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Overall, but its the coattails and influence he has may be waning as he approaches the first key piece of legislation he is trying to put forward. the concern on wall street is if president trump -- and this is a big "if," if the repeal and replace fall turz early on and what does that mean on other policies and legislation down the line? will it affect tax overhaul? will it affect infrastructure spending that will happen down the line. the high prices we have seen in the stock market has been t...

Overshadowed. and in part, not entirely, in part because of that tweet that trump had to put out about the wiretap. and i think that is a self-inflicted wound that is symbolic of how, by many of his idiosyncrasies, he has stepped all over his presidency, particularly, the good things he has done, and the program he is now advancing. also, lost in the shuffle, the fact that we are just a few days away from a crucial vote on obamacare repeal that trump brought up at the rally in louisville. but it...

It went to the floor. this is to make sure that counties cant levy taxes on medicare. it actually prevents tax increases at the local level in new york, thats what this is all about. those are the beautiful things can you do in legislation that is broad, you can put little things in there that dont affect anybody else that gets you votes. >> this is what donald trump campaigned against? >> no, its a beautiful thing. >> big beautiful negotiation, right? >> thats part of the deal. >> but those are...

Ret let me do the next question. in 2005 after the passage of the detainee treatment act you advocated the that president bush should issue a signing statement to accompany the law in an e-mail to steven bradberry and others and this is your quote, help inoculate against the potential of having the administration criticizesome time in the future for not making sufficient changes in interrogation policy in light of the portion of the amendment. this statement clearly and in a formal way would be ...

Uphold and protect and constrain within the united states constitution, the power to prescribe laws with prospective general applicableability in the legislative branch and executive branch, as far as making the law making, and the judicial branch is there to give effect and meaning to those words not just based on what is fair in some abstract sense but also what is fair in the sense that you have got to decide who the decision maker is, who makes the law and how to give affect to those words. ...

Definition of wiretapping now to mean all surveillance, and that seems to be the excuse. and you know, said theyll likely take that hearing and say well they were talking specifically about trump tower. >> well, yeah, and they will probably find out that at some point that they were tracking the ambassador of russia and he met with general flynn trump tower. theyll probably pick up a conversation will come out in the hearings that that meeting happened, they heard the conversation or something t...

>> do you believe he didnt know who roger stone is? >> i find it very hard. i think stone will be very upset if thats the case. >> thats true. >> and lets not forget the republicans had a deliberate strategy in that hearing today. they were talking about leaks and they were talking about did this affect the vote in michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. for him to then go down the route of do you know who these people are, is it possible they engaged in behavior, that would take him off the mess...

Dallas woodhouse here executive director of the north carolina g.o.p. i was going to go to you to start with, dallas, because its hard to see within the g.o.p. there is also a subgroup that dont want it to pass. so, if he does pass the house -- if it does pass the house on thursday, when the vote is supposed to take place, who gets the victory? >> well, i think the president and republicans and, of course, most importantly the american people get the victory, brian. because we are fulfilling the...

Which the gop hopes will replace obamacare has the presidents blessing while they say it could result in millions of people losing coverage. in all the discussion, what hasnt been addressed is the new affect on small and medium businesses those with over 50 employees and those with less. we thought we would take time to dig into the numbers. john is the founder and ceo of the small business majority and kevin kuhlman is director of government relations with the national federation of independent...

Where were at as a country right now because it seems impossible that a scandal this lurid with details like this hasnt taken over your newspaper. its impossible that something this big and over the top and ridiculous is not a scandal of national fixation. but its really not. its really not because honestly, where were at as a country, as scandals go this thing can barely compete. theres no room in the scandal-absorbing part of our brains anymore because so many things are cooking all at once ri...