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And some of theme were never trumpers in the campaign. when you have pro-trump commend day towards saying -- commentators saying its not illegal. that doesnt mean it doesnt look bad. gillian: thats the point i was trying to make less eloquently than you. in the court of public opinion people want to know the president and his team are following the letter of the law and acting in the national interest in all their interactions. so this is the kind of story that fuels mistrust and kept civil and ...

Army of commentators, people who make their business talking about the news. >> i say we should bomb his capability of producing oil. take out his refineries, his stations, his wells. >> they dont have any capability. >> theyre certainly selling a lot of oil -- >> the networks were doing good journalism but they became much more preoccupied by profits. its cheaper to have someone in your studio pontificating than to have reporters out in the field reporting. >> i dont know if any of this is true...

Americans prefer the current health care law, about one-quarter want the republican option being pushed right now. 17% would prefer something else all together. joe? >> yeah, bob costa, let me bring you in there. so much to unpack. i want to get to health care in a second, thats what republicans waking up in the senate have to be most concerned about but first lets talk about everything that has happened this weekend. the president awakens to 36% approval rating, hes forced to say well, abc is a...

Story was much adieu about nothing. that began to change on friday. we talked about not only what david french wrote at the national review, talking about the importance of this investigation as we move forward in the country, but also respected voices on the right like erik erickson saying that the russian investigation the not much adieu about nothing, that they keep lying, they keep getting in their way, and they keep actually playing into the worst suspicions of their political enemies. your...

All these lies? why lie after lie after lie? >> under normal political circumstances, this would be the end of the road with the clear admission of guilt. the worst case scenario, we did it. >> trump derangement syndrome out in force today. don, jr. broke no ethics rules. howie: he testified the meeting with sean hannity. >> in retrospect i probably would have done things differently. this was before the russian media. for me this was opposition research. howie: are the meetings as damaging as t...

All these lies? why lie after lie after lie? >> under normal political circumstances, this would be the end of the road with the clear admission of guilt. the worst case scenario, we did it. >> trump derangement syndrome out in force today. don, jr. broke no ethics rules. howie: he testified the meeting with sean hannity. >> in retrospect i probably would have done things differently. this was before the russian media. for me this was opposition research. howie: are the meetings as damaging as t...

>> its tabloid but on the other hand, its a tabloid era. heres where the fear comes into it, i think, larry. its the fear that says, gosh, if we dont cover it big time, our competition is. when they cover it big time, theyll get a big jump in the ratings. the first thing is to last, to survive, weve got to do it. >> what you also see is a whole army of commentators, people who make their business talking about the news. >> i say we should bomb his capability of producing oil. take out his refine...

They said it the a media hoax or fake news. >> there is no evidence of any trump collusion with russia. >> the media has been running with no evidence for months and months and months. they have nothing. >> theres no facts, no evidence whatsoever that the president or our team have any coordination with the russians. it will be proven false over the summer at some point. >> its the summer now and evidence immerged donald trump jr was deceptive. we have heard the commentators shi shifting. >> as ...

Be on the air 27/7, where you try to get as many eye balls as possible as one time to gravitate towards those stories that are sensational, it brought us the ability to go too far. >> is the jon benet ramsey case turning into a circus. >> its a fear that says if we dont cover this pig time our competition is. and wen they cover it being time theyre going to be covering the and i we survive we got to do it. >> we also see a whole army of commentators. people who make their business talking about ...

So how does this broaden the scope in your view? >> theres a two-track process. one is the legal track which were now talking about and then theres the political track. and the real question is, how firm is republican support on capitol hill for the president. and equally important, conservative support in the world of media and the think tanks? this was very damaging, it really undermined part of the hargment that there were no areas of proximity between officials connected to russia and member...