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President awarding himself a no-bid federal contract to host the g7 summit of world leaders. welcome to friday. its "meet the press" daily and good evening. yes, this was one of those weeks. i am chuck todd. how many more weeks like this one can elected republicans in capitol hill stomach? the president has lost control of the impeachment inquiry. hes copped to asking foreign governments to investigate his political rivals. his top diplomats are testifying to how he enlisted the state departme...

Self-dealing? how can they defend denials of a quid pro quo after mulvaneys performance yesterday? how can they credibly claim hes not trying to interfere in the 2020 election after hes publicly admitted hes done it? and how can the republicans credibly -- including those who worked with this president are calling it a major failure. how can they do it? look. we know that if charlottesville, helsinki, mueller, family separations, you name it, werent breaking points for the gop then, syria and uk...

Blowing right through snthem? >> the president over the past several years has destroyed the different norms that applied historically in the united states. the question is whether hes abusing his power. look, this issue with the doral country club is part of a pattern of corruption. there is no other way to say it, and self-dealing as i think gloria was saying, that goes back several years. the mueller report is replete with examples of a pattern of corruption that should be unacceptable in thi...

Country as sort of a beacon? you know what his answer was? no. next question. >> they dont care. self-dealing is not in the vocabulary, and what mulvaney was saying was, look, if we do it, its just fine. thls the best place in the entire united states, and the president suggested it and thought it was a great idea. and, again, it goes back to what dana was saying, which is, yes, were doing it, so what? >> to that point, jim baker, we have this so what, i dont care element as dana and gloria just...

Other leaders there anyway. for example i met with scott morris on the prime minister and even though they are not there i assume he came in to invite the president emmanuel macron. but the question i got originally turning it from the g7 into the g8. okay. >> could he simply invite president putin? >> mick: yes, kenny physically do that, yeah, he can. >> and hes president. would he consider doing that? >> mick: knock him up. i think the conversation with her the g7 to the g8, that could be an i...

Violated the emoluments clause because not only to the not make any money, it costs far less than any other available site. as with comparisons to the bidens, he quipped "theres no no profit here, theres one difference as you look between the trump family and the biden family, the trump family made their money before they went into politics." >> the dnc issued a statement accusing the president of self-dealing suggesting they should change his america first slogan to "trump first." and something...

Its again, there is a form of inoculation in beak almost so quasi transparent in how, you know, almost self-dealing theyve been throughout this whole thing. >> i will say this. i believe it is the case that this letter was actually sent and was not just a fictitious letter o bbc reports and i do love this. this is my favorite thing of the day that turkeys erdogan, quote, threw trumps syria letter in the bin which is pretty much the place where it would have to come to rest. thank you for taking ...

And we could do the same thing. but i think the question i got originally was turning it from the g-7 into the g-8. >> and the question is could he simply invite president putin. >> can he physically codo that, yes, he can. >> would he consider doing that? >> that has not come up. i think the conversation that weve had about whether or not we would turn to the g-8, that could be a step. >> you mentioned that the president is willing to take the criticism on this, but what about the country itsel...

Mistreatment of marie yovanovitch, the u.s. ambassador to ukraine who was dismissed for getting in the way of the presidents scheme to solicit interference in election series the latest example of the presidents dangerous brand of diplomatic malpractice. his is a diplomacy of narcissism, bent on advancing private interests at the expense of our national interests. quote, for dictators, trump is the gift that keeps on giving, a nonstop advertisement for western self-dealing. so much for enlighten...

Well, this is direct and to the point. quote, in my 3 1/2 decades as a u.s. foreign service officer, i have never seen an attack on diplomacy as damaging to both the state department as an institution and our international influence as the one now under way. quote, the contemptible mistreatment of marie yovanovitch, the u.s. ambassador to ukraine who was dismissed for getting in the way of the presidents scheme to solicit interference in election series the latest example of the presidents dange...