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>> so i would agree with everything that has been said. i would push back and condi rice knew this would be an issue and this is on the table. and i want to kind of take it out of the personality of donald trump. i think what we se-- see are foreign policy officials and trump is silent and to what we see -- i take it to be foreign policy professionals doing their job. and so why is he silent with regards to russia interference in our election and why hasnt he said smig about the assassination at...

Weapon. >> i think its two things. he may be concerned about the investigation itself and giving fuel to that. the other thing is that the interference that russians did in the election with propaganda and the creation of these fake personas, utley it was to influence votes cast by real american voters in the united states. for trump to focus on that is basically to buy into this idea that people were tricked into voting for him, that the russians came in here and did this influence campaign and...

Idea his election was the sort of weird fluke due to external factors and recently complained saying reporters always say that hillary ran a bad campaign. why dont they say i ran a good campaign. this narrative undermines his self-conception as a person who is a talented politician who obviously won in his own rights. >> its interesting in terms of the investigation, no surprise that trump didnt mention mueller or the investigation but at the same time, i imagine in that room tonight in washingt...

Of his latest status there and what he and his allies are doing to perhaps make a pitch to have him maintain his hold on power? >> well, as of last night, it was very uncertain. yes, there is a board at breitbart. but the mercer family decides he needs to go, he will go. the mercers will make the final call on breitbart. and then we really get to test the premise of steve bannons self conception, which is that in his own mind, he is a revolutionary figure and can stand on his own. he believes, h...

And finally, you know, trump takes three and a half weeks to do something thats so insane he gets the blood hounds on his tail. nixon, at least we had three and a half years to wait. >> well, and this is -- i mean obviously trat jekt ri of all this seems like its extremely accelerated with that, thats because the personality is at issue or the times we live in. to me, i just got chills from reading about this short of level of paranoia, michelle, because like there is this -- you know, this is o...

Allegedly. this whole bay rock and soho trump thing and the russian stuff. we may never get to this stuff. once they started looking into how richard nixon paid off the burglars into shutting up at their trial, the things started unraveling within seconds. and finally, you know, trump takes three and a half weeks to do something thats so insane he gets the blood hounds on his tail. nixon, at least we had three and a half years to wait. >> well, and this is -- i mean obviously trat jekt ri of all...

Saying, mr. president, you have to be more careful that what you say is actually true. he is careless with respect to the true. i dont know if some of these things are lies. i think he probably believes them at the moment when he is saying them. when he talks about the alleged landslide and the crowds at his inaugural. its central to his self-conception as a populist. i speak for the people. there have to be 3 million illegal votes. i didnt eke out a win of 73,000 votes in three states. >> then ...

Institution for middle east policy. christiane was quoting him last night. what do you think of putins op ed in the time and arming of the rebels by the cia in the "washington post"? >> i think putins gotten inside obamas head. i think this is an incredibly clever device. some of it is just russian propaganda. a lot of it is putin reflecting back to obama, obamas own world view and his own self-conception. you can feel this as obama was moving close to making the decision to use force, you could...

Card. >> i want to bring in somebody very skeptical on this russian deal. former bush administration national official currently senior fellow at the brookings institution for middle east policy. christiane was quoting him last night. what do you think of putins op ed in the time and arming of the rebels by the cia in the "washington post"? >> i think putins gotten inside obamas head. i think this is an incredibly clever device. some of it is just russian propaganda. a lot of it is putin reflect...

At him, whereas mitt romney will be like one of those english spiders, like chuck webb, theyve got one punch in their entire arsenal and they just fall on their face. theyre lead footed. isnt romney more lead footed than mitt. mitt can move around that floor much faster. >> i think theres a pretty decent amount of consensus and i think its appropriate that theres been a consensus that mitt romney has actually emerged as a pretty good debater and hes done a nice job. i think hes been the class of...