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Bologna explanation for it. we all know that. i think its clear the words he pays attention to are what appears on fox news. if they seem to be supportive of him, he purrs. but if they suggest anything thats critical of him, he explodes and he goes off half-cocked. what i must tell you is a president who does not read that daily brief which represents billions upon billions of dollars of investment by the united states in order to get the best intelligence possible, you start building up biases ...

Fire. when they go low i say we hit harder. >> michael avenatti joins me now. michael, good evening to you. thank you for joining us. that was you in iowa this weekend. so lets get right to it. youre a brawler. everyone knows that. but what makes you qualified? what makes you a qualified candidate for president of the united states? >> well, don, i think theres a number of things that make me qualified. number one im smart enough to know that theres a reason why god gave me two ears and one mout...

Harder. >> michael avenatti joins me now. michael, good evening to you. thank you for joining us. that was you in iowa this weekend. so lets get right to it. youre a brawler. everyone knows that. but what makes you qualified? pcandidate for president of the united states? >> well, don, i think theres a number of things that make me qualified. number one im smart enough to know that theres a reason why god gave me two ears and one mouth, and thats to actually listen to people. and i think that th...

Has said we didnt know this letter was being sent. our lawyers went off half-cocked and stheent this letter without being aware of it. >> lets just walk through that. lawyers dont walk off half-cocked, clients do. so if theyre saying it wars our lawyers, we didnt know, is this common practice for their lawyers to behave in this way? because remember while it might not be a lawyer for the trump administration, he said this is how the law firms work? >> its really interesting situation. their argu...

Going school with teachers that are armed with a weapon is not something that im comfortable with. >> half-cocked, hair brained, really toxic lunacy is the way to describe the idea of arming 10% to 40% of all the teachers in this country. >> i think its a very, very, very bad idea. where i do put the gun? do i put it in my pocket in a hollister? in my desk? is it locked up somewhere. im in the provision to teacfes. i did not sign up to be in s.w.a.t. or whatever. we all think this is a very bad ...

Psychologically ready to pull that gun out and shoot, it isnt the same person. maybe im wrong. maybe there are such people. >> you think of all the negligent discharges that there are in the military and those are men and women who have been through advanced training to handle weapons and the idea we are going to arm a significant portion of teachers in america seems ludicrous. i wonder how many teachers who already have that train would go actually want to bring their guns on campus as is. >> t...

Have a graelt audience. >> you know hes egger to get out there and talk to these folks. he love a campaign rally, which is what this is. later on this afternoon at 2:00 eastern and 11 pacific, the president holding a joint use conference with the prime minister of australia, and australia pays into that gun debate. >> thats a real controlled environment. you only get a certain number of questions. i think thats in part by the white house, it will control how much we can find out from him. >> ric...

And how he feels about it. >> your point is so good that is exactly what trump doesnt get is civic responsibility. he doesnt understand that a judge has got to be a judge and a fair judge. he doesnt work for somebody, the mexican government or anybody else he claims to work for. mcmaster, his national security adviser is in fact an officer in the united states army. and he has to say the truth. and trump doesnt understand it. he doesnt understand when people have to do their jobs. >> its worse t...

Theyre now starting to describe george papadopoulos as a, quote, overzealous volunteer. anderson that, appears to be an indication that they do understand that some of this news that came out today is not good for them or else they would have continued to describe him the way sarah sanders was describing him during the briefing today, which was just a volunteer with a limited role with the campaign. >> as far as a white house strategy for dealing with mueller and the investigation, do they have ...

You know, i think weve got to not run off, you know, half-cocked here in an early stage. i think its appropriate for a governor to stand up and say, i want to make certain, i want to protect my people. but we shouldnt automatically say, under no circumstances, never are we going to keep faith with americas values as a country that sets an example, as a melting pot. >> thats secretary of state john kerry. of course, warning anxious governors across the country not to run off half-cocked, as he pu...