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Yesterday in the wake of last weeks deadly high school shooting. the president listened to a series of proposals. i will tell you, background checks, ive called many senators last night, many congressmen, and jeff and pam and everybody in this room, i can tell you, curtis, theyre into doing background checks that they wouldnt be the thinking about maybe two weeks ago. were going to do strong background checks. were going to work on getting the age up to 21 instead of 18. and were getting rid of ...

Limits, that looks at different kinds of proposals that have usually been confined to the left. thats why president trumps voice is so important on this because theres a lot of overlap between members of his base who are going to listen to the president and support whatever positions he takes and the kinds of people who would resist those bipartisan measures. so president trump coming out and saying, you know, on the issue of age limits, we may not support what the nra does here on some of these...

And while a lot of people close to the president would rather he step away from the twitter machine. when we were all looking at the 37-page indictment, we were focussed on the time line. yes, it was 2014, and their race didnt gear up until 2016. and their focussing on trump was later still. when he tweets out something so easily disproven you cant help but point it out. i was going back reading those words from a young mike in 2014, i was in new hampshire for the reelection race and donald trum...

That come in. hes not going down for any of these people. >> theyre both right. but the congress is looking at a different thing than mueller. mueller is looking at what crimes have been committed and by who. congress should be looking at how do we keep the russians from hacking and hurting our elections in 2018. we know theyre at it, we know they did it in 2016 and we need to protect our system. so congress ought to be focussing on doing something about that. >> ron, to the rick gates developme...

Between the two things, the disdain for don junior and the cop tempt and hatred he feels for jared, theres a lot of emotional and psychological baggage and motivational factors that come in. hes not going down for any of these people. >> theyre both right. but the congress is looking at a different thing than mueller. mueller is looking at what crimes have been committed and by who. congress should be looking at how do we keep the russians from hacking and hurting our elections in 2018. we know ...

Party -- that focussing on president trumps latest tweets could actually cost them electoral gains. priorities usa released internal polling that shows president trump rebounding in key areas while the democrats mid-term advantage has shrunk. trumps approval has risen to 44%, up 4 points since november. while he climbed 14 points on his tax policies to 46% and up 8 points on economic policies while even on health care he has risen 11 points to 34% approval. the poll found democrats lead in the 2...

House, in order to get it through the house you have to get trump buy in. we know thats not going to happen unless theres compromises on some of the issues specifically what he calls chain migration, what democrats call family unification. why not compromise on some of these categories for very extended family, if that could get you a deal on daca? >> well, heidi, thats exactly the challenge were going to be confronting both on the floor today and tomorrow and in the common sense coalition debat...

The beetles landing at jfk 53 years ago, it was bizarre. but other than that bizarre positive reaction to the north koreans, what was your take on what happened this past weekend between the north and the south? reason for hope? >> thats the most interesting story the invitation by the north koreans to the president of south korea for a summit. its a reason for hope and concern. its no accident that the north koreans are focussing on this access of diplomacy a north/south dialogue. the fact that...

The dossier is one small piece of a much larger picture. >> as weve tried to bring that picture into focus, we have made several attempts to speak to one of the presidents lawyers on camera. we were unable to obtain an interview. donald trump maintains in statements and on twitter that there was no collusion. but multiple investigations by the special counsel and in congress continue. as a result, we will also continue to report this story, focussing on the facts. im pamela brown. thanks for joi...

The respect he still has for the institution, the office of the president, with his very real distress about what hes seeing happen in the oval office. you see him at his most animated when hes talking about an abuse of power. and he used that term in describing the situation that he sees here. i spend time dealing with different congressional investigations that are not focused on russia, that are talking about e-mails and texts. and what the vice president says in this interview is what were h...