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Wisdom. the president is the ultimate decision maker. what were seeing with the trade issue, there wasnt the process to go through the national economic council to come out with a consensus decision. even if you lose those arrangements, at least you had an opportunity to weigh in. i think the president would be illy served not to use those around him, particularly when you think about these matters where secretary mattis is weighing in, secretary tillerson, thats crucial. >> enjoy the weekend, f...

Capable people around him. and he is gonna continue to lean on a lot of those people. at the end of the day, the american people voted overwhelmingly for president donald j. trump. they voted for his policy, for his agenda and for him to be the ultimate decision maker. i think that everyone can rest assured in the american peoples choice on that front, and that theyve made the right one. >> earlier today, were continuing to bring in new people every day. could you tell white house has come in th...

President will turn to for advice. should he be considered? >> no. the president has a number of very accomplished smart and capable people around him and hell continue to -- lean on those people but overwhelmingly the people voted for his policy and agenda and for him to the ultimate decision-maker and everyone can rest assured in the american peoples choice on that front and theyve made the right one. >> were continuing to bring in new people every day, could you tell us who has come in this w...

After rod rosenstein, right? this as the individual who is really leading muellers investigation is a decision maker when it comes to mueller asking for resources and steps in moving forward. now we have rachel brand, the number three there at doj saying that she is going to resign. according to the reporting that we understand right now, the question is what does that mean next? because if rod rosenstein is gone, then now its no longer going to be rachel brand, benjamin, you know her, i underst...

Important job? >> don mcgahn is notified about this. hes the white house council, and we know that john kelly, the ultimate decision maker, really, along with the president of whether this person could stay knew of this as far back as last fall. so i think the buck really does stop with the chief of staff, and, you know, to give these people the most benefit of the doubt, i really do think that chief of staff kelly and don mcgahn were trying to reconcile somebody who they knew to be an incredibl...

Vice president. >> certainly. we also know that moon jae-in, south korean president, will try to broker a meeting between the united states and north korea. it was reported a couple of days ago in south korea theyre trying to get pence to meet kim jong nam. sorry. >> the sister. >> no. the head of state of north korea. and he is the head of the delegation but it would be much better for pence to meet the sister of kim jong un. she is, in a sense, a real decision maker. i would like to see our vi...

It. now you have these two competing narratives out there about what this is about and i think thats something the party and leadership are trying to figure out how to stay in front of. >> kasie hunt was in the room for the paul ryan press conference as she so often is. kas kasie, weve been talking about the memo and paul ryans comments on that. what stood out to you from the news conference? >> hallie, the speaker of the house, quite frankly, is at the center of something that in some ways is a...

Million of fuel per week and a program to answer the war fighter question to engage or not to engage? >> using microsoft word, excel, google earth and a tool that manages the targets and decision maker to see the information at once and immediately get after the target. it allows us to stay in front of the enemy. >> central command spokesman says decision makers can make quicker and better informed realtime decisions because they have one app that used to require 16 different programs. another p...

Investigation. >> yeah, i mean his knowledge spans a number of areas and points in time that not only the congressional committee, committees, plural, that are looking into this, but certainly mueller is interested in. i mean, he is not going to be most likely a key decision maker about what meetings and, you know, who meets with who, and all of that that mueller is looking at from trumps time in the white house, but he clearly would know a lot about who was supposed to be holding meetings and w...

Investigators. back in trial court talking trial date. on capitol hill on a wildly busy day, garrett, russia investigation sometimes seems like its moving in spits and starts. a lot of activity. >> thats right. and house intel committee tends to do things this way, quiet for a little while, then line up interviews back to back like this. steve bannon as you mentioned in the hot seat today. we expect him in there most of the day answering questions about the short time he was involved in the pres...