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The cross was lifted up by ropes and then dropped into a hole to keep it from falling. imagine what thats like. >> one of the difficulties with imagining crucifixion is that weve had 2,000 years of christian tradition which sanitizes the cross. we put jesus in nice church buildings and we have crosses made of gold. and it prevents us from really thinking through what crucifixion actually involved. but when we actually pause and actually look at the historical nature of the crucifixion and rememb...

And senior administration officials have denied the white house was attempting to exert pressure on the fbi. insisting that the white house wasnt, they werent discussing the pending investigation, but rather a news story. of course the news story, that ongoing investigation. i should tell you, that a source close to trump told my colleague here last night that there is consternation within the white house about those conversations between priebus and the fbi. even if they maintain they werent in...

When it comes to who voters trust most, over all the news or the president? 52% trust the news more than the president, but theres this big divide, so many more republicans trust the president than the news and vice versa when you look at democrats. patrick, what do you make of these numbers? >> it goes to the divide very much in this country. i think republicans still feel the need right now to very much stand behind president trump because they see him a bit on the ropes in terms of asking the...

Tanker. heavy armaments, conventional warfare. he will challenge some of the assumptions about special operations. this town is in love with special ops. i am, too. theyre not the sole answer to every security problem we have. i really think he will be very strong in the white house. what he will need is this. he needs people like senator mccain and senator graham, senator cotton to take him aside and help him learn the ropes of negotiating outside of the white house. inside the white house this...

What has made this president strong is the fact he is going directly to the american people. >> matthew, i mean, is maligning the entire press corps really strategy? is that something that he should pursue? >> well, i think its worked for him so far. so thats why he continues to do it. it obviously fires up his base. i animates them. it fires up conservative media. they were cheering on that press conference. we know that donald trump likes to have a foil. like to have an enemy. hillary clinton ...

Two houses of congress. deregulation is one of the ways to do it. depopulation of the bureaucracy to allow the numbers to go down by attrition is important. but we are stick with this administrative state. it started with the new deal and isnt going to be ended with one president. >> how much is about the fact the president doesnt have his own people plugged in? there are thousands of people that turn over when a new party takes over the white house, the way it works. but it takes time to staff ...

They have to be a little bit worried about this presidents uncanny ability to change the narrative. we have them on the ropes. yet all of the stories about chaos in the white house and all the sudden he has a his huge crowd coming to melbourne sort of. >> thank you for having me on. this is what he does. he goes above the media and hes doing it again. with the victory lap and now hes again in florida. they have seen as a just pointed out is there anything democrats can do. >> if you go back eigh...

Weeks ago. and he let this go. and then the white house has tried to craft this as trump putting his foot down and pushing flynn out, and then trump says what he says today and tries to blame the media. and i think what youre seeing right now is a white house that is very much on the ropes, that is having a very hard time figuring out how to do crisis management. they dont have their facts straight. and theyre putting senior officials out there to say things that they really dont know anything a...

Tweets, his approval rating would be un10%. talking about this weekend that this is what people want to see their president do. i always joked about how saturday mornings were horrible for tweeting. this time, he showed a picture of himself golfing with a world leader who is pretty darn important. >> well, there is that sternal stuff, right? but then there is the internal stuff. he has to get his house in order. in the papers today what are the big stories? my colleagues have a story about mike ...

And i was skipping rope. i was using it as a jump rope. a skipping rope, you know, for my high blood pressure. >> what was the rope made from? >> i dont know. i guess from the clothes. you know what im saying? i use that as a skipping rope. >> did you make the rope? >> no, i didnt make the rope. it was on the wing when they clean 9/11 up. >> how long ago was that? >> couple of month ago -- they moved somebody out of there -- >> you had the rope for two months? >> no, i said like -- >> you had th...