New york. Right now we are closely watching two things, first President Trump getting ready to take off for charleston, South Carolina. And were closely watching remarks to be made by Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell. All eyes again on President Trump and what he might say next when he speaks in just a few hours down in the palmetto state. The president boarding air force i just a few minutes ago, heading to South Carolina for the rollout of the new dreamliner aircraft, all of this happening amid new turmoil at the white house. The white house looking for a National Security adviser. Nbc news learning who the president was referring to general Keith Kellogg, who i have known for a long time, is very much in play fornsa, as are three hers. That after the president s top pick to replace mike flynn turned down the job, retired vice admiral and former Navy Seal Robert harward saying, quote, this job requires 24 hours a day, seven days a week, focus and commitment to do it right. I currently could not make that commitment. But much of the talk this morning is still focused on president s free wheeling and at times contentious News Conference yesterday afternoon. I inherited a mess, its a mess. It was the Biggest Electoral College win since Ronald Reagan. This administration is running like a finetuned machine. The leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake because so much of the news is fake. Im having a good time. Tomorrow they will say donald trump rants and raves at the press. Im not ranting and raving. Im just telling you youre dishonest people. Nobody mentioned that hillary received the questions to the debates. Can you imagine if i received the questions . It would be the electric chair. Our man, peter alexander, at 1600 pennsylvania avenue where he spends so much of his days and so much of his night, who was also front row of the News Conference. Lets start more on the nsa pick. What more can you tell us . We know that acting National Security adviser Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg is certainly high on that list. Its notable that Keith Kellogg is traveling aboard air force i with president obama. Donald trump referred to three other individuals. I cant confirm that these are the three other individuals to whom he is speaking specifically, but a white house aide tells me three other individuals that he has been considering as they describe it are general keith alexander, the former cia director David Petraeus and ne live general jimones who served as president obama National Security adviser for a brief time. This is a position that this white house has obviously wanted to fill for while now since Michael Flynns forced resignation. I spoke to a Senior Administration official here a short time ago. One of the concerns, one of the potential holdups would be of how much control that individual would have in staff up a National Security council right now. They want to make sure they have their people in that post. President obama talking about replacing obamacare. We also heard a little bit more on that subject yesterday at the News Conference as well. We did. He said he was going to be making some announcement in some form about obamacare as early as next month. Over the campaign he said well repeal it on day one. That obviously hasnt happened yet. Theres been a lot of challenges among republicans trying to sort out what the best path forward is. Today he did put out another tweet. Despite the long delays by the democrats in finally approving tom price, the repeel of obamacare is moving fast. He said the repeal of obamacare would come before tax reform. Not too long ago he said it may not happen until next year in a televised interview and yesterdays News Conference, he said it could happen as soon as next month. Lets talk about that News Conference you asked one of my favorite questionyesterday. I want to play it for our viewers and listeners at home. This was after he claimed his was the Biggest Electoral College win since Ronald Reagan. You said today that you had the biggest electoral margin since Ronald Reagan with 304, 306 electoral votes. President obama got 365 in 2008. I was talking republican. And george h. W. Bush 426 when he won as president. So why should Americans Trust you i was given that information. I dont know. I was just given. We had a very, very big margin. Why should Americans Trust you when you accuse the information they receive of being fake when youre providing information thats not accurate . I was given that information. Actually, ive seen that information around. It was a very substantial victory. Do you agree with that . Youre the president. He went on to say another of other things that we know not to be true, peter. How is that News Conference playing at 1600 pennsylvania avenue . What are his top aides saying about what we saw transpire yesterday . Reporter they thought this was vintage donald trump, that millions of americans embraced, the way that they know him, that helped propel him to this position as president of the United States. Kellyanne conway said he was transparent, confident, in command. They believe the lens of the media has been one of their Biggest Challenges because they believe, as youve heard multiple times from the president , fake news. Large parts of the country he s wi support right now. What is striking to note from that News Conference is what i hear and even after the conversation that exchange i had with President Trump is that there are a lot of people, folks that im still in touch with, from covering candidate trump on the trail from places like iowa and New Hampshire and elsewhere who say we like a lot about donald trump, we like a lot of the things that he said, we like the way he talks, but he can cut out the junk. We dont need to hear the garbage, we dont need the making up stuff and they say enough of the tweeting, just be president and do your job. Peter alexander. Good to see you, my friend. Enjoy the weekend. There is new scrutiny this morning of ousted National Security adviser nic reporting that during an fbi interview late last month, flynn denied talking about sanctions with russias ambassador. A senior Law Enforcement official telling nbc news said the agents felt that flynns answers were ambiguous but did not conclude he was lying to them. And at this point eights are not con testimony. Adam, thanks for your time this morning. Tem us a little bit more about what you learned about what flynn told the fbi. Right. So the interview was on the 24th of january. And he was asked, you know, did he discuss the Obama Administration sanctions which were imposed on russia following their meddling in the u. S. Election. And his answer was, no, in a , did not. But when the agents then pressed him again to address the issue, he then said that he did not recall fully the conversation that he had with the Russian Ambassador. So, you know, the terp lying of course, y the term lyi has to do with intent. Is it possible he did not remember the entire conversation he had or is he parsing his words. When he refers to sanctions, is he just referring to actions being taken against entities in russia, which were part of the package that was announced by the Obama Administration on december 29th or but there were other things that he did acknowledge talking about in an interview he did on monday with david call a, which was about the expulsion of russian diplomats. I want to play a notable, chang during the News Conference on thursday. Did you direct mike flynn to discuss sanctions with the Russian Ambassador no, i didnt. Reporter prior to your inauguration . And did you fire hmm because of what leaked out . No, i fired him because of what he said to mike pence. I didnt direct him but i would have because thats his job. President trump never acknowledged never said that general flynn lied. According to your reporting, what flynn told the fbi, similar to what he told trumps advisers, correct . Thats correct. I mean, according to pences office and what basically pence said when he made these when he basically cited his conversation with flynn and then denied on national television, nationwide television that flynn had discussed sanctions with e the to the fbi. Later what he said he didnt recall, thats more similar to what he told the Washington Post last week when we initially went to them, went o flynn and skim him if he had this conversation. Adam, thank you, sir. Trum when asked whether his advisers had any contacts, he said, quote, nobody that i know of. Nbcs bill neeley joins us live. First of all, any reaction from the kremlin from what we saw yesterday from trump . No reaction, craig. Heres why. The kremlin is being very cautious about reacting to the daily tweets and even to yesterdays News Conference by President Trump. Theres a good reason for that. Last friday the official kremlin spokesman, dmitri peskov, said that mike flynn did not talk about sanctions with the Russian Ambassador to the United States. Only for mr. Flynn, the former National Security adviser two days later to admit that he did. So the kremlin very embarrassed by that and it is choosing to keep its consul and not toy spond daily to Donald Trumps tweets and indeed to that News Conference yesterday. Indeed there is a distinct cooling in the enthusiasm for donald trump here. There were high hopes and even celebration when he was elected. There are now doubts that he will be able to deliver the promised reset, the improvement in relations that Vladimir Putin and the kremlin wants. They feel here that the u. S. Establishment is trying to gag President Trump to try to stop him from improving relations with the United States. One senior official here even said to me that they believe the deep state in the United States has a kind of conspiracy against donald trump and eventually that donald trump could even be impeached because hes on a track that the u. S. Establishment does not want hip to be on. So the kremlin at the moment very cautious about what they say. Bill neeley for us in russia. I want to bring in a member of the Foreign Affairs committee and energy committees. Congressman, thank up for your time this morning. You bet. Thanks for having me. President trump during the News Conference yesterday spent some time blaming folks in the media for getting in the way of having a productive relationship with russia. Take a listen to what he said. False, horrible, fake reporting makes it much harder to make a deal with russia. And probably putin said, you know, hes sitting behind his desk and hes saying, you know, i see whats going on in the United States, they follow it closely, its going to be impossible for President Trump to ever get along with russia because of all the pressure hes got with this fake story. First of all, congressman, did you see the News Conference yesterday, any portion of it . I watched most of it, yeah. In broad terms, what did you make of what we heard from the president sp. It was the most unique press conference ive seen in my life. Its one thing for a presint to push back against the mea, to have a little bit of an adversarial relationship, call out media bias as he perceives it, but i think to just refer as everything as fake news goes too far. In holding a president accountable and questions like russia are big questions. Questions like did your campaign are contact with russia when we find out about the flynn conversation is a big question that deserves to be answered. From the flynn perspective, i think the coverup is even worse than the crime here. People have right to ask. Beyond and his attacks on the mainstream media, what about this idea that the president of the United States states, congressman, continues to say things that he knows not to be true on a regular basis . So everywhere, in all a conservative would see something a little differently than maybe a liberal would but theres truth, theres facts. And if you state things that are undeniably not fact youll, it takes away from your credible. I in locking at the Foreign Policy of this administration have been extremely impressed. Theres been some really good pushback in areas where they need to be. The word of the president , though, seem not to be in conjunction of that. 21 House Democrats from sent a letter to your Committee Asking for it to investigate general flynns involvement with russia. Is that something thats going to happen . I dont know. I dont know the answer to that. Should it happened . Right now the will have questions for general flynn as well. Ive heard people call for a 9 11 style commission. We cant turn this into a circus because then it becomes partisan. We need bipartisan answers to what questions people have because america deserves this. Thank you so much, sir. After an allnight talkathon, Senate Democrats making a last ditch for the epa vote. Just over an hour from now, the le less. Ill get some reaction from congresswoman Sheila Jackson lee to this moment. Am i going to include are you going to include the Congressional Black Caucus and well, i would. Ill at the you what, you want to et up the meeting . Tives. Now its good for us all. Like those who like. Sweet. Those who prefer heat. blows a breath of air and those who just love meat. For those in school. Out of school. And old school. Those who like their sandwich with pop. And those who like it with soda. For the star of the scene. Cut and the guys behind it. 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This is the fellow that the New York Times said created an unprecedented secret alliance with the oil and gas industry to prevent oversight of their industry and yet hes the man thats now going to be charged with providing oversight for the industry. Its an outrageous situation. Lets talk about these emails right now because at the heart of democrats opposition right now, one of reasons theyre trying to delay a formal vote are because of thousands of emails, an oklahoma judge has ordered these emails be released by tuesday, these are emails that purportedly show a connection between scott pruitt and various members of the fossil fuel industry. Whats your concern about precisely whats in these emails . We know mr. Pruitt a his aides asked them for contributions for their political activity and at the same time taking letters from the oil and gas industry, putting them on to the state of oklahoma stationary and sending them on to epa. We know that requests for money were happening at the same time that he was suing the epa from people that wanted him to sue for money. So whats been asked for two years ago were all the emails that had to do with contacts to the industry. Now yesterday an oklahoma judge said you have to its unreasonable youve withheld them for two years, you have to provide them on tuesday. So the request is lets not vote until we see those emails. Why would you need to rush to vote . Why do you think theres such a rush to vote in. I suppose some would like to vote before the as far as get a chance to read them. If i were a senator, i would like to read those emails first. Thank you for your time. Enjoy the weekend. Up next, President Trumps relationship with the Congressional Black Caucus. We will have the response from the cbc and also a little bit more about what they want from President Trump. Ill talk to congresswoman Sheila Jackson lee on the other side of this break. Eyes open . Good. 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Its been a wileek for President Trump at the white house. Ta take a listen. Im just doing what i said i would do when we won by a very, very large Electoral College vote. Betsy at the education level will do her job and just to do it very, very formally, i want to congratulate you on having gone through a very tough trial and a very unfair trial. Michael flynn, general flynn, is a wonderful man. I think hes been treated very, very unfairly by the media, as i call it, the fake media in many cases. Michael flynn is a nice person. I asked for his resignation. He respectfully gave it. He was a man who there was a certain amount of information given to Vice President pence, who is with us today and i was not happy with how that information was given. Russia is fake news. Its fake news put out by the media. The leaks are real, the news is take. The press is out of control. I inherited a mess. Its a mess. There has never been a presidency thats done so much in such a short period of time. Im really not a bad person by the way. I do get good ratings. You have to admit that. Mark murray is the senior Political Editor for nbc news. The president insisted yesterday that his is a finetuned machine, mark. Well, craig, i would sum it up this way, with the three cs, that is an administration in conflict, th chaos and being consnt. Lets look at the conflict. Craig, its common for president s to get into fights, that happens whether youre republican or democrat, but just the number of conflicts so far and you look at the with the Court Battles with the media, i throw in nordstrom, the intelligence community, even the Prime Minister of australia into that. Then the next c we have is just the chaos. That has to do with the before and after of the travel ban, craig, as well as the administration talks about alternative facts. You even look at the middle east peace and twostate solution and theres a little bit of chaos there. And then finally him being constant and ever present really. Whether you agree with his politics or not, craig, he is a force. Everyone is talking about his press conference of yesterday and he really over these last now 28, 29 days has been a constant presence. Mark murray, walking us through the three cs on this afternoon. Good to see you, my friend. Thank you. Lets talk about this Congressional Black Caucus. The white house now working to schedule a meeting between President Trump and the 49member group, this after the president had a Bizarre Exchange with a black journalist named april ryan at his News Conference thursday. Take a watch. Are y going to include the cbc, mr. President , in your conversations with your urban agenda, your inner stiff agenci agenda am i going to include who . The Congressional Black Caucus. Do you want to set up the meeting . You set up the meeting. The cbc tweeted to trump saying they sent him a letter but he never responded. April ryan said he hopes he was not asking her to set up the meeting because shes black. I consider myself a journalist like everyone else in that room. I wasnt looking at im a black woman, im a journalist that wants to ask questions. When he said would you convene the meeting, when you talk about fake news, thats fake news. Joined by former whip sheila lee. Members of the cbc also speaking out. This is what your colleague Elijah Cummings from maryland said last night. First of all, i dont think he knew what the cbc was. And then i think the young lady, miss ryan, cleared it up and made sure he knew who it was. I think a lot of people assume that all black people know black people. And then the idea that the president asked somebody in the press pool to set up a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus. Hes the president of america. He could make that phone call himself. I kind of laughed it off but its consistent with what weve seen from President Trump all along. Congresswoman, did you laugh it off as well . Well, its a pleasure to be with you this morning. Let me also emphasize as youve done or as the Early Morning interview did, april ryan is a journalist of many years of professionalism and does an excellent job and has been a White House Correspondent for a number of president s. So let me thank you, april ryan, for your professionalism. My colleague, congressman cummingings, is anstute member of congress. Let me just say that the Trump Administration to date is an administration that is not on off its wheels but off the track. It was evident last night in what was an unclear and poorly directed press conference, not really focusing on issues that the American People need. The Congressional Black Caucus has met with every president since ive had the privilege of serving in the 18th congressional district. But we meet for a reason. Were purpose driven. We meet for criminal justice reform. We meet to create jobs with president obama, who came in with a 7 unemployment. There was no mess that mr. Trump was left by the last administration. It was excellence. We helped president obama create thoughts of jobs for young people in the summer of 2009. We developed a pathway for historically black colleges. You are right, we sent a letter on january 19th. We had not heard a word. And it was a rebuttal to this so call new deal for america. Im going to protect africanamericans from illegal immigration. We dont believe in divisive politics and we said that in the letter. We dont believe in a wall. We believe in comprehensive immigration reform, we believe in making sure were secure. And then sool chce we believe in theublic School System and the right for people to have a great, excellent education. But his socalled new deal for america, we responded to it and rebutted it because it was not speaking to the needs of africanamericans. Now let me say this we, as i understand our chairman, our chairman richmond, has indicated a response to a call from the white house. Thats the appropriate way to behave. So it sounds like the meeting is going to happen. A possible meeting will be coming forward. But remember go ahead, go ahead. What were you about to say . I was just going to say there are many other things that we have to address that this vags is engaged in right now. Let talk about one of those things, the house Judiciary Committee. Youre a member of that committee. Up tweeted out on something that caught some folks attention. Youve introduced this amendment for oversight into a full investigation into russian conversations and connections with the Trump Campaign. Do you see that amendment actually being approved, congresswoman . It has to be approved, if not in the sense of the amendment, in the spirit of the amendment. Remember eight years under president obama . What a vigorous, investigatory the republicans had. There was not one iota that they did not vet. Now we have situation that can be equal to the actual undermining through a foreign power of a National Election but also the constant engage of individual in the campaign of mr. Trump and the campaign of mr. Trump with russian spies able o undermine this president. And my final point point if i could to be fair, the president has dismissed that as fake news, very fake news. And i think what we should do for the president , and he has his right to that is we should investigate in order for him to have the information for him to assess whether it fake news. The one thing that strike me is a question and to whether or ic pretty evident through both the transcripts and as well the back and forth. I dont think this administration can move forward much. I hope they can do some work with the Congressional Black Caucus until we get to the bottom of whether or not there were activities that would undermine the National Security of the American People. I know we will not rest on the Judiciary Committee and i hope my republican colleagues will wake up and understand they investigated where there was no reason to investigate. Now they should investigate now. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson lee, we never have enough time. We just never have enough time. I enjoy being with you. Thank you so much for having me. Congresswoman, thank you so much. Coming up, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell just wrapping up a News Conference on capitol hill. He was asked what we were just talking about, the resignation of general Michael Flynn. Well go to the hill for a live report after this. Hey team, i know were tight on time, but i really need a. Sick day tomorrow. Moms dont take sick days. Moms take nyquil severe the. 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What did the Senate Majority leader have to say there, kasie . Reporter a pretty wideranging News Conference from Mitch Mcconnell. He does this very rarely. He joked around a little bit about how Chuck Schumer voted against his wifes nomination to be the transportation secretary. And i had a chance to ask him about mike pence who was misled in the back and forth about mike flynn and russia phone calls. Teak a look. Reporter do you think that the Trump Administration is doing well by Vice President mike pence . What about pence . Reporter are they doing right by him . He was misled, the president , his senior advisers and mike flynn all knew about this he was in charge of the white house staff. He made a decision on that and reporter abobut do you thin hes being treated well . Since hes taken the lead and mike pence has been the indispensable player. Reporter we also learned, craig, that the majority leader was asked whether or not he believed what the president said yesterday about contacts between the Trump Campaign and russia, the russian government. And he said simply, i have no idea. His office, he has no idea whether there were contacts between the Trump Campaign and russian government. A very striking statement to make. And Mitch Mcconnell is not someone we hear from in that particular setting on a regular basis. It should be voted while Chuck Schumer may have voted against his wife, i believe the vote was like 955. Elaine chao reporter she was overwhelming overwhelmingly. Up next, while some legislators say they are afraid a Trump Administration will destroy any documents tying general flynn to russia. Ill talk to senator gary peters of michigan, next. Every chip, a, is data that can make the difference between winning and losing. Golfers like me have played these holes thousands of times, generating countless data points. 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To me it didnt show any sort of leadership. Its amazing, it seems as if theres some parallel universe here for folks who think that was a good performance. He didnt answer questions and instead exhibited a stream of consciousness. Nancy pelosi, House Minority leader, she said something yesterday thats gotten a fair amount of attention. Shes afraid the Trump Administration is going to destroy any documents related t. Do you have any evidence that is something that is happening and could happen . I have no evidence its happening but its certainly something that could happy is why its important to make sure folks are put on notice we cant have any destruction of any sorts of documents or electronic records. The fact mr. Flynn lied to Vice President pence raises the issue why did you lie . What were you trying to cover up . If he was trying to cover up that conversation, theres a lot of smoke and we know that mr. Flynn wanted to cover it up. Who else is going to try to cover up some of this information . We need to have full and traps parent investigations. This should be bipartisan, should not be a partisan issue whatsoever. This is about the American Peoples right to know the facts on what is a very serious issue particularly you just insisted that general flynn lied and we did not hear the president use that language yesterday. There appears to be some nuance involved with regards to how sanctions may have been discussed on this phone call. How can you be so sure the general lied . I cant i cant seen the transcript but based on the actions taken if you want to characterize it as misinformation, however you want to characterize it, it was clear he is it not want to give the full story to him. When Vice President pence made a comment to the press, he was pretty clear. No, there was no conversation about these sanctions and yet it appears there were. Apparently thats not what Vice President heard because thats not what he communicated to the press. You met with Supreme Court nominee neil gorsuch yesterday. Did he say anything that impressed you . Certainly hes a very bright individual and strong credentials. Very thoughtful. Its a good conversation. Its hard to get into the nuts and bolts of cases because he doesnt want to discuss that for a variety of reasons. I have some concerns about his past cases that he has ruled on. We had a discussion on that. I look forward to the process to continue to move forward. Lot more questions will be asked of him during the hearing and ill pay close attention to it but well see how that develops. Youre going to germany this week for the annual conference there in munich with defense secretary. Wed love to get a debrief on that when you return next week sir. Safe travels, senator. Thanks so much. We will be right back. 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Agriculture kral cruise, gardening, landscaping and traditional trades jobs as well. You tackled of building this company by yourself but you were helped along when you met someone by chance at a coffee shop. I love these stories. Who was it and what was that meeting about . I literally was in montana my first weekend and purchased a copy of Small Business for dummies. I bought that. A great cook. Chance meeting with richard cybirill a designer for patagonia. Wow. What did you get out of that . Did he like the idea . Did he say that doesnt make any sense . He loved it. He said sarah i think youre on to Something Big and you should move on this now. The name of the company is great but how did you come up with it . The name popped into my head and in the ant colony the female ants do all of the work. As youre finding out it may be in human colonies. With your success, youve been honored by business groups and given t. E. T. Talks and invited by president obama to the white house, a forum on jobs. Tell me about this thing that you developed, the red ants pants Music Festival. Yes, so after about five years in business, decided it was time to celebrate a little broader and to bring people together and music is an incredibly powerful tool in doing so, so we started a Music Festival in a cow pture in the middle of nowhere, montana, in white sulfur springs. We are in our seventh year and had 16,000 people attend last year. Great inspiration. Sarah calhoun continued good luck to you and thank you for joining us. Thank you so much. Made in the usa. All right thats going to do it for us this hour of msnbc live. Im craig melvin and ill grab lunch and see you here at 1 00 eastern. Right now katherine turr is here, some of you know her as katy. What is craig short for . Short forring in. You know what craig means no . What . Short for crag, mountain, like a rock. Got nothing to say to that. 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