robert hunt, vance story taught me a lot.t i'm working on is a portfolio [inaudible] riding a donkey unicorn in the process. >> my name is dawn richardson and musician, drummer and drum teacher. i guess i would say i started my professional path quh i started playing in bands and teaching drum lesson when i was in college. they were definitely not that many women that would do what is doing. in 198 8 i graduated from cal state los ang and studied mostly classical percussion and music education but at the same time i was in hollywood so played at night in rock bands so was doing two different things. >> the reason i'm [inaudible] the people. there is a extremely vibrant art community especially arounds the red poppy art house [inaudible] as a artist in the past 2 or 3 years there is a event called the [inaudible] every 3 months a free art music festival that i usually play at and just met so many people. >> i was teaching a little bit and doing odd jobs like waitressing and going at night and playing in bands and meeting a lot

i want to bring in robert costa, national political reporter at the "washington post." capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt and bill crystal, thanks to all of you to joining us. robert costa, the fact that breitbart, at this moment, puts out that article last night with that audio and also, i can just read it here. some of the writing in it, it's awfully heavy handed. this is the first major niche they've that trump has worked won ryan. the fact it is going to poorly calls into question whether speaker ryan really understands how trump won and how to win in the neral. robert costa, the fact that this was steve bannon's site that is now doing this at this moment, a lot of people are saying there must be some kind of connection there. do you think there's anything to that? >> steve, breitbart certainly on an editorial rampage against house speaker ryan. they have deep suspicions of him. and the way they are framing this health care plan is notable. they're not talking about it as president trump's proposal, they're calling it ryancare. it headlined after headline. now, my sources at the white house tell me,

we talk to al hunt of "bloomberg view" and robert costa of "the washington post." >> when the president visited the capitol tuesday morning he had an exchange with mark meadows of north carolina the chairman of the house freedom caucus and said we may go after you. he said it in a joking way but a lot of people told me they saw it as a veiled threat. trump likes to keep the house g.o.p. on edge. he may not go after them. he may not be angling to have primary challenges but he wants them to know he's an unpredictable president and he needs a win and he has a threat out there, even if it's a chuckle, he wants it to still be out there. >> rose: we continue with a conversation with jessica chastain. her latest film, "the zookeeper's wife." >> she loved every living creature. she lived alongside animals. they'd go in and out of her house. her children grew up with animal brothers and sisters and the film xplorers what does it mean to be in a cage. the warsaw ghetto is a cage. also, what does it mean to possess and own another living creature. and antonina knew that was not something that mak

kelly o'donnell at the white house, kasie hunt on capitol hill, robert costa national political reporter at "the washington post" and msnbc chief correspondent ari melber. kelly, start with you, president trump threatening to go to war with conservatives tell us about the threat and how we got here? >> craig, the president has never been shy about using the power of his megaphone, whether that is twitter or his appearances in public, and he chose to use his twitter feed to take on the freedom caucus, that most conservative group who was part of the problem in getting the health care repeal passed, not the entire cause, but certainly the white house is putting more blame on that conservative group as opposed to the moderates who also bailed on their support. the president tweeting today, the freedom caucus will hurt the entire republican agenda if they don't get on the team and fast. we must fight them and dems in 2018. there's a lot packed in there. 2018, a reference to the midterms. wanting to hold the republican majorities presumably is behind that. taking on dems, that's interesting s

hunt." chief white house correspondent, john roberts, on the north lawn. >> the democrats are calling for thettorney general to resign, but as you mention just a moment ago, he does have the full support of the president who in a statement last night in a series of tweets said the following. "jeff sessions is an honest man. he did not say anything wrong. he could have stated his response more accurately, but it was clearly not intentional. this whole narrative is a way of saving face for democrats losing an election that everyone thought they were supposed to win. the democrats are overplaying their hand. they lost the election, and now they have lost their grip on reality. the real story is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. it is a total 'witch hunt!'" yesterday, the attorney general recused himself from any doj investigation that might a arise regarding the chum campaign and any encounters with the russian ambassador. sessions ran into trouble when he told the senate and confirmation hearings that he had no contact last year with russian officials. sessions argue

. >> kelly o'donnell, kasie hunt, robby mook, charlie sykes and robert costa, thank you for joining me. >>> vice president mike pence will join "for the record with greta" at 6:00 p.m. tonight. >>> we're asking in our microsoft pulse question, are you more hopeful common ground can be found after donald trump's address to congress? let us know what you think at puls pulse.msnbc.com. >>> the moment that brought everyone to their feet. a fallen navy s.e.a.l. and his wife honored in the chamber. under it all are the questions about the success of that mission that took ryan owens' life. a republican senator joins me next with his view. anything els. but then i realized there was. so, i finally broke the silence with my doctor about what i was experiencing. he said humira is for people like me who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn's disease. in clinical studies, the majority of patients on humira saw significant symptom relief. and many achieved remission. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. ser

hunt. fox news chief white house correspondent john roberts is live at the white house with the latest. john. >> tom, good evening to you. this controversy has been dogging the white house for a month now. ever since the president claimed that he is being wiretapped by the obama administration. today, the white house began to see a little light at the end of the tunnel. >> the press secretary today lashed out at questions about white house involvement in providing information to the chairman of the house intelligence committee. >> if everyone was treating the president of the administration fairly, you would ask a series of much different questions about the substance and the material. >> after weeks of playing defense, the white house appeared to find a small hole to run through today, intelligence officials telling fox news the two white house staffers who assisted in devon nunez search for intelligence were not his original source. and that nunez has been investigating the surveillance unmasking of trump officials since well before the president sent out these now infamous tweets. >>

peter alexander at the white house and capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt and "washington post" national political reporter robert costa. kasie the speaker of the house is setting deadlines and says he'll have a bill on the president's desk or floor by easter. is that what mitch mcconnell said on the senate side but pushback from moderate republicans and from the freedom cauc caucus. >> reporter: unexpected amount of protest from conservatives in particular, who are arguing for a seat at the table here, and you played a little bit of this saying look, this just ats to new entitlements i think the key part of their argument and the question about whether them calling it obamacare light, them saying it doesn't represent repeal, is the key part of it, because the speakers' main argument what he has on his side is that look if republicans spent eight years saying this is what they were going to do, finally get into power and they don't do it, that's a major failure. so he in the caucus this morning asked for a show of hands from republicans who campaigned on repeal and replace. all the hands in the room went up. that

hunt." chief white house correspondent, john roberts, on the north

hunt reporting for us from west palm beach. kasie, thank you. >>> joining me now is msnbc political analyst robert costa. hoping you can walk us through it. you write that steve bannon who is expected to fly from washington, d.c., to florida saturday afternoon and attend a dinner there with mar-a-lago with donald trump and jeff sessions and others. what more have you learned about that? >> well, my sources tell me that the president has been at mar-a-lago since friday, and he remains very unhappy with the idea that the intelligence community, in his view, may in some way be aligned against him and steve bannon issue his chief strategy has a view of the intelligence community and he phrases it as a so-called deep state and what he means by that is the obama administration allies and so there's this anxiety within the white house and in the president's inner circle that there could be lingering issues and that's what led to the president suggesting in his twitter account that certain things could be happening even though there was no evidence offered. >> do you think when it comes to these tweets and the a

roberts son li robertson i you. >>> author of an upcoming book how the west a aiding and abetting the decline of democrat is joining us. first up, lavrov says this is a witch hunt as far as the curiosities about these meetings with the russian ambassador. but democrats say it seems like they're covering something up. what is your take? about. >> well, i think any of these individual meetings could be explained. jeff sessions meeting with the russian ambassador might be something that is normal. but at some point you have to ask how many red flags do there need to be. the real problem here is there is no alternative explanation coming from the trump campaign or the trump white house as to why all these different people from diverse backgrounds have met with russian officials or russian operatives and that have had shifty denials about these r those meetings. remember michael flynn said he called over christmas, a courtesy call. then it became a series of calls. then it was we talked about with sanctions. then we found out this week that he also met in trump tower with him. and question is why all of these denials, why all of these claims if nothing is really the

robert kellner he had a story to tell, quoting from the statement, no reasonable person with benefit advice from counsel would participate in questioning in highly politicized witch-huntt without assurances from brosscution. president with his own twitter account, saying mike flynn should ask for immunity in that this is a witch-hunt. excuse for the big election loss by the media and dems of historic proportions. critics are quick to point to past comments even from film himself. for example, in sent on nbc's "meet the press," mike flynn had said in appearance, he was talking about hillary clinton granted a the time, when you are given immunity, that means you probably committed a crime. now to be fair to general flynn, even, number of lawyers who have been asked about this, that is not necessarily true. he did say it though. the background as we all know by now all this, flynn's ties to russia have been scrutinized by fbi. he was fired as national security advisor having misled the vice president we're told about a conversation with the russian ambassador. adding to all of this, congressman adam schiff, ranking member of the house intelligence committee accepted the