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People in the trump administration, within the trump term of office have already moved from part-time to full-time work. thats a very, very big deal. steve: it is. >> 55 million americans who have a 401(k) looking at gains 20, 25% since the trump presidency began. thats the booming stock market to the booming economy. we have also seen a very sharp run-up in retail sales. that was a surprise. consumers are spending. this economy is absolutely booming and its not widely reported that we will get ...

Pfeiffer who tweeted this morning that republicans could pass legislation to protect the mueller investigation, subpoena trumps tax and business records to see what leverage russia may have on him. that would certainly be interesting to see his taxes. pass a tougher sanctions law that doesnt let donald trump wriggle out of them, hold hearings on what has or has not been done to protect america from russia. subpoena the interpreter to find out what trump actually said to putin in private. or pass...

They are not named in the complaint, but this is her long time associate in this effort with the nra. as described in the complaint today, he directed maria butinas activities in furtherance of this experience. the fbis investigation revealed they took steps to development relationships with american politicians to establish private or as she called them, back channel lines of communication. these lines could be used by the russian federation to penetrate the decision making apparatus to advance...

Steps to establish private or as she called them, back channel hines of communication. these lines could be used by the russian federation to penetrate the decision making an rat to us advance the russian federation. the criminal complaint goes on to describe what seems to be a russian government supported effort to use alexander and maria to influence the republican party and the united states. using the nra as the russian point of leverage. and it is clear that the political party in question ...

Agencies instead of his own. where are we right now in the summer of 2018? >> theres a live and open question whether the president of the united states is putting the national interests of our -- our national interests ahead of that of a foreign power who may have leverage over him in some way, and without -- without that explanation you have to wonder what possibly could be going on. what -- what is the possible motivations along the way. was it simply pride? does he simply not have the capaci...

And if donald trump said anything in that meeting that could come back to bite him, that could be seen as embarrassing, you can bet that the russians whether they have a recording, whether it is just notes, whatever it is that they will use that against him in the future as additional leverage in addition to whatever they have now. >> one thing that donald trump has going for him is that i guess he doesnt often get embarrassed by anything that he says. hes sure said a whole lot of improbable thi...

Ask putin directly if they have damaging information about the president of the united states that some have suspected could be used as pressure or leverage on him. you heard his response. >> yeah, and he obviously said, oh, no, theres absolutely nothing like that, that he respects president trump. it was very interesting. >> he doesnt really say no. >> he sort of hedged on that. he didnt flatly say no. he said, you know, there are a lot of people who come to visit. i didnt even know he was visi...

>> thats right. our military troops are there to fight isis. that was the case under obama. the presence, chris, gives us ledge. when u.s. forces hit through air strikes, some russian individuals, not military troops, that sent a message to putin we had leverage at the table. now our president is talking about withdraw which would cede to iran. good luck with that. russians dont have that leverage over iran and iran has made clear they consider it a national interest to be there. the other thing...

And israel has real interest in syria and has concerns about iran. >> the problem is iran. the trouble is donald trump has limited leverage, trying to move iran off the table when it comes to syria, the crisis points in syria. this is why you want leaders to meet with each other. vladimir putin is good at negotiating, using all the tools, the old kgb toolkit to get other people to do what he wants. donald trump needs to have clear eyes and a sharp mind, sitting down for that one on one meeting w...

With russia. vladimir putin is taking note of the military might and nato has never been stronger from a military perspective. you bet vladimir putin knows that. jillian: is vladimir putin able to strengthen a relationship with the united states? >> excellent question. we just know vladimir putin wants to make russia great again. does he want something? is he ready to deal or create world chaos? rob: i thought it was interesting how he goes into the nato summit a few days before this meeting and...