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Half-time. thats when you go to the bathroom. >> martha: that whole thing. it seems so tame now. >> i know. >> martha: compared to who you see in the world today. i dont think she will show up. >> they are just doing it for the buzz. >> martha: this is justin timberlake asked about whether he would let his son play football. >> he will never play football. >> okay. >> no, no. >> martha: [laughing]. i am sure the nfl was thrilled with that comment. >> off message. i played football and look how i...

Mistake, wrong doing, who knows what it might be because i havent seen it. i presume you havent seen it unless you just saw it. the doj a and the fbi those things happen. they are saying they deserve the right to review it. >> thats for them to work out. this president has been focussed all weekend, as you have reported on the first day of the union hes about to give. were not foing going to let the us off message. were focussed on providing a speech to the people tomorrow night and talk about w...

They did in the house. a lot of people like provision they didnt like there. we have to get to that. ainsley: what made them get to a point because a lot of people say they are happy with the way republicans are handling this now. give and take. coming up with all of their concessions. susan collins wants one thing. okay. what do you want? we will give it to you. why did they get to this point? havent been like that in the last year. >> political death. they will i do a political death if they d...

Brings in extreme vetting when it becomes clear that you havent been able to vet your own team when we find out that your first choice for national security adviser is a foreign agent and hasnt declared that, when we find out that members of your campaign team are engaged in all kinds of communications with russia, which programs you nknow perhaps you know, perhaps you dont know, but it all takes us off message.ams you know perhaps you know, perhaps you dont know, but it all takes us off message...

The reality, though, he has created all this. one thing that was absent from that friday meeting, which was incredibly animated in the oval office right before he went to florida, was any sense of something that he can change, that he can do differently. i think that is the issue here. he is furious at his attorney general who is very -- he supports and likes him, but he did not think that he should recuse himself. if you think back, this is stuff that he has said for a long time and gotten a to...

Administration is trying to follow his lead. he sent out this message on saturday, and now theyre trying to sort of get behind what he said. no one knew what he was talking about. >> the fact that he had just learned. >> just learned. >> so as we see is his aides say, well, maybe he was referring to press reports back in the fall. that is not what the president said. he said he had just learned as a fact that he had been wiretapped. >> a lot of reasons why that doesnt make a lot of sense because...

>> the people that elected ted cruz are very happy. >> i work for the people of texas and i fight for them. >> the most fundamental thing this fight was about. >> this fight. >> this fight. >> what they like is to fight. >> were in the midst of battles. >> they dont seem to have a goal. >> the fight took us off message. >> the fiasco has been obscure. >> he operates on the basis of division. >> we elevated the national debate. we accomplished a great deal and we need to reflect on that. >> ted c...

For a period of time, and thats kind of like saying were going to raise the legal limit for blood alcohol, thinking were going to control drunk driving. were drunk up there in terms of spending money. and we can keep commitments, but we cant keep commitments if we continue to spend money on things that we shouldnt be spending money on. >> senator coburn, quick follow-up. how much of a reckoning for the republican party has been experienced this week because of going up against the debt default l...

The soul of the republican party? >> this does cause a rift in the party. >> i dont see it so much as a real rift. there are times when theres a new wave, if you will. >> the affordable care act took us off message. >> you have senator lindsay graham this weekend calling the shutdown. >> the political gift of the president by the republican party at a time needed most. >> thank you. >> jeb bush said republicans should have shown -- >> a little self-restraint, and let this happen a little more or...

she answers critics who say the announcement wreaks of politics. plus, details of a very rare breach of white house protocol during the presidents announcement. we now know who the reporter is who interrupted and visibly irked the president of the united states. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." less than five months before election day a dramatic and controversial change in immigration policy by the obama administration. it announced today it will stop deporting young ...