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That, yeah. >> will you answer the biggest mystery of carter page for me? >> please. >> the president of the united states said your name, carter page, ph.d. he was talking to "the washington post." theres a bunch of trump people who say this guy had nothing to do with this. he was a hanger on. an ancillary figure. i dont know who the guy is. at some point, carter page, ph.d. got onto a piece of paper that the president of the united states read. what was the conduit by which carter page ph.d. e...

>> they were asking you, did you meet with this person? did you meet with that person? >> in broad terms. again, i dont want to dig into specifics, but everything to a large extent was related to that, yeah. >> will you answer the biggest mystery of carter page for me? >> please. >> the president of the united states said your name, carter page, ph.d. he was talking to "the washington post." theres a bunch of trump people who say this guy had nothing to do with this. he was a hanger on. an ancil...

He declined and said he told mr. trump he would always be honest with him. his answer to mr. trumps initial question didnt satisfy the president. the associate said later in the dinner mr. trump said to mr. comey he needed his loyalty. mr. comey again applied held give him honesty. they says account in the "new york times" is not correct. joining me now is karen. michael, that seems like a fairly significant bit of news. >> well, it seems what you would have expected from the fbi director which ...

Comey. "new york times" citing the dinner began with small talk but the president turned conversation to whether mr. comey would pledge his loyaltity to him. he declined and said he told mr. trump he would always be honest with him. his answer to mr. trumps initial question didnt satisfy the president. the associate said later in the dinner mr. trump said to mr. comey he needed his loyalty. mr. comey again applied held give him honesty. they says account in the "new york times" is not correct. j...

So were focusing on carter page. his name seems to be front and center. >> you think hes a decoy duck. >> im not sure hes a decoy duck, but the fact there are others they wering looing at who might have been more central or more important and maybe not running to the cameras at the moment. >> trump and others have down played pages role. however, trump appeared to know exactly who carter page was when he identified him as a member of his foreign policy team in an interview with "the washington p...

Not a bad assignment. [laughter] talk money to me, peter. >> reporter: its not too bad here, harris. as you just mentioned, a major part of the trump platform during the primaries and the campaign was trade, particularly renegotiating nafta and withdrawing the u.s. from the trans-pacific partnership, and now we know at least one of the major players in renegotiating these trade deals. its dr. peter navarro, a famous critic of china who is also a uc irvine professor with a harvard ph.d.. hes goin...

Another guy, a former physics professor, physics teacher, hes a turk man. you cannot be the kalif of isis. >> isnt this just as interesting from the u.s. side of policy which is that if the monster sprouts tentacles, what is the point of taking the head? all the energy of the u.s. seems to be the drone strikes targeting baghdadi and the heads of the operation. but, if hes delegating responsibility what is the point? >> in a sense, baghdadi is generous for the jihadi organizations. he trumps osam...

Thanks for having me here. >> you talk about wilsons role as a scholar and thinking of american government. you say that he was strangely -- wrote a treatis that questioned the ability to lead in a system in which the legislature outweighed the branch. >> he was in his 30s when he wrote that and extremely -- one of our first political scientists in this country, the only president with a ph.d.. he knew what he was talking about. but he also knew that the presidency was the least defined office i...

President said what is obvious. believe me the f.b.i., new york city police, everybody has a special relationship with mosques and imams and overwhelming what you see is people willing to cooperate. what the president said is self-evident and smart. >> peter king does it and they are racist. >> greg: this whole self-radization, who cares. you dont write your own quran. the stuff is there for you to go get. the idea of self-radicalization doesnt hold water for me. the one thing that bugs me, im c...

President said what is obvious. believe me the f.b.i., new york city police, everybody has a special relationship with mosques and imams and overwhelming what you see is people willing to cooperate. what the president said is self-evident and smart. >> peter king does it and they are racist. >> greg: this whole self-radization, who cares. you dont write your own quran. the stuff is there for you to go get. the idea of self-radicalization doesnt hold water for me. the one thing that bugs me, im c...