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>> i got one more, and if you can answer for me quickly, congressman lewis. because president trump tweeted again today that the special counsel investigation is headed by 13 angry democrats. >> i do not consider myself an angry democrat. >> are you a democrat? >> im not a democrat and im not angry. >> is the whole point here republican attacks to make wray and rosenstein have to defend themselves like this? >> its designed to discredit, not only rosenstein, hes leading the investigation and he ...

The part about the president, you know generally understanding that michael generally takes care of such things. so, theres this retainer from which he will take care of whatever i need to pay him. and you know, i havent disclosed it on my financial disclosure form im required to do by the government act. now, i want to bring in rudy, sit him down and say what was your understanding that caused you to say all of this to sean hannity? who made you correct yourself? and what part of that is the tr...

Morocco to talk about liquefied national gas exports and lobbyists represented the only lng exporter and its not in the mandate of the epa. its the energy department. >> there are other instances as well. administrator pruitt wads asked about that today if he thought that created any kinds of conflict of interest and he tried to dodge that question saying thats been approved and he wouldnt -- they couldnt pin him down. he wouldnt be pinned down on that issue. when you look at the way the epa has...

This guy was 58, which meant he would have won, no more runoff, right? and we came after him, right. >> we came after that guy and we found out a couple of like minor things. he didnt live in the district. they said he didnt live in the district, but nobody cares. i said really? lets try it on the voter. so anyway, you have to get 50 mch cain which case the election is over. less than 50, there is a runoff. karen was fantastic. but she was with so many republicans and he was the only democrat. s...

Him but some of the people he worked with and just when you thought this circus couldnt get any more strange sam nunberg rolls in on a unicycle and doing whatever he was doing. he was the guy that was fired in 2015 from the campaign. so less than two months into the campaign, a guy whos not been in close touch with whats been happening but someone who has been interviewed by the special counsels office and does know sort of at least what path the questioning was leading. so while you dont want t...

>> dana: john kelly said hes not there to baby-sit the president when it comes to twitter. do you think it should be? >> that just betrays a misunderstanding of the job of white house chief of staff. its many things. his own narrow definition was making the trains run on time in the west wing. thats the easy part. the hard part is telling the president hard truths. you know, ronald reagan wanted to -- on his very first item in office, he wanted to tackle social security reform. james baker iii s...

>> so, matt miller, the question is, is that ignorance of how the levers of government and the presidency are to be pulled? >> i think you could describe it as ignorance the first couple of months in office, but by that point he had been through a series of events in the justice department. you would think somebody would have sat him down and said, look, there is supposed to be a wall between the justice department and the white house and you have to respect that wall. its clear that he doesnt n...

In the justice department. you would think somebody would have sat him down and said, look, there is supposed to be a wall between the justice department and the white house and you have to respect that wall. its clear that he doesnt not just understand that need for independence but hes hostile to it. we see it affect his relationship with all kinds of senior leaders at the justice department. he, of course, asked andrew mccabe, the interim director of the fbi who he voted for, he met with pree...

Years. >> a franchise player, still a good quarterback. not at the peak of his powers anymore. still a solid performer. >> the idea that hes the problem with the team. outrageous. >> the general manager was jerry reese, that his name? a series of terrible drafts, coach clearly effective in pulling that team together. this is akin to maybe in the last year or two of darius jeters career if someone completely dissed him. sat him down. >> and blamed him for the yankees not making the playoffs. co...

To this position. and you saw the president just continually returning to the phrase, he denies it, he totally denies it. and then that combined with his sort of wait and see attitude about will he campaign with roy moore really sets up a potentially interesting last few weeks of this already very interesting election. on the other side, you have senator mitch mcconnell who said hey, if this guy gets elected, were going to start to -- the proceedings to eject him right away. >> shepard: thats an...