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U.s. attorney general under president clinton. he is now a professor at ucsd school of political science. and mieke eoyang vice president for national security program at third way. harry litman, i want you to take us into the world of the special prosecutor, special prosecutors, when a book like "fire and fury" comes out, and steve bannon is quoted at length speculating about possible crimes and misdemeanors of the trump circle, is that something the special prosecutor grabs, starts reading and...

Reading and underlining? >> i think so. and its not whether bannon thinks that a meeting is treasonous. its not his legal conclusions. but there are facts in there. the one you just mentioned, lawrence, about did trump jr. take the russians up to visit and see trump, which would be devastating evidence on collusion. discreet facts like that that he can question him on. and i did want to mention based on your last segment the reason that hes going to have to talk to trump and he didnt have to tal...

The rise soon youve got that story thats right monica palestinian leaders i have voted to suspend ties with israel the palestinian liberation organization central council announced that it will no longer adhere to existing agreements with israel including the also peace accords the council is the second highest decision making body in the palestinian territories it wants israel to recognize a palestinian state and the meeting came and were sponsored to u.s. president donald trumps recognition of...

That brings voters out that keeps them motivated. every time the president is in a news cycle with an outrage obvious comment it keeps those people who are already paying attention to the mid-terms it keeps them engaged, keeps them wanting to pay attention, searching the ad to know where their polling places are. >> its a really good point. this also of course putting republicans in difficult positions as we showed you. earlier today on "meet the press" with chuck todd senator rand paul of kentu...

War, mozambique war, plus all of indochina. are often reluctant to acknowledge this progress because it feels like being disloyal toa all the needs out there. there is a risk that if we dont acknowledge this backdrop of power, we look at the people who want to make america great again or a past golden era that never really existed. >> if you operate a backdrop of pessimism and fear, you are likely to come to the wrong conclusions you are likely to be optimistic that there are challenges. >> that...

War, mozambique war, plus all of indochina. and so i think that intellectuals are often reluctant to acknowledge this progress. then it seems one is being disloyal to all the needs out there. but i think that theres a risk that if we dont acknowledge this back grope of progress, then we simply empower the folks who want to make america great again and long for nostalgia for some kind of a past golden era that really never existed. >> youre saying if you operate sort of out of a backdrop of pessi...

Things like speaking at howard, trying to show -- expand the tent of the republican party and try to beat back this stereotype about the republican party, and you lamented at the time the language candidate trump had used. as president, when hes gone down these roads, youve actually pulled back and youve not gone after him for specific comments. youve hit him on policy but not comments. where are you on this? >> you know, i dont think the comments were constructive at all, but i also think that ...

He was a large financial backer of both medical mission trips. so its unfair to draw conclusions from a remark that i think wasnt constructive is the least we can say, and its unfair to all of a sudden paint him as hes a racist when i know for a fact he cares deeply about the people in haiti because he helped to finance a trip and we were able to get vision back to 200 people in haiti. >> are you more disturbed, though, by the comment -- its less about the vulgarity and more he seemed to say why...

North korea engage in these missile tests so it should give everyone pause, not just americans, not just hawaiians but everyone around the world, rightfully so. the challenge that we are facing right now our president is that he is engaged as you said in saber rattling. he has ratcheted up the rhetoric. its one thing to be tough, but its another thing to sort of, in my view, recklessly talk about increasing your nuclear weaponry. when youre engaged in a dialogue sort of a child, playground dialo...

White house official, the president has been briefed on the state of hawaiis emergency management exercise, this was purely a state exercise. lets bring in jonathan, former communications director at the u.s. mission to do un. jonathan, what do you make of that? >> its oo early to make judgment calls, we have to really figure out whats groining on here because speculation can cause a lot of disruption and confusion and we need to really, really get to the bottom. this is not a trivial matter. yo...