though what's clear is that russian diplomats have been expelled nato is no exception woodring seven russian diplomatic staff to leave its headquarters russia's deputy foreign affairs minister and former permanent representative to nato told us he thinks that the script fair was likely devised to boost military spending. i think this whole script case was concocted to prepare public opinion for the ever increasing amounts of money being spent on the military at present the military budgets of european nato members put together to approximately two hundred seventy billion if they achieve the two percent target that some will come to four hundred billion that would be ten times more than russia's military budget. obviously such whopping amounts of money being spent on the military are liable to be the subject of heated public debate to make sure this goes down well you need the image of an enemy and a powerful one at that so it's crystal clear that this huge provocation that was carried out by the u.k. was intended to achieve this goal which is to add fuel to the flames of recent phobi

we are very haphave betsy woodr winter, an investigative reporter who was at that hearing yesterday. and gabe sherman is an msnbc contributor. phil, you're in the hot seat today, because you're the prize winner, i'm going to start with you. we have sean hannity coming out as the secret client number three, stormy damaniels is in t courtroom. the president is according to everybody around him very unhappy with this. fact is stranger than fiction in in scenario. i'm going to leave it to you, where do we go next? what happens? >> well, it's just more and more intriguing details by the day, including this new connection with sean hannity and it underscores the heightened unease at the white house and at mar-a-lago where the president is. i mean that raid on michael cohen's home and office and hotel room was extremely upsetting to the president. it's all because they don't really know where the federal investigators are going and what they have. they obviously obtained a number of records, they seized records from cohen that pertain to his work with trump, but also with his other clients,