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Trying to. even if it doesnt change your work it raises the emotional, mental and sometimes monetary costs of doing so. i think this is really important, because a lot of working journalists are not rich. they dont do it for the money. they dont even do it for the fame. do it in pursuit of truth and this kind of thing does actually have an affect on people. once someone found out that someone has tried to hack them or is trying to get their information, it makes you think twice about everybody y...

>> well, look, he says it almost every day. we see that he intervened with the senate republicans urging them to curtail their investigation. his proxies like steve bannon are out on tv saying we need to shut these investigations down. they are not hiding their hand. they are being quite deliberate about it and its having its desired affect. we have no witnesses scheduled after january 1st, and there are dozens more we need to bring in. they are scheduling interviews out of the state while we ar...

That we would probably be out of session. it would be the kind of thing that was very similar to what happened when then president nixon had the saturday night massacre. >> david, you can understand why the democrats are concerned. >> you can certainly understand it. you can see the affect of this on republican opinion. just over the past four months, bob muellers negatives driven up, nearly doubled among republicans in the country but does the president want to remove mueller and have that figh...

Channel of communications with the russians. all of those things i think make him a person of great interest for robert mueller. no doubt theyre looking at him. maybe hes done nothing wrong and no doubt hes somebody whens a subject of this investigation. >> lets listen what house democrat jackie spear said about this feeling, this rumor out there about the special prosecutor being fired. obviously, this is part of what pushed mark warner to go to the senate floor to make that statement today. le...

Something, at least 21%, and now everything he promised he lied about. i shouldnt say lied. he mispromised about. its going the opposite direction. the people are still cheering him. the people that were promised what hes not doing are cheering that hes not doing it. why are they cheering? >> why are they cheering? i think its more of a performtive thing, expressive thing. they feel like his demeanor, his affect, is simpatico, right? with them. with his voters. it doesnt really matter what he do...

And the processes that keep us a free people. >> michael, the long-term impact of these repeated statements? >> i dont think theres any question that repeated attacks on institutions will have an affect, but this is also -- this was the mo of the trump campaign from the beginning and taking advantage and exploiting the voters who were dissatisfied with -- who just watched and who had institution after institution fail them their entire lives. theres definitely a political calculous there. we do ...

And this will rise. >> the fact that they jammed this through in three months is a political feat for the history books. >> it is is an accomplishment for republicans who need to put a question on the board. tax cuts are the closest thing to holy. sit a partisan vote. they got it done in record time. the president campaigned on the middle class tax cut. this was presented as an opportunity for simplification. god knows we need. this is primarily a corporate tax cut under the belief that will fin...

What is this bill went to look like. what sort of affect is in the economy, taxpayers, do they like you can make are they able to fill out their taxes on a postcard as brady suggested. legislating is a lot like making wine, not sausage. they put it in the bottle today, and they opened up 4, 5 years from now and will have a whiff of the bouquet and see if this is a nice cabernet or this is swell. we do not know you. it takes a few years for legislation to see if this is good wine or bad one. >> d...

Riddle me this, if youre innocent of collusion, why would you mall line or green light attacks that would have the affect of alienating a special counsel that could exonerate you? >> i think the special counsel will ultimately be judged by the results of thinvestigation. if you go back to the clinton special counsel, you will hear the same things that democrats were saying now republicans were saying now. >> i dont remember any democ t republican calling t ining the s the kgb. i mean there is an...

Electricity went out shortly after 1:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon and not fully restored until late last night. more than 1,000 flights had to be canceled. atlantas mayor said a fire at the main substation powering the airport triggered the entire outage. joining us from now the airport, our affiliate. good to talk to you this morning. what are you seeing at the airport? >> good morning, yasmin. heartsfield jackson, not only the worlds busiest airport. also a hub for delta. creating a domino affe...