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The incoming leaks that the president hired? at least one criminal defense lawyer and maybe in the process of hiring a team, and that his staff is urging the president to let the lawyers vet his tweets. it does sounds like they are going on a war footing on this. michael: i dont know if its a major story. there are several investigation going on. its exhausting reading these news stories. its smart for the administration to put these things aside and have another team that looks at policy issues...

The kremlin and the trump transition. >> back channels are not unusual or unprecedented. this one might have seemed perfectly innocent. but it happened during the transition and it seems to violate the only one president at a time rule. and the second is its russia. after a campaign where russian interference in the campaign was a big issue. and the fact it was at a time when people were looking for whether there would be signs of special favors to russia as a result of the help they might have ...

They will not walk out of this town in december without having given that a good try. michael: they need to do both and some of these things are intertwined. and design which wings of the party, which different factions within the party will get what wins where. once they do that, the other thing that has to be considered is the paris climate treaty. what makes it so complicated for the president is its non-binding. i think he will pull out of the paris accord. he made a specific promise on the ...

They will not walk out of this town in december without having given that a good try. michael: they need to do both and some of these things are intertwined. and design which wings of the party, which different factions within the party will get what wins where. once they do that, the other thing that has to be considered is the paris climate treaty. what makes it so complicated for the president is its non-binding. i think he will pull out of the paris accord. he made a specific promise on the ...

The kremlin and the trump transition. >> back channels are not unusual or unprecedented. this one might have seemed perfectly innocent. but it happened during the transition and it seems to violate the only one president at a time rule. and the second is its russia. after a campaign where russian interference in the campaign was a big issue. and the fact it was at a time when people were looking for whether there would be signs of special favors to russia as a result of the help they might have ...

The kremlin and the trump transition. >> back channels are not unusual or unprecedented. this one might have seemed perfectly innocent. but it happened during the transition and it seems to violate the only one president at a time rule. and the second is its russia. after a campaign where russian interference in the campaign was a big issue. and the fact it was at a time when people were looking for whether there would be signs of special favors to russia as a result of the help they might have ...

President hired? at least one criminal defense lawyer and maybe in the process of hiring a team, and that his staff is urging the president to let the lawyers vet his tweets. it does sounds like they are going on a war footing on this. michael: i dont know if its a major story. there are several investigation going on. its exhausting reading these news stories. its smart for the administration to put these things aside and have another team that looks at policy issues. chris: what do you think o...

Michael needham, gerald post and gillian turner. just to catch you up, president trump returns home to reports that his son-in-law met with the russian ambassador in december and they discussed setting up a secret secure channel between the trump transition and the kremlin. that communications link reportedly to be based in a russian facility. a source close to the administration tells me the conversation did take place, but he says it was the ambassador who proposed the back channel not kushner...

Town in december without having given that a good try. michael: they need to do both and some of these things are intertwined. and design which wings of the party, which different factions within the party will get what wins where. once they do that, the other thing that has to be considered is the paris climate treaty. what makes it so complicated for the president is its non-binding. i think he will pull out of the paris accord. he made a specific promise on the campaign trail. and the united ...

>> chris: but michael, even with the bare-bones outline, isnt it clear that this plan will add trillions of dollars it to thewh national debt, contrary to what candidate trump has said and a tax break. >> will we do not have a ballooning national debt because our tax rate is well above that the only way we are going to get out of the debt problems were going to have is entitlement reform. >> we need to grow the economy.. thats why so exciting for what he has done in the first 100 days he has com...