and former cruz spokesman, rick tyler. also seener to hillary clinton's 2016 campaign and msnbc political analyst, joel bennanson. >>> a, former u.s. ambassador to the russian federation, rick. rick, start with you. susan rice is a name republicans can really rally behind. not in a good way. >> susan irice was sent out by hillary clinton by proxy that thing about attack was incited from a youtube video that turned out at least from what i can tell not to be true. susan rice came out today and is in a bind because she can't talk about the things that are classified. masking in and of itself, that's not a crime. it is not improper. it happens all the time. the question is how do these names get leaked beyond the unmasking. that's been a real concern. democrats and republicans should be very concerned about it. >> joel, how do democrats keep the focus on the substance of this investigation, whether or not the trump campaign was coordinating with russia and not allow a distraction like whether or not susan rice in the course of her duties may have unmasked names that came to her in

aide to president george h.w. bush. rick tyler, former campaign cruise spokesman. he's an mz nbc political analyst. and zarena, director of progressive programming for is i rius xm. thank you all for being here. this is great today. >> good morning. >> are these flip-flops or are these evolutions? >> well, some would call them flip-flops, others would call it evolution. this is the reality of the white house. donald trump inot an ideaalog. he's not somebody who is tied toen a ideology. he is tied to practical politics and he's a pragmatist for the most part. so he'll do whatever he needs to do. and that's what he's doing. so yeah, he's flip-flopped. he's changed his stance on a whole host of issues. now that he's president of the united states and he sees what the job entails and he sees what's needed to move america forward. he's changed his position on nato, on china as a currency manipulator and a whole host of issues. and this may not be the end of it, either. >> and, rick, if these policies are so flip-flopble or changeable, can that imply that there's not much thought being

kill. let's bring in rick tyler, nbc analyst and former national spokesman for ted cruz. joe watkins, aide to president george h.w. bush and zelina maxwell, great to have you three here this morning. >> good morning. >> thanks, dara. >> zelina, does he have a point here, is this ridiculous or unfair to judge any president on the first 100 days in office? >> we've been doing this since fdr, so it's interesting that prp president trump now has a problem with it. he was so confident that we're going to win so much when he's president that we're going to get sick of winning. it turns out after just under a hundred days, it will be a hundred next saturday, he doesn't have any legislative accomplishments to point to to say look what we've done in the first hundred days. look how i kept all my promises. in fact, fact checks that looked at his promises, campaign promises are saying that he's actually broken five and many of them, 60 or so, he hasn't even begun working on. so he has a lot of work to do in terms of getting away from tweeting ridiculous things that distract us all from the real

. joining us, rick tyler, msnbc political analyst. good to talk to you. so take a listen to senator lindsey graham speaking today in south carolina. >> i don't know where -- who invited him to look at the evidence in the white house. all i can say is, why do you show it to the chairman of the intel committee if you've got it yourself? that never made sense to me. schiff and his buddies seem to be prosecutors about every other day on tv. i hope they can get their act together and start interviewing witnesses, whether or not it can be salvaged, i don't know. but opening up the files to schiff, whatever nunes saw, schiff should see and should have been that way in the beginning. so i don't know if they're going to get their act together. >> is it that simple, rick? can they get their act together? >> well, schiff has now seen those miles, but i think for all intents and purposes right now, the house intelligence committee is dysfunctional. let's go over what's usual and unusual. it is not unusual for a congressman to go over to the white house and to visit the skiff and look at classif

director for ted cruz's 2016 presidential campaign, rick tyler. joining the conversation, steve kornacki and former treasurer and "morning joe" economic analyst steve ratner and eugene robinson from "the washington post." >> i had a friend that went to see hamilton, new cast. anybody around here see the new cast yet? >> no. >> i haven't seen any. >> haven't seen it at all. >> what are you doing, man? get over there. >> not one of the elites. >> oh, whatever. >> simple new england folk. >> there you go. i'll see "our town." how about that? >> our history books. >> so, it's three blocks from here. you know, there's -- >> you can't get tickets. >> oh, you can get ticket. >> joe scarborough can get tickets. >> the cast yells at you sometimes. >> the ticket booth there in the middle of times square. >> that's sort of not how it works. >> that's not how kornacki works. he goes in his rolls royce. >> so i had a friend who went and said the new cast is fantastic. >> i'll bet. >> look, it's a bit of an ensemble cast. marando was a genius playwright and i don't know that he was irreplaceable as an

by samantha b. and rick tyler, and a republican strategist and political analyst. let me ask you. you went to the dinner as i did. it was kind of different. you didn't have a lot of -- you didn't have the president. you didn't have a lot of a-li a-listers that we see every year, and i have been going since george bush was in office. you never had a president do this, and do an alternative event in pennsylvania where he kind of took the news. what was your feeling sitting there last night? >> well, they call it nerd prom, and this year it was certainly heavy on the nerdiness, maybe a little too heavy. and prettyight on the prom part. it's like going to the prom when you're in school and then the teacher grabs the mike and at the dance and goes on and on about the importance of education. i think it was a little, with all due respect to you, a little too preachy in the journalism sermon last night. >> i also think, and you were at the alternative, dana. i also think that it's unprecedented for a president -- i mean, i really think people need to get this, for a president to not not

group, our revolution. and rick tyler, msnbc political analyst, former spokesman for ted cruz. thanks to both of you for being here. rick, let me start with you, rick, i'm curious, look, a lot of people looking a the timing on this and say president trump, this is a way of distracting, bring up -- make outlandish charge, certainly whatever you say about susan rice at this point, to say she committed a crime, he's not citing a statute and not citing any evidence there. that seems like a pretty intense statement to be making and also to be talking about bill o'reilly now that this is an attempt at distraction by donald trump. what do you think of that? >> i think so because, you know, susan rice is essentially, she's not well regarded by the left. she was involved in the benghazi episode and specifically she was sent out as a proxy for senator clinton on all the sunday talk shows after benghazi and she blamed it on the youtube video. that went on for a long, long time so she was willing to do that. the problem here, you have a president who's in power who certainly has it within his pow

director for sirius xm, and finally, rick tyler joins us as well. ted cruz' former campaign spokesman. this happens about 3:30 in the east room. the president with the prime minister of italy. there are so many questions that could be asked. any idea where you think this is going? >> with, first, i think you may be able to their rr

campaign and now msnbc political director rick tyler joins us as wealth. >> so great to have richard haass with us today, i want to talk about yesterday before we came on the air we were talking about whiplash. but if these policy shifts yesterday were whiplash, our neck was over here and now it's upright. whether it was on nato, tillerson was tough as nails according to william cohen and other trump critics, had a good tough meeting with putin and with the foreign minister ther:. china, normalcy in that chinese relationship where we're actually lined up where we with work with them as a partner on north korea. a lot of shifts yesterday. i can't think of one thing that went in the wrong direction. these are all things over the past two years that have scared us and now a shift. it's quite a shift. >> >> a lot of stuff happened yesterday, you're right. china not being a currency manipulator, nato having a role, a fairly blunt talk with the russians. i think mika teed it up exactly right, whether that was yesterday's shift and tomorrow will bring something else, the only thing wrong wi

former member of the clinton campaign. now director for sirius xm, and finally, rick tyler joins us as well. ted cruz' former campaign spokesman. this happens about 3:30 in the east room. the president with the prime minister of italy. there are so many questions that could be asked. any idea where you think this is going? >> with, first, i think you may be able to their roar of the motorcycles. we believe the italian leader is about to pass behind us making an entrance to the white house. there is a color guard here for quite a while. a very ceremonial welcome for this event today. big questions of course, will deal with issues relating to north korea, syria, global affairs a big part of early phase of this trump presidency at a time when there have been some unexpected factors around the world and those unplanned events can often shape a presidency. especially in the first 100 days. we've seen the president use mit power, we've seen the parameters of what the u.s. is prepared to do blunt the transitions, and to be blunt with nato partners. certainly italy plays a role in a voice of e

ted cruz's 2016 presidential campaign. now an msnbc political contributor, rick tyler. and publisher and editor of cranes detroit business, ron fournier. good to have you all on board this hour. we'll begin with that new scrutiny on susan rice this morning. the process you may have heard about known as unmasking. reports from multiple outlets yesterday, citing anonymous sources claim that rice requested that the identities of some u.s. citizens be included in raw intelligence reports about monitored conversations with foreign targets. typically, americans' names are redacted. according to the reports, those identified were originally left anonymous and had ties to the trump campaign. sources tell bloomberg view that in february national security council senior director for intel ezra cohen-watnick discovered rice's multiple requests to unmask u.s. persons in intelligence reports that related to trump transition activities. >> so, mark halprin, why multiple requests from somebody on the nsc trying to get information on a transition? and we play this had game last hour. >> right. >> wh

some things done that trump had promised and i think that you're going to see maybe at least like rick tyler was saying, unity from the conservatives and for the other movements within the republican party so at least they can come together as a whole. >> well, listen, i have to disagree with -- i have to disagree with that, because it starts from the top. the president has to want to work across the aisles to get things done. mitch mcconnell said his objective was to get barack obama out. we saw them do this with newt gingrich. it's about the leader of the free world working across the aisle. we have republicans and democrats and trump folks and the freedom caucus. so many different folks. the president needs to get an agenda that can bring everyone to the table and he has to bend arms, slap backs with everyone to push the ball forward. until the president wants to do that, we will continue to have this disarray in our political system. >> rick, i am going to turn to ivanka trump and get your take on this. she attended a summit in germany focused on empowering women. here's part of an

happened in terms of the russian intervention, we can get to the bottom. >> zerlina maxwell and rick tyler and joe watkins. thank you. i'm dara brown. thank you for watching. and the crisis in north korea. how did it play out with the summit with the chinese leader? thomas roberts takes up our coverage next. (vo) introducing tidy cats lightweight with glade clean blossoms. our newest odor fighting scent! gives you the power of choice plus... the power of pleasant. exclusively in lightweight! every home, every cat, there's a tidy cats for that. there's nothing more than my vacation.me so when i need to book a hotel room, i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want. booking.com gets it. they offer free cancellation, in case i decide to go from kid-friendly to kid-free. now i can start relaxing even before the vacation begins. your vacation is very important. that's why booking.com makes finding the right hotel for the right price easy. visit booking.com now to find out why we're booking.yeah well this here's a load-bearing wall. we'll go ahead and rip that out. (husband)yeah?

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which would be 30-year bonds, 1 $12 billion. tyler, michelle, back to you. >> got it, rick. thank you. big earnings week, solid numbers. are they going to lift the market or geopolitical concerns going to hold back the rally? joining us steve whiting, global chief investment strategist at city private bank. steven, i see you're telling clients you like emerging markets, emerging asia, latin america. the united states is not on that list. why not? >> we're fully allocated to the u.s. but this is a multiyear move we've been underweight emerging markets and for the first time went to a full overweight in all of the em regions. this is about the six-year bull market and the u.s. dollar beginning in mid-2011 which we think continues but in its final stages and so the valuation discounts that we're getting in emerging markets is arguing for us to phase in -- >> so it's not concerns about whether or not washington's going to get corporate tax reform done or anything like that? just a simple valuation tradeoff? >> that's right. i think that we are more likely than the market now believes to a