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Fortitude. we remember him as being the coward who refused to stand up against xenophobia, bigotry and racism. all of a sudden, those damn tariffs, they make me feel some sort of way. who does that? >> the tariffs were a bridge too far for gary cohn. he did speak out against charlottesville -- >> but racism, white supremacists wasnt. >> he did speak out, he was opposed to pulling out of the paris climate accord. i think gary cohn has done a good job with regard to the tax cuts. ive been at many ...

The questions that were -- were getting a lot of stories about the questions that mueller is asking. the reason were getting those stories, as best i can tell, the mueller operation doesnt leak. but he has interviewed a lot of people. and the people who are being interview ready talking to reporters about what theyre being questioned. nunberg seemed spooked. other people seemed spooked. other people seem to think theyre being asked questions by investigators and investigators already have the an...

Been nodding and winking and suggesting that everyone should do. he has attacked the fbi. >> right hi, has attacked law enforcement. he has attacked mueller. he has attacked the justice department. and those are all these guys. he appointed them all with the exception of mueller. mueller is supervised by all of them. he is attacking them. its not surprising that nunberg is following that lead. and thing saul about ultimately laying the groundwork for when trump refuses to comply with subpoenas. ...

And hes afraid of giving them up and giving up their relationship with the president. >> jennifer rogers, you are nodding along, do you agree? >> i do. who knows exactly how dangerous these people are. but were talking about oligarchs, were talking about people involved in some very shady things. so it wouldnt be a surprise to me if one of the major reasons manafort is holding out is because of those people he was so closely associated with. and the same may go for gates. hes now cooperating, ma...

But just in general, his reaction where he tends to personalize everything into his own point of view and world view that relates only to donald trump and how it affects him. its really quite surprising when there are serious threats to the country, where all of the intelligence agencies have alerted that this is ongoing activity, and yet the president is silent. its quite stunning, don. >> it is, and in history its going to be interesting to watch all of this, because this is going to be archiv...

>> its unlike any president weve ever had. first of all, no one has ever had a twitter account before, but just in general, his reaction where he tends to personalize everything into his own point of view and world view that relates only to donald trump and how it affects him. its really quite surprising where all of the intelligence agencies have alerted that this is ongoing activity, and yet the president is silent. its quite stunning, don. >> it is, and in history its going to be interesting ...

York times" wrote about this, the choices they had to make it kept going in the side of the democrats than the republicans. >> kimberly youre nodding. last word to you. >> hes right about the state court in it being different. these are the factors that are going to play in as this battle continue to wage on across the country. this is only the beginning. >> kimberly and alexa thank you for joining us. steve thank you. coming up after the break we want to talk about whats happening over in kor...

Because right now -- steve: we covered that the whole time, frank. what can you do to stop it? >> what you can do is, for one thing you can do is shut the resolving door. havhalf of the excongressmen get jobs as lobbyists. if youre a congressman and you figure you may not be around too long and you get a call from a lobbyist where you expect to work and they ask you something, the temptation is yes, sir. whats happening now is congress is a farm team for k street where you leave congress, you cl...

Steve: we covered that the whole time, frank. what can you do to stop it? >> what you can do is, for one thing you can do is shut the resolving door. havhalf of the excongressmen get jobs as lobbyists. if youre a congressman and you figure you may not be around too long and you get a call from a lobbyist where you expect to work and they ask you something, the temptation is yes, sir. whats happening now is congress is a farm team for k street where you leave congress, you clean up and make a lot...

Violations and wire fraud and things like russian operatives -- >> prosecutor -- >> yeah. >> ken, youre nodding. >> subpoena envy. there is only so much we can do. there are only so many pieces we can put together. mueller, any prosecutor really, but particularly mueller has the ability to bring all of these things together and paint a full picture in a way that none of us could do. even as we saw little bits and pieces of it. i mean, to be able to get communications between some of these people...