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>> i think this is going to be this administrations benghazi. this is going to be trumps benghazi, trumps niger. they need to concentrate on what happened and what is happening. reporter: appearing to be ready to let this controversy move on anytime soon. president trump spending the day at his golf course in virginia one week after golfing with rand paul and lindsey graham pentax farm continues to be at the top of their to-do list. right behind it, health care and especially the bipartisan alex...

So the pain is real, but its also a deflection tactic because were not taking about niger. were talking about why this sergeant johnson was left behind for two full days. who actually, you know, found him and brought him back to the united states? were not talking about the fact that donald trump was golfing, thats why hes kaug the family. hes not even there to greet the family. so all of these diversion tactics, to say nothing else about his systemic failure after failure legislatively, but als...

But its also a deflection tactic because we are not talking about niger. we are not talking about this sergeant johnson was left behind for full two days and who found him and brought him back to the united states? we are not talking about the fact that donald trump was golfing. thats why hes calling the family and not there to greet the family. all of the diversion tactics to say nothing else about the systemic failure after failure legislatively and the lies every single day and we have to mak...

President as you know has been in close contact with rand paul, golfing with him over the weekend, trying to secure his vote when it comes to tax reform. i am told that thats going to be really the singular domestic focus of the president moving forward. and as you heard earlier, the president wants to get it done by the end of the year based on my conversations with officials here. they say thats the goal, but not necessarily a reality given some of the hurdles theyll have to get through. >> nb...

Open as a said before the federal bureau of investigation grade who had an investigation open at the time, so that gave me a queasy feeling. >> katie: we can also expect lawmakers to question lynch about that tarmac meeting she had with bill clinton on the probe into his wifes emails was still ongoing. so juan, my question to you, ifs a similar talked about grandchildren and golfing with bill clinton during that private meeting? >> juan: not if youre republican, youre going to try to drill in a ...

Most important person this your life may be gone in an instant when he makes decisions about sending people. >> can we talk about the optics? saturday, october 7th. thats the de la david johnson was returned to dover air base. president trump was golfing. these four soldiers were killed in an isis ambush in niger. do you think the white house is handling the entire incident as -- it is a little hod odd? are they rushing the response instead of maybe you say ill call you. youre going to meet the ...

Visceral, emotional feeling, and that memory of that feeling in their mind when they make decisions about sending americans into danger. and president trump is seeking to distance himself emotionally from this, which is the reason people say thats what they signed up for, then i dont know if he has the ability to factor in that feeling and the reality that people dont come home, that the most important person in your life may be gone in an instant when he makes these decisions about sending peop...

There, kasie? >> reporter: i think that you caught the gist of it. >> okay. >> reporter: at the very top of our conversation i had asked him about the comments and the back and forth between the president, president trump and, of course, the family of sergeant johnson, and that conversation, and whether or not it was appropriate for the president to be talking about that the way he has, and senator graham essentially had a two-prong message saying on the first that he believes president trump ha...

Anything made from the democrat dinner last night? >> i will put it this way. the way this is probably going to happen in the end, it would be nice to have a couple of democratic votes. >> harris: you dont think some fancy food will do it? >> the perceived clout of the presidents daughter and son-in-law is an ongoing and open question in washington, d.c. some days it seems like they have a lot, other days it seems like they dont. i dont think it hurts to schmooze but the real question here is, h...

Can see that body language there that he kind of tenses up and shook his head a little bit. i dont think he was pleased. >> its hard to imagine he made it through the entire meeting without mentioning it. >> i heard you called me evil, now you like me. >> the body language definitely did not seem like he knew. if he didnt, thats like ma of-they know their boss and they knew what to say and what not to say. >> there might not have been a meeting with the visiting prime minister of greece if the p...