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Whos could be in legal jeopardy. last summer according to "the washington post," the president even asked advisers whether he can pardon aides, family members, even himself in connection with this probe. recently, the president has appeared to dangle, thats the key word now, the possibility of a pardon for cohen. in an unexpected move days after the fbi raid on cohen, trump pardoned scooter libby, the former aid to you dick cheney convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in 2007. one of t...

I dont want to reduce vast swaths of people to say they think this way or that way. one of the things we are losing on the culture on both sides is the importance of persuasions and whole idea and that reason and facts is logic can convince someone to switch their position or be opminded. and if no one can change their positions. and that is a bipartisan problem and way upstream of washington. >> case in point the pompeo vote. thank you. and congratulations on the book. well be right back. ♪...

Logic behind that, but that was absolutely his right to demand or do. he is now the president, and these are independent agencies and they are not supposed to be loyal solely to the president, especially if he is telling them to do something that they are uncomfortable with or may be breaking the law potentially. >> so, harry, ashley has landed on what i months ago got in trouble for calling the stupidity defense. the white house constantly saying he doesnt understand this is the way its suppose...

Of the frankly brave diplomats. these are people serving their country, being forced out. the top nuclear arms expert at the state department was fired unceremoniously in the first days of the trump administration. this is at a time when thats one of our greatest challenges in the world. you can see the lack of logic in that. >> the interviews with the secretaries of state are fascinating. you have colin powell, former republican secretary of state, saying that trump is gutting the state departm...

Decimated as we speak. i tell a stories of a lot of frankly brave diplomats, people serving their country being forced out. the top nuclear arms expert at the state department was fired unceremoniously in the first days of the trump administration. this is at a time when thats one of our greatest challenges in the world. you can see the lack of logic in that. >> you interviews with the secretaries of state are fascinating. you have colin powell very bluntly, a former republican secretary of stat...

Neil gorsuch essentially said these statutes are similar and we dont want to invite arbitrate government to interpret statutes however they wish. >> he didnt adopt the logic of the liberals. >> but he did stay true to what he said he would stay true of which is the spirit of anthony scalia was very skeptical of judicial activism. he said listen congress, right more specific laws. its not our job to cover for you here and that is what congress should do. >> the president as you mentioned was a sc...

This morning. >> i think its rich that hes talking about whether or not theres been information leaked, especially after he, of course, met with the russians in the oval office. i dont think theres a great deal of importance on whether or not or how the special counsel at this point came about. theres been an act. its been authorized. and, remember, this is a follow-up to basically what all of our intelligence agencies said about russia meddling in the election. could have been a special counsel...

Switched the guideposts. so i came in with the question should he be on the forbes 400 to how much more than $100 million is he worth, and i didnt know it until i listened to the tapes and found them a few months ago. thats a great con man. >> listen, lets jump ahead and i want to play what james comey said last night about the presidents behavior in office. listen. >> i think he has an emptiness inside of him and a hunger for affirmation ive never seen in an adult. and im not saying that to be ...

The new yorker podcast and public radio stations around the country. here a key moment from the interview. >> he said earlier today in an interview that you dont hate the president. you dont even dislike him. ill let that pitch go by. >> my wife asked me the same question after she saw the interview. and the answer is i dislike many of the things he does. him as a person i actually -- its sounding odd i feerl sorry for. >> how so. >> i think -- ive said this before its a hard thing to say. but i...

Reference points. instead of making hard decisions by calling upon a religious tradition or logic or tradition or history, its all what will fill this hole. >> ive heard that before, him say that. i forget whether its jake or the view or whatever it was. you look at your experience with john baron and with comey, you think cohen mey is right? >> ive met thousands of people, ive never met anyone as insecure as donald trump. even when i first interviewed him i was like i cant believe how insecure ...