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Nefarious but they have a perception problem. this is something that is much more significant than anything that the mueller investigation has faced to date, which is real and very serious allegations that they are not conducting this investigation in a fair and honest way. and, in fact, not only that, but having no transparency into the process whatsoever. it wasnt until we found out through other means the lead investigator had been compromised that they decided to provide the documentation to...

Republican and democratic administrations have made a series of decisions that have effectively allowed for much more immigration then was supposed to be allowed under the law of the united states. as part of this, they look at temporary protected statuses and say look, they call them temporary, they go on for a very long time. the difference in haiti is this earthquake is much more recent than the stuff -- the statuses that existed for central america, had gone on much longer. i think here as r...

Owns direct tv. now there are concerns the justice department could block it unless they spin off cnn and the turner media group. president trump has had his issues with fake news. how big a story is this? >> you know, there is a bit of a perception problem for the administration because of the presidents repeated tweets on cnn as fake news and justice officials say you either have to get rid of turner broadcasting or cnn thats a classic antitrust concern when you have two big companies on the v...

Rene marsh, thank you very much. im joined by my panel. jen psaki, kevin madden. lets talk about this travel budget thing writ large. its not just the pence trip. its a bunch of trips in. is this an issue outside of the beltway as well? is this hitting folks at home, the middle part of the country? are they looking at this and saying, hey, where is my tax money? >> i think you have to put the pence one aside. i think they have a very different standard of security and expectations, quite frankly...

Where you start having the problems. >> you seem to be talking about -- >> pardon? >> you seem to be saying that the administration is suffering from a perception problem here. you know perception in a disaster response can be very important. >> perception is reality. perception is absolutely reality. and thats why i say if we have -- if we have containers that have been moved off the ships on to the docks, the key point nows absolutely push as hard as you can. in fact, brock long and the presid...

You. youre cautioning on being vague. thats why weve taken care to be specific. this is a man who worked for trump over a decade. he used to work in ivankas old office. he wanted a senior administration post, didnt get it. the "times" reported if anyone crossed mr. trump or stood in his way, mr. cohen would cajole, bully or threaten a lawsuit. this isnt just any aide, is it? >> no. its definitely not just any aide. obviously this is a close associate to president trump. you know, i think we have...

Something where hes criminally -- found criminally guilty of wrongdoing. but as glen said, russia keeps coming up. it creates a perception problem. and i think not only that, but what weve seen in the past, when these sorts of stories come out and russias back in the headlines, particularly in ways that are significant as this, the president tends to overreact. and thats where he gets himself into trouble. which weve seen before. the other thing i would say is, if you go back to when this was ha...

And then like debbie wasserman schultzs case, a hard drive smashed up in an i.t. guys garage -- doesnt that sound like obstruction of justice? politics aside. if i did all that, wouldnt i go to jail? wouldnt i be likely indicted? >> its really problematic behavior. also they deleted 30,000 emails by a contractor, not anyone associated by the clinton campaign.i we want the same rules to apply to politicians that are applied to us. i can understand there is a real perception problem out there. >> ...

On whatever issues they were talking about in the one-hour meeting. but he didnt do that. he didnt say anything about it. he kept talking about, you know, when he was tweeting, the next day -- in the two days that followed the meeting that he had, the two-hour meeting he had, he talked about what he had talked about, he furthered the u.s. interests, he said nothing about this other meeting. theres a problem here. there is a perception problem and there may be an actual problem, but we dont know....

If it was a positive interaction where he was furthering the u.s. interests, as much as he talked in the two-hour meeting about the american public, he would have, i think, say that he continued to press putin on whatever issues they were talking about in the one-hour meeting. but he didnt do that. he kept talking about when he was tweeting in the next day and the two days that followed the meeting, that he had the two-hour meeting that he had, he kept talking about what he had talked about, tha...