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Releasing the fbi background interviews from the mueller investigation. at a rate of not less than 500 pages a month. some of the stuff thats come out so far is sensational. interrupt said get the emails, and it just kind of goes on and on. and then, of course, we have the whole tax return issue which will almost certainly go to the supreme court. of course the president wants to try to change the conversation again. >> perhaps in his attempts to do so, he says this whistle-blower is politically...

The president responds, ill be a real good witness. dowd told him, you are not a good witness. he quit the next day. then number one, the white house needs a new line of defense to accurate criticism. everyone denies everything. they say its all fake, all 448 pages of hundreds of hours of interviews that echo exchanges and explosions that many of us have heard about from similar sourcing. one particular bad move, trump tweeted his typical fake news fist in defense of mattis and kelly. he put up ...

"woodward is a dem operative." woodward of course of two pulitzer prize fame. hes talking about that bob woodward of watergate. again, this isnt some gossip from a bar. hes got hundreds of hours of background interviews, dozens of firsthand sources, includes those in trumps inner circle past and present. the real problem is trump said woodward is fair on tape when he called the writer. listen to this. >> its really too bad because nobody told me about it, and i would have loved to have spoken to...

Next year or so. the speaker of the house, paul ryan yesterday called for a pause in the syrian refugees coming to the united states. there are many u.s. governors who have said we dont want these guys here because they cant fully be vetted. at this point, is the plan still to accept up to 10,000 syrian refugees? >> that is still the plan. the reason for that is quite simple. the first thing that people should understand, refugees who are admitted to the united states undergo more rigorous scree...

Really does, also, show the democraticization of journalist. michael hayden, former cia director, nsa chief, on the sub going from new york to washington, and giving background interviews, apparently loudly. and somebody overheard him, former director of moveon.org starts tweeting the live conversation, to the point where he gets a lot of followers on this fact, and hayden confronts him about it, and says, do you want a real interview? he says, well, im not a reporter. hayden wisely says, everyb...

>> you know, we are a pet tropical-based economy for lack -- we are, this pen is made of plastic. apple products rely on petroleum. >> steve, i know youre aware of the dust up over the epa crucify comments. you talk about access in the book and some of the executives you interviewed say they had as much access to clinton as they did to bush. and less to obama. what did you learn about the tone that the obama administration has set and how oil executives have responded. >> also how did you get th...

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