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Interview with fox the other night, with laura ingram, that it is having an effect on the white house despite what the president was telling the "new york times" last night. let me play diane feinstein at the social media hearing yesterday to the people from google and facebook and twitter about this russian interference. >> i must say i dont think you get it. i think the fact that your general counsels, you defend your company, that what were talking about is a cataclysmic change. what were tal...

Good-natured. mark halperin of nbc, who is on leave right now, denying some of the allegations. were seeing apologies as well. first, i want you to weigh in on do you buy the apology? do you think they actually mean it, or are they only saying it because theyre supposed to? and, b, why is there always a caveat attached? why not im sorry, its wrong, period, end of sentence, moving on? >> well, i think youve hit the nail on the head, and the problem is, its a culture issue, right? its attitudes an...

Little longer. >> and if he doesnt cut the cord, does the word "draining the swamp" mantra go out the window? >> i think this is the core of the problem, right. it is not just being mad about bad headlines. it is that this issue cuts to the very core of what donald trump presented himself as, as somebody that was going to come up, break up swampy washington that is about corny canpitalism and not in the publics interest and change that. when you see your secretary living high on the hog, your ca...

Espousing white supremacist youre dead wrong. but if you went with intent to violently oppose this march, youre wrong as well. one might be worse wrong. but going there to bust crackers in the head youre wrong as well. >> nobody said that. >> but wrong was in respect to violence. not in respect to the purpose of the -- there was not two wrongs in respect to the purpose of the assembly but in respect to violence there were two wrongs. violence on both sides. >> ive gotten a chance to talk to some...

Two wrongs. there was violence on both sides. >> van. >> ive gotten a chance to talk to some of the people who were there, including people who are quite well-known people, and they said that had it not been for some of the anti-fashionist counterprotesters, more people might have been killed. in other words, i think that p antifa has a very bad pr problem now. i dont know. they should have just called them anti-fasist. nobody knows what that means and then they went there to try to protect peop...

But it was welcomed today that the president i thought, don, made those remarks. but the question is, is he just trying to get it out of his hair, blame the media, call it a pr problem or can he have some kind of epiphany to realize that the birther movement and his talk of the wall and his disrespect to latinos and latinas and on and on, whether the lgbt issue he brought out of nowhere a week ago to create disunity in our country, whether charlottesville woke him up. did he have an epiphany. i ...

Roll out his economic package today as a signal that look, the death in charlottesville matters but im going to talk about something else first. it all depends how much of trump you want to study. but it was welcomed today that the president i thought, don, made those remarks. but the question is, is he just trying to get it out of his hair, blame the media, call it a pr problem or can he have some kind of epiphany to realize that the birther movement and his talk of the wall and his disrespect ...

Portrays this as a u.s. pr problem. it is really is and a whole international community is galliv galvanizing against these guys. to kim, the united states represents a threat. here we are and tillerson said as much as last week of where will we got right now. to them, we represent a power thats designed to wipe them off the face of the map. thats why when you throw this kind of rhetoric out there. you have to understand the ears thats going to be listening to it. >> just for a military standpoi...

State of mind and every impeachment proceeding in modern times from nixon through clinton we see them played out. >> all right. so lets, robert, you play the role of the proverbial bucket of cold water on this. >> do you think these would qualify as false statements for the purpose of legal analysis? >> not in a criminal context. first of all, false statements to the media dont give rise to a criminal proceeding, only to statements made to government officials. its a pr problem. its political pr...

He sees mueller as an existential threat to whatever, certainly to his presidency. >> the president has not exactly minced his own words. he wants it to be over. he thinks its silly. many of my colleagues, the advisers have said to us, said to me. this is a president who doesnt believe hes done anything wrong. go there no evidence in his mind to collude with russia. so this is a pr problem that he will solve. what is infuriating to his advise sxors surely to his lawyers, he is not walling himsel...