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People that spoke to the fbi. lets show the american people it means something. >> tucker: its a fair point. senator, thank you for talking to us tonight. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: one quick message for you. bob woodward has been a famous guy for close to 50 years in journalism. he tormented the washington establishment famously during watergate and then he joined the other team. hes permanent washingtons court historians and tells stories and promotes causes. in return, his books go to t...

People that spoke to the fbi. lets show the american people it means something. >> tucker: its a fair point. senator, thank you for talking to us tonight. >> thank you, tucker. >> tucker: one quick message for you. bob woodward has been a famous guy for close to 50 years in journalism. he tormented the washington establishment famously during watergate and then he joined the other team. hes permanent washingtons court historians and tells stories and promotes causes. in return, his books go to t...

It turned deadly because, as this book points out for the first time, jack platt was the man who brought back the file that proved that robert hanson was the mole, the fbi agent who turned mole. the russians ended up blaming his friendship wrongly with vasolenko and it landed him in a russian prison. >> dana: basically, its about human intelligence. is there any lessons from the book that you learn that could be applied to today? >> well, yes. one of the lines we use is jack platts boss said it ...

Your honor. >> a couple points, your book points out how intermeshed he was with all things trump and the family. football two, he defined himself based on his job for donald trump. he thought he might parlay it to a white house job. he wore it every day like an outer garment. and is it simplistic or too scorceseian to say she watching other deals, other developments and says i know the guy very well and was his lawyer a long time. >> he has raised his hands saying, hey, come talk to me, im will...

Legal jeopardy that he tried to avoid by pleading guilty. financially he is incredibly squeezed. he is now staring down what could be years in prison should the judge sentence him to that in december. it is just a real stunning turn. >> a couple of points. your book points out how intermeshed he was with all things trump and the family. he defined himself based on his job for donald trump, thought he might parlay it to a white house job. he wore it every day like an outer garment. is it simplest...

Under statement. this is someone who is out in the hamptons for the summer and this summer was different for him. he faced eight counts that he pleaded guilty to. his family was in some sort of legal jeopardy that he tried to avoid by pleading guilty. financially he is incredibly squeezed. he is now staring down what could be years in prison should the judge sentence him to that in december. it is just a real stunning turn. >> a couple of points. your book points out how intermeshed he was with ...

Democrats. 30 of them are republicans. it is going to be an exciting year and empowering women on both sides of the aisle to have more of a perspective and a say at the local, state, and federal level is really going to start to change the game here in the future in 2018 and beyond. >> michael wolfs book points out that the preferred uniform in the white house is short skirts, that same sort of fox news wardrobe requirement to work in the white house. you had a majority of republican women, wome...

>> bret: budget battle and the rest of whats going on on capitol hill. nebraska republican senator ben sasse is our guest. we just have the cbo score of the health care bill that passed the house. book points. reduces the deficit by 120 billion over ten years, insurance markets would be safe, stable. premiums would increase an average of 20%. 4% in states that dont take the waiver. but you would have 23 million more people uninsured. your assessment of this and how it factors in to the health ca...

>> bret: budget battle and the rest of whats going on on capitol hill. nebraska republican senator ben sasse is our guest. we just have the cbo score of the health care bill that passed the house. book points. reduces the deficit by 120 billion over ten years, insurance markets would be safe, stable. premiums would increase an average of 20%. 4% in states that dont take the waiver. but you would have 23 million more people uninsured. your assessment of this and how it factors in to the health ca...

>> because we were constantly being told about the violence happening and not told about the gradual trend towards less violence of all kinds. >> finally, matt. many people envy the life royalty once lived. to be a king in the good old days, and yet you made a video for your book points out today, most of us live better than kings once did. though the kings had hundreds of servants. >> consider louis the son king, he chose from 40 dishes taking 498 people to prepare each meal. todays average per...