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Noted a related opinion last fall. with that unconstitutional for cabinet officers to have political motives for policy. under the obama administration. >> melissa: josh, if you are sincerely interested in getting the best data on what is going on, whats the best way to do it? to leave the question in and have people, fewer people come answer the survey may be because they were afraid? worth and not have it in their and have people answer -- you dont really know who they are. they are not tellin...

Focus on foreign interference in u.s. elections. they say that is proved beyond a reasonable doubt, and indictments were brought by special counsel robert mueller. >> this started about russia. it wasnt about trump. mcgahn testified, documents are given, never claimed executive privilege. its hard for me to believe the president actually did anything to stop newly from doing his jo job. >> and the house judiciary committees ranking republican arguing pretty much the same thing in the letter, tha...

Presidents tweet out of context. he said, the president said i never called her nasty, with i he did not do. he never said i never used the word nasty. he used the word nasty in relation to her comments and i find it interesting when you played the portion of his sound byte, you left out the first part, don, where he was asked repeatedly, what do you think of her comments? he said back, i dont know about her comments. ive never heard these comments. then he said in response to that, i didnt know...

Says something bad. its taken out of context by the media once again. >> so you are arguing, an argument over what nasty was modifying when he was saying i didnt know she was nasty. you are saying he was saying the comments were nasty but not meghan markle. thats the distinction here? >> thats exactly the distinction. when you listen to the whole sound bite, he goes on to say its very nice to have an american princess, shell be excellent. >> we played that. >> you did play that. in the context o...

Nations, our trading nations, while at the same time frankly standing up for trade relations that are fair and do carry reciprocity and do have a common and level playing field. thats what the president has been arguing. >> you add to it the wars were fought ultimately to protect americas national interest and europes national interest. as china and russia continue their disrespect for intellectual property and cyberattacks that we continue to learn about coming out of china and russia, having a...

Rules of behavior? >> its funny. basically our public life has become a bar fight. and who knew twab it would be "star wars" cantona bar fight. unquestionable mueller comes from entirely different ethos. he comes from the world of george h. w. bush. de atchison. and he comes from two martinys at lurj and projecting power across the world. it had limititions but kpulg compelling sense ever public duty. the former director of the fisher, a man who has given his life to protecting the country. argu...

>> the bus. let me move on. you know what is difficult when people want to argue with you. people love arguing. especially when they are politicians i said something critical about. they call me and i have to return this call. >> politicians call you? >> oh, may get mad at me. >> democrats call you and complain? >> lots of politicians of every stripe. >> my least favorite thing is tuckers show! >> [laughing]. >> eating lunch. i dont like eating lunch at work. its the worst part of my day. you sh...

Acted honorably? >> yes. >> and i do see some people now trying to besmirch the integrity of director mueller or attorney general barr. that is really rich. >> really rich indeed. by the way, of course, all those comments were talking about barrs version of the mueller report, not once actually the mueller report came out. perspective now, david gergen and jeffrey toobin, who is back with us. it is pretty amazing, david, to hear the president actually tweet out, to see him tweet out that russia ...

>> oh! >> the bus. let me move on. you know what is difficult when people want to argue with you. people love arguing. especially when they are politicians i said something critical about. they call me and i have to return this call. >> politicians call you? >> oh, may get mad at me. >> democrats call you and complain? >> lots of politicians of every stripe. >> my least favorite thing is tuckers show! >> [laughing]. >> eating lunch. i dont like eating lunch at work. its the worst part of my day....

When i asked her here why isnt that happening, she is sort of arguing by proxy, saying what other people are saying is that democrats worry about the political consequences of that. and the way that usually gets shorthanded when people draw a historical analogy is to the clinton situation, that when clinton was impeached in the house in 1998, it obviously failed in the senate, and politically it was seen as something that boomeranged on the republicans, ending newt gingrichs career among other t...