. the freedom caucus is going back to the white house today. the white house is giving the hard sell and tasked with trying to get conservatives on board with this bill. by our nbc news count i believe 29 no's on this bill right now. that is a mix of both freedom caucus members and moderates. they need anything more than 21 votes means that this bill is going to be sunk. so whether they are going to be able to bring this to a vote on the house floor remains to be seen. i was speaking with representative brat the other day. ed it was optimistic to think this would come to the floor on thursday. he believes there is more negotiating that still to be done. as we saw mark meadows said he was ready to go down with the ship. we will see if he changes his mind, though. after all he will

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colleague katy tur picking things up for us. >> hang on at home because it's going to be a busy hournbc. any minute president trump will speak in ypsilanti, michigan. we're awaiting word on interest rate but back in washington, three stories president trump can't escape. are the feds already investigating his campaign ties to russia? two top senators are holding a hearing this hour. they along with their house counterparts have been asking for answers from fbi director james comey. >> i want to know, was there any surveillance at all, with or without a warrant. the longer it takes to answer a question, the more suspicious i get. >> we don't have any evidence that took place. in fact, i don't belie j

. >>> good evening, i'm katie tur in new york. in for chuck todd. welcome to mtp daily. it's halftime in trump's america. welcome today 50 of the first 100 days of donald trump's presidency. and buckle up, because the biggest stories of the first 50 days will probably be the biggest stories of the next 50. there's the chaos over what happens to your health care. there's the cloud of russia kwhb hangs over this white house and gets stranger by the day. there's a white house battling a crisis of confidence and credibility among a constant flow of conspiracy theories. we got another one today. and amid the upheaval, we've got two parties with dualing identity crisis in the age of trump. there was no shortage of headlines on any big stories today, and we're going to have all the latest developments throughout the hour. but we begin tonight with a health care brawl that took a dramatic turn today. president trump huddled today at the white use. where he warned of a health car armageddon. this year, if weary republicans don't fall in line. >> 17 would be a disaster for obamaca

i am katy tur in new york, in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily" and welcome to march madness. congress has broken, wikileaks is targeting the cia, and the cloud of russia continues to darken over this white house. faith in these three american institutions -- congress, the cia, the white house -- may be a the a breaking point. at a moment when the country faces a daunting combination of domestic crises and foreign threats. we're going to spend most of the hour diving into these three major story lines, the escalating chaos surrounding congress' battle over health care, the crisis on russia and the cia's scramble to contain the damage from the latest wikileaks document dump. >>> beginning with the mess in congression as the republican civil war rages over the current plan to repeal and replace obamacare. a growing number of conservatives both in the house and senate, are hardening their resistance to the current white house-backed plan, calling it dead on arrival. this comes amid an outpouring of criticism against the plan from groups like the american medical association, the

katy tur in for chuck. >>> in it's monday, a historic moment at a hearing on the hill deepens. the president's credibility crisis. tonight, tapped out. fbi director james comey shoots down the president's wiretap claims. >> i have no information that supports those tweets. and we have looked carefully inside the fbi. >> and confirms a probe into a possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia. >>> plus supreme pick. a battle 13 months in the making begins today. >> i'm dying for somebody over there tell me why he's not qualified to be sitting here. >> and how today's hearings on the hill took a page from this '80s classic. >> bueller. bueller. bueller. >> this is mtp daily,

my colleague katy tur picking thing s now. >>> we follow the big questions following the president'sder, gentler speech. that's focus at the white house between the president and gop leadership. about last night, supporters are cheering it, but critics say the message was hollow, full of misleading statements and old campaign promises. >> we want all americans to succeed, we must restore integrity and the rule of law at our borders. the time has come for a new program of national rebuilding. we will provide massive tax relief for the middle class. i am not going to let america and its great companies and workers be taken advantage of us any longer. sdmroot country looks

i'm katy tur here at msnbc. to break down a little of what happened in that briefing a moment ago. sean spicer was asked about the department of justice refusing to confirm whether or not trump is under investigation. sean spicer saying that he is not aware of any investigation going on. he also declined to deny that the cia lost a cache of cyber weapons, but he did criticize the cia's technology calling it outdated. and on general mike flynn, the former national security adviser, who has now registered officially as a foreign agent for his lobbying before the campaign in turkey, sean spicer was asked whether donald trump would have appointed him to that position of nsa if he did know that? and sean spicer said, i do not know. we have a team of analysts and reporters here to break down what happened in that press briefing. joining me here on set, david, alease, joel benenson, and in the briefing room itself we have hallie jackson at the pentagon. we have hans nichols. hallie, i would -- i think your ear piece doesn't quite work yet. can you hear me? >> reporter: yes. >> wonderful.

i'm katie tur in for craig melvin. some of the stories we're following.licans struggling to come together after the epic failure of their party's health care bill. can the gop find its way forward or is the party fractured beyond repair? >>> who's in charge? president trump trying to rebound after a rough week. are washington outsiders pressing the president to run the white house like a business when everyone else is still playing politics? >>> the senate intelligence committee's investigation into russian ties. >>> we begin with the investigation of whether the trump campaign conspired with the russians during the election. chairman devin nunes was on the white house grounds the day before he announced the president may have been swept up in surveillance of foreign nationals. we're learning the senate intelligence committee plans to question jared kushner. let's get right to our team of correspondents. following the latest developments. halle jackson is at

but right now we are also going to go down to washington for our rejly scheduled mtp daily with katy tur in for chuck todd. starts right now. >>> if it's tuesday, under the cloud of an fbi investigation. president trump wants a win. tonight closing the deal. warns weary republicans to get behind the obama carrey peel or lose their jobs. >> i think we're going to get a winner vote. >> we'll talk to one of the republicans who's not buying the president's sales pitch. >>> plus the russia ripple effect. how the dark cloud of an fbi investigation could cast a shadow over everything on the president's agenda. >>> and filibuster or bust. if you think congress is broken now, just wait till they tackle th

. >>> good evening, i'm katie tur in new york. welcome to mtp daily. today the white house doubled down on president trump's call for congress to investigate his unsubstantiated claims that president obama wiretapped trump tower during the campaign. this is not the first time president trump has made baseless and bizarre claims, but it's certainly the most provocative and potentially the most damaging. without offering any evidence whatsoever, the current president of the united states says he knows for a fact that the former president tapped his phones. and now he's calling on congress to investigate, and they have agreed, this is going to get messy no matter what. either the president is right or he is wrong. and if he is wrong, he will hav abused the -- he will abuse the office of the president to prompt a congressional investigation into a political faux. and not just any political faux, the previous president, but if he is right, the federal judge would have approved the wiretaps, meaning that there was probable cause that someone in trump tower w