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They poo poo the investigation, they cast it as an witch hunt even when it pertains to him who, lets face it, theyre under pressure to bring an indictment against someone, and manafort is the guy the most likely suspect there. they want to make sure that he stays on their good side because there is concern among folks that i talk to in trump world that he could flib on them and if he did he might have the most to be able to say that would have negative consequences for his family. >> you have to...

I think that is disingenuous. they poo poo the investigation, they cast it as an witch hunt even when it pertains to him who, lets face it, theyre under pressure to bring an indictment against someone, and manafort is the guy the most likely suspect there. they want to make sure that he stays on their good side because there is concern among folks that i talk to in trump world that he could flib on them and if he did he might have the most to be able to say that would have negative consequences ...

Warfare is underway under mcmaster. >> i dont think thats going to last too long. do you? john kelly did not put up with anthony scaramucci for more than 24 hours only because of the disorder. it may not have even had anything to do with scaramucci personally. he just wasnt going to deal with the chaos and disorder. hes a general. i dont think hes going to allow steve bannon and bannons allies to keep trashing an american hero for much longer. >> i hope bannon has shown hes more clever. hes goin...

Have done it, reagan did it by doing a lot of local ads. it seems to me its just changing the format. >> sure. and look, fdr did fireside chats. i dont think i have any problem with the president trying to communicate directly to the american people as long as its labelled appropriately and cleared what the sources. what i have a problem with and i suspect everybody will, is that obama -- sorry, president trump had literally one press conference since he took office and no other president, i thi...

He says things, and im sure noah would agree, that ring conservatives bells. when i heard him talking about russian aggression, and i think he was where he needed to be to be making that statement. you had people like me, conservatives for their lifetime going yeah, give it to them straight. way to go. that message is getting out to the conservative base. and certainly having an impact. anyway, were going to talk this a lot more and kids, wake up your parents. steve rattner has brought sharks. t...

Didnt have to have that stress test but we did and so far you know, madison and hamiltons creation is doing a pretty good job. >> i agree but again, i would simply say weve got a lot of problems in this country. it would be nice to make forward progress on some of them and the second thing which is wonky and doesnt get a lot of attention, there is an enorm us amount of stuff going on in the regulatory side of the government, where the republican trump vision is being implemented on a lot of regu...

Direction, the cover of "the economist" magazine highly regarded on friday nuclear cloud one side of it, president trump the other side kim jong-un. theyre worried is the first piece and the second one is you see the two of them, china and russia beginning to work together to collude, not to coin a phrase on international policy and this is an area where they can work together that helps their overall international agenda. so self-interest is the short answer. >> admiral stavrides, what would th...

The obama white house had their flickr page for their own white house photos, the presidential address, they would give the talks of the president to the regional news outlets so theres always an effort to go around attritional gatekeepers. i think probably that video you just broadcast is the most viewers its had since it was broadcast. >> yes, exactly, but i will tell you i do think steve rattner, this is a sign of things to come. i think youll see a lot of politicians, a lot of presidents in ...

Donald trump for trump tv, but on this 15-0 vote, he said this was genuinely an impressive accomplishment, and i would assume that you would agree, getting china and russia to come along. tell us about it. >> ill give you two things that are really good about it. one is ambassador nikki haley who i think is turning out to be a pleasant surprise at the united nations, i mean lets face it, going into her appointment, you wouldnt have thought the trump administration would really care so much about...

Dynamic there. >> youve got it, as weve said multiple times over the last few months, you really have three options here. one is the military option, either massive or precision, thats bad, because were going to lose a lot of people in the course of this, and its hard to predict how it ends up. second option as you point out is to get china in the game and that is going to require secondary sanctions on china. third option, we live with it, we continue to use deterrence, much as we did during th...