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This is about. the president is banking on a strategy to say if you look at the transcript, when you read the transcript, you can see i didnt do anything wrong. a, thats not true and, b, he knows most people wont read the transcript. even though its only nine pages long and out there for everyone to access, its a deflection strategy by the president. he does wanting to be out there on offense and he could make an address to the nation, give a primetime speech in that way. i dont see him actually...

Hes pushing ukraine to investigate biden. take a listen. >> the conversation i had was largelily congratulatory, was largely corruption, all the corruption taking place, was largely the fact that we dont want our people like vice president skbooind -- biden and his son. >> ive seen marco rubio, down the line republicans and trump tv and right-wing media, they are intent to make this a story about the other side. >> yeah, its the classic deflection strategy. what they hope is by throwing on enoug...

About the other side. >> yeah, its the classic deflection strategy. what they hope is by throwing on enough smoke that people will just say everyones sort of just the same, right? yet what we know is that everyones not the same. everyone whos looked at the biden thing and looked at it in a nonpartisan way has come away saying theres no there there. there clearly is a there to the president of the united states trying to use the power of his office to help his own re-election campaign in concert ...

Accusing ted cruzs father of being involved in the assassination of jfk in the heat of the republican primary when ted cruz was his only opponent. now we see the clintons sort of act as a forever foil for him. theyve been the targets of right-wing conspiracies for decades, and its something that it almost seems in this case like he cant resist. >> and i thought that your quote from doug brinkley, the presidential historian, was fantastic. he believes this is a deflection strategy, right? he says...

And abc, hes pointing out other people are offensive too. sarah huckabee sanders at the podium said that the white house did not support her comments but she also came prepared with a whole litany of comments that other folks had made against the president. its a deflection strategy by the white house on these comments. the president -- youre not going to see him condemn her. i just dont think its going to happen. >> mary katherine, point of fact here, abc did apologize. maybe bob iger didnt pic...

>> indira, maggie haberman at the "new york times" today took the presidents most over the top tweet about hillary clinton and just added the words, comfort level tweet, and everyone kind of got what she was talking about. >> of course its his confident level. in fact a lot of that language about the so-called bleaching of the e-mails and using a hammer on the telephones was actually recycled word for word from one of his campaign speeches back in september. >> i remember, yeah. >> right. so thi...

>> right. so this is his comfort zone. he needs an enemy. he seemed like he was happiest on the campaign trail. we know that in the 220 days since he was elected president, we keep hearing about the size of his inaugural crowds, the size of his electoral college win, there are framed electoral maps that have been seen carried into the white house, he handed out toll reporters, copies of his electoral map victory. he is obsessed with this. its also part his deflection strategy. if somebody is goi...

>> right. so this is his comfort zone. he needs an enemy. he seemed like he was happiest on the campaign trail. we know that in the 220 days since he was elected president, we keep hearing about the size of his inaugural crowds, the size of his electoral college win, there are framed electoral maps that have been seen carried into the white house, he handed out toll reporters, copies of his electoral map victory. he is obsessed with this. its also part his deflection strategy. if somebody is goi...

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Response when republican leaders were approached this with this kind of information. and what was the basis upon which that strategy that obama apparently adopted to counter interference, what was the efd on whi evidence on which it was based? it is a deflection strategy. but there are issues that rise from the whole issue of russian collusion and russian probe overall. which i hope we can go into in a moment. >> yes, i wanted to go to this other political battle. the president facing health car...