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Thats going to be special. the administration has put itself in quite the bind, advocating for something that intelligence is even confused about. >> it is head scratching, wondering what this is all about, and lack of information trickling down from the president to someone like coats and should be briefed in. i wanted to say i agree with elise. russia is a nuclear armed power and member of u.n. security council. chief global rival. of course we have to talk to them, we have to talk to china. t...

President meet with putin with just a translater there, but he said thats not my job. and i think in terms of, mike allen can talk about this, i think in terms of the intelligence community i think their heads are spinning because theres never been anything like this. they havent been debriefed completely according to reporting at cnn and elsewhere, and then to set up another summit immediately after is head scratching. makes you wonder if the president is just angry that everybody is angry at h...

Tower meeting, re-tweeted it and said, i know this is true because i was there. goldstone was there for the peskov/trump phone call. so, i mean, you know, it is pretty head-scratching that the russian president would say this. we have all been focussing on the credibility of some of trumps comments, but i think this goes directly to the credibility of vladimir putins comments. >> michael, one more to you. it is very clear that regardless of what the president knew when he was a candidate, and ag...

You would understand why she was never going to speak out against him because when she went through the divorce between her father and her mother ivana, she was worried her father was going to leave her. she was worried her last name was no longer going to be trump. she would call him once they got divorced. so that shes worried about her father being angry with her and not speaking out of turn is born out of her childhood. thats a relationship and dynamic theyve had for the last 30 years and so...

Head scratching about why the president decided to slap huge tariffs on u.s. allies. you even just heard a conservative economist on our show calling it a win for china. its also sparking backlash from some of the nations top business leaders. bill ford, executive chairman of ford motor company told me yesterday why it is such a bad idea. listen. >> the trump white house has slapped 25% tariffs on $50 billion of chinese goods. is that good or bad for america? >> any time you get into a trade war...

The heels of that by clearing the oval office and asking comey to let the flynn investigation go. >> reporter: the most startling twist in the russia saga came last summer when donald trump jr. confirmed a 2016 trump tower meeting with russians peddling is his e-mail, i love it, but he claimed the focus of the meeting, which also included manafort and presidential son-in-law jared kushner, was not about russian coordination but about russian adoption, a bust he denies tell his father about. >> i...

Critical. democrats are generally negative on all parts of presidents record. but what emerges out of this, more than anything else, is a sense of partisanship. even when we brought up john mccains name, republicans who had nominated him ten years ago, were negative and they talked about him in negative terms. democrats are the ones defending him. and when you see that, you just realize the division has come so far and so negatively. >> a lot of head scratching. look, i want to try to leave this...

Last summer when donald trump jr. confirmed a 2016 trump tower meeting with russians peddling dirt on hillary clinton. his e-mail, "i love it." but he claimed the focus of the meeting, which also included manafort and presidential son-in-law jared kushner was not about russian coordination but about russian adoption. a bust he denies telling his father about. >> it was literally a wasted 20 minutes, which is a shame. >> just as head scratching is the presidents personal involvement aboard air fo...

Judiciary. >> look, there was a lot of head scratching about evangelicals and otherwise socially conservative republicans backing a guy who had been married three times and done a bunch of stuff that they would just turn the other way on in general, but a big reason is this. is because they understand the power and the importance of the courts on issues that they care about. and that is why even though were all talking about a lot of things that are very important, behind the scenes the white ho...

David, let me start with you. back when the u.s. started selling these javelins to ukraine, something the government had been seeking for awhile which the obama administration had not done, there was a lot of kind of head scratching that it was very different than the posture the u.s. intended to take on matters about russia or that russia opposed. what did you make of it at the time and what do you make of it now? >> my sources have been saying today that "the new york times" story is absolutel...