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His outer circle advisers are things like pointing to paul ryan as a potential fall guy for all this and this issue of censorship that they feel of conservative media on social media and on -- you know, this ad not being aired, this immigration ad that didnt air. so there is this under bubbling conversation too about how you can see how the media is censoring conservatives. i wouldnt be surpriseed if that starts to percolate out to the presidents twitter feed. >> phil rucker, youve written about...

It connects all those pieces. i call it the messenger, the message, and the money. and that combination is one that works to empower the base to go out and deliver that vote. in this case -- i was going to say, in this case, the fact that you have a red district like this that is that close, that the president won by 11 points in 2016, is a real problem. it will impact the money. it will impact the message. and it certainly will impact the messengers around the country who have to make that deli...

In place the messaging that you want to bring it home, right? it connects all those pieces. i call it the messenger, the message, and the money. and that combination is one that works to empower the base to go out and deliver that vote. in this case -- i was going to say, in this case, the fact that you have a red district like this that is that close, that the president won by 11 points in 2016, is a real problem. it will impact the money. it will impact the message. and it certainly will impac...

Case, the fact that you have a red district like this that is that close, that the president won by 11 points in 2016, is a real problem. it will impact the money. it will impact the message. and it certainly will impact the messengers around the country who have to make that delivery. >> and forgive me, michael, shannon, pick up right on what michael just said. youve got this barn burner of a race in ohio that should be done and dusted, safe republican district, right into that we have the arre...

The first place, which you always point out. you picked up how careful giuliani was careful about what would end, the obstruction piece. what matters most to trump would end. >> right. i guess what occurs to me as were talking, theres two circles around trump. the inner circle is the one he created, which is how did he respond to all of this once information became known. and we know what actions we know about, right? we know he fired people like comey. we know all the things he has popped off a...

>> and he is not somebody that was directly in the trump administration or in the inner circle. he was in an outer circle getting those who were in the inner circle. >> what i couldnt glean is does the guy like trump or not like trump? >> he hates him and loves him and hates him and loves heim. >> it seems like in the span of a few hours. its like when im not liked by donald trump im going to decide to be agresive about it. >> he has taken a very different approach. steve bannon has a love-hate ...

>> and also clashed with trump. >> he has. he has since renounced trump in the months that follow but he still skriexisted in the world. you covered the campaign as i did and he is still always on the phone. he sort of hears and talks. he is still in the trump universe. and there is no question why he would be an interest to robert mueller. >> he is still in the outer circle. matt, one more question. at the end of the interview i asked what he thought of the interview and whether he thought muel...

Duties with integrity and honor in this department, will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial matter manner. and this is what i cant get over. hours after releasing this statement, sessions had dinner with none other than rob rosenstein and the solicitor general noel francisco. hitting trump where he hurts. showing the picture, social media. can you believe this is whats happening with the top leadership in the government of the united states of america? i want to bring in nbcs peter ...

Firings, he wants to question the kprez. hes already interviewed comey, sessions, we found out his team interviewed mike pompeo. what is your assessment of where this investigation stands? >> its in the final innings, it would appear to me. to me, this is reflective of bob muellers careful approach to this, moving from the outer circle to the inner circle, ending up ultimately with the president. the interview with the president by the way could be kind of anti-climb ago tick in a way, i think t...

Sure that andy well remembers and may have recorded just as jim comey did his conversations with the president. so i think its, again, very regrettable. >> were at this very critical point in the mueller investigation. sources are telling cnn mueller is set to question steve bannon on flynn and comey. their firings. he wants to question the president. hes already interviewed comey, interviewed sessions. . we found out his team interviewed cia director mike pompeo. whats your assessment of where ...