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Distracting. >> harris: why is it happening? youve been inside the circle, you know these people. >> this city does leak a lot, thats true of all administrations, people want to be seen as more important, knowledgeable, in the room. what we are seeing now is undercutting trust between staff members as people have to worry about whether they are being recorded or going to be written about in an anonymous op-ed. those things damage of the staffs ability to work together. the president is going to ...

Good to see you. thank you. >> thank you, take care. >> harris: alert on the escalating war of words between president trump and his own attorney general. the president and jeff sessions going back and forth in a public battle over the attorney generals recusal from the russia investigation. the president tweeted this most recently. department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations, hes quoting jeff sessions there. he says, jeff, this is great, what everyone wan...

Sit down with the special counsel for interview, saying quote, even if im telling the truth, that makes me a liar. this comes after his attorney, rudy guiliani, said this on "meet the press." >> when you tell me that, you know, he should testify because hes going to tell the truth and he shouldnt worry, thats silly because it is somebodys version of the truth, not the truth. he didnt have a conversation -- >> truth is truth. i dont mean to go -- >> no, it isnt truth. truth isnt truth. >> hmm. ou...

Mark lauder is with me and he speaks perfect english. >> again, the president is bringing someone up who is completely unprepared. he is trying to cajole them up. wasnt the perfect thing to say. we shouldnt let that go and overshadow what was really the important message today which is the things that we -- they are talking about abolishing i.c.e., theyre arresting 120,000 criminal aliens, including 1800 suspected murderers. 5,000 suspected of sexual assaults. and thats the message. >> poppy, if...

Into the idea that there are different versions of the truth. thats the opposite of the definition of the truth. no one is buying this. the special counsel i dont think is buying it, lucky for the president and other people, this is not what democrats are running on across the country in midterm elections. this just doesnt make sense. >> mark, you worked at the white house, former assistant to the president, worked for the vice president, it is not just this statement this time from one man, fro...

Adopting that in our politics. >> mark lauder, one last word response or you prefer we move along? >> i think there is, there is some relative we have to take a look at. i think we all, we all hold a certain amount of blame in this. ill go back in october of, of last year where -- and ill pull it off here. the george papadopoulos plea agreement was significantly enormous. it was more problematic than the gates and manafort indictments. he had already given up four other people. those were all th...

And there are a lot of republican cia officials or former officials who have come out this week and said this was outrageous. this is an attack on the first amendment and puts a chill on all the rest of us. you cant revoke somebodys security clearance for political reasons and that was what was done here. >> mark, do you think it is a defensible move? do you think the outcry on the republican side would be huge? >> i personally believe no one should have a clearance after your service, after a s...

Part and parcel to the way they approach things, but weve never seen it on the scale and consistency of this white house and this administration. and i think what we saw with mayor giuliani today was just another example of that. >> i think we actually have, if i can ask my executive producer ben to play that clip of giuliani. >> truth isnt truth. >> one more time. >> truth isnt truth. >> yeah, just so were clear, mark lauder, do you agree? >> what i think -- >> its a yes or no question. >> what...

>> mark lauder, one last word response or you prefer we move along? >> i think there is, there is some relative we have to take a look at. i think we all, we all hold a certain amount of blame in this. ill go back in october of, of last year where -- and ill pull it off here. the george papadopoulos plea agreement was significantly enormous. it was more problematic than the gates and manafort indictments. he had already given up four other people. those were all things that were being talked abo...

Republican cia officials or former officials who have come out this week and said this was outrageous. this is an attack on the first amendment and puts a chill on all the rest of us. you cant revoke somebodys security clearance for political reasons and that was what was done here. >> mark, do you think it is a defensible move? do you think the outcry on the republican side would be huge? >> i personally believe no one should have a clearance after your service, after a short time of transition...