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Associates, your top allies, you keep them close, and you keep them loyal. you dont want to give anyone a reason to start cooperating with investigators and to turn against you. and if spicer really did quit in anger, and if hes feeling angry and vengeful, hes someone who could be extremely useful to investigators. and he doesnt even have to know actual facts of criminality. he just has to be someone who can give investigators a road map of who is influential on what decisions. what people are a...

When donald trump says to the world, well, were going to negotiate a better deal, you know, hes going to go out and find a better deal? i mean thats like o.j. simpson going out and saying hes going to go out and find the new killer. everybody knows hes not going to do that because he doesnt believe in it. if he did believe in it, you wouldnt pull out of paris. >> commentary editor for the washington examiner and a visiting fellow at the american enterprise institute, tim carney. >> we want to st...

>> russias president, vladimir putin there, once again denying the kremlin interfered with the 2016 presidential election. denying it to nbcs megyn kelly in st. petersburg. even saying to do it, to meddle in the election was so easy, a kid could hack the election, was the presidents assertion. i want to bring in commentary editor for the washington examiner. and columnist, deputy, editorial page editor for the "washington post." ill start with you. president putin there tried several angles to d...

Room. also with me, tim carney, the commentary editor for the washington examiner, and tamara keith, nprs white house correspondent. kelly, first to you. how is this firing of comey and the controversy over the interview with lester holt where the president said that he had had this dinner with the now fired director of the fbi -- how does that resonate inside the white house? >> well, they believe that the president was able to, in a more thoughtful, lengthy way describe some of the interaction...

Turning back, of course, to that question of syria, the abrupt reversal from president trump on syria. this coming at the same time as all sorts of turmoil within the white house is spilling into public view. already this week, steve bannons demotion from the national security council principals committee. also reports following that that said his days in the administration could be numbered. now another report that trump may be ready to change his chief of staff, reince priebus. joining me now ...

Uncertain terms, that russia inter feared with our election. we know that they are trying to destabilize nato. we know what theyre trying to do. so trusting putin over what our own people can do with an independent investigation is being just totally naive. >> good to see you, senator. thank you so much for taking the time. >> thank you. aloha. >> aloha. let me bring in my panel. i wish it was more hawaii-like weather in washington. a former spokesperson for the u.s. mission to the u.n. and form...

The numbers are real. its a snapshot of one year, 2005. the white house put out a statement which read in part, "you know you are desperate for ratings when you are willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago. its totally illegal to steal and publish tax returns." all right. ari melber and jared bernstein and former chief economist to vice president joe biden and tim carney, a commentary editor at the washington editor, visiting fellow at d.c....

Committees in the house before the cbo report because i guess its easier to take away health insurance for 24 million americans when you dont know that thats the fact. >> all right. senator chris van hol learn, thanks for the time. for more, lets bring in the advisor on president obamas 2012 reelection campaign. and tim kearny, the commentary editor at the washington examiner. thanks for joining us. tim, let me start with you on this. the bottom line in terms of republicans and their ability to ...

So is the downturn in his numbers. so is the panic in his own party. it can feel like his presidency is buckling right now, but remember it also felt like his campaign was too. so that is the big question, is the different now, or is history repeating itself? are we just going to find out that the country is as divided now as it was on election day when it turned out there were a lot more people who were with him than almost anyone ever thought. here now to talk about it on this friday, weve got...

Defender of richard nixon. i dont know if its worse if she was out of the loop or maybe she was in it at that point. is it worse -- maybe she was right at 4:07. >> its much worse if she was actually in the loop because that underlines exactly what youve said. the only reason they cut flynn loose was because they knew it was going public. >> sally yates has become, shes now the elliot richardson of this. rabbi korff and elliot richardson. >> this is quite a morning. were going to add another name...