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mike viqueira and mark murray. mike, walk us through it. lot of last-minute discussion. >> as of last week, i think any long time people in congress, if they saw how this was heading, people even on monday when they lost two key members on the republican side. they thought look, this won't happen for they will. it is rare to see it come back as it did. when they gave up the pros expects or the efforts to put it on the floor of the house. it is rare to see something revived like this. i can't remember when it has actually happened. over the course of the last couple days, and yes, due to much of the pressure and effort on the part, not tonight gop leaders and he the whip team and steve and patrick mchenry, but also the white house. vice president pence coming up monday, tuesday and wednesday, twisting arms behind closed doors. i think you put your finger on it. is this a long term momentum builder toward ultimate passage of the are coveted goal since 2010? if not a full out repeal of obamacare? certainly an alteration of their liking. or is

thiss part of a larger pattern. >> thank u, mark murray, thank you as well. the president will have a chance to answer thesing. a lot of them that are lingering out there it is coming up tomorrow, in the meantime, thank you for watching this who of msnbc live. live in washington right now "andrea mitchell reports." >> comey fired. the president fires the fbi director, the man in charge of investigating possible links between russia and the trump campaign. >> did the president fire director comey to impede the russian investigation. >> as you know very clearly and stated repeatedly and the president has been told, he is not under investigation. >> democrats calling for a special prosecutor. >> our democratic colleagues are complaining about the rem

joining me now for the daily briefing on politic, mark murray and michael shear, white house correspondentthe new york times." okay, mark, what do we know so far about the possibility of the white house shakeup? certainly, the name sean spicer has been out there for months, nothing's happened yet. >> yeah, chris, according to the white house team, there's definitely smoke to all the stories that there does seem to be a mood for the shakeup. in addition to the white house, press secretary sean spicer, steve bannon, the top strategist as well as white house chief of staff reince priebus, but one really big factor to consider with all the talk is president trump's upcoming trip abroad where it is very unlikely that he would have just a wholesale of changes right before he goes on his first and biggest trip as president. and also, if you have all the people who were replaced, the question is who replaces them? right now we have seen a white house staff that there are people in place like deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders, but there aren't a whole lot of names particularly in the re

mark murray is still with us. let's start with the numbers. because you're so good at that.d to gain 24 seats to take back the house, and the new york times is reporting democrats think the best way to do that is to target 23 republican districts hillary clinton won and dozens more where trump is now deeply unpopular. tell us a little more about this strategy. >> yeah, chris. normally, a midterm environment is where the party that's out of power is on the offensive. you end up just looking at history, where if you control the white house and congress, you are usually going to have a very tough midterm environment. and where the health care legislation comes in to practice is that this could be key to tv ads, you just played one. where democrats continue to say that a certain member of congress ended up voting for legislation that takes away your health care coverage or might take it away. and of course, when we see the republicans end up having a defense on this, but still, this seems at this very, very early stage to start setting up an environment we saw in 2010 when repub

mark murray, thanks as always, sir. what's likely to get approved today in the house, likely will not resemble what, if anything, comes out of the senate. republicans there have 52 votes. they can only afford to lose two votes. multiple gop senators are being quoted right now as saying that the health care bill in its current form has little chance of pass am. i'm joined by democratic senator maggie hassan of new hampshire. senator, let me start by asking you, do you agree with that sentiment? will more than 200 counterparts oppose the measure as it stands right now? >> the house republicans have take an bad health care plan and made it even worse and if it does pass out of the house today, there are those of us who are going to continue to speak up about what a bad bill this is. it hasn't, of course, been scored by the congressional budget office because it's been rushed through. but the last scoring that they did on the first proposal, told us that it would increase insurance premium, it would rip health insurance awa

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jonathan allen, and mark murray with us as well. michael steele and of course former chair of the rnc, a big thanks to all of you. andrea, you spent a lot of time with hillary clinton. how surprising was that speech? it was a strongest rebuke of president trump so far. >> some people were messaging where was the speech writer during 2016? this was a strong speech, but it wasn't just a take down of donald trump. but it was mores a separational speaking to a very positive and reaffirming audience, of course, her wellesley graduating class on her turf where it started in 19 69 for her when she was chosen as the student speaker. she was talking about being hopeful but comparing it to 1969 with some unflattering references to the times, the turmoil, the protests, the fact that richard nixon was elected and left in disgrace and impeachment. she had some humor, but i think this was her first specific attack on his budget, talking about the cruelty of his budget on the most vulnerable of our society. speaking of women and lgbt rights, and o

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mark murray. always lovely to talk to you. thanks so much. >>> we invite you to keep it here for the latest coverage from nbc's political team at the white house, on the hill, all ahead on "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. meanwhile let's head into the storm center -- no storms on the horizon but a whole lot of heat out there, amelia. >> we hit a new record high today at dulles, tied the record at dwi marshal. reagan we didn't hit a record. it was hot. that hazy sunshine out there, most of us are going to be completely dry this evening. tomorrow and as we in. at this point we're going to send it out to doug, doug, what's it like out there? what's it feeling humid? not humid? >> reporter: no it's feeling awesome out here right now. it's a little bit on the humid side but we're doing pretty good. go this way. we're here in the marlow heights area right here at the community center and we're listening to magic 102.3. they got the party going on right now. just a beautiful afternoon across our region. yes, it is on the warm sid

joining me now is mark murray.ily out, but it appears that the president is feverishly making calls and lining up potential replacements, gary cohen, the president's economic advisor and former president and coo of goldman sachs and david urban who was part of the trump campaign and was an advisor for quite some time now. who are you hearing is a front runner? >> what we are hearing is that what president trump has been doing is sounding out to his friends and others about potentially replacing reince priebus. sometimes the trade happens, sometimes it doesn't, but our reporting centers on two individuals if he goes and gary cohn who you know very well, one of the top officials at goldman sachs. and then you have david urban what who has experience in the rust belt. plead the efforts in the 2016 presidential campaign. but bigger than anything else, you know, is that this is a really tough job. white house chief of staff might be the toughest job in all of washington, including peing president. you you have to be a g

. >> mark murray, caitlin owens, thanks to both of you. thank you for watching this hour of msnbc live. i'm chris jansing in washington. more on the breaking news that president obama warned trump against hiring michael flynn, right now on andrea mitchell reports. >> and right now on andrea mitchell reports, red alert. breaking news. nbc news reporting that president obama warned president-elect trump about mike flynn's russian connections, and trump hired flynn as his top foreign policy adviser anymore. this as for the first time today, we hear from former acting attorney general sally yates on her warning to the white house about flynn. why did they fire her and wait 17 days to fire him? >> she is very widely respected. and she apparently has some information as to who knew what when that she is willing to share. >>> health care check-up. as republicans feel the pain back home, the house obamacare repeal is now up to the senate. we'll get a second opinion on the trump diagnosis. >>> the president promised that he would take care of peopl

joining us is nbc news mark murray, thanks for joining us. >> good morning. >> president trump essentiallytigating the potential russian ties. what's the timing of it? what do you make of it? >> what i make of it, i've seen political daattacks, shocking developments. the closest parallel president richard nixon ended up firing a special prosecutor looking into watergate. there are some similarities some differences with that. yet, to have someone get fired who is leading the investigation into you is a stunning development. you know, james comey had his attracters both democrats and republicans but there was a sense, well when they're leading an investigation into the russian interference in the 2016 campaign. and possible ties to the trump campaign itself, people thought, well, he's going to continue to investigate this. so, it sends a shock to everyone. and now we have to pick up the pieces. >> so, the white house said this is based on recommendations from the attorney general in relation to clinton e-mails. the incident, the way that rolled out. explanation? >> i really don't buy it. on

here are the details of the new nbc survey monkey online poll is mark murray. and back with me my panel. mark, i want to start with you. headline number here on what people think about jim comey's firing. walk us through it. >> the headline in our poll is that you have 54% of the country, a majority that think that the firing of james comey was not appropriate. that's compared to 38% who think it's appropriate. and that 38% is a really interesting number because that's exactly what president trump's approval rating is in the new gallop poll and a kwen pen yak poll. you have democrats who think that the firing was not appropriate. you have republicans who think that it was appropriate. but to me what's really striking here are the independents right in the middle that seem to be breaking more with the democrats that think that 61% don't think it was appropriate. now, when the firing -- the explanation is you have 46% of the country, a plurality who had to think this has to do with the russian investigation. 20% think it was about hillary clinton's e-mail. but onc

. >>> i'm mark murray. >> and i'm carrie daniels. >> it can be dizzying to keep track of the latest developmentsn the ongoing investigation of russia's interference in the 2016 election and the saga of donald trump's dismissal of fbi director james comey. >> but there's a long-term problem tied up in the comey issue as well. mainly, every passing day is making it harder for donald trump to achieve his promises of overhauling the tax code and completing the repeal of obamacare. which has passed the house, but not the senate. >> it would very difficult for trump to gets though pieces of legislation through congress even if he hadn't been such a polarizing figure. with the white house facing constant distractions, it'll be harder to get lawmakers on the same page. >> and couple that with a deepening credibility crisis of the white house and it's hard to see how business on capitol hill doesn't grind to a halt until trump can put the russia issue behind him and focus on the handle. >> as you know sean is fulfilling his duty as an officer in the naval reserve and that is why he can could not be here.

into politics on capitol hill, joining me now, stephanie rule and nbc news senior political editor mark murray, what is going on. >> when are republicans going to get to their agenda. they have been excited about his pro business agenda. the bigger this james comey distraction gets the further they are getting from it. the economy was doing slowly but surely well under president obama, but the hike came with the tax reform, infrastructure spending, deregulation. have we spoken about any of those things in over a week? the answer is no. and the irony in elected a businessman president was he might not be sure about policy, but we're bringing a business guy that can get stuff done if is business manage that is tripping the president up. we're heading into the summer that is always sluggish, as it is, we might not get the changes we were promised. >> people are saying this will be the summer of co. >> it is an increasingly tough position. let's look at what susan collins had to say this hour on capitol hill. >> i don't see the need for an independent commission or a committee. the senate intellig

nbc news senior pitical editor mark murray joins me now.rd not to let our hair get set on fire every day and try to walk through this. we know that the president is a different kind of guy. he does not have a history as a politician. but yesterday, politico quoted a presidential historian as saying, quote, it was just surreal disarray and a confused mental state from the president. i know you can't get inside the mind of president trump, but what was the strike thategy behl that noise? >> stephanie, i think it was trump being trump. the same kind of trump we ended up seeing during the primary season when he was battling 17 other republicans for the republican presidential nomination. in that case, making just an avalanche of news and whether the news was controversial, conflicting, confusing, that benefitted him because it stole the spotlight away. it is another question when you're president of the united states trying to make policy, trying to reassure allies, trying to get legislation through capitol hill, on having so much news out ther

>> mark murray said, susan, it's like -- the rnc statement is, like who is running the rnc?? >> this budget is an orphan. you know what striked me is not that he violated some of his caaign promises, he laid out votes that hurt his own voters, people who rely on food stamps, who rely on medicaid. the biggest budget cut is medicaid. >> even mitch mcconnell said, well, it's a recommendation, which, by the way, mcconnell would say about any budget. >> i was on capitol hill today and they said it was dead on arrival. that's when it was first tri trickling in. for the very first time, you see bipartisan support for something -- >> it's standard practice for congress to say president's budgets are dead. >> they can't use budget reconciliation to do the tax plan, then. >> that's why paul ryan wanted it. >> he was enthusiastic. while some of these programs clearly will stay in place and should stay in place, directionally, it is where the republican party wants to go. it's not that the party wants to cut medicaid but the party wants to see -- >> i agree with you, this feels like the

let's talk with mark murray.saac, i want to start with you because you reacted to the president's tweets with a tweet of your own. predictable unpredictable continued. aides wrote kaffully worded statement last night that he of course blew up in the a.m. with a misspelling. how are staffers reacting to all of this? >> it is just another day in the white house dealing with the incoming from the world around them, the investigationshey're not in control of an a special appointment they were not given any advance word into. just a few minutes after rod ros rosenstein, he sends them out when he wants to. they tried to make it something that was measured, not picking a fight, not potentially opening other legal avenues, and the president as he tends to do spends time watching tv or coverage that was goings on, stewing about it a little more, and this morning as has happened before when they set a very clear clear statement about things changed his position about it. they conditioned there was anything to that giving o

during renark marks with the palestinian president. sariau murray is traveling with the president. what's the latest there? >> reporter: the attack of course came amid president trump's foreign trip today with palestinian authority president trump and that is where he took the tientd to express their controlances in the attack. take a listen. >> so many young, beautiful, innocent people living and enjoying their lives murdered by eval losers in life. i won't call them men sthmonste because they would like that term. they would think that's a great name. i will call them from now on losers. because that's what they are. they're losers. and we'll have more of them. but they're losers. just remember that. >> reporter: now the president says it must be obliterated. >> let's bring back clarissa ward and cnn national correspondent christiana. it's procably the deadliest bombing since 2012. there are a lot of forensics being done. what'ser the word? >> they're looking to see if there was skbb more than this man carae according to the police this ied. so that is definitely top of your agen

pittsburgh's mark andre fleury, the crafty vet only playing because matt murray's injured, turning backay all 29 of the capitals' shots including one from ovechkin. penguins win in the nation's capital 2-0 with ovechkin suffering the seventh painful game seven exit of his career. sydney crosby four wins away from another shot at a stanley cup series. >>> the anaheim ducks breaking their game seven curls with a win over the edmonton oilers. before last night the ducks having lost five straight in do or die games but that narrative changed last night. the ducks keeping the league's leading scorer and arguably the future of hockey, the spectacular connor mac davis, scoreless all night. ducks win 2-1. now will face nashville in the western conference finals. >>> a rough night in the nation's capital, capitals eliminated, wizards down 3-2 games to the celtics, game six in that series is tomorrow. >> so ovechkin, lavrov, kislyak, they can all just leave d.c. thank you, corey, appreciate it. >> ice hockey keeping dentists' pockets lined for ages. >> always indeed. >> violent sport. >>> what wa

mark carney. basically we should be there to watch tennis and interview them. sir andy murray'sthday yesterday as well. i hope the final is between you and roger. i do want roger to triumph. >> coming up, the top corporate stories, a round up of global markets, plus the white house denying reports that president trump revealed classified information to russian officials. we're live to washington with the fallout. stay tuned, "worldwide exchange" will be right back. it comes to , looking from a fresh perspective can make all the difference. it can provide what we call an unlock: a realization that often reveals a better path forward. at wells fargo, it's our expertise in finding this kind of insight that has lead us to become one of the largest investment and wealth management firms in the country. discover how we can help find your unlock. the white house denying a bombshell report that the president revealed classified information to russia. a live report from washington straight ahead. >>> today's market test. housing will be in focus on wall street with french economic data a

mark on the world game and we will never go backwards. voting closes at 0800 gmt on the 15th of may. you can choose your winner at bbc.com/womensfootball. tennis's world number one andy murrayrly, going down in the third round of the madrid masters. he was beaten in straight sets by croatia's borna coric, who only qualified as a "lucky loser". the world number 59 won 6—3, 6—3, to claim his second victory over murray in four matches. he'll play the eighth seed dominic thiem in the quarter—finals. it does mean a lot to me. obviously i can't play very good here. at the beginning of the week. so this was quite a big surprise. yesterday in my match i started to feel good again. i was playing some very good tennis. but today i can say that it was my best match of the season. it wasn't great. i started the match 0k. it wasn't great. i started the match ok. but when i started to go behind ididn't find ok. but when i started to go behind i didn't find any way to improve my game or to make it more difficult for him. ijust let the same things keep happening. always play your best tennis, but you can still find ways to make it difficult for the opponent. there were no problems for the

mark. >> guest: berkeley should be ashamed of itself.orst was the very worst was middleberry. charles murray is an american intellectual of the first rank t and he 75 years old, his book has nothing to do with race, it has to do with the decline of the middle class and he kept race out of it specifically but he was set upon almost knocked to the ground, his liberal escort -- i don't know what happened in campuses in americal they can't have a healthy debate it's never happened to me, thank goodness. i do believe that universities are going to become very dull boring places in places like hillsdale college are going to get all of the vibrant intellects because -- left and right or some of the smaller liberal arts colleges that embrace genuine intellectual diversity. they will prosper in the years ahead, not middleberry will pay a price and i would not send my kid to berkeley.se i just wouldn't.rk if you can't have a conversation why go there smart. >> host: joe in new york city. >> caller: good afternoon, gentlemen. welcome to usc. i'm a proud alumnus of the annenberg school. i'd like to ask

murray. you heard one of the world's richest man, mark zuckerberg you heard him starting out income for everybodysh cushion to get going. gerri willis, jessica tarlov, "wall street journal" glen hall. glen, what is he talking about here and who would pick up the bill? >> this universal basic income is, a much ballyhooeded discussion about alternative welfare system instead of medicare, social security, all of that, basic income an some people would say that is more equal, everybody would get it, creates a cushion -- neil: when you become out of school, high school? we don't know? >> we don't know. depends how they would structure such a thing. another form of social ale which are or socialism in many people's books. bottom line somebody has to pay for it, absolutely. mark zuckerberg people like me. tax the rich and redistribute. that is kind of how it sounded. neil: what do you think, jess? >> that is exactly right. i'm coming from the socialist side of things. neil: let me write that down you're coming from the socialist. >> there was a technical part to his argument though in that. first of all

mark twain prize for american humor. we didn't go last year, so we're due. >> it would be good to go this year he year. hint hint! >> last year he paid tribute to bill murray accepted the award. letterman hosted 6,028 shows in 33 years on the air. i posted this and his beard looks like he's 110. that's so clean shaven there. it has taken off. it's down to his shoulders, i think. >> his beard has its own airplane. >> it does. >> good for him. we'll be right back. >>> people going through union station got more than just directions from this monitor. porn started playing. coming up on news4, what travelers have to say about it, and what itor's truck. awesome. yeah! first, let's check out the aluminum bed of this truck. wooooow!! holy moly. full on crack here. now let's check out the steel bed of the silverado. i'd expect more dents. no holes. current qualified lessees can get this silverado all star edition for around $249 a month. plus, find your tag and get an additional $1,500 lease cash on select silverado pickups in stock. find new roads at your local chevy dealer. of providing reliable energy and that'll

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murray. tovey, thanks very much indeed. the duke of edinburgh hasjoined the queen on a visit to a school near redding to mark its centenary.ecurity advisor general michael flynn had lied about his contacts with the russian ambassador. it was the hearing that many, not just in washington, but across the country had waited months for. sally yates, performing —— former acting attorney general, speaking in public the first time regarding her numerous warnings to the white house about general michael flynn. she testified that she spoke three times with white house counsel, saying general flynn had lied to the vice president about, stations he had with the russian ambassador before donald trump president. general flynn said he did not discuss removing sanctions issued against russia by the obama administration, but that appears to have been untrue and sally yates told the white house it made him and the country vulnerable. this was a problem, because not only did we believe that the russians knew this but that they likely had proof of this information. and that created a compromise situation, a situation where the national secur