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Analyst, ned price. ned, i want to get right to your experience because you work there at the white house. was your experience is similar to what priebus has described? >> reince priebus is not wrong but i think his answer was a bit misleading. people like me who joined the cia who may have joined the broader intelligence. those are people who go in the front door and security clearances especially top security clearances are a lengthy process. they can take six or nine months a year. what reinc...

The other presidents have battled back from low approval ratings; right? so maybe ned is right about that. what do you say? >> look, i mean he might be able to and im sure republicans are betting on that, but hes got nothing to show for it. he has passed one legislation. connell: he got the tax cuts. >> hes got nothing else. hes got the russian investigation still on his back. were still talking about that. >> which is falling apart. >> you know whats interesting is -- >> let me say real quick, ...

Are you confident they can take back at least one house of congress in the midterms? >> i have no doubt we can do that. as you know, we have won alabama in the senate we have won two governors in virginia and new jersey. we have won at least 30 state races across the country, and we will take back the house and the senate come november. connell: what do you think of that, ned? i would argue the president had been building some momentum after the tax cuts; right? that his numbers had been improvi...

Dont have this coincidence of sequencing but i think its all there if you read through the lines. >> is there precedent for this? someone like jared kushner running around with the exposure he has? >> wow. we have had situations like this. offhand, i think of john connelly during the nixon administration but basically, this is the most tangled web ive ever encountered. i think what ned says is right. this is the very best scenario and just that were asking these questions, its nuts. it is nuts t...

Worst case, what we look at is a policy move that was dictated not by our national interests but jared kushners personal interests and the implications of that being national security was jeopardized. at a few days, we were at rhetorical war with a key ally that hosts thousands of u.s. troops. fortunately, secretary tillerson and mattis able to inject themselves in a strange brew of jared kushner and donald trump and steve bannon. had it not been for that, the service members could have been in ...

Worst case, what we look at is a policy move that was dictated not by our national interests but jared kushners personal interests and the implications of that being national security was jeopardized. at a few days, we were at rhetorical war with a key ally that hosts thousands of u.s. troops. fortunately, secretary tillerson and mattis able to inject themselves in a strange brew of jared kushner and donald trump and steve bannon. had it not been for that, the service members could have been in ...

Was jeopardized. we were, for a few days, at war, rhetorical war with a key ally that hosts thousands of u.s. troops. fortunately, secretary tillerson and mattis able to inject themselves in a strange brew of jared kushner and donald trump and steve bannon. had it not been for that, the service members could have been in grave jeopardy. >> not only that, harry. but ned, an expanded aperture. this is one example where its a sort of chronological tightness. please kushner saying bail us out becaus...

And the fact that he hasnt suggests to me that his lawyer has hold muellers team that he wont talk to them, he will instead plead the fifth amendment. because otherwise we would have heard about his interactions with them. >> there was a brief conversation with investigators but nothing like the kind of -- >> thats in november. >> nothing long term like weve seen other players in this. ill give a best case scenario and get your response, ned. the best case scenario is the u.s. has a strong partn...

>> wow. so lets see. we have had situations like this. offhand, i think of john connelly during the nixon administration but basically, this is the most tangled web ive ever encountered. i think what ned says is right. this is the very best scenario and just that were asking these questions, its nuts. it is nuts that hes conducting this roving foreign policy for the united states when theres so many points of vulnerability. its just beyond the pale. >> harry litman and ned price, thank you for y...

Of americans want to see stricter gun laws in this country and it is not the first time we have looked at companies, at kids, at the american people lead the way. so, ned, when does washington start to catch up? >> well, i think well see the first real test this fall in the elections. i would like everybody to be very clear, republicans and democrats, how theyre running on the gun issue in november. democrats put up a bill in the house in which they said they want to ban and do away with all sem...