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Any less horrifying to a lot of folks in washington. an economist about what it may do to exactly the trump base that put him into office. trump sees this as the ultimate act of populism. >> hes received, there arent many issues that republicans on the hill have fought back against this president, where hes received a lot of public push back. >> this is one. paul ryan, his office put out, sent out an e-mail blast to reporters saying, attributing a drop in the dow to this proposal. >> think of th...

We do know this indictment like the one on friday only reinforces our point when it comes to the special counsels investigation. as the president has long stated there is no evidence of collusion because none existed. there will be no findings of wrongdoing. again, this has to do with an attorney representing one of the individuals who has already been indicted. has nothing to do with actions related to this president. >> it is not an indictment. he is cooperating with muellers team and in court...

Mismanagement. porter scandal in a vacuum, its by a lot of other things. >> lets bring in ted lieu of california, member of the house intelligence committee joining us now. thanks for being with us. >> thank you, brianna. >> you just -- you just heard your republican colleague trey gowdy and speaker ryan saying congress is now going to get involved. in oversight of the rob porter matter and oversight of security clearances here. how significant is that to you? >> thats significant, i welcome the...

Risk for mueller. >> bill: topic two. you heard trey gowdy a moment ago. he has launched an investigation of what official matter we do not have clarification on that yet. it goes to the rob porter matter in the west wing. whats at issue? >> i thought tray gowdy summarized it. how could a guy with allegations like this get a job in the white house? or are there long knives in the white house out for general kelly who knew about this and kept this information from him? i cant imagine for a moment...

Tell them how terrible and incompetent they think john kelly is and john kelly is quote a big fat liar and further demand that subborthey lie to h this matter. once it gets to that point, it not likely to be sustainable. in a white house that lost one chief of staff and three deputy chiefs of staff and a national security advisor and all these people, there is wide spread expectation that president trump is going to need a third white house chief of staff very soon. and honestly, while on the su...

House made mistakes over the last 24 to 48 hours in dealing with this rob porter matter. at one point he said to me in the briefing room that they could have done better, that they did not do as well as they could have in responding to all of this, and what he was talking about was essentially how they put out these glowing statements about rob porter as porter was essentially acknowledging to some extent that there was some abuse in his past marriages. now, we should also point out the white ho...

The hill have fought back against this president, where hes received a lot of public push back. >> this is one. paul ryan, his office put out, sent out an e-mail blast to reporters saying, attributing a drop in the dow to this proposal. >> think of the issues paul ryan has taken a pass on. >> hes kept his mouth shut on a number of things. this is an issue, in terms of gary cohn, hes had a pretty remarkable up and down arc through the trump white house. he rehabilitated himself after charlottesvi...

Many issues republicans on the hill have fought back against this president, where hes received a lot of public pushback. this is one. paul ryan, remarkable moment yesterday, his office put out an e-mail blast to reporters attributing a drop in the dow to this proposal. >> think of the issues paul ryan has taken a pass on. >> hes kept his mouth shut on a number of things. this is an issue, in terms of gary cohn, that as ashley mentioned, hes had a pretty remarkable up and down arc through the tr...

By nunes, yes? he has been very much a proponent of donald trump. the effort here is to muddy the waters the make people suspect of the f.b.i. why is that? because the f.b.i. is undertaking an investigation into collusion with russia, obstruction of justice that involves the presidency. if you make people question the veracity of the f.b.i. youve done your job. nunes has already done that. there is muddied water. the democrats will now seek to unmuddy that water. and these two memos will speak t...

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