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Direction. and paul ryan, to his credit, has put out a directive for all offices to have mandatory sexual harassment training. but i dont want this theres an interesting development to tell you about. there has been a lot of reporting about concerns that the president and his family may be benefitting from the presidency. but the "washington post" reports that there may be a down side, as well. were going to tell you about whats happening in one of the presidents favorite properties, next. hey...

Columnist michelle goldberg joins us written this week on democrats coming to terms with wrongdoings by member of this own party and david french, senior fellow at the national review institute. thank you both. david, starred with you if i can. the president does not have the moral high ground on the issue of groping and allegations of misconduct. why go after senator franken? >> its just partisan politics. he is very good at sending red meat to the partisan base. multiple polling show his parti...

Registered. he said if anybody lays a hands on this guy, shoot him. he was not going to put up with anybody killing a guy who was a good american he, an air force veteran, had worked his way, had good grades in school. he was a perfecty in applicant for college and the only way they rejected him, because they would not register a black guy at the university. so heres the primary university of the state of mississippi. unavailable for black people. and bobby said thats over. >> chris matthews, th...

Would and go out in his words and im going to fight hard to repeal and replace obamacare. hes been a guy that has played both sides of the issues by saying one things to voters and done another thing in washington. that is why -- again, he is retiring for one reason. it is because he knew he was going to lose in the next election. he knew that the people in tennessee realized that hes defrauded them and so having a public fight with the president here, i dont know if there is any down side for d...

This morning? >> no, but listen, i really want you to let me make this whole point. when he commented from charlottesville he did it from new jersey on a saturday afternoon in realtime and he didnt do it well enough. when he was saying i needed to get more facts, it was in the days after. today this morning, he made a very important point. he did not jeopardize the investigation, he didnt put any more specifics he put the pressure on the right places and not commenting on specifics. it may be no...

I think thats fascinating politically. the down side for democrats is potentially, especially for, you know, democrats with the base of the democratic party, where, you know, theres no love lost for donald trump, right? i think thats fine for schumer and nancy pelosi who i dont think throw their hats in the ring and run for the democratic nomination. but i think some of the democrats who are thinking about running for president and trying to win a democratic primary, i think there are some costs...

We havent seen before, because he to a certain extent today told leader mcconnell and speaker ryan that im the republican party, right? and in fact, you need me more than i need you, right? and really sort of twisting a knife in this. i think the long-term implications for this, and the congressman knows this, and god bless him for being part of the congress when there was a bipartisanship, but in the midterm election, if you look at trumps base in the core of the republican party, they are a lo...

Than i need you, right? and really sort of twisting a knife in this. i think the long-term implications for this, and the congressman knows this, and god bless him for being part of the congress when there was a bipartisanship, but in the midterm election, if you look at trumps base in the core of the republican party, they are a lot more aligned with donald trump than they are with speaker ryan and mitch mcconnell. i think the politics of this are fascinating for democrats, and i dont think you...

Democratic leaders, you know, the mayors of big cities around the country, that if congress were to not pass the bill here, that they wouldnt have a lot of practical options to protect these dreamers. and thats going to be a really interesting thing to watch. a lot of them are out there talking, trying to put pressure on the president, even republican congressman here in california who are vulnerable in 2018, trying to get the president to, you know, to really support a daca bill. so it will be ...

The president went down pretty early in terms of the scale of when presidents tend to go onto the ground in these natural disaster situations and he avoided houston, the hardest hit area. and that was probably a smart decision, because houston is still under water. there are enormous law enforcement resources being dedicated to the recovery efforts and dealing with the devastation there. so he chose to go to corpus christi and went to austin, two areas corpus christi in particular did have a lot...