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Been anyway memos. there should have been an investigation of the house intelligence committee. there should have been hopefully in a bipartisan manner, as were seeing from the senate intelligence committee. this business with memos is just wrong. we should have never released the republican memo, which really didnt say too much we hadnt already heard already, but it puts the president into position where he looks hypocritical by having the republican memo released despite objections from the na...

Works. i have recordings and i have notes. i am certainly and absolutely in every way comfortable with everything i have reported. >> as for how wolff got access to the president and his inner circle -- >> i absolutely spoke to the president. whether he realized it was an interview or not, i dont know. it certainly was not off the record. >> did you flatter your way in? >> i said whatever was necessary to get the story. >> okay. matt visor of the boston globe joins our conversation now. i am sit...

Source who has nothing of the session has confirmed that rona graff, the presidents longtime secretary and personal assistant was questioned by the criminal investigation, muellers team, agency part of their look into potential russian collusion. detail for us how essentially she is to this investigation. >> she is, you know, one of the longest serving people who has been around trump outside of his family. >> let me correct that, investigators of the house intelligent committee. but go ahead. >...

Consumer confidence stays relatively steady, and as long as the stocks keep climbing, and unemployment holds steady, i think its a win for the republicans. it takes away the argument that they are incapable of passing anything as a governing majority. >> matt, theres a new study out from yale today and they talk to a bunch of fortune 500 ceos, and only 14% of them said because of this tax bill passing that they will actually made the large capital expenditures to this country, and translate that...

>> i do not criticize the president for being successful financially, and john, i have not analyzed the real estate provision, and the president has had in a career in real estate and other investments and i examine this matter on how i think it will affect the people in the congressional district i serve. >> only 14% of companies say they will spend the savings from the tax bill on hiring and jobs. should we be sitting here astounded, shocked, dismayed, or say, yep, thats what shows that histor...

Saoep as soon as it, he will take a big hit. and even sarah sanders said yesterday he could benefit from a business perspective. theres several provisions in the bill that could help somebody in a position look the president, that estate tax, the lower tax rate for the top earners, and those pass-through incomes. the president has still not released his tax returns so we dont know. >> he did not say he would release them this morning. thank you very much from the white house. and joining us no...

Remember at the convention he was interviewed at a "wall street journal" panel and asked when was the first time you thought your dad could win this election, and he said the moment he came down that golden escalator. he has been onboard from the very beginning and last night was a lot of applause lines. he mentioned he has been interviewed for 23 hours over a 20-minute meeting he had. i think thats a bit of hyperbole there, but hes the one that brought russians, brought people with connections ...

Seen him tweet in the past, but is different from behind a podium at the white house. >> selena, i also think theres a real risk of the president too if sexual harassment comes up because he has not faced direct questions about this over the last month. >> absolutely. and matt is right, he does love that back and forth with the press. i am sure he personally probably would love to go out and do that, but as matt said, i am sure his advisers are like, no way. theres all kinds of risks and tangent...

And on the other siede, i mean, yes, sure, they couldnt show up, but at the end of the day i think everyone came away from this looking bad, looking partisan and looking like theyre not adult enough to get something done. >> the stakes are enormous right now. matt visor, nancy pelosi responded by tweeting this. ill read it. @realdonaldtrump knows his verbal abuse will no longer be tolerated. hes more interested in stunts than addressing the problems of the american people. poor mcconnell and rya...

>> matt, of "the boston globe" the hometown paper to massachusetts senator elizabeth warren, president trump yesterday once again called her pocahontas, and with we have spoken to native american leaders and heard from many who say this is, at best, in poor taste, at worst, racist. you know, how do you think this colors the presidents relationship with the senate? will republicans just shrug this off when he walks in that room today? >> i mean, i think, you know, for senate republicans, they do ...