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>> it is important to hear your perspective. look, she was in the car. she heard the tone. thats how she interpreted it. but you hear it differently. >> look, im not -- these are hard to do. im not going to criticize the president for a poor choice of words. it is unfortunate. george w. bush describes movingly widows getting angry at him. he just took it. what he said yesterday or two days ago and the dragging into this of robert kelly. >> lets talk about that. >> i really cant stomach that. i c...

For the fact -- he thinks he was under attack but he was just being asked a question and he could have answered in an entirely different way. he didnt need to start talking about barack obama. he could have just said im going to call them. these are heroes. rather than doing that, he immediately starts debasing himself and his predecessors. >> and its easy not to. >> thats what he did at the cia as well his first full day as president. instead of honoring them he talked about himself and his cro...

Things happened. he turned 18, graduated from the academy and joined the united states navy. >> what we have heard and seen from the president this week, his comparing dealings with gold star families to the predecessors, is that a collision of lack of institutional knowledge plus obsession with his predecessor? >> its a mindless competitiveness. saw that with hillary clinton and president obama. i dont think he knows how to act out of hope. i think he only knows how to act out of fear, and he o...

Reporter joel corbin as we keep an eye on what is happening just behind us here on capitol hill with the judiciary committee. but i want to stay on this topic as we listen for news related to the attorney generals hearing today regarding this back-and-forth now over this gold star mom, six months pregnant, two young kids, you have seen the images of her weeping over her husbands flag-draped casket. the president now says he has proof that congresswoman fredericka wilson is lying. are we going to...

Without ever saying his name. mccain warns the u.s. against turning towards quote half baked spurious nationalism, and calls americas repeat on the world stage unpatriotic. this comes as president trump is under fire for falsely claiming that his predecessor predecessors didnt call gold star families. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell is closer than ever before. all this as a new cnn poll shows president trumps approval rating holding steady. more americans say he is leading the country i...

Talking about, i dont think anyone in the trump coalition think donald trump is best friends with mitch mcconnell and supports everything he wants. they view it as the fact that they need him now and why donald trump is doing it. this is not a broad sweeping endorsement of the establishment. >> all right. friends out of necessity. i feel like thats all of us right now. friends out of necessity on any given day. >> eric fight with me in the break. i have to go. everyone thank you so much. >> than...

Is expected to address a highly influential conservative group here in washington, the heritage foundation. very likely tax reform as well as health care will be on the agenda. alisyn, back to you. >> joe, thank you for that reporting. the new cnn poll finds president trumps approval rating is holding steady but more americans say hes leading the nation in the wrong direction. joining us from washington to help us break down all the numbers, david. >> donald trumps approval rating is at 37%, 57%...

Hasnt called the families of those killed in niger, not yet at least. the second on president obama he talked about general kelly his chief of staff right now, general kelly lost his son, serving in afghanistan. the president, i would imagine, knows whether or not president obama called general kelly here. i guess colonel, i dont want to put you on the spot and get your take overall on this whole discussion and debate right now about what these commanders in chief do in circumstances like this? ...

Health. >> given his health, aria surprised the president is speaking as he is, warning if you keep it up, get ready because im going to act back. >> im not surprised if mccain is cowed by him. senator mccain, whatever else you think about him, survived prison camp in the vietnam war. the idea he would now buckle under the tweet of president trump is preposterous. >> on another issue, caitlin, you cover the white house. another federal judge has ruled against the third version of the presidents ...

Both criticize his predecessors and essentially pat himself on the back? >> well, you know it just zsh it bothers me that a president of the united states, instead of accepting responsibility for what he does and what his administration does, constantly looks for other scapegoats, whether its congress, past presidents, whether its somebody else. he is never responsible for anything that goes wrong. and the reality is the american people understand that presidents make mistakes and misjudgments. ...