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Putin and congratulated him on the victory, his electoral victory. He congratulated him which according to the Washington Post as you know by now his briefers in capital letters washed him not to do. He failed to mention poisoning on the nato ally, which they urged him to do according to the Washington Post. There is no law the president says he has to take their advice. He is the president. He gets the final say. What he does not get, however, is a pass. Keeping him honest, he is a grown up mak...

Retired rear admiral john kirby, a cnn and diplomatic analyst as well as julie hirsch feld-davis. julie, lets start with you. you heard pam summing up beautifully this back and forth between the chinese and american sides and what i can only describe as whiplash in just the span of a few days. we heard the president call xi jinping an enemy and a few days later a great leader. what do you make of that? >> well, i think what we saw just now at the g-7 was the president really trying to sort of ap...

Weeks and months. expect potentially public hearings. i talked to a committee aide this morning, john, who said that were talking about weeks, not months, in terms of having hearings potentially in public. they want to be, quote, as tran transparent as possible. and theyve made these document requests and have been green lighted to move forward. essentially, john, this is continuing for some time in this investigation involving this committee. this will touch on almost every aspect and controver...

Muellers office who everybodys interested to know what hes providing behind the scenes as part of this cooperation agreement or whatever cooperation hes providing to try to get a better deal when he gets sentenced later this year. >> all right, evan, stay with me. also joining me now, we have with us "new york times" white house reporter julie hish feld davis and a former aide to the trump campaign and paul manafort who is now cooperating with the mueller probe. let me start with you. how signif...

Today said hes sitting in meeting looking around and when he doesnt recognize someone, it is raising suspicions for him. that is a question for the president. he wants to find out who it is. and aides are trying to convince the president it wasnt somebody in the west wing and push the suspicion away from the inner circle and those that work with him every day and they realize what this could do to harm them if the president does suspect it is them would wrote the scathing op-ed. there are still ...

Enforcement officer, youre going to get in a lot of trouble if you do that. and his staff is not tough enough on him. when i was in the white house, if president obama told me, this is a spurious agreement, it constricts the first amendment, now go get people to sign t i would have told him, respectfully, sir, sign it yourself. im out of here. the staff are enablers. at some point they have to leave. and above all, the white house counsel, don mcgahn, his fingerprints are on every scandal in thi...