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Served with ronald reagan and george h.w. bush. so he feels right now is really a trampling on not only the institutions we rely onto protect us but also the laws that have served this country so well for so long. i think it really speaks volumes to just how serious the threat is to this countrys security. >> im curious what you make of one aspect of this story which is the strangeness of the role the lawyers president has taken on. here you have a private individual who is going and talking to ...

Speech righter. you know who takes state of the? there are months of memos about what should be in it. >> do you thin that happened in this administration? >> no. people upon complaining its a laundry list. it does break norms. who even know who is setting policy these departments and if there were policy statements in the speech, wou the presiden held t they held a shot for cancer which is what obama did in 2016. the mo was "star wars. the president and reagan going with "star wars" in 1984. no...

History tells us the number that you see there, the rich are not going to pay that. when the top tax rate of the united states was 91%, the rich pays 15% and ended up paying marginal. >> if you create a tax code in which the tax code seeks to essentially slice money off the ultra rich, theyre going to find a way to get around it. >> why is that the way we are setting policy in this country? >> all right, they can hire good c accountants to avoid taxes. >> thats crazy. >> yes! >> are you crazy? t...

Was to put on a big fight that everyone could see, lets be real, the president in terms of the policy of the wall, i dont know that it keeps him up at night, i dont know that he thinks we need this big wall. i think he wants to put on a show for his base to show he is fighting for the wall, and ann coulter got upset so he renigged. so i think he is listening to them if he is setting policy. >> it is always better for the talk radio crowd. >> that is true, but the real question here is that if tr...

Last thing before we go tonight now that a new week is officially underway, the evidence, not the numbers, are on the move with new polling out showing the various russia-related investigations exacting a grim toll on the president who was as poll obsessed as any candidate in the history of the presidency. the headline here is this. six in ten americans say president trump has been untruthful about the russia investigation. only 10% believe he has gotten the message for the change coming out of ...

Last thing before we go tonight now that a new week is officially underway, the evidence, not the numbers, are on the move with new polling out showing the various russia-related investigations exacting a grim toll on the president who was as poll obsessed as any candidate in the history of the presidency. the headline here is this. six in ten americans say president trump has been untruthful about the russia investigation. only 10% believe he has gotten the message for the change coming out of ...

54% disapprove. and in the months after the results of the midterm elections, when asked who they want to take the lead role in setting policy for the country, 48% want democrats setting policy, 21% want republicans, and 19% with president trump in particular. michelle, let me start with you. and we have these dual tracks. theres the legal side of things, the investigation continues. there are the politics and the president is doing everything he can to shape perception of whats happening. your ...

Really unprecedented sanctions, in fact. so, you know, whether the administration is prepared to deal with this, it appears as if that there are -- continue to be russia hawks in the administration who are setting policy even as trump has this sort of less aggressive rhetorical stance. and, you know, even apologetic rhetorical stance toward russia. on the letter from the 44 former senators, its notable there that they are talking about this fraught geopolitical moment and the presidents ability ...

Lethal arms, you know, issuing additional sanctions against russian oligarchs including some who are very close to vladimir putin, like oleg daraposka, really unprecedented sanctions, in fact. so, you know, whether the administration is prepared to deal with this, it appears as if that there are -- continue to be russia hawks in the administration who are setting policy even as trump has this sort of less aggressive rhetorical stance. and, you know, even apologetic rhetorical stance toward russi...

Administration isnt. its sort of this anachronistic scenario we have where we talk about the president separate from the administration, but it is true that for the duration of the trump presidency and even during the campaign, we did have questions about whether trump was willing to stand up to russia even before we knew a lot of these allegations that were laid bare by mueller and the congressional investigators over the last several months. but the administration has in fact been tough on rus...