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Yesterday, bad optics, i dont begrudge the man a vacation. its presidents day weekend. but to declare an emergency you know in the morning or late morning and get on a plane to mar-a-lago in the afternoon, i think its an issue. i think its an issue. up ahead the wicked words for the female governor of michigan, its all about how she looks in the dress she wore to her state of the state address the reaction will shock you, would anybody ever say the same things about the male politician? >> no. a...

Serious issues. >> reporter: today the white house responded. >> proper protocol was followed in this procedure. >> reporter: a furious white house official told cnn the administration understood it looked bad, yes bad optics. they had blocked the american from covering the meeting. the white house released no photos of the chummy looking greetings and nothing of kislyak. the russian delegation had a photographer there but the white house officials didnt think those photos would get out telling ...

Again. everything you just listed, so its weird to me that he is focusing on his p.r., which again, like even up until this point you have buzzfeed reporters tweeting about how they are crying about his final speech on what happened between him and joe biden. that is not journalism. can you imagine our great presidents, ronald reagan, teddy roosevelt saying, you know what? instead of leadership, it was bad p.r. you have to take some responsibility for your failed policies in americas reaction to...

12 months, however long your visa is, then we tap you on the shoulder and say excuse me, thanks for coming, time to go. >> to you both. lennie, your reaction to that? >> he has a valid point with that optics. unfortunately, republicans, we do this way too often. we may have a valid point but when you start comparing people to packages, you start comparing people looking for a better way of life to something that you may have ordered on stub hub, that becomes problematic from an optic standpoint....

Your reporting discovered these fake wait lists existed. now we learned that the phoenix va director got a pretty nice bonus last month in addition to last year, correct? >> thats right. i think this is what they call in d.c. bad optics. out here in phoenix they call it disgusting. the director of the phoenix va in april at the very same time the inspector general was out here investigating allegations manage 789 received an $8,500 bonus. this is just last month. the va has explained this to con...

Underreport his income to the government. then he was asked to justify it based on what he is seeing in his cash and credit card receipts versus the irs information and only had a month. this is a scary letter that people are getting. >> neil: so its intimidating and at the very least, bad optics. small business guys say youre assuming the worst with us and you have done nothing to help us, so bad timing. >> yeah, bad timing. the other thing is it doesnt say the dollar amount of what theyre supp...

He went through five quarters at a movie theater, each valued at between $5 and $68 each. he spent more of the coins at a pizza restaurant. cops say one of them could be worth more than $18,000. i have no idea...neil cavuto probably does. he knows everything. >>neil: i dont know about this, forget the growing rage over the little dictator spewing his anti-american and antiisraeli hatred before his big speech tomorrow, focus on the big institution letting him. welcome, everyone, i am neil cavuto....

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