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>> reporter: it's incredibly significant, andrea, and i think it underscores the extent to which the president feels burned by the process of trying to overhaul obamacare. he felt as though he couldn't get the votes needed in his own party. he felt as though republican leadership didn't do what they needed to do to take the ball over the finish line. so as he looks to things like tax reform, infrastructure reform, the bottom line is he needs votes. so he's turning to the democratic leadership to try to work with them. i think the tax reform is going to be one of the topics at the forefront when he has dinner with pelosi and schumer tonight, but i also think they'll be discussing immigration as well as possibly health care, maybe some fixes to obamacare. this is significant and it marks really a new strategy here at the white house, and it comes, andrea, since meeting with a bipartisan group of house members today. after that dinner with the bipartisan members last night, it included three democrats. we expect him to confer with democrats in three states. they have indicated, andrea, that they're willing to at least consider it. they know that in order to hold onto those seats, they need the trump voters, so this is a real possibility. but it's a striking political move here at the white house and a very different way of proceeding with some of these big pieces of legislation than we saw in the early days of his presidency, andrea. >> indeed. he wants policy, and what chuck schumer and nancy pelosi wants is something for the dreamers, protection for the dreamers, those immigrants for not just the next six months but beyond that. there is a tweet from where you are right now from the president. with irma and harvey devastation, tax cuts and tax reform is needed more than ever. go, congress, go. so he's in a completely different gear right now. >> reporter: i completely different gear, and there is some frustration, i can tell you, on capitol hill as they await the all-important details. what is this tax reform proposal going to look like? what are the specifics? of course, we know initially the president had been pushing for, for example, andrea, 15% corporate tax rate. given the fact republicans weren't able to overhaul obamacare shls obamacare, repeal and replace it, they didn't get some of those tax rollbacks they were anticipating as part of the math. so now top aides here are acknowledging 15% will be tough. it might be closer to 20%. sarah huckabee sanders didn't deny it when i questioned her on it. she said, look, the republicans want the lowest tax rate possible, but she didn't go back to that 15% number. i think this is going to be a key focus, but you're right, democrats are focused on immigration and daca, and i think you'll start to see some levers, some pushing and pulling, as both sides try to work out their priorities, andrea. >> kristen welker, thank you so much. a whole new chapter at the white house. in hillary clinton's first live interview since the election on the "today" show this morning, she opens up. she has her new book called "what happened?" but she opens up about what she feels led to her stunning loss against donald trump, most notably james comey. >> when you heard the news that james comey had been fired by president trump, what was your immediate reaction? >> he was fired for the wrong reason. >> but should have been fired? >> he should not have been fired for russia. he should have been disciplined. whether or not fired, that's not for me to say, but he should have been disciplined for the way that he behaved on the e-mail investigation. >> joining me now is jennifer palmeri, former communications director for hillary clinton's campaign, from a white house communicator for president obama. good morning, jennifer. good to see you. well, the book and her interviews so far, she's clearly much more introspective than she's been in the past. it's clear she's not planning to run for electoral office again. but what about where she places the blame? do you feel -- she clearly feels that jim comey, that first decision on july 5th to clear her of any legal wrongdoing, but then virtually indict her in a long news conference, that that was out of line. >> it was. that was unprecedented, and i think my big beef with jim comey is he said he always wanted to play things by the book and not let outside considerations play into decisions that he made. if that were the case, he never would have done the july 5th press conference, he would have just made his decision not to prosecute the case any further and dropped it. and i think that was an original sin with comey, because once he had made it such a big issue, and he did -- he was the prosecutor, the judge and the jury in that case, and he laid out a very damning set of arguments against her, although concluded that there was no, as he once said, no reasonable prosecutor would proceed with a case here. but that was a very hard thing to overcome how much he had -- he's sitti the sitting fbi director had criticized her. then to come back in october so close to the election, and the default at the fbi, the justice department, if you are close to the election, the default is supposed to be not to take any action, not to do anything that might impact the election. so, again, he chose to do something, take an extraordinary step that had a big impact, a determined impact on the election. comey could have cost us the election. >> you were on a plane to des moines, as i recall, when you first got word that jim comey was reopening this with anthony weiner's laptop. >> actually, it was kristen welker who told me. i had been in the back of the plane with the press and she said, i just saw a story pop up that said the e-mail investigation had been reopened up. i said, that has to be wrong. neither she nor i could pull it back up, because as you recall, we had bad wi-fi. >> we had terrible wi-fi. >> you're not told by the fbi this happened. it was all on news reports. and -- >> did you feel -- how did she feel, how did you feel? did you feel sucker punched? >> i couldn't believe that it was true, and i kept looking for some other explanation. once we finally, as best we could in that moment, figure out what had happened, i went up front to hillary's cabin to explain to her what had happened, and she took it like a champ. i said, i have something to tell you. what do you have to tell me? i said, it's bad news. it's jim comey. she got a little smile on her face, and i said, so you knew we weren't done? i knew we weren't done, there had to be another round of something to deal with. in the moment you're thinking about how to handle this and you couldn't contemplate why he would do this. it was a big problem. it blocked out the sun for five days, meaning we couldn't get covered on anything else for a long time. >> i wanted to play another clip from this morning where she talks about don jr. let's watch. >> he said he was trying to learn about your fitness for office. what's your immediate reaction? >> it's ridiculous. it's another absurd lie to cover up what was really going on, which i hope we finally uncover and understand. >> so much has happened since she even wrote the book in terms of the june 16th meeting and the whole issue of russia, as she puts it in this interview today, you don't know what really took place, but there's certainly a lot out there. >> we still don't know. it was just in the last month or so just learning about trump jr.'s meeting and then also telling one of the hill committees last week that they were asking russia about her fitness for office. now, i wonder what fitness for office meant. i think it meant health. i wonder, is that why they chose to make health such a big issue for hillary and say that she was weak and that she wasn't up to the job? we heard rumblings about that, that the trump campaign was expecting some sort of bombshell e-mail about her health that would come out. so i wonder now if you hear trump jr. talk about fitness if that's what he meant. >> what about her going after bernie sanders and saying he damaged her to the point with progressives in particular, that he made a weapon to donald trump and helped her lose the election? >> you know, everybody wants hillary to say how she -- you know, she said in the book what actually happened and what factors she thinks hurt her. that hurt her. we knew in realtime that it was -- that he was hurting her. it's also true that once the primary was over, he did everything he could to help her, but a lot of damage was done, and that's a fact. i don't think that it is bad for our party to have this reckoning even if public and have this reckoning in the fall of 2017. there are -- i think that our party is eventually going to be able to come back together. i think it's healthy that we have policy differences and we debate them out in public. the republicans have enormous problems and they're too weak to even confront them and enormous differences, and i think that we can get through -- by the time we get to '18, be in an even stronger position than we are today. >> jennifer palmeri, thank you so much to talk about what happened, hillary clinton's book and her interview today. good to see you. >> thank you. don't forget rachel maddow's interview with hillary clinton. that is tomorrow at 9:00 eastern on the rachel maddow show only on msnbc. coming up, a tragic story we're following in florida. five died after they were left powerless by irma. stay with us. or this john smith. or any of the other hundreds of john smiths that are humana medicare advantage members. no, it's this john smith. who we paired with a humana team member to help address his own specific health needs. at humana, we take a personal approach to your health, to provide care that's just as unique as you are. no matter what your name is. you don't let anything lkeep you sidelined. come on! that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein, and 26 vitamins and minerals... for the strength and energy, to get back to doing what you love. ensure, always be you. every year we take a girl's trip. remember nashville? 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that's all part of this investigation that is underway right now. this area is sealed off, and again, these 150 people were evacuated to other facilities. we're still awaiting word from authorities and a news conference any moment now to find out what their conditions may be. andrea? >> and gabe, do we know the ages of these victims? >> reporter: we don't. that's another thing we're hoping to learn, but we can tell you that from speaking with a case worker here, most of the residents here, according to this caseworker, were older than 65. we did speak with a family member who had a 58-year-old sister here. so this was a facility that was treating mostly older folks, some had been here for years, and some of the family members said that they had previously very good interactions with the facility, others complained that the communication was not -- did not go so well, but again, we're right now trying to find out -- one of the questions we have is why, if perhaps there was some problem with the generators, why authorities were not alerted to it, and that's all part of the investigation and something we hope to ask police in the next few minutes. andrea? 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of my personal defeat was the most important factor. i was just dumbfounded. i thought, what is he doing? the investigation was closed. i know there is no new information. i certainly had given everything of any relevance to them. and then it became clear this was not necessary. i feel very strongly that he went way beyond his role in doing what he did. >> you're a lawyer, you were white house counsel, you were on the judiciary committee staff. jim comey should have gone to sally yates who was deputy a.g. if he felt that hillary was compromised getting on the plane. why did he do it and so close to the election? >> i don't know. it's hard to explain. what hillary clinton did was high right and he was not consistent with the justice department, not consistent with the rules. miraculously enough, nobody summarizes it better than rod rosenstein in the memoir he wrote explaining why something should have been done to jim comey. i do think this is a big question and one that mr. comey 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and potentially one of the theories is that robert mueller's special counsel is looking to flip certain individuals, particularly michael flynn sr., to cooperate with the investigation. and this could, having his son come under scrutiny, could add pressure to do that. now, officials say one of the things that investigators are looking at in particular is michael flynn jr.'s work with flynn intel group, his father's lobbying firm, and flint jr. was very close to his father and accompanied him on a trip to moscow, for instance, in 2015, served as his chief of staff, so it was really his right-hand man. so this is significant in the sense that it just shows that the scope of the investigation is widening. >> one of these issues is also michael flynn sr.'s work without having filed or disclosed it at the time he was both in the transition and in the white house, work on a for-profit nuclear power plant deal throughout the middle east, is that correct? >> right. we saw democrats on the hill today are requesting more information from former business associates of michael flynn about this particular issue. they're raising questions about whether he continued to work on this project when he was in the white house serving as national security adviser. and we should note that both michael flynn jr.'s lawyer declined to comment, and michael flynn sr.'s lawyer did not respond to a request for comment on that particular issue. >> and glen, let's talk about michael jr., because after several controversial tweets and other statements he had made, he was very aggressive in some of his tweets. he was tweeting about pizzagate. he was saying until pizzagate is proven false, it will remain a story. the left seems to forget the many instances tied to it. that was, of course, that fake news conspiracy theory that led to a shooting -- fortunately, no one was injured -- but inspiring somebody who had read those fake e-mails going to this pizza place here in d.c., in northwest d.c. so flynn jr. had a controversial role but a very close role with his father. >> well, that's the thing, and as you recall during the early phases of this investigation, you know, it was pointed out that flynn jr. was, in fact, working for the transition, a transition spokesperson initially denied that, but it turned out he was actually being paid by the transition to do work with his father. and he is very, very close to his father. i think the interesting dynamic, and kudos again to carol who has broken a lot of these stories over the past few weeks. the interesting dynamic here is it's widely assumed, by the way, with no real reporting behind it, i just read it in a lot of different places, that flynn is either going to be flipped or prosecutors and investigators are attempting to flip flynn in order to get him to testify. i just wonder where his son fits into that picture. they remain very, very close even though trump and associates tried to distance themselves from it. so the interplay between what flynn the elder and flynn the younger did together, what they knew about each other's activities, i think, is going to become, at least from the sources i spoke to, an area of wide interest. >> and it is news that both michael flynn and manafort are key figures in this investigation for robert mueller. now we have former prosecutors telling us, carol, any time a family member is also add to do this cha -- added to this chain of people being looked into, it can put pressure on the principal. >> right, we spoke to a former in any typical parent/child dynamic, if a parent sees their child potentially getting into trouble for something they're responsible for ornish a initia the typical thing is that parent would try to stop that from happening. so, the theory is that if michael flynn sr. was to see that his son was potentially in criminal jeopardy for something that maybe he initiated or was responsible for, then he would do something he might not otherwise consider, such as flip and cooperate. >> well, i know you'll have a lot more on nbcnews.com throughout the day and msnbc as well as "nightly news." thank you for your reporting. glenn, congratulations on the book deal with my fellow scorpio, maggie. >> i didn't know your sign, but now i do. >> well, we have the same birthday, actually. thank you very much. good luck on the book. now, back to florida. as the state of florida works to recover from irma, president trump is set to survey the damage tomorrow in naples, a city that experienced significant flooding. in a twitter announcement the president said he'll be meeting with members of the coast guard, fema and first responders. joining me by phone is the fema administrator, brock long. thank you for being with us, administrator long. i know you were in st. thomas and puerto rico yesterday. you've just arrived in florida. what are you looking to find out there on the ground before you're with the president tomorrow? >> obviously, the most important thing is to collect ground troop to make sure fema is meeting the mark to meet governor scott's and our local partners' response and recovery goals. so, it's very important for me to get out, interacted, not only with my teams on the ground, our emergency management teams in various locations, but also liaison with each of the local governments in florida that were heavily impacted, particularly in southwest florida. i'm here to make sure we're meeting the mark. >> you and your agency are being widely praised for good reason for everything you've done handling two of these storms back to back. yet at the same time, you know, there are tragedies along the way. just today five people from a nursing home fell victim to what may have been, you know, overheating. we don't know what the causes were. we know there was a power outage. they were trying to get generators in. the heat has been very high. the elderly are so vulnerable in these situations. >> yes, you're absolutely correct. and it reinforces the need for primary care facilities to have robust emergency operation plans for situations like this. you know, planning should always be done not only by health care facilities, schools, communities, planning should be done on a blue sky day so that when they hit disaster, they have some understanding of how to handle the worst case scenarios. it's a very unfortunate situation. >> i want to ask you about your visit to st. thomas. i think you were in the capital of st. thomas of the u.s. virgin islands and there was a dreadful hospital situation there. i know people were being evacuated. what is the situation? because the hit on the virgin islands was terrible. >> yes, it was. i met with governor mapp and his team yesterday. you know, the virgin islands, obviously, took a horrific hit. things are coming together. the roads -- the pathway to recovery sbing established. obviously, there's a long way to go to fix the infrastructure that's there. but the objective of the governor are very clear. you know, continue to do the life-sustaining mission in regards to the hospitals, i can't recall exactly which hospital i met, but we did forward deploy disaster medical assistance teams that were there on site. so, there are doctors, you know, on site in the island. it's been another tremendous whole community government. not only has the federal government looked forward -- well over 35,000 staff members out in the field in various locations, but the communities also surrounding, you know, those who have been hardest hit, the virgin islands as well as puerto rico, met with the governor there as well. and, you know, it's our goal to provide a bridge to recovery. we can't make them whole, but that bridge is already starting in the islands. >> and getting power, water, food, shelter to people, how long might it even be before they can try to get their economies back in order, especially economies that are so heavily tourist-based? >> yeah. right now we're focused on emergency power to the infrastructure. obviously, our teams are working everywhere in the virgin islands. it's difficult because of the logistics. getting the equipment to the islands, making sure the ports are open that you can get the equipment into and then transferring them where they need to go. so, it takes time. that's why i've been very up front with not only people, you know, in puerto rico and the virgin islands but here in south florida saying, it takes days, if not, you know, weeks in some areas to restore the power. but power crews -- you know, florida power and light is calling in aid from all over the country. power crews are coming in from, you know, 30 states. if i remember correctly, canada is also supporting as well. and you have to keep in mind, there are still power restorations taking place in texas as well. so, just the magnitude and the complexity of this issue is -- it's just a very complex issue. but, you know, we're doing the best we can and trying to put everything forward we can to help people out. >> well, thank you for everything you're doing. you and your teams, extraordinary. brock long calling in from naples, florida. thank you, sir. >> thank you. we have a long way to go. and i would encourage citizens to please figure out ways to volunteer and help. it's a whole community effort. thank you. >> thank you very much. thank you so much. thank you! so we're a go? yes! we got a yes! what does that mean for purchasing? purchase. let's do this. got it. book the flights! hai! si! si! ya! ya! ya! what does that mean for us? we can get stuff. what's it mean for shipping? ship the goods. you're a go! you got the green light. that means go! oh, yeah. start saying yes to your company's best ideas. we're gonna hit our launch date! 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