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Mind in order to deal with them diplomatically and elsewhere so when we have a common interest their status can be utilized and leveraged to our advantage as america. >> their power has been elevated through 2016 and 2017. new york congressman tom reed, great to have you, sir. i appreciate you on on a sunday. >> thanks for having me on. >> i want to bring in congressional reporter sean sullivan, and brian darling, a former staffer for republican senator rand paul and the columnist with "the obse...

This presidents wrath if they were to cross him. history will not be kind. and, you know, history will be a very, very harsh observer of those who did things they knew to be wrong and not in the interest of this great country in order to curry favor with an erratic president. >> if the president does target mueller though, what is within your power to do as a member of congress? >> well, you know, its sort of hard to envision exactly what that would look like and what would happen. i have to ass...

>> at that point it becomes a question for the congress. the attention is going to shift from an incapacitated department of justice to a congress that would have to consider articles of impeachment. >> i believe -- i believe that in the abstract. i believe that as a student of political science. im also looking ahead, though, to what is going to happen in the senate next week. i think that in the judiciary committee senator grassley is signaling with a subpoena that he says he is issuing tonigh...

President trump could get there if thats what he was determined to do. at that point it becomes a question for congress. i think at that point the attention is going to shift from an incapacitated department of justice to a congress who would have to consider articles of impeachment. >> i believe that in the abstract. i believe that as a student of political science. im also looking ahead to what is going to happen in the senate next week. i think in the judiciary committee that senator grassley...

Trump campaign didnt just begin on january 1st, 2016. relationships get built up over time, and the reason, i think, that muellers team needs to look back a decade or more is to see if theres a consistent flow of either money, influence, some kind of pattern that would indicate someone feels indebted to someone else. so thats why it cant be built, you could say for the past two years everything is fine and if you stop in 2015, theres absolutely no interactions with russia. yes, but previous inte...

Look back a decade or more is to see if theres a consistent flow of either money, influence, some kind of pattern that would indicate someone feels indebted to someone else. so thats why it cant be built, you could say for the past two years everything is fine and if you stop in 2015, theres absolutely no interactions with russia. yes, but previous interactions might have led to a certain place where a neutral observer would think otherwise. >> when we spoke before, one of the things we talked a...

Happened in this discussion, it seems to me, just as an observer of these things, that the white house almost always or always does a readout of any discussion that the president has with a foreign head of state. particularly if its not one held in secrecy, if its held in full view of other people so they can tell that some discussion happened. are you saying that that, too, the fact that there was no white house readout or discussion about what happened, that also is very unusual here? >> i thi...

Either. >> they like it better than they like the republican plan. so why not go in and try to stabilize things as of now to make sure that youre putting the public interest first? that is my question, because it feels -- >> repeal it -- >> from an outside observer that this is just politics on both sides of the issue. >> its wanted politics on both sides of the issue. its about keelg your word. repeal it first. replace it with something thats much better for the families and the taxpayers that ...

One last quick question for you, mr. bremmer, on the point of the white house not doing a readout of this, not explaining what happened in this discussion, it seems to me, just as an observer of these things, that the white house almost always or always does a readout of any discussion that the president has with a foreign head of state. particularly if its not one held in secrecy, if its held in full view of other people so they can tell that some discussion happened. are you saying that that, ...

And what sounds unusual to me is just an observer, is that only putins translator was involved in that discussion? no u.s. officials involved in that other than trump. and that white house didnt disclose the meeting or give a read-out about it. is that just strange or is that worrying? >> it is absolutely worrying. if it were, as ian said at the top of your hour, if it was a five or ten minute pull-aside, that happens all of the time. thats what you use those dinners for. to have a little say. s...