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The bully pulpit of bully pulpits. >> we had jimmy fallon doing a mini olympics for "lets move" on the state floor of the white house in like this unitard that he wore. >> no way, jimmy. >> gotcha. >> kind of weird but it got the message across. >> i think she strategically chose television shows, having a good time with ellen on her daytime show. all of those things put her in peoples living rooms day after day. >> so she just was living her values and letting the world see that. and it changed...

>> the young senate candidate from illinois was a surprise choice to give the keynote speech at the democratic national convention. michelle watched as her husband made history. >> the hope of slaves sitting around a fire singing freedom songs. the hope of immigrants setting out for distant shores. the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that america has a place for him too. >> what did you think? >> you know, i was incredibly proud. and im tough on him. and all i have to say is,...

Of viewers. your last panel described it. the president has always felt like an outsider. when youre on outsider, theyre susceptible to conspiracy theories. its one of the reasons he brought someone in like mayor giuliani to run that shadow system. he always felt like he was outside of the system. i think thats where a lot of the problems have come in for the president. >> when you say trump supporters belong to a cult, and maybe the fox commentators do, whats your evidence? why say a word like ...

>> good morning. >> wasnt that brief, by the way? 11 days in the white house, but it was about nine months in the campaign and transition. >> thats true. you were working at fox as a commentator and host and you had to sever that relationship to go over to the transition team. >> yeah. i was hosting wall treat week. when i was announced on the transition team, i had to pull the hosting job. >> how much has fox news changed in the trump era? >> i think there are certain commentators who have made...

And talks about it with many, >> real clear investigations has many countries and not ukraine. identified eric as howie: you are right they whistleblower, its already out havent talked directly with the there, we could be talking about this reporting and talking about president and describing whether thats accurate conversations with rudy giuliani reporting or not and i feel confused why we are pretending and others. -- howie: i want to clarify that republicans make out yesterday thats -- wantin...

He or she just put us on a path and folks went out to see whether or not that path was accurate, whether or not it is indeed factual. >> what are the stakes here? it seems to me that the conservator media has really obsessed over the whistle-blower. sean hannity says he knows the name but hell restrain himself for now. at some point someone will publish the name and make the identity public. what are the stakes in that? >> the stakes are huge because this is about how we provide oversight to the...

Talk and i, im going to keep doing it you this the snow. the worst thing to happen. >> now the special adviser to probe and a former communications director for hillary clinton. both cnn commentators. is there any surprise for you in the battle ground states? >> i think the national numbers are so good. you look at the battle ground states where we got beat. and its like only biden beats him. weve seen this incredible -- we have two extraordinary progressive candidates, bernie and elizabeth warr...

Presidents defenders or maybe affiliates in congress or others who are observing from the outside, commentators say, well, the institutions are holding up, you know, this is just a lot of bluster that comes out of the white house. these arent things to be really worried about. these transcripts show that the institutions are under tremendous strain. >> well, also, david, strain from the guy whos running the state department. i mean we talk about secretary of state pompeo. his former adviser, mik...

Under pressure from not just the president and not just people in the white house, but from people outside government, like rudy giuliani. and so when i hear others, presidents defenders, maybe affiliates in congress or others who are observing from the outside, commentators say well, the institutions are holding up. this is just a lot of bluster that comes out of the white house. these arent things to be really worried about. these transcripts showed that the institutions are under tremendous s...

If youve been watching the president and his defenders, youve seen a lot of different kind of approach, attacking the process and avoiding substance, pointing to substance when it hurts the case, conceding and taking it back, and conceding but suggesting its no big deal because ukraine got the deal despite the president not getting what he wanted. if it sounds unfocused, it could well be. a source tells cnn the president does not want to set up a war room because it could make him look weak or g...