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They want that special prosecutor, but theyre not getting any commitments as of yet, kate. >> manu, great to see you. lets bring back the panel for this side of the story. mark preston, rod rosenstein is seen as a straight shooter. by and large, he worked for bush, worked through obama. hes seen as a straightforward guy. conventional pick. obviously, never thought hed be in a position like this to have to deal with this kind of thing. did democrats really think theyd get him to come forward and ...

Companies planning commitments. general motors separately even with their expansion in the united states, announced theyre laying off 1,500 people. still hiring more than theyre laying off. and the president says this is stuff im doing that i get zero credit. does he have a point? >> to some extent. the tax cuts, the regulatory environment is a positive for big businesses. they want to invest and expand within the context of less taxes and less regulations which we know, the corporate taxes, one...

And so years ago, george schultz, when he was secretary of state, used to say to us all in the state department, trust is the point of the room. and he was entirely right. if you cant trust the person youre speaking with, either with respect to the facts or indeed with respect to commitments, and the two are closely linked, where are you? and whatever deals people want to make, they are based on the capacity to carry out those deals. and in international relations, thats not a one-off as it ofte...

Do you think that donald trump letting keystone off the hook because theres pipe laying on the ground you said, you and jane said for years, that wasnt made here, do you think thats a betray betrayal. >> theres nothing that he can do about that when its there. what im more concerned about is the long term. weve got to get back to making 125 tons. were only going to do that if we enforce our trade laws. look, weve been -- we did a video of then candidate trump buying chinese alum yinumalumine gla...

Military spending of several other countries, just to put things in perspective. u.s. the biggest military spender in the world by far with almost $600 billion. this was for the year 2015. thats three times as much almost as the next biggest spender, china. so, my question is does the u.s. need, in your assessment, to spend more money on this military? >> i think we do because our commitments are worldwide. when you look at these other countries that were comparing this military spending with, t...

Come up with high risk pools to come up ways to fund those situations with reinsurance policies and chronically ill being covered in a different, better way. by giving the flexibility to deal with the populations and those in the individual market that are in the healthier populations. those risk pools will allow premiums to go down because theyre taking care of themselves in the determination. >> and final question, you were one of those many republican members of congress, we showed clips of t...

Also our soldiers. so we see again a budget is supposed to be a statement of values. what the president is doing is quite outrageous. he is throwing out the window years of compromise in terms of parity, similar amount for defense as for domestic. at the same time, its important to know that defense is defense, but domestic is also veterans, homeland security, the state department and all that is involved in our security in soft power as well as weapon sales and the rest of that are in the domes...

Being shared. so far we have no assessment of any kind of criminal investigation going on by the f.b.i. everyone on both sides of the aisle who talked about this has said theyll go where the facts lead them. are you confident? do you feel like with all of those things in place that well get the answers that we need? >> i think the american people deserve those answers and i do think this is probably going to be the point at which where we have a lot of calls for a special prosecutor. chaffetz, w...

Parents arent perfect but then they make us kraft mac & cheese and everythings good again. joining me now for our daily fix, chris cillizza, fix blog founder. nancy pelosi, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi told us that they are expecting the trump supporters will begin to waiver when they see no action on key commitments. she said its kind of like your friend is going out with a jerk and you cant tell her because she doesnt want to hear it and you have to wait until she figures it out herself. >> i...

What i was saying is you are talking, i think its a good idea to talk about what happens when powers are allowed to exist. you are saying its a bad thing. trumps view of the world -- >> i cant say its bad. >> when they have their sphere of influence in the world -- >> no im not. im saying the opposite. they suppress it. poxamerica that. when you have one in the world -- >> the united states is. >> its projecting its power fairly and you bring down -- >> right. what trump wants, what trump is mov...