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We have seen that jared kushner has very much taken on a greater role, i think president trump has put quite a bit of trust into him and i think he is someone who the president looks at as maybe sort of very level-headed. he is very quiet, doesnt give a ton of interviews. i think this is someone who the president very much trusts. i think jared kushner also he has a lot of ties to democrats and the democratic party in his time before the trump administration. so maybe that could potentially be i...

Into my wheelhouse now. to tell you the truth ive been prayerful about this and im heartbroken about it. i would just hope there would be something that would say this is not what it seems to be. but thats not where we are right now. >> speaker pelosi said she has a responsibility to protect the constitution, which is a system of checks and balances. >> so much to talk about this morning. lets go to daniel strauss, a politics report for politico. daniel, good morning. >> good morning. >> lets st...

From the whistle-blowers claim. lets put it up. the claim that the two ambassadors for the u.s. reportedly provided advice to the ukrainian leadership how to, quote, navigate the demands that the president had made of mr. zelensky, the president of ukraine. detail just how critical this deposition on thursday could be. >> i mean, highly critical. this is going to be someone who was close and at hand through the most sensitive parts of these discussions between president trump and the president o...

Been retroactively classified and now constitute potential security violations. i want to put ourselves in that position where youre an official and, suddenly, you think everything is finished and you get this call that its not. what steps do the official have to take? are they lawyering up right? >> they have to consider that, right? its still unclear this early on whether they need to find their own lawyers on what this means. retention of these emails in a classified setting is a serious, ser...

Avoiding the tauopic the democratics candidates are weighing in more forcefully. >> we have a president who is confessing on national television to an abuse of power rather than leading the american people where we need to go. we are in trouble. >> listen. this administration, in particular, donald trump, will do everything he can that is running a corrupt administration and in the process of, impeached and he has violated the trust of the american people and sold out our democracy. >> politico ...

Internally is that its the inquiry, itself, that has some merit, its not necessarily the removal of the president but there that an investigation going on and democrats who are running for president are presenting themselves as responsible arbiters of malpractice. >> daniel, i know that there is a little deja vu going on this morning. everybody woke up and said what is this? just when you thought the 2016 election was over, "the washington post" reporting this morning on yet another investigatio...

Needs to secure and really maintain his popularity among republicans. it is really an accomplishment on his part. hes moved -- hes confirmed more judges than president obama and he takes great pride in that. its something that even moderate republicans or republicans who really wouldnt like president trump otherwise, see as valuable in his presidency. >> lynn sweet, daniel strauss, good to have both of you. >> thank you. could the attack on a saudi arabian oil facility draw the united states f...

Department to investigate things as if he can order them around as a personal investigative force. he also asked that president obama be investigated, so we should take note too in his response to kavanaugh, also reveals a not normal, not correct way of using the justice department. >> yeah. to lynns point, daniel strauss, this is not the first time that the president has called on the justice department to investigate a political opponent and theres some evidence that the justice department has...

Its an often -- its an often cited accomplishment from the president of some hundred plus, maybe 150, judges, more in the pipeline, confirming judges is just about the only thing that the senate is able to do now, and the judges under the supreme court, the appellate and u.s. district court judges, in some ways are almost as important as the supreme court justices because they are lifetime appointments. those people will endure and rule for decades after president trump leaves office. >> and dan...

Reporters. now shes out, forced to resign yesterday. the white house already disconnected. sources now tell us when this happened she was on a scheduled summer vacation. joining us now to talk more about this and other topics, the washington bureau sheaf for the daily beast and daniel strauss, politics reporter for politico. daniel, as you may know our viewers may not oftentimes reporters traveling with the president, white house staff will give off-the-record conversations like this one over di...