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Views optics, really, and i think it speaks to the way that he goes about deciding what hes going to tackle and what he isnt going to. >> one of the many hats hes wearing other than solving mideast peace and dealing with mexico and china is hes running this american innovation office. >> yes. >> you were witness to a lot of cuts even after the "the observer," had what you believe was the first profitable quarter he said he wanted more cuts. >> yeah, and i think those impulses really come from hi...

Example, that actually havent borne out. but changes in foreign policy are very tough to reverse. so i worry, frankly, that the summit will go extremely well. that youll see a lot of declarations about agreements between china and the united states that dont actually end up with much and china ends up leading foreign policy. >> hes supposed to be leading this office of government innovation to modernize and stream line the government. you worked with him at the observer for 18 months. that was b...

Mcconnell shifted the liability to the other side of the aisle. >> well, i can tell you is that neil gorsuch will be confirmed this week. how that happens depends on the democratic friends. >> later, chuck schumer made his argument for the 60 vote threshold. >> on the most important of decisions, 60 votes is called for. thats why you get a -- thats how you get a mainstream justice. highly unlikely hell get 60. >> democratic senator joe d donnelley of indiana announced his support of gorsuch this...

Its also hard to govern when youre in charge. >> ed: lets get beyond the media coverage and put on your hat where you are an observer of the political scene in washington. i see they had coming on right now and i appreciate that. talk about it from a political strategic standpoint which is this president needs the freedom caucus members to get his next big initiative which is tax reform in the next one which might be infrastructure. he needs these people. is it smart to attack them? >> he needs ...

Counsel, especially prosecutor in there. republicans control the power and congress. theyre showing no desire to do that. i dont think they like the results of run away in defensive counsel. >> a public hearing was to be held on tuesday. that has now been cancelled. one of the ramifications of that and what happens to transparency. >> transparency we havent seen too much of that. that hearing is suppose to be on tuesday. now its not going to have a date set of when it might be. everything in thi...

Members needs are. well take it from there. >> reporter: you talked about all the work that the president and his team have done with early morning calls, late calls. the other day one of the members of congress who was here to meet with the president, congressman mchenry, called to say were bringing him to the closer. you embraced that nickname from the podium. whatever happens today, do you still feel comfortable calling the president the closer when it comes to deal-making on all this? >> loo...

Speaker are going to have a discussion about what the needs are and will take it from there. athena. >> you talked about the work and the president with the early morning calls, late calls. the other day one of the members of congressman mchenry said they were calling him to the closer, you embraced that from the podium, do you still feel comfortable calling the president the closer? >> i have said it to kristen and others theres no one on capitol hill or observer that doesnt recognize the extra...

Members needs are. we will take it from there. reporter mike talk about all the work that the president has put into this, early morning calls, late calls, the other day, one of the members of congs who appeared to meet with the president, congressman mchenry called to say we are bringing him as the closer, he embraced that nickname from the podium. whatever happens today, do you still fold comfortable calling the president of the closer when it comes to dealmaking? >> press secretary spicer: i ...

Idiosyncratic members, these are idiosyncratic members, theyre libertarians, you will never get them. at the end of the day, theyre successful. if not. members will have to live with that vote. speaker ryan told me yesterday, they made a promise to repeal obamacare. they got to keep that promise. as an interested conservative observer, i expect them to get a repeal and replace bill done. >> do you believe this gop bill to be a repeal or do you think this is a repair or amendment to obamacare? >>...

If you listen to it all it sounds impressive when you lay them out but when you examine them one by one none of them lead up to evidence of collusion. theres evidence of contacts and russian intention to try to torpedo hillary clinton. >> shannon: multiple investigations and the fbi director said no evidence of collusion. >> no one respects brit hume more than i do hes been a fair observer and hes correct in the end its as brad said wait until the investigations over. this has been going on sinc...