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Understand the law very well over the course of the last year and a half, so it may be that he doesnt understand what michael cohen has against him. but it is a very interesting dynamic going on here. >> and, jonathan, in the meantime, the presidents newly named campaign chairman for next time sent this out on twitter today right at seemingly the attorney general. do we have that up on the screen? here we go. time to fire sessions. thats abrupt. end the mueller investigation. you cant obstruct s...

This tweet came out of nowhere today. were desensitized somewhat because donald trump bashes on jeff sessions all the time. its still pretty striking that the campaign manager for the presidents reelection bid goes after the sitting attorney general of the united states as he did there. the reporting that weve done suggests this is not necessarily part of a coordinated effort to fire jeff sessions. certainly we know the president is deeply frustrated at sessions for recusing himself from the rus...

So get an allstate agent, and be better protected from mayhem. like me. can a ring bearer get a snack around here? petri were back to have a conversation we need to have. president trumps hard line on immigration remains popular with his political base, but its putting republicans on the november ballot in a tight spot. the associated press reporting tonight, republicans, particularly those in more moderate districts, are worried they will be damaged by the searing images of children held in c...

These tender-age centers tonight, but painted a portrait of a president going it alone. >> absolutely. this is a president right now who, you know, hes actually i think a little bit torn here on one hand. this is a president who feels like he is under attack, who feels like hes going into the midterm elections and that immigration is his issue. hes told folks around him that hes worried that the lack of progress on the wall is going to make him look, quote, weak, and that he feels like this is a...

District to cooperate, thats the first thing that the prosecutors are going to diask. >> oh, boy. >> then the questions are what do you know about other people, whether its the president or his children or anyone in the trump organization, or any of the russians that he dealt with in january of 2017. all of that will have to come out. and its very interesting to me that trump is not paying his legal fees, which creates, by the way, all sorts of ethic issues because if michael cohen were to coope...

To defeat him in november using just this issue. >> yeah. no, look, the moderates, the guys in the toughest districts are going to be the first casualties. thats kind of the cruel irony of this. but, you know, when you follow your president off a cliff of insanity, when you have dregs working as staffers in the white house that order this kind of behavior, youre going to pay a political price, and thats whats going to happen. >> what if the dems on the left had their act together? >> mm-hmm. wel...

Reflects a deal between conservatives and moderates, both of which house leaders are likely to put on the floor thursday. the compromise bill does reverse trumps zero-tolerance policy. a vote on the bill is expected later this week. well see. the senate is also trying to work out legislation to quickly end the crisis at the border. utah senator orrin hatch along with 11 of his gop colleagues written to attorney general jeff sessions to stop family separations until such time as congress can pass...

The option of cooperation. this as "the wall street journal" reports michael cohen wants the president to foot his legal bill. quote, mr. cohen has frequently told associates in recent months hes frustrated that the president hasnt offered to pay his legal fees, which he said are bankrupting him according to one of the people. he has said he feels that mr. trump owes him after his years of loyalty to the former real estate developer whom he served for nearly a decade at the trump organization. h...

About this earl earlier. the trump administration wants this fight. everything about this right now so far they have enjoyed. they like the liberal outrage. they like the maybe stream oins outrage. this is a fight they are courting. this is an issue that trump wants to run on. this is an issue that -- and i think hes run about the politics and ill say why in a second. but they are enjoying this. this is not a moment of tension in the white house. this is not a moment of unease. this is not a mom...

Potentially negative issue for him and that he worried it might, quote, look bad and that there was a political downside to this. so it seems were at a moment right here where the president is acknowledging that this is something that might have some kind of negative impact on him. from and phil rucker, in the midst of this, the president goes down to capitol hill to meet with the home team. what can you tell us about that gathering? >> well, first of all, brian, its been a remarkable day becaus...