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I was talking to a group earlier today, indivisible. and i said, at some point we have to get past the talking points weve had so far. lets talk about what the speaker and chairman nunes are doing. they are not only facilitating the suppression of this investigation. by doing that, theyre putting the president above the law. we are a co-equal, separate branch of government. in effect, what theyre really doing is theyre advocating and allowing the president to rise to an autocracy. >> president t...

Trump had. donald trump made him his campaign chairman. i think a lot of us thought that was bad. we thought maybe the white house will be staffed with reasonable people and remember what a shock it was to a lot of people when bannon was made -- he wanted to be chief of staff but he was made a co-equal to reince priebus. he was -- >> he got top billing. >> senior strategist of equal rank with the chief of staff. >> a lot of democrats were terrify when bannon was announced because they thought he...

Of the united states. >> you see this branch of government reasserting itself, and mccain as speech where he talked about congress as no subordinate to but a co-equal of the executive branch was a good summary of everything happening on capitol hill, including the russia sanctions pushing back on trump, even mcconnell brushing him off at, no, were not going to look at redoing the filibuster. you see more and more republicans feeling comfortable like jeff flake pushing back on this administration...

Were handing the world to china, to russia, thats not in americas interest so i think that hopefully over time the president will understand that he needs to lead on these global issues. hes very far from that. i was disappoint bid the stances that they took and so was the rest of the world. >> bring us inside that world as somebody who has been in rooms just like this. in the room with president putin and president trump, where just foreign minister lavrov and secretary of state tillerson, no n...

Listened to. theyve been marginalized. but third, they need to check politics at the situation room door. having mr. bannon in the situation room at the table as a co-equal to the secretary of defense, secretary of state, thats wrong place to go. and on top of that, there are reports that hes been running a parallel process, divorce from the national security council on national security issues. that is a recipe for conflict, for disfunction. i hope that part of general mcmasters conditions for ...

Hes not afraid to confront orthodoxy, a first-rate pick. >> hes written a book critical of u.s. generals for not taking a tougher line with political bosses during the vietnam war. im wondering how that may play out. >> i think hes going to have three challenges as he assumes this job. one is to make sure all the other agencies are really around the table. the state department, joint chiefs, energy, they havent been there to date. second, he needs to make sure that the national security council ...

What the court is doing is reviewing the justice departments evidence and whether this is related to that or not. we have a co equal branch of government to look at it. there are decisions that are on the book that history has not been kind to even though they rested on security judgment. there was a proceedduresal ruli there is a court saying the balance at harm went in the favor of the challenges that washington state and its citizens would be hurt by instituting this ban than by

Powerful than it was in the era of nixon, its probably more powerful than its been in the history of the american republic, particularly as regards to national security. >> thats very true. post-watergate, the president didnt lose power, the congress started exercising its power and becoming more of a constitutional co-equal. but whats happened post-watergate and during the bush/cheney years is powers have been added to the presidency. congress has started relinquishing its responsibilities. the...

-- his revenge, his dark thinking, his thinking out loud when he should be thinking things through before he makes a statement hes just out there. thats whats given me problems. i know the sensitivity of the job, even a person whos experienced in washington -- which trump is not -- its a delicate and difficult job. thats whats given me nightmares. >> one of the points in the piece that i thought about is that the presidency is more powerful than it was in the era of nixon, its probably more powe...

Bossert receiving co-equal. it is unpredictable how that will shake out and how they will work together or against each other. the critical question, and the wild card in all this, is who will ultimately have president trumps ear for now? because thats ultimately what matters most. he is the last word. the buck stops with him. if michael flynn continues to have his trust, then maybe bossert wont be as controversial. if he is more influential, then maybe flynn wont be as much and wont present som...