>> we still have ruth marcus and ken vogel with us down there in washington. ruth, let me bring you in on this too. i just -- we have the seychelles now. we have the fbi, the special prosecutor investigation. we have the senate committee subpoenaing these campaign records. we have the report about jared kushner. can you keep up with all of this? >> well, i'm doing as best as i can. i think we're all kind of reeling from this. a couple points. one other thing that we know is that jared kushner did not apparently report these meetings on the forms that he needed to fill out to get his security clearances. so that was potentially sloppiness, or it was potentially more. it does suggest if you're an investigative type, a desire not to make this public, and the "post" story tonight adds to the explanation for why you wouldn't want this to be public. one question that i think is going to be really important and really front and center is what did the president know about these efforts? did michael flynn tell him? did jared kushner, who spends an enormous amount of tim

joining me now is ruth marcus.o you, israel has a close relationship with donald trump, but intelligence, these are the crown jewels when you have a secret agent in a counter terrorism investigation. >> yes, i bet their relationship is less close today than it was a couple days ago. this is what you don't mess arnold with and people's lives are at risk. obviously, for israel, and we don't know all of the truth of this penetration, but one has to assume that is one of the high level programs they're running and the danger level is high. so to casually share unnecessarily data from these operations i would say it is unbelievable but i guess it is. >> almost anything is believable these days. ruth marcus, he is preparing for this first trip, israel should have been the easiest part of the trip, and there will be 50 arab leaders and now the saudis are wanted -- no comment from the white house yet about that piece of the trip that would be all about arms deals and isolating iran. >> anything can happen on this foreign t

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whistleblower, snowden, chelsea manning, look up the critical articles written about them by people like ruth marcus, david horowitz -- david ignations. and investigative journalism, that relies on whistleblower, where it would be, think of priest of the washington post who won a pulitzer prize. she won it about secret printings at the cia was operating in europe and southeast asia. she got that information from a whistleblower. we know she won a pulitzer prize for her work but it is an anonymous person. when you read the op-eds, i remember the most offensive one was marcus who referred to chelsea manning as a cross dressing red riding hood. ignation was not nice about the comments with snowden. glen feed well was on the show and they were critical with him. when senator dianne feinstein wrote a report on cia torture and abuse she was on situation room and accused of having blood on her hands for revealing the information about cia torture and abuse. the thing i would like to leave you with, because i want to leave time for questions and comments, is our democracy sin trouble. we are in a very belit

joining me now with the inside scoop, "new york times" political reporter nick confosori, and ruth marcusy, what is the significance of hiring a private lawyer, and is this the right kind of lawyer to hire for this kind of issue? >> two really important questions. the significance -- it's entirely sensible, probably a little bit late for president trump to be hiring his private lawyer. it's not indicative of -- people should. leap to the conclusion that he's about to be hauled off in handcuffs any time soon. that is not going to happen. you need a lawyer because you need somebody who is ethically able to represent you and your personal interests and your legal interests. and the white house counsel who represents now the president himself but the office of the presidency, has ethical limits on what he can do in terms of giving the president private legal advice. so this is a necessary step. it doesn't suggest anything other than it's the prudent thing for the president to do. what the president is turning to the right lawyer, i don't know mr. kasowitz, but i feel really strongly, because

joining me now is sam stein, an msnbc contributor and ruth marcus, a columnist.ing of the fake news writers. >> thanks, andrea. >> all said ironically. sam, you wrote at some length about the famous handshake. let's see the macaroon handshake. tell me what you tyke away from that incredible grip. >> so i got a little deep on this assignment. i think i may have written 3,000 words on handshake etiquette, but i think h thinks these thin through. he gives nonverbal cues and he likes to establish himself as alpha mail in this routine. they prepared for the moment where they come in with a firm grip go until he lets go. that was followed by another one where he tried to tear the arm out of mack con's socket. a whole psychology behind the handshakes, fascinated to break it down with some of the psychologists and the takeaway trump is someone who is keenly aware of the optics, wants to show this is his turf and leaders are coming to him basically. >> and routh, this is such a male thing. this male domination by handshake. >> this dominance ritual. >> you don't see -- >>

person but yet when you read the op-eds, i remember the one that it found the most offensive was ruth marcus who referred to chelsea manning as a cross-dressing red riding hood. david ignatius, very ugly with his economies about edward snowden. david gregory when he ran "meet the press" had glen green walt on his show would and was extremely critical for him being a conduit for the information from edward snowden. when diane feinstein wrote a report about torture and abuse she was on wolf blitzer's situation room and accused of having blood on her in other words revealing the information about the cia torture and abuse. so the think i would like to leave you with at this point dish do want to leave some time for questions and comments -- is our democracy right now is in trouble. we're in a very beleaguered state. there was an article in the "new york times" about two weeks ago about-i love this word -- guardrail, the guardrail of democracy and how the system is working. well, two observations. one, the system will only work if people make the system work. the system can't work on its own. an

joining me is anne gearan and ruth marcus, editor and columnist. route, first to you.diversity on issues such as women's health is important because men would not be able to assess as well as women, arguably, the facts, the importance of some of these health issues. >> well, you know, i think that the importance of diversity is kind of acknowledged by secretary price's response to you. it's not that he's saying it doesn't matter, men can understand women's issues or be as attentive to women's issues as well as women, so don't worry your pretty little head about it. he's saying, there were some women there, if you squint closely. but let's be clear. this is not the first picture from inside this white house that has had a certain lack of diversity in it. >> and anne gearan, when we talk about this, also, there's the fact checking. basic fact checking. mark murray in first read on nbcnews.com did a really good job of looking at all of the sunday talk show people from the administration. they wanted to focus on health care, and here's a bit of what they were claiming. >>

ari melber, ruth marcus, jason johnson, and alex eisen stat. ashley parker is with the washington times. i want to go with ashley parker. you got some news at "the washington post." you got some news. >> yeah, well, a couple things. one thing that was interesting right before this actual news broke, which was obviously a bombshell, i was talking to white house aides and people close to them, and they had basically been saying that the white house -- the president was not worried about the blowback from firing comey last week. he was not even worried about the news that he had basically disclosed highly classified information to the russians. but the comey memos were something that really concerned them because they realized that it could open them up to legal jeopardy. so what you're seeing tonight is sort of the realization of their worst fears and their nightmares. >> let me go to jason. you've got some news too. i want to get it all on the table tonight. >> i talked to some of my sources at the fbi. they talked about mueller's relationship w

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marcus in the immediate future. >> i'm from kentucky. which 77,000. there's no excuse why we don't have a ruth's chris. >> things are coming along. >> reporter: while shopping didn't work at the boulevard location, the county is betting that original medical center will. this is where its going to be built and when that happens, county officials are expecting the median income in the lar goe area to jump from 80,000 to 120,000. and they say when that happens higher end retail will find. in largo, i'm tracee wilkins. >> starting next fall virginia will start rolling out a new version of its driver's license and state i.d.s. the change is part of the 2005 real i.d. program that includes stricter and more secure requirements for these cards starting in 2020 homeland security will require a real idea in order to get on to a domestic flight along with the dmv issued license or i.d. card that co passport. the real i.d. came out of a recommendation by a commission looking into september 11th. >>> just a few weeks away from a fair high gone metro starting june 25th. they'll cost ten to 25 cents more. me

. >> a sacks or neiman marcus may not be in the county's immediate offer. >> i'm from kentucky. they got a ruth'schris where the median household income is 40,000. there's no excuse why we don't have a ruth chris. >>s things are coming along. >> reporter: while shopping didn't work that a regional medical center will. this is where it's going to be built and when that happens county officials are expecting the median impact in the largo area to jump from 8 120,000 and they say when that happens, higher end retail will follow. in lar goe, i'm tracee wilkins, news4. >> lee on out in marlow heights with the look at our sweltering forecast. >> he's looking cool, though. >> reporter: it's hot but it's not that hot. the humidity not that much. storm team 4 by 4. 91 degrees, relative humidity now 31%. dew .62, once it gets above 65. so yeah, it's on the hot side but not all that bad. take a look at the spread we got out here. just an amazing day so far. we've been here now for about two hours. the kids have been on the bounce houses. i was just inside playing basketball. we were all just dancing right h