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President trump may be doing an end run around his chief of staff john kelly. sources telling cnn two of the presidents new hires are reporting directly to trump. here to discuss the author of the "gate keepers, how the white house chiefs of staff define the presidency." douglas, the newly installed national security advisor john bolton and kudlow. and heres what cnn is reporting, both men are reporting directly to the president bypassing chief of staff john kelly. how unusual is that? >> its ve...

Arranging payments to eem through the "national enquire enquirer"s ownership to keep stories out of the public eye for political purposes? >> so the answer to that is michael cohen would be trying to do an end run around campaign finance laws so instead of the direct individual contribution that weve heard about thats been alleged that he did to stormy daniels in the amount of $130,000, putting aside the salaciousness and who characterize about the underlying facts of this doorman, its the idea ...

Countries have been unable to confront. and that, in part, was let loose again by the lack of action in syria. if there is still a united nations, and if that united nations has any teeth and any purpose for existing, would it not be to create a safe zone, a no-fly zone, in eastern syria to allow these refugees to return home? >> the u.n. i do not believe will green light that because countries like russia have vetoes. this is a little like bosnia. admiral stavridis knows this better than anybod...

Now the governments response is that they are trying to fis miss many case. based on the idea that for a long time criminal defendants cant normally file civil sights dpens the prosecutors prrgt them. it makes sell. it would be an end run if a defendant could say, you know what, im dpoing to sigh you for swrongly prosecuting me. it would make a mess of our system. the regulations do authorize muellers prosecution because its been by rosenstein all along the way. >> thank you. as we secelebrate d...

Something on daca recipients. hes looking across the sea here, republicans and democrats, not putting some of those national security issues on the table. >> listen, i share that frustration. i feel like ive been banging my head against the wall. new member of congress for the last year trying to fathom whats going on. i thought the administration unveiled generous framework on immigration with respect to the daca recipients as well as border security. i can tell you, you never get 100% what you...

Pruitt who was a.g. in oklahoma and would have some bona fides there. you think their plan is to try to do an end run around the process, a b? >> well, obviously i think prbs would be happy with an end run, but that us didnt mean the senate will. we know the senate republicans, many have been privately telling the white house for months that they dont want to approve of another attorney general, that it is politically perilous for the president to get rid of jeff sessions. unlike the other cabin...

For that but the law lets you enact tariffs. this is an attempt for an end run. >> you saw how that went over with canada. one of our best allies. for him to invoke is completely unacceptable, especially in canada and other places. >> not going well around the globe. if trump uses this as negotiating tactic, it undermines the argument that he was a national security threat to begin with. >> it is also true that the u.s. has lower tariffs than everybody else. for people to act like this is, if it...

White house ethics lawyer, chris lu, assistant to president barack obama. chris, given what we know now, does it appear to you they were using temporary clearance as essentially an end run around the fact that the background check had come back and there had been probably a recommendation if never committed to paper that he not get a permanent clearance? >> youre absolutely right. somebody in the white house or in the west wing gamed the system to keep porter in on his clearance as long as possi...

The process is broken. it needs to be reformed. >> richard painter former chief white house ethics lawyer, chris will you an assissistant to pre barack obama. chris, given what we know knew, does it appear to you they were using temporary clearance as essentially an end run around the fact that the background check had come back and there had been probably a recommendation if never committed to paper that he not get a permanent clearance? >> youre absolutely right. somebody in the white house or...

Remember when the fbi director and rod rosenstein tried to do an end run around our committee and attempted to go to the speaker so we would not hold them in contempt? that was not until just a few weeks ago. >> let me ask about you. there was supposedly a meeting where rosenstein came up to you about document production and got heated. is that accurate? >> i had never meetings with mr. rosenstein. i like him personally. i think that he can fix the problems over at doj. we are willing to work wi...