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Sabotaged american healthcare and premiums are skyrocketing. focused on the tax scam that benefited the wealthiest. >> sandra: sounds to me like youre looking backwards. that was her point. >> were looking at things that president trump has done since he has been in office. the only one looking back at 2016 is president trump. just look at his twitter feed. >> sandra: elizabeth. >> i think kellyanne is exactly right. the democrats are stuck in the denial stage of the 2016 election. they are far ...

>> when youre senator mccain and planning your funeral is a terrible thing to do. but obviously the choice to decide who is going to be there talking about you and your life, he clearly doesnt agree with president trump or his presidency or style. his nature. in a normal situation, you would think a normal person would take that as a moment of self-reflection. how do i need to change? how do i become better heres the tragedy about all this. is that i think donald trump will end up tweeting somet...

They have been quiet. each of these issues increase and increase and increase. i cant imagine this ever happening under the administrations of barack obama and republicans stayed quiet. i cant imagine it happening under the administration of george w. bush and republicans not trying to do self-reflection to correct course. and here we are under donald trump and weve done nothing. its hard to critique cab in in members when the guy at the top is doing the exact same thing. >> reporting from the a...

Looking forward. theres a lot of investigative reporting, but for an industry that thriving on investigation, were not very good at self-reflection at all, and i think we do knee some of that most mortem, especially with they post-election factors. >> this comes through the book well, in a campaign setting, everything is zero sum. if something is hurting one candidati helps the other necessarily. when someone puts a thumb on the scale, like the russians did, its hard to say were making this inde...

Are debating it. do you think theres a -- i feel like sometimes that the people in the press and the campaign press of 2016 have a rae defensiveness when they get criticized for their coverage of 2016. >> completely. yeah. >> what is that about? >> i think -- >> its really intense -- i have a television show. of course there are things that we screwed up. we made wrong judgment calls. im proud of our coverage generally, but yeah, you screw stuff up. >> i get the instinct to focus looking forwa...

Then and certainly is now. and so she was able to make it okay i think to some extent for voters 0 who might be uncomfortable with the orthsdody of the party to say these are good people. i think i can trust them. >> the year after she and her husband left the white house she wrote she was pro-choice on the issue of abortion. john, you wrote a book about the bush administration. >> when you think about the fact they got married in 1945 and hustled when theyre barely out of their teens. these are...

Untethered to truth, slightly orange up close, morally unfit to be president. trumps hands, quote, were smaller than mine, was smaller than mine, one hand, i guess, the hand she whe was shaking wi which is a reference to the whole marco rubio thing and hand size. is comey in the gutter too? >> i think he is, at times. and i think were all searching for a single narrative about someone, like, are day good or bad, a savior or the devil? and i think just the way to look at comey now is, as an fbi d...

I think that its sort of a moment of partial honesty and ha partial self-reflection. i think well hear more of that 10 from 15 years from now with a little more distance from that election. >> all right, thank you all so much. were going to speak to robby mook, the campaign manager for hillary clinton, coming up. im very interested to see how he feels about that statement from james comey. happening just a short while, a federal court hearing about the fbi raid of president trumps personal law...

Proximity to the president. but it is a larger issue that conservatives have been complaining about for years, believing that this was the scope of a special prosecutor going too far. of course, those who believe the conviction was appropriate say that that is bunk, but today, this president who is living with a different kind of special counsel and a different kind of investigation, that he regularly claims is going too far, you see the similarity, perhaps the sensitivity from president trump. ...

On that piece. so i think that absolutely is the direction that he would go in. and i think its worth, also, backtracking a little bit, where this all comes from. it was jared kushner who pushed donald trump reportedly, to fire comey. comey leads to the special counsel and thats what leads to this referral. so when they said they were going to really look at everything that was going on, that they were going to take the evidence wherever it leads, this is part of that piece, where you end up rai...