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First national security advisor. his treatment of attorney general jeff sessions and a 2016 trump tower meeting between campaign officials and russians offering dirt on hillary clinton. interestingly, the special counsel also wants to ask trump about an account reported in the "new york times" that he considered filing mueller himself. everyones still here. mike, lets start with you. let me start with the flynn question. you report that one of the questions on the list, how was the decision made...

Political protection to the president. it goes to that same flynn question. we had white house officials lie to each other with repercussions and about how things unfolded. its the underlying conduct that was problematic and what was the purpose the not taking action on what sally yates told the white house. >> the attorney general in particular is facing backlash on his role in russia, but a new policy he announced on marijuana and its coming from inside his own party. stay with us.

>> i think you just said it yourself. her job is to talk to the intelligence agencies, the intelligence communities, tonc gather information, to evaluate it, and figure out what to do with it vis-a-vis the president. she was not there creating the intelligence reports. the head of the dni is that person who all of that rolled up to. so, i would not say that she was an integral figure or central figure. i am not sure she would say that, either. >> tucker: are you being serious?. thats what she ju...

Democrats in the senate and answer simple questions? >> i think he just said it yourself. her job at the top to the intelligence agencies, the intelligence communities, to gather information, to evaluate it, , and figure out what to do with it vis-a-vis the president. she was not there creating the intelligence reports. the head of the dni is that person who all of that rolled up to you. so, i would not say that she was an integral figure or central figure. i am not sure she would say that, eith...

Democrats in the senate and answer simple questions? >> i think he just said it yourself. her job at the top to the intelligence agencies, the intelligence communities, to gather information, to evaluate it, , and figure out what to do with it vis-a-vis the president. she was not there creating the intelligence reports. the head of the dni is that person who all of that rolled up to you. so, i would not say that she was an integral figure or central figure. i am not sure she would that, either. ...

Whats the context here? >> first off, ari, thank you for having me. i also was very disappointed to hear president trumps ambiguity regarding russian interference in the u.s. election. there is no ambiguity. the entire intelligence community has agreed that russia was responsible for interfering in the election. and any politicization or additional politicization of this issue doesnt help anybody other than vladimir putin. we need to move on from the issue of who was responsible. with respect to...

Questions. >> is chaffetz stepping down now or the end of his term. >> he signaled hes likely to step down before his return but his exact departure isnt clear. >> to me the question is watch st. john spicers performance, twisting and turning, saying we all fill out forms, we trust what happened. the perp that fills out the form, take their word, we couldnt get records, too cumbersome. protecting michael flynn, hes gone. what are they doing? protecting themselves from something just not clear wh...

They really need to figure out a way to kind of get this moving after the collapse of the health care plan which was supposed to be this big early victory. >> go ahead. >> mike barnicle. >> do we have adam kinzinger with us. >> were going to get him, deputy republican whip right now congressman adam kinzinger. >> poof, there he is. >> there you go. >> like magic. >> mike barnicle has a question. mike. >> congressman, how do you feel about -- we were just talking about the proposed tax cut the tr...

Reflective commanders around, trump always thumping out these disruptive chiefs, who as he looks at the decisions he has to make as president is i think generally certainly conscious of the dangers. theyre going to have to thread a very narrow needle on north korea. they decided theyre going to address the question now, as mike said it, time is wasting. theres a clock ticking. i think theyre not wrong in that. but it does put the country, the world in a period of unusual danger. >> we know from ...

>> about all of this, the booing of ivanka? >> i thought it was bad form. i thought it was bad form donald trump didnt shake angela merkels hand. bad form. shes assistant to the president, so shes in the arena, in the public arena. if youre in the public arena, these things happen. but you know, i wouldnt have done it. >> it was interesting over the weekend the whole slew of polls that came out suggested obviously that crowd had concerns about her role but a lot of americans do, too, about her r...