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Meet with the nato officials. >> someone is going to drump the american president tomorrow morning local time in israel and ask for his response to what happened in manchester. and there, i suppose, right there in that moment would be a very stark choice of words. >> well, i suspect he may go back to the formulation that he was so comfortable with during the campaign, talking about radical islamic terrorism. the fakts he had been talking about it for a couple of hours, the british authority do b...

Front of the american president tomorrow morning local time in israel. and ask for his response to what happened in manchester. and there i suppose right there in that moment will be a very stark choice of words. >> well, i suspect he may go back to the formulation that he was so comfortable with during the campaign talking about radical islamic terrorism. and in fact, as youve been talking about for a couple of hours now, the british authorities so far do believe it was probably a terrorist att...

Troubling sign for the white house. >> ashley, is there a kind of pall of a lag time between the big stories that drop and the white house where you can feel the calms team gathering and you can feel the formulation of the reaction to the story no matter how big the story? >> i think it depends on the day. as both a reporter and kind of a consumer of news, it often feels like, you know, youve just caught up with one bomb shell and then theres another one. and i think thats what were sort of seei...

Right now. were seeing jason chaffetz, the head of the house oversight committee saying he wants to see the comey memo. he might even subpoena it. were seeing the quote that you just played from john mccain, senior senator, republican senator. so, i think as this continues and well see what more we hear tomorrow, thats a very troubling sign for the white house. >> ashley, is there a kind of pall of a lag time between the big stories that drop and the white house where you can feel the calms team...

Committee, saying he wants to see the comey memo. he might even subpoena it. were seeing the quote that you just played from john mccain, senior senator, republican senator. so, i think as this continues and well see what more we hear tomorrow, thats a very troubling sign for the white house. >> ashley, is there a kind of pall of a lag time between the big stories that drop and the white house where you can feel the coms team gathering and where you can feel the kind of formulation of the reacti...

Theres always this balancing act, theyre trying to find the right formulation to express just the right amount of concern, probably the word that weve heard most from republicans now is theyre troubled or concerned about these reports. they want to hear more. we havent -- weve been checking all day. as far as we know, the white house has not really come forward with any kind of full explanation for these members and their concerns. democrats, of course, are pressing their advantage here. chuck s...

Awful, terrible timing, you ask for this report thats the cover story, you get it. the next day hes out or later that day hes out. the timing was awful. it created the appearance of all sorts of conflicts and then he schedules the lester holt interview and decides to blurt out what sounded like a confession to a lot of people to obstruction of justice. i think your point, jim, you have no idea when this is going to happen or might happen. it does feel different. it feels like something has to gi...

>> figuring out timing with president trump is impossible. look at the comey firing, right? awful, terrible timing, you ask for this report thats the cover story, you get it. the next day hes out or later that day hes out. the timing was awful. it created the appearance of all sorts of conflicts and then he schedules the lester holt interview and decides to blurt out what sounded like a confession to a lot of people to obstruction of justice. i think your point, jim, you have no idea when this i...

The lester holt interview and decides to blurt out what sounded like a confession to a lot of people to objestruction justice. i think your point, jim, you have no idea when this is going to happen or might happen. it does feel different. it feels like something has to give in this white house. >> the other part the more somebody gets talked about getting fired the less the president wants to do it. >> the more we bring it up. matthew, you wrote a great column on friday that may summarize this w...

And i think that one of the fascinating questions right now is what did trump know and when did trump know it? which is the old formulation of howard bakers question about watergate. to what extent was filmlynn a f agent in talking to russia, to what extent was any kind of russian influence an am beyant reality around the campaign and the transition? and then those first number of days when flynn was in office. remember, we would not be standing here -- sitting here talking about this if arguabl...