he is basically going back to what kind of person and businessman he has been and how that basically is a road map to what things will be like in the future. kristen welker, glen thrush with the new york times and amber phillips with the washington post. it is wonderful to see you. thank you very much. former rnc chairman michael steel joins me now. when you look at what is going on with trump and corker and you think we have a lot to get done in this gop congress, there is not as much time left as we may think thr think. the run up to 2018 is going to really start gaining steam in the next year, democrats could maybe get control back in the house if nothing happens, maybe potentially in the senate. what goes through the mind of the former head of the rnc? all of this is exhausting. and it s unnecessarily so. the fact that you got a twitter
the president s trip to that region just weeks away. it was when tillerson was coming back, as you know, the president really undercut the secretary of state saying, in effect, stop wasting your time. indeed. thank you for this breaking news, glenn thrush and peter alexander. he s the author of a world in disarray. so well named, so impressioned. your book holds up day by day, richard haas. alas. let s talk about the iran deal, first of all. what i ve been told today and it s now being reported elsewhere as well, if this holds, and the president can change his mind, he s not going to certify that iran is complying with the spirit of the deal. the cia, i understand, does say iran is complying with the letter of the iran deal and he ll kick it to congress to see whether they can impose new
pompeo replacing him. they went to the state department to try to resolve issues of a vacancy. glenn? we ve seen rex tillerson more in the last two days than we ve seen him in the last nine months, right? that s been in the wind for a bit, but we re still hearing nikki haley would be more likely, and that pompeo, if anything, would be more likely to be slotted into nfc if general mcmaster got his four-star and was shipped off to somewhere else. remember, rex tillerson is not the only member of the president s inner circle who is not in the greatest position. general mcmasters not somebody the president is crazy about being around. i think with tillerson, we re looking at a situation that s not all that dissimilar to where
you also have to wonder what the overlap between what he s looking at and what bob mueller is looking at and what areas he has not and what the committee has not been able to explore because of potentially crossing wires with mueller s investigation. i see that you re in atlanta, i m going to make a small suggestion, tomorrow for breakfast go to homegrown and get the chicken biscuit. done. tell me how it is. i ll take a picture. glen thrush and casey hunt, thanks. moving now to discuss this further the former chief of staff at the department of defense and jeremy bash who s also nbc national security analyst. so jeremy, a lot from that, a lot and a little i guess you could say from that briefing from burr warner. we were talking about just a
enlightened at our ability to rebuild backwards the steele dossier, up to a person date, getting past that point has been almost impossible. the committee did say they were able to corroborate at least some of it. he went on to warn americans that russia won t stop trying to meddle. speaking of which, nbc news has now reporting today on which states russia targeted with their facebook ads. nbc s casey hunt is on capitol hill, and also white house correspondent for the new york times, glen thrush, who s also an nbc political analyst. casey you asked that question whether or not they can rule out any collusion between the united states and russia. do you think it s notable that they still can t rule out any sort of collusion? i do, katie, they were much