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>> as i said last week, i think we should have both memos out and have the supporting source material as well. i think at the end of the day, once both of these are out and we look at it, a couple of things will be true. number one, theyre still not going to be one shred of evidence that says the president colluded to swing the election. and, second, i think it will be clear that adam schiff still remains the greatest hype man in democratic politics. hes basically like the don king of house demo...

Avlon. david, first to you, one could look a the last few weeks as a pretext not to do an interview with the special counsel. the white house obviously making a legal decision here and a political decision that they dont lose politically by fighting this fight. explain. >> well, i think the president has at all turns resisted this investigation, tried to delegitimize the investigation. he has said he wants to talk to the special prosecutor, but i think hes in a position now where he thinks hes m...

>> donald trump will be the deciding factor whether the controversial pfizer memo will be released as the house intelligence committee sent it to his desk, democrats wasting no time to slam the move as political. >> i believe the memo is written is a brainwashing memo that relies on inaccurate facts. >> a deeply regrettable line today, this committee voted to bring personal interests above national interests. >> we appreciate it. what a day yesterday as it continued to unfold. what did you think...

Yet, we are dealing with a president who prides itself at not being traditional. so should we expect that this speech that he will deliver, is it going to be significantly different from, say, his inaugural speech or do you think the inspiring uniting speech that many would like to hear? >> if you ask the white house, they say this is the kind of speech that president trump delivered in his joint address to congress last year where he earned bipartisan accolades and came at a time there was a lo...

Trump that we saw last weekend in davos and the kind of trump we are likely to see on tuesday in the chamber. >> i think many people will tune in to see which trump shows up. often what we measure after a speech is approval ratings and if you look at the previous three presidents before and after their first inaugural addresses and we can do that for you, president obama, 2010 he saw no change in his approval rating and president bush in 2002 saw his approval rating drop by two points and presid...

To wrap this up early summer so that he can be as far as possible away from november. you know, im not sure i agree in the end trump is interviewed. i think he may -- all his friends are telling him not to do the interview. he thinks he can do anything with impunity and take five. there is not a lawyer in america that thinks he should do the interview. i wouldnt be surprised if there is not a lot of bluster and in the end doesnt do it. >> what an interesting point to depart from this discussion ...

Breaking news on the reaction of washington on top of the reporting how close the president came to firing robert mueller now reporting on how much more annoyed the president is on one key justice official. >> what we have heard from four different sources is the president has grown frustrated with rod rosenstein. the president at times has spoken to wanting to fire the deputy attorney general, now some of these sources said this seems like bluster, and the president airing his frustrations. we ...

The president has become very frustrated in recent weeks. at times has voiced that he would like to see rosenstein removed. others say that that is just some bluster and airing of his frustrations. it seems clear the weight of this russia investigation is weighing on the president and that wasnt helped with reports this week by the"the new york times" which cnn confirmed that he wanted special counsel mul irfired in june. the white house is not saying much. we do have ty cobb referring to these ...

Is not a lot of bluster and in the end doesnt do it. >> what an interesting point to depart from this discussion with our thanks to matthew, jennifer rogers and to cynthia, we really appreciate all three of you starting off our conversation on a friday night at the end of a long week. as we approach the first break, the hercules task faced by don mcgahn and others of protecting the president from the president especially this president. and donald trumps fake news defense employed yet again to...

Anything at all. hes looking at this coolly and strategically. its not a personal matter. whatever bluster is going on on the other side of this thing really isnt relevant to what hes got to do. now, he does have to make a political calculation about his freedom of movement in this environment. thats why im saying i think its very significant, if hes seeing that individuals in the executive branch, like the fbi director or the white house counsel, are prepared to push back, it looks like now, if...