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Is this coming from? is this the white house counsel essentially trying to protect himself? what danger is there for don mcdpan? -- mcgahn? >> it is a great question. the report says the president spoke to two witnesses, and both share the same attorney. william burke. so as you start to look at the story, its not very hard to figure out where it came from. almost certainly didnt come from bob muellers office. almost certainly came from those two witnesses. >> who else would know what mcgahns pe...

But the problem is weve seen this happen again and again. he had an agreement with chuck and nancy. those never last. so i think, to "the daily beast" story, this can, the presidents weirdness can cause optics problems for the white house staff, but they will always get him back on the anti-immigrant line. they always have. theres not one case through the last year where one of these, one of these total flip-flops have ended up with him signing on with the, with the non-right-wing position. >> y...

Non-right-wing position. >> you know, senator, this reminds you of something a campaign manager once said to me, never get cross wise with the candidates family, because whenever youre done arguing, whenever you tell the candidate youve got to do this, theyre going to go home to their family, and that persons going to get "the last word." schumer can strike a deal. but you are going to go home to steven miller who will tell him we need to deport everyone. >> maybe hell go home to ivanka. >> mayb...

>> reporter: extremely. theres an reason why jim comey and bob mueller have been speaking in advance of this testimony. they want to ensure that nothing jim comey says runs afoul or cross wise with the ongoing investigation. 2 investigation that everybody is really focused on right now is the federal investigation. that has the potential to be a criminal investigation. anything that skbrim comey says that could undercut that investigation or cause problems for bob mueller is something neither ma...

Element here and obvious very different element is actually getting it in first person. its worth noting there are limits to what jim comey can and will say. not just because particularly in the open portion of this hearing. you just need to look at whats going on behind the scenes. theyve been talking with bob mueller trying to make sure nothing he talks about, no area he goes into would run cross wise with the investigation that bob mueller is now overseeing. but the expectation is that those ...

The base back in the united states. he announced this trip during a signing about religious freedom in the united states in the rose garden. so he was calling out the cardinals. he was tipping his hat to the rabbi and everybody else. >> my cardinals love the vatican. what do you make of that? my cardinals? >> well, he -- >> he must mean the ones in new york or -- theres one in new york. >> i think he thinks of the part of the catholic vote that supported him in the election on abortion and other...

No clear evidence that preet bharara was looking into anything that involved trump tower or trumps businesses or anything else. preet bharara was pretty good at busting people who broke the law and did so in a nonpartisan way. hes busted lots of the wall street executives and finds as a result hes gone after politicians, democrat and republican. hes gotten cross wise with the mayor and governor. the president has some shoes to fill to find another attorney. >> on saturday when we were on air tom...

I certainly got cross wise with them. but thats my job is to do things like at. i mean, one of the projects of the american left has been to discredit ronald reagan. they got an enormous assist from bill oreillys perversely named book "killing reagan." i read it, more than oreillys done, decided it was an outrage and acted accordingly. >> what happens now to george will conservatives? george will republicans and/or former republicans. as you approach future ballots of people who are supporters o...

Memories. but, there were some awkward friction. just the finest review of ive read of an oreilly book in what he considered to be the most vicious and unfair possible terms. and its hard to imagine theyre not being some kind of tensions in the hall. im sure that there are lots of tensions in the hallways at the news corps in new york, i gather. >> i think that there is a oreilly factor at fox news, and i certainly got cross wise with them. but thats my job is to do things like that. i mean, one...

Of easy. basically he can do whatever he wants. >> hes creating a front. if he does this, matt lewis, congress has said theyre going to try to pass more sanctions and now hes going to have a battle going on where he is taking a decision to defend russia once again. >> republicans, lindsey graham, john mccain, maybe marco rubio that wants to impose sanctions on russia and not lift them. >> and rex tillerson to testify we would have had more sanctions before and this puts the white house cross wis...