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Will go up against them. as for the students, this is a new factor. i dont think any of us know how that will play out. those of us who have watched these debates cant help but be skeptical. >> ashley, you said this was an example of classic trump were seeing play out right now. >> thats right. its sort of he wants to be at the center of every sort of issue and every debate and thats what he did this time as well, he inserted himself and there is admitedly a role for the president to play as sor...

And supposed nefarious collusion which there is no evidence of. but he was the one that allowed it to happen as you say, steve. i think someone ought to bring the president in and start to scrutinize what his policies were because they did not keep us safe. steve: speaking of the president, the current president is going to be in attendance at cpac over the three day event. what did you make of the listening session he held yesterday in the state dining room of the white house with some of the s...

Perhaps those children wouldnt have died which was about as irresponsible, a presidential statement as i can imagine. >> certainly inflamed and made the children wo were survivors there irate. >> everybody. were talking about two different divisions but heres the problem is that there are times when we want our president to not only appeal to our better angels but be the consoler in chief. this weekend he was the divider this chief. the only person who benefitted was putin. >> he kind of alluded...

Tell, it set me off, because i thought it was so appallingly insensitive, so appallingly egotistical and so not what a president should do. and so i wrote about actually the three ways in which this president has engaged in dereliction of duty. were in nation under attack. we have no commander in chief or -- nation is grieving and we have no consoler in chief. and our nation is trying to figure out a way to fix a dreamer problem that is a significant part of the presidents own nation and we have...

Consoler in chief, not pit yourself against a federal agency again. >> thinking about yourself. >> and making it about yourself. you need to talk about what happened there. he did an okay job of that this week. but people expect more. there is an outcry for him to do more and across the country. doing that again, making the mistakes he tends to make, i dont think, was helpful. republicans will concede that as well. >> on the bombshell news from friday, all the different indictments from bob mull...

You all. >> jon, a story on presidents day? tell us a really, really boring story -- >> no! th . >> that will make me regret opening the floor to you. jon meacham, pulitzer prize winning historian. go. >> ronald reagan was once asked "being an actor, how could you ever be president?" he said "i dont know how you can be president without being an actor." i think the theatricality of power is hugely important, playing the role, what were missing right now is someone who can play the role of consol...

Classmates and friends are gone and you have the audacity to make this about russia? have a damn heart, she continues. you can keep all your fake and meaningless thoughts and prayers. carly, a senior at the school, tweeting, you know what isnt acceptable, blaming everyone but the shooter and the lack of gun control in our country. you even blame the students. we did report him. we tried. how are we supposed to know what will happen? your lack of sympathy proves how pitiful a person you are. you ...

Selling used cars. then he went to mar-a-lago. partying. a person tweeted 17 kids murdered this is our president that night. so its not as if -- i guess hes too busy too. >> he couldnt have spent less time at that hospital if he had been on rollerskates going through the halls. he is entirely incapable of showing empathy. he doesnt understand other peoples feelings, he doesnt understand peoples suffering, hes utterly failed at the consoler in chief role which both president obama and president b...

Rosenstein. listen, jeff, youre in mar-a-lago. the president is down there for a golf weekend. he met with victims of a florida school shooting earlier. what do you know about his visit? >> yes, he did. the president and the first lady went immediately to broward county to the area around parkland, florida. they wept to a hospital to visit a couple of victims of that shooting that are still there, and then they went to visit law enforcement officials as well. this is what a president does. sadly...

First lady as well. this is something that the president has become familiar with, playing the role of consoler in chief. unfortunately over the past three months there has been three separate shootings with large numbers of fatalities the president has been forced to respond to. this time around doing so facing tremendous pressure not only from democrats but family members and classmates that were affected by the shooting at marjory stoneman douglas high school. many angry and passionate about ...