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Circles like that. that is potentially a problem. steve bannon has as much for himself, theres a certain selfish motivation. >> saturday remarks were a reflection of steve bannon. >> a lot. >> he wasnt there. maggie had reported in the times today when we had her on earlier that in general, bannon has warned the president about speaking out too much against far right groups who are a small part of his support, but a -- >> absolutely. everybody should read joshua greens terrific book, devils ba...

Been involved with with this offender relative to this behavior. obviously, you know, he is aware of what he can and cannot possess. >> weirs defense is that he did not realize that he still had these particular photos. he claims that he thought all of his photos of minors were confiscated the last time he got in trouble. >> i thought she got them last time, maam. i really did. now, granted, i should have gone and checked. okay? i was out four days before i got rolled up again. i just -- i had o...

To the mad man theory of foreign policy that president nixon deployed, to puersuade the nort that he might be unusual enough to do this. i think what worries people is to draw this kind of red line, you want to be much more opaque. at the end of the day, i think serious experts on this see some kind of negotiation that leads to a containment of the north, even though im sure trump looks at this and says i want to do something different than previous administrations have done that hasnt worked up...

Trump that he needs to continue to be feeding this base, this base that bannon represents that the breitbart news represents. >> its shrinking. >> it is ability to do anythin wants to accomplish, lejs laifbl and politically. >> without bannon, whom does trump have? >> well, he has kellyanne conway. he has his kids. i mean, there are other penal there. >> the latter are probably in big trouble for one thing and theyre probably keeping a low profile at the moment. >> but bannon speaks to the remai...

Coverage "outfront" tonight near trumps new jersey vacation. there was speculation that john kelly would be able to rein in trumps twitter problem. certainly so far that does not seem to be the case. >> reporter: well, erin, absolutely. some people had hoped that john kelly would be able to rein this in and he was here in bedminister this morning as trump began his first twitter tantrum of the day but sources have taken sort of a more realistic view of this saying that kellys goal was to maybe m...

To actually become a real threat. so those launchers that north korea used on july 24 and july 28 for their bichl intercontinental ballistic missile, those are china zblees whats in it for the chinese? >> in the short term they get a lot every time they do. >> provocative we run to bay syringe. >> so theyre using it as a point of manipulation for the u.s. >> absolutely. and youve got to remember, we gave up a lot for those sanctions because president trump did not announce the section 301 trade ...

Ive heard -- excuse me, praising soon-to-be speaker pelosi. i want to ask you, i feel like that is putting the cart before the horse. >> is a long way off. republicans are worried about trump and some of the swing districts. they are not looking at the trump districts. they are looking at the districts where hillary clinton won or trump won by seven points or five points or three points. in though, if the election were held tomorrow with the house and play, absolutely. a long time until november...

Some talked about it with george w. bush with iraq. we need to dial it back. were talking about our democracy, the free world, and let cooler heads prevail. i think the facts also need to speak for themselves. >> crystal, it seems like the democrats only have one big talking point at the moment and that is the russia probe. do they risk overplaying their hand on that and turning voters against them? >> absolutely, president trump doesnt need any help being awful in that regard. robert mooueller ...

Real story about illegal activity and inappropriate activity, there is plenty of a material, you just listed all off. if that is what theyre looking for, there are a lot of things i they can go after and investigate, and they can do stories on., they are not going to find them here, but they certainly should be looking at the list you just rattled off. >> sean: am i correct, is the president correct, there is a lot of fake news today? >> absolutely., >> sean: some of the fake news in that room e...

Broke the story. what are the ramifications of this, of the president taking charge, which is similar to the mo we have seen. he seems to be his own communications director. is this more important because it involved the russian investigation? >> absolutely, andrea. it is a lot of lawyers around town, including some of the presidents own advisers, advisers to the trump team are scratching their heads because this was in the words of a person i spoke with unnecessary and it puts the president and...