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Targeted by obamas irs. what is he trying to confirm? is he waiting on a confession? it doesnt make any sense. its going to take a lot more time. in the meantime robert mueller is running all over the place. they wont even narrow his scope. neither you or i or any of the viewers of tonights program could get away with deleting 30,000 emails after receiving a subpoena and still be walking around. katie: david, you agree it should be investigated for another reason. but doesnt the fbi have a credi...

>> does he have a credibility advantage when it comes to donald trump? i dont think he has a credibility problem, because hes not working for the media, right, hes working for his client. if he doesnt think its an van stageo ed advantageous to his client, they have all these court hearings going forward, well find out whether he has a credibility problem closer to the end of this process than at the beginning. yesterday -- i have spoken to a number of lawyers about his strategy, particularly his...

$1.3 billion spending bill after everyone said he would sign it. he let h.r. mcmaster go after the white house said the president had confidence in him. the president said he had confidence in his legal team and then two people left. so hes trying to put a nice spin on it saying circumstances change. this is why we get things wrong. i remember back to the rob porter thing which wasnt that long ago where the press office was saying, we cant be sure what were telling you is the truthful. >> essent...

But if you go back, theres many examples of this white house saying one thing and then finding out another only days later. they wonder why they have a credibility problem, number one. bill what do you make of this? if the president -- say hes not just shouting off on twitter and he doesnt actually mean he might not sign this, what happened? >> the government would shut down at midnight unless senators and congressmen can return and pass a continuing resolution to keep things open. it makes it h...

Have reason to show that you had some credibility problem, no problem but if youre manufacturing that credibility gap on your own by firing someone, creating a conflict where one didnt exist before, thats starting to look really dubious and again, were talking about not an ordinary individual but the president of the quiuni states charged with taking care that constitution and laws be taken and looks like is nothing like that. >> former u.s. acting solicitor general. thank you for coming in. app...

>> under cutting a criminal witnesss credibility is not. you testify against me and i have reason to show that you had some credibility problem, no problem but if youre manufacturing that credibility gap on your own by firing someone, creating a conflict where one didnt exist before, thats starting to look really dubious and again, were talking about not an ordinary individual but the president of the united states charged with taking care that constitution and laws be taken and looks like is no...

Hollow. bob mueller and his team, including deputy general rod rosenstein will take a close look at the inspector general report, take into account the facts that are presented, the facts we do not yet know. if there is a credibility problem with and drew mccabe, of course, theyll take that into account. they have a long historic basis on which to judge him at present. that will rule the day until they learn otherwise. >> carrie, last question to you. the offices -- few people have covered the d...

But sarah huckabee-sanders insists the president is right. and so she decided to cite data from the u.s. census for 2017 to prove her point. but her data includes trading goods only with canada. goods, not services. wondered are they cherry picking their data. we are not trade experts but we know somebody who is. at cnbc, steve liesman and the trade with canada, including both goods and services for 2017 and that number was -- you guessed it -- a surplus. weve had three years running of trade su...

Shes been heavily involved in democratic politics on the left side of the party for a very long time representing the bernie sanders wing. in terms of the ancestry question, its not -- she has a huge credibility problem when it comes to this. its not the right wing grand conspiracy demanding she take a dna test to provide evidence for her claims of being native american which benefitted her in her career. after all harvard listed her as minority for years in their directory system to prove that ...

Emphatic, at least so far that had nothing to do with her departure. obviously acknowledging, chuck, the timing here. this is one day after she appeared in front of the house intelligence committee, the last of the committees with which she was to speak. shes spoken with robert mueller. shes already spoken with the senate members investigating russia but again the white house said shes been thinking about this. we know that the president has come out on the record now and talked about what an al...