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Night. >> hes such a good dealmaker, go out and find 10 or 15 republicans who will support it. i dont know yet whether that was just a performance or whether that is actually the new position of the white house. >> reporter: and that use of the word performance really key, we heard that from many lawmakers since that meeting yesterday, the fact that this did play out in front of live tv and lawmakers up here want the president to be very specific at legislation. he not only does support but what...

Come to know from president trump when he watches television or feels that he is slighted. now, the second question is who is going to be the communications director. this is a position that in past administrations has been a gigantic job. this is something that you strive to go for. perhaps when named within the administration would be mercedes slap, somebody who has been around for a while that could fill that role. they actually need some kind of communications strategy because they dont have...

White house in the last 13 months. hope hick was not just a top aide, but one of the presidents closest confidantes and compared to being one of his family members. very significant that shes leaving. this is someone who rarely left the west wing because the president would so frequently yell for her to come into the oval office to discuss whatever was on his mind. so certainly significant and it also goes to show just how much the presidents inner circle in the west wing is shrinking. now keith...

>> crossed everybodys mind, is this a tuesday trump or thursday trump, it is a wednesday, so dont know. well see. i hope that he sticks to it. he expressed support to raise the minimum wage for assault weapon purchase to 21. senator feinstein and i have legislation to do that. so it is just introduced today. so i hope that he sticks to it. >> skepticism there, not just from democrats but republicans as well. the president and the white house have not been firm, specifically when we talk about ra...

And those are some questions that were raised by the trump campaign about the clintons during the presidential campaign. so this all looks -- this all looks bad. and it also comes as kaitlan mentioned earlier, the presidents inner circle has been diminished in the white house which makes me ask the question, what does this mean for trump when you have his daughter and son-in-law on the ropes, you have his close right hand woman leaving the white house, what would this prompt trump to do in this ...

Throughout his career, has kept a very tight inner circle of business associates, close friends, aides, and especially family members. hes not someone who is, you know, on the phone all the time drawing in from different people. hes someone who had a very tight knit world. and this -- i think that is really the question that is hovering over this white house now, which is how will president trump operate both effectively or temperamentally without the sort of band of loyalists and allies who rea...

Has taken, you know, hes taken sort of confidence, hes really -- it has been important to him to have these kind of -- intimates he can confide in. >> is there anyone that can fill that void. we know about the phone calls, we know about this tight circle that the president can call on, is there anybody within the circle that the president trusts who could step in at this point? >> you know, very good question and not off the top of my head. i would say this, certainly not within the administrati...

This just in, president trump has named a campaign manager for his re-election bid in 2020. were going to tell you a bit more about that but were going to talk about hope hicks right now who is going to be on capitol hill testifying before the house intelligence committee. >> shes one of president trumps closest aide. shes be testifying today. white house communications director, she will be sitting and answering questions. she reportedly has already been interviewed by special counsel robert mu...

The house speaker, paul ryan was pressed about whether thats able to pass the senate. he would put it on the floor of the house. it did pass the house but only when connected to an expansion of gun rights, the concealed carry reciprocity bill. he left that open but he also kind of struggled to answer the question of whether congress was doing enough. hes meeting with parkland students today. he has his own kids who are high school age. i pressed him on that question. is congress doing enough of ...

Data. when you separate the data you saw a huge increase in shootings. unfortunate unfortunately, they didnt. a month later it was columbine. >> mark, lets just get to the bottom of this misunderstanding about the centers for disease control. are they forbidden of studying gun violence. whats the reality about what they can and should be doing? >> very good question. its really important for people to understand when the nra tried to stop the science from being