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And historian john meech ham, his new book, the soul of america, the battle for better angels will be published in may. >> looking forward to that. jean robinson, were going to go through all the stories, but i dont know where to start. i dont know -- you cant even say what the big story of the day is because the kushner story last night is shocking. it is going to have reverberations. its exactly what mueller and his investigators thought that maybe he was playing both sides of the street and t...

He stangds by it. as do the rest of it. >> lisa bring in our guest former undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, rick stengel, who also happens to be former managing editor of time magazine. and our friend historian presidential biographer and author, john meech ham comes back on the broadcast with us. john, ill ginl with you. major garrett is a good guy and a solid journalist and was not being facetious when he said do we have to wait for the presidents pro noumt. you ...

White house communications staff? >> look, major, im not going to get into back-and-forth that we have to have like a direct quote every single time. you guys want to get lost in the process -- >> i dont think a question and giving an answer is lost in the process, sara, with all respect. >> and im answering those questions. its very simple. the president decided to fire director comey. nobody else gets to make that decision, and he made it. he stangds by it. as do the rest of it. >> lisa bring ...

The republicans not to follow or at least enough republicans not to follow him and certainly bring democrats to the table as well. i hope they do it before august. >> john meech ham, do you think the president will meet here or hang back after the re-election. >> judging from his past, looking at his character, whats he going to do? >> hell wait. >> whys that. >> its worked so far. hes president. donald trump is out. >> so deferring works for president obama. >> i think to me -- and harolds been...