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They were probably going to come interview steve bannon. they were probably going to interview kellyanne conway, reince priebus, others, maybe even the vice-president, maybe even the president. there probably were numerous strategy sessions that maybe the president presided over, maybe he was briefed upon, at which they discussed, how do we get the fbi off of our trail? and when you put the president atop a large discussion, a large meeting, an ongoing role in a meeting, that in effect is sittin...

Is that his team has been questioning people who were in the white house during those 18 days. a lot of those people are in the white house now, like chief counsel don mcgahn. hes trying to figure out a lot of what jeremy just ran through, kind of who knew what when, and what conversations transpired around this time and why it took 18 days for flynn to be fired. of course, the timing we well know now is because of washington post report that came out right before his firing. so, it is looking l...

Realized they had an image problem. it wasnt to preserve the integrity of their white house. justice officials said, yes, they expected any president to get rid of their national security advisor as soon as they found out that he had lied to federal agents. >> and, jeremy, what else that might have been embedded in julias reporting today did you pay attention to especially? >> i just think its crystal clear now based on her reporting and reporting of her colleagues at nbc news that the president...

Around roy moore because hes another vote on a potential supreme court nominee sounds like a sean hannity, steve bannon white house, alabama republican strategy. >> it shows two things. they want to -- they probably are hearing -- a lot of republicans may be uneasy about roy moore and this is a reason to calm everybody down because hell vote for those judges. but it also shows me that the white house is getting a little nervous if they feel they need to distract and give people another reason to...

Documents that the committee has learned about from other witnesses in their investigation into the trump campaigns ties to russia. also, a spectacular collection of lies. thats how a former george w. bush speechwriter describes the trump team in a scathing new column. well bring that to you. and add image problem to the list of donald trumps political woes. some of the most widely circulated images of the trump era, and they arent pretty. us. its what this country is made of. but right now,...

Source, the administration is hard at work trying to get things going again in puerto rico. wolf, when you go back to the tweets this morning and even the president when he made that visit down in puerto rico, you remember that video of him throwing the paper towels to the people in puerto rico. i talked to another republican source who advises this white house on a routine basis who said the optics of that were just terrible and that the white house has to do something to get this image problem...

>> brian: i think we have gone so crazy with fire, suspend. we spend the whole day who and who went wrong unscripted situations like w this one we are not even ourselves anymore because we are concerned about how something might be misconstrued. do you see how we could go too far. or you think this does not fit the category? >> i agree anthony bore bourdain should not be fired or suspended. could reasonable people agree he should apologize or cnn. heres the problem for cnn. they have image probl...

>> brian: get rid of. apologize. we spend the whole day wonder hog is apologizing to who and who went wrong unscripted situations like this one we are not even ourselves anymore because we are concerned about how something might be misconstrued. do you see how we could go too far. >> i agree with you. >> brian: or doesnt fit that category. >> i agree anthony bore deign should not be fired and suspended. could reasonable people agree he should apologize or cnn. heres the problem for cnn. they hav...

>> i agree. >> brian: get rid of. apologize. we spend the whole day wonder hog is apologizing to who and who went wrong unscripted situations like this one we are not even ourselves anymore because we are concerned about how something might be misconstrued. do you see how we could go too far. >> i agree with you. >> brian: or doesnt fit that category. >> i agree anthony bore deign should not be fired and suspended. could reasonable people agree he should apologize or cnn. heres the problem for c...

About the president. what did you find? >> it was a good question she had. i have at times asked simple questions, democrats faced some tough ones in 2014 when asked to defend then president barack obama, and i think this is another example of president trump putting members of his own party in a a little bit of a tough spot. take a look. >> reporter: do you think that president trump is honest? there have been questions about his phone calls with the boy scouts and with others? >> i know you al...