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Thats just sort of in the way weve been headed. are you going to see anyone fight the president on this? >> i think youll see pushback. think chris is right that out in the country theres a sense that the federal bureaucracy is bloated. but especially from members of congress who represent these federal workers and from the government workers themselves, this is the president sort of showing contempt for government workers for members of his own bureaucracy, and it is petty and vindictive in the...

>> thats right. his sweaty, desperate, courting of the elites that he rails against on the stump. he desperately wants "the new york times" to love him. he wants the billionaires on wall street to love him. this is what he is all about. the other defining aspect of the trump campaign and trump presidency has been this sort of barely veiled contempt he has for everybody who is willing to work with him or for him. or even frankly vote for him. when he said that co-shoot someone on fifth avenue and...

Obsessed with ivy league pedigree, with the new york time, with every single trope that you could imagine. >> thats right. his sweaty, desperate, courting of the elites that he rails against on the stump. he desperately wants "the new york times" to love him. he wants the billionaires on wall street to love him. this is what he is all about. the other defining aspect of the trump campaign and trump presidency has been this sort of barely veiled contempt he has for everybody who is willing to wor...

Make that very argument in court and to the very reason he is defying the subpoena, has been held in contempt in washington, d.c. for that very reason, because he is trying to establish that because robert mueller in his mind has not o day to day oversight by rod rosenstein, he is a man with very little oversight, zero accountability, which means this is an illegal act, he is always going outside his mandate. thats his argument. it will fail because of the language of the statute as written to p...

>> the president of the united states, respect for the office. rob: donald trump raising tiger woods for saying you must respect the office, the fake news media will target tiger woods to say something, he is playing great golf again. max kellerman is slamming the golfer. >> it is a thoughtless statement dressed up -- it either hold in contempt the intelligence of the people who hear it or else just a stupid thing to say. we must respect the office, therefore that confers respect to the argument...

After a life of military and public service, covering john mccain was a lot like john mccain himself. it was complicated and a lot of work and full of contradictions of the but it was fun and ultimately full of meaning. >> how are you? >> the very last time i interviewed senator mccain he was blunt. >> but, jake, every life has to end one way or another. >> it was the kind of straight talk that characterized the arizona senators career. i first met him aboard the straight talk express in 1999. >...

Public service, covering john mccain was a lot like john mccain himself. it was complicated and a lot of work and full of contradictions bell but it was fun and ultimately full of meaning. >> how are you? >> the very last time i interviewed senator mccain he was blunt. >> but, jake, every life has to end one way or another. >> it was the kind of straight talk that characterized the arizona senators career. i first met him aboard the straight talk express in 1999. >> look at that. >> five times. ...

Contacted him directly. so were seeing all these former associates and friends speak to thesomes team or testify before the grand jury. but andrew miller has decided with the help of his legal team that he wants to mount this constitutional fight. he wants to try to take on muellers authority to oversee this investigation and his lawyers say they are prepared to this to the supreme court. he is an interesting case because he is just a regular guy, a 34-year-old, for a while living in california ...

This? >> umm, a man who is following the letter of the law? i mean, thats different than the criticism we have heard before. why does sessions put up with this? >> i dont know. i think what sessions did today in responding to that was really important. it was the first time that someone in this administration, and really the most important person in the administration because of his job running the justice department, it was the first time where he stood up and fully declared his independence fr...

Family legal system. noting, trump wants a top law enforcement official, his attorney general to be far more sympathetic to his views on laws and loyalty. a source close to trump said, the expectation of unwavering loyalty is an operating principle for trump. charlie, this is pretty overt, isnt it? the president basically, like he told the russians to go after hillarys emails, now hes telling his attorney general to act like the old time attorney generals and start going after his political enem...