the bed rock of our judicial system you re innocent until proven guilty. until proven he did that or calculatedly did that based on media reports we should give him the benefit of the doubt. your reaction to the news that president trump is letting his communications director go. do you think he should go further and let more people? here s the thing, this role, this is something that is a highly stressful role, 18 hours a day, and, you know, i don t know, i think president trump right now has a serious problem within the white house and the biggest problem is that people don t certain people don t believe in him and certain people believed in president obama and they ve stuck around and making his agenda very hard. what he needs to do is he needs to use his plans that he s put forth to paul ryan, use the communication platform he has with 25 million on twitter and through the media and press conferences to start holding congress accountable to pass his agenda. they re not doing
russia investigations plaguing his administration. quote, two white house officials said trump and some aides including steve bannon are becoming increasingly convinced they are victims of a conspiracy against trump s presidency as evidenced by the number of leaks flowing out of the government. joining me is one of the co-authors of that report, politico white house reporter josh, and my panel mike and megan. josh, one source told you the president, quote, obsesses about the so-called deep state conspiracy. what exactly is his strategy to confront it? i think back to joe scarborough saying day in and day out, when the president went after the intelligence community, you don t want to go after these guys, they ve got the information. right. and president trump has conceded that privately to friends his attacks on the intelligence community may not have been the best strategy. but i think now he s in a bit of a predicament.
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re of folks he calls on a weekly or monthly basis. he took some people like cory a lot. trump basically sees the campaign as a glory days. he loves talking about the campaign. the people that surrounded him on the campaign were great. a bit of revisionist history but it is what it is in his mind, and he s trying to replicate that and trying to go into, you know, battle mode again and listens to all of these people outside the white house and grumbles about his current staff but his current staff privately notes sometimes the staff might not be the problem. sometimes it may be more than that. quick caveat you mentioned steve schwarzman. several years ago when i sat down with steve in davos he said blackstone was not interested in doing business in russia because they couldn t trust the rule of law there. megan, i have to share this, the white house spokeswoman hope hicks released this statement to the washington post if you haven t heard it turn up the volume, president trump has a
welcome back. i m stephanie ruhle. you re watching msnbc. revealing new details this morning about president trump s son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner. reportedly proposing back channel communications with russia. the new york times is reporting that federal and congressional investigators are both now coming what kushner s motive was have been in his discussions last december with russian banker sergey gorkov whose financial institution remains under sanction by the united states, quote, it is not clear whether mr. kushner saw the russian banker as someone who could be repeatedly used as a go between or whether the meeting with mr. gorkov was designed to establish a direct secure communications line to mr. putin. joining me msnbc national security analyst and former cia acting director john mclaughlin and former undersecretary of