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First, here is his comments and then the cleanup on russia/ukraine. >> russia will be held accountable if it invades. and it depends on what it does. its one thing if its a minor incursion and we end up having to fight about what to do and not do, et cetera. >> if any, any assembled russian units move across the ukrainian border that is an an vegas and invasion and it will be met with coordinated economic response as well as laid out clearly for president putin. but there is no doubt, let there ...

Principle, hope and light, decency and freedom and possibilities. for gods sake, this man cannot remain in power. >> so we know those words were not scripted. they were not in the text that he was allegedly getting on that teleprompter. but i want to get your sense of whether anyone in the presidents inner circle may have known beforehand, was this a possibility, had he aired these views? or do you think it was entirely unscripted and caught everybody off guard? >> reporter: well, of course mich...

Him and whether the president walks it back or not, he cant change that, it will only feed putins paranoia. >> putin takes this verbatim. that said, does what joe biden said help him with a domestic audience? to your point and michael kinslys point, he said what he felt. >> reporter: the reality is americans do not want vladimir putin in power in russia. but that doesnt mean were going to do something about it. thats the different. its one thing to express a desire or a wish. its another thing t...

Co-exist in the trump administration? do you believe that your removal as head of the trump transition team was orchestrated by jared kushner? yes, i do, and the reason i do is because thats what steve bannon told me. and by the way, the interesting part of this, which shows you how disorganized they were, was they had an entire vice presidential verdicting fitting, all of employ tmy tax returns, what makes this even funnier that they would go through this. >> tim, what struck me not just the sw...

Its not uncommon for federal judges to slap the government around and then rule in the governments favor. a lot of legal observers are still expecting that to happen here. >> that he will still give the special counsel this leeway to charge him with extra crimes? >> yeah, because the hurdle to dismiss these charges is pretty high. but some of the things he said, you dont really care about mr. manaforts bank fraud, you really care about getting information mr. manafort can give you that would ref...

But i think trump is conflicted because he gets tired of people quickly. you have more influence with donald trump on day one than you have on day two or day three. >> which is interesting because you would think the relationship would build on itself. >> quite the opposite, i think. you lose influence every day with donald trump. you are no longer the shiny object. i think trump has been known to say to no one in particular in the evaloffioval office, im noe about these generals. maybe theyre a...

He was never charged with fighting back against president nixon. i think it is a big mistake for people to think that you can be charged with a crime for proclaiming your innocence or fighting back and saying im innocent. criminal lawyers do that on behalf of clients in every courtroom in america. we have a system designed for people to be able to fight back when they think an improper charge has been brought against them. now, you can go over the line and turn it into obstruction. but trump of ...

Relationship. this week the president interrupted kellys briefing holding a press conference. the source tells cnn it was a warning shot to kelly. lets talk it over with the author of the gate kipe keepers. so chris, kellys predecessor resigned after the big health care failure. here it looks like kelly has a tough road ahead. >> there is no question that john kelly is in the dog house. he made the mistake of telling the truth on fox news. do you remember michael kinslys definition of a gaffe, w...

Something michael said. there is no question nothing could be different than the white house and the 26th floor of trump tower. you cannot run the white house the way you run a manhattan real estate firm with people coming and going and just shooting from the hip. i think tuesday night will be interesting because it will be the state of the union because i wonder who will show up. is it going to be the goldman sachs scripted trump or is it going to be the gloom and doom and carnage trump that we...