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we can be two consenting adults and finish it here. >> thats fine, perfect. >> want to do it now? >> i would love it. >> stand your butt up. >> stand your butt up. >> stop it. >> sit down. sit down. youre a united states senator. sit down. sit down please. >> lets get ready to rumble! three days until a possible shutdown and what were republicans doing today? shoving each other in the hallway, screaming at their colleagues and challenging committee witnesses to fight. plus, tens of t...

we have done very well. sioux falls, thank you very much, sioux falls. so sioux city, how many people come from sioux city? how many people? >> not just the wrong city but also the wrong state. he says bidens losing it. that was trump on sunday, just hours before judge tanya chutkan reinstated the gag order in the federal election interference case. which he may have already violated. also tonight, my commentary on the violence in the middle east, and the questions we all should be ask...

You. >> thank you. >> be sure to watch "state of the union" with jake tapper. on the show is mick mulvaney and representative adam schiff and alabama senator doug jones at 9:00 a.m. a.m. easteeastern on senator elizabeth warren is hitting the iowa campaign trail. she faced some tough questions yesterday. one voter confronted her regarding her decision to troy to prove her claims of native american an restry. political reporter peter binard is with us now. you wrote the following.

>> its changing but very deep seeded. look what happened to hillary clinton. her net favorable rating was 20 points lower than any democratic nominee since 1980. was she really more that authentic or dishonest or liberal than all of those other democrats? i dont think so. i think the point is there are still significantly amount of gender bias when you talk about the position of the president of the united states and i think we need to talk about it openly. >> is certainly makes you sit back and...

Over the environmental protection agency to the industries that the environmental protection agency is supposed to regulate. among the -- in some ways, im less concerned about him getting the secret service to go get his laundry as ridiculous and pathetic as that is, as the fact that we now know he was having secret meetings with industry representatives because this is a man not interested in regulating industries that pl-- that pollute the environment. hes interested in handing over industries...

Staff, installing a private phone in his office. using secret service to pick up lunch and dry cleaning. spending taxpayer money on trips to italy, morocco, disneyland, the rose bowl, and multiple trips to his home in oklahoma. so lets start there with two cnn political commentators. par is denard, member of the trump advisory board. peter binard, contributing editor for "the atlantic." happy independence day. and parris, with your red, white, and blue, lets begin with you. on scott pruitt, the ...

Interesting situation because on face vaushlgs pruitt is doing a good job when it comes to carrying out the agenda that the president wants him to do when it comes to his role. the other things are becoming a distraction. >> hang on -- >> yeah? >> the fact that he is still in good graces with the president is good news for pruitt. but what about ethics violations, is that flying out the window, doesnt matter? >> no. i think at a certain degree if the ethics violations are shown to be true and th...

What he said to george stephanopoulos at abc. should the white house be worried? >> the white house should not be worried about michael cone. they should be focused on what they should be focused on which is running the country and letting the courts decide other thanks a things that are happening. michael cohen i think is listening to the advise of counsel, and he may not be the attorney for the president anywhere. it may be wholly appropriate for him to do that as the pending investigation or ...

Donald trump or his campaign work i working with russia to do things to ensure they they won the election. thats unproven. thats why the president says emphatically that there was no collusion. >> peter, you get the last word. >> the mueller investigation is not over. so we dont know all the things hes found. wolverine th we know that there were meetings with people close to the russian government and trumpsest advisers where they -- trumps closest advisers where they welcomed information agains...

Him, writing ben carson was speaking in general terms as to what he would do if confronted with a gunman. and was not criticizing the victims. not fair. a different approach for trump who often uses the platform to poke his rivals. now trump and carson have been holding their fire against one another in recent days. trump even said recently that hed tap carson for a cabinet position if he wins. jake. >> athena jones in waterloo, thank you so much. lets talk about all of this with cnn political c...