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Administrator plus jared kushners e-mails. is there an overall optics problem, joe? >> this is a bad week and obviously the optics are bad but what really matters is not just what tom price did was really not very smart, for somebody thats been in congress and understands the importance of being fiscally responsible but what really matters is the response to puerto rico. you got people that are in jeopardy, people who are dying there and so its so important that the response to puerto rico be st...

Much because there was no power. its not race, if thats what were driving at. >> no. seems as if hes not connected to it. he doesnt feel as connected to it. acted more connected to florida and texas. >> i mean, talk about an optics problem. there are problems in puerto rico as we speak. they will are problems tonight, problems tomorrow, problems sunday. the president is golfing this weekend. thats an optics problem, i think. it if you want to communicate we hear reports fromgovernor of pu. its a...

Obstruction to buy the fbi director. the president can fire anybody but i do think that paul manifort and michael flynn in real exposure. not on things that currently connected with the campaign. paul manifort has to do with his work on behalf of the ukrainians and russian influencers. and michael flynn has levels of having taken money from foreign governments. so paul manifort is quickly in the crosshairs. >> i dont think theres anything to flip on. donald trump jr. has a problem. i do not thin...

John, is this decision to send this to congress, the trump administration realizing they have an optics problem when it comes to the dreamers? >> well, they do of an optics problem. no doubt about that. >> no question. >> at the same time they have a legal problem. daca is unconstitutional, even by president obamas own admission. they have to clean it up. it is properly within the purview of congress to make this right. basically codifyca da legislatively. then its fine. then we move on. >> lela...

Their children, their husbands. it is not an optics problem. i actually think they should include women in the discussion. >> i think you have made the ultimate point, marie. government is so incompetent, they need to absolutely get out of the way. particularly when it comes to health care, because the more bureaucracy you add to it, the more you water down. the well intended purpose, so the government needs to extricate itself from the process. >> women are majority of the country. women would ...

And then a politics problem as you get to exactly with the fact that the senate can only lose two votes. this is assuming all democrats oppose this bill, which is a very safe assumption. the senate can only lose two votes to have some kind of legislation, whatever they come up with, pass. and right here you are excluding two moderates, two very important, powerful moderates who carry a lot of weight in the senate from even crafting the legislation. and the fact that they happen to be women also ...

This legislation if it gets passed and that they truly are concerned about making health care more affordable not just for people who look like them, but people who have different needs, different pre-existing conditions than themselves that are unique to women. >> when you consider, amber, that two of the voices or two of the votes theyre likely going to need are from two of the more moderate members of the caucus, lisa murkowski of alaska, susan collins of maine, two more moderate female senat...

Are not happy with it. the president just called for a massive cut. so is there an optics problem now? >> its the same optics problem every president has in varying degrees. this is a fun little football to throw around, that the president costs a lot to protect. but thats maybe the most essential function of the federal government, protecting of people and protecting our president. every time a president takes vacation, the opposition party goes bananas. so i dont think this is really anything ...

As drawing a moral equivalency, and its offensive. i cant speak for donald trumps intentions, but i know it sounds offensive, and i know that, you know, putin as someone who is not elected in free and fair elections, who persecutes his opposition, who persecutes journalists and does all sorts of other nefarious things, even the accidental, if we want to give him that suggestion that, you know, basically everybody does this kind of stuff, thats a real optics problem. >> we are running out of time...

Never really had. having said that, the problem with trump is hes painted himself into a corner with putin politically because hes made himself appear to be a puppet or a pawn of the kremlin whether or not, in fact, he is or isnt. >> rachel, youve been saying from the beginning, at least in our dialogue the reason to put out his portfolio of business interests and loans and taxes is to remove this type of speculation. is it even more important to do so now? >> i would say so. basically trump has...