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Security. you dont want presidents improvising. you want everything to be considered. you want all the voices and positions brought in. you want a decision taken carefully and implemented with discipline. we cannot afford an undisciplined national security council. there will either be a gap between what we say and do or well have bad thought through policies. >> then you have somebody like mccastmaster scrambling behind presidents comments. >> the assertions began with by the way. >> well talk ...

Secretary in april when spicer had a meeting with wheeler and this gop doaner at the white house where they talked about this, this theory that has hurt the slain dnc staffers family so much. because we know there was a white house meeting, it creates a sense that maybe there is more to the story but theres a lot we dont know. we dont know how much evidence wheeler really has to back up his assertions. >> thats one of the good things about litigation, right? you have discovery and you only know ...

Make that allegation in the story. but the story was the fruit of the seed that was planted by ed butowsky, if to believe the evidence and the material presented by rod wheelers lawsuit. >> do you get from your reporting that rod wheeler understood when he took this job that his job was to essentially frame him as the person who stole and leaked those dnc e-mails? >> i think rod wheeler decided to go along with this. he had to make a conscious decision in the beginning that he was comfortable wi...

>> i think rod wheeler decided to go along with this. he had to make a conscious decision in the beginning that he was comfortable with this fox figure, this clear trump supporter being the benefactor there. i do think rod wheeler did not fully accept or appears from his public statements to have not been fully comfortable with the conclusion of metropolitan police that it was clearly a botched armed robbery or the assertions by democrats and by the rich family that theres no links. on the other...

President trump has missed an opportunity to use this platform to make an argument. he makes assertions, many are questionable when it comes to facts, but theres no coherent argument that forms the basis -- >> and people are getting scared. joe, a lot of people talk about and, andy, for john kelly to have success with president trump, hes going to have to find a way to let trump be trump. actually, we dont want kelly to have success with trump. we want him to have success with the country. >> wi...

Controversial meeting donald trump jr. had last year with a russian lawyer. >> an enemy of vladimir putin makes a bold appearance on capitol hill and tells senators of putins clep topsy. >> i believe hes worth $200 billion. that money is held all over the world in banks in america and all over. the purpose of putins regime has been to commit terrible crimes in order to get that money. >> bill broud ser a well think financier. hes claiming putin demanded a cut from russias richest businessmen who...

Senior white house official jared kushner interviewed with the senate intelligence committee staff yesterday and under oath with the house intelligence committee today. for months, jared kushner left his multiple meetings with russian officials off his security clearance application and stood by saying nothing while senior spokes people for the campaign and transition and administration and senior officials, including the vice president and president himself asserted publicly multiple times that...

Something broader there. >> you mentioned the communications director, anthony scaramucci. i want you to watch this exchange. interesting exchange with him and jake tapper this weekend. >> theres a lot of disinformation out there, you know, somebody said to me yesterday, i dont tell you iou, if the russians actually hacked this situation and spilled out these e-mails, you would have never seen it, would have never had any evidence of them, meaning theyre super confident in their deception skills...

Our colleague, jake tapper on state of the union. >> theres a lot of disinformation out there. you know, somebody said to me yesterday, i wont tell you who, that if the russians actual hacked this situation and spilled out those e-mails, you would have never seen it. you would have never had any evidence of them meaning theyre superconfident in their deception skills and hacking. my point is, all of the information isnt on the table yet. >> wait, wait, anthony. anthony. >> let me finish. >> your...

Wait wait anthony. >> youre making a lot of assertions. i dont know who this person is who said if the russians hadnt done it we wouldnt be able to detect it -- >> how about it was the president jake? he called me from air force one and basically said maybe they did and maybe they db do it. >> that information turns out actually came from vladimir putin at the g20 according to reporters at the time. what do you make of that? >> i think its fact -- factually not true. american intelligence agenci...