for a lot of these democrats, that s not enough. nbc s geoff bennett in florida and msnbc s garrett haake on the hill. guys, thank you very much. let s bring in ambassador nicholas burns, former undersecretary of state for political affairs and has served in various roles for both republican and democratic administrations. he s also professor the a the harvard kennedy school. thanks so much for joining us, ambassad ambassador. you bet. the president going to north korea. the stakes are extremely high. when he says that the deal isn t favorable or is not fair, he ll walk out of the room, what is your reaction? i think he s going to have to be patient and have strategic patience over the next perhaps 6 to 12 to 18 months. first of all, i think the president is right to go to north korea. he is right to try to jump-start the diplomacy with a leader that we haven t dealt with in the past. secondly, it was a very good step to send director mike pompeo to pyongyang. no american off
words, i d take a bullet for donald trump? he s a very loyal guy, tends to keep his commitments. in the time i ve known him has been very direct about his relationship and feelings about donald trump. but would he go to prison for him? i m not a psychologist. i ve asked you for advice over the years. will he take the bullet? it is different when you have a bunch of guys with fbi credentials standing in front of you saying, by the way, let s leave now, here are the u.s. marshals to take you away. it is easy to say i would take a bullet, it is a lot harder when somebody is pointing a loaded weapon as you. here is my experience as a prosecutor because we hear lots of tough talk at the offset. overwhelming majority of people, low to mid 90%, plead guilty. and the reason they do that is that the system is structured to reward two things acceptance of responsibility. you get credit for that. and cooperation. you get credit for that. and so when folks are looking at
he says an administration official says the justice department has agreed to provide house republicans with the documents they were speaking on the russia investigation ending a standoff that could have resulted in contempt charges against rod rosenstein. matt, i see you shaking your head. i first want julia to just run down what exactly were jim jordan and mark meadows looking for, why were they looking for it, and how are they going to try to use this to combat the mueller investigation? for some time, they ve been seeking documents related to the hillary clinton investigation. but this time they also want these seven memos that jim comey wrote after those crucial conversations he had with the president in early 2017. we know a lot about what s in those because comey himself has been all over airwaves talking about them recently and he talked about them before congress in the spring of last year but they want to hold these in their hands and see what was jim comey was writing down