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Of course, he started out looking at the notion of collusion, but he had a very wide net that he was allowed to cast and he -- whether hes casting it, whether its getting any fish, we dont know. we dont know the answer to that. but at the end of the day the president saying over and over again there is no collusion and, by the way, its a hoax, which is the other thing he said today, which is kind of a word that the president likes to go to. he might have -- it might hurt him in the end, not what...

He has put the country on the brink of becoming a banana republic. >> sort of weird in that graphic, there was no actual information. if you broaden out to the past week, the number of trump white house aides that bob mueller prosecuted went from zero to one. thats a binary change. and it is being met, we can see, with a shift in the attempted signal to rois ratio. the attacks not only on bob mueller. now on the entire fbi itself. some casting it as russian secret police. >> mueller has been usi...

Lobbying the president to pull out of the paris climate agreement. of course, hes a nationalist. hes sort of the gut check on the presidents populist base. but its our understanding that reince priebus and stevphen miller also pushing him to pull out of the deal. hes casting it as a campaign promise kept. heard the loud cheer, clapping, when the president said he was elected to be the president of pittsburgh, not paris. i know you all are discussing why that will be controversial on the world st...

Go. >> if i sent you 500 recipes for chocolate chip cookies and you were gluten free it wouldnt be very useful. part of that story in the "new york times" is an effort by the outgoing administration to make the incoming administrations look back. weve given them all these things and they havent read them. is that a good or bad thing? casting it as the outgoing administration has as a deficiency in the trump team, we have to take with a grain of salt. we do know this. this is unquestionable. they...

Financier who wants less regulation on wall street. >> she paints the picture. >> shes the director of the movie tonight. shes casting it. >> how about real-time fact-checking, can she do that? if he says something everybodys agreed in the mainstream media has agreed is inaccurate, can she call him on it? >> shes not supposed to by the rules, but i think if she does so, he has nowhere to run. he has to answer the question. >> it will be most interesting if one. people in the crowd fact-checks hi...

Mote meting focused on adoptions. there was no mention of dirt on clinton. the reason trump jr. accepted the meeting. as the special counsel probes the meeting an the statement that followed, its still unclear how involved the president was in crafting it. trump jr. testified his father may have commented through hope hicks, the former white house communications director. casting it as a collaborative effort with attorneys. he said he did not request his fathers assistance, saying hicks asked if...

Will start to negotiate and we will see if we can make a deal thats fair. >> reporter: casting it as a campaign promise kept. the president said the move will lift regulations and save jobs, but the controversial decision also underscoring how much influence the nationalist within the west wing, like steef bannon, still have. bannon arguing for the president to pull out, while ivanka and jared kushner were urging the president to stay put. today that america first message was on full display. >>...

The last 24 hours or aually some of it in the last 24 hours some changes in health care and tax reform. how is the administration explaining these shifts? >> reporter: theyre down playing these are shifts. theyre saying the president is following through with his main campaign promises and thats what they think the focus should be. this is what president trump had to say about this in a recent tweet to give you a sense of how their casting it. one by one we are keeping our promises on the boarde...