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Wondering if the russians are running the president. >> you think that that story, hannity forced that story? my feeling is that story would have -- >> hannity certainly gave the president encouragement to overrule his brand-new fbi director christopher wray. sean hannity -- the president is on the record questioning the role of his officials at d.o.j. in the interview at mar-a-lago where the truth always comes out, "the new york times," i wanted my guys there. my point is i think we sometimes g...

Wants. should we expect that anybody else could be going next? i dont know, ben carson or somebody? >> good question. i guess the answer is you better watch your phone these days. that is how the president makes these announcements. again just to be clear, in my private conversations with those around the west wing and those close to the president, david shulkins name was the one on the top of this list. weve had conversations about scott pruitt and ben carson at hud, ryan zinke, the interior se...

To say look, you knew there must have been something shady going on here. because when he was asked directly about it by reporters, he obfuscated. its definitely in the wheelhouse of what prosecutors want to know. is the question of whether it proves obstruction and is evidence of obstruction is an analysis you can only do when you put all the facts together. we should say, bob trout, the lawyer for hope hicks, who is not normally a media guy, issued a pretty flat denial. and not one of those wa...

Book far more than the economy, i do think thats a problem. however, when you have the white house and vault coming of the white house talking about the book, the president tweeting about the book and the white house firing someone over the book and then releasing that hot fire statement about steve bannon, that is news cant necessarily be ignored. >> melissa: hes driving it, he knows it, he is a media guy, none of that as a surprise. the way that the administration operates is intentional. >> k...

Because of the statements he made to this "fire and fury" book, in addition to the fact he sort of crashed and burned with roy moore, both of those things caused folks like the customersers who have been the major funding behind breitbart and steve bannon to distance themselves to potentially take away the funding and put some pressure on the "breitbart" board. howie: bannon says he regrets his delay in responding to the comments. but the family that banking rolled bannon and "breitbart." that c...

The media on this side was sufficient for anything to get him to bite and talk and get off task well done. >> his hydration method with a basketball player, what is your overall take? >> about the water thing? is actually fine to drink water. what do we want? a dehydrated president? >> of course we did make fun of marco rubio. but its fine. i want to know if he drank the water like that in front of the camera does enemies alone? he twisted it like he was twisting the head off of adult. >> or in ...

The media on this side was sufficient for anything to get him to bite and talk and get off task well done. >> his hydration method with a basketball player, what is your overall take? >> about the water thing? is actually fine to drink water. what do we want? a dehydrated president? >> of course we did make fun of marco rubio. but its fine. i want to know if he drank the water like that in front of the camera does enemies alone? he twisted it like he was twisting the head off of adult. >> or in ...

The media on this side was sufficient for anything to get him to bite and talk and get off task well done. >> his hydration method with a basketball player, what is your overall take? >> about the water thing? is actually fine to drink water. what do we want? a dehydrated president? >> of course we did make fun of marco rubio. but its fine. i want to know if he drank the water like that in front of the camera does enemies alone? he twisted it like he was twisting the head off of adult. >> or in ...

And the president is not the type of guy whos working the phones and talking to lawmakers at night. hes a media guy. hes a new york media guy and at night hes talking to sean hannity, tucker carlson, these are people he feels -- >> is that true, they talk on the phone? >> absolutely, yeah. these are people he really feels comfortable with. so when he agrees to interviews, those are the guys he wants to sit down with, suffice it to say the president and i dont go way back the way he does with som...

Good. it is nice for americans to be reminded of that. well have to recognize that you have to balance these. >> ill thinking about the campaigns. every campaign. this is a need new thing you have to worry about. you hire a pollster, a media guy and the cyber security guy. >> not in that order. >> the big challenge is that russia does seem to be targeting, if the intel agencies are true, the weaknesses in our society. >> i think theyve discovered all the weaknesses already. >> thanks very much. ...