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. >> on february 2nd, vladimir keir ssof a film maker in russi found himself in critical condition. his wife has since said she believes it is poisoning. very much like what almost took his life two years ago. does the administration have any comment about that? or the frustration of the opponent of president putin to get on the ballot as a candidate. >> the president is aware of it and we're monitoring it. >> the president said today he hopes to have an announcement within the next two or three weeks about lowering the burden of taxes, at the super bowl interview he was asked whether the americans should expect a tax break, he said i think so yes. >> is the business component ahead of the -- >> thanks for asking. we're looking at rolling out the comprehensive outline that will address both the business side of the tax ledger as well as the individual rates, it's a comprehensive plan something that hasn't been seen since 1986. you can use the fy '18 reconciliation for comprehensive reform. we recognize the need. it's been since 1986 since something of this scale has happened. the pr

weeks after flynn told him the conversatio conversations did not involve recent sanctions against russi russia. >> oops in the meantime tensions between washington d.c. and russia remain high and it seems our region is now being put in the middle. a russian spy ship is currently patrolling off the east coast of united states. the spy ship is in interest nag national water off the coast of delaware. >> steve keely in atlantic city with more on the story. >> we have a cold whipped and cold water next to us and seems we have cold water and cold war back again and you can see here where the bay meets ocean the water relatively calm and calm is not the word you use to describe things in washington now when it comes to relations with russia which seems to be not just medaling in the election and getting the national security advisor fired and they're deploying ban missiles and another snaps of fighter jets buzzing u.s. ship close and now on top of all that already there's russian spy ship lurking off the coast of atlantic city here listening to who knows what. left cuba patrolling eastern sea

gone out of his way throughout the campaign and since the elections not to insult the president ofç russikremlin, at least for the last fewsyears in terms of its relationship with the u.s. moral equivalence has equated russian actions towards theç wt and u.s. did in kosvo. we saw media coverage in the u.s. election saying the device in this in the u.s. doesn'tp qualify the west to criticize russian democracy. along those lines of why should we be doing the same thing when .s. it's surprising now to see that from a sitting u.s. president. but the first time since he's beenzv e lellected and getting of attention. >> we heard over the weekend and mike pence, vice president who spoke about ukraine. i want to show our viewers exactly what he said. >> we're watching. and very troubled by the increaseaostilities over the past week in eastern ukraine. i know the president had a conversation with vladimir putin. >> did he seem troubled? >> they spoke at that time about ukraine and i expect those conversations are going to be on going. that conversation. i know he mentioned that it increased hosti

general flynn was potentially involved with the relationship between united states and russi russia. the president had just issued sanctions regarding violations of what we assumed were tampering by russian intelligence and the fact that he called right afterward i think it's questionable. again, this is why we should have an investigation. >> tucker: here's what we know, the u.s. government is spying on american citizens and not keeping the information secret. i don't think you're some kind of crazy leftists but you are on the left and the left has a long history of standing up for several liberties. if you do not have any privacy from the u.s. government spying on you, things fall apart. why are you not more upset about that? >> we may have to understand what is actually going on here. we have a republican congress, it's not exactly doing oversight right now. for all we know and this is why we have to have an investigatio investigation, our whistleblowers if you want to call them that, may have felt they weren't getting the attention they needed and what may have been a dangerous s

president's tax returns which democrats believe might contain information of trump business deals with russisia. the congressman added the intel commodity quickly responded. reminding congressman devin nunes at the investigation is in its infancy. watch. >> from the committee's point of view, they contained no documents were no witnesses and not to give any testimony by the fbi what they have investigated, there is no basis to draw that conclusion. >> he is also accusing top lawmakers to knock down media stories about trump associates and their ties to russia. devin nunes admitted that he called out reporter on behalf of the trump administration but for transparency. the administration is simply ensuring that reporters got the answers they needed. but house democrat leader nancy pelosi said she believes congressman devin nunes is "stonewalling" the investigatio investigation. >> tucker: up next, a bunch of congressmen are defined president trump's immigration agenda inviting illegal immigrants to tomorrow's speech before the joint session. we talked to one of those congressman next. which is

i don't have any deals in russi russia. russia is a ruse. i have nothing to do with russia.en't made a phone call to russia in years, don't speak to people from russia. not that i wouldn't but i have no one to speak to. i spoke to putin twice. he called me on the election and he called me on the inauguration. i've nothing to do with russia. to the best of my knowledge no person that i deal with does. >> kimberly: obviously a lot to clarify and he addressed a lot of issues during the press conference which was quite extensive survey, answered all the questions. here he is talking about russia, dana, and saying he has no direct ties and specifically what i thought was interesting and important was that he addressed the whole topic of general flynn and his resignation and put it on the record saying he did nothing wrong for her he was doing his job. >> dana: right. i feel like there is still some holes i don't understand. maybe people will let this go. i think it's good that happened in the first 25 days, not in 125 days. if you're going to make a change at the national securit

says there needs to be an exhaustive regs into the ties between donald trump and his advisors and russiill you support that? >> sure, i think we ought to get all of this behind us, jake. there's from march on and maybe even going back beyond that, but there's been a lot of nefarious activity from russia. i think the american people should understand fully what that is. we certainly should. and i think this additional component is something that in addition should be looked at. so, look, we should have a folsom investigation and everything occurring between russia, our elections and any alliances that they have here. >> your colleague senator mark warner of virginia, the democrat, vice chair of the senate intelligence committee says general flynn should testify under oath before lawmakers about this issue. do you agree? >> i think that would be a great contribution. i understand that if there happened to be other investigations that are underway -- and i don't know of any, but if there happen to be, for instance, an fbi investigation or some other type of investigation, that could compli

do you think there's a bigger story coming occuut about russi? >> a, if i had it, i would definitely report it. b, it's likely there's more to the story. i mean, there's obviously investigation to be done. i think what's really going on here is a major effort to delegitimize, for lack of a better term, the mainstream media because they are the people who would provide scrutiny on a trump white house. most white houses don't have the audacity to try something like this. but i think the idea is to make sure there's nobody keeping an eye on the white house. >> quickly, tara, another hot topic, the associated press report about the dhs finding that suggests citizenship is not a reliable indicator of a potential threat, this dhs draft. how much does it undercut the white house's argument about combatting terrorism by targeting these nations when it suggests there are minimal threats from these countries? >> i think the dhs report is obviously really troubling when they're trying to roll out a second version of the sexecutiv order next week, whicheans

suggested he might lift those sanctions on russia, because of crimea, he may even recognize crimea as russi russian. ambassador haley and several of trump's cabinet nominees have taken a tougher line in their confirmation hearings. the white house eased some sanctions against russia, the fsb imposed under the obama administration, i'm told this is a minor and technical correction to those existing sanctions that that obama put on its way out the door, to allow nonsanctions related trade, and other cooperation with russia, but even so, these could soften ambassador haley's comments and be seen positively. >> maybe some mixed messages going on. >> let's talk about all of this and more. president trump's new moves on the world stage, joining us, jake sullivan. adviser to hillary clinton, also the former vice president to biden. >> i assume you liked what you heard from u.n. ambassador nikki haley, right? >> i like that, i would like to hear it directly from president trump. it's the kind of message we should be sending right now. >> why don't you hear that, why don't you believe we don't hear

the administration pushing back hard on the "new york times" characterization of the÷ú russis as beingrussian intelligence. the bipartisan hill investigation is just beginning its work, gathering documents and çagreeing, just this afternoon, on the scope of the investigation. it is not yet called any witnesses. still, chairman devin÷ú nunez telling reporters he's been given indications from unidentified officials in the intelligence community, that there will be nothing there. ill be no evidence that nor there have been any evidence of trump advisers speaking to russian. the initial inquiriesht i've ma, i don't have any evidence. >> are you saying the fbi has not supplied you with that evidence or the fbi has told you there is no evidenu% >> i'm not going to get into which agency. the intelligence agencies have not provided me or the committee any information about those three americans communicating÷ú with russia and -- >> are you saying that evidence does not exist, there's a difference there? >> the way it sound like to me there's no evidence of anything there. you know, obviously

definitely i thinkitl most people say not equivalencen between a government ap killing of journalists in russiss.nt d there was a lot of interesting s statements coming out of that. n bill o'reilly actually pressedle him kind of tried to press himf on the voter fraud case ande donald trump at one point,oi, forget it. i mean, interviews get a lot off attention and they always areaya news see and most importantlympt and probably donald trump really cares about this, there seen by potentially more than half the t country. >> especially the super bowlsupw audience.audi such a huge audience if wef taking. >> to like you said about thehe comments when it comes to russis and then what the president said about here kind of referring to that, and congress not knowingng exactly what he's saying hereyig and then we had the other o question of course with theurit travel ban, um, bill o'reilly put it out there saying members of the administration didn'tini really appear to know what washw going on to which you respondedo secretary kelly did.y ke is that one of the things we'll' look at in these first 100 da

he has suggested the possibility of ooeeasing sanctions on russi over crimea.questioned who truly was behind the violence in korean. a very different message today from the vice president. take a listen. >> with regard to ukraine, we must hold russia accountable. and demand that they honor the minsk agreements beginning by de-escalating the violence in ukraine. and know this, the united states will continue to hold russia accountable, even as we search for now common ground, which as you know, president trump believes can be found. >> so a stern stance, although you heard there, they're still leaving the door open to cooperation with russia. but i think there's a lot of question on the minds of allies here, whetherhe vice president, one voice with president trump. that is the big question going forward. and i think for the folks here, actions are going to be a lot louder than words, going forward. dara? >> lucy, thanks so much. let's bring in steve clemmons now. nbc contributor and editor at large at the atlantic "national journal" and courts. steve, thanks for

i don't have any deals in russi russia. president putin called me up very nicely to congratulate me on the win of the election. he then called me up extremely nicely to congratulate me on the inauguration, which was terrific. but so did many other leaders, almost all other leaders from almost all other countries. that is the extent. russia is fake news. this is fake news put out by the media. the real news is the fact that people, probably from the obama administration because they are there because we have our new people going in place right now as you know, mike pompeo is now taking control of the cia. james comey at fbi, dan coats is waiting to be approved. he is a senator and a highly respected one, and he is still waiting to be approved. but our new people are going in. just while you're at it because you mentioned this, "the wall street journal" did a story today that was almost as disgraceful as the feeling "new york times" story yesterda yesterday. it talked about -- you saw, front-page. so director of national inte

did we say stop you are russians and russianare russianand russi.eme venting. nobodno we welcomed them to the united states and zimbabwe data. showing again who we are and what we stand for. it happened after vietnam after the fall of yugoslavia. it happened time and time again as we set an example for the world when it came to refugees and now where are we today? because of the executive orders of this president, he's called into question over a half-century commitment to accepting refugees from around the world, people who've been victims of persecution and genocide and terrorism and the war are to be excluded and is it because of a real threat to our country? exactly how many syrian refugees have been accused of terrorism in the united states of america? not one and when you do the history of the 40 years plus of all of the millions of refugees that come to this country you can count on one hand those who have done us wrong and they were led into the country long before the process we now have in place. it is disgraceful the language that was use

senate to help lead on these issues with russir particularly senate to help lead on these issues with russi particularly senate to help lead on these issues with russiparticularly t senate to help lead on these issues with russia. because there are times we have led when administrations have sought not to be engage idor be engaged in way we thought was not necessarily. iran is a great example of that. in my sense and my concern with this administration on russia is profound. i hear you can only impun allies of long standing but you treat with a solve velvet glove one of the most significant stra teeth ig challenges we have with russia. you can actually say that there is a moral equivalency that we have killers here, and that the united states, do you think the united states is so good when you are speaking vis-a-vis russia. who poisons its opposition kills its opposition, invades another country, i have a light the internation international norm, goes ahead and bombs in aleppo civilian answers somehow you can even fashion a statement. there is some degree of equivalency. it's shocking. shoc

but much has changed and the united states has certainly done more to defeat aisis than russi. >> fight with two hands and a leg tied behind their backs vladimir putin might be a thug, but he knows how to execute a military plan and ultimately prevail. you refer today the global coalition to counter isil as a -- cowards, hypocrites left from behind from the american president. do you think that's conducive to securing partners in this fight against isil? >> no, i don't. i think it was a view i raised as a private person without that objective. >> so, i appreciate the comments that you made about ensuring that israeli arabs are treated fairly. i appreciated that comment when you met with me yesterday. i've heard troubling stories from arab-americans who say they have were subject to -- my husband is of leb oneonese dece. >> i would be the ambassador for the benefit of arab-american as well as other americans, and it's inexcusable to discriminate on their -- i would encourage them to have their own national security issues which i think we all respect but that's not a basis to engage espe

trump and we have information or the intel community has had information of the connection twon the russi i russians and members of the donald trump campaign at the same time that the russians are trying to fix the united states of america. they cannot be so stupid to pretend they picked on poor michael flynn out of nowhere. michael flynn, a man who visited russia, had dinner with putin, was believed to have received payments from russia. do you think they would have done this to rex tillerson? no. they wouldn't have done it to rex tillerson and would not have done it to james mattis and would not have done it to john kelly and would not have done it to other members of donald trump's cabinet. republicans, you can just stop that b.s. and editorial writers, stop shaming yourself. >> if you haven't learned this already and you didn't learn this in the campaign. note to republicans, this only gets worse. this only gets worse for the country and for you and for your party. and, also, bigger picture, willie, not to underestimate the other things that are going on around this russia issue and t