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Visit your volvo dealer to take advantage of our midsommar sales event offer. all right. in this bizarre disconnect, you have white house heavyweights getting out there and saying, hey, the president tweets arent official statements. they are the unfiltered words of the president that often issues that matter to you.

- were going to be friends! - im sorry about this. dont be embarrassed of me, jim. im getting excited about this! we know the future. were going to be friends! because were building it. ♪ >> martha: tonight, the white house offering a forceful defense of the wake of president trumps first budget battle, after the battle of who got more, the president took to twitter. hinting at aggressive measures if negotiations dont go his way in the future. "we either elect more republican senators in 2018 ...

Yates when she was in place still as the acting attorney general. so im sure the administration is not looking forward to this testimony on either end. >> sean spicer claimed at the time that he was okay, that the white house was okay with sally yates testifying. but that was after the fact. the most interesting thing is the idea this is expanding beyond the roll. shifting gears over to europe right now, ivanka trump, daughter of the president, official white house advisor, that was some pickly ...

Freak show, which is donald trump, then theres mattis, mcmaster, tillerson, they are serious people, they are heavyweights. they believe in process. they believe in thoughtful reflection. on the record, they have said mostly sensible things. what is going to happen. will the freak show win or the grown ups win? >> i agree with david, the fundamental challenge is that the president is undisciplined and erratic in his choices. the deliberative men of the trump administration can put good processes...

Described, two parts to the trump administration, the freedom show, which is donald trump, then theres mattis, mcmaster, tillerson, they are serious people, they are heavyweights. they believe in process. they believe in thoughtful reflection. on the record, they have said mostly sensible things. what is going to happen. will the freak show win or the grown ups win? >> i agree with david, the fundamental challenge is that the president is undisciplined and erratic in his choices. the dlib rative...

This is one of the issues when youre working for a family business. if you cross the daughter and her husband are people you cant cross. kushner is never going to leave. donald trump is not going to fire his son-in-law. so all these other, you know, heavyweights need to navigate that. look, i think bannons role in that white house -- if you go into bannons office, he calls it the war room. its the office very close to the oval office. it has white boards all over it with president trumps agenda ...

He was popular near new york. a bit of a swamp drainer himself, asking a couple serious political heavyweights in recent years. senator chuck schumer said friday while its true that presidents from both parties make their own choices for u.s. attorney positions across the country, they have always done so in an orderly fax that doesnt -- fashion that doesnt put ongoing investigations at risk. they ask for letters of resignation, with but the attorneys are allowed to stay on the job until their s...

Professional life. he was a appointed to new yorks southern district by president obama back in 2009, and he appeared to be in good standing with president trump, maybe keeping that job after being told to stick around in late november after meeting with the newly-elected president at trump tower before he moved into the white house. after that meeting bharara did speak to reporters. >> we had a good meeting, i said i would absolutely consider staying on. i agreed to stay on, i have already spok...

Heavyweights you put in defense. are you going to draw down heavily on state, i would think tillerson, the secretary would wage one hell of a war, if that were the case. >> nia, $54 billion for defense and security. you have a border wall that could cost upwards of $20 billion. the president wants to cut taxes, he wants more infrastructure spending. how does this get paid for? >> nobody knows. thats the $3 trillion question, which is about the size of the federal budget in any given year. this d...

Jim just reported on. but i think very important to this speech is presidents moving away from his capacity to make all the changes unilaterally through executive order and now for the first time he really has to look to congress and the institutions of gumpt do big things, whether it be tax reform or infrastructure or obamacare, all these big things. i think were now starting to look for what are you really going to do? whatser your game plan? your strategy? youre laying out $54 billion increas...