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Numbers. we learned that claims for unemployment benefits are the lowest in 49 years. there are a record 7 million jobs open today and people are quitting jobs in record numbers. the president tweeting encouragement to the job quitters. there are new high paying jobs available in the economy. if you are not happy where you are, start looking. ivanka trump tweeting. it is the economy, stupid. the president taking credit for the job gains. 1.6 million net new jobs on top of 2.1 million new jobs la...

View, what the -- the status of the intent is by interviewing the president. >> yes. >> what prevents every u.s. attorney from doing the same thing? you fire somebody, you dont like it, you think there is bad intent, so you interview him. >> he says he removed him because he didnt like the probe and you want to know why. >> if hillary clinton would have fired james comey, would that have been okay? >> would he have been in the mid of an investigation that involved her and threatened her presiden...

From the president himself. >> just think about what you said just then. like i said, were friends. you can only determine, in your view, what the -- the status of the intent is by interviewing the president. >> yes. >> what prevents every u.s. attorney from doing the same thing? you fire somebody, you dont like it, i think theres bad intent, so i interview him. >> he says he removed him because he didnt like the probe and you want to know why. >> if hillary clinton would have fired james comey,...

Meadows out of context and releasing them to the public. >> shannon: you understand -- like he says in his letter to the deputy attorney general, any reasonable person reading these things, based on the consecutive timeline, with articles coming out, that would make sense to a reasonable person that there is more to that. >> i learned in law school that a reasonable person is always an aspirational goal. i will let that sit. i know that congressman nadler, and congressman cummings said today tha...

Is opportunistically cherry picking messages out of context and releasing them to the public. >> he says in his letter to the attorney general, any reasonable person reading these based on the timeline with articles coming out that would make sense to a reasonable person if there was more to this. >> reasonable person is an aspirational goal. i will let that sit. congressman cummings said today if you look at text messages in totality they are not referring to a news article about page, they are...

Are we going to get to a point where nobody can say anything and everyones going to be in fear of losing their jobs and we cant be honest? i do think context matters. if roseanne had had something similar in a club that she was performing, would it be different? if she had put it in the context of her show and did an episode about it, there would be context. but she did it on twitter and there was no context behind it. do you understand what im saying? >> i know what youre saying, yes. it could ...

Are we going to get to a point where nobody can say anything and everyones going to be in fear of losing their jobs and we cant be honest? i do think context matters. if roseanne had had something similar in a club she was performing would it be different? she put it in the context of her show and did an episode about it, there would be context. but she did it on twitter and there was no context behind it. >> i understand what youre saying. it could be different. like donald trump had praised ro...

Right? context matters. consistently we were promised the best of the best and consistently they keep putting people in positions of power who dont seem to be well appointed to it. fair criticism or not? >> it is fair in this. it sounds like they didnt do much if any vetting. thats a mistake. they should have done that. i give a little bit of slack in that, yes, it is a more public position and will be is subject to more public scrutiny. to say its more important position, i dont know if its a m...

Somebody he is that is the subject of the investigation because we believe there is probable cause that they are involved in potential criminal opportunities with the client. thats the context. its not just breaching a priest, you know, in the confessional. the priest and the person who is the confessor that they are both involved in nefarious act had we want to look at. context matters. >> im waited with baited bredening to read the affidavit that justified the search to see if they make the ar...

Elements that were not vindicating at all for the president. and it certainly looks like there has been things cherry picked from what can be made public with the full knowledge by the white house and by republicans that much of the incriminating, that would show more of what happened could not be released because it was classified. they were starting this debate on very uneven ground. there is a lot of issues there. >> in the white houses defense, the democratic memo has more in it that is sens...