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He wants you to see. >> there is an inexplicable and irrational affinity and i think affection on donald trumps part for vladimir putin. >> in every utterance the president went out of his way to praise vladimir putin, to speak highly of him. >> he bragged about what a good, strong leader putin was when confronted by our colleagues. >> he is running his country. at least he is a leader, unlike what we have in this country. >> again, he kills journalists that dont agree with him. >> well, i think...

Achieve his own goals. all you really see when you look putin in the eye is exactly what he wants you to see. >> there is an inexplicable, so far, and irrational affinity and i think affection on donald trumps part for vladimir putin. >> in every utterance during the campaign, the president went out of his way to praise vladimir putin, to speak highly of him. >> he bragged about what a good, strong leader putin was when confronted by our colleagues. joe scarborough and mika brzezinski. >> he is ...

All of your time in republican politics, in all of your time working at the white house, how many people came up to you and said, some version of, russia or russians? >> never. >> i would like to introduce you to joe russian or join me at the russian embassy or can i get your boss involved? nothing? >> literally never. never, ever, ever, ever, ever. >> we talked about russians when we were last here in this beautiful space. we didnt talk about vladimir putin, number six. >> american presidents c...

Time working in the white house, how many people came up to you and said some version of "russia" or "russians" or "i would like to introduce you to joe russian" or "join me at the russian embassy." >> never. never, never, never, never. >> we talked about russians when we were last here in this beautiful space. we didnt talk about vladimir putin, number 6. >> american presidents come and go. but putin has outlasted them all. hes perfected the art of controlling every detail to achieve his own go...

That and he doesnt want to actually diminish his own selection and suggest that he may have chosen some bad people to surround him on his campaign. however, of course, with all of the troubles that are now surrounding paul manafort, he obviously has made a concerted effort to distance himself from those issues by saying that paul manafort had played a role for a very short period of time on that campaign, and so weve seen this more and more in the past few months as these legal accusations aroun...

When you have a president of the united states, our current president, president trump, who says, look, any information that i dont agree with is a lie. its not only a danger to the health of our democracy, but its a danger to the fourth estate which is journalism which has the responsibility of take facts of presenting them to the public. he was sort of speaking to the health of our future democracy about our current president. >> the president hasnt done an interview since he left office. here...

Braced for clarence thomas to withdraw when the original allegations came out. people like me were braced for bill clinton to quit when the monica lewinsky story came out. it proves if you stick it out, you can stick it out. probably more indicative to me of less control of the party of its own actors more than the stature of the press. howie: you mentioned "the washington post" which interviewed the first four of the accusers. one later went on tv. you have been doing this online story about jo...

Irrational affinity and i think affection on donald trumps part for vladimir putin. >> in every ut terance the president went out of his way to praise vladimir putin, to speak highly of him. >> he bragged about what a good, strong leader putin was when confronted by our colleagues. >> he is running his country. at least he is a leader, unlike what we have in this country. >> again, he kills journalists that dont agree with him. >> well, i think our country does plenty of killing also. >> you and...

Braced for clarence thomas to withdraw when the original allegations came out. people like me were braced for bill clinton to quit when the monica lewinsky story came out. it proves if you stick it out, you can stick it out. probably more indicative to me of less control of the party of its own actors more than the stature of the press. howie: you mentioned "the washington post" which interviewed the first four of the accusers. one later went on tv. you have been doing this online story about jo...

Weve all gotten used to, but are still hoping will wash out with enough water and mueller brand detergent. but as the first year of this horror comes to a close, im inclined not to look at the drastic difference in tone, tenor, and tactics, the gulf of governance between the current administration and the previous one. that would be too easy. as hindsight and nostalgia usually are. now, i would like to do the more uncomfortable work of challenging my comrades on the le left, too many of whom con...