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of these investigations are very different. >> yes they are. >> as the man themselves, and the document retentions themselves are totally different, so too has been the reaction from president biden and former president trump. >> gonna get into it right here. >> today, the president called the special counsel appointed to investigate his possession of classified documents after leaving office, a thug. he then attacked the special counsels wife and said, his quote, friends and other fam...

and of course, a press conference. that is it for us tonight. now it is time for the last word, lawrence odonnell. good evening lawrence. >> good evening alex. we now have to special counsel investigating a former president and a current president. the reactions from the two subjects of these investigations are very different though. as the man themselves and the top detention itself are totally different. so too has been the reactions from president biden and former president trump. >...

Will end up being relevant to the criminal investigation. is it i do think that the calm strategy has been a disaster it shouldnt be the case that things leak out drips and drabs. i think the president will be much better served to be up front with what happened. frankly, the only fact that looks suspicious is the way that the calm strategy has played out. where it is sort of death by 1000 cuts. i think it is unfortunates and it is a self inflicted wound. but i think if you look at the dispassio...

Homeland security to just be, you know, more vigilant at this stage so thats sort of -- thats the good news part. the bad news part a bunch of armed men are traveling in a car to do something and we dont know what that something is. so thats where the investigation is going to go right now but as part of this is clearly were talking about an organization who we did not know who they were and now we know who they were. so part of this is the ratcheting up that i always talk about with you, the so...

Premier in china in terms of this calm strategy for negotiation. what are you picking up here about whats changing from the chinese side? >> well, just to link your two stories, there is a connection between trade negotiations and espionage. hypothetically speaking, imagine if the chinese have espionage-type access to our negotiating position. this would tend to explain why they reneged in late april, early may, because they may have thought president trump has a fallback as they just stall for ...

Youve got pete navarro, who i think would charitably be described as a dissenting voice among profession alchemists. youve got larry kudlow. it seems there is not a lot of people minding the stores just as a general staffing matter. >> youve got a whole bunch of senior aides and senior officials in trumps world right now whose number one priority seems to be backing up what the president of the united states thinks is the current reality. >> right. >> obviously that might not actually jive with ...

Among profession alchemists. youve got larry kudlow. it seems there is not a lot of people minding the stores just as a general staffing matter. >> youve got a whole bunch of senior aides and senior officials in trumps world right now whose number one priority seems to be backing up what the president of the united states thinks is the current reality. >> right. >> obviously that might not actually jive with what actually is the current reality, but among president trumps personal reaction and o...

Why the president is mentioning spygate and using these terms? because it works. because its swaying public opinion. so for this portion of the legal exercise, which is winning, you know, the p.r. campaign publicly, facts in a lot of ways are beside the point. and facts are not what is moving the public opinion, but something evocative and catchy like spygate may be. >> and, phil, indeed your reporting is that the president for now, while not ever sanguine, is rather content with the calm strate...

Briefing room and sort of just coming to defend constantly things that arent always incoming timing is not always a good thing. i also think more than anything else weve got a look at this in two parts. sarah huckabee sanders would be doing work on the podium. proven to be very capable that shes not someone new to politics. shes grown up with this and has been pretty good. anthony scaramucci will drive some sword of a calm strategy. i have been out this long time and without a strategy doesnt ma...

So for this portion of the legal exercise, which is winning, you know, the p.r. campaign publicly, facts in a lot of ways are beside the point. and facts are not what is moving the public opinion, but something evocative and catchy like spygate may be. >> and, phil, indeed your reporting is that the president for now, while not ever sanguine, is rather content with the calm strategy. >> thats exactly right. hes dictating the message, and what you have in the west wing is all of these white house...