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When you see the net closing in and then you see the behavior of the people around whom the net seems to be closing, the panic of it, the flailing, i dont know if thats a cause for hope or not, but its a different way to look at this week. the institutions and norms have been harmed. theres no doubt about it. but in the long narrative of this, i think this is one of these weeks where we will look back on this through a slightly different prism, and see some of the key dra mattis persona in a you...

But in the long narrative of this, i think this is one of these weeks where we will look back on this through a slightly different prism and see some of the key dramatis persona in a state of ever increasing panic and hysteria. >> all right. so hell has frozen over. youre now making them in prozac. thank you for that, heilmann. joyce vance, jeremy bash, john heilmann, thank you so much for starting us off. coming up, james comey once joked the presidents obsession with him is like a breakup tr...

Said. clarence, what do you make of that? or do they know care, they will just talk to american media about it? >> cohen did have a growing empire there of connections and more and more all the time here. and he was operating out of trump tower, in addition, so it does look like it is certainly part of the trump empire, but we have to establish how firm the connections are and how much the president knew at that time as he was becoming president. >> howard dean, does any of this stick to the pre...

Out. tpp, obamas individual mandate, doing away with it. transgenders serving in the military and all the environmental regulations that have been rolled back. what is it like for you? >> youre going through a list and im thinking, thanks, thats all the time we have, im happy to be here. i try not to view these things through the prism of my past experience with the president, i try to view them through the prism of what the meaning of these things are. i think the iran agreement kept them from ...

Torture and hes got a nominee for cia who has a stallar career inside the agency, support from all of the former directors of central intelligence and other people but serious questions were raised at that hearing and i believe tim kaine came out today, other senators are joining in, she may have the votes but theres this larger moral question. >> look, the torture issue is a big issue. she had an exemplary career. senator mccain commended her for her patriotism and service. but if you look at t...

How he pursues the policies. so, i am concerned when there are issues such as the iranian nuclear program that we had as a result of our very close work with our allies, partners, and even all the members of the u.n. security council had put that in a box basically. and he was trashing it and discard ing it simply because he promised during the campaign he would do so and because it was his predecessor who did it. and so everything that came before trump, in his view, is wrong. and so that just ...

Qualified for this. its also worth noting that shes an internal hire. shes somebody who is getting promoted and internally, she has the support of those she would be leading. thats very critical and i dont think we make enough of that and what i think is important, too, is every question we hear from democrats today will be through the prism of politics, whether that the proxy question against the trump administration or whether that has to do with the 2018 midterms or the 2020 presidential. eve...

Having about the -- we dont even know that mr. cohen will have an opportunity to flip. but the choice he would have to make if he did. >> well, nicolle, if we look back to the chance ts of lock h up at the republican convention, at the time i said this is banana republicanism. we are a country of laws and in the united states of america, everybody has a presumption of innocence. and that includes michael cohen who has not been charged, and certainly has not been convicted of anything. the conver...

Who knows whether any of this can be proved in a courtroom. starting with the fact that hes president of the united states and as far as we know under department of justice policy he cant be charged with anything. so i think the proper prism to see this all in is much more political than it is legal. but politically, you know, donald trump was at 40% in the polls when he took office. hes at 40% now. so i dont know how much any of this changes peoples political perceptions of him. minds seem to b...

See us versus them. at the same time our entertainment is politicized. one of the problems is you get people becoming spectators and view everything through a prism of facebook and television and not actually living in their own communities, we tend to not only politicize your lifestyles, we turn our politics into a lifestyle and it becomes very difficult to see where the bright lines are and judge people because of their affiliation in ways we never have before. >> right. its a lack of evidenti...