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Perhaps goaded on by the cheering crowd now, where he does go off on a riff whether it be about russia or stormy daniels or the economy or his cabinet. >> jonathan lemire, ken vogel, thank you very much. lets go to delaware senator chris coons. senator, thank you very much for being here. well try and get this interview in quickly before the president gets too far into his infrastructure speech. first, your reaction to the retaliation from russia. >> i think it was predictable that russia would ...

This porter -- rob porter scandal and the fact that it has dragged on for so long that hes involved in it. and thats not a place you want to be as chief of staff. you do not want to be the story. in particular, in this white house, with a president of the united states who does not like other people getting attention in his white house, especially if it is casting a negative light on him. >> phil rucker, in the meantime, the folks who work for the american taxpayers and communicate for this whit...

Wondering if he was still hyperfocused on the fact that hes not under investigation. if you look at which didnt have to occur, he takes it as a personal affront, he tends to take things personally, that he would be under investigation for colluding with the russians which would delegitimatize his entire presidency. when i read that tweet, he didnt specifically say that comey lied about all of these things that he said. and i wonder if he just meant for everybody who said i was under investigatio...

Military. they do not know who launched that surface-to-air missile. i want to go to white house correspondent kristen welker. give me a sense of what is going on at the white house. its interesting that the president continued on with his infrastructure speech given all of the international news breaking today from the morning onwards. >> reporter: i think thats a fair point. i can tell you that behind the scenes here, alex, they have been in meetings trying to reach out to their counterparts i...

Statement. what do you make? >> it is a dangerous part of the world. i stood in the gulan heights. you hear the pounding in syria. we have something like 6 million refugees outside of that country. destabilizing europe and the region. to have the president say we will pull out pretty soon. what does that mean? >> it makes it sound like a decision is coming. >> it sounds like a decision has been made. is that based on what he heard from the national security adviser or the pentagon? it raises so ...

The president, more americans trust the media over president trump. he has a fantastically problematic low approval rating. >> so to your point, answer for me because brian answered your question, you said republicans need to do soul-searching why would people think they have done racist things or have racist policies. same thing why would people think that of the president that hes not fit for office and that maybe his actions point to how you may not feel about him being racist. talk about rep...