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Residence at the white house. sometimes he thought they were talking back to him. so he was unhinged. but it was in private, not in public. and this, i must tell you the way the president is acting now is very -- it really raises serious questions about his fitness for office. millions of americans tune in and watch the president very, very closely when theres trouble facing the oval office. they want to see what their president is like in a crisis. how well does he handle pressure? is he stable...

Was it a cya. was it a cover your ass moment, or was it something more? we simply dont know at this point. what i do think is central is the question, how do you measure how importantly the president took getting the dirt on his political opponents? well, so far, hes ensnared in that hunt his vice president, his secretary of state, his attorney general, his energy secretary as well as his personal lawyer. that suggests he took it pretty darn seriously. >> thats got to be the last word. thank you...

Propitious night to have hillary clinton here. to ask about these things. somebody who has seen these things from so many different angles, including as secretary of state. before we talk with secretary clinton, there are two specific things that have broken tonight that are both on their own gobsmacking, and these are both stories we are expecting to keep developing. both of them since i sat down and started talking to you, i have been handed new developments on both of them. so its clear these...

Propicious night to have hillary clinton here. somebody who has seen these things from so many different angles, including as secretary of state. before that, there are two specific things that have broken tonight that are both on their own gobsmacking, and these are both stories we are expecting to keep developing. both of them since i sat down and started talking to you, i have been handed new developments on both of them. so its clear these stories will continue developing through the night, ...

"washington post" correspondent ann gearrin cornell bolster and editor-in-chief matthew kont nettie. ann, your paper kept everybody up last night. i think the most intriguing aspect of this and i know you cant speak specifically but it was very clear in "the washington post" story that the government asked the post to leave some parts of this story out. that felt like a confirmation in and of itself. where does that request come from? does it come from the white house or, say, the cia? >> in thi...

That was incredibly controversial reporting at the time it came out, almost unbelievable at the time. the administration said at the time that there was absolutely no way that was happening. and i, of course, dont know whether or not u.s. spies were keeping intelligence from trump because of leak concerns as far back as february. but if tonights bombshell from the "washington post" is correct, any such concerns would have been very well-founded. julio jones is one of the "washington post" report...

Could use that for their own purposes, to compose the people who gathered that information for russia knowing they are doing it. when russia previously didnt know they were doing it. >> thats right. both the information about where and then the nature of the plotting that was going on is potentially troublesome. thats exactly right. and in some cases in syria our interests overlap with the russians in regard to isis. in other instances they diverge. and so thats part of the reason we hold stuff ...

Off-camera, only h.r. mcmaster was out there as the face of the mir administration today. >> and phillip, to you, is "the washington post" standing by all of its reporting, even in the face of the white houses aggressive pushback? >> "the washington post" stands by the reporting. its a great story by my colleagues, greg miller and greg jaffe. and you know, its interesting to note that a lot of the defense that you saw from h.r. mcmaster, the national security adviser today, was not over specific...

Asked if this was disappointing to him. what do you think this means for his war legacy? >> you know, i think hes -- i mean, he cant say hes disappointed, right, hes the commander in chief. so he has to project a certain amount of confidence. i think its got to be disappointing to him. i think he -- you know, as he also said in the press conference hes not a believer in endless war. gosh, 14 years is starting to feel a little endless, isnt it? so, you know, im sure hes disappointed. he would lik...

and tweets between donald trump and jeb bush. bush is firing back at trump who suggested george w. bush shared in the blame for the 2001 terrorist attacks. >> talk about george bush. say what you want, the world trade center came down during his time. >> hold on. you cant blame george bush for that. >> well, he was president. dont blame him or dont blame him, but he was president. the world trade center came down during his reign. >> with well on twitter, jeb bush said how pathetic for...