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Of the ameandment, which im sue well get to, is a weapon on the table. let me say one thing about the author here as we inevitably try to guess. henry adams wrote a novel, "democracy" about washington in the 19th century which was an anonymo anonymous. joe cline. here is something particularly important about who this author is and willie was talking about the process of it. it would be fascinating to know exactly when the conversations with the "new york times" and the author or the authors rep...

The only thing that isnt in chaos is the supreme court and judge kavanaugh said he wants to be a part of the team of nine. its the last working institution in the country. >> but ben sasse says weve politicized the courts because of a second branch of government, which i thought was spot on. >> to your point here, it didnt do anything to stop the chaos by writing this. this reads like somebody who wants to start a confrontation, who is calling out to the public and i think calling out to the sec...

Toobin. the president had no shortage of opportunities to say something nice about senator mccain today, but he stayed silent. listen to this. watch this. >> mr. president, mr. president, any thoughts on john mccain? mr. president, any thoughts on john mccain? >> thank you very much, everybody. thank you. >> any thoughts on john mccain? do you have any thoughts at all about john mccain? >> get moving, lets go. lets go. keep moving. >> nothing at all about john mccain? any action to the american ...

Staff. i think thats the right thing to do. >> he was repeatedly asked five times at various photo opportunities by reporters at the white house to say something, to say something about senator mccain. and he was stone silent every time. he wouldnt say anything publicly. then only under enormous pressure at the end of the day did he announce he was signing a proclamation to lower the flag to half staff. i am wondering what that says to you about the president of the united states. >> well, im ju...

And give memories of senator mccain, a lot of them battled with him over the course of his legislative career, yet and still he had an impact. there was a bigness to him in the senate. one of the interesting elements as they reflect on the senator, on the man, what it also means for the institution. want to leave you with something jeff flake said on the floor, he left with this. we would do well to allow this moment to effect us in ways reflected not merely in our words but also in our deeds. s...

Lets bring in analysts, jeffrey toobin, this would be different than the manafort legal strategy weve seen before. >> he is in a terribly perfeilo and unusual situation. he has ten counts outstanding where there was a hung jury, broke 11 to 1 for conviction in his first trial. if he has the other trial coming up next month in september, in normal circumstances that would certainly be resolved in a plea, but the government almost certainly would require some sort of cooperation to give him any so...

Manafort clearly feeling the pressure right now? >> in the sense that hes already a convicted felon, he has as jeffrey said ten outstanding counts in the federal trial in virginia, now facing the trial in washington, d.c. of course he is feeling the pressure. oern on the other hand, if his strategy, and i dont know this, is to get a pardon from the president down the road, i dont know how it helps him to take a deal at any point in the d.c. trial. then he would be asking for hoping for the presi...

Process. thats something that we havent seen from this president because frankly he has as others just said not only shown himself to be petty, carry on with these feuds, even in a moment like this, but >> in a statement the president said he asked the vice president, mike pence, to attend the rotunda service here in washington that will take place on friday. he also said the white house chief of staff, john kelly, the secretary of defense, james mattis, and the national security advisor, james ...

He wanted to know what the strategy had been, where american troops were, how the iraqis respond. it was a real lesson in military strategy and history. so every time i went anywhere with him i learned something and we had fun, you know, we really did have fun. >> hes also said that you were just one of the guys, which i think for him is probably extremely high praise. >> he was really intent on going places and getting there quickly. john likes to move fast. so if we were in iraq and were tryin...

No response at all. >> please, dana, im sorry to interrupt. >> go ahead. >> this is so bizarre. what are they waiting for? >> thats the question. thats the question. the question is why, and that is the question that guiliani and others are asking in a big way because look, right now today is monday. a week from today is labor day. that kicks off the unofficial campaign season. so i guess technically he is not supposed to -- he, mueller, shouldnt do something overt for 60 days, but were not sure...