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American leadership, hes confident, coming from barack obama, that this is good. but joe biden, not quite convinced that this imperils our security. cutting to the chase here. their statements are quite long. tweets are supposed to be short. utah republican senator, mike lee. good to have you, senator. >> good to be here. >> neil: what do you think of this reaction? imperils our future, lose the faith of the world? >> i dont see it. the doomsday predictions are going to turn out to be bluster. i...

Civil rights division of the justice department right until president trump was sworn in. she was integral in the police reform efforts and will soon be president and ceo of the leadership conference of civil and human rights. thank you so much for being here. appreciate it. >> great to be here. thank you. >> lets start from the end and work our way back. on the consdent krees that the justice department is rolling back do you think that that might have an immediate effect on community and polic...

Presidential or make sense or fit the communication strategy? >> not only have i not seen it, joy, no one has seen it. you havent seen it. anyone we -- anybody that we know in journalism hasnt seen it because it hasnt happened before. you know, youve got a president of the united states who has not been in politics before. the circle of people that he trusts is tiny. it may not even exist beyond his own family. and in that kind of a situation, when he believes that his personality, his bluster, ...

Before. you know, youve got a president of the united states who has not been in politics before. the circle of people that he trusts is tiny. it may not even exist beyond his own family. and in that kind of a situation, when he believes that his personality, his bluster, the things that he says, are more important than anything else, hes not likely to be nstraid. maybe ivanka trump and jared kushner can constrain him to some degree, but im not certain of that. now jared kushner himself is in de...

Contribute personnel to missions nato agrees we are going to fight. this has been the message of donald trump she didnt go to europe to win a popularity contest with european leaders, he went to represent the interests of the united states of america and that is what he did and there will be some differences here but angela merkel have an election in september, donald trump is unpopular with her people, a little bit of this is political bluster and it will be all right in the next couple years, ...

The civil rights division, she was sbe gram for the police reform efforts in baltimore and ferguson soon be president and ceo of leadership conference. thank you so much for being here, a i appreciate it. >> great to be here. >> lets start from the end and work our way back. on the consent degree that the justice department is rolling back. do you think that might have an effect on community and police relations or some hope of salvaging the good that was done. >> the good news on police, those ...

Affectionate first couples and this seems to be a sign that, you know, they live two very separate lives and she doesnt live with her husband, which weve never seen before. she doesnt live in washington. >> thats an interesting point, because, you know, kate a.b., she said that before, you cant change people. we are both separate people, we have our own independence. perhaps thats what we saw on display? >> yeah. i think so. i think whats interesting about the personalities, we saw -- we learned...

Brussels, thanks very much for all of that. lets bring back our panel, michael warren, political economist greg valliere, good morning to both of you. michael, lets start on the nato talks. 2% what president presutrump wo like to see countries contribute. this has been a smooth trip thus far for president trump. do you expect any confrontation on either side? >> no, i dont expect fireworks. this is typical for president trump. he offers sort of bluster on the campaign trail about foreign polic...

Sure it doesnt happen again. there is no good reason to put hands on a reporter who is doing his or her job. soledad obrien and john harwood are back and i welcome first amendment attorney lee levine who wrote a book on the issue. lee, in your view from a fact-finding or investigative perspective, what is the significance of the president saying this to the fbi director in what he thought was a private setting? >> well, ari, the president said a lot of things similar to that publicly during the ...

Presidents efforts, i think what has been said is very true. the president often, when bluster comes back to his bluster, he backs down. and as a journalist -- most of the journalists i know -- i think they are well aware of whats been going on but are not afraid. >> do you think that this has the potential also to backfire on him? >> i think, if its in a list of things that are going wrong, i think right now the white house is dealing with a lot of scandal. i think its a distraction. i think it...