joining me is nick ackerman, betsy woodruff as well, isaac dovore and robert traynham. nick, let me start with you and this tweet i just mentioned. what do you make of jim comey's engagement in this process? what do you make of the way that he's re-engaging here? >> well, i think he's concerned. he's had a firsthand look at what the president wants to do. he was told by president trump to drop the investigation into flynn, which he considered an incorrect -- it was basically a request to obstruct justice and stop a valid fbi investigation. so i think he's out there, you know, trying to re-engage and certainly our first amendment liberties are at stake here. when president trump comes across and says you wouldn't believe cnn, it's fake news, that is absolutely absurd and then to say the only real news in this country is fox news is even more absurd. i mean, what president trump is interested in is conspiracy theories and alternate facts. and that's where he stands, unfortunately. >> betsy woodruff, let me ask you about this component part and what we've seen play out ove

. >> let me ask you, robert traynham about the meeting on capitol hill on the subject of tax reform this week when he comes back from florida this weekend. what does he have to do to get the republican caucus behind him? >> he needs to be quiet and stop tweet being tax reform in general and behind closed doors he needs to speak to members of congress, particularly the republican senate about the nuances of tax reform and he needs to impress upon them he's serious about this and something republicans need to do because they need a political win, obviously they failed on the obamacare repeal, so this would be a huge black eye if, in fact, congressional republicans cannot pass tax reform, but secondly, he needs to impress upon them that the last time that this was done was back in 1986. comprehensive tax reform needs to be done and all income brackets adjusted. the question whether or not from a policy standpoint the president actually understands his own tax plan. i talked to a couple of people on capitol hill that says they're underwhelmed by how he doesn't understand how complicated this

he is interviewed by robert traynham, sirius xm radio host and political analyst. >> why did you decide to write the book? >> guest: because people around me didn't get it. journalists who often take themselves very seriously, think they're super smart and understand the world. were frequently underestimating donald trump, being surprise by things he did, and being incorrect in their predictions because of it. at the beginning, when he first started to run this round, i kind of assumed he would be like previous rounds where he made a splash, about to some publicity and not bee

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trump's evangelical board in the case for supporting roy moore, let's bring in msnbc analyst, robert traynhamney senior adviser, and adrian el rod, the former director of strategic communications for hillary clinton's campaign. good to see you both, my friends. robert, i want to go to you first here. you just heard the defense for roy moore. do you buy it? >> i don't buy it, but you know, look, i don't even know where to begin with this, except to say, you know, the accusers out there, the people who have made these allegations have a voice to be heard. what's also interesting is that these stories are almost all identical, around the same exact time. same look and feel of the story is identical. but however, look, i will also say this. roy moore has been in the public eye now for almost 50 years. he's ran for office multiple times. he's a highly controversial individual, having run for governor, obviously, ran for the state supreme court and so forth. it is a little bit interesting that the stories are now coming out now. however, let me be havery clear these women reserve the rate to tell t

former director of strategic communications for hillary clinton's campaign and msnbc analyst robert traynhamer bush/cheney senior adviser. good morning to you. roy moore stood by his defense yesterday against the sexual misconduct allegations that were laid out clearly and specifically in a "washington post" article. let's listen to a portion of what he said about it. >> this article is a prime example of fake news. and an attempt to divert attention from the true issues which affect our country. we do not intend to let the democrats or the established republicans or anybody else behind the story stop this campaign. >> clearly his argument is that this is all politically motivated. robert, do you think that there is an element of that in what's unfolding here? >> i don't know the answer that to. i don't think it makes a difference. the thing here is then a young lady has said something that is very, very serious. and if in fact true, he should step aside. and, you know, what's interesting about this, i have never been -- i have never been in what situation before but i would think if you wer

he is interviewed by robert traynham, sirius xm radio host and political analyst. >> why did you decide to write the book? >> guest: because people around me didn't get it. journalists who often take themselves very seriously, think they're super smart and understand the world. were frequently underestimating donald trump, being surprise by things he did, and being incorrect in their predictions because of it. at the beginning, when he first started to run this round, i kind of assumed he would be like previous rounds where he made a splash, about to some publicity and not been serious, and i felt very foolish a little while later when i didn't do more research earlier because once i started to dig into donald trump's life, his successes in business, entertainment, city politics, occasionally national political levels, realize he had laid out a plan exactly what he was going to do, had a philosophy and came across eopinion anyone who never read his book's plan and he laid it out. they were always surprised and every time he did something that was -- slammed like it was completely crazy,