joininme now joyce vce, formal prosecutor and sean henry.hief investigative correspondent at yahoo and daily beast's mike tomasky. michael, starting with you, this story was intensifying each week of the trump presidency but to, i would say, casual viewers over the past week and a half, everything has been foreign policy. what do you see as what i just ran through and how it relates to any progress in the open inquiry? >> it's hard to say. certainly the carter page disclosure of the fisa warrant is significant. i reported last september that there was a u.s. intelligence investigation of page's ties to the -- i page's ties to the kremlin and whether that involved communications involving the trump campaign. so it shouldn't be a shock that, if there was an intelligence investigation at that time, that there was a fisa warrant. but this doesn't really tell us the core issues about collaboration or collusion because carter page was doing business deals on his own in russia before he went to the trump campaign. he had investments in gas, ties to

. >> sean: ed henry let me bring you in here, i know democrats try to said republicans change thingsreally there filibuster the fourth republicans. >> this door was cracked open by harry reid, the last sent democrats leader. don't forget he's the one who changed senate president so that you only needed 51 votes for a cabinet pick in order to help barack obama. now that has been an aide to donald trump as president. chuck schumer bus the door wider open with this unprecedented filibuster of a supreme court nominee. republicans certainly have the high ground to do this and get president trump spec on the high court. far be it for me to rain on the "hannity" parade on friday night. be forewarned. >> sean: it will come back to bite you. >> president elizabeth warren or some other democrat. >> sean: republicans give them an up or down vote. never, we never filibuster. >> i'm just saying, maybe the republicans want to do the filibuster and all of that great but the will be now open moving forward, 51 votes. >> sean: but there was no reciprocity. republic a allowed elena kagan and sonia sot

. >> and finally, when henry mcmaster came on board -- and i remember this, sean spicer was asked, ise going to be able to dictate what is going on in the national security council and trump said, no, no, no, he's got full authority to put this together. >> for all of the bannon critics out there, he's still very much close to the president? >> of course. and he's not going to take some huge national security policy position without running it by, i am sure, the entire country in the west wing. steve bannon would be part of that but that is different than having a political strategist sit on the national security council. that clearly is not atenable. >> got it. thank you so much. >>> coming up next, quote, all options on the table. strong words from the trump white house after another defiant move by north korea. how will this change the tone of president trump's meeting with his chinese counterpart? that meeting begins tomorrow. my lineage was the vecchios and zuccolis. through ancestry, through dna i found out that i was only 16% italian. he was 34% eastern european. so i went onto

chief washington correspondent ed henry joins you now with the latest on a very busy friday from the white house. >> very interesting. contentious white house briefing for seancer question after question about this russia investigation. they was playing a lot of defense. first batting down questions about general mike flynn, insisting the president and other higher ups in the white house are not worried if the general does cut some sort of immunity deal with investigators on the hill or with the fbi. also pushing back on questions about devin nunes, the house intelligence chairman and why he had that mysterious visit to the white house grounds and whether, in fact, it was white house staffers passing on that intel that nunes, the chairman suggests backs up some of the president's claims that the president trump and some of his advisors may have faced surveillance by the obama team back dooring the presidential transition. interesting because spicer also played some offense saying that the real focus should be on bill and hillary clinton. their own ties to vladimir putin paid speeches, that uranium deal with the clinton foundation and then spicer, of course,

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