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How am i doing? im president. can you believe it? right? >> can you believe it? trump channeling the feeling manufacture americans that there is something unbelievable about him serving as president right now. not off the cup moment was at the obamacare president conference. it wasnt isolated for a man who he massed great wealth and power, trump is deeply insecure about his achievementes. the election is over. trump cannot seem to get past it. thats "the new york times" front page today. an arti...

Bloom bloomenthal. >> it looks and feels very much like that saturday night massacre when richard nixon fired one attorney general after another when they refuse to fire archie bald cox who was investigating the president of the united states. >> now in fairness to history and donald trump, there are significant differences there to that parallel. >> he didnt have the awe das toy it fire a fib director investigating the white house. >> you would say saturday night massacre is a reach because at ...

>> he raised the specter of a quick pro quo by saying they discussed that at the same diber. then he threatened the fbi director publicly on twitter. so we talk about parallels to nixon. one big difference is the way the president almost seems eager to confess to obstruction of justice in public. this thing accelerate sod quickly to a cover-up. and the president really, hes the only one responsible for that by his actions this week that i think were going to see a big expansion both of the fbi i...

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Sort of on death watch time from reince priebus as you mentioned to steve bannon. a lot of them have seen their stock go down. its gone back up and down again. this last week and that the president has been on his heels dealing with the comey firing, how the communication staff was put on their heels as well where the president undermined them, talking about on twitter how you cant trust what theyre saying and what hes saying is really the final call. all of those are signs that were going to se...

Made by donald trump. former prosecutors noting the presidents own words could even form part of the case of potential obstruction charges. >> do you believe the president fired comey to interfere with the fbi investigation? >> the presidents actions and his statement lends to that appearance. >> the difficulty and i look at this also as a former prosecutor can you prove obstruction based open the presidents own words when we dont know whether we can believe this president. >> and new details ab...

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Behavior. regardless of the action the president takes regarding the director of the fbi. i do think that the tradition of the fbi has been to have a political people appointed as directorsst fbi. i dont believe theres ever been a politician to run the fbi. it seems like now would be a particularly bad time to break that tradition which i believe is a sentment charrod by senator lindsey graham that he expressed earlier today. >> matthew alexander, all measured. even understated about the crisis ...

Has been following this. weekends have been very busy here, kelly. when we look at the names even merrick garland being added to the list, although we dont know i think whether hes actually been interviewed. >> he has not been interviewed and that was the suggestion of mike lee as an olive branch. he had led the oklahoma city bombing investigation so he has a legit background to be considered. hes not part of the search based on our sources. you had the eight faces on the screen, they draw from ...

Learned is that what president trump did this week is inconsistent with our democratic values and the rule of law enforcement its a bedrock principle in law enforcement that there be a separation between politics and law enforcement at the federal level. that means a separation between the white house and the department of justice. thats important in every criminal investigation. its all the more important in investigations that are politically charged or have political overtones. but its at the...