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Was not. thats the kind of pressure that raises the call for recusal. all of this amidst questions of whether the attorney general violated this recusal by being involved in the firing of director comey. this is not good. >> i have to questions for you. we know that rod rosenstein is at the center. nothing public from him right now. the attorney general obviously has recused himself from matters related to the russia investigation during the campaign. explain to people how it is so that the depu...

Attorney general conveyed. i dont know how much of that made its way to the president. >> yes, precisely. that is a concern that i would have, that it sounds perhaps that the president was not aware and going on in marching the president tweeted that flynn should be given immunity. flynn resigned on february 13th and that the fbis investigation is, quote, a witchhunt, so i would like to ask both of you, should these tweets and other assertions by the president have the any influence at all on th...

Acting attorney general conveyed. i dont know how much of that made its way to the president. >> precisely. that is a concern that i have. that it sounds like perhaps the president was not aware. and in fact going on in march, the president tweeted that flynn should be given immunity, and the fbi satisfies investigation is, quote, a witch hunt. so i would like the and both of you, should these tweets, these kinds of tweets and other similar assertions by the president have any influence at all o...

Its >> its a concern i would have. sounds like perhaps the president was not aware. in march, the president tweeted flynn should be given immunity. and that the fbis investigation is "a witch hunt." i would like to ask both of you, should these tweets and other similar assertions by the president have any influence at all on the fbis ongoing investigation into russian interference in our elections and team trumps connections to the efforts? >> it shouldnt, and im confident it wont. >> i hope so....

Become. conservative radio host and former republican congressman joe walsh tweeted, sorry, jimmy kimmel. your sad story doesnt obligate me or anybody else to pay for somebody elses health care. columnist charles hurt of the washington time in his opinion piece entitled shut up jimmy kimmel you elitist creep, writes i mean really jimmy, does your newborn child not mean more to you than petty politics. actually, jim, if you were a decent person, you would shut your fat trap about partisan politic...

Saying theres no evidence to back up the assertions made by the president against the former president that he was wiretapped over at trump tower. >> exactly. so what he has done is try and change the subject from president obama snaurveilling h or wiretapping him into surveillance generally of perhaps administration officials, members of his family, et cetera, et cetera. whether they tried to change that subject, i think thats what hes talking about here, and he says its been proven, but, again...

Piece about the first 100 days. youre saying for his base, he has delivered tangibles in the first 100 days? >> yeah. well, yes. i mean, he has started up two pipelines. hes reversed a lot of regulation on energy and on climate change own an clean coal. so those are things his base likes. on regulation toward business. they like the tax proposal that he has introduced. but hes going to need legislative achievement to get it done. the health care was a big failure. if i had to grade donald trump ...

That was it. with me now is journalist david corn, tara deldel a democratic operative who met donald trump as a contestant on apprentice, and former breitbart spokesman kurt bardella. >> you were there this weekend and other weekends. can we begin with your view of e difficult quandary of reporters responding to the presidents attacks but how to do it without reinforcing them. >> i think that is hard. the president has the bully pulpit. in his instance thats not an ironic use of the word "bully....

Any president. barack obama learned the same thing. i think this president has a steeper learning curve than most because he started farther back. and he started with a lot of assertions about policy that really i think didnt reflect reality, number one, and probably didnt even reflect necessarily his views. he was messaging to a base audience that he thought would resonate in many respects. now hes learning unfortunately its created a lot of complications for him as he tries to make that transi...

And we are beautiful! we are beautiful! >> the early 60s, you have the hymns of unity and change. once the black power movement comes along, the hymns are replaced by much more militant sentiments of the music. you have the assertions, the rhythms and the sort of starkness. >> the white people who know right and want to do right. but theres so few. if 10,000 rattlesnakes was coming down that aisle and i had a door i could shut, and of that 10,000, 1,000 meant right, 1,000 didnt want to bite me, ...