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Presidency, particularly someone who sees him as pulling his puppet strings. >> that sort of, oh, youre more famous than me. >> yeah. jar >> jared kushner seems to have survived so far. >> he married into the family. a little harder to get rid of. >> but theyre from such different backgrounds. >> they are, but they have a lot of similarities. bannon was a wall street deal guy, he was a hollywood movie maker. he understood how to talk to big shot moguls. if youre a womens studies major at wellesl...

Storming the presidency by joshua green. i spoke to him earlier. so, the narrative that surrounds bannon, i think hes on the cover of time he was called the great manipulator, hes running the show there. how does that jibe with reality? >> bannon had a lot of influence. i dont think he was ever the puppet master that he was portrayed as being. what he really was was trumps ideologue and pit bull. the portrayal enraged trump because eventually it cost bannon a seat on the national security coun...

Confesses to whatever it is that hes done except for those exceptional things that he wants to hide. and you can play him. its not, you know, the u.s. congress he has to worry about. its kim jong-un, its vladimir putin. vladimir putin has this man on puppet strings, lets be honest. and we all know when this thing, if it doesnt come off as grim faced, not shaking hands, anything shy of that, then everyone in the world is going to assume donald trump is in debt to vladimir putin and vladimir putin...

Because that has become a contemporaneous telling to other people about whats happening. this isnt mapd after the fact after he was fired. he told people then. but would you expand on your sentence you felt like you had to rinse off? >> i was going to ask that. was it james comey that made you want to rinse often or -- >> no, no, the division of a small table in the green room with the president and the fbi director seated there having a quiet luncheon with two navy stewards waiting on them and ...

That he is mocking a "new york times" reporter who has a physical disability. he now claims that he didnt know that the reporter had a physical disability. but if you watch the video, its pretty hard -- >> i saw the video. >> do you think that he knew what he was doing? >> appears that way, but you know, hes got to answer for himself. i mean, i think part of the folly of all this is that were answering for him. he said what he said. now the people who vote will judge him. >> our thanks to jamie ...

We dont need to search the field. we know what brought that aircraft down. wheres the investigation going to be originated from, whats the nature of the investigation going to be. and i think one of the big problems is the compelling evidence is really intelligence evidence that the united states government has got together. and were not going to want to divulge all of that. i dont believe the access to that site is the key underlying factor in a key investigation. >> i went on twitter and asked...

Bush was weak which is the argument being made. and i dont see as serious as this is, this makes russia our primary political foe so i think obama is correct. i think most would say al qaeda is a bigger threat. doesnt mean russia isnt a danger. >> there is a line that can be drawn between syria, russia, iran and such. the suggestion mitt romney was making is they are linked. and you can say no one holds the puppet strings over putin, but how strong america is on the world stage, as history shows...

And j. edgar hoover sent robert kennedy a warning, communists were pulling dr. kings puppet strings. two top advisors, including lawyer stanley levison, were party members who cut ties working with king. >> the bureau never came up with one iota of indication that levison or anyone else was actively working some communist line or communist influence. >> congressman john lewis, a longtime democratic power in the house, was an important young leader in kings inner circle. >> j. edgar hoover never ...

We cant know, the train has left the station, but it does seem to have been a huge nudge. >> david, you heard congressman peter king say the president is letting edward snowden pull the puppet strings and this is another so-called apology tour for the president. what did you make of what the president said today? >> well, wolf, i welcome the fact that the president is talking about the national debate more fully. hes been meeting on this subject for a while, several weeks. all those conversation...

>> well, as you point out, wolf, he did say that he wanted more transparency back, in may he said that. that was right before edward snowdens first leak was in june. so his assertion is that the leaks sped up the process that was going to happen anyway. well, we also have to take a bigger look at the big picture, which is does snowden lead to the new safeguards put in place? two democratic senators have been calling for more transparency and everyone reforms for more than a year now. senators wi...