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Have donald trump today, sort of after some communications with chuck glassily, one of the republicans on the judiciary committee, then he tweets out another allegation of jim comey saying he cleared hillary clinton at the wrong time in the investigation. sort of reracking this hillary clinton based pretext for him getting fired. donald trump saying he had russia on his mind but going back to the idea saying that there was so something in the way that comey hired clinton that got him fired. >> t...

Another accusation of jim comey essentially saying he cleared hillary clinton at the wrong time in the investigation. sort of reracking this hillary clinton-based pretext for him being fired. this is getting very muddled. you have donald trump saying he had russia on his mind but going back to the idea saying there was something in the way that comey hired clinton that got him fired. >> this is a classic move by trump to try to deflect and point the blame some place else. but special agent muell...

Obstruction of justice charge is invalid. but he went on to try to discredit comey saying hes really not a reliable witness, nobody they can count on. its clear that obstruction of justice was on the minds of president trumps lawyers that were interested in doing away were scuttling the part of the investigation. >> im interested in the second piece, the part to try to discredit james comey. you had the memo used as the pretext to fire him. is it your reporting that theyre going to drag in the r...

Things about her espionage in an interview before shes arrested, that would be a good thing for the prosecution. >> we started our interview. talked to her about this scenario that wasnt true, that there was a defector that came out from the cuban intelligence service and he talked about a penetration of the u.s. government. and quickly into this pretext, ana had this interesting physiological reaction. there was a rash that immediately broke out. they were on the side of her neck facing me. i c...

Senate leader mcconnell, who has been in the senate since 1984 has been on the receiving end from someone at this level of politics from his career in the united states senate and certainly not from a president. president trump was furious at senate mcconnell. the pretext was the health care bill. but he quickly started talking about the russia investigation, intimating that senate leader mcconnell should be doing more to protect president trump on the russia investigation. the information quick...

Infrastructure spending, and higher taxes on the rich, which is an odd sort of mix of things for a supposed republican but they are this sort of grab bag of populist issues that attracted at east some of the people who support donald trump. in that stuff goes away, does donald trump lose almost his cult-like hold on his supporters? >> i think that stuff was never really there. i think a lot of what bannon and trump said was false populist. it was a pretext in order to cover xenophobic, white nat...

President. its so much more disturbing when he is the president and when it affects things that are happening here in america. >> and then that takes us into the latest iteration of this, ron brownstein, which is the guise, the ruse of what charlottesville was about, keeping up the statue of robert e. lee which, by the way, didnt have any connection to charlottesville, wasnt born there, died there. it was a ruse for them to have the unite the right march. the president is pushing back hard on th...

Though china told >> shannon: that it should not to be an option on the peninsula, the two did agree to deepen military cooperation. >> you and president trump are committed to improvements in our relations, and you have approached us with a great commitment, candor, and we certainly want to deliver results. >> now that will be put to the test when we begin a massive biannual war exercise that to the north considers a provocation, a prelude to work, and in the past, they have used it as a pretex...

And never able to be comparably replaced. a lot to discuss. lets start with ron brownstein joining me now. ron, oh, my dear friend, ron, tell me -- lets start with the statues and the tweet for the president. why is the president -- why does the president want to make this about statues, confederate statues? >> hes trying to blur two lines here. first, he is suggesting that the violence in charlottesville is fundamentally about the statues as if they came from the deep southern culture. it was a...

Of staff had. now, theyre all moving around this region and trying to bring everybody together and trying to tamp down some of these tensions. but the other way in which theyre coordinating is doing quite the opposite. theyre getting ready for the freedom guardian war games. thats going to be happening one week from today and its going to last for ten days. now, thats what north korea has said will actually cause them to launch this missile or these foreign missiles towards guam. its no exaggera...