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The complete power to pardon. >> yesterday the president tweeted, our beleagured rg banning serving in any capacity in north korea. >> the president tweeting, quote, military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded. >> the outdated filibuster rule must go. mitch m., go to 51 votes now. >> i said, mitch, get to work. >> so thats the president of the united states who tweeted out this. >> oh, come on. >> that mocking tweet by kim jong-un describing him as rocket man. >> lashing out to ...

Of the intelligence committees, judiciary committees, they got deeply involved in this russia probe. hes not very happy about that. what he complained to mitch mcconnell about. >> right. he is clearly not happy that theyre kind of doing their jobs. if you talk to democrats on the hill and throughout washington, they say that the republicans arent doing enough on this and not being aggressive enough and what youre seeing, i think, republicans for the most part are trying to do an honest job. they...

The president more involved. the white house is focusing on public support for tax reform. the president is often his own communications chief. hes not part of the swamp, but it complicates the push for his agenda. the president charging arizona jeff flake is weak on the border. that could help a republican in the mid-terms. the president is betting his warm words for dr. kelli ward could help him. the president had another tweet. he said the only problem with mitch mcconnell is after hearing re...

Its incoumbent upon them both o fix this. >> he tweeted, the only problem with mitch mcconnell after hearing repeal and replace seven years he failed. that should have never have happened. that wasnt exactly accurate. he has several other problems with mitch mcconnell as well. >> absolutely. again the white house is talking out of both sides. yesterday sarah huckabee, press secretary issued a statement saying the president didnt, had a good relationship with mitch mcconnell. comes out again on t...

President make it sound like hes just upset with leader mcconnell over the debt ceiling, health care, but youre learning that that may not necessarily be the total case. tell viewers what you learned. >> reporter: right. in fact, what im told by sources with direct knowledge of that august phone call that happened between mitch mcconnell and president trump. the president really was more angry about the issue of russia. those investigations happening on capitol hill. there are two investigations...

Havent spoken since. the president accusing the republican leader, majority leader, not doing enough to protect him from the russia probes and also fumed, were told, over the bipartisan deal that ties his hands on new russia sanctions. it was passed nearly unanimously in the house and senate. the president reluctantly signing it into law. according to politico, president trump also confronted senator bob corker about that sanctions bill. the president reportedly argued it was unconstitutional an...

Suspect the republican senators, republican members. house, more than likely, most of them will side with their leader in the house and the senate as epo opposed to the president of the united states? >> certainly on the senate side. paul ryan, may be caucus members to side with trump over ryan on certain things. a little more of a trick conference in terms of the politics between trump and the establishment leadership. republicans will. but, yes, no doubt. this is what is so perplexing to me ab...

Just right around now. you and i remember covering katrina at the time pap very different type of hurricane. right? >> it was. because katrina had a cat 5 with it a long time in the gulf of mexico. a lot of water. a 30-foot storm surge in spots. 22 feet storm surge in bay st. louis itself. this doesnt have the water under it yet, because it hasnt been in the gulf of mexico that long. its just developing now. if this sits out here for 30 more hours it will get that surge and the surge numbers may...

Several key republican leaders in the senate, the majority leader mitch mcconnell, for example, bob corker, chairman of the senate foreign relation committee? whats -- when you hear this kind of criticism by the republican president of these republican leaders, you worry obviously, deeply worried, about the republican agenda. are you worried it could be derailed because of all of this feuding going on among republicans? >> yeah. i dont worry about it, it will be derailed but it clearly makes it ...

And private with republicans one theme seems to be underlining so many of them -- the russia probe. >> yes. clearly the president is consumed by this. i dont blame him. if i was under investigation by a special counsel id be consumed also and it would weigh on my mind a lot. its understandable what he seems incapable of doing, though, is, as aides talked about many months ago, try to dual track things, and wall the investigation off from the business of the white house and trying to pursue the a...