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This. it all comes on the heels of news that former trump chairman paul manafort is running into trouble with his bail release. now, prosecutors who initially supported manaforts release to house arrest now oppose it. saying manafort recently -- you got to listen to this. he recently tried to co-write an opinion piece. an op-ed recording his work in ukraine with an acquaintance believed to have russian intelligence ties. you cannot make this up. >> and more twists regarding that now infamous sat...

Difference because the white house has said the presidents tweets are official, are the official word of the white house. official statements of the white house. >> right. >> so even if a lawyer drafted it, he didnt. >> he didnt. >> but even if he did, he put it in donald trumps name. >> right. >> donald trump sent it out. >> this is the way it works. >> it becomes the official language, just like if we release -- if somebody helped any of us with a statement, a pr statement. >> how about the --...

Documents in flynns plea agreement show flynns discussions were, and i quote again, part of a coordinated effort by mr. trumps aides to create foreign policy before they were in power. and e-mails among top transition officials show that flynn was in close touch with other senior members of the trump transition team about dealings with russia. we dont yet know if trump himself was part of those conversations, though. you wouldnt be faulted for wondering. but there is now ample evidence to sugges...

Going to be questions about who actually composed that tweet. it doesnt look like a tweet that even a rookie lawyer would have composed. and now were seeing also on the talk shows that there arent many people, even ty cobb another lawyer within the presidents team defending this strategy. the only person seems to be john dowd and alan dershowitz and it makes sense now that a lot of people within the white house are concerned about the presidents legal strategy when youve got the two highest prof...

Not what we have here. we have a corporate tax cut. thats not what the vast majority of people who voted for donald trump thought therm they were voting for. and there was a famous exchange that jerry baker had with gary cohn. gary cohn was in front of a room full of ceos and said how many are you going to take the tax cut and invest in your companies. barely any hands went up. it was revealing about the fact that this is not going to have the impact. >> were at the end of the first year. this i...

It doesnt work like that. >> im not suggesting bureaucrats are perfect or always effective in being able to get the job done, but what i am saying is there is a common failure to appreciate that when you have a position of responsibility like be president of the united states, there are consequences for your actions. when youre a real estate developer and you do things that are irresponsible or you want to attack people on twitter, or you want to talk away from the negotiating table, there are n...

Point, someone has not stood up who said from the beginning, they changed their mind because they want an extra vote on a tax bill. i think to your point about decency? who are we? what have we become when a little piecely tax bill in the scheme of things is bicker and supersedes the lack of morality and alleged criminal activity, is it that important? i think the question they are getting at. >> how about supporting a president, who all of these donors would say has obstructed justice, if it we...

To climb back from that. its kind of hard to get a job in washington, d.c. after youre branded as somebody that is actually putting forth an autocrats defense. >> you know, kelly, i agree with you, kellyannes comments, she didnt dispute the substance of it. she said who wrote it. one could surmise from that, she is citing on ty cobb, that indeed if the president was the author of this, the point being made this morning. but heidis point as relate os to the legal part should not be overlooked. do...

Here. he tweets to the secretary of state instead of picking up the phone to tell them. now, having said that, harold, you and i have had this conversation. the danger here is so extreme that i can only hope that the combination of general mattis, hopefully general mcmaster, maybe secretary tillerson who seems to be strangely absent in a lot of these conversations, maybe that will put the president on the sideline and allow diplomacy to work. because the outcome otherwise is just soho risk. >> h...

Distraction. it wasnt fundamentally trying to discredit our media, our justice system for personal gain and that i think is just a broader conversation that is really important right now. because this president is fundamentally starting to destroy our country. >> heidi pryzbilla, in a lot of ways, this is the rhythm of what weve seen for a couple of years now, which is that donald trump, now president trump, will tweet something out and his campaign staff or now his white house staff scurrys and...