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Sometimes are able to sort of stand up. i dont know that it amounts to anything. we are not seeing the president reversing his policy. on all of the other issues, whether its rule of law or the damage of institutions or whatever the president may be up to on a given day, republicans very often on capitol hill as you know tend to bury their head in the sand and dont even want to read the tweets, but you see his own party trying to have sway with him. >> its a fascinating point. reading the tweets...

Infrastructure, no indication that international inspectors can get in there. so essentially weve had a spectacle where donald trump gives everything away and hes gotten nothing in return. and were seeing that this is pattern with him. where he does the minimum required for him to get press attention on the day of a meeting, but he does none of the follow through. and american interests are going to be harmed. right now with what we have in north korea that is deeply entrenched in term said of i...

Indication that north korea is giving up any of its nuclear infrastructure, no indication that international inspectors can get in there. so essentially weve had a spectacle where donald trump gives everything away and hes gotten nothing in return. and were seeing that this is pattern with him. where he does the minimum required for him to get press attention on the day of a meeting, but he does none of the follow through. and american interests are going to be harmed. right now with what we hav...

Not 2%, 2.5, shouldnt see that, but on a given day can happen. the concern is it has gone on several days. >> it is. we have seen underlying deterioration in quality of the market rally where we hit new all-time highs a week ago. and now all of a sudden testing those all-time highs in january, markets has begun to unravel a bit. as you said, fears of the fed raising interest rates too many times, the comments on the fed by the president. >> he called jay powell, chairman, who replaced janet yell...

Policy. >> his services at the united nations building. hes got the rosenstein hearing coming up. he says imçó focusing on other things today. >> he focuses on fáwhats in frt of him on a given day. theres a lot of talk about what happens to rod rosenstein.w3 i dont think anyone is quite sure what will happen at the end of that day. in the meantime, the second nominee. they are going to a high stakes hearing. its crazy. >> a split screen moment in this presidency. let me bring in bill richards...

We had to assess whether they could make the trip and return safely and whether they would be staying in our country illegally. it has a lot to do with jobs. but its about our law. we are a country that believes in innocence before guilt. and our immration law we presume guilt before innocence. when the applicant comes to me they have to show me they will not violate our law. they have to overcome a burden of guilt. thats the part of our law that deals with that. we ask for transcripts for proof...

>> all i can tell you is from presidents point of view, hes got a style that is unique to him, what im looking at is results. are we able to push russia and iran out of syria to give syria back to the syrian people, not become a puppet of iran and proxy of russia. thats a big test for this president. can we find a way to have a breakthrough in terms of russians misbehavior. what do you do about the interference in the 2018 election? >> you went from -- ill sum it up, hating him, making fun of hi...

What other people who have to contend with them as witnesses have to evaluate. >> they didnt contradict themselves, right? >> right, and they admitted lies, they admitted mistakes. and they also acknowledged that they took money, why they took money, what the reasons for their desire to speak now and both said theyll give back money, so i think there is a lot of credibility to them as witnesses. >> trumps friend, christopher ruddy, who is the ceo of news max. as we try to think where is the pres...

Protections. why not, you know, throw a bunch of money at border security, allow the president to say, this is for the wall, and get those protections for dreamers that so many democrats so desperately want. >> well, the problem here is that they had a deal. on last go round, chuck schumer was at the white house, they thought they had a deal in motion and the president suddenly blew it up. and i think the problem, this goes back to some -- you talked about the four pillars, also the pillars of t...

White house does not issue guidance specifically addressing the daily schedules of cabinet agency heads." they added "the white house expects federal agencies to comply with foia requests." foia of course being the freedom of information act. walk us through the nuts and bolts of your reporting here and is this activity more unusual, less unusual than what weve seen in previous administrations? >> right, and so we were having a newsroom meeting when this came up, and i typically cover epa admini...