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The offense, and he really enjoys basically saying look, im the president here. i won. i won pittsburgh. i won paducah, you did not, so im not going to listen to you. this president is a very emotional thinker and sometimes a very irrational decision maker. so this indecisiveness is part of his dna. this is what got him in the white house. the question is now that hes the leader of the free world, is this in our best interest, and it really is not. the staff is doing a good job, but the presiden...

His own spokesperson. >> robert, i heard tom friedman say last night he has no doubt the president has good people around him. he named mcmaster, mattis, kelly for starters. his doubt is whether or not theyre a team. and that is a critical question. >> if you notice what the president is always out front with his staff. in other words, his staff are usually scrambling behind him. i think the president enjoys chaos. the president enjoying being on the offense, and he really enjoys basically sayin...

He named mcmaster, mattis, kelly for starters. his doubt is whether or not theyre a team. and that is a critical question. >> if you notice what the president is always out front with his staff. in other words, his staff are usually scrambling behind him. i think the president enjoys chaos. the president enjoying being on the offense, and he really enjoys basically saying look, im the president here. i won. i won pittsburgh. i won paducah, you did not, so im not going to listen to you. this pres...

Marine sergeant johnny joey jones. good to have you both. thank you gentlemen for being with me. lets start with the mission plan here. what is it for the general inside the white house? >> first things first is you have to stop the leaking. spacek started to do this but he is an exceptional leader. theres nothing in his career package that shows failure on anything. he is a type of guy who can get order and discipline back to the white house. i think is going to streamline the command structure...

And call russia a threat not united states as the president signaled a friendly approach to moscow. the chances that general kelly can do what none of the intelligence services, all 17 of them have been able to do, which is to convince donald trump that a russia is a threat to the united states and no a end from, what do you think of his chances of being able to do that? >> general kellys opinions to himself about whether hes for the wall or not even as they were coming out of dms, they wont mat...

Great, thats fantastic. >> yeah, no. its not. its not. but it is important to talk about it and address it, and all the talk about it in the last week, you know, i think its going to challenge the powers that be and this is a good thing. >> whats one of the solutions here, melissa? >> well, i think one of the solutions is actually paying people equally. i mean, we shouldnt have to be fighting. like, the fact that they, cbs, said they had given them a substantiative raise means that they were pay...

Governments to make different decisions, at least about matters of policy that dont rise to the level of war and peace. in the russian system, putin is really the only decision maker. the opportunity to make the case about steps we need him to take, and to put down firm markers as was just said, is unusual and important to take advantage of. >> jill, is there a way to intimidate vladimir putin? >> i dont think so. i really dont. putins very good at thrusting back, you know, pairing and thrusting...

Resonates with. if it resonates with his base, absolutely. the president is a producer at the end of the day. he knows exactly what hes doing. one, if he wants to stoke the base and give them a lot of red meat, he is hitting a rohome ru. if he wants to counter his legislative agenda, hes hitting a home run. >> you almost think that its going to be followed up by, im president and theyre not and nanny nanny boo boo. like its so juvenile that we then have to report on it as if its some type of ser...

Foreign country to influence government policy, basically influence the president, curry favor with the major decision maker in office here that would benefit them over the interests of the united states and the voter who is put this person into office. and so the emoluments clause, which you mentioned, is specifically designed to prevent that type of corruption. and there was also a separate emoluments clause that is intended to limit potential corruption between states, so that the president i...

Donated almost exclusively to democrats. $56,000 donated, more than half of it came from one lawyer whos working on mueller now for this. can they be impartial? >> absolutely. remember the person making the decisions here is robert mueller who is obliged to nobody and is one of the best law enforcement figures in american history. hes the decision maker. i think its fair to point out that mueller has hired some very distinguished people. mike dreebin is the most respected criminal law appellate ...