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With democratic senator dick durbin of illinois. he was in the room with the president. remember, senator durbin says he heard the president utter racist remarks. he also told jake that walking into the oval office seemed to him like walking into a setup. >> we call him two days later, senator graham and i and say we have done it, we met your criteria, we have a bipartisan bill, we are ready to go, then to be called into the presidents office to explain it to him and find that we have been sandb...

That came before him. i want you to listen to dick durbin who talked about what happened after that. >> we call him two days later, senator graham and i, and say, weve done it. we met your criteria, we have a bipartisan bill, were ready to go. then to be called into the presidents office to explain it to him and find that weve been sa sandbagged. general kelly and steve miller, as i understand it, invited five other members of congress who were not in favor of immigration reform or in a very har...

As i understand it, invited five other members of congress who were not in favor of immigration reform or in a very harsh sense, and they were there to refute any assertions that we made that this was a good policy. >> so sandbagged, thats strong language. but the question, and youve heard this before, the president will listen to whoever is in his ear last. do you think thats whats happening? >> when i first heard donald trump say, ill sign anything or something to that effect, i shuddered. imm...

Mouthing off in a book like "fire and fury", wolffs book we saw. how do they play for steve bannon legally? >> it depends. if mueller believes that he has truth behind these assertions that there are facts that underlie it, for example, he said bannon said, money laundering is the key to all of this. its a plain as the hair on your face. mueller is going to say, tell me why that is. give me the factual basis for that statement. he said that the june 9th meeting was treasonous. mueller will want ...

Any assertions we pamade that ts was a good policy. >> i think somebody on that staff gave him really bad advice between 10:00 and 12:00 on thursday. i think the president i saw on tuesday is the guy i play golf with. they actually like the guy. hes actually funny. i thought he expacommanded the . and the conversation at 10:00 on thursday was pretty consistent with the guy i saw tuesday. something happened between 10:00 and 12:00. this has turned into an s-show and we need to get back to being a...

That meeting and wants to know more. in terms of the three phases of bannons involvement during the campaign and transition and in the white house he may be able to claim privilege during the transition and potentially during discussions and while the president is president of the white house. what about trying to claim privilege during the campaign, for example? >> he wouldnt have a claim of executive privilege. one thing we have seen sort of used by members of the trump team throughout this in...

>> we called him two days later and said weve done it. we met your criteria. wave bipartisan bill. then we were called into the presidents office and explain to it him and find weve been sand bagged. general kelly invited five other members of congress who were not in favor of immigration reform or in a very harsh sense and they were there to refute any assertions we made that this was a good policy. you ask me where we are today. ill tell you. we are finding more republicans are willing to step...

Said, wii doeve done it. we met your criteria. we have a bill, and then to be called in to say weve been sandbagged. general kelly and steve miller, as i understand it, invited five other members of congress who are not in favor of immigration reform, or are are in a very harsh sense, and we were there to refute any assertions we made that this was a good policy. so you ask me where we are today, ill tell you where we are. were finding more republicans are willing to step up now, distancing them...

Lets get it done. we call him two days later, senator graham and i, and say weve done it. we met your criteria. we have a bipartisan bill. to be called into the presidents office to explain it to him and find weve been sandbagged. general kelly and steve miller, as i understand it, invited five other members of congress not in favor of immigration reform or in a very harsh sense and they were there to refute any assertions we made that this was a good policy. so you ask me where we are today. il...

Talking to intel go campaign. so we dont expect james comey to come up because expectation is this is campaign related. but your argument is there is a lot we could get from him. >> yeah, there is. i would would bring this down into first category fire and fury, startling assertions steve bannon made to michael wolff in this new george which adam schiff and democrats will focus on. first allegation that the meeting with russians was treasonous. the meeting with don junior in the trump tower. als...