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Effectively if he does not have the full support of the president, which he does not. >> look, its very hard for a capital to support without the full report. rachel brand, these are serious people, who have been around the legal community, have been around capitol hill, have been around administrations before for a long time, theyre serious people. they deserve a chance to do the right thing. its not today when the presidents cabinet member versus a back and forth look paul ryan is right, the p...

The u.s. president has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is leaks against us. so what are the aurgt thorts of the president? joining us is robert way, former white water independent counsel and matthew axelrod, former senior official for the department of justice. thank you for being with us. robert ray, lets give people a little premmer. a lot about two words, clemency, mercy or reducing the penalty for someone and pardon which is removing them completely, e...

The evidence. now theyre trying to find some. try to find anything to go after the president. its simply unfair and it needs to stop it. we went president trevor said it is out-of-bounds, the finances are unrelated to anything doing with russia. do you think jeff sessions and and -- >> absolute. paul manafort, a lot of officials and the president himself are vulnerable. we can make this about democrats and things like that. but the president himself, the chief of staff, they have lied repeatedly...

Who supported the president, i think wed still see a high level of support among republicans, and what im looking to see is the extent to which the republicans in the house and the senate make the calculation that this president is toxic. now, at the moment it looks like they havent made that calculation and whats the evidence? >> absolute. >> but whats the evidence of that? its what happening in the senate on health care. the president has made clear in his reaction to the house bill and in his...

Has unfolded and, you know, the criticism that republicans heaped on the obama administration for trying to keep it behind closed doors when really actually they didnt. they had a ton of hearings, it happened over, i think, a year-long process. and then you look at how originally this process in the senate, they were going to throw out this bill without giving any of the senators time to read it. its absolutely ridiculous. when youre fundamentally reordering one-sixth of the countrys economy, le...

He put russian dressing on his salad folks will talk about it. were not talking about russian dressing or white russians. were talking about russians promising to give them information that would help the campaign in the middle of the campaign. its not nothing. >> well, kate, i was underscoring your point in terms of disclosure, but let me say this. this is what we absolutely do know. is that whatever interference there was, any meddling did not affect the outcome. that is something that there i...

Indicate pulling out of the accord may not be an absolute. >> something could happen with respect to the paris accord. we will talk about it over the coming period of time. if it happens, thatll be wonderful. if it doesnt, thatll be okay too. >> the president defended his efforts to forge a better relationship with russian president vladimir putin. according to initial success with the syrian cease-fire. >> having some communication and dialogue, were able to have the cease-fire. its going to go...

Well. not only as the south -- the ambassador to south korea but negotiate we are the north. what are these options, severe measures that hes now talking about? because ive heard talk of a naval blockade, and talk of tougher sanctions, secondary sanctions against the chinese, as we see pictures now with angela merkel, as they are preparing to sit down for their meeting. this photo opportunity, clearly the two of the most powerful woman in europe, clearly, economic power and a handshake. we didnt...

♪ we are americans, we hope that you are, too ♪ ♪ we hope that you are too yeah! [ applause ] ♪ >> it was irish night at the white house, a solute to the visiting prime minister with dancers from castle shannon, yet the crowd could hardly wait for the truly big event of the evening. the president and mrs. nixon ended the suspension with a light hearted move. >> i understand im supposed to make a surprise announcement. [ laughter ] >> the difficulty is that every time im supposed to make ...

I think vladimir putin pursues with absolute clarity what he sees as russian national interest. the only appropriate american response as to do the same on our side. right now i think in the context of the war against isis and the region more broadly i think the defense department, state department are still thickly on autopilot from the obama administration. there is not a new administration strategy and we need one. not one that is dictated by tactics of russian-american planes in the sky over...