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Wasnt a constructive response. from time to time my anger and frustration was rightly directed. as long as youre human about it. a swing every now and something doesnt hurt. >> thank you sir. appreciate it. >> thank you everybody for watching. chris cuomo is up with cuomo "prime time." >> sorry, i have to go. i have a packed show. hows that for you. you dont like that. >> i cant see you. >> i look good. guess what im wearing. >> a black tie. white shirt. and a black suit. >> thats right. >> i wa...

>> exactly. >> michael flynns resignation. and now darrell issa, not a fluffy republican, saying jeff sessions is probably going to have to recuse himself. add this to the reporting that the fbi was asked to tamp down on their investigation on talking about the russia ties. youre putting it all together and it just doesnt smell right, okay? maybe the hard core cpac base will keep ignoring it, but there is a middle. there is a moderate republican middle. and this drip, drip, drip is not going to ...

In his district, hillary clinton won by a substantial margin. darrell issa is -- i know him quite well. you know, some people think he goes over the line from time to time. he is a very shrewd, very tough guy. i dont think he is likely to be dismissed by other republicans and the fact that he came out and said jeff sessions cant handle this himself is not without political significance because it will make the democrats feel they have more of a case here. >> jake, youre nodding your head. >> no,...

President because they think the election was rigged by the russians. thats the cold hard colonel of this thing. >> howard, let me ask you. do you think that would be true even without russia? there are a lot of democrats who never saw donald trump as legit. >> i think thats true, but this provides them with a pretty powerful argument. at least to themselves, to their own base here. were in a period of politics, as you know, ari, where everybody is talking to their own people and not to the midd...

Jason chaffetz from utah. >> why will you get in trouble with that? do they have a secret bromance, frenemy thing we dont know about? >> he took darrell issas portrait down and put it somewhere outside the view of the public. it was reported at the time and hasnt been brought up since then. i have the honor to bring it up with you now, ari. but i think that issa is somebody who always wants to -- he is always looking for some -- not attention, but looking to stand outside of the group. but he is...

Mass madness, mamaniacs. you people are the reality. we are the illusion. >> what would howard beel make of this reality show presidency? >> a, that level of anger would have made terrific reality tv. that movie not only presaged the entire reality sensibility, which is to rage and go nuts. when he goes nuts he becomes incredibly popular. >> powerful even. >> just as if i, you know, flip this table over and started throwing stuff around the set, that would be awesome television. and the content ...

Defrancesco. the facts i read off, howard, are not new to you or our audience by bu may be new to the president in the sense that its his dhs presenting them. >> its as significant, ari who put this out, leaked it out and whats going on between the white house and the sprawling intelligence bureaucracy in washington. i would say its something approaching war. i think the people in the various bureaucracies, whether its the state department, the cia or the department of homeland security and else...

His team, led by steve bannon, are only beginning the process of trying to bring those other agencies to heal, to make them see the world as the trump white house sees it which is, of course, not what the intelligence community is supposed to be doing. theyre supposed to be speaking hard truth to power. >> jake, howard calls it a war. do you agree? >> i think its probably something approaching that. the big mistake donald trump and his white housemaid here was kind of leaving congress out of the...

Special prosecutors statute and office. we have to work with them. we dont have to trust them. we need to investigate their activities and we need to do it because they are bad people. >> howard, you are a keen observer of washington. i have two questions. one, what about the substance of this? and, two, what do you view as the politics here? >> the substance of it, you know better than i. there is a special prosecutor statute, used to be independent council. now its back to special prosecutor. ...