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Over twitter. its not that we havent had presidents before who have been intimidating and maybe even bullying like lbj, but they did it in private, not public. >> the more i hear about jeff flakes primary opponent, the more i like jeff flake. >> people on both sides of the aisle like jeff flake, because they have a relationship with him and hes a decent guy. its never thinking more than one play ahead with president trump himself, and so, who cares? maybe he takes out flake in a primary. but doe...

Flooded. they woke up this morning, and suddenly there was water all over the place. so we have had first responders out here from the sheriffs office, fire department, houston police, and a beveragey of volunteers also going out into these neighborhoods, trying to get people out of those flooded homes. we ran into one man, b.j. johnson. his elderly parents were back in the home. he had been bringing them food every day. he was able to drive in here, he said, last night. brought them dinner. and...

Presidential campaign days. despite the criticism, he was very focused them. i think he easily won the debates. not because he was necessarily the smoothest but because he was the feistiest. he got it and he won it. the others did not. that was then. theres a difference now. hes president now. the anger that got him and sustained him at the rallies wont necessarily win him legislative victories in washington and that is a big difference. a big, big difference. hes got big ideas, big goals but as...

Here, even though hes offensive, at least hes playing to his own crowd so we can understand why hes doing this, even if it deeply offends us. in this case, gene, hes driving away any persuadables. there are no more persuadables. hes driving them away and hes getting nothing done and he has angered the most powerful man in washington, d.c., and i will say one of the few legislative giants, whether you like him or not, remaining in washington, d.c., that in the grand history of lbj and george mitc...

Things done because anybody who is interested in got things done would have flown to arizona yesterday and gone and visited john mccain. lets just be cynical. thats one vote that he needs. would have talked to jeff flake, hey, lets put it behind us, how can we work together? thats another vote hes going to need for a lot of things. would have called mitch mcconnell. again, i mean, this is not about weakness. this is about getting things done. this is doing what abraham lincoln did, talking to a ...

Speaking out. he spoke up really, i think, as early and as tough as any republican senator. >> he has, and many other republican senators have. the republican who is making the most waves, being the most critical seems to me to be john kasich, and he appears to be softening the beaches to do something like a primary challenge, but from donald trumps left, at least on issues like the surge in afghanistan which he put out a statement saying yesterday im against that and entitle reform. he wants to...

Top place on a white house staff. we never saw a president chose a chief strategist. you dont see that job title in any other administration. most of all donald trump was able to sort of bridge this gap between, you know, the globalists and the nationalists, if you want to call them that, economic nationalists, and perhaps white nationalists represented by bannon. as long as he was inside the white house, he could bridge those two because he didnt have to worry about bannon denouncing him to the...

Military, people like leon panetta, who was defense secretary, are really concerned right now. this is not a joke. its not a game. >> right. >> real people can -- you know, in 1994 when we almost went to war with north korea, president clinton had the casualty figures put together, what would actually happen. 59,000 american dead. 490,000 korean dead in 90 days. >> yeah. we dont even have an ambassador to south korea to sort of sit him down. >> it wouldnt be nuclear. this is conventional war. th...

Put together, what would actually happen. 59,000 american dead. 490,000 korean dead in 90 days. >> yeah. we dont even have an ambassador to south korea to sort of sit him down. >> it wouldnt be nuclear. this is conventional war. this is the real deal. >> let me read you what senator ben sasse had to say. he said, no, congress obviously isnt going to war in venezuela. nicolas maduro is a horrible human being, but congress doesnt vote to spill nebraskans blood based on what the exclusive lashes ou...

>> michael you cant put the tooth pace back in the tube process. theyre out weve read them having said that what did you learn from them. >> you and i talked about this a number of times. lets talk about all of this. joining us now politico senior foreign affairs correspondents michael crowley and an encore performance, michael beschloss. how was this leak and printing these triplets a terrible precedent a bad thing for the presidency? >> well, a really bad thing for the presidency because one t...