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Its -- thats the best day for an independent is generally the first day they get in the race. i would suspect as people hear the sound bites of crist saying no, i will always be a republican. i will never run as an independent. as they get those played back they will raise questions about his character. and we will feign this is going to be enormously damaging. what he did yesterday did himself no good nor the party which he his adult life. i suspect it will have an unhappy ending for the govern...

With that robert gibbs came out and said the president stood by his campaign promise even after his top advisers said that, but stood by the campaign promise, no new taxes. gibbs freelancing or getting direction from the president? to what extent has this become a huge political discussion, do you think, at the white house? >> it is very hard to say. i that i is one of the reasons the american people are so hesitant about being confident in the me. especially those that try to create -- in the e...

>> your hand isnt big enough for notes you need when speaking off-the-cuff. it is not easy to have all the language there. sarah palin proved that she could have avoided it by having a simple note card. >> sean: ive done this, all of a sudden your mine starts to move around quickly. -- your mind starts to move around quickly. >> i dont see the gain. >> sean: i did a google search, nearly 3,000 stories about sarah palin. the president only like 17 stories on corpsman. theres more since, but that ...

Like a guy heterosexual saying because he dates or sleeps with a woman saying he cant be sexist. theres another analogy that destroys a point you are trying to make. >> hes just deflecting because he wont acknowledge donald trump makes bigoted statements -- >> once again, terra, what youre doing -- >> im going to finish. donald trump was sued for racial discrimination in the 90s. its well-known hes made comments off-the-cuff and inappropriate about blacks. he didnt dispute an account in a book w...

Person from a marginalized group become the leader of a country says nothing about how other people from that group are experiencing that country. that is an analogy. it is direct. you do not understand it. saying voting for barack obama means you cant be racist is like a guy heterosexual saying because he dates or sleeps with a woman saying he cant be sexist. theres another analogy that destroys a point you are trying to make. >> hes just deflecting because he wont acknowledge donald trump make...

Victims. i dont disagree with the content necessarily of what he said. i think we all believe in due process. coming from a legal standard, of course, we believe in a presumption of innocence. but thats not the same standard when it comes to employment, especially not employment in the white house. and i think it would have done well for the president to say what mike pence said, that there is a zero tolerance for domestic abuse and even accusations of domestic abuse. and unfortunately he didnt ...

Thank you, dan, very much. cnn political analyst julian zeleny is with us now as well as cnn national security analyst samantha and cnn international correspondent will ripley. >> we are following up on the comments the president made regarding china and its leadership there. youre there. you know this is not a laughing matter. >> reporter: yeah. this is clearly, even though no official response from the chinese government, they often dont respond to president tr h trumps off-the-cuff marks th...

Do that. the second thing i would do is see if the president of the united states is sending some kind of message to the potential defendant or other witnesses. thats in two categories. one, is he sending a message of intimidation in some way through himself or his cohorts suggesting people should not be talking and people should keep their mouths shut, which happens in life from time-to-time. the second thing is whether or not he sends a message of reassurance. >> i want to get your legal persp...

Off-the-cuff at these rallies. and those are the areas where the president has gotten himself into the most trouble with his nfl comments, with his tweets today about puerto rico, his charlottesville comment. all of these things are things that the president does on his own, and no chief of staff, regardless of who it is, is going to be able to stop that. >> matt, it shouldnt be forgotten. tom bar rack said what he said today, but he did originally say that this president is better than that. he...

Good and instructive. it happens over and over with trump. after a nights sleep, you wake up and go oh, okay, wait. i get it. yesterday, it wasnt that it was off-the-cuff, obviously he was talking about north korea with his national security team all the time but it wasnt written down and it wasnt in a teleprompter and did not go through white house staffing. this is the president of the united states. he has to make a decision now. hes facing something that no other president has faced. now the...