he was fired for -- because of the russia iti. he would not go easy on michael flynn. we know there is comes the president told lester holt and nbc. the president also told the russian foreign minister. whether that ia firing offense or not is not terribly relevant. it is not there anymore. what is relevant is that he was fired for the russian investigation and out of the ig report was talking about. lead: congressman nadler, democrat on the judiciary committee, thank you for being our guest on newsmakers this week. rep. nadler: you are quite welcome. susan: kate, start with immigration. it has been a fraud legislative process to say the least. the president seems to have found a monkeywrench in what seemed to be a process towards a vote next week by tweeting he moderate sign the bill. the republicans are no longer whipping the legislation. things are at something of a standstill right now. where is this going? kate: the president has tweeted that he supports certain parts of the immigration bill but did not say specifically that he supports this particular bill which

must don't is such and mr paul is itis what this integration also allow you know the west to claim victory in the sort of standoff we're saying at the moment against russia i think in terms of. in geopolitical terms yes mustard is the focus of a perceived. perceived. fight over it including russia including turkey so. there appears to be a lot of interest in trying to influence that country and if the country joins the european institutions and obviously the north atlantic treaty that more or less will be the end of that fight and in economic terms i think. it will be quite beneficial for greece as well there are many greeks who believe that instead of fighting over that name we should find a neutral acceptable solution and keep doing business with these people to both to the benefit of both sides so and that's a obviously a pragmatic view having said that i believe that. the end of the day the greek parliament will ratify and this is only a guess of course but i i think i have a feeling that we have a problem and will ratify the preliminary agreement this should happen and should the parliament in scorpion nor ratify the area meant greece at least will