nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker and anna palmer senior washington correspondent for politico. a great trio this morning. welcome to all. kristen welker, i want to start with robert mueller's op ed pushing back on the president's decision to commute roger stone's sentence under the headline, roger stone remains a convicted felon, hebout his intermeadiary. . he denied about meeting with the trump campaign about the timing of wikileaks diseases and he tampered with the witness imploring him to stonewall congress in your report, kristen welker, the president is basically alone apparently in that west wing in being in favor of this decision. did he really push back on every single adviser on this? it seems that he pushed back on post advisers, chuck, according to conversations with multiple officials. he was counselled against this move by some of his top aides including by the attorney general and yet, president trump moved forward with this decision and, look, his aides, chuck, were saying to them this could be politically risky. this could ultimately cost you. your bas

and anna palmer, seen your washington correspondent for politico. a great trio this morning. welcome to all. kristen welker, i want to start with robert mueller's op ed pushing back on the president's decision to commute roger stone's sentence. under the headline, roger stone remains a convicted felon. he lied about his intermediary. he denied about meeting with the trump campaign about the timing of wikileaks diseases, and he tampered with the witness imploring him to stonewall congress. in your report, kristen welker, the president is basically alone apparently in that west wing in being in favor of this decision. did he really push back on every single adviser on this? >> it seems that he pushed back on post advisers, chuck, according to conversations with multiple officials. he was counseled against this move by some of his top aides, including by the attorney general and yet, president trump moved forward with this decision and, look, his aides, chuck, were saying to them this could be politically risky. this could ultimately cost you. your base supports you because they

nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker and anna palmer senior washington correspondent for politico. a great trio this morning. welcome to all. kristen welker, i want to start with robert mueller's op ed pushing back on the president's decision to commute roger stone's sentence under the headline, roger stone remains a convicted felon, heintermeadiar. . he denied about meeting with the trump campaign about the timing of wikileaks diseases and he tampered with the witness imploring him to stonewall congress in your report, kristen welker, the president is basically alone apparently in that west wing in being in favor of this decision. did he really push back on every single adviser on this? it seems that he pushed back on post advisers, chuck, according to conversations with multiple officials. he was counselled against this move by some of his top aides including by the attorney general and yet, president trump moved forward with this decision and, look, his aides, chuck, were saying to them this could be politically risky. this could ultimately cost you. your base supports

nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker and anna palmer senior washington correspondent for politico. a great trio this morning. welcome to all. kristen welker, i want to start with robert mueller's op ed pushing back on the president's decision to commute roger stone's sentence under the headline, roger stone remains a convicted felon, he lied about his intermediary. he denied about meeting with the trump campaign about the timing of wikileaks diseases and he tampered with the witness imploring him to stonewall congress in your report, kristen welker, the president is basically alone apparently in that west wing in being in favor of this decision. did he really push back on every single adviser on this? it seems that he pushed back on post advisers, chuck, according to conversations with multiple officials. he was counselled against this move by some of his top aides including by the attorney general and yet, president trump moved forward with this decision and, look, his aides, chuck, were saying to them this could be politically risky. this could ultimately cost you. your

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joining me now from the white house is my nbc news colleague shannon pettypiece, also anna palmer, who covers capitol hill, morgan chesky in midland, texas, where the president is. we just heard from him. and i have dr. kavita patel, nbc news medical contributor and former adviser to the obama white house. shannon, let me start with you and the president now in his second day of defending a doctor he knew nothing about but thought she said some interesting things. what -- is there -- i think we talked about this earlier. are people in the white house throwing up their hands? i mean, in some ways, this is not shocking behavior by the president. he does this all the time. i mean, you know, the first interview i did with him, he said he gets his military advice from watching the shows. so now we're finding out he might get medical advice from watching something. is there any remorse from the white house about how damaging this is? >> i mean, they continue trying to push this message, a real urgent message to get people to follow these basic health guidelines that they have been promoting