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Time of the year. and its unheard of usually. their average high is 30 degrees. so that is very warm for the northern plains. st. louis at 62. saturday at 68 degrees. so its literally the suffering mostly in new england. and the northern great lake, everybody else is dealing with a beautiful spring-like weekend out there. even the west coast dries out after torrential rains from the past three to four weeks. as far as we go, sunday again, rain in new york city. boston maybe a mix. and then the s...

Means committee, i can just tell you, george w. bushs ethics lawyer said hes been doing this work for decades and decades and never seen anything like the price case. >> are you concerned we have a market moving president? this is the first president who calls out individual companies and upon talking about them moves their stock. >> certainly, with respect to what we are seeing, these tweets in the middle of the night, i would like to see, as we approach these major policy issues, some clear wa...

Listening to the judges and the questioning that they might not go along with the president on this one, right? >> before the oral argument, i was convinced that they were going to dismiss the case because the state said washington and minnesota cannot show that they as states were harmed by anything donald trump did. that is a precondition for bringing a case in federal court. that the plaintiff can show harm caused by the defendant. but after hearing them yesterday, theyre far more interested ...

Of these positions but we have to balance what weve seen in the last 72 hours against the previous weeks and months from the president himself and his most senior advisers. is it a real change? is it a representation or a demonstration rather of a dispute within the administration? there are different camps. you have the presidents own choices for senior cabinet positions contradicting him on major policy issues. so where is the direction here? we dont know definitively yet. >> michelle, are som...

Is guiding philosophy is more trump first. it sounds snarky. >> donald trump is not the first president who placed an emphasis on personal relationships when it comes to foreign policy. and you could have gone back further than that. but what was striking for me sitting in that room was how much when these policy issues came up, donald trump returned to the personal. you got sense when he was asked about putin that his russia policy would be dictated on whether he and the president of russia hit...

May have been america first, his actual guiding philosophy is more trump first. sounds a bit snarky. >> well, i think -- i mean, first, i should say that donald trump is not the first presidens who has placed an emphasis on personal relationships when it comes to foreign policy. every president does that to a certain -- howard: and you put that in the piece, barack obama and george bush looking at putins soul. >> and you certainly could have gone back even further. but what was striking for me w...

Is guiding philosophy is more trump first. it sounds snarky. >> donald trump is not the first president who placed an emphasis on personal relationships when it comes to foreign policy. and you could have gone back further than that. but what was striking for me sitting in that room was how much when these policy issues came up, donald trump returned to the personal. you got sense when he was asked about putin that his russia policy would be dictated on whether he and the president of russia hit...

Partners on capitol hill head to philadelphia for a three day retreat. while in the city of brotherly love, congressional republicans are expected to chart a new way forward on policy issues, including the next steps on health court air. we are getting word that president trump is preparing to lift the ban on the cias so-called "black site" presents. lets go to john roberts live on the north lawn, john, are you able to keep it all straight? >> yeah, theres a lot of news coming out of this white ...

>> hold on for a moment, jim. he will be confirmed on monday, mike pompeo, the congressman from kansas. a west point grad. harvard law school grad. member of the house community intelligence community. even democrats have told me they respect him. they like him. he will be confirmed. the trump administration has bigger problems getting some others confirmed. >> yeah, thats right. democrats are targeting eight nominees right now everyone ranging from jeff sessions to rex tillerson, steve mnuchin....

>> of course we have been at war every day for the obama administration for all eight years. i think that breaks a presidential record. in seriousness, you know, i understand why both in the media and the country get fixated on the personality of a president, any president. but the fact of the matter is that underlying this all the time are issues, serious issues, that go on until the country feels they are resolved satisfactorily. so as presidents shift, the issues keep chugging along here. and...