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Quickly. usually its one or the other. but its head snapping. >> this is a white house that has a kred ncredibility problemt starts from the top. you take the administration out of the equation for just a second and you look at donald trump jr.s version of events, day by day hes been caught in one lie after another. and the assertion by the white house as well as donald trump jr. yes, this meeting did take place, here are the actual circumstances around which this meeting was set up but nothing ...

Defenses, improve its strategic intelligence collection and sharing. these are all good things. they have all been in the mill for some time. its good to see nato doing it. >> dave, we should give president trump credit. he has been consistent on calling for nato countries to pay their fair share, 2% of their gdp. thats something he -- thats a through line from the campaign to now. this idea that nato is no longer obsolete, the only thing thats changed is donald trump has now become president as...

These are all good things. they have all been in the mill for some time. its good to see nato doing it. >> and david, gergen we should give president trump credit. during the campaign he has been consistent on calling calling for nato countries to pay their fair share, 2% of their gdp. thats something he -- thats a through line from the campaign to now. this idea that nato is no longer obsolete, the only thing thats changed is donald trump has now become president as opposed to a candidate when ...

It would be trump not going as opposed to ryan pulling out? >> right. ryans not going to pull out. this is a major event in paul ryans own district. and the reality is this was something that was brokered by reince priebus, the chairman at the republican national committee. hes going to have to fix this because he got all of his loved ones together and here comes donald trump and hes got a suicide vest on, but it will take out everybody. the only way to solve this is for donald trump to figure o...

So, clearly, a provocative question and interesting answer. >> i was in the room and the other reporters when jonathan said, have you got juice? there was a kind of a collective -- >> gasp? >> not a gas. no, nothing wrong with what he asked. kind of a little bit of head snapping that were all listening carefully. heres where i disagree with my esteem colleague from "the new yorker." you have to figure out a way to ask questions, that is the point of a press conference. obama talks a lot during t...

Thats the twa rebeway the rebe it. >> david address what we just heard from senator luger. hes not a partisan. he said the president doesnt have a clear plan, doesnt have an exit strategy, he thinks this will go on a lot longer than what the president says. >> nick burns described the general problems very well and that was the administration really didnt want to go into this. they were dragged in not only by the british and french but by events on the ground and then they made this head snappin...

He is never wrong. he changes his strategy but not his mind. do you think that were going to see any change in the presidents mind on anything, or are we looking at a change in strategy? >> well, some of this -- the change would have to be pretty head-snapping. you go from calling ceos fat cats to your long lost friends. i mean, hes trying to make a pretty significant transition here, and we dont really know if he can do it because he hasnt had to do it before. someone like bill clinton had a re...

>> well, some of this -- the change would have to be pretty head-snapping. you go from calling ceos fat cats to your long lost friends. i mean, hes trying to make a pretty significant transition here, and we dont really know if he can do it because he hasnt had to do it before. someone like bill clinton had a record as governor of having to make these kind of shifts and obama has not proven that yet, but i think, you know, hes in the process. he has some momentum. he has, you know, some serious ...

Campaign chair rick gates. i dont know what robert mueller has been doing for the past week other than filing these 89 new felony criminal charges against 17 people but even just that activity of his that we can see in public, i would say that makes this a pretty good contender for busy week when it comes to the special counsels investigation. just today alone has been head snapping in terms of how much happened all at once, just since yesterday. just rick gates has been charged with 23 new felo...