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>> ryan there referring to his visit to the white house today before mitch mcconnell was on speakerphone. they felt they had sold the president on this bill. its another remind for people on the hill that speaks for this president expect this president. >> this does highlight wen adviser to the president come out and talk about his position, we dont foe that this is the case because this is this third or fourth time that we have seen a major issue like this, the president come out and contradict...

I hope it has the same meaning. >> with us this sunday to share the reporting and their incites, julie pace of the associated press, cnns manu raju, michael bender of the "the wall street journal." we begin today with that so-called nunes memo and its impact. its lead author devin nunes says it exposed anti-trump bias and that he is doing a great public service. >> the sad part is, is that i have an obligation to the american people when we see fisa abuse. the only place that can protect them is...

A subpoena that would be known to the trump legal team, but instead went directly to the general services administration which helps manage bureaucratic functions, including theic transition. trump for america incorporated counsel declaring that career government workers, potentially hostile to the president "unlawfully producedt transition private materials, including privileged communications to the special counsels office." peter carr, a spokesperson for the special counsel, pushed back. "whe...

Campaign. >> i agree. i mean, if youre a 29-year-old campaign volunteer, what else are you there for, besides passing on those kinds of offers? >> right. >> you could argue that maybe in a normal campaign they would have called the fbi but thats not what happened here. senator richard blumenthal, member of that same judiciary committee that has oversight of the department of justice where jeff sessions is the attorney general. does jeff sessions have a credibility problem? >> enormous credibil...

>> i do want to be clear, the president was not involved in the drafting of the statement and did not issue the statement. >> the president weighed in as any father would, based on the limited information that he had. >> "the new york times" says that he was involved in it, that several people in the plane were involved as well. so youre disputing -- >> thats incorrect. >> -- that account from "the new york times." >> yes. >> he certainly didnt dictate, but like i said, he weighed in, offered su...

Small matter to lie about how a conversation occurred, if it actually happened. but there is a crucial question here. if the president isnt telling the truth about these phone calls, what else is he not telling the truth about? trump himself has one explanation for his problem with the truth. its actually from his book, the art of the deal in which he wrote a little hyperbole never hurts. its an innocent form of exaggeration. except, it certainly doesnt apply when you are president of the united...

Thing that was highlighted was the fact that the credibility problem that this white house has of their own making really came into play today because nobody really knows whether to believe the readout that rex tillerson provided where he seemed to infer that the president was more direct with vladimir putin. or whether one should believe the statements of lavrov who indicated that the president was much more conciliatory and more accepting of the russian position. and unfortunately, it was lavr...

>> well, look, i think its not mutually exclusive that jared kushner on "the new york times" reporting that jared kushner might have given him a heads up of some kind and might have been told not to give him details. we have no idea. and that the president was informed of the details later on. i mean thats what -- we dont know the answer to this. we dont know what the president knew and when he knew it to rephrase the howard baker question. we dont know at this point. >> but how much is this a c...

Meeting was about. theyve got a terrible credibility problem on this, and its really -- its beyond credibility now. this is something thats in the hands of the special counsel. obviously, the congressional committees are torqued up to drill down on all of this, and we have entered a new phase of this investigation. theres no question about it. >> i want to read this. maggie haberman and peter baker of the "the new york times," they have new details on donald trump jr.s changing statements over t...

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