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Actions, argue guing that hes new to the job. there is a steep learning curve and they are pouncing on comeys concerns about former attorney general loretta lynch. thats what they think the biggest nugget is from yesterday. lets begin with joe johns live at the white house. >> the president stayed off of twitter for a long time. and then when he weighed in, it was very cautious essentially echoing the words in a statement by his attorney marc kasowitz before the comey testimony. lets take a look...

Language. i will say this. for those who are arguing that itsnthat it looks like, it becomes sort of a vanishingly small island to stand on. it is really difficult to come up with a charitable explanation of what just happened. whether it meets some legal standard of obstruction of justice, i dont think were there yet. but i will tell you that it is a lot easier to argue that it is obstruction of justice than it is to argue that this is something benign. you read that memo or that testimony from...

>> you dont prove a crime until after an investigation. >> but you investigate once there is a crime. there has not been a crime. we dont know of a crime. >> they say theyre investigating whether or not there was collusion, which they wouldnt do unless they had reason to believe there might be. im just argue guing with the time line here. >> clapper had to watch the whole lime, actually. they knew russia has been trying to work with russia for years and years. this was all under his watch and pa...

Out, has missed many deadlines in modernizing the system. and what the president is arguing is, if we privatize it, this would cut out that government red tape and speed up the process. the idea is creating this board consisting of airlines, unions, government representatives, even general aviation, to oversee air traffic control. now, the faa would still be in charge of safety regulations, but the big question is will the president be able to pull this off? >> right. >> this isnt a new idea. it...

Notable interaction with him on the travel ban. to talk about that i want to bring in nick ackerman. now a partner at dorsey and whitney. thank you for being here. heres the central point i want to get at. is the president essentially undercutting his own department of justice when he says lets not use the watered down version, something that he signed essentially. walk us through the sort of legal impations of what the president is talking about this morning. >> this is an absolute nightmare fo...

Crimes of jerry sandusky. welcome back to "hardball." president trump yesterday announced his decision to exit the paris climate agreement. we all know that. though had he promised to put america first and pull out of the climate deal during the campaign, he reportedly spent months to listening to both sides of the argument. but according to "the washington post" tonight, arguments to stay in backfired. "the post" reports that some of the efforts to dissuade trump from withdrawing actually had...

It. >> i realize some of president trumps actions and statements have unsettled americas friends. theyve unsettled many americans, as well. there is real debate under way now in my country about what kind of role america should play in the world and frankly, i dont know the how this debate will play out. >> interesting because john mccain speaks his mind but hes reading from a prepared speech there in talking about i know youre unsettled and dont now how this play out this big debate that is now...

And that we should just kill ourselves. >> the young women there tells us she and her friend moved to the back of the train to get away. but then a stranger steps in. he defends them and says to the men yao cant disrespect these young ladies like that. more strangers step this. that is when the knife comes out. the suspect starts to stab. right there in broad daylight on a train in america. one of the girls says she just heard arguing, fighting, then saw blood everywhere. two of those hee e rows...

Something like that goes in terms of potential criminal charges, right? if that collusion and cooperation happened between the trump campaign and the russians, if it is provable, is it a crime? for u.s. persons to do something like that? maybe. i dont know. theres a lot of arguing about it. but im not sure its perfectly clear in terms of it being a prosecutable offense. it would certainly have a good likelihood of being an impeachable offense if it was a public official who did it. but consider ...

Strikes him as unfairly hind therg white house again as his father-in-law is arguing, but it was not obviously a situation where he was throwing a red flag up and saying wait a second, this is going to cause you real problems. >> im reminded, you covered the first part of the trip, have returned and lived to tell about it. what was the traveling trump white house -- what were the atmospherics, what did it feel like to you? >> two different halves of the trip, the half was in saudi arabia and isr...