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To congress to echo the speechs big points. military spending is this afternoons big theme. this morning, the economy had the presidents attention. look at this tweet here. since november 8th, the stock market has posted $3.2 trillion in gains. jobs. we expect the president to be celebrating the economy. he has every right to. we can debate the reasons for that. the stock market is booming. he has every reason to celebrate it. heres my question. this is a president, and this is a traditional app...

President and it puts the president in a really difficult position because hes so close with sessions, because sessions has been so loyal to him and he does feel like he has a message to talk about that could gain more attention. and so weve gone two days without major controversy. >> and well see what the president says. whether he addresses this. for me this is an interesting test for the president. he gave a very well received speech. you can disagree with him on policy, but he gave a very di...

Certainly among republicans. even a lot of democrats. although the levels are going to end up being a problem when they get down to writing these bills. he wants to highlight his agenda and doesnt want to have to have his kind of distraction and it is a real distraction at a time hes trying to go from some very controversial unilateral moves that he made in the first few weeks of his presidency to a more cooperative, dynamic congress. im sure were going to hear him make a lot of the same points ...

Fbi director or any other intelligence director to withhold information when talking with the intelligence committee or is that normal for them? is he just following routine procedure here? >> you know, i would say that certainly there is a cultural, as well as a policy framework for when individual members of congress approach the department and when committees do. what the department has to look at is, is this within the scope of the committees responsibilities and clearly it is. is this in th...

>> in this environment, if you give democrats recusal, which everyone believes is inevitable down the road if theres anything to this. which we dont know if there is anything. these are just allegations. and you are innocent until proven guilty in this environment. he could end this by getting out of the way now by saying, i recuse myself. that would be giving the democrats a victory and if they get one, id ask for more. >> democrats have been calling for recusal for a while. thats not enough. h...

Iran/contra committee and the vice chairman of the 9/11 commission. and he made the argument that theres an opportunity here for the president to take some leadership and to appoint a bipartisan commission outside of this whole process. he argued that congress has completely lost its ability to conduct any kind of investigation whose results are going to be regarded as credible. the justice department appears to be compromised here. if you put in a special prosecutor, you know, prosecutors prose...