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Elite. donald trump does so many things in opposition to what he doesnt like. so much of his presidency to date has been what did barack obama do? were doing the opposite. doesnt matter what that is. its relationship driven and its score settling. dont underestimate what a big deal this is. its a huge deal to pardon people. remember mark rich in the bill clinton days. this is a big deal. kirsten is right. we should not overlook it. >> just do it and dont say youre not doing it for that reason. s...

>> jonathan swan had this terrific item over the weekend about why this white house leaks. one of the reasons this hit is always so much fun and cable has so much to work with trump is theres more leaking in one week of the trump white house than you might see in a year of a presidency. and so swan had the clever idea to call up some of the most p prolific leakers. so many said it was about score settling. making sure theyre killing ideas or tamping down people who might be on the rise because t...

Why do they leak absolutely everything? >> your viewers, especially whos been watching this show for a long time, you learn more in a week in this presidency than you have in a year. so jonathan swann asked the prolific leakers why they leaked and they leaked why they leaked. a lot was about score settling, about going after people internally who didnt share their views, a lot was killing ideas they dont like. some of it was lets shape the narrative in a way thats positive for the administration...

The mistake we make is to think defensively. how do we break the system to stop perps from getting guns and that is wrong. you need to think authentically, how do we tag the perps and keep them from getting guns. we want law-abiding folks to have access, not the bad eggs. do you see the difference? we need a database where a creep like this fits in perfectly based on testimony from cops, students, school officials who then get a judge to issue a civil court order. if youre in the space no gun an...

Think offensively. the mistake we make is to think defensively. how do we break the system to stop perps from getting guns and that is wrong. you need to think authentically, how do we tag the perps and keep them from getting guns. we want law-abiding folks to have access, not the bad eggs. do you see the difference? we need a database where a creep like this fits in perfectly based on testimony from cops, students, school officials who then get a judge to issue a civil court order. if youre in ...

>> the settling of scores can make some things possible. bannon still believes in trump, believes in the agenda and thinks he is being terribly served by his family and in-laws, his sons, as well as others around him. im sure scaramucci it has been revealed going back months is engaged in score settling as well. thats part of the dysfunction that we have a ringside seat to. >> yeah. but know your audience. how self destructive do you have to be to go after the presidents children? >> if you dont...

>> they can both be right. >> definitely. we could be backing the same rule of it takes one to know one and could be what were seeing in the book. look. i do think -- i agree with what jon heilman said earlier. theres bannon score settling here and taken with a grain of salt but it is stunning. i mean, really stunning that the presidents chief strategist says that the presidents campaign engaged in act of treason. and we have never seen anything like that before. and again, thats not what hillar...

Rule of it takes one to know one and could be what were seeing in the book. look. i do think -- i agree with what jon heilman said earlier. theres bannon score settling here and taken with a grain of salt but it is stunning. i mean, really stunning that the presidents chief strategist says that the presidents campaign engaged in act of treason. and we have never seen anything like that before. and again, thats not what hillary clintons chief strategist said today. thats not what barack obamas ch...

Donald trump, jr., and he hasnt. >> steve bannon doesnt have first hand knowledge of what took place in the meeting and he was not around the campaign at the time, and he doesnt have firsthand knowledge of details of the russia investigation, but what you have here and why what bannon has put forth in the wolff book is so damning, you have somebody who sat at the center inside the trump circle for a year, and you have his characterization of what that meeting was, his sense of what a bad idea th...

That? well both drown. the scorpion says its because its in my nature. at the end of the day, bannon has proclaimed himself a leninist. he likes to tear things down, burn them down and hes score settling on the way out of the white house. but it is significant that many of the things that white house spokespeople have said over and over again are not true. now we have for the first time steve bannon saying, in fact, they are true. and one of the things you, elise and i and other people who have ...