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Between the trump administration and special counsel. trump administration has a lot of avenues which in pursuit to influence special counsels investigation. but i dont think that president trump expressing his appreciation to robert mueller is really going to sway mueller in his investigation. >> eli, it also doesnt have much credibility if thats where he passed along to robert mueller. seems the first thing he communicated to robert mueller is clearly a lie. as he attacked the investigation ha...

Actually protect the special prosecutor. quote, if president trump wants to halt mr. muellers inquiry he can order deputy attorney general rosenstein not to reauthorize the investigation this october or to starve the special counsel of funds. if mr. trump wants to stop mr. mueller even sooner, he can instruct mr. rosenstein to have veto power every step of the way. if mr. rosenstein rebuffs the presidents commands, mr. trump could replace him with a loyalist who will follow his instructions. nei...

You know, one of the things that is so interesting about working with the white house and one of the things that i miss about working at the white house, it is a hub of information. it is a place where the president and his senior staff can collect information from around the world almost instantaneously. because youve got staffers in "the situation room" who are monitoring global events ready to update the president and his staff at a moments notice. the fact you would have to set up a team at ...

To talk about the two stories. let me put up the story from "the washington post." trump asked his advisers to power aides, family members and even himself in connection to the probe. eli, for a man so obsessed with optics, this doesnt look good when youre -- you know, googling how do i pardon myself? >> the lack of restraint, that -- they sort of telegraph their greatest fears and weaknesses because they look like they have something to hide. the president cant let it go. it was the same thing ...

Crumble is the single most central policy goal that vladimir putin has with respect to the united states. if we see that happen, i think you would have to be really either incredibly stupid or willfully blind not to be able to say, okay, this is the -- this is the policy piece of the -- if theres a quid pro quo, here it is. >> the white house would have to not sign the bill if it passed the senate or house or they have to lobby against its. ken dilanian, are you still with us out in aspen? you l...

Roberts was saying, hamburg, germany associated press, trump believes in denial of russian meddling but better to ask trump himself and eli blake, a noted foreign policy expert analyst hear from bloomberg in the united states, noteworthy in the past the president retweeted his articles, this vladimir putin guy is making you look like a chump. there was a couple hours before the president headed back to the united states. is there a feeling among the folks you talk to not just in the united state...

Presidents are very welcomed in poland. and let me bring you in on this sort of -- you know, eli and i were talking about the dual tracks that the white house operates on. theres general mattis who is by any analysis a serious president, respected the world over. hr mcmaster, a serious person. he was managing the north korean threat while the president was in the twitter world with our friends joe and mika. how does a president on the road bifurcate the silliness of what he does on twitter with ...

They have to be ready to got a moments notice. >> truly terrifying times and were going to get into all of this. were going to stay on this. andrea mitchell and hans have to go, but jeremy and eli are sticking around. when we come back, two men obsessed with their own press and all that winning but only one is a former kgb spy master and prides himself on one upping every adversary. could donald trump help to make putin great again? and the man lampooned on "snl" may be one of the senior staff...

That are seemingly so insignificant, you know, that could be a problem down the road because a day will come when you will need that credibility. looming crisis with north korea seems to be such a day. >> such a day, yeah. >> youre out there talking to your base saying one thing. tweeting rather casually about north korea and what is this guy doing, doesnt he have anything better to do? and when youre trying to pressure china, it matters that he has also sort of gone out on social media and sent...

Eli, if you can speak to this sort of increasing alarm over what theyre staring at down in the situation room and increasing insanity of what hes tweeting and retweeting in his petty wars with cable news hosts, his ego that michael steele talked about, his inability to acknowledge what all the intelligence services acknowledge, which is that a cybercrime from russia. >> we didnt see that it would change, whether it relates to social media or a foreign policy thats made up on the fly. this idea t...