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Insecurity, and it is a typical reaction by a president when anybody disrespects him as he sees it. im afraid that the consequences are entirely predictable. >> reporter: two big questions now, the future as ambassador to d.c. and who leaked his incendiary comments. p.m. theresa may is standsiing her man, but in two weeks she is gone, giving her replacement an opportunity to clean house in d.c. and possibly appoint a more trump friendly ambassador. who dumped the private thoughts likely has its ...

Opportunity to bring him to justice. with me from the white house is hans nichols. i have to say, this is not as full throated a defense as president trump often gives of people accused of things. what is the white house looking for before completely coming down on one side or the other? >> appears they are doing some sort of review. thats what the president is hinting at there. acosta was part of the plea agreement which allowed epstein to spent 13 months in prison, in the county prison. cross ...

Werent expecting. >> one of the things i thought was interesting was the cross currents picked up on guns. congressman swalwell was a young congressman without a huge national profile. he is on the intelligence committee and very articulate. people know him on cable news for things that come before the mueller report. he has taken on this guns issue in a way that is earnest and deep. for him to propose that buy back program and taking it out of mine and chucks hands and challenging senator sande...

Shay shaped the night and they shaped the conversation. and i imagine that was your intention, but you talked about the binders. you guys were so well prepared and i wonder if you could just sort of tick through a couple of the specific policies that you were probing and just sort of share some reflections about whose answers surprised you or whose answers werent what you expected or whose answers maybe turned the conversation in a way you werent expecting? >> well, one of things that i thought ...

Because its time we start comparing apples to apples. >> well, as you mentioned, joe biden has been running into cross currents that are partly about his extensive experience, which often can be a negative in presidential politics, also about two sets of issues you alluded to, womens issues as well as civil rights. take a listen to him talking about an issue youve worked on, how the federal government is limited in health care that relates to abortion services, specifically the quote-unquote hyd...

And what do his opponents need to do at the fish fry tonight? >> joe biden needs to -- theres a short time problem which is he needs to get past this problem. he needs to explain it more when he gets to the fish fry. what it really meant. why he decided to leap over the relations he had in the 2000s, 1990s, 1980s and go back to the relationships in the 70s. >> my dad said the coziness was the very thing that civil rights activists were organizing against in the 60 and 70s. biden saying this does...

So we know pompeo and bolton are both iran hawks. but the question is are they willing to voice that opinion so openly at the risk of receiving the ire of the president. >> the one thing i would note is that unlike john bolton, who makes his views very clear, secretary pompeo is very careful never to get out in front of the president. thats why youre not hearing him right now. >> even just yesterday tweeting again the president does not want war. >> i was going to say not only are there cross cu...

Becoming less and less a defining factor. because there are so many ways -- the health care is the economy. a lot of ways to look at it but it is not purely the economy stupid. 2018 proved that. >> we started with jay powell and the federal reserve. the worst reason to not cut rates is because the president wants it. just as you want to be independent, independence cuts both ways. if you think it is right for the economy, you do it. >> in your book you talk about what its like for the worker out...

War. >> and, michael, as we bring you in, there s-of course, theres so many cross currents in u.s. foreign policy right now. a president both embracing history and seeming to want to move away from at times his coalition that was created after the war. also a commander-in-chief who can be blustery and threatening but who at times seem to be too close to tyrants whether they be in north korea or saudi arabia or russia as we americans try to make sense of his foreign policy. of course, certainly o...

Record. dont shed tears for james, though, the professional gambler from las vegas won more than $2.4 million during his jeopardy reign. speaking of money, lets get a check on cnn business, taking a look at markets around the world. really a mixed performance. i would call this traeeading war here. on wall street, what are the indications for the opening bell. maybe slightly higher. stocks closed lower as investors worried about the crack down of the tech industry. the dow finished up 5 points...