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The house? is that what youre suggesting? or just noting its unusual? >> i dont know. youre referring to an earlier press i did earlier, and i just made the -- i guess, stated the obvious. which is john learner is her head political guy, he was my head political guy when i was governor. he reads the political winds very, very, very well. and i didnt know if there was another shoe to drop from the trump standpoint, mueller standpoint, mid election standpoint. but is it about exiting stage left be...

>> something doesnt smell right. somethings weird. i cant put my finger on it. you know, her head political guy, a guy by the name of john learner used to be my lead guy, and that guy keeps his nose to the political winds. he has an acute sense of whats going on, and so either theres another shoe to drop from a trump standpoint, something that we dont know and that she wants to get out of the way of or alternatively there was this, you know, inquiry i guess put in yesterday on private planes, an...

Were at inflection point. >> rhetorically, lets say, if not on the ground. >> both policies are moving in opposite directions in many ways. on north korea we have a situation now where the president is being teed up to get a second meeting with kim jong-un post the mike pompeo visit there this past weekend looking to see real denuclearization move forward. at the same time on iran, there are real concerns that the u.s. is beating the drums of war towards iran, and it will need to use the u.n. as...

Woman elected governor there, and you and i both know how big of a deal that is in south carolina. in terms of her political future, congressman, what would you surmise? >> the skys the limit, particularly getting out as she is. thats why theres something else going on that i suspect will reveal itself over time, but it allows her to leave, exit stage right, with an unblemished record and frankly a very strong record based on the things you earlier mentioned as well as now the foreign policy exp...

For people who are mike pences friends from congress and to steer the president away from some of his own instincts about which candidates to back for speaker of the house, governor of states. we didnt see this with dick cheney. >> hes really sort of marshalling the troops on the congressional fields. people he has direct knowledge of. he is playing some favorites as alex points out. he is doing some things that a president might typically do, leading the party, really paying attention to the mi...

As with all things trumpian, it goes from the petty like snatching invites to speak to the nra to the more consequential decisions about staff and political appointees. talk about what you wrote today. >> thats right. well, weve seen a couple of occasions like you mentioned, both the nra and davos which was originally pence to go there. trump saw the guest list and decided i should do this and bunted pence off the schedule. leak-- like you mentioned, thats petty stuff. but there are more substan...

Clipton could come pa clinton could compartmentalize it. he didnt talk about it every day. it brings me to the russian sanction decisions. is he getting the same benefit of the doubt that he was getting before after this round of rush sh -- russian news? at what point does this start to worry some republicans about -- >> i think the same conservative foreign policy experts that were reassured are concerned about this emerging rift. it is always john learner who had been very briefly appointed to...