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Goli, taste your goals. >> laura: flee days how many days joe biden spent at the white house so far this month. now he is back just in time to go on another vacation this coming weekend. now, do you remember the response, the frothy, friend wered response from the media when trump golfed? >> the golfiest president in the history of the presidency. >> the president spent nearly five hours trump international golf club palm beach, colorado are today. >> this is how he spent this weekend and some o...

President trump is about to escape washington after a week of negative headlines and intense criticism over his meeting with russian president vladimir putin, including taking his side at the press conference, then the walk-back, then walking that back. of course there was his plan to let the russians question americans. now a second meeting with putin in d.c. in the fall. and the news that just broke that theres a recording of trump talking to his former fixer, michael cohen, about a payment to...

Of this stuff done. they are desperate to get some achievements to go home to their districts and states to talk about. >> theyre desperate to escape washington. now theyll be as angry as their constituents are at home because they have to stay in washington. peter, stick with us. were going to play something from lindsey graham who talked earlier about what exactly is going on. >> there are two things. if there was an e-mail suggesting the russian government wanted to help you and you took the ...

They are noticing. they are afraid of a weakened united states. >> you were upset about the withdraw and angry about a, and weak-kneed republican senators reminded you, they fear the white house right now, and that is a problem that washington seems to -- this white house has not gotten control of washington. >> i think they are going to remember given the rally yesterday hes got deep in lapsing support in red america, and i disagree with david fundamentally right now, and quote dan rather news,...

More months left in the presidency, here 25 years later, its too early. >> presidents get a lot of opportunities to reset. voters are patient. what are we seeing in 30 days? >> i think that im -- im much more where he is now, we are 30 days into this. while, we, in washington, are pretty clear about what we are seeing because its not like anything weve seen before. the disarray. the internal discombobulatelation. whatever we want to call it. theres a good swath of americans who want to wait and ...

Ive never been so nervous in my lifetime about what may or may not happen in washington. i dont know whether this white house is capable of responding in a thoughtful or careful way should a crisis erupt. i spoke with mr. panetta last night and began by asking him whether he finds believable that report this week in the "wall street journal" which you heard referred to earlier in the show that people in the intelligence community are withholding critical information from president trump because ...

>> theres a lot of members of congress it seems this week that do want to get more involved into an investigation into what russia did, what role did russia play in the 2016 election. >> there are so many questions out there that we first of all need to understand the parameters of whats happened here. and so i would -- i would hold off and wait and see what happens. one thing that you and i know from being around this town and being around washington, theres probably going to be some more shoes...

Ten days has been unbelievable. the leaks, the fake stories, the anonymous accusations. that stuff is bad. thats what hes referring to. i know where hes coming from on this. cane assure you he believes in a free press, first amendment. he loves our constitution. we just want to get this stuff back on the rails and more honest in regard to these really big accusations that are coming at us. >> i know you believe all of this is press generated. do you not have a problem in that west wing with leak...

Its 70th year. this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. its only been four weeks but already were running out of adjectives to describe the trump presidency and this last week did nothing to clear things up. late yesterday president trump returned to familiar territory, comfort food for politics, essentially. addressing adoring supporters in florida, far away from protesters or reporter questions. mr. trump is hardly the first president to seek validation from campaign-s...

He said, so are we. that moral equivalency is a contradiction of everything the united states has stood for in the 20th and 21st century. >> many want an investigation what role the russians played in the 2016 election. >> so many questions we first of all have to understand the parameters of whats happening. . so i would hold off and wait and see what happens. one thing that you and i know from being around this town, being around washington, theres probably going to be some more shoes to drop....