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White house aides say nothing on the record to defend pruitt on this issue. an indication of how they are not very happy with how hes handled it so far. >> all right. abby phillip, thank you very much. we appreciate it. a deputy managing editor of "the weekly standard" with us as well as senior citizen politics reporter steven cullinson. thank you for being here. i want to show you a picture. five other people in the administration who have had questions about their travel, about disrupcease a...

And of course youd pay less if you were renting one room, and the owner might put any stranger, who could be an axe murderer in there with you. later it turned out the daughter was staying there. and some of the reporting says that the ethics officials didnt know that pruitt actually had the run of the house. >> i want to put up a picture here that abby referred to of five of the other cabinet members who have been facing similar accusations here. youve got tom price there, shulkin, ben carson. ...

Ability to influence or demand good behavior from other members of the administrations? >> well, it is troubling, a shen right to scold him if he did. it is a constant drip, drip, drip, and the level of the swamp just keeps rising and it has to take a politicalle toll at some point. im not a lawyer, so i cant tell you whether the housing or pruitts housing arrangement was legal or not, but goi the washington all of the time and let me tell you $50 for a room is sweetheart deal, and i have never ...

Driving and bad checks and a marine corps reservist with arrests for assault, disorderly conduct, fleeing an order and underage drinking. the without deputy press secretary raj shah said that the presidential personnel office is filling the administration with the best and brightest appointees who share the presidents vision for the country, staff work tirelessly and have experience consistent with the practice in previous administrations. the "post" reporting is that they do not. youll remember...

Draining the swamp, and can he make the argument that he is draining his own swamp? >> well, certainly republicans are wondering or some of the base the that voted for trump and the passionate are starting to become a little cynical that the swam subpoena going to go away. obviously, he is draining the swamp a little bit, but he created it, and he fill lted it, and this is a problem that was created by the president. the buck stops with him. >> right. and amy, we will obviously have john bolton ...

Lets refresh. >> there is no indication whatsoever that he has any cognitive issues. the president is very sharp, and ar tick yu late and a lot of stamina. looking at the vision, and he is 71 years old and he can drive if he wants to without glasses. he washes the hands frequentlyu remain fit for duty for the remainder of this the term and another term the if he is re-elected. >> and he has been the white house dock for for multiple administrations and nobody has questioned his ability to be a m...

To go -- not going down that road. so who knows. but the president has said before that he doesnt make announcements about what he is doing militarily. he has maintained that. and then he made the speech. listen to what mr. trump has said before. >> we know longer tell our enemies our plans. americas enemies must never know our plans or believe they can wait us out. i dont want to telegraph what im doing or what im thinking. im not like other administrations where they say were going to do this ...

Was there a pipeline between the trump campaign and the russians. what is very clear is that some of these matters that people have been dismissing as not relevant as they focused on this obstruction of justice issue are very much still under examination by the special counsel. >> lets switch gears. a senior administration official says some aides to the president were surprised by the presidents comments that the u.s. will withdraw from syria, given what he said in the past. watch this. >> one ...

Senate is currently sitting on 78 nominees who have already been vetted and passed out of committee, cant get a floor vote, this includes spokesperson richard who was nominated in september to be president trumps ambassador to germany, we are back with dan henninger, kim strassel and jason riley, kim, youve been digging at the numbers on this for us, how big a problem is it compared to previous administrations? >> it blows previous administrations away. if you look at this point in time in the p...

North. despite plans for diplomatic talks between president trump and kim jong un in may, christian is a former senior adviser to the trump and bush administrations, christian, first of all, good to see you, and looking forward to your perspective on all of this, first of all, lets talk about the joint military exercise, is the proper timing, the proper thing to do to carry out? >> thanks, kelly, yes, it is right, the annual exercise, major exercise of forces intended to prepare militaries for c...