leaders to produce this proposal. the president didn t ask what democrats needed in the bill to achieve our support. he simply laid his proposal down on the table and proclaimed it a compromise. it sounds like the senate majority leader will move forward with the president s plan thursday. shepard: what s the word from the house of representatives, mike? from the house of representatives, mike? what are they saying? looks like the house speaker is saying essentially that the plan the president put forward will not work in the house, and she s saying it s a nonstartner the house of representatives. at first when we heard the president was going to make a proposal, we were optimistic that he might be reaching out to open up government so that we could have this discussion. but then we heard what the particulars were in it and it s a nonstarter unfortunately.
and interfered in our elections. the president-elect didn t ask, oh, my goodness, how does this happen? how do we hold them accountable? how do we prevent it from happening again? what did he do according to former director comey? he immediately started to say how can we spin this so it s not a public relations disaster. that should have told us right there. he had none of the normal curiosity when told a foreign entity interfered in our elections. david corn, as glenn said, some of this happened in plain sight, right? the conversation with lester holt. that weird meeting at the white house with the russian foreign minister and the russian ambassador to the united states in which americans were not allowed in. that press conference in helsinki next to vladimir putin, which no one could understand. but some of it didn t happen in plain sight. like the trump tower meeting. like the idea that donald trump warned america that e-mails were going to be released and then suddenly e-mails we
president-elect, russia hacked and interfered in our elections. the president-elect didn t ask, oh, my goodness, how does this happen? how do we hold them accountable? how do we prevent it from happening again? what did he do according to former director comey? he immediately started to say how can we spin this so it s not a public relations dis. that should have told us right there. he had none of the normal curiosity when told a foreign entity interfered in our elections. some of this happened in plain sight, right? the conversation with lester holt. that weird meeting at the white house with the russian foreign minister and the russian ambassador to the united states in which americans were not allowed in. that press conference in helsinki next to vladimir putin, which no one could understand. but some of it didn t happen in plain sight. like the trump tower meeting. like the idea that donald trump warned america that e-mails were going to be released and then suddenly e-mails wer
and, you know, you had a great run-up of everything that demonstrates that. one other thing i would add, ali, when james comey and clapper and some others gave the president and his team after he had been elected the first national security briefing and told them, you know, mr. president-elect, russia hacked and interfered in our elections. the president-elect didn t ask, oh, my goodness, how does this happen? how do we hold them accountable? how do we prevent it from happening again? what did he do according to former director comey? he immediately started to say how can we spin this so it s not a public relations dis. that should have told us right there. he had none of the normal curiosity when told a foreign entity interfered in our elections. some of this happened in plain sight, right? the conversation with lester holt. that weird meeting at the white house with the russian foreign
director for counter intelligence, the chief operating officer for ets risk management and a former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst is joining me here in washington along with kimberly atkins. frank, let me start with you. what do you think of these terms? are they fair for both sides here? i think james comey has done the right thing. he s avoiding a possible contempt charge and actually calling their bluff. he s going to be able to come out if they hold true to their agreement, he ll discuss in detail a transcript of what transpired. he can go on and on and on. you may have him on your show talk about what transpired and what didn t happen. what was asked and didn t ask. i think he wins in this and i think congress loses. this is a transparent attempt to inflame, antagonize. the purpose of this is not congressional oversight, it s to