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Need this anonymous open ed to know what is happening. what it does is it confirms with great clarity, coupled with bob woodwards book, and together you have the picture of an administration that is chaotic, not qualified, and the president who is clearly not qualified to do this job. >> youre not moving out alone though down the road? >> andrea, im not thinking about a run. everybody says, oh, youre thinking about it, youre planning. no. right now, i doubt im going to be running for office. >> ...

That -- >> you think he should come clean? >> i do. >> i think my opinion differs from some in the white house. but the american people are very forgiving, i think the president could surprise everyone, and speak directly to the american people about what went down. and then as rich lowry suggested in an open ed this wycheek, dispatch his lawyers to go out and make the right deal with the election commission, to pay the fine that would come of it. >> pay big money back. >> you dont really worry ...

Were committed or werent. >> thats kind of a line youve heard from establishment republicans, people who are concerned about the possibility of donald trump firing rod rosenstein. then you have the people like steve bannon, jason mill, he and others who are saying get rid of them. how do you square it? >> this is something that were hearing from a number of republicans who have come out and said -- who are pleading either privately or publicly with the president that firing the special counsel o...

Va. we heard the private sector isnt equipped to care for veterans the way the va has. but the argument youll hear on the other side from the president is, look, this system hasnt worked for veterans. there are still long wait times. although if you read the open ed piece in "the new york times," shulkin will argue theyve made vast improvements. there are significant problems in the va that need to be fixed. whats your position on that? >> we oppose privatization. they call it choice, we call it...

Tell our control room if you have somebody there. michael, you wrote an open-ed in the new york times talking about how medicaid is a good place to go if youre insistent on eliminating obamacare, medicaid could pick up a lot of this. we just heard chuck schumer saying medicaid under this bill continues to get hit. >> absolutely. lets remember two things. lets remember the context here. a few weeks ago the house passes a bill and cbo says it will cut 23 million off insurance. theres a significant...

But also some republicans have kind of reluctantly gotten on this. and this could be the thing that ends up really biting take two at a big legislative achievement. >> yeah, and i think it creates a vulnerability for him around what youre talking about, the specific question of tax policy on his efforts on tax reform. i think during the campaign it was mark sanford who wrote an open ed and called for him to release his taxes. theres always been a bipartisan group who thought this was a vulnerabi...

Here? >> absolutely. its very difficult to go in on your own and we certainly -- why the united states can do that and not other countries, weve signed the same treaty as others, its our law, national law under article 6 of our constitution. i think hes got some wobbly legs on that framework of legality. >> thank you so much. let me bring in our special panel, ian her, a associate professor of political science at northwestern university and wrote a "new york times" open-ed, bomb syria, even if ...

the olympics. thats right. a 16-year-old chinese swimmer wins the gold medal and denies that she is doping. ye shiwen set a record yesterday. on saturday, she won gold in the 400 meter individual medley. yesterday, the head of the world swimming association called her swim unbelievable. and suggested she may be doping. the young swimmer, she told reporters late last night and we are quoting here, my achievements derive from diligence and hard work. i will never use drugs. the chinese t...

Was pretty much as you said, the case, would never have been possible. in other words a bankruptcy filing alone, these guys still who is been in deep trouble. do you agree? >>guest: well, what i said at the time, in that open ed i said if government support is needed in the bankruptcy, and the government has to provide guarantees, that is something i would be open to. obviously we do not want the auto industry go out of business and i was on fox and also on the "meet the press," talking about th...

The goal that i set to defeat al qaeda and deny it a chance to rebuild is now in our reach. >> welcome, that was president obama tuesday marking the one year and was of the death of osama bin laden. in a surprise trip to afghanistan. it is just one of the ways that the president and his re-election campaign have commemorated the killing. also, releasing an ad suggesting mom may not have done the same. in a "wall street journal" open ed it is said that it is hard to imagine eisenhower doing the s...