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Rights flagged for its abuses. hell be talking about the drug war. what is the common ground between these two leaders, somebody trump praised in the past, but somebody who is an authoritarian leader? >> this is going to be a difficult stop. duterte, president of the philippines, has been anti-american his entire adult life. there is nothing the u.s. can do to make him happy. trump needs to sit on him. trump was very effective in sitting on the south korean president who really wanted to defect ...

Department were to reopen that investigation, as donald trump seems to want them to do, that would be one of the grossest abuses of power in the history of the justice department. it would be a troubling sign of the rule of law. that is the kind of thing that happens in banana republics when you bring trumped up investigations against your political opponents. >> thank you very much. john harwood, charlie sykes, im going to ask you to stick around for us a little bit. i want to get your thoughts...

The fact that whatever war there was is already over and donald trump has won. now he and his allies are purging the last holdouts among republicans who disagree with his style. few ever really disagreed with him on policy. leaving behind only those in the gop who are willing to publicly fall in line, swear undying loyalty to trump and look the other way at his abuses of the norm that used to define the presidency. take john corn of texas. here he is justifying his endorsement of disgraced forme...

Vlad here putin. >> you have two important members in mccain and corker, both who have large mega phones and have been critical. this is a huge blind spot for president trump and his foreign policy and national is security. why is he continuing to be so cozy to vladimir mute putin, th strong man in russia. how that relationship works bothers president trump. he wants to be the one to define what kind of relationship he actually has. all we have seen is this respect for him in the way he operates...

Voters with this white house, voting with him some 85% to 90% of the time. the question is, how do both of these affect the midterm elections and trying to get anything accomplished, particularly that tax reform plan. wolf consider. >> all right. very important. thanks very much. jeff zeleny over at the white house. lets get some insight now from our specialists. david chalian, let me start with you. i want you to listen to senator flake calling on his republican colleagues to not remain silent ...

Critical functions and constitutional responsibilities of our branch. its an opportunity for congress to investigate and question the policies and actions of any executive branch. its an opportunity for the executive branch to take responsibility for any of those policies and actions. and its an opportunity for congress to defend its constitutional powers and check any abuses by an overreaching executive branch, and its been that way for 230 years. some have complained that we havent had an over...

>> sean: would you take the millions? from those countries? they are offering it to you. >> you probably wouldnt. >> sean: hillary did, pastor scott. they bought her silence on all these abuses. she claims she has a monopoly on it. >> it was supposed to be her platform. women empowerment. how can you take money -- from a platform you profess to stand on? shes been a fraud. hillary is a fraud. >> those are strong words. >> sean: we have crazy uncle jimmy kimmel. i want to play this tape. him doin...

>> sean: would you take the millions? from those countries? they are offering it to you. >> you probably wouldnt. >> sean: hillary did, pastor scott. they bought her silence on all these abuses. she claims she has a monopoly on it. >> it was supposed to be her platform. women empowerment. how can you take money -- from a platform you profess to stand on? shes been a fraud. hillary is a fraud. >> those are strong words. >> sean: we have crazy uncle jimmy kimmel. i want to play this tape. him doin...

Schwarzeneggers groping them. thats one of the things thats so painful about this moment and that i worry about with the weinstein outrage. you and i sat at this table a year ago. there was outrage about what donald trump did. kelly oxford had that twitter hashtag where women named their first sexual assault or sexual abuses that they experienced. there was tremendous outrage. it was a traumatic event. a male senator told me he had no idea his wife had been harassed or groped. we had what should...

>> i think youve got to be very concerned about it. >> sean: would you take the millions? they are offering it to you. >> you probably wouldnt. >> sean: hillary did, pastor scott. they bought her silence on all these abuses. she claims she has in a monopoly on it. its because i was supposed to be her platform. women empowerment. how can you take money -- from a platform you profess to stand on? shes been a fraud. >> hillary is a fraud. hillary is a flawed. >> sean: we have crazy uncle jimmy kimm...