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Helping get secretary pompeo confirmed. thats why im proud of some of the things we did there. no question. >> one of the things you write about. i dont think youre proud of, but the charlottesville response. you write that it did not cause me to reconsider working in the white house the way it seemed to with others. part of it may have been that i was battle hardened but i did not think he was racist. based on this paragraph, what youre saying here, is it accurate to say your political calculat...

They are an equal branch of government, and he should respect that. i they have chief justice john robert was right in calling him on it. the president did not do what i think is appropriate. we dont want to change the nature of the checks and balances that come from article 1, 2 and 3. hes article 2, congress is article i, he should respect article i, and in order for them to have respect for him. hes the personification of article ii in our constitution. >> just very quickly, before i let you ...

Simple interventions. but they are at risk of dying. and this is about people who arent necessarily injured by the hurricane, these are people stuck in these remote places, conditions get o cant get out and are dealing with uncontrolled hypertension, chronic illness that could turn into a death sentence. humanitarian crisis to me means that needless deaths can occur. and there is a real risk of that. so your point about more resources down here, i think its a really important one right now. at t...

Does he have a point? >> i know of, know nothing about that report and i know of no contact that our campaign proper ever had with any foreign government. but keep in mind what also makes this more troubling in the case of russia and the trump campaign is, this wasnt just cooperation for the sake of helping get donald trump elected. donald trump is now paying the russians back for the assistance the russian government provided him in the form of adopting the russian governments position on any n...

With us and be back in a bit. thanks. meanwhile coming up the man widely credited with helping get president trump to the white house, now seemingly fighting to keep his own place in the west wing. why power is slowly slipping away from steve bannon. and the question, who could be stepping into fill that void. thats next. hes the green money you can spend now. whats up? gonna pay some bills, maybe buy a new tennis racket. hes got a killer backhand. when its time to get organized for retirement...

>> and as you know, the secretary of defense robert gates announced that the pentagon will ease up on its enforcement of the dont ask, dont tell policy. they said that homosexual behavior will still be against the rules but nobody will be actively enforcing it. kind of like the ethics regulations in congress. its basically the same sort of deal. of course, david axelrod is here. where is david? hes one of the people most responsible for helping get president obama elected. without him it might h...