and senior political editor and white house correspondent sam stein with us from washington. so republicans overhaul of obamacare passed the house. and though another major battle looms, yesterday the president and house republicans were celebrating. they were jubilant. republicans count held and with just 20 defections were able to send the bill on to the senate. politico reports, quote, at their final proceed vote mepre- meeting, they keyed up the theme from rocky to get them in a victorious mood. cases of bud light were rolled in, tom delay was spotted smoking a cigar just off the floor. "washington post" reports that the president was calling lawmakers right up to when the vote began. the paper reports a special phone booth was set up so members could receive calls from the president and his deputies. >> i've never seen someone so hands on. when they say the president is calling again. i pick up the phone, i happen to be the majority leader, former whip. i know my members well. the president gives me a list of who he thinks i would be best to talk to on the list. and he w

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joining us now sam stein, the senior politics editor at huff post and msnbc contributor. and back with us ron klain. sam, lest people think we become the dirty talkers about this very important thing, the long-term strategy that the democrats see here is if the house republicans pass this bill tomorrow, that will help the democrats retake the house of representatives and protect this health care. so what can sound like some kind of dirty political calculation about this is really a calculation about how do we protect the affordable care act long-term. >> yeah. there is two schools of thought that i've encountered when i talked to democrats about the politics of this. let's just put it inside the politics. the politics of this. one is there is eerie echoes of sort of the mentality they had in the 2016 presidential election which please, god, let the republican party nominate donald trump because that would ensure that we will win the campaign. so obviously that turned out in the way that was unpredicted. and not advantageous for democrats. in that sense they don't want it t

joining me now is sam stein, an msnbc contributor and ruth marcus, a columnist. ng 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 -- >>

joining me now is david, sam stein, and mike vicara., first to you, the meeting with erdogan, on top of everything else that happened, what issues do you think are raised by a meeting with turkey's president who we now know, belatedly know that mike flynn was lobbying for without having to disclose that in realtime. >> it's a meeting with a lot of difficu difficult, hard edges for the white house in a week in which they need the opposite. erdogan has a deserved reputation for growing authoritarian policies, his government's apparent contacts with mike flynn before he came into the white house, are being investigated, that is an issue. i think the most important thing that will be discussed is the collision course over strategy for syria they're saying you're proposing to people that we regard as terrorists. they decided to go forward with a syrian grown, by the end of the day there may be one more big flap for this administration. >> it is no coincidence, and i want you to weigh in on the criticism of the leak from the intelligence comm

. >>> joining me now, olivia and sam stein, senior politics editor of the "washington post." well, sam, i'll start with you. holy potatoes. i mean, let's start the "times" story. even if there's nothing there underlying, just the notion that the president is in this meeting. the u.s. media are barred from, russian state media are in. kisly kislyak's presence is hidden from us in the readout. in tharkts he's telling them he's fired the guy that was investigating them, which is to say russian government and possibly who knows, maybe even kislyak. i cannot believe he said that. >> that might have been the second most damaging thing he said in that meeting. also revealed critical intelligence to the russians that's come from the israelis so he could have damaged our relationship with israel as well. it would be tough to draw up a more damaging meeting from a communications, political optics perspective, whatever. it also just damages every line the white house communication had been trying to push for the rationale for the comey firing. keep in mind, rosenstein was supposed to be

phrases being used with increasing regularity as we reach day 122 of the trump administration. >> sam steinte, sam is going to respond. for the rest of the day he's going to be speaking in corsi. >> i can't believe it's day 122. >> every day is like a dog year. >> sally yates -- >> obviously this is sucking all the oxygen out of the room. i'm not totally of the mind-set that this distracts the rest of the agenda. i think congress will try to keep going ahead with some of this stuff, successful or not, including obamacare repeal. this white house can't get out from underneath this, in part because they are giving us different responses to it. for instance, trump's first reaction to a lot of stuff was, okay, i'm glad been appointed. it will prove i've done nothing wrong and we'll move beyond this. everything since then has suggested someone guilt ridden. a reuters report that came out friday which we have not discussed, that i thought was in tre oincredibly illuminating, how much bob mueller can look into. obscure, bob mueller cannot investigate jared, ivanka. that does not strike me as the a