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Trump officials concealing conversations with russian spies. >> why are all these guys doing this, are they doing it to protect themselves or to protect trump? >> i have a feeling that jared is going to do a great job. he is going to do a great job. well, up and at them on saturday morning. i am christi paul. >> victor blackwell. new reporting in "the washington post," that jared kushner proposed setting up a secret means of communicating with the kremlin. >> post reports requests came from in...

You can see that we are polarized. a lot of that is working its way into political discourse. so it is more negative but the press is concentrating on whats going wrong. >> professor, we love to claim that we yearn for more substance. theres a pie chart that says coverage was 42% in the 2016 race about the horse race nature of this. only 10% of coverage was on policy. do we really want policy coverage or do we just say that? >> well, i think to a degree we do say that. you do surveys, people say...

Of state rex tillerson is likely to be at that meeting. we dont have the list of delegates but there will be meeting being called. and then president trump will meet with the vatican secretary of state and foreign minister to discuss policy issues in a bit more detail. it will get to see the glorious sistine chapel. and then we will be leaving here to meet the president of italy, prime minister of italy. this whirlwind tour continues after a very important to set of meetings kicking off very sho...

Mentioned earlier this is certainly a meeting of two very, very different individuals in terms of policy. but in terms of their actual politics and how they both achieved their mission today. both of them consider themselves to be populists. pope francis, a man of latin america, elevating the policy issues, and you have donald trump who is also considered the working mans president, dealing with manufacturers. dealing with the working class, with jobs, so there is a common issue there as well. a...

Peace talks have not in effect restarted. but senior officials say they feel confident about the direction that these conversations are headed. and then coming here to the vatican. this is obviously aimed at reaching out to catholics worldwide. he have you look back at his election results he actually got about 60% of white catholics in the u.s. that was more in fact, francis than people thought he was going to get among catholics because of some of his controversial comments about the pope and ...

The distraction ought to be gone and we ought to be now have a clear field in which we can focus on the issues that are before us. >> jenna: sounds like you are saying the appointment of the special counsel will actually provide you a little more space to operate and get some of these policy issues through? >> absolutely. it ought to dampen the distraction at the congressional level theres a loft discourse thats been going on over the last three months in particular since director comey was term...

That matters. i interviewed senator john thune, a republican earlier this week, and he told me this has become a quote/unquote distraction and they hope to move beyond this to get to policy issues. the political capital that the white house had seized or claimed to seize after passing health care out of the house and now face ago republican controlled senate, this matters as theyre trying to get to other items on their legislative items to-do list because the questions that they now face, not ju...

It seems like a nice word for stuff that spies put together to tell politician what is their adversaries are life. >> it is 14, 15 paragraphs that go into somebodys background, educational history, financial positions they have had and positions they have taken on major policy issues. there is nuggets about whether the person likes to smoke cigars or play football, whatever the case may be so when you are engaging with someone you have a basis on which to base small talk and have in-depth conver...

Go into somebodys background, educational history, financial positions they have had and positions they have taken on major policy issues. there is nuggets about whether the person likes to smoke cigars or play football, whatever the case may be so when you are engaging with someone you have a basis on which to base small talk and have in-depth conversation. its normal to give that to a national security adviser to say heres who you are dealing with. asking for a profile is not reportable. but t...

Different washington right now. im sure a lot of conservatives or republicans would think it strange to give an award to president obama, and democrats would think its a great idea he deserves it. to me im fascinated to watch that were seeing the beginnings of the emergence of barack obamas post presidential persona and priorities. were seeing the beginnings of his library. hes making more public speeches. were going to see what it looks like. hes among the most popular ex-presidents in history....