arizona and spoke with loretta lynch and she had to recuse herself from anything having to do with the fbi investigation of hillary clinton and the server. they were very critical of that. now this is a conversation, they re not saying the conversation didn t take place between reince priebus and the deputy at the fbi. that s right, poppy. and that conversation that took place on that airport tarmac in phoenix, arizona, back during the summer, was regrettable, only because it raised an appearance issue. but i think a lot of the criticisms that ensued after that meeting took place, some of it was justified, because there was an appearance issue there. but at the very least you did not have any actual conversation about the ongoing case. here, by the white house s own admission, you have a conversation that was directly about a matter where the white house is itself under investigation. brian, i just want your take, the white house says this morning, it wasn t about the substance, it
it s a great play. they make heaters, air conditions, many of us have them in our houses. ford is a car you buy. defense companies, they have to go in front of congress and look like they re worthy recipients of taxpayer money. from a pr side of things, not falling into the crosshairs of the administration and getting them to do all of this in front of your logos actually is more than money can buy. nbc s ali velchi, thank you. i bring in political analyst, former democratic governor of pennsylvania, ed rendell. starting with the politics on this. do you know what jumped out at me yesterday when we first got wind trump would be out there today? the united steel workers union actually came out with a statement praising donald trump for making this happen, for getting these jobs to stay in the united states. they praised bernie sanders and
in fact, not much on health care in the state of the union speech. a new poll finding even the uninsured don t like it by a 2-1 market. a luge u huge slide in one month. so if they don t want it, are we all going to pay more because of it? gary. can, this is b.ing a bigger bigger not only pr fight mayor, obviously economic nightmare. look, it won t always be, from day one, they had to use the word siv, economically unfeasible. there is no way you can look at the american public and say we will add all these millions of people, by the way, it s not costing anything, we are seeing the outcome. we are starting at this point in time. on the pr side, it s not just the uninsured. i m looking at a fox news pole. six out of ten expect tear rates to go much higher. we got the evidence of it
bothered by policy grounds on the mention of god and tried to transform their opposition to political objection. even if somebody can argue technically on legal grounds they can strip-away this money for this group the sheriff says this is helping kids potentially can get in trouble and give them something positive to do. the doj has been battered of late tracking reporters and doing all kinds of things. why this decision? do you think they think about the pr side of it? it s a very strange battle for them to choose to engage in. i think what you have people who got wind of this and feel passionately to get rid of any program with the slightest involvement in religion, they push this agenda hard and that kind of responsible adults at the justice department or elsewhere in the administration, should have pulled back and say wait a minute, this is a great program, benefits youth, build
jon: i-70, for instance. i-70 is open and is okay at this time, and it has improved much over the last several hours as still the kansas city area is our area of biggest concern including on the kansas side. jon: all right. well, again, it looks like a mess. we ve seen some of the footage and hope and pray that the power stays on as much as possible in that state. sharon watson is with the kansas division of emergency management. sharon, thank you. thank you. jenna: well, right now we re taking you back to d.c. where a vote is underway on whether chuck hagel s nomination as secretary of defense will move forward. mike emanuel has more on this. reporter: hi, jenna, yeah. this is the critical procedural vote. if he gets 60 votes, then chuck hagel s nomination essentially heads for confirmation. after controversial statements about iran, israel and even the surge in iraq and what even his supporters would say was a