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That weird line thats burrowed between trump and his acolytes, and the republican party. i guess youve made the argument that line is gone. >> yes. i think that what were seeing here is, as weve been talking about, there is a history here. the notion of a unitarian executive, extreme powers in the presidency, particularly having to do with national security. this was elevated during the second bush administration. that was the dick cheney fewer things, that was the george w. bush mentality. so i...

Very much aware of. just as other leaders, like orban, have made moves to limit to the independent to the judiciary, by stacking the judiciary with people who do not have a judicial temperament, but a partisan temperament, would help him as we saw with aileen cannon in the document case and mar-a-lago. he is setting himself up, and his future acolytes, for a symbiotic relationship with an out of control judicial branch. that is a dangerous as well, that he is in the process of doing this, destro...

Investigation, the breather taking news this week about a bribery scandal having legs. it is all important. howard: mollie, i have to give liz a chance to get in here on biden or anything else you want to respond to. >> well i would simply respond, again i look at it at the focus of the media level. one thing has been pointed out lately by both members of the right and the left media, chief of staff mark meadows has gone silent and there are some big questions as to who special counsel jack smit...

Candidates highly reluctant to criticize trump. because they know that they are going to have to take up his mantle if they win the nomination. of course, there is a few exceptions like chris christie who still is pretty low in the polls. but the worry there is that it is not just the voting base, but also the structures in washington d.c., the conservative think tank that usually helps staff up another administration. they are already drowned in their list of officials who would go in. and they...

U.s. foreign policy and doj, theyre all trumpers. do you think thats any mitigating factor to how a trial is received by the country? >> one of the strokes of genius of the january 6th committee was how absolutely firm and resolute they were in presenting witnesses who were republicans and pro-trump acolytes who had rushed to work for him. the list you gave included several. the witnesses that they presented testified about their horror about what happened on january 6th, the horror at realizing...

And attack general milley. he will attack alyssa farah griffin. that is what he does, he starts it off with the attack. he continues the attack, he gets his acolytes in order to continue the attack, in order to discredit them. and then he will continue to do this. they just have an ax to grind with me. if they do not want me to be president again, because i fired them. you will make up some story that we all know is not true. but he will try to convince you that that story is true. >> so jared k...

>> im not getting into comment on that. >> you seem deeply uncurious about it, dont you? almost suspiciously uncurious. are you protecting the bidens? >> absolutely not. the fbi does -- not >> hold on, you wont answer the question about whether thats a shake down, and everybody knows why you wont answer. because to the millions of people who will see this, they know it is. and your inability to acknowledge that is deeply revealing about you. >> no, its not. the fbi director cannot comment on any...

Alliance among them. at one point, a fight almost broke out on the house floor, but perhaps the most telling moment came at the very end. on his way out of the capital, at around two a.m. after finally taking his oath of office as speaker, mccarthy stopped to talk to reporters to give special thanks to a special someone. >> i do especially think president trump. i dont think anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning, somebody wrote that out of what he was there, and h...

>> i do want to especially thank president trump. i dont think anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning. somebody wrote that out when he was there, and he was all in. >> given mccarthy maybe the speaker, but this is donald trump south. its built on the back of trump republican acolytes whose job depends on the support of trumps own base. the dynamics that were on display during the four-day speakership battle have continued to play out in six months since. chaos cauc...

Adds a little bit to those who are suspicious of the justice department, those trump loyalists saying, but it looks a little political. it is a challenge for all of these candidates. the biggest challenge, of course, is once again, were heading into a summer where donald trump appears to be sucking up most of the oxygen in this presidential race. and thats what the very thing that these candidates need. >> it was eight years ago this week that donald trump rode down that golden escalator at trum...