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Need some help managing your oab symptoms along the way? ask your doctor if myrbetriq is right for you, and visit myrbetriq.com to learn more. welcome back to "hardball." after president trump said on friday that the japanese prime minister had nominated him for a nobel peace prize, a japanese reporter reported he did so at the request of the white house. when asked about that reporting this morning, abe said, quote, i am not saying its not true. im joined now by the former spokesperson for th...

>> well, on this broader question, then, of course the rift between the u.s. and traditional allies in europe, we were talking about that in the last segment. you saw the reaction to mike pence there. also pence. the fact that there were democratic and republican members of congress who went to munich for the security conference to basically deliver by their presence almost a re t rebuttal to sorts, governor, i wonder within the republican party, one of the stories of donald trumps rise it seeme...

Going to find out ultimately assuming we see a public accounting of all of this from mueller exactly what hes learned, exactly what hes been able to put together. we may get a lot of answers to these questions weve been talking about for a couple years now. one of them thats been at the heart of this is the sorts of things, the idea of believing putin over u.s. intelligence, the idea of trump sort of putting on that show in helsinki last year with putin up there next to him. what a motivating th...

Muellers investigation and everything else that could come. by underscoring the commitment to the wall, they hope to keep that base with them. >> so sam, i guess thats the question. from now until election day 2020, you know, in 2016 the message you heard from trump was bil build the wall. if in 2020, its okay, i tried. the democrats in congress blocked me. there was this shutdown. i tried to do the emergency thing. a court blocked me. and now you the voters need to deliver a message in 2020 tha...

Before they run every candidate has to ask himself or herself this one question, do i think i can win? bidens case is different because he has more to lose. he is a former vice president and elder statesman of his own party. he has stature the other candidates dont have, stature that will be at risk if his campaign goes badly. what are the chances that things go badly if he does run. start with the general election. it would be a no brainer, trump is president because he won three traditionally ...

You take out double negatives, it should say i am saying its true. so lets pretend. lets say it may be true. when i was in the white house, i was not aware of president obamas team asking somebody to nominate him for the nobel peace prize. it is entirely possible. it wouldnt surprise me. it certainly doesnt surprise me for president trump to do that. in his world, i think he does think he deserves it. and i think that he wants an award that was also bestowed on president obama. >> governor whitm...

Construction, they said no. >> it is clear on its own terms. if you dont like the statute or members -- >> so the answer is no. >> your premise is false because congress has given money consistently. this is part of a national security -- >> but its never been done under an emergency. >> lindsey graham also defended the presidents decision. he was asked if there was any concern that the money being reappropriated from the department of defense to build the wall would take funds away from those i...

Most importantly mccabe explained why trumps actions prompted him to open an obstruction investigation and a counterintelligence probe of the president. >> there were a number of things that caused us to believe that we had adequate predication or adequate reason, facts to open the investigation. the president had gone to jim comey and specifically asked him to discontinue the investigation of mike flynn which was a part of our russia case. the president then fired the director. these circumstan...

Most attention, however, is mccabes account of a discussion about invoking the 25th amendment to remove the president from office. that prospect which would have required the support of the vice president and a majority of the cabinet was never carried out. however, mccabe said deputy attorney general rod rosenstein floated the idea in the wake of comeys oust for. >> it was really something he kind of flew out in a very frenzied chaotic conversation about where we were and what we needed to do n...