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Conventional norms of ethics or good government. jared kushner is not somebody who should have ever been hired in the white house and certainly should not have been granted a temporary top secret clearance of the kind he had for the last year. in the past week weve learned more shady behavior on the part of mr. kushner with "the new york times" reporting that he met with finance executives who subsequently provided hundreds of millions of dollars in loans for jared kushners family real staets co...

Estate, i think. i actually think he likes politics better than real estate and hes very good at politics. >> with other things happening, how all of this is coming full circle. its kushners past real estate debts that has made his family so desperate for foreign finances which is one of the reasons hes losing access to this key intelligence which is hampering his ability to apply his supposed real estate acumen to diplomacy and theres this obvious hypocrisy, a man who ran against classified inf...

By the campaign managers at about six months. >> that could be what is going on. >> but in the comment where he is saying, no he didnt call me uninformed. the president wanted to not make too much of this rift because he knows he needs john kelly and a disaster with another white house chief of staff. and i question whether kelly has political acumen. but he does have certain -- policy instinct and he was in charge of southern command and worked with the souther border security and cares about w...

Donald trump ran on. it was a rally go cry at his campaign rallies, where people chanted build the wall. he said who will pay for it? and they would channel back mexico. clearly that was never a realistic promise to turn into policy. now chief of staff kelly is left with taking those vague campaign promises from the campaign speeches, from his campaign, and trying turn those into real policy. and it is no easy challenge for him. you can see, he is trying to carve out some sort of middle road whe...

Actually herself weigh in, its worth taking a look at the split among democrats on this. congressman jackie speier tweeting, run, oprah, run! and senator kristin gillibrand told reporters, i think her voice is powerful and important, and whatever she wants to do, she should do. but nancy pelosi was more, lets call it lukewarm. referencing republicans, she told reporters, if were going into a place where they are devaluing experience in terms of substance and legislative acumen and stuff like tha...

Very pointedly blame the president himself. you could out loud judge his acumen and the advice he was getting. hes not only crazy declared tom barrack to a friend, hes stuped much i should point out we have not independently verified that quote as coming from the presidents friend, tom barrack. but there is a lot of reporting in the book that people did not hold donald trump intelligence in very high regard. >> yeah, thats certainly true. you see members of his cabinet saying it, members of his ...

Comey changed the tone in the white house interest the worst, saying, quote, the president seemed to find himself inkrejual las eby comey and mueller. in the instance of comey and mueller beyond all the dodging and weaving, there really wasnt anybody other than the presidents family who didnt very pointedly blame the president himself. you could out loud judge his acumen and the advice he was getting. hes not only crazy declared tom barrack to a friend, hes stuped much i should point out we have...

Trapped, incredulously on his part by comey and mueller. nothing seemed to move on from those two events. in the instance of comey and mueller beyond all the dodging and weaving rationalizations, there really wasnt anybody other than the presidents family who didnt very pointedly blame trump himself. this is the point at which an emperors new clothes threshold was crossed. now you could doubt outloud his judgment and acumen and advice he is getting. hes not only crazy declared tom barrack to a f...

You could see a bit of the republican civil war up. at the end of the day i dont think it will be as bad because the numbers are for us in the senate. redistricting wont happen until 2021. so you wont see the shifts you have seen in 2008, 2010 -- >> and 2006. >> republicans have some issues they need to deal with. thank goodness im in that business. >> jason, if you put back up those senate seats, democrats need to flip two now because they got alabama. flake in arizona who is retiring, and then...

Highlights how the president is rush to go fill court positions therefore altering the judiciary. he reportedly told advisers he has three main criteria. they must be young, under 50. conservative, very. and strict constitutionalists. lets bring in the supreme court analyst to discuss joining us from washington. good morning, joan. >> good morning, bill. the headlines this week were dominated by those who didnt get in. lets show this clip. this is a guy named matthew peterson being grilled on ca...