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We call them our team. congress and the president going their separate ways for the august recess. before the exodus, our kasie hunt caught up with lawmakers to ask one simple question. >> reporter: do you think that president trump is honest? there have been questions about his phone calls with the boy scouts and with others. >> you know, i dont -- i know you all like talking about whether or not he actually received the phone call. im not going down that road. most people dont think hes hone...

>> i think it is fair to say that the outside intervention, the combination of the comey letter on october 28th, wikileaks, which played a much bigger role than i think many people understand yet, had the determinative effect. >> do you -- perhaps the text still of a sense of denial there? >> a little bit. i dont want to -- it was a factor. i think comey and russia did play a factor. i dont want to say it didnt. there were so many other things and youre kind of blind if you dont accept these oth...

Tax payer. >> stuart: whomever leaked that tax return, that person is culpable and liable. whom so ever it may be. >> unless its a theory of the colleague, its the president. you can reveal your own tax returns. so any other person who had custody of that did not have the right to leak it. that person committed the crime. >> stuart: its not likely on the grounds that the president just said to tucker today, he called these leaks disgraceful. its a big problem and hes going to find out who did it...

>> i think we went from gentle to really aggressive. how about that? i think the went from a really gentle nonprofit to let me bulldoze through these doors and just introduce myself sort of thing. >> in this situation, beating around the bush wasnt going to work. downtown brookings had an image problem. and someone had to nip that in the bud. >> when i said i was hired as the director of downtown, they would say, we have -- the director of downtown? i dont know what that means. oh, theres a down...

Just introduce myself sort of thing. >> in this situation, beating around the bush wasnt going to work. downtown brookings had an image problem. and someone had to nip that in the bud. >> when i said i was hired as the director of downtown, they would say, we have -- the director of downtown? i dont know what that means. oh, theres a downtown brookings. they didnt know. >> he also needed to get past all the questions about his age. which distracted from his mission. >> when i introduced myself, ...

To be a push that suggests concern that this is becoming an image problem for the party. why do you suppose that is? >> you saw kellyanne conway who knows in the last week of the campaign doesnt help trump so there was that statement, these arent our people. >> sure. >> but what youve had i think is an encouragement on the part of the republican leadership over the last five, six years, not of this ultra right neo-nazi part but a real disruptive american force in politics where they gain from th...

With the nazi orgy story. despite him winning that legal case, the videotape and the tabloid allegations about his nazi sex orgy created a fairly long-standing image problem for formula i as you might imagine not just because the sports chief executive had this particular part of his private live made very public but it was specifically because of who that executive was. it wasnt just that he was the head of formula one. its that his name is max mosley, and max mosley is the son of one of the mo...

Shouting in german while whipping some of these women who were dressed up in striped concentration camp style uniforms. other women on the tape were wearing german military uniforms. there was an unfortunate scene that reportedly involved mr. moseley being trusted up and picked over by a german speaking woman as if we were being deloused. ultimately the news of the world had to take down the video and pay max mosley the head of formula one racing $120,000 roughly plus his legal costs when a brit...

Republican criticism will be in a general election of hillary clinton on this. but before she takes on any of your -- any of your republican candidates, she has to get through the democratic primary. what advice would you give hillary clinton on that debate stage come tuesday? shes got bernie sanders and theyve all been playing pretty nice. then she has three other people on that stage who a lot of folks dont even remember their names. >> they have nothing to lose. >> the biggest challenge in th...

Over both shoulders like mostly i am talking about asians here. thats an insane thing to say. >> the hispanics like him so much that he wants to stay on their good side. >> it is weird to say something -- you know have you an image problem when you have to defend yourself and say things like when i was using a term that was slightly offensive to asians i actually happened to offend the mexicans as well and i am very sorry for. thats when you know he has a problem. donald trump should hang a shee...