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>> mike: the 45th president and the 44th with the with different views on social media. lets bring in our panel charles hurt opinion editor for "the washington times." executive director of the georgetown institute of politics. and jason riley, "wall street journal" columnist and senior fellow at the manhattan institute. gentlemen, nice to see you. >> nice to see you. happy holidays. >> your reaction to the back and forth today over social media, jason? >> well, its hard to quibble with the subs...

Services of peter strzok, he stayed on the case. when bob muellerer recognized what an advocate this guy was more one of the two sides, he got off the case. brian: yeah, but not right away. ainsley: senator blumenthal says credible case of obstruction of justice, feinstein, i see obstruction of justice forming against -- >> okay. so obstruction of justice is the interference with a judicial or law enforcement proceeding -- heres the key phrase -- for a corrupt purpose . donald trump said to jim ...

On the senate floor. that is a problem. one that i think leaders assume he would kind of back off, well deal with this later. no, they have to deal with it now, at least according to where he was last night. dont be surprised if they call him on this and actually hold the vote. thats what i was told last night from aides. john, you know this as well as anybody when it comes to this institution people get riled up, riled up last night a lot of frustration on both sides. cooler heads generally pre...

Issue, i think in particular, the obstruction issue. and with richard nixon, obviously, that was the aspect of his presidency that brought him down, much more than the break-in to the watergate complex. and in this case were looking not simply at the election and the activities of advisers, but how did president trump respond. and was the firing of james comey, the fbi director, as president trump himself has suggested, an effort to push away this investigation? so its a very serious matter, and...

Inappropriate sexual relations with a 14-year-old and by gosh im going to vote for him. >> its interesting. the bannon iite right wing parts still doing pro roy moore coverage on their blog. the obedience to that part of the party, trump, bannon, roy moore wing of the republican party is absolute. even as they are being laughed at in steve bannons face. kristen welker asked sarah huckabee sanders about the white house and whether or not they remain obedient to steve bannon and their response was...

Regarding immigration enforcement. he doesnt compromise. he doesnt back off. he doesnt say he is going to deport all the dreamers either. he didnt do that i dont think most people are asking for that. it is astounding that the g.o.p. obsess he is about what to do with the dreamers when we have all these other things we need to do. i mean, obamacare repeal. we need to do a real, real confirmation he is of people to staff these departments who are now -- that are now being undermined by obama appo...

Regarding immigration enforcement. he doesnt compromise. he doesnt back off. he doesnt say he is going to deport all the dreamers either. he didnt do that i dont think most people are asking for that. it is astounding that the g.o.p. obsess he is about what to do with the dreamers when we have all these other things we need to do. i mean, obamacare repeal. we need to do a real, real confirmation he is of people to staff these departments who are now -- that are now being undermined by obama appo...

Sending a strong message to the establishment to sean hannity to back off their criticism of roy moore. i asked sarah sanders about that. he is president trumps former top adviser. listen to what she had to say. >> steve bannon is sending a strong message to the establishment, back off of roy moore. is the presidents allegiance to steve bannon in any way impacting his response? >> the president doesnt have an allegiance to steve bannon. the president has an allegiance to the people of this count...

Unusual. >> ive never seen an nda of all my years of practicing law that said it was a criminal penalty. it is always a civil penalty if you violate it. >> sandra: your client received a phone call from the then attorney general loretta lynch? >> she doesnt do that dirty work. people under her, underlings do that. they called the lawyer representing my client and then conveyed the information to my client. >> sandra: what did that tell your client? >> no back off. now he is afraid to give inform...

Its significant but how significant is it? what would it look like? >> well, you to understand, nobody has done this in over 50 years. we have done such a live test. it is very risky. the chinese did one in the 60s. that was 50 years ago. that no one has detonated a nuclear explosion for decades and decades. just apart from the radiation danger, threat to shipping and commerce in the region it is a visible demonstration of the strength of this bomb. even north korea have been underground tests. ...