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>> jonathan, this isnt the first time the president showed switchiness on daca. he said we got to do something with heart, that was almost a year ago if february. he said. that as you watched the congressmen and the senators in that room. you saw kevin mccarthy to jump in to sort of correct the president, if there were a thought bubble over dick durbins head sitting next to president trump, i would have loved to have seen it. he said when i came out of the meetings, my head was spinning. i dont ...

That information so much. shes pulling herself out of it. she said i wanted to talk about adoptions and, of course, that means that highly charged political issue of getting rid of the sanctions. >> we have 20 seconds left. what would the russians have learned from this meeting? what would the take away be? >> most critically, i think the russians would have taken away the important fact, the critical fact that somebody in the trump campaign, not just anybody, but somebody very close to the cand...

Secretary or other officials will stand off to the side with reporters and take questions and answers, but not for television cameras. generally, not for audio or for radio people either. so its a little bit of a hybrid. >> jenna: it is. is this something different? we want to explain to our viewers, it is a little different. joe, taking politics out of it. do you think this is a wise decision by the president and his communications team to do things a little bit differently? >> you know, i cant...

Least a year and a half ago on this question is this going to be free market or whatever. i think people have accepted in the republican party that they believe that coverage is the job of the federal government. >> bill: did you hear ezekiel emanuel 30 minutes ago. he says paul ryan is the reason there is disruption in the insurance markets. can you back that up? >> no. thats stuff people say. he is right in the sense that insurance companies look at what is going on and say ill take another ha...

This wall project? >> it seems extremely unlikely. hell need democratic votes to make something like that happen and the democrats have signaled they are not taking even a half step in that direction. the real challenge here, victor, he is trying to get all of this done before the hundred day deadline and somewhat artificial political construct. its possible he could get the funding he wants for the wall if he can arrive at some kind of a compromise with democrats and members of the republican c...

More action in this attack yesterday. this is a very measured attack. yes, they fired 59 cruise missiles but its all at one air base as general keane mentioned. assad has six air bases and could have gone at after command and control and the president personally. the president just decided to go after the one base specifically tied to the chemical attack in northern iraq and the civilians there. mattis is one of the hawks in this regard and steve bannon, one of the american firsters and who is o...

Not going to micromanage and back-bench those guys today. it was a free-for-all. do you still believe the russians interfered with the election? do you believe it happened? he pulled it all back. >> the question is i would have ordered him to talk to the russians. he could have said i would have ordered him to talk to all the countries because thats part of what he was saying. was he saying he would have ordered him to talk about the sanctions because there was a half-step away from that. he is ...

Food bank in his home state of washington. >> his mother still lives here in town and so just the fact that he wanted to come back and be involved in the community he grew up in. >> but his long track record centered on a strong view of the reality of using military force. in 2013 he cautioned on the calls to force out syrian president bashar al assad. >> if the americans go in, if the americans take leadership, if the americans take ownership of this, its going to be a full throated very, very ...

Star, he can kiss them if he wants to and that makes this more interesting and shocking. hes not saying look at that woman, shes a ten. hes saying this is what i have done to women in the past and will do again the. >> you can judge the magnitude on this by the fact that the trump campaign responded very quickly with the statement that included the word apologize. so lets break this down into two parts. hes apologizing if anyone was offended which at "the washington post" you know thats a nonapo...

Bottom line. >> so joining me now the editor in chief of the washington free beacon. matthew thank you for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> lets take a half step back because when everyone is waking up and realing this "washington post" piece about talk to this broker convention what would lead to a brokered convention? what would that look like? >> the way that the political analysts that i trust describe it is right now the republican field is so large, and the delegate allocation pool i...