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And the executive branch is a war between donald trumps inner circle and the professionals. on the outer circle. theyre working for the same man in many respects but have different approaches to the job. inner circle values loyalty and willingness to defend him at all costs above anything else. yet they were working alongside other people who viewed their fidelity to the constitution and their ability to form the job as they should as more important. so this is playing out. the professionals hav...

Several in the suburban southern seats outside of atlanta, several in texas, and i think the concern among republicans is that if they lose a district that has been this reliably republican where democrats have not held the seat since 1963 and where diane pointed out trump won by 12 points, that you could see floodgates open and more house republicans decide this is just not happening in 2020. >> talk to me specifically about north carolina nine. this district is representative of what if youre ...

Dpas and have a ban and buy back. democrats always negotiate down. we went for background checks after sandy hook didnt work. and after pulse we said if youre on the terrorist watch list maybe you shouldnt be able to buy a gun, didnt work. and after vegas we tried to ban bump stocks. >> i noticed a lot of the pattern of the debate tonight, unlike last night it was a real debate i thought and people in the outer circle as you moved down left and right, you really all sort of together took on the ...

>> we lay out all the things thats happening this week, what are you watching for? >> so the one i am watching closely is rick gates. i think hes sort of been this forgotten figure in all of this. rick gates was one of those people who was with the trump campaign of with the inauguration, he stayed on in the presidents outer circle after the president went into the white house. he was indicted. so a lot of these other figures have been sentenced which essentially means mueller is done with them ...

Number two on a ticket. who do we know about those reports? >> craig, one thing i think people should know about bidens political operation is that his inner circle is as small as his outer circle is big. there are a lot of people who might say theyre affiliated with him. ive gotten flat denials that theyve been approached. i should mention from my time covering congress when beto orourke was in congress and my time covering the vice president, there is a friendship there. they worked together w...

Allow his client, his or her client to go on air like roger stone was doing yesterday, post indictment, and continue to pontificate about what he says, admit nothing, deny everything, counter attack. thats great in politics, its lousy when youre dealing with the justice department. >> samantha, you mentioned it briefly. what do you think russia is watching here? >> i think russia is watching and laughing. we have a man, roger stone, who is a very close friend of the president, this is not someon...

Federal government and youre used to lying and youre used to having people around you lie. now we see all the people around him in his outer circle, his midcircle and now his inner circle, all of those lies are catching up to them and theyre actually being held accountable. pretty soon the president will have to be accountable. >> well delve into a lot more of that inner circle in just a moment. ken, let me get your thoughts about the information prosecutors want to get or are getting from rick ...

Theyve shown that they are anything but. >> greg, danny mentioned this idea that mueller may have been on the ropes. that of course referring to paul manafort and some of the troubles hes headlining there. but some people compared the way mueller is approaching this case to going after the mob or mob families. do you see those tactics in this move today with michael cohen? >> i do. its what weve seen over the last several months, kind of the movement from the outer circle inward towards the crim...

Attention to the senate. but on the house, theyre going to sort of emphasize that this was always an uphill battle, this has nothing to do with the president and his job performance, that this is all about how historically the party in control of the white house loses congress. theyre going to point to all these historic numbers. that will be the official message. thats the official message being discussed in the white house right now. the unofficial message, though, that im hearing from sort of...

That im hearing from sort of his outer circle advisers are things like pointing to paul ryan as a potential fall guy for all this and this issue of censorship and social media, this ad not being aired, this immigration ad they didnt want to air. and there is this undertone bubble of conversation that, oh, you can see the narratives. i wouldnt be possible if that makes it to his twitter feed. >> phil rucker, you predicted this. i know its not an art form, but what do you think is coming later thi...