see it. frarjly i think if there wasn t something of sub stns, he would have walked out that moment from the white house and come out and declared that this was a big waste of time and a big dog and pony show. he didn t do that. he doesn t do that. it s very telling in what he probably saw on friday. it certainly is an attempt to disstrakts it to hide the origin of the materials, to hide the white house hand. the question is, okay, why. and i think the answer to the question is this effort to point the congress in other directions, basically saying don t look at me, don t look at russia, there s nothing to see here. i would tell people whenever the pretty used the word fake, it ought to set off alarm bells. so that tension is still there, alex, between democrats and republicans on h issue. there won t be any quick answers. we know that what s happening takes time and will largely be done out of public view and the
sources from within the white house? what do you make of that? ham-handed. i said that earlier. he should have shared that earlier with the ranking manyship and all the members of the ranking committee. it takes us off focus. i m remembering by a dog from up who keeps getting disstraktsed by a squirrel. we re not goej ing to do it. how do you commit to the public that your commity s investigation is fair and that this is not just all about politics. we can only do this in time and only if chairman nunes will live up to his responsibility and get us back on track. but, alex, remember, it s not just about the house committee. the senate committee begins in earnest and it looks very impressive. the fbi is investigating this. you know what we haven t talked about?
new york. breaking news. an avalanche of water has swept through a small city killing at least 200 people. rescue workers are searching through debris and pulling apart rocks to try to find people missing or injured. it s happened in moccoa near the border of ecuador. coming up in the next hour we re going to talk with a red cross official and get the latest. msnbc has been on the road gauging reaction across towns in trump country. we went to somerville, north carolina, this weekend. talk to us about what the residents are saying. good morning, alex. we re in south carolina this morning. we ve been to several town halls. this is the flower festival to try to gauge some thoughts on where the trump administration
waitresses, power washers, people who voted on trump. they say this is malarkey the democrats put forward in order to take away from the efforts of jobs and veterans affairs. they said, yes, the trump 5d ministration may be something but when it comes town to something, a lot of them are saying, we still want tup. if you look at his approval rating, they want him week after week. nine out of ten republicans stand by donald trump. what we re hearing from people is tup is not a legitimate president. their issues are still very much legitimate, which is something we have not heard democrats come forward and put their own policy path forward which a lot of these people note. they say, republicans and democrats should be teaming up to work with donald trump to push his agenda forward. alex? okay. so, vaughn, here folks are talking about russia. that may not be something that affects them in their daily
with a simple act of a phone call by chairman nunes. all he has to to is pick up the phone, call the committee back together, share that what he knows from this by be czar handed back-and-forth with the white house thing. also begin to s&p some documents which will help us get at the truth and i have used as an example, we need to see paul manafort s tax records, his bank statements, his e-mail records and his phone records in order to find out some of what may be the money laundering charges that were in the new york media outlet. so one phone call, we could get this back on track. barring that happening you re among the chairman recusing himself to try to ensure a fair investigation. are you reassured at all to even some degree now that ranking member adam schiff has got an chance to see the same documents he has? you know, alex, i feel like i m watching this all play out