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Accusers of her father when he is affirmatively stated that there is no truth to it. i dont think thats a question you would ask many other daughters. >> but ivanka trump is the senior white house advisor. shes also the first daughter and depending on the situation of the day shes made clear that she thinks she can jump from one to the other. take this past week, the self-proclaimed force for good in the administration didnt comment on her fathers policy of separating families at the border unti...

Want that to be on a military installation, do we want to do that in communities across the country? those are all policy decisions. but what is lost still in what happened is that the united states government over a period of the last few months split up families and they are going to be children that grow up in the united states never knowing their parents again because of a decision by the president of the united states. >> and its irreversible. i guess what i dont understand about the republ...

Years into the future. so is there a way to get them from marshals custody into the i.c.e. family detention centers with their children? and i dont think that this government would be in a hurry to do that because they are already so pressed for space. we know that theres only a little over 3,000 beds available for families right now and theyre pretty much at capacity and so thats why theyre trying to expand by 20,000 with the defense department. i mean, what impetus would they have to reunite a...

Someone else mentioned, coming this september we could see him push for that wall again. its a president disconnected at times with his party who are trying to keep their majorities. >> we have been covering "the wall street journal" editorial board which under no circumstance can be viewed as a message board for the resistance. theyve been incredibly tough on the president. it feels like a bit of an intervention. i want to ask you about some reporting you and your colleagues had this morning. t...

This country in between two dates that happened to have one of the toughest policies that weve ever seen. >> that is the dumbest -- republicans have lost their minds. that is the dumbest analysis of a scandal ive ever heard. it started yesterday when he admit it had was too stupid even for him. the scandal started yesterday. it didnt end. what is wrong with them? >> this is whereas much as coverage has been provided on this issue, im not sure the american people still realize exactly what happen...

Of going out and selling the ideas that conservatives believe in. i believe one of the great frustrations, rightly or wrongly with senator boehner, the grass roots folks out there didnt feel like people were taking the argument, articulating the arguments they believed in on the sunday morning talk shows and others, i think that you will see a paul ryan speakership do that, but i dont want to speak for paul ryan. >> i think what most americans want to see is a functioning congress. will we see t...

Hearing. there were fireworks. >> you said from the beginning, we want the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. >> but in the end, what did we learn? >> i dont know that she testified that much differently today than she has previous times shes testified. >> plus, hes in. congressman paul ryan is running for speaker. can he really shake up congress? a u.s. commando killed in a special forces raid in iraq. new details about the dramatic rescue attempt. lets talk live in the "cnn newsr...

Benghazi hanging over her and start engendering enthusiasm among democrats which has sort of been the missing component for her. >> brianna, can hillary clinton put benghazi in her rearview mirror? >> i dont know that its ever going to fully be in her rearview mirror in that this motivates a lot of the republican base, so presuming she would be the front-runner, and right now shes definitely in a better position and more poised to do that with joe biden out of the race, i think shell be dealing ...

Unlicensed dealers, gun shows. closing that loophole seems to have a lot of support on congress. so does the ban on the high capacity magazines. that idea seems to have grabbed the imagination of a lot of people including, i am told, republicans. what theyre worried about is the assault weapons ban. they are going to propose it. they are going to push for it. >> he is going to propose the weapons ban? >> he is going to propose it. by thats where theyre getting more pushback. apparently, from som...

Know, in a situation of a rape, a legitimate rape, a womans body has a way of shutting down so that pregnancy would not occur. hes partly right on that. im an ob-gyn doctor and ive delivered lots of these things. it is true. >> that easterble. give him an eye patch, too. folks, these tea party republicans are forcing people to walk the plank. joining me now is a swash buckle in his own right, bob schrum, nyu professor. he just wrote a daily beast column saying, what we have in washington is not ...