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Brothers keeper said we need to have witnesses in the room to tell us what happened. no, i was not in the room. let me play somebody who was. senator dick durbin of illinois, the only person so far who had the guts to come out and say to camera rwhat happened in that room, and no one has yet to call him a liar. here he is on friday telling us what happened in the room. >> youve seen the comments in the press. ive not read one of them thats inaccurate. he went on and started to describe the immig...

Prime minister. >> and an e-mail, please dont, dear one. >> it is clear his relationship with britain is not what one would expect. >> and evan, did you ever -- i imagine everyone who has served this country in the military or in an intelligence capacity worked alongside our friends from the uk. i was in a room for a lot of interactions with tony blair and george w. bush. one, july 7th, the bus and train bombings, and to see the relationship deteriorate to twitter taunts and racist retweets is d...

>> tell session he cant recuse himself. he wanted to van attorney general who would defend him. he didnt want an attorney general investigating him or helping an investigation. is that obstruction? it seems to be certainly politically it looks like it. >> it just seems like everywhere you look, trump is trying in a different way to block this investigation. he said if sessions was going to recuse himself, i would have -- if i had known that, i would have selected a different attorney general. so...

Other moments in history where working class whites have felt the world they grew up in slipping away. this was certainly the case for a lot of working class voters in 1968 who gravitated towards george wallace. they see a changing economy that doesnt necessarily work for them. theyre reacting not irrationally to some of the changes wrought by globalization, so i think for them, what donald trump offers is a type of revanchism, the promise of the recovery of a lost world, in which white was up a...

Republicans really messed up the messaging on this, in part because the bill helps corporations at the kpeexpense middle and lower class families. thats something well run on. and back to evans point, the economy did do well in 2017, in large part due to president obamas policies, but democrats still won a loot t of seats. people are looking at trump bei, saying, hes got going to deliver on the promises he made. they dont believe him, they dont have the trust in him. i think that will continue t...

Brown, its asian americans, its hispanics. and republicans havent been able to offset the losses and thats a big recipe for disaster in the mid terms and weve already seen it in 2017. >> weve run out of time. we thank you for your perspective on this, josh, adrian, evan, thank you. more at the top of the hour. president trump defending his mental state. well discuss, next. eel that thy have to drink a lot of water. medications seem to be the number one cause for dry mouth. dry mouth can cause ...

Directly related to the president of the united states. his campaign. his closest associates. and look, in this report it shows that there was a white house lawyer who was very concerned about the president taking steps to fire james comey, if you were to fire james comey, this could lead to a new investigation. and that is problematic. i dont think you would see the same thing in the obama years. even -- you know, evan covered the justice department, i dont know if this is -- >> no, this is the...

Response. and this is a pattern that you hear -- you made the point earlier -- its not just from steve bannon or one person who has denied a couple of the quotes, its from a whole host of people we spoke to. >> whats interesting to me, steve bannon also said things that i think would be of interesting to muellers investigators. he talked about the idea of money laundering and how you get to the president through those who are close around him. jared kushner, his own son, don junior, hes said, ev...

Jr. that the ambassador was present for. and although we dont see any requests for prior business deals and this is very important against the backdrop of these calls to investigate potential money laundering and to look at his prior deals, it doesnt seem like the requests are focused just yet. its important to point out they can go to other courses and my colleague pam, evan, and shimon reported that muellers team that the fbi specifically was looking at prior business deals and they were tappi...

Theres another one. he neither particularly listened to what was said to him nor considered what he said in response. and this is a pattern that you hear you made the point earlier its not just from steve bannon or one person has denied a couple of of the quotes its from a whole host of people we spoke to. >> whats interesting to me, steve bannon also said things that i think would be of interesting to muellers investigators. he talked about the idea of money laundering and how you get to the pr...