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More than competence, more than intelligence, more than savvy. donald trump has always sought to surround himself with people who first and foremost and sometimes only distinguish themselves by being unfailingly loyal to him and as you suggested the big lesson he is learning today is that the people surrounding him right now when he has the most power hes ever had, facing incredibly difficult decisions, the people surrounding him in this moment are not giving off signs of loyalty. theyre not con...

Amendment. >> right. and thats overreaching by the left. shame on them. we he say it on the show every time. let me ask you one more question. the wall. do you know what it is? >> well, i know what border security is. i know its something we havent had for the last 10 years. we need this -- >> but what is this, chris? thats what im asking specifically. the president said it was a big cement wall, 30 feet high, the whole bothered. now im hearing he thinks it is something else which is akin to wha...

Intelligence committee, auz rig -- as you rightfully point out. they think this is critical to the work that they do. its also striking that initial tweet does line up with some of the policy views of rand paul. that, i think, is something to watch moving forward. but again, this very muddled messaging on an issue that pits him against key members of his intelligence community, within his own administration. were going to see the president today. hes hosting a listening session to talk about cri...

Muellers office or mueller himself, what are you thinking? >> yeah, well if youre in muellers office, well start there first, you realize you have the cards and you are the one with the subpoena power. and you know that if you want the president to testify in person that you can make that happen, and the only way that the president can stop it is to plead the fifth amendment, which he has the right to do. but that would be so politically perilous, that i think its highly unlikely that hell do it...

And thats so fascinating because we see him in so many other contexts where there are not actual rules. a deposition has rules and those individuals are there. >> yes. >> but youre saying the brash style can work. here he was when all this did become public speaking about you in an interview and attacking you. take a listen. >> shes a terrible attorney. she lost her case to me. in fact, i won legal fees. shes got a terrible reputation in my opinion. she has a terrible reputation. other lawyers c...

May not work for them. >> im a historian so the column is part of the history department column for politico. and we were looking at a question that web debois, the q that the path-breaking socialiologist and scholar noted in 1935. he was looking at the post civil war south. he noted they had a tendency to vote against their own interests to place their identitys as white people above their identities as working class people, so the natural thing for them to have done would have been to forge al...

Working class people to accept the psychological wages of being white above material wages. so the piece looks at other contexts in which this has also been the case. part of the argument is that whiteness does, in other historical context, pay material wages in the forms of preferential housing and employment markets. and that white working class voters have, in many suspects, over time, voted in ways that we would very actionable, but that are not irrational. while there are psychological wage...

Too much or has too much information, theyre going to start roughing him up. thats inevitable. >> do you think you agree with that, richard? >> well, thats the usual strategy. in criminal trials. is that the defendants who did not plead guilty turn on the others who did plead guilty or turn in states evidence that accuse the evidence of lying in order to get a reduced sentence or charges. thats standard procedure for criminal defense lawyers in these cases. its really tragic though that we are t...

Very long welcome and robust applause breaking up his speech on several occasions, which is a little counterintuitive when you consider all the negative build up before he went over there, bret. >> bret: kevin corke live on the north lawn. kevin, thank you. secretary of -- that runs counter to before yesterday in "the washington post" ." spoke with our own national security correspondent jennifer griffin today. >> did you find yourself having to not raise issues when russia is belligerent to the...

Donald trump and other candidates and republicans backed by steve bannon are those outsiders, and that this sets up an "us versus them" dynamic, frankly, has been very useful to bannon in other contexts and proving in ways useful to trump politically now. the more he can cast himself as a victim of the deep state and the, even this tiny little bit of ammunition that he was given is clearly very damaging to the fbi and by extension to the mueller probe, just because it is a little bit of ammuniti...