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White house staffers. the president will spend about $430,000. the rnc you might recall has already covered fees for the president and his son, don jr. in that amount. joining me now to break down more, democratic strategist, nicole rapport and republican strategist, great to have you on. we know both of you, as we look back over history, this is not a precedent because of watergate. are you surprised because if the loyalty issue of your benefactor paying your legal fees, they have a good reason...

There kind of pushing that narrative. but i think this report is pretty true that, you know, he and other people, i think, are kind of testing the waters, and i think a lot of donors in particular, people who havent been satisfied with the way president trump has been conducting business are kind of looking to him and saying, okay, what if, and kind of playing those parlor games. and i think thats a typical washington kind of story. >> lexi, why feel even the need to respond to a speculative art...

>> wolf, he has had such a wild ride with trump, right, for two years, right? first when he was at the rnc and he was being pressured by a lot of establishment republicans to sort of brush back trump, do something about him, stop him. then going in for trump when he was the nominee, protecting his nomination at the republican national -- >> convention? >> convention. its been a long 24 hours. and then in that famous access hollywood moment, reince was the one guy who waive erred and suggested he...

Through tweets. i think comey was very compelling. i think both my colleagues on both sides of the aisle thought so. he was open. he answered all the questions. so i think frankly the burden is now on the president to come forth definitively and say what happened. >> well, theres a few ways he can do it. what youre saying is he should make a statement under oath. where? at the white house? come up to capitol hill and say that comey was lying as far as the loyalty issue and the michael flynn issu...

He said he wrote those contemporaneous memos detailing the conversations he had with the president -- >> that by itself is remarkable that an fbi director would say that about a sitting american president. >> the sitting american presidents private outside attorney, marc kasowitz came out afterwards, had a little statement that he read over the national press club in which he said comey is a liar on both the michael flynn, let it go issue and on the loyalty issue. he said comey is lying, that it...

He started out early on by saying the president and his explanations about why he fired comey, he said the admins ration defamed me on the. what he said were lies plain and simple. very strong language for him. he talked about the loyalty issue and how he felt the present was asking him for something, he was refusing to give it to him. he says mueller -- >> bill: president trump is meeting with religious leaders in washington, d.c. then we are waiting for his private attorney to make a statement...

Handled it, nixon essentially circling the wagon and ronald reagan getting rid of people, i would think that donald trump is not going to have this -- have any kind of loyalty issue where hes not going to remove people who have illicit ties or who have done anything wrong. i think he will throw them under the bus pretty quickly. whether or not, though, that indicates that he -- excuse me, that they have nothing to do with it is yet to be seen. >> do you see a real value in these public testimoni...

Anything illegal. even democrats arent accusing them of that even though some are calling for itch -- impeachment whatsoever. julie: theres no evidence of collusion between russia and trump administration and that remain it is case. lets remind our viewers, however, it seems that the contradictions do reflect a bit on the presidents management style, he was the manager of a huge could you repeat the question, managing the white house and a country is a little different. how does that reflect on ...

>> not that thes anything wrong with that. >> i know you lampooned him for this earlier. theres experience to be gained. >> do you think you should be openly vying for the job and telling people that he turned down attorney general and he would be better for secretary of state publicly? >> i find all of this remarkable. donald trump is different. previous presidents had this buttoned down process where you didnt know who runner-up was because you dont want to embarrass someone that came in numbe...

Turn out but if you are going to talk a big game about loyalty, stand up for the people who have been loyal to you and follow through. >> this is going to require i think both -- if it is going to go anywhere it is going to require both gentlemen to do things they have not done before. it is going to require both gentlemen to set some things aside i think. for trump it is clearly going to have to be hes going to have to overlook the loyalty issue in this case because he believes country has to c...