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Dont have more on camera briefings here at the pentagon. every time the president says something controversial, how much you want to couch it, it puts his senior officials in difficult positions. we with say do you agree and thats a very difficult position for guys like jim mattis to be in because in many ways the presidents comments are indefensible. theres many people inside this building that have great respect for all he did in his special forces community. they dont want to be in a position...

Own complicity in his behavior. i could care less if he used the "n" word ever in his life. his history of racism is clear, well documented. we try to couch it by using different words. hes insensitive, et cetera. she has known all of this. but what is disappointing is that when it came to her personally being fired and the issue in the situation room was very interesting. i have been in the situation room before. youre not allowed to bring phones in there. so i guess clearly chief of staff kell...

Theres a reason he wants to interview the president, and he will push forward to get there. but i think he will go step by step. >> this is obviously a departure from what the president had said publicly although he did sort of couch it as a caveat about his lawyer. >> hes big on bravado as we know. he said this privately too for weeks. id love to go in there. he genuinely seems to believe in these private conversations that he can go in and talk his way out of almost anything. but realistically...

Way, whether it is tillerson, mattis, somebody else, how much lee way will this president give to members of his cabinet to top advisors, to air any sort of dissatisfaction, however they couch it, because you can read the mattis one between the -- a lot of reading between the lines there. but president can probably read between the lines when he sees that clip. >> right. the president is no fan criticism, particularly against himself. he sent a fund-raising e-mail today based on i think the subj...

And then once theyre sick, the cost of not having health insurance are a lot worse than the cost of having it. >> same thing? >> not the same thing! not the same thing! stop it. obama talked to like three time as long because he was trying on couch it. he created an image of a sobering person looking at their budget and counting costs. and jason was like, americans are like shiny phones. it is not the same thing. stop it. >> especially when he is explaining about a budget and then he said health...

Thats in some ways what a lot of leaders do. they do sensible things but then they couch it in sort of the rhetoric of populism that will help them do it. i do think its important not to mainstream the hate, the anti-semitism, the racism that came through in a lot of what breitbart has done over the years. >> to your point, donny, i think what you said will be a challenge for women and spend a lot of time on the phone over the weekend with a very powerful, influential women and most are upset. t...

Consumption. >> i think he was using hyperbole, guy talk, however you want to couch it. it wasnt a hidden conversation. it was with a reporter. >> you dont think this sort of reveal of what hes like behind closed doors eats into that fundamental thing people have been drawn to him about, that hes just the same all the time. >> not at all. what you have to worry about is hillary clintons complete flip flopping record and her outright admission shes going to have one position in public and one in ...

To do that all right, now, you probably heard that planned parenthood has now said. >> right. >> that none of their operations are going to accept money for fetal tissue any longer. okay. now, they can couch it any way they want to couch it. this is an admission that their practices and their attitude toward their practices have been wrong. is it not? >> i think it is. it certainly can be interpreted as an admission of wrongdoing. it also raises questions as usual. and one of the big questions i...

Nurse hes going to end up being the president of the united states? >> i have to say he is a good doctor. i think we should settle that now. hes a great doctor. trump went on to answer his own question. i want to hear from an expert, cnns political director, david ch chalian is joining me live on the set. they went all in but there was so much more that developed in the last 24 hours. he had very pointed words about carly fiorina, very personal, very offensive, and yet instead of doubling down -...

Couch it through the prism of how can we help you do a better job? in fact not long ago, and not very far from right here at the white house, there was pretty -- id say reasonably sized demonstration, protesters both backing the saudis and criticizing the saudi kingdom for its lack of human rights treatment, for houstontys and other -- houthis and other yemenis and, the airstrikes in syria, its unfortunately worsening. they would argue the humanitarian crisis there. and very forceful and vocal d...