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To investigation by predecessors. but john mccain says this has whole a whole different kind of level. >> with the appointment of mr. mueller, were now at that stage of a scandal. and now the question is how is it handled. is it handled the way watergate was where drip, drip, drip, every day, more and more. or would we handle it like ronald reagan handled iran-contra? a scandal. he fired people. he went on national television and said we made mistakes, we did wrong and were not going to do it ag...

Was he had political capital to raise human rights. thats what makes us americans. we speak up for free speech. he failed to do it. jeffrey, let me finish, please. he failed to do it. and that is a failure. then, he took sectarian sides. he did not sufficiently remain balanced in the sectarian battles of the middle east. those are two substantial failures i think we need to focus on more than these outlandish and false claims about obama. >> norman, quickly, all im saying is we did it president ...

This visit to the country that is the custodian to the holy mosque. the president has said hes learned a lot on this trip and about the people and about their culture. i think its a really important process in terms of how we move forward with this relationship between the muslim world and the nonmuslim world. >> so mike, has this trip in part changed the president? >> i think so. listen, this may be naive, but im one of the people that thinks as members of congress and elected officials go over...

Addressing that question or asking these heads of government to address that question. hes just saying defeat them. and without really an explanation of what it is that gives rise to them. what are the conditions, what are the problems in these societies that produce so many terrorists. so whereas predecessors frequently talked about reform within those societies, freedom within those societies, the president said im not here to lecture, although he did use the word "reform." but i think were go...

Trump lacks the one thing his 44 predecessors have, a sense of shame. shame is that emotion that blocks you from doing something that you should later regret or you shouldnt do to begin with. the fact that a grieving family not for the first time has to demand fox doing this is really strange tragic. why fox does this is beyond me. >> i think they should listen to kirsten. thank you all very much. mike pence delivers a commencement address at notre dame and students deliver their own message, ...

Exactly what the president says, the language he use and whether or not he tones down that rhetoric that we heard so often during the campaign trail, that super heated rhetoric you heard on the subject of islam, during the campaign trail, whether thats end to down tomorrow now that were in this part of the world. >> we know most presidents when they are abroad and they are revising their speeches up to the minute, how much do we know about whether the president is making adjustments similar to h...

Comparison somewhat apt. >> president trump thinks it is a witch-hunt, makes him far from unique among his predecessors. >> thats true. pretty much every president who has been the subject of special prosecutor investigations viewed them with disdain, treated them as witch hunts. certainly when i interviewed president clinton, he felt as if from the moment he entered the white house, he barely turned the key on the door and there were investigations lining up with him. certainly president ronald...

Simple? >> it is in the sense that president nixon fired archibald cox whose biography i wrote after the whole watergate cover-up had boiled to a crescendo, and cox subpoenaed these eight critical recordings from the white house and nixon wouldnt give them to him, federal courts ordered him to, he defied and fired cox. so we had reached a point of kind of a culminating event. here, this was early on in the presidency. the president does have power, for instance, to remove an fbi director, althou...

Him with mike pence in the wings. as the vice president keeps up his schedule, including an event wednesday welcoming asian americans and pacific islanders to his office, aides say he remains focused on the job, enacting the trump agenda. he is offended by talk of impeachment or of him as the preferred alternative for congressional republicans fatigued by the controversy attached to president trump. also recoiling from such talk, the house speaker. >> thereve been some members who have said we w...

>> reporter: and this is something president trump has done, yet another example than predecessors. it used to be the chief protocol officer who would greet visiting dignitaries and then the president would greet they will inside the white house. the president coming to effectively his the front door. that is the meeting. and then one of the opportunities for both the colombian press who is here in great numbers and tuesday press to have a chance to take, hopefully get a chance to question the p...