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Military, who got released, if you will, through an ability that many in resource think was totally bogus. some call him a draft dodger. i would agree. hes going to say these 4,000 americans are not up to the job. it is outrageous. and how did he check with his generals and his military advisers when department of defense secretary is on vacation and the pentagon is saying they were not spoken to. and beyond that, this money argument is the ultimate of bogus. >> let me jump in. the defense secre...

He thought he had it under control. >> richard burr said that. richard burr was like, i think he would have told me this, during those closed sessions even. so they were taken aback when this news first came out, and theyre going to want answers as to why they were blind sided by the news of these memos. one thing we know is that jim comey excels in this kind of environment. hes prepared for this question. and theres absolutely no doubt in my mind that he is. >> and, and, chris, he wants to talk...

Compartmentalize. it was a well run shot at that point. we werent at the early stages like president trump is where youre going to have a lot of bumping. there were very few people -- i was one of them -- assigned to impeachment. everybody else had to do their job. if you talked about it in a meeting, you were punished, you were chastised. people stayed in their lanes. we call it the parallel universe. if you were not part of the parallel universe -- >> doesnt seem theres a lot of lanes. we have...

They didnt just happen this morning. theres not a strategy to go after the democrats on this. i think frankly the saddest thing is that the democrats is trying to politicize and take away from something the president should be doing. >> does seem like this is all coincidental. i remember, shep, years ago asking joe lockhart about something that seemed conspirat conspiratorial. doesnt look like this was planned. but wow, the irony of coincidence. >> shepard: thanks, john roberts. now the latest o...

Russian government are learning the same lesson millions of americans that voted for donald trump learned when they thought he would improve their health insurance, which is donald trump is somebody who is unpredictable and completely inconsistent as a leader. if anything looks like the russian government, maybe the russian public, if you look at the way russian media over the last couple months have really shifted their tone and the popularity that donald trump had among people in russia, they ...

The trump transition team and the administration know and when did they know it? despite claims of being blind sided, were learning that transition officials did in fact know about michael flynns potential conflict of interest, and it was long before he was ousted as national security adviser. well look at that. also, as the white house struggles to sell its health plan to its own party as we were talking about, vice president mike pence heading to kentucky. what he could possibly see -- could...

Cnn justice reporter laura jarrett joining us now on the phone with more on this. also, paul kalin, also with us. so, first, laura, to you. we know that the attorney general jeff sessions had asked what all 44 u.s. attorneys general to clean out their desks, resign and now, you have this information that he says no fire me. >> thats exactly right. he said you will see a letter of resignation for me. instead, president trump will have to fire him. this is despite being explicitly told otherwise. ...

Is saying right now? they are encouraging their president not to meet with rex tillerson and john kelly today? do you have reporting you had formerly advised this president about whether this meeting is going to take place? >> their desire is to have a productive conversation based off of items that they can all agree to beforehand instead this surprise diplomacy that the administration has been engaged in. they release these memos and then they send their emissaries to try to bring them into th...

>> im just saying there is a parallel. youre totally right theres a parallel. >> my point is, democrats kept telling themselves, oh, this isnt real. this is funded by koch brothers, not a grassroots type of organizations and, boom, blind-sided. seals like prps doing this. i get texts from family members, oh, they are paying protesters. no they are not. no, they are not. >> it doesnt matter who gives money to the organization that helps organize this much as koch brothers gave it to americans for...

Charge -- >> i agree. so many top cabinet officials and lawmakers were blind sided by the whole thing by limiting the information inside and outside of the white house, he doesnt trust -- bannon is one tough customer. he was a war buddy. he was the trenches with trump. he has the street credit to go up torumpo say i got you buddy. >> bannon is looking for own communicati communicati communication consultant. >> right. >> how did he get own seat? >> he has his own clout.