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Senator, thanks so much for joining us. what did you make of the presidents decision today to once again trash his former national security adviser, john bolton, in the oval office of all places? even going so far as to side with the north korean dictator, kim jong-un, over its an odd s wolf. because you remember that john bolton was hired by the president. its an odd situation where the president is dumping on the person that he brought into that very important position. i think, really, though...

New york drops those charges, doesnt explain why. was it again because the justice department is protecting donald trump for so long hes president of the united states and if thats the case, so youre saying somebody can break the law to get elected president of the united states and then you cant charge them with that crime because theyre president of the united states? talk about circular logic. and just a complete obliteration of our belief that no man is above the law. so what do we expect fr...

>> that will be totally up to him. lets start with hans nicohansn. it comes with media reports of him with andrew mccabe and now discussions about when the mueller report is going to be handed over to the attorney general. >> he is punting, right? what he is seaing is aying is u new attorney general. whatever the likelihood of what is submitted by robert mueller to the attorney general, is lyricly and the time line for that becoming public, all of that is unknown. for that we have the odd situat...

Government has to meet? >> he has to know hes violating the election laws. the fact that he was lying about it for so long and the timing and everything else i think the government will make that. lets say we make it. lets say okay, we got him. now what do we do? the southern district of new york is in a position where they have two co-conspirators. one has pled guilty. the other one is the top guy and this memo from the department of justice that says you cant -- can you indict the president. i...

Is sentenced. but there is also -- that is why people cooperate. that doesnt mean they are not telling the truth, but his motives, i think, are mixed, obviously. >> why didnt they hammer that out before he cooperated. isnt that how it works? >> thats almost always how it works, and cohen thought he could throw his mercy at the court. its an odd situation, but if his cooperation is significant he will get benefit regardless of whether he has a written cooperation agreement or not. >> it used to b...

Text message, which in context does not portray a political bias. >> a were being naive also. the idea that these human beings dont have ongoing political feelings -- >> of course. >> -- the question is whether or not it influences their work. hillary clinton and her people made the same argument to my face about the e-mail investigation, they dont like me, they never liked me, they dont like my husband. thats what they were saying. weve heard it before, jeffrey. >> what i think is interesting a...

With the president. heres flake admitting today he probably couldnt have won. >> i can tell you, its very difficult to be relegisla-elece the republican party in arizona in particular. doesnt matter so much the po policies that you adopt or your votes. its if youre with the p president. >> or youre not, obviously, and jeff flake thinks if youre win the president, you can win. "outfront" now, doug brinkley, april ryan, white house correspondent for american radio nedworks and mark preston. senato...

The people i have been talking to abroad is what would he stand for? you have this odd situation where the president of the free world, the leading -- the worlds leading democracy has been elected and the people who seem ecstatic are al-assad in syria who says trump will be a ally. the hungarian president, who is very liberal, populous nationalist, the government in poland, which has been trying to shut down or close media and independence of the judiciary in various ways. another made a stateme...

Forward. >> manu raju, thank you for the report. back with our political panel sorting through this fallout were seeing here. juana summers, a.b. stoddard and dave icmawina. i remember an aide that said to me, looking at the majority in the house, because of the way state legislatures are controlled by republicans and able to create districts in a certain way that in the absence of that, at times in recent years, the republicans actually should be in the minority, but theyre in the majority and ...

Loan. >> paul: how is this going to turn out, how do you think? >> the thing that happened here, president obama suddenly decided to do some math is and figured out the federal government was going to be in big trouble so they put in the budget of tying rates to the market. this has long been a republican proposal. youve had a backlash from democrats, an odd situation where they have been at odds with the white house. with the white house pushing for this, republicans pushing for this, they are ...