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There a sense that he feels theres a disconnect between the white house, the occupant of the white house, and the rest of the country. that by extrapolation hes saying is larger and qualitatively different than it was when he was president. and he thinks that thats the wrong direction for the country. and he listed a number of places where he thinks that could go wrong. it was a very interesting speech. >> interesting indeed. ann, thank you. jennifer, will, thank you. a powerful republican ste...

Shoots off a few tweets and he says corker begged him for his endorsement and then cnn sources that that is not true. corker responds with this. it is a shame the white house has become an adult day-care center. someone obviously missed their shift this morning. ann, we know this would get under -- he knew this would get under the presidents skin. what is the end game here? >> i dont know what the end game is for donald trump because i do know that donald trump still needs bob corker. he needs b...

Afraid. >> yeah. and finally, someone had the courage whether hes running for re-election or not to come out and say what many in washington -- i want you be involved in the conversation. i want to bring in my panel. hello to all of you. so here is what i want to do. i want to go through this. corker came to the defense of secretary of state tillerson last wednesday. gloria was telling us about that. lets watch that and then well continue on. >> i think secretary tillerson, secretary mattis and ...

President. but unfortunately, thats the new normal, im afraid. >> yeah. and finally, someone had the courage whether hes running for re-election or not to come out and say what many in washington -- i want you be involved in the conversation. hello to all of you. so here is what i want to do. i want to go through this. corker came to the defense of secretary of state tillerson last wednesday. gloria was telling us about that. lets watch that and then well continue on. >> i think secretary tifrl ...

Endorsement and then cnn sources that that is not true. corker responds with this. it is a shame the white house has become an adult day-care center. someone obviously missed their shift this morning. ann, we know this would get under -- he knew this would get under the presidents skin. what is the end game here? >> i dont know what the end game is for donald trump because i do know that donald trump still needs bob corker. he needs bob corker to get his appointments -- his foreign service appoi...

Countries, presumably iran, figure out the next step for the deal itself. in the meantime, the president would be able to say accurately that he does not believe the deal is in the united states national interest and he wants to negotiate a better one, which has frankly been his position all along. >> michael, before we go here. new developments today in the russian investigation and the extent of russian efforts to use social media platforms like facebook, like twitter. as anns paper reported t...

Trumps head space politically and, you know, hes a television guy. he understands how this stuff looks on television. he understands much of -- he gets his information visually. he understands how to respond to it visually. puerto rico was different. it moves off his radar clearly the federal governments response was not as fast, was not as proactive. and hes paying the consequences for that politically now. >> so when we think of what the president knows and how he treats the information that h...

Golf. he did both of those things together. and then also went to this golf tournament on top of that. >> fortunately or unfortunately, there is a tweet for everything. in the past. of showing and highlighting some type of contrast or comparison to modern day. ann, great to have you with me. charlie, you as well. straight ahead, we are going to continue the coverage of whats taking place for the people of puerto rico. so much attention has been paid now to whats taking place. we know celebriti...

Particulars other than his own involvement with certain people being investigated. i think the key things here and ann gestured towards this in "the times" story, they noted that muellers tacticings are i to an organized crime investigation. i think where this starts for trump and his family, collusion is an issue, but the stuff that really looms is potential obstruction of justice or any financial quid pro quos. did trump or his relatives jared kushner in particular negotiate favors like liftin...

Know what to make of that. him dealing with democrats makes the base this angry. and the vocal base is what were talking about. ann -- they are powerful voices among his base. when they start to pushback on him, i think that raises serious questions. if at the same time we see some independent, some moderates, i like this, this is what we signed in to washington to do. >> to my conversation, it goes back to this word of the moment and thats transactional. it may not get you through the week or t...