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Leader. combined with the positive response hes gotten for the most part for his coverage -- his response to the hurricanes. the presidency, the president feels like he has a little bit of momentum and that he is, at least for now, wants to make across the aisle, reach across the aisle, make these deals. i dont think any democrat necessarily thinks this is going to be a long-term proposition. >> robert, i was just going to say that schumer is, according to a lot of people in his life, what lbj u...

I dont think any democrat necessarily thinks this is going to be a long-term proposition. >> robert, i was just going to say that schumer is, according to a lot of people in his life, what lbj used to call one of those good government types. he does have a side to him that looks like he just got elected student council president in high school. he does believe in the process. cagy, partisan, inside player, yes, but i think you just heard chuck schumer in chuck schumers own words. thats what he s...

Political spinner buffeted by the politics surrounding this investigation. i think you hear him saying that here when he tells you he can investigate anything thats fair lifr within the scope of the special council ground. >> whats the motivation for you to grant an interview? he has been an inside player. he has been the kind of guy that has not enjoyed the limelight. we have been lead to see that he has received or seeing his name in the media. >> it is an interesting point. i cant remember th...

Of the special counsel ground. >> so whats the motivation for him to grant an interview? hes been an inside player. hes been the kind of guy who has not enjoyed the limelight, weve been led to believe he has received foreseeing his name in the media. >> its an interesting point. i was thinking about that over the weekend. i cant remember the last time a sitting deputy attorney general made a sunday morning television appearance like this. hes not someone who enjoys the limelight. hes not someone...

Joyce advance back on the broadcast, a 25 year veteran federal prosecutor. she spent almost eight years and was among the first u.s. attorneys appointed by president barack obama, robert costa and phillip rucker remain with us. >> did you find his commented pointed or routine? zbli thought they were pointed. he is concerned with the law with the facts, with doing the right thing. i dont see him as being someone who would be very interested in political spinner buffeted by the politics surroundin...

Sessions, first, he had been in d.c. for a couple of decades, he is an inside player. hes a prideful guy to boot. but a guy who understands the internal politics of all of this i dont think hes going to step aside. he has no reason to step aside. >> very quickly in a sentence what does it do to morale at the doj? >> it puts people on edge, they are not interested in the drama as much as getting their work done. i dont think that you can -- i dont think that firing him and putting in a new guy in...

Care front he was actually republican partys saving grace. now that theres not a democratic president in the white house, that they have a republican president, they are squarely facing the challenges and realities of having to govern on an issue as complicated as health care. and i was struck last week talking to senator ted cruz when he basically acknowledged after coming out in support of the bill saying, yes, i acknowledge this is not a full repeal bill, and let me tell you, there is not the...

Secretary, everybody knows who he is, what drives him. geithners been an inside player his whole career. but by the time he arrived at this level, people didnt know who he was. and his talents arent really geared towards public speaking, towards explaining himself, towards conveying a message that the treasury and the administration really need to convey. because there is some good news as to how theyve handled the crisis thats just to the breaking through. >> this idea that theres no spokespers...

Yet hes also someone who is -- he is a conservative. but by the republican party standards right now, he can be viewed as a moderate. and someone as we saw by his landslide election in new jersey, a republican who democrats feel comfortable voting for. that makes him, i think, to the gop establishment thats trying to wrest the party back from the tea party, an inside player who could, i think, republican mainstreamers are hoping he can pull the party back to the middle and regain the white house...

Heated. south carolina, i guess irts it really goes back to iowa. you had 10, $14 million thrown by a super pac. you said you would get out i was going to fight back. now its going back and forth. in just the last week, mitt romney has said you are a washington insider. that you resigned in disgrace. that you are influence peddler, an inside player. he was on the program. i asked him about this because it is getting personal. i wanted to give you a chance to respond tonight and your reaction. >>...