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President has a credibility problem right now. >> kate lin kcollins is with us. welcome. as you know, kate lynn, the president always expected absolute loyalty to him from his employees. but the federal government doesnt work that way, does it? >> no, it doesnt. he pride id hd himself on not ba politician. it is funny that trump requires loyalty from the people that work for him because he doesnt seem very loyal. they kept asking if sean spicer would be his press secretary tomorrow and in the fu...

Way he treated hillary clinton. well, what is it? whats the answer? >> and to glorias point, the fact that you have this huge credibility problem and as mark said, all of these things going on in the world, i mean, clearly, from the interview with lester holt, trump is still obsessed with this russia controversy, because he thinks it has to do with the legitimacy of his election, and that is what he is thinking about and talking about all the time, with people who he meets with. >> this russia t...

Wouldnt be inappropriate if he did. what do you make of that? >> there are two components. hypothetically that president would ever ask the director of fbi for a loyalty pledge is just outrageous. the fb i director, any fbi director, is not loyal to any president. he is loyal to the constitution. to our laws. and any president should know that. but its clear donald trump, based on what he said on this interview on fox, does not recognize that or didnt say so in that interview. thats significant....

Accuracy. for more on this, lets bring in tonights "hardball" roundtable, nick conva sorry is a political reporter with "the new york times," katherine rampell, an opinion writer with "the washington post," and former democratic congressman from tennessee harold ford is an msnbc political analyst. so thats the question. do they have a credibility problem? do you trust anything the white house says whether it comes from the president or the spokespeople? is there a point to those press briefings?...

Counsel investigate? but having said that, after they fired comey, my vie is that its changed, that we do need an independent investigation simply because the white house has created a credibility problem. lots of americans believe that there is an effort here to obstruct the investigation. >> and donny deutsch, weve been saying this now for about two months, that you have one trump official after another trump official, including the attorney general, lying under oath, lying to reporters, lying...

You have the president in there, raising the specter of russia. and i think because this president and this white house has a credibility problem, weve been on television shows before, talking about statements that have come out of this white house, that have ended up not being true. you imagine that this is another one thats going to get a lot of questions and scrutiny, if james comey is in front of the senate intelligence committee, talking about this, you think that you mentioned that will co...

Testimony on capitol hill in which he said he felt nauseous about what happened. but he wouldnt change what he did. >> the agency had to correct a statement he made huma abedins emails. everything james said about james comeys credibility problem is. i think in the days to come the why is going to be blurred if there is reaction within the fbi if we learn that inside the trump white house this did come from trump and not come up from president trump himself and not a recommendation made on the b...

I think the way that the white house fired comey and the when and more importantly in those give greater justification for the appointment of a special counsel. theres a lot of people were not convinced by what the deputy attorney general that was the reason for comeys termination. i criticize many of those folk that are saying this had to be because the investigations closing in on trump. i dont see the crime, so i dont date to the max see how its closing in on trump. but i think the white hous...

Sanders do this briefing. >> i would do it too rather than face the questions. because the white house has an enormous credibility problem, from its top officials and from the president. there is a rationale for why comey should be fired, and i think senator paul is right its one shared by democrats and republicans, but you have to get to the what and the why and the when. the what is, the head of the fbi at the time of a major investigation by russia was fired. during that time and the presiden...

Testimony on capitol hill in which he said he felt nauseous about what happened. but he wouldnt change what he did. >> the agency had to correct a statement he made huma abedins emails. everything james said about james comeys credibility problem is true. i think in the days to come the why is going to be blurred if there is reaction within the fbi if we learn that inside the trump white house this did come from trump and not come up from president trump himself and not a recommendation made on ...