Wrongdoing by president obama contradicting President Trumps allegations that susan rice broke the law. Plus, more info about the investigation into trump Team Connections to russia. Details about surveillance warrants against one of the president s Campaign Managers and why the fbi thought that adviser could be acting as a foreign agent. Plus, its the first rule of politics. Dont compare anybody to hitler. I guess nobody told sean spicer. We didnt use chemical weapons in world war ii. You know . You had a you know, someone whens despicable as hitler who didnt sink to the to using chemical weapons. Weve got the latest on the attempts to clean that up and whether that will be enough for President Trump. We want do get started with the breaking news on the Trump Administration charges of improper surveillance by the Obama Administration. Cnn is learning now about the claims of chairman devin nunes that members of the Obama Administration improperly requested the identities of americans a
officials to uphold both the rules and spirit of our constitutional system even when to do so is personally inconvenient or yields a politically unfavorable outcome. our constitution is brilliant and awesome. it deserves a government to match it. those tweets were politically unfavorable enough for congressman amash that he suddenly has a an suddenly has a republican challenger now who announced his candidacy within 24 hours of those tweet. trump attacked congressman amash on twitter calling him a lightweight and a loser. in other words, the president did not in any way address any of the important points made by congressman amash. to analyze this david and goliath battle in the republican party, we will be joined after this break by republican stat gist rick wilson and jason johnson. this is the couple who wanted to get away
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with us national affairs analyst for msnbc, john heilemann, also josh earnest. josh, you wore that on christmas? you did. happy new year, everybody. and republican stat gist what? you wore that on christmas. and the week before. first, 2018. john, start with you. conflict. okay. that s good. i like that. what? conflict? conflict. you know, i think you re going to have i keep coming back to what i consider the existential crisis facing the trump administration. the mueller probe is going to come to a head in 2018, and we re going to find out whether or not bob mueller is going to get to the two major tracks of the investigation, the question of whether there s collusion with russia, getting to the bottom of the relationship between putin and trump, and on the other hand, the obstruction of justice charges that a lot of