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Telling his confidants he wants to see some of this aired out a little bit. and he moves forward, the white house knows it could be quite unruly in terms of whats brought up, allegations from the past. at this point they dont have a plan b. >> we will end this segment me asking for a response to donald trump, calling kim jong-un an honorable and open man. i lob that softball down the middle of the plate. swing away. >> you know, they warned me if i didnt vote for donald trump they would have a p...

All they want. howie: you cant make stuff up and speculate. >> right. howie: sean hannity is paid for his opinions and hes a fierce defender of president trump, hes hung out with him in mar-a-lago, interviewed him, people tune at 9:00 p.m. eastern, they know what they are getting. >> the president tells them to tune in. howie: the president endorsed the show on twitter. do you think given what was initially wall to wall coverage that there was rival networks or rival commentators taking an oppor...

It would have been been better if hillary clinton would have won. commentators have no use for this guy. >> absolutely. in a week or two he wont be in the top 20 stories we are talking about. hes not the focus -- hes not at the center of mueller investigation. hes a small part of it. interesting book tour that i dont think has gone as well for him as it would have predicted. at the end of the day, it doesnt matter that much. howie: the president taking issue with "the new york times" story about...

It would have been been better if hillary clinton would have won. commentators have no use for this guy. >> absolutely. in a week or two he wont be in the top 20 stories we are talking about. hes not the focus -- hes not at the center of mueller investigation. hes a small part of it. interesting book tour that i dont think has gone as well for him as it would have predicted. at the end of the day, it doesnt matter that much. howie: the president taking issue with "the new york times" story about...

Howie: friends before they had particular relationship with donald trump n. the aftermath, and it was such intense media reaction, a come of people went on the air, cable news channels and got out there, lets take a look. >> the question now lingers for everybody else, what has hannity been involved, is he paying off women as well? >> what is it that he was doing for sean hannity, was he paying a woman for harassment in the workplace? howie: how can professional commentators speculate after this...

All they want. howie: you cant make stuff up and speculate. >> right. howie: sean hannity is paid for his opinions and hes a fierce defender of president trump, hes hung out with him in mar-a-lago, interviewed him, people tune at 9:00 p.m. eastern, they know what they are getting. >> the president tells them to tune in. howie: the president endorsed the show on twitter. do you think given what was initially wall to wall coverage that there was rival networks or rival commentators taking an oppor...

How do you go in and quantify that? i do think we need to worry about the fact that russia was trying to influence this election, but ill tell you what, one of the commentators before said that in middle america, people dont care. they dont. they do care about the special counsel. if he were to be stupid enough to fire the special counsel, 70% of americans support that investigation. but they really care about everyday issues. the really basic economic issues. and thats what weve got to talk abo...

And were back and were bringing you the breaking news tonight. james comeys memos about his conversations with president trump now in the hands of congress and tonight cnns obtained them as well. and i want to bring in david jolly of florida, cnns political commentators alice stewart and kevin madden. so much to talk about, so little time. lets do this. kevin, lets start with you. what do you make of these? >> i try to look at it through two lenses, the investigation lens and the political lens....

Hillary clintons e-mail server. this came down after his concern with rosenstein. >> i think we have a problem with rod rosenstein, myself included, that hes not giving us the documents and hes not doing his job. if hes not doing his job, he needs to find one that he will do. >> the report also said meadows spoke with president trump following the meeting, although the details of the discussion were not shared. and president trump reportedly still fuming over the raid of michael cohens office,...

Hannity? and hes a great guy and hes an honest guy. >> take a look at your screen right there. here is a list of president trumps accomplishments for 2017. >> james, talk to me about that. what are the red flags there? >> well, this is, you know, through american history, there have been commentators or journalists who have been allied, secretly or openly, with various political figures. at the dawn of time, alexander hamilton used to write anonymous editorials praising himself and so on. in mod...