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Blaming the house leadership. there is very much an appetite for this administration to blame paul ryan. >> during the campaign and the early months of the administration, the reporting about kind of how does trump work has always suggested that he sort of thrives on a little bit of chaos and competition among the internal channels, so the test or the question for him is is it productive at this point or not productive and are we going to see a reining in of this. on the one hand paul ryan is on...

Committee, i voluntarily file my taxes every year, i mean, its essentially the same thing. at some point this was going to happen. because there was such a spotlight all of these folks who were around the president, who have been very close to the president. and it also just points to the fact that they dont have a strategy in terms of how the deal with russia and all of the things that were coming up. its no proactive strategy. its all reactive. weeks ago they could have put out a list of this ...

Washington won. i think the one thing we learn thd we ed this week is washington is a lot more broken than trump thought it was. >> i fthink if theres anything disappointing is that this place was a lot more rotten than we thought. >> and the dog ate my homework. you listen to this. look t look, its hard. they lost and theyre trying to put the pieces back together. the president is new to washington. he did spend two years on the road saying this is what it legal be especially obamacare. but a f...

All of the things that would impact negatively trumps base. so yeah, there is so little i think enthusiasm or any sort of backing the democrats would get from their base for them to play with donald trump in any way. it is anti-trumpism that binds democrats together. its what gives them sort of hope and purpose at this point c. the idea that theyre going to turn away and play ball with donald trump -- >> is there any possibility? he has defied every law of political gravity. is there any chance ...

President. most of that is the weekends down at mar-a-lago. so be it except youre making this point earlier, the president deserves a break. the president deserves to go on the golf course. it as stressful job. they used to gel at george w. bush. the republicans including that guy there used to scream when obama golfed. >> thats the thing . if he had never criticized obama, this would never be an issue. this is a 27/7 job whether youre on vacation or not on whether or not youre in washington or ...

No way. hes going to have to do a lot of work to get those members as mall as they are to trust him. >> its hard to know who it is. youve heard from schumer at least early on this idea that he could work with the president and at some point the president called him a clown, called him a loser. called john lewis essentially said that he hdidnt done anything for his district. >> building relationships. at some point he was reaching out to people, but heeceven tha seems to have been frittered away....

Anti-washington and anti-government and anti-establishment thaen the house freedom caucus. theres some idea that they are the embodiment of the swamp and all thats wrong with washington is hard to believe. >> but they were keeping their promise. whether you agree or disagree, this is what you that said they were going to do when they ran? >> they are standing on what they ran for all these years. the president needs to figure out whether or not he needs the house freedom caucus. it seems like he...

Figuri figuring out how one another worked. then you have the opening segment and pure silence from the white house. he was not trying to direct anybody to judge janines opening statement. i think its one of those things where everybody is kind of scratching their head because everything leading up to that point seemed like they were okay. >> it certainly doesnt help the history between bannon is paul ryan. trumps right hand guy set his sights on paul ryan and getting rid of him i think by a rep...

Texts and running into people on the hill, all of these theories about what could have happened and couldnt have happened. theyre around. theyre not just around smuamon staff. theyre around members of the house intelligence committee. >> yeah. of needing to investigate the investigator. i mean, it -- >> so lets move to the senate side. the senate intelligence committee now has a deal to question jared kushner, the presidents son-in-law. were going to talk in a few minutes about things hes doing....