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Has, you know, he certainly feels a sense he says of higher loyalty but retribution, lets face it, to say the things he did about a sitting president of the united states is absolutely extraordinary. especially, as you mentioned, things like he believes that its possible that the president did obstruct justice because remember, this isnt -- this is the kind of thing that a former fbi director or official does usually many years down the road. this is an active investigation -- >> and hes a centr...

Candidate trump ended up looking worse for it. >> isnt it -- >> my fear is i think for comey and i think well start digesting this over the next couple weeks, hell come across looking worse. >> i dont want to be scenical here but lets play it straight, hes trying to sell books and the fact that those comments are out there -- >> when george asked him your critics think youre angry and he says thats not right. he is angry. he was upset he was fired. >> he is angry. >> the first washington accolad...

>> maybe. although if he didnt know he was doing something improper, why did he kick out the attorney general and the vice president of the united states and the leaders of the intelligence community? why am i alone if he doesnt know the nature of the request? but its possible that in the moment another person would have said sir, you cant ask me that. thats a criminal investigation that could be obstruction of justice. >> was president trump obstructing justice? >> possibly. i mean, it is certa...

President is elected when he says the president told him to let the flynn investigation go and he said hes asking me his impression is to drop the critical investigation. is that possible obstruction of justice hes referring to? >> i dont think. i think it is obstruction of justice. i just think there is just no other way to describe what the president was doing if comeys account of the conversation is correct. he is trying to stop an investigation of a someone in the russia investigation and pa...

Helplessness, i had no choice. he had every choice in the world and he never acknowledges the incredible strong justice department tradition of not interfering with elections. >> sorry, just to -- >> absolutely. >> i am coat pmpletely agreed. >> he absolutely showed the opposite of what he said. what he said was if i ever start considering whose political fortunes would be affected, were done. were just another player. >> thats what he did. >> thank you very much, ji saso >> thats exactly what t...

Obstru obstructing, you not only dont have to pay a price but get rewarded for it. that only means the playbook for the opposition the next time around is to do the same thing. watch, rinse and repeat and you have exact same thing, watch, rinse and repeat and almost all of the norms are taken off. >> but really quickly, mark, is mitch mcconnell a guy who wants to be known as somebody who threw all that tradition out the window? >> yeah. and chris, there is -- he does not want to have to do this ...

Government regulations and the presidents agenda. and those are just structural barriers to legislative breakthroughs. were not even going to revisit the pledges of mitch mcconnell or ted cruz to oppose anything obama proposes because, you know, obama proposed it. but you dont beat these kind of barriers with tee time. you can beat them with public pressure. thats what ultimately made this do-nothing house pass the violence against women act six months ago. and the president promptly signed it. ...

Has to continue on your confessional, he has his good angel and bad and hes still wrestling right now at least publicly with whether he did the right thing or somebody else would have done something differently and the question is whether hes saying that as a way to try to not seem like he is as people are accusing him of being holier than now and the moral compass he whether thats a genuine internal discussion. >> the thing is about it, the idea of him wrestling with it is right but the justice...

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What always struck me and still strikes me as unlikely but i would have been able to say that with high confidence about any other president i dealt with but i cant, not with this president. so when you want to look at his credibility, hes got ego, his book is full of criticism so the president perhaps shouldnt have made the size of his hands, the color of his hair, his tan, et cetera, et cetera, put that ego aside and the arguments he makes here about the man he is dealing with is persuasive. >...