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Taking discretion away. they made a deal between flynn and mueller, by the way, judge, just pat us on the back. judges do not like that. >> this judge asserted himself in a way reminded president trump of the power of the judiciary as well. >> right. a reminder that president trump probably could use from time to time the way he treated the federal judiciary that it is a coequal branch. there is little doubt about having the fact pattern wrong that he was not yet the national security adviser wh...

His sentencing. this isnt the only wild thing that is hanging over president trumps head, draavid chalian. there is a looming shutdown. >> friday. >> its almost like an oversaturation of chaos. >> and sarah huckabee sanders this morning indicated the administration has found another way to fund the wall and that it seemed like she -- just reading tea leaves here, that she was leading us to believe that a shutdown was now likely to be averted, that the president was not going to take this to the ...

Didnt expect is what is so stunning. we thought we were getting a michael cohen sentence, and today we have more flynn stuff and the mystery hearing. each day that passes, jennifer, more and more comes to light? >> thats true. we knew there was going to be a break before the midterms, and they had been busy working away while we were paying attention to the election. while they have kept quiet all these things are coming out. theres a whole roger stone piece, he and his associates have not been ...

Decision where we know that hillary clinton did leave illegally with documents she should not have left government with denied the government copies of records, and, yet, somehow the decision was made that no crime was committed that could be prosecuted. steve: right. i think it was last week we heard about the case of peter strzok who now we know exchanged 10,000 email with his girlfriend who was apparently legal counsel, also on muellers team. they exchanged anti-trump texts, et cetera. and he...

There are many of those candidates over the last cycles that have done that and that doesnt help mitch mcconnells efforts in the senate to keep a majority and advance an agenda, and these two men, mitch mcconnell and steve bannon are the arch types in both sides of the republican party and its a civil war that has been going on for a long time and when you hear the rhetoric that steve bannon offers as a rally like the one last night, thats what is driving that wedge even deeper. >> you have to t...

>> i know that you have written about how the gops tax plan is being overshadowed by flynns plea deal. isnt the president largely to blame? he is contributing because he began the tweet storm. >> i think that is always a problem with president trump. this week not even just limited to the flynn probe. you remember he took focus away from an end of the year spending deal when his tweets caused chuck and nancy to cancel. he was accusing msnbc people of unspeakable things. he was throwing around a ...

About his contact with the former ambassador. the plea is just hype, they call it a sack of smoke. >> the white house is distancing itself though from michael flynn as it talks up tax reform. >> joining us now, white house correspondent and weve seen the presidents tweet about tax reform, nothing at least yet about flynn although if the president follows his pattern it is a saturday morning. he will be mawaking up and sayi something probably against all the attorneys in the white house. >> so fa...

Understandable light given the crazy circumstance we are in. >> david axelrod, what do you make of trump calling this situation a cloud. didnt he bring that on himself? >> theres no question about it. even this week, not just on this investigation, but in other ways, he keeps digging holes for himself. but i agree with van in that, you know, he seems obsessed with the salacious element of this report, but i think that if youre told by the fbi director and you want to interpret it more broadly th...

Its a challenge. its going to be a big challenge for him if he wants reporters to take him at his word when he makes statements that appear to be factual or that he alleges are factual about how the president is making decisions. >> well, and also on the flynn stuff, the flynn stuff is at the core of this all now and hes unprompted saying this is the first i heard of it. there were press reports, there was a letter written to him, and now you have a reporting that the transition officials inform...

That wasnt just pence. >> thats a fair point. >> that said, though, obviously you expect the president and the vice president to be on the same page about these decisions of enormous consequence. yeah, it does raise really serious credibility questions. what does the vice president know about the basic processes that the president goes through when he makes decisions that have significant impact on federal law enforcement? its a challenge. its going to be a big challenge for him if he wants repo...