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Years into this now. but now you have two people outside of the white house who are -- their jobs are no longer on the line in terms of what they say. >> and, julian, to you, what kind of effect will these interviews potentially have on the presidents agenda and his focus, whether it be with veterans affairs, with tax reform, health care reform, even with north korea? >> extremely disruptive as theyve been, frankly, since january. it distracts the president literally away from dealing with those...

You mentioned steve bannon. bannons the other side of that coin. the two of them reportedly disagree on a lot of just policy issues. afghanistan, israel, the iran nuclear deal. so theres that disagreement. this is obviously breitbart, very influential in this white house. this is a way to try to push the president to get rid of him. the president doesnt like to be pushed, and youve seen hes come out and supported him in a statement about a week ago where he said we work well together. he is pro-...

Megado nor and called him deeply hostile to israel. anita, whats the history of this? what is their problem with h.r. mcmaster? why him? >> hes just more afteren establishment figure. you mentioned steve bannon. bann bannons the other side of that coin. they disagree on policy issues, afghanistan, israel, the iran nuclear deal. so theres that disagreement. this is obviously breitbart, very influential in this white house, trying to go push the president to get rid of him. the president doesnt li...

Mcmaster? why him? >> hes just more afteren establishment figure. you mentioned steve bannon. bannons the other side of that coin. they disagree on policy issues, afghanistan, israel, the iran nuclear deal. so theres that disagreement. this is obviously breitbart, very influential in this white house, trying to go push the president to get rid of him. the president doesnt like to be pushed, and youve seen hes come out and supported him in a statement about a week ago where he said we work well t...

Assort one self in this administration without getting knocked down to size. that said, i think actually the most important thing that mike pence could do to prepare for 2020 is to stay as far away from the special prosecutor as well. he shouldnt comment on it. he shouldnt attack. he may be president one day. sooner than we think. and if anything on his, i think, focus should be on steering clear of that. doing his job. addressing policy issues. yes he has to get out and do some politicking. but...

The special prosecutor as well. he shouldnt comment on it. he shouldnt attack. he may be president one day. sooner than we think. and if anything on his, i think, focus should be on steering clear of that. doing his job. addressing policy issues. yes he has to get out and do some politicking. but really the real danger for him is he gets immersed in this and then come, i dont know, 2018, 2019, 2020, the two of them are then implicated. that would be disastrous for the party and for him personall...

>> harris: i can back to what you said, they dont necessarily need to work something out on this one. >> guy: if they can get 50 votes, though get it done and thats why mitch mcconnell is saying we fell short by one vote on health care, events can bank that we will be able to do it again, but i think thats a risk by schumer. frankly, he might be powerless. this is a reconciliation issue. less but it would make about deb is neutrality, its really important when you look at the scores of these thi...

He also doesnt seem to fit well at the state department. talking about a massive cut, a third of the budget and reorganizing the ep tire operation. >> tension between the white house and the state department is no new thing. just wonder if this level of it is something that you havent seen, is new and also does it have anything to do with the fact this is a guy who ran one of the biggest companies in the world. ceo largely did what he wanted to do as long as the board agreed with him. >> yes. an...

Tall gentleman in the middle there, walking out of the staff committee room. on capitol hill. hes being interviewed by the staff of the senate intelligence committee. again, about russia election meddling. released an 11-page statement this morning saying he had several contacts with russians during the campaign and during the presidents transition but were all about policy issues. nothing nefarious took place. were told we will get a rare public statement from jared kushner. listen as he walks ...

And what youve seen with the health care right now is when one party tries to ram through a policy, its not good. and the problem republicans have right now is their disagreement within their own party as to what tax reform should look like. theres disagreement in the white house what the tax rate should be, disagreements between the white house and congressional republicans about issues like the border entrustment tax, also the broader issue about how you pay for tax reform. theyve made a commi...