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President tried to lay out what he viewed as clear successes in his first year, he also made clear he understood the frustration, fear, and concern of the american people. however, he said he was satisfied with his current team and laid out three things he wanted to do differently in the weeks and months ahead. one of those things, get out of the white house more often. the second, listen more to outside experts and opinion leaders in terms of what to do. the third, be deeply involved in those r...

Thoughts. >> i think he pivoted away from a number of things that have been criticisms of the investigation. he took pains to say that the five police officers that repeatedly -- people around the justice department on the democratic side of the aisle, a number of commentators continue to say that five police officers were killed in the attacks. he made a point of saying that they had five officers had lost their lives since the attacks. thats a little subtle as you hear it but a big change from...

Investigate, which is embarrassing that the met police are thinking of looking into the prime ministerial office and the sue gray investigation, both of which he cannot control. that does not make things easy for him going forward. of course there are many of course there are many commentators and observers of boris johnson who will say this is a prime minister who often relies on the sheer force of his personality to make his point. do you think on this occasion he can talk his way out of what ...

Joining me now, cnn political commentators alice stewart and bakari sellers. bakari is the author of a new chu childrens book, "who are your peo people?" hello to both of you. alice, lets talk about ted cruz. i understand that you have some news for us. you spoke to senator cruz about that disaster of an interview. what did you learn about this debacle? >> well, first off, don, i expressed to him that he should have just left well enough said. what he said initially in his comments before the he...

Family. >> reporter: prince edward spoke to cnn but wouldnt be drawn on the sussex saga. >> we have all been there before, we have all had excessive intrusion and attention in our lives and weve all dealt with it in different ways. listen, we wish them the very best. >> reporter: the palace has continued to distance itself from prince andrew publicly, pursued by the fbi in recent years for sexual abuse allegations. accused of virginia robert due fray filed a civil suit claiming the royal assault...

>> are you a racist family, sir? >> were very much not a racist family. >> reporter: the queens younger son, prince edward, spoke to cnn, but wouldnt be drawn on the sussex saga. >> weve all been there before, weve all had, you know, excessive intrusion and attention in our lives, and weve all dealt with it in different ways. and we wish them the very best. >> reporter: the palace has continued to distance itself from prince andrew publicly, pursued by the fbi in recent years for sexual abuse al...

They do not look like trump supporters to me. you cant even identify them. >> reporter: right-wing commentators have kept promoting conspiracy theories that the uprising was the work of antifa or undercover federal agents. >> 226 antifa members were tasked with making what should have been a peaceful protest a riot. >> reporter: and third, they have framed this as a reasonable, even necessary response by frustrated voters. a new study of podcasts hosted by rush limbaugh, sean hannity and steve b...

And ghislaine maxwell herself to the very british angle that focuses on prince _ very british angle that focuses on prince andrew. i think he really is under fresh — prince andrew. i think he really is under fresh pressure. certainly the lawyers _ under fresh pressure. certainly the lawyers for— under fresh pressure. certainly the lawyers for the jeffrey epstein victims — lawyers for the jeffrey epstein victims say he should be quaking in his boots— victims say he should be quaking in hi...

Dangerously like russia based on the divisions of russia in the 1990s and then the putin system that came out of that. talk more about that. >> well, look this is something that some russian commentators have commented on as well. 1990s in russia after a collapse of the soviet union, during the period of the presidency of boris yeltsin was full of political chaos and polarization, fighting in the russian parliament, you know, for example, a whole plethora of political parties but none of them co...

Respect to what was just said a moment ago. i mean, there is -- the first amendment does not protect that kind of conduct. and to me the most heart breaking thing, lawrence, is that a year ago tonight we had republicans and democrats both condemning not just the rioters but condemning donald trump or at least as an action, indeed inaction as well. i remember some commentators said, oh, this will be whitewashed and forgotten. i said, no, this is a turning point. this is when people stared into th...