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Plans that were laid out previously. he sort of got talked back from the ledge a bit by his national security advisers saying that, look, we need to have at least some sort of presence in syria for a time reminiscent of the afghanistan debate from last summer where he suggested that he didnt understand the point of why we were still there and had to be explained by tillerson around mcmaster and others why we needed to have at least some sort of presence. it comes back to, again, him feeling that...

Obstruction of justice. its not that this individual case would amount to it on its own terms. >> i want to go back to just before he left to go to davos and had that impromptu gaggle. wife says this is the find of thing that absolutely drives -- it has to drive his legal team crazy when he just decides, oh, i think ill wander into that little briefing and have a few words with members of the press there. heres what he basically said that i tong a lot of people sounds like a potential defense ag...

Won without the help of anyone else. when people talk about russia this is a, quote, unquote, madeup hoax to try to delegitimize his election. we know how the president used this. i asked is he saying the reports from the intel community that russia engaged in e-mail hacking, that there was a spread of weaponizing information. she said he addressed that and he doesnt believe it played a key role here. thats fine. i asked it of the president last night when he did this impromptu gaggle with repor...

Recent weeks in explaining his views on immigration. well, in the context of the shutdown and this was the biggest issue, and just when his chief of staff is trying to say, sure, well have a d.r.e.a.m.ers deal, but we want this, and they wanted that to be the headline, that we have a couple of things we need to give back, the president comes in and says, lets do it. >> o, i think a couple things, to be fair, though, it was made clear prior to the presidents impromptu gaggle that john kelly was n...