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Journal and i have interviewed him, since hes been president. and this is kind of how he is one on one, hes willing to engage on issues most of the time, its not the personality you see in the 20,000 seat arena, so, you know, he was -- he was pretty calm, and willing to sort of talk about anything we wanted to bring up. >> you know, hes good, one on one, he likes to be tested, thats why i keep saying, come back to us mr. president. nobody makes the case for you as well. as you do yourself, you h...

I think you people are surprised." thats just one eye-popping headline from the interview. theres lots to talk about. we have political commentators symone sanders and jack kingston with us. theyll chew on the things that were said, but i want to get the facts first. we have one of "the wall street journal" reporters, spent 45 minutes with the president today, michael bender, hes also a cnn political analyst. michael, thank you for joining us. >> hey, chris. >> so theres a lot in here. people sh...

But -- >> the wall is something different because people lost their minds yesterday on this wall. im talking a conservative media, media in the tank over on the trump channel, on the other cable channel. they were losing their minds about this. >> sure. the ann coulters of the world were pointing out that this looked like the beginnings of a sellout. i think the problem for president trump and republicans is that its going to be hard to walk this middle line where most americans are polling on a...

Called by their bosses and said, wait a minute. >> is all of this another attempt -- pretty transparent attempt by the president to change the subject? just another way of saying "move on, folks, nothing to see here"? well talk about that. cnn political commentator david swirlick and analyst michael bender. also, michael issikoff, chief investigative correspondent for yahoo! news. good to have all of you here. i didnt get a call or e-mail from the boss. did any of you -- anybody get a call sayin...

Budget, et cetera. you cant be a dealmaker if you dont understand the deal points. piggyback on what michael said, he was about to agree to, yeah, well sign a clean daca bill, not understanding precisely what he was verbalizing until congressman mccarthy jumped in and bailed him out saying, whoa, whoa, mr. president, we need to deal with this in conjunction with the border wall, the budget, other issues that are on the table now. it reflect ts the presidents lk of depth on policy and the degree ...

The other donald trump. theres a little bit of dr. jekyll and mr. hyde quality. >> i think the thing is yesterday -- i had a different take on that. i thought the transparency part of yesterday, david, and i dont know if you agree, i thought it was great that he sat there for so long and allowed the cameras to be there. what it also showed was that he didnt have a grasp on policy. and i dont necessarily, i didnt think that it felt like he was in control of that meeting. >> no, don, he wasnt. i l...

Issue like daca and still please the hardest of the hard core like ann coulter. the challenge for democrats in this issue is that it seems to me after yesterday they should have all huddled up and said, look, we should shut the government down over daca. its not clear that the democrats have the spine to do that. well see. >> michael bender, in the same cabinet meeting, today, the president attacked the countrys liable laws. here he is. >> our current libel laws are a sham and a disgrace and do ...

Investigation has become. and i think this quote much in this story in the guardian," you know, theres a lot of quotes here from bannon and this one particular quote having sums up bannons thinking on the investigation. and it is where he says "you realize where this is going, but this is all about money laundering." mueller chose wise man, one of the prosecutors first and hes a money laundering guy. money laundering guy. their path to explative, trump goes right through paul manafort, don junio...

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...

Economics adviser, who butted heads with the president over the presidents controversial comments about charlottesville, took himself out of the running. >> wash #yourefired. >> daca, advocates pushing for government shutdown. im not sure democrats have it in them to do that. on what im watching, our new dog watching the show at home tonight, keep sending your photos, i love them, theyre a favorite. second of all here is what i am watching for a wedding date from ashley parker, close friend of...