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General. and of his intelligence agencies. and he alone o has the ability o classify material, to declassify it and grant clearances for people in his administration and people like john brennan in previous administrations. it seems hes doing his job. >> jason: charles, he was supposed to change the political norms? is he doing? that a good or bad thing in your book? >> i think it depends on what the norms are. many, great, strong president advise been norm breakers. from andrew jackson, to abra...

Performance of his attorney general and of his intelligence agencies. he alone has the ability to classify material, to declassify it, and to grant clearances for people in his administration and even people like john brennan in previous administrations. >> it seems to me hes doing his job. >> he was supposed to change the political norms. is he doing that? is that a good or bad thing in your book? >> i think it depends on what the norms are. many great strong presidents have been norm breakers,...

>> harris: not all. >> juan: going back to president bush in 60, president obamand the gang of eight in i think it was 13, guess what, its hard right republicans who have blocked comprehensive immigration reform. >> hold on, hold on. i want to finish -- itll take two seconds. i want you to admit some democrats, some on the left, have been irrational and unreasonable when talking about this. >> juan: sure. >> girl, please, deserve an apology all day long for that. >> thats not an accurate stateme...

That woman in the middle. she mentioned immigration, the wall. i bring that up because the trump supporters that we talked to after i asked them about draining the swamp and the conviction of paul manafort and the plea, the guilty plea by mr. cohen, they said that, look it, past administrations have been corrupt, too, and they said that were focused on the issues like illegal immigration. >> it is so helpful to hear and see from voters and citizens there. thank you so much. and we will be right ...

Credibility in those areas. >> we have to go but one more point. he makes $5.28 million a year and it just tells you about thethe osu football culture that they want to keep him on after everything you outlined. thank you. >> thank you. how do the trump white houses legal problems compare with other administrations? a cnn reality check next. whats the hesitation? eh, it just feels too complicated, you know? well sure, at first, but jj can help you with that. jj, will you break it down for this...

Now the president seems to be pointing out, oh, he used to work for reagan and bob dole, too. im one in a long line of republicans he worked for. hes saying it has nothing to do with russia. it does ignore the fact that manafort at the convention, they did change the platform to be more russia friendly. >> i mean, completely. and its important to remember that this has been a huge part of muellers investigation, the manafort case. so the president is now distancing himself from it. hes always mi...

Recording him insiede his white house situation room. most americans dont believe president trump hires the best people. in fact, 58% dont believe he hires only the best according to a monmouth university poll. with all the white house turmoil and turnover, we shouldnt lose fact that yesterdays near simultaneous convictions of the presidents campaign chairman and personal lawyer is unprecedented. the way we know this is to compare the trump presidency with past administrations. spoiler alert -- ...

To distance themselves from him, saying look, he was with us for a couple weeks. a couple months. underplaying his role. now the president seems to be pointing out, oh, he used to work for reagan and bob dole, too. im one in a long line of republicans he worked for. hes saying it has nothing to do with russia. it does ignore the fact that manafort at the convention, they did change the platform to be more russia friendly. >> i mean, completely. and its important to remember that this has been a ...

Uncertainty, we dont know what his policies will be like, so the market will go down. complete opposite of what happened. trump won the election and we have given straight up since there. im giving it to the policy and the people. >> im giving it to obama. im shocked at how diplomatic my guest have been. i think if you look at this on a pure numbers perspective, we have about 92 months under president obama in this bull market, and about 19 months under president trump. clearly, corporate tax cu...

I never really realized his outgoing theme song was a message to the elite. but apparently it is at this point. theyre not getting what they want. this is an unflappable man. look, it was a lot of news today. but it was also news that wasnt necessarily surprising. its kind of been baked into what weve been watching for the last year, year and a half. so its not surprising. and the president of course sig nals nald his approach when he was going to the rally, reiterating his feeling about the mue...