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Interference and has resisted or attempted to undo efforts to hold moscow to account, such as additional penalties imposed last august by congress. on the national security council there has been an unspoken understanding that the president would see raising the russia matter as a personal affront." in your view is it getting harder and harder to say, look away, nothing to see here? >> absolutely. and look, this is one of the ropes why you saw admiral rogers today at the capitol testifying that ...

Im going to read it again. "trump has never convened a cabinet level meeting on russian interference and has resisted to hold moskow to account such as additional penalties imposed last august. there has been an unspoken understanding that the president would see raising the russia matters a personal affront." philip, in your view is it getting harder and harder to say nothing to see here? >> absolutely. this is why you saw admiral rogers at the capitol testifying putin has little price to pay h...

Statement and then we can talk about it. >>molly: the ncaa president had this to say. these allegations if true .2 systematic players that must be fixed and fixed now if you are college sports in america. simply put, people who engage in this behavior have no place in college sports.they are an affront to all of those who play by the rules. you bring up the question, so i will toss it back to you. how do you hold people responsible? how do you hold people accountable?>> i like mark emirate but f...

Statement and then we can talk about it. >>molly: the ncaa president had this to say. these allegations if true .2 systematic players that must be fixed and fixed now if you are college sports in america. simply put, people who engage in this behavior have no place in college sports.they are an affront to all of those who play by the rules. you bring up the question, so i will toss it back to you. how do you hold people responsible? how do you hold people accountable?>> i like mark emirate but f...

Affront to the presidency, is unfit for office and i cannot believe weve got maybe three more years of this. >> god forbid. you know, its a small thing but its not a small thing. to lead booze against john mccain who is an american hero, who is battling cancer, what a low class -- >> its hard to pick out the most revolting. he was attacking john mccain for one of the most principled moments of his career. but to hear lock her up still is shocking to me. >> lock her up, and desecrating john mccai...

Brooks just one seat away from kim. how much thought do you think went into this and the positioning of all of that? >> its a terrible idea. when i was active working for the fbi, working against the russians, one of the things i sought to do in discussions with the russians was i was applying to become an intelligence officer in the united states navy. much of my time was spent convincing the russians that once i entered that office, i would have extreme value to them. i am very concerned that ...

I have no doubt hell make the right decision. >> heres the sub text of all this. chief of staff kelly set a deadline today to stop entering clearances for those with pending clearances. and theres a lot of tension between chief of staff kelly and jared kushner. >> tension is putting it lightly. even though jared kushner pushed for kelly to be chief of staff, they thought he would impose on the west wing and they didnt realize how much would it apply to they will. not only haskelly tried to limit...

>> celebrities are not going to save democracy. in the founders actually thought they were an affront to it. they were worried specifically about people getting involved in politics and getting elected especially who were practicing and what they call the little arts of popularity, fame in other words. so i think what we have to watch for his celebrities are running for office for themselves, not advocating for other people, because they are masters at garnering support on their own behalf. they...

Would say these types of things. >> these types of things. hows that for due process? and yet we also have to step back here and face the facts and the law. it would be a mistake to let donald trumps selective invocations of due process undercut the wider principle. innocent people deserve due process. so do guilty people. thats the whole point. these former white house staffers accused of grave and heinous crimes, they do deserve due process under the law. but the government, the constitution a...

Affront to the special bond between the united states and britain. could you talk about that, why the british are so affronted by what senator graham and senator grassley are doing? >> well, i think rachel, there are a couple things that we learned in talking to some of steeles former associates in the british intelligence community and we also talked with some members of parliament. one of the things we were struck by is how they seemed to be gathering around christopher steele, a person that t...