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Needs to be fired, cards ripped up, and start over. >> kennedy: emily, heres what i think. after seeing the last two coadministrations, i think anyone who runs for president -- just they need to have a psych test and cognitive function test. i think we need to demand more mentally, emotionally, and psychologically, from the leader of the free world. >> emily: i was just thinking that. i want my president to be the smartest person in the room, he would help. if only that encompassed humility. bec...

>> some of your key dates moving forward? >> if we look and place this in context and i think we have a graphic here but the key dates, when mueller actually testified, putting this in context on july 24th, that ended that whole entire mueller report russia collusion narrative the democrats are trying to say so it is interesting, the question needs to be raised and asked what were the democrats doing by looking into the very next day a phone call and the whistleblower information on the form, mo...

But she has to keep the publics attention and make the case im a career public servant trying to do the right thing and up pops rudy giuliani with the very crooks weve tried to shove to the side. >> twheewhats the story here? republicans are saying the president has a right to fire an ambassador. he had the right to fire the fbi director, too. context matters. he fired jim comey because he didnt like the investigation he was running. he fired the ambassador because she apparently wasnt on board ...

>> this is not just a basketball story. >> politics, business, foreign policy. >> airlines have this deal with this. usually the flash point is taiwan. airlines had to change their drop-down menu so taiwan wasnt separate because that angered the chinese community. apple took the taiwan emoji off its keyboard if you were in hong kong or macao to keep the chinese happy. american business is quick to leave democracy behind and make the changes needed to make the censors happy. >> rick scott critica...

A federal office holder. you dont give up your rights to legal defense just because you are a federal officer -- >> but what legal defense? >> so that was during the context of the mueller probe. >> chris, can i get back -- >> no, im out of time. im out of time. i like the arguments. i appreciate the arguments. as we get more facts and we see the cases being made, then well come. >> context matters. >> i got you. im happy to hear it out. happy to have you back on the show. asha, as always -- >> ...

Say president trump did task bill barr with this. he is tasking the resources of the official capacity of the united states of america -- >> bill barr says nobody ever told him to do it. >> well, but thats -- again, bill barr was tasked with that. and rudy giuliani as a private attorney to mount a full-throated vigorous defense for his client, which is donald j. trump, not the president of the united states -- >> he wasnt acting as a private attorney, though. he was working with the state depart...

We dont use insults, we use insigh insights. try that. >> the liberal left is saying thattes bl-- that thats blatany wrong -- >> the inspector general said it was misinformation done to malign state official and people who work for the bidens. >> context matters. when we have the transcript of the phone call with president trump and the ukraine president, theres nothing there. >> what do you mean theres nothing there? >> tell me what crime there is. >> first of all, first of all, jenna, youre th...

>> go ahead, jenna. we try not to use names here. we dont use insults. we use insights. try that. >> the liberal left is saying that this is somehow so blatantly wrong of giuliani to put forward information that goes to potential corruption of a former vice president, yet they are speaking -- >> the inspector general said it was misinformation done to malign state official and people and the bidens who work for the bush administration. >> context matters. the whistle-blower, when we actually hav...

Next to him in a kkk hood. that being said, i still think it is pretty egregious if for no other reason than, you know, this wasnt ancient history. this is 2001. hes the son of a politician, someone who likely had plans to be in public life. he was a teacher and yet didnt know that this was -- or didnt at the time recognize that this was an inappropriate thing to do. i do give him credit for coming out tonight in that clip you played and saying that, you know, at the time i didnt think this was ...

Be in public life. he was a teacher and yet didnt know that this was -- or didnt at the time recognize that this was an inappropriate thing to do. i do give him credit for coming out tonight in that clip you played and saying that, you know, at the time i didnt think this was racist, but now i recognize that it is. i dont think theres really much more he can say other than sorry, which he also said. the one thing i will add, don, about blackface here, since you played the clip of him saying he d...