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Technicals, complicated matters, its true that the congress would find a hard time sorting out every final dot about every detail. but the real reason at the end of the day that this institution punts most of its power to executive branch agencies is because its a convenient way for legislatures to have to be able to avoid taking responsibility for controversial and often unpopular decisions. if people want to get re-elected over and over again, thats your highest goal. if your biggest long-term...

Believed there was money laundering going around. thats in court documents. when donald trump entered atlantic city back decades ago, there were crime ties. these are documented and government investigations. documented in court papers. the issue isnt whether or not it happened. the matter at hand is the extent that donald trump knew. >> some are saying this. he writes the family focus of discussion, insist tent, almost frenzied, became wholly about comeys ambition. he would rise by damaging the...

Conversation, 20 to 30 minutes with, came across as being incredibly sympathetic to the circumstances. youre right in that were delving into this more deeply than perhaps we have in past administrations. i want to make an important point. i thought we reached the low point of this on monday when he incorrectly said that other former presidents had not reached out to the families of fallen soldiers. we have sunk so much further into the mire. where were now in a position of literally checking whe...

>> aof course not. is he out of the loop now? >> if i was part of a administration that was basically corrupt, i would try to claim that i had been out of the loop on a wide variety ever things. mike pence was running the presidential transition. so given that they had been warned of this investigation of mike flynn, if mike pence didnt know, inthat means he wasnt paying very good attention. but i think there is something important that david french pointed out which is you asked is this treason...

Though go to congress and include them this agreement then you have the force of government behind you that says we can say this is maybe not the best deal but a better deal. >> the question isnt whether president obama is going to congress he is. the question is, what action is congress going to take. if congress is going to set a president where they override the presidents ability to do deals thats a bad precedent to set for any congress of the united states. the president and the white house...

That seems to make young people or any survey group look good. >> do you think the news that is sort of randomly gathered from the facebook or twitter feed could it be a gateway drug to a bigger interest in harder news? >> yes. i think the harder question to answer and perhaps the most important question is this good or bad? and more specifically, is this better or worse than the status quo of the 1990s? i dont have the answer to that question. i dont think that we do. it is hard to measure awar...

East priorities fits into american voters sense of what we want to do. and so i wonder if you could speak to the fact that in the long-term, if there is a deal with iran that americans are open to the question isnt whether that is good for israel but to americans whether it is good for us? because israel simply has, because it is closer in the neighborhood and has other reasons, has different strategic interests in containing iran than we do. >> yes. that is absolutely true. america and iran hav...

Happy, it is making people stressed and depressed in record enoughs and we realize the best place to find happiness is in experiences instead. >> this is such a great book to read as were approaching spring cleaning. and krystal was curled up on our couch knee deep in this book and it is really good advice. and sometimes you dont realize how much stuff you have build up over time until you move and you realize, i havent touched any of this for years. and a big part of that is you get emotionally...

That it doesnt fit into and whether that hardline will hold as we get into the election is quite an interesting question. i think most americans are probably skeptical of iran. i dont know how much policy influences elections that directly, the details and nuances of dealing with iran i think could get lost in a lot of shouting essentially. >> and i want to get your thoughts, blake mentioned at the top the president put out that was directed at young people in iran urging them to put pressure on...

Good to have you here tonight. these comments started to trickle out today over the course of the day. everybody has sort of had a chance to look at them at this point. what do you make of that statement by the president? >> we havent seen the whole interview. these excerpts are disturbing. a twice elected black president would lecture us on the lack of racial progress is difficult to stomach frankly. >> lets look at another one of these comments. he said its one thing for me to be mistaken as a...