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The president is back. in some sense there may be an opportunity for a reset because hes been away for a while. we discussed the fact he might be changing staff around. but what actually, to make the american people feel better about this, what should they do now? >> he most certainly missed an opportunity by not engaging with u.s. press while on his trip. if this is supposed to be the big reset, he should have made a speech of some sort toward the end of the trip to say what he had accomplished...

Any determinations yet about culpability or treason as people said. i think were far from that. >> espionage is another word. >> right. two things. one is going to the russian facility and using their communication devices that shows clear intent to shield the communications from u.s. intelligence. thats very curious and potentially trouble some. the other aspect, if its about syria thats a place we have troops on the ground and one of the things that you have one present at a time is because if...

Decision until aft consulting with other world leaders. that seemedike a relatively positive thing. she also said that the head of the nec said that the administration was going to remain committed to russia sanctions. now, the problem with both of those reports is neither of them came out of the mouth of the president himself. if we learned one thing about this administration, its that senior advisers, even cabinet officials can say what they say, but until the president says, its as likely as ...

Miller, former chief spokesperson for the justice department, and naveed jamali, a former fbi double agent, author of "how to catch a russian spy." matt, maybe ill start with you. i mean one thing thats striking here, and just, you know, to be fair, right, one of the complaints you had and a lot of people had during the investigation of hillary clinton during the campaign were leaks coming from the fbi. is this essentially, you know, unacceptable that theyre leaking about this? >> if it is the f...

Orb. the most important stop is the substance. its rare out of a nato meeting where you would say that russia which is not present and which is if anything, the adversary that nato was sort of formed against initially, came out on top. in some ways the president had to do three things. he had to show up, mention the threat supposed by russia, and reaffirm americas commitment to article five which is the collective self defense provision of nato. he did one of them and failed on the other two. th...

Department, and naveed jamali, a former fbi double agent, author of "how to catch a russian spy." matt, maybe ill start with you. i mean one thing thats striking here, and just, you know, to be fair, right, one of the complaints you had and a lot of people had during the investigation of hillary clinton during the campaign were leaks coming from the fbi. is this essentially, you know, unacceptable that theyre leaking about this? >> if it is the fbi leaking about this, yeah, of course it is unacc...

And i think it struck a lot of people as a little surprising at the time because the media image that i think kushner and ivanka have projected, i think quite artfully, is that theyre the kind of adults in the room, and theyre the voices of reason and the cooler heads that prevail when they do prevail. and it was quite clear that kushner, ned, was one of the people at least in the reporting who wanted comey gone and, of course, that has now become a kind of second order problem for this white ho...

And it was quite clear that kushner, ned, was one of the people at least in the reporting who wanted comey gone and, of course, that has now become a kind of second order problem for this white house. >> well, it is a second order problem now. it seems like an eternity ago. but i think the real crux of the matter when it comes to jared kushner is that he had the same title during the campaign and during the transition that he does now, and that is director of everything. he was in charge of the ...

Term, such collusion existed. i dont know. >> i know that they needed to turn up the air conditioning in that room. rick, what is your thoughts here? a lot of smoke. >> absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. >> one more time? >> they teach you that in law school. the fact that they dont yet have evidence of collusion doesnt mean that it didnt happen. this is an investigation, theyre in the middle of it. all the republicans, mr. gowdy is trying to pin him down and say is there evidence o...

Republican alan simpson of simpson and bowles said this is some wizard of oz nonsense talk thats never going to happen. >> yeah, i mean its a fair point. our growth, we want to grow the economy. thats clearly a goal, one of the few bipartisan goals that should be out there. but we have real constraints because we are an aging society. the baby boomers are moving into retirement. we are not going to grow at 3% on a sustained basis. theres really no credible plan that would get us there. so in the...