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Quick fact check here. mueller brought criminal charges against 33 people. what do you make of the strategy? is it smart? >> mueller never backs down from a twitter challenge. giuliani is full blown tv lawyer pr person for the president. hes not acting as the presidents personal lawyer here, at least in his best interest as his lawyer. why go on twitter and antagonize mueller as hes been doing if hes trying, in good faith to strike a deal with the team. >> this is an important point. this is a p...

Ran. he had this big splashy announcement in springfield, illinois. people forget, he raised $25 million in the first quarter of 2007. more than any other candidate. thats really the key to this, raising money. >> okay, so alice, what do you think about the roll-out, to chriss point, is it smart for her to get out ahead of some of the big democrats we expect to jump in the field? >> from the logistical boring aspect of presidential campaigns, it is. chris was exactly right. knowing there are mor...

Hours before and after his death. is it smart? is it accurate? is it wight for secretary pompeo and secretary matic and the president and other senior officials to say there is no direct evidence linking the crown prince to the murder? >> this is just ridiculous, wolf. pompeo and mattis and trump are turning the united states into a laughingstock by denying what is so obvious. this hit team of saudi operatives, many of them members of the crown princes own security detail, they could not have wa...

We are giving him no break, he should be sentenced to the full extent of his multiple convictions and guilty pleas. that is their play with mueller -- with manafort. i think they dont have a lot of options in terms of using manafort against other people. >> because hes unreliable? >> because hes unreliable. they could in a further proceeding down the line even if manafort didnt want to cooperate they could give him immunity since he will have been sentenced to force him to testify but since they...

Judges on the circuit courts of appeal. now, there are a lot of vacancies on the district courts. i think there is 111 the last time i looked. really vital to fill those. as long as you have divided congress, the one thing they can get done is to get these judges confirmed. ed: he has a bigger majority in the senate to fill those judicial vacancies. real quick, is it smart for the president politically to take on chief justice roberts. you need him on other issues. >> you know, ed, i dont want t...

Motivate his base and carry significant crossover appeal to independent and moderate voters. is it smart? it seems to me like the economy is a much more uncontroversial way. but maybe it doesnt rally people as much. >> i think the economy is the issue where you traditionally -- or lately have been seeing the strongest numbers for the president, the strongest numbers for republicans. so it is much safer territory. on the other hand, theres a lot more intensity, i think, on the right than on the l...

History. i think this is smart politics to get this out of the way now to address it, and look, president trump is going to be the front runner in 2020. democrats are kidding themselves if they think trump is going to be an easy out but senator warren lacooks like the first person out here to do what she needs to do to take him on. >> let me ask you, was it smart of warren to do this so close to the midterms? do you think it could be more of a distraction? could she wait until after the midterms...

Say that warren is, you know, only somewhere between 164th and 1/1000 american indian. she took this test as a response to all of the feedback shes getting from president trump and others in the republican party. thats number one. number two is she has never -- someone at some point will come on twitter and say the cherokee nation said she has no right to triable citizenship. she never claimed that. she said that this is her family history. i think this is smart politics to get this out of the w...

Enough of a majority, that this is going to continue to happen in the future. so hes trying to use that as a messaging tactic. the white house feels they have energized republicans with this. but whether or not they can sustain that energy for a month is a big question. >> is that smart? i mean, if brett kavanaugh is under water with women voters, 29% like him. 53% have a negative impression. is it smart for president trump to make brett kavanaugh the -- you know, the rallying cry at his rallies...

Tweet. the first is maggie haberman, generally considered one of the best reporters on the white house beat who has known trump for years and years and who despite what trump says has an ongoing relationship. in fact, theres a documentary about "the new york times" coming out soon and the trailer for the documentary, one of the first clips in the trailer has a shot of maggie haberman talking about how trumps about to call her. so, its just not true that he doesnt know her or talk to her. >> we d...