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>> look, i think the health care thing actually raises the question of whether you are eroding the base. historically republicans have held together a coalition that aims its economic policy primarily at people at the top, has cultural and racial policy for lower, middle income and poorer whites. it so starkly divides the costs and benefits of the legislation. one of the things that made president trump a different kind of republican to use the old phrase that bill clinton used, a different kind...

Taken to the congress, the special counsel cannot take the president to work on a charge of obstruction of justice. thats not where we presidents are held accountable. theyre held accountsable through impeach ment proceedings. then it becomes a political question as well as a legal question for the house representatives. but there is no doubt. boeb both in the clinton cause and nixon case, one the charges that came out in the clinton case and the house was getting ready to pass in nixon is obstr...

People. that statement again was in response to "the washington post." so let me be clear. "the washington post" story was based on five anonymous sources, doesnt even identify the agency. so thats it. simple explanation. >> okay, i mean, i dont think its simple but i dont think were getting anywhere. let me move on. former house speaker newt gingrich a close trump ally spoke on friday at the national press club. lets run a clip of what he said. >> the president of the united states cannot obstr...

By gingrich to try to question the special counsels integrity. from watergate on forward, the first strategy is try to fire the special prosecutor. as he knows with regard to the firing of archibald coxs and continue to investigation. so if that doesnt work, were now in a special counsel environment. rod rosenstein made it very clear hes not firing anybody without cause, which i think is the appropriate poster and curagice and important because thats the insulation of independence that a special...

Executive commission to air out everything that happened. it really was also an effort to fill in his memory, which was imperfect but that tower commission was the first out of the box and gave a lot of facts to the public and on parallel tracks a congressional select committee and an independent counsel each pursued their respective roles. gathered facts and president regan invoked no executive privilege. indeed he told everyone to cooperate and the criminal investigation was handled by my boss...

. first, the reports and it may be confirmed by now that mrs. gingrich will be the third woman to be ambassador to the holy city. >> nothing is official until its announced. >> has her name been vetted with the vatican? >> im not -- its a nice try, but im not going -- the answer is we have no personnel announcements. >> the other question is related to the process with the fbi director. sara ha spoke last week about an acting directorover the fbi, but with the interviews that you describe, with ...

You would hate it, by the way. i remembered "the gingrich that stole christmas." he went through an awful lot, a lot of battles with the media. frankly, it seems like kindergarten compared to how vicious this effort to take him down, delegitimize him,to is. is there a comparison? did you go through this? where does this end? >> i have a little sensewh of where he was going through. it was true when "time" magazine had me on the cover as "the grinch that stole christmas,"," and the following week...

You have been obviously at the intersection of this. what do you make of this. >> i saw the rally speech today and it was quite frgrie frighte. i remember the first correspondents dinner i went to. i sat down next to lawrence odonnell who works with you guys now. he was a producer on the west wing back then. two things come to mind about that dinner. one was how anyone from the west wing was elvis returning to memphis in that environment which was overwhelming, but lawrence was sitting next to m...

Clean repeal 17 months ago. >> why did the house relationship and why did trump try to rewrite the laws that cover one-fifth of americas economy in 17 days? >> yeah. that -- >> newt gingrich didnt even try to do that. >> thats a fundamental question. there were political problems, policy problems and process problems and typically good process will lead to better policy which leads to better politics. >> i just dont understand it. theyre telling conservative republicans, were going to alter one-...

The presidents desk. >> jim jordan, on behalf america, we thank you. whether you support the freedom caucus, dont support the freedom caucus, they did a great, great thing for america. >> how a bill doesnt become law. >> by the way -- >> all of us democrats should become contributors of the freedom caucus. we owe them a lot. >> i dont like to do this very often. >> oh, no. are you going to talk about yourself? >> no. i was going to talk about when i was in congress. >> about yourself in congress...