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To announce that he was dismissing alderman because of watergate nixon asked alderman to call around and asked if people liked his speech and he said he didnt think in this particular case he didnt think that was appropriate. my sense is thats the zone were in. i could be wrong again, obviously. its something secretary rumsfeld its a known unknown, but id bet a significant amount of money that hes not calling around trying to challenge his pre-existing beliefs. >> certainly, thats what we unders...

Something everybody assumes. when the president talks about paul manafort was there only a while. hes known manafort for years going back. the campaign chair for a pivotal period. who is to say paul manafort after he left the campaign left the campaign -- who is to say -- >> cory lewandowski didnt. >> who is to say paul manafort wasnt still in touch with the campaign or people on the campaign or donald trump and others on the campaign? again, known unknown. how much communication was there? my r...

Shady. i was going to say shadier, but thats a known unknown. it also just is right in our face the ease with which they lie about everything to everyone. >> right. i dont know anything about it, never happened. oh, yeah. >> always a lie. >> yeah, it kind of happened. i didnt know about it. well, actually i was involved in the whole thing, right? i mean, thats the progression that weve seen, you know, lie after lie after lie and thats a typical pattern. step back for a second. his lawyer is comp...

1972, that had him asking, i think, the cia to block the fbi or maybe vice versa into the investigation of watergate. and these things move more slowly than people tend to either hope for or remember. and i think were going to see that here. this is immensely complicated. were not even sure exactly what all the issues are. but in point of fact, that was true of watergate. we think of the break-in and then leading to the resignation and kind of the front-line pbs documentary storytelling way, but...

And kind of the front-line pbs documentary storytelling way, but there were a number of what became known as the white house horrors that ultimately became part of the investigation. and so i think we are in what another figure from that era, destined to be white house chief of staff, donald rumsfeld called a known unknown. >> jon, i was thinking of you today as you and i tend to reminisce about past presidents, about the tone of this president when we saw that tweet today that started, congratu...

Of staff, donald rumsfeld called a known unknown. >> jon, i was thinking of you today as you and i tend to reminisce about past presidents, about the tone of this president when we saw that tweet today that started, congratulations, america. it didnt go on to wish anyone congratulations. in fact, it was very dark, very negative, and sarcastic. and that, to me -- thats a first for us as american people. getting our arms around the fact that it may not be in the usual scope of the presidency that ...

For the president. no russian collusion. well, we dont know that. and the big whopper of a lie that we do know about was about russian collusion. it may have been bungled but it was about that meeting in trump tower. the big whopper of a lie told by the president and the only known unknown is who else was aware of the fact they were telling a lie. and not that its a crime to lie to the press but this was sort of the ease with which -- and youre talking about all of them -- now john dowd his lawy...

But we just had bill on across the hall and all of the polls were wrong. she did not have a 3.5-point lead going into this morning, and thats what the average of polls had her at. this is not a map that reflects a three-point lead. she didnt have it. i dont know that she ever had it. i think the clinton camp is already putting out this spin and its half the story, but the other half is what it did to him. he closed stronger than anyone in recent political history. and our folks that were on the ...

And a known-unknown. hillary clinton has been to every corner of the world, dealt with many of these issues and leaders before, including vladimir putin. donald trump has kind of a -- presented kind of a hazy shorthanded voer eversion of wh might do as president but we dont know who his advisors will be and what he has presented is perhaps, calls into question. is nato obsolete? of course its not sdpp he know more than the general? of course he doesnt. you know, if he thinks that vladimir putin ...

Places like pittsburgh, and showing that this president is fighting for jobs and to get the economy trickling down so that ordinary american families are feeling it. the more they can do that. the less they can concentrate on issues that he gets derailed by the disastrous websites, the affordable care act. ukraine, another example, the happier this white house is. >> speaking of ukraine, mark. the thing that we dont talk about, and the unknown -- the known unknown, the known unknown is president...