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And so i said all along, i dont question bob muellers honesty or his integrity, never have. having worked with himself enyears, i still wouldnt. >> that is some distance chris christie haggled. he yelled at me once, what are you working for bob mueller? i said some things about bob mueller. it seems at the one year mark mueller has proven to be careful. hes proven to be a leak-free zone. and i think the presidents friends and allies are concerned that he has some exposure on the obstruction ques...

Republicans fought back effectively? >> the president has gotten most of what he wants. a lot of nominees are dragging. he has probably a third less than any other president at this point. so there is a lot of resistance. what the democrats are doing which i think is petty partisanship is theyre blocking and filibustering people they voted for. >> bill: exactly right about that when he went up for c.i.a. director. nice to have you in person. ill let the president know you are a good guy. or so y...

Times just today, im speaking purely will physical interactions now about the iran deal, but if you watch them, they are trying to outdo each other. on the truman balcony trying to out-wave, to be the last to wave. and seeing who could pull each other the furthest or shake hand the longest or comes out with their hand on top on the back. or earlier when they were walking to the oval office after they welcomed everyone on the south lawn, trump was dragging -- >> he likes to pull. >> pulling him. ...

That because of the several pr disasters that you just mentioned including the violent dragging of the passenger of one of its airlines as well as some of the recent deaths of some pets who were on board as well. so it hasnt been a very good year from a pr perspective but the stock for united airlines is still up 4% this year. that is compared to a 10% drop for american airlines and 2.5% drop for delta. as you said the chairman is going to be replaced as well. some other news in markets, bond ma...

Was diplomatic agreement created in 2013 what happens? one year later, the u.s. was dragging -- having to issue its first strike there, because it outerly failed obamas efforts truly failed could not prevent images weve seen horrific to some you know, argument i suppose could you say the president really had no choice when we got the attacks that we saw. >> absolutely, inherits chaotic world isis grew up left to defeat users largely done iraq syria now dictator assad gases people wants to strike...

Could be that he was considering making changes, rumored a couple of people in town have said no. they wouldnt work on the team. i think the president was trying to avoid those stories. so he knocked down the story more broadly. clearly hes been talking to judge jenova, which is a very good lawyer in town. you know, joe will do a great job representing him. he picked a lawyer hes comfortable with. they will sit down and make decisions to -- it is a -- when you have a political case that is half ...

Democrats are out there like that. >> charles: i want to ask you about the big news this week with mike pompeo being chosen. already some push back within the republican party. rand paul, john mccain sounds like hes iffy on this. what do you make of the prospects of a quick confirmation? particularly in an environment where theres a lot of dragging on all of trumps nominations. >> there wont be any quick confirmations to major positions in the future given the polarization that has taken place. ...

President then just punt to mitch mcconnell and say, its in your hands now.? >> thats what senator schumer said. last night, we saw some democrats come out and essentially say trump walked away from a deal. of course, any deal that senator schumer was putting forward, the white house thought they were getting the raw end of that. i think youre going to see now a lot of pressure not only on trump to try to get something done here, but youre going do see some more pressure on schumer to actually s...

Friends. they are really in an adversarial relationship with us. doesnt mean we cant talk to them or we shouldnt try to get them to be more cooperative. >> putting themselves at the center of key international issues is part of the strategy, isnt it? thats their way, the whole point, to say to washington, were here in the middle east, were here on the korean peninsula, you cant ignore us, right? >> yes, they have two audiences. vladimir putin and his cronies, you know, the kremlin crowd, they wa...

Republicans in congress. lack of action on the aca repeal and replace. and now the dragging of feet on everything else. and now they have got to go sell tax -- you know this tax reform, which a lot of republicans arent happy with. steve: you know diamond and seal who have twitter account and instagram they tweeted this out yesterday. message to those republican politicians running for office. if you dont support our president and its agenda, then the president will not support you. brian: right ...