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Well being of the people they may shoot. which only adds to the stigma as you indicated. >> and also we want to place the blame on something else other than the obvious, as you said, the most significant characteristic of this man was the guns and thats it. >> and the blame is on cruz. >> and the blame. >> and i want we want to -- the governor wants to blame folks in law enforcement. and its unfortunate that the word didnt get through. but the real culprit here is the person who pulled the trigg...

He name checked and called out harvey weinstein, kevin spacey, woody allen. these were guys who were revered at the golden globes in the past. and now are persona non grata. >> all right, rebecca sun, always great to talk with you. appreciate it. >> thanks. >> still ahead, one of the u.s. presidents top advisers comes to cnn to defend his boss from the bombshell new book. >> and it got tense. the details coming your way in just a moment.

>> the settling of scores can make some things possible. bannon still believes in trump, believes in the agenda and thinks he is being terribly served by his family and in-laws, his sons, as well as others around him. im sure scaramucci it has been revealed going back months is engaged in score settling as well. thats part of the dysfunction that we have a ringside seat to. >> yeah. but know your audience. how self destructive do you have to be to go after the presidents children? >> if you dont...

One to run for president. the first woman president, ivanka entertained, would not be hillary clinton. it would be ivanka trump. that sounds fantastical, david. interesting, but i dont know what to do with that. >> it is indication of an incredible atmosphere of presumption of the family, but we knew that. >> who know back seat that. but to me it goes to the point that you have this ambitious circle and no check on it. theres no sense of what would be the appropriate way to move forward if her f...

Book, there will be money laundering. what do you think about that? >> its important to delineate different points of the investigations going on. clearly they looked into the financial transactions of paul ma manafort, thats one of the things he was indicted for, and thats a subject. on our side in the senate intelligence committee, we are more focussed on what did the russians do and how did they do it? most importantly, how do we prevent them from doing it the next time. are their relationshi...

Campaign that was set up as basically a marketing exercise, which is what was suspected but seems to be revealed in these quotes. nobody thought they would win. >> and didnt really want to win. thats the other thing. thats not just him putting a spin on the possible loss. they already won. they elevated his name brand. >> and he would be able to enrich himself off the experience of running. exactly the opposite of how most people run for president. this was a long con played to build his brand. ...

Denying the accounts saying the book is filled with false and misleading accounts from individuals who have no access or influence with the white house. >> reporter: the president has several meetings with republicans scheduled for today. anger over the russia investigation likely an explanation for the presidents low profile this week. chris and alisyn? >> his twitter feed is all about everything but this book this morning. thats obviously a signal that he knows well be talking about it and wit...

Become president. and then both presumptuous and arrogant and bumbling through in a lot of ways. the pictures of all of these ex treupb sisities, i think from the russia investigation to something like this, there is a real danger they will do as republicans do d to bill clinton, which is overreach. that is something we always have 20 make part of the conversation. >> meaning what? >> meaning there is a backlash that people, what they see in criticism of trump is hatred. and an unwillingness to ...

About when steve bannon is the guy making headlines for what he said. they can duck all they want. this book is going to hit and hit hard. why? >> because the white house granted access to journalist michael wolff. it has a lot of journalists wishing they had access. he wanted fly-on-the-wall access. he got it. he has tape-recordings to back it up. it will be hard to wiggle away from this. steve bannon was very much inside the tent. he may be similar to trump in his self aggrandizing pro cliffit...

Out, at one point or another, it will come out. it is not appropriate to comment from my assistant. lets see how it plays out with the intelligence committee and the mueller investigation and see what the real facts are not just based on a book that steve bannon writes. >> thats fair. do you think don jr. should have taken that meeting? >> im not going to comment on that. i just dont think it is appropriate right now for me. i have been a united states senator for less than a day. im going on my...