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Officials who laughed at the funny moments. but the focus is overwhelmingly on the misses. she made abortion jokes that were not funny. she made really barbed jokes directed at particular individuals that werent funny. but i do think we have seen progress. margaret, you pointed this out. there were no administration officials at the dinner at all last year. and this year it was nice to sit next to them and, you know, at every table, there were reporters chatting with administration officials. it...

We will come back to this conversation. you talk about people who have left the administration and dont want to get involved in -- look who is there, the former white house chief of staff reince priebus. kaitlan, take it away. >> reporter: yes, of course, ana. we have the former chief of staff of the white house here, of course, reince priebus. did not attend the dinner last year along with president trump, as they held a rally with all of this supporters, but he is here tonight. welcome. how ar...

Besides gerrymandering in congress that could change the customs. we sit on each side of the chamber, democrats and republicans, same thing in committees. those seem like small changes but when youre only together about 140 days and for a few hours everyday it can make a different. >> so im curious. you had this day of unity yesterday. >> sunday. >> how was it, sir? tell us about your day of unity? >> it was good. it was put together by high school democrats and high school republicans so it was...

Friendly. she seemed -- everyone, actually, other than trump, of course, other than our president, seemed very gracious to everyone, was friendly, sort of mingling. and, of course, you know, the president was there and sort of holding court and sort of sizing everyone up. of course, >> why do you say that? how do you know he was sizing them up? what did you see? >> well, you kind of see his eyes and you see him looking around, and you know, at one point he turns to hugh hefner and says its hard ...

We think this is all were going to get? >> no, its just a few minutes released by the broward county sheriffs office. it was heavily edited. what we have heard in the last couple of days is radio transmissions released not just by the broward county sheriffs office but also by the coral springs police department which is right next door of course. their officers responded quickly to the scene. there has been some criticism that the inaccurate information as seen by some of those officers in cora...

Know there is an investigation going on on how much russia was involved in the elections the presidential elections and the newest troubling case of course is now what we saw in great britain that there is an attack on was an attack on a former spy these things i think to the idea off you know doing more about the russian behavior. and preventing russia from being more active in for example election campaigns we also see this in germany where we. are also seeing more intervention by russian. pub...

Attend the republican national republican convention in new york, i had to take days off, go without pay. there is no mixing and mingling that youre and thats very cle. its always clear. >> yeah, at the same time there is a little bt of poor reflectiction here, because thes politics in the white house. of all the things the folks in the administration seem to have be doing wrong processes this is letter of the law wrong. >> where does this rank. >> stormy daniels just totally normal went, a pres...

President wants to have doug jones- not doug jones in that seat republicans in the seat. yes to further the agenda. she explicitly used her position to promote the gop candidate. which by the way every white house staffer at a junior level gets the briefing. when i was a staffer it was explicit that i was going to attend the republican national sfrengs in new york in 2004 i had to take days off, go without pay. there is no mixing and mingling that youre federal position with politics. and thats ...

The avenues. during the campaign he would be a private citizen. so perhaps there would be no violation. given the idea that he was going into an incoming administration, was going to have a prominent role in the administration, and he is having meetings with countries that hes potentially going to have to deal with policy and other issues. so perhaps maybe theyre looking to see if there was any mingling of some kind. >> president trump has said repeatedly. if the mueller investigation gets into ...

Various states. tennessee is one of them, pretending to be campaign workers, staging events and promotions, mingling with unsuspecting american voters. thats almost surreal. >> theres a word for it. its espionage. its old school. its what they have always been doing. i think the only thing we can take away from this thats positive, at least as far as the governments react is the fbi doesnt really care if the president believes in this or not. the fbi is going to continue to investigate it and st...