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Narrative or spin, and the president himself will utterly undercut them with his own statements or his own tweets. so, what you saw, again, was general mcmaster, he went out as phil pointed out, he didnt actually dispute any of the facts or assertions in the story. but he did especially when you saw him yesterday, he really tried to argue against sort of the premise of the post story and then we all woke up very early this morning to president trump tweeting that, you know, of course he had ever...

Security adviser addressed the reporters tonight. and hes pursuing -- is pushing back on your reporting. lets listen and then well discuss. >> the story that came out tonight as reported is false. the president and the foreign minister reviewed a range of common threats to our two countries including threats to civil aviation. at no time, at no time, were intelligence sources or methods discussed, and the president did not disclose any military operations that were not already publicly known. tw...

Are present including the secretary of state remember the meeting the same way and have said so. theyre on the record, should outweigh those of anonymous sources. i was in the room, it didnt happen. >> so, greg, interesting that he didnt take questions. whats your response to that? >> well, i actually think the white house is engaging in a pretty significant head fake here. theyre basically refuting assertions that were not in our story. our story is very specific and says that trump did not dis...

Or less gives support to the order and say that there are national security reasons we need to do this. so, do those letters neutralize your assertions that the national security interests relied on are pretextual? and do they neutralize the bad faith argument? youre not just saying bad faith of the president but also bad faith of the attorney general and also bad faith of the secretary of homeland security. >> right. so i -- it certainly is true that those letters were written on the morning sa...

Against him doing this interview and afraid that what has happened actually would happen, which was it did not put it to rest, it made it more complicated. when dick durbin talks about obstruction of justice, one of the arguments that they make for a special prosecutor. but absent t scial prosecutor who can bring a obstruction of justice charge? >> this a great question, chris. its the impeachment process that exists, im not making a statement about impeachment in this moment in time but youre a...

Any republican member of congress who takes the president his spokes peeks assertions that this occurred because of hillary clinton is either a fool, or they have so lost sight in this tribal politics, their responsibilities to the country, that they have become faithless to their oaths. my old colleague mark salter, the long-time chief of staff to senator john mccain may have hit the nail on the head today when he said "i never thought id be saying this in my lifetime, but perhaps we need a dem...

President, his spokes peoples assertions that this action occurred because director comey was unfair to hillary clinton is either a fool or they have so lost sight in this era of tribal politics their responsibilities to the country that theyve become faithless to their oaths. my old colleague, the long-time chief of staff may have hit the nail on the head when he sai i never thought id be saying this in my lifetime but perhaps we need a democratic congress to protect the national security of th...

Journal reporter eli stokal. its been too long since weve been able to talk to you. remembering that republicans were the heroes of watergate. afterall it was roads and -- bhoo took the trip down the white house lawn. who are you looking to be profiles incurage and just how unnormal is everything youve seen in the last 24 hours some. >> its unprecedented, brian, shocking, actually. any republican, member of congress who takes the president, his spokes peoples assertions that this action occurred...

Investigative information about people we havent charged. and then we do not go up to congress and talk about that derogatory investigator information and do not tell congress that weve reopened investigations adding more derogatory investigative information about somebody still not charged. that is prosecution and investigation 101. and comeys repeated violation of that and his repeated refusals to come clean and these wild assertions of trying to justify what he did, i think that that was send...

I think the only good sign in all of this is the department through rod rosenstein going back to its basic principles and saying, look. we do not divulge derogatory investigative information about people we havent charged. and then we do not go up to congress and talk about that derogatory investigator information and do not tell congress that weve reopened investigations adding more derogatory investigative information about somebody still not charged. that is prosecution and investigation 101....