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Meeting about adoption. >> in the campaign context, if you get a random tip about possible opposition research, you send a loyal, trusted, third tier staffer. you dont get the troika who is about the takeover the campaign and tooting the brother-in-law and the son. and detailed dealings with the russians via the ukraine. this is all a terrible story because it lines up with the narrative, reenforces the narrative, rooted in reality that this campaign had inappropriate contact repeatedly with the...

No, she will not speak about them publicly and this will be kept behind closed doors. would you expect anything different not only from any adviser to the president and one thats the presidents daughter, no less. >> i wouldnt expect something different, but i also recognize that its not about qualifications and the qualifications is theyre the least likely people to talk to the fbi. >> kailey, thoughts? >> look, im excited and happy that ivanka has the ear of the president and i think shes a hig...

Case the white houses attempt to manage the media narrative around this completely backfired. it was done in a really ham handed way. >> thats the problem the white house may have got themselves here. >> its not unusual for national security officials to reach out to news organizations to talk about stories and steer them on what they see is the right path. this was not a national security story. this was a political story and thats the difficulty and the issue were talking about right now. i th...

Case the white houses attempt to manage the media narrative around this completely backfired. it was done in a really ham handed way. >> thats the problem the white house may have got themselves here. >> its not unusual for national security officials to reach out to news organizations to talk about stories and steer them on what they see is the right path. this was not a national security stoehr. this was a political story and thats the difficulty and the issue were talking about right now. i t...

This is a news story. thats the difficulty. i think youre right. i think the reality is were at the beginning of a long road about what russia did or didnt do in 2016 in the campaign context. >> the other thing i would add, you know, is the conclusions could be entirely different things here. these stories have been dancing around. was there a quid pro quo between the trump campaign and russia. trump wont say anything negative about vladimir putin, his hiring of paul manafort. it could be that t...

With this travel schedule. you think its a bad idea. one more time, why? >> i cant even imagine what the argument in the campaign context would be for how its a good idea. theres nothing more valuable in a campaign, particularly the last two weeks, than the candidates time. hillary clinton is doing what any candidate should be doing, which is in a key battleground state trying to get votes. donald trump is in not a state, hes in washington, d.c. that hes not going to win, advertising his busines...

The washington post gives her two pinochios for this claim. >> she revised this story and said at the age of 26 or 27 pe went into marine recruiting station and rejected. maybe the dogs will take you. thats military slang for the army instead of the marines. the washington post today gave her two pinocchios because it would have happened in 1975. she said she moved to arkansas at that time to marry bill clinton. the post said seems hard to believe she was thinking about a life in the marines whe...

Doing this is an example of how this is just going to continue to get out there and shes got no apparatus to handle it. in terms of a campaign -- martha: how could it be she has no apparatus at this point? what does that tell us? >> i think theyre putting it together right now but theyve got -- i think youve got to get into campaign mode. part of this, had there been an announcement a month ago a lot of these attacks or questions would appear political, you know, because she was a candidate. eve...

Meaning this trip, that republican leaders in the house and senate have been out raising money for republican candidates. this is a quote, traditional exercise. lets bring in our panel to talk about this morning. myra miller, advisor to house speaker john boehner and from the winston group. doug schoen, former pollster for president bill clinton and fox news contributor. good morning, guys. good to have you both here. >> good morning. martha: myra, i guess he is right, a traditional exercise to ...

White house than you saw in say the government shut down negotiations a year ago. you are going to see a much more campaigning, much more campaign-like president obama in the next month. jon: you know, some sort of even partial -- neutral observers are saying that the obama campaign won in part because they did a much better job of harnessing the power of social media in this election and driving their voters to the polls. if that succeeded for them in the election, can they do it when it comes ...