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Donald trump won this county with about 70% of the vote and based on the folks i was talking to this morning he would probably win again by about that same margin. we were hanging ought at the city lunch cafe the supporters fall into two general categories, those who saw the race in 2016 and see all of what happened in the last week as a binary choice between donald trump and hillary clinton and would still back trump and more hard core trump supporters who see the events of the last week as a p...

Capable of reflection. and i think hes in pure defensive mode. >> i want to go deeper on that. because one of the things you write about, and this is based on i your experiences with him over so long a period of time and getting into his head. you basically wrote he lives in his life in survival mode. every interaction with him, its about winning it or losing it. its a binary choice. you either win or lose. this goes back his entire life. >> yeah. it goes to his very early childhood with a very ...

Thats what needs to happen here. weve got to move through this process and the president needs to get back to his agenda working with the american people. >> but just one more thing. if it did happen the way he said it did and he wrote the notes to himself at that time and he said he shared it with colleagues, is that obstruction of justice. >> well, i am not a lawyer, so i am not going to opine on whether it is obstruction of justice. if indeed thats what the documents suggest and thats the con...

>> write its own bill. thats the way it works, right? theyll pass theirs, well pass ours and then well go to conference. i dont think that the house bill necessarily predicts what is in the senate bill. chris: but congressman dave brat warns they better not change it, the house bill, one iota. if they change it, youre not going to have 218, a majority of votes you need in the house. reince, given the fact that it barely passed the house, what does the president think of the senate making major c...

Item and something that is in many ways largely tied with how people will assess the job reince priebus is doing to help serve the president. can they get the big legislative goal across the line and make change? it will take time. on television today reince priebus said this is something he believes that senators will look at carefully and say they have to go forward based on what currently is happening with the health care law. >> first of all, he thinks that -- and i think a lot of people thi...

Clinton, just yesterday blamed this man, this fbi director james comey who came before the senate judiciary committee today, blamed him for her defeat, laying it at his feet. here he is facing questions from democratic senators who are still very angry with him for the events that led up to him revealing to the public the reopening of the e-mail investigation into hillary clintons e-mails just 11 days before the election. a revelation that the democrats blame on handing donald trump the presiden...

What else came up today? >> yeah, it was extraordinary, really, to see jim comey. you dont see him that animated usually. . clearly he expected to be grilled. particularly by democratic members and on that score, certainly we werent disappointed. he wasnt disappointed, steve. he says he has no regrets, said it many times over. did admit to the mile case of nauseous, however, knowing the fact the investigation had been picked up again on october 28th may, in fact, impact the election. he said he ...

The truth is, it is not a binary choice. there are dozens of options in between regime change and action that the u.s. kanpcan pkanpur s. >> doug, has a member of the republican party, a republican, would you like to see the president taking more action from syria from a military standpoint? >> well, i am pleased of what happened so far. i was working for eric cantor in 2013 and the white house in september came to us. and what turned out is they offered that support publicly and the obama white...

Regime or even allowed to stay is allowing russia a foothold in the middle east, allowing iranian influence and a base to attack israel. it has all kinds of consequences. what assad has been doing and what the russians have been doing is not attacking isis. they are not not attacking isis. i want to dispute, or disabuse everyone of that notion. there was no isis fighters where this attack just occurred. what theyve been doing is eliminating the middle ground and both of assad, iran, russia have ...

Why is he there and not the secretary of state today? whats the message that the president is sending by having jared kushner be the one taking this trip? >> i dont think theres -- its not a binary choice. jareds going to specifically express the commitment of the united states to the government of iraq. meet with u.s. personnel engaged in the campaign. >> reporter: this trip, seeming to cement kushners role as a shadow secretary of state. he is planning this weeks visit of the chinese president...