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July 2018. >> putin is disciplined, he doesnt do anything that he hasnt prepared for, hes taken his measure of donald trump. hes going to walk into a room with donald trump and hes going to know exactly what he wants and exactly how hes going to get it. trump in contrast is famously undisciplined. >> putin is somebody who has operated on the world stage for decades. he knows international issues very well. he has seen presidents come and go. and i think he has been very, very skillful in terms o...

I had the privilege of working for director mueller at the fbi during two horrific attacks. the anthrax attacks and the dc sniper attacks. ive never been with atf. ive never been with postal inspection service but i know the men and women there are working every bit as hard as the men and women of the fbi to track this down. i think frank is right. i think mike leiter is right. theres lots and lots of clues left behind. there are extraordinary investigators combing through it. and i would be sur...

Fact, racially tinged and it is fear mongering. it is not, it is an acumen. your penchant to pivot to calling people racist, to accusing folks of wanting open borders and -- a number of other things you -- >> simone, democrats want to get rid of i.c.e., okay. >> stop it. demonstrate that you all have nothing to run on. i am so excited, chris, that i am a member of a party that is going out there in these midterm elections and we are talking about health care. we are talking about working for the...

Im an immigrant son. im an hispanic. we get to decide who belongs in this country, who will add to the prosperity and security of our country. if you call that racist and if you call that small minded -- >> youre putting -- steve, stop. youre putting words in my mouth. >> what are you saying? we have a right to determine who -- >> what im saying to you is that the language -- what im saying to you is that the language you previously used and laura ingraham has used is, in fact, racially tinged a...

It weighs on where you are. look, i think you will see some house candidates, democrats, trying to raise the issue and fire up women who are furious about what happened with the brett kavanaugh hearings. i think in a lot of senate states, democrats are going to want to quickly go back to local issues and talking about the contrast between them and their opponents and put this behind them. >> all right. jonathan martin, josh green, thank you very much. >> three political reporters, three for thre...

Kushner, hes hiding it very well, you know, she is compromising herself. i mean, were praising her political acumen, but if you make the decision to be in this team and in this trump white house, i think that does stick to you. and, you know -- >> i totally agree. and, listen, the things that stick to you are the fact that he went to his first nato summit and refused to confirm acommitmea commiour commitment to article 5. hes wrapped both arms and legs around vladimir putin. you cant say enough ...

Weve seen -- harry mentioned rosenstein bending on a few occasions. he has. hes asked the inspector general to chase down the presidents conspiracy theories with no evidence. an appalling thing for the deputy attorney general to do. hes done that because the president has put him under pressure. what i worry about is how he responds to this pressure. >> one important thing to keep in mind for any understanding of rod rosenstein is that while, of course, hes not a politician, hes very politically...

The person who gave him that lifeline, donald trump, himself. >> few people who knew michael cohen as a young man would have predicted hed one day be embroiled in a presidential crisis. by all accounts, cohen had an upper middle class childhood in long island, attended american university in the 1980s, just as a brash real estate developer from new york was becoming a nationally known celebrity. donald trumps first book, "the part of the deal," was a best seller, and that inspired cohen to striv...

Supreme court appointment in election year, using that and the obama folks and president obama railed against that. it paved the way for neil gorsuch. paved the way for brett kavanaugh. he shepherded that system because he knew it so well. what do you through? >> i think youre absolutely right. republicans and conservatives will have a 5-4 majority a real 5-4 majority for the first time in decades because of two people. donald trump for putting forward a list of conservative jurists that will fo...

Something from professor blasey-ford in this year and this person heard something from deborah ramirez but im looking for eyewitnesses and we only have a week. im not going to waste time chasing down somebody who heard something, that is corroboration but not contemporaneous eyewitness corroboration. is that likely whats going on? >> it could be. thats certainly a fair point. as a former fbi agent i would always prefer to sit down and talk with someone rather than read through a statement and de...