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President sent lead that he would support it, you have a sense of what he would do? >> no, we are talking to the administration as well as obviously the leadership in both the house and senate, yeah, i know where people are, im not going to go in specific numbers, but we can definitely do a deal and the president has shown deal to compromise, we need leadership particularly in the house to do the same. neil: 2 billion and not 5.7 billion. [laughter] neil: could you personally live with that? >> ...

Director, special counsel and obviously they are doing that here with deputy attorney general, so this is all setting stage for the battle thats to come when those reports of special counsels come up. eric: would you expect reaction from the president and as a legal matter what does he do? >> whats fascinating is -- investigations change every day. you know, two weeks ago paul manafort wasnt cooperating with special counsel and the president was in one position, now he is. president trump knows ...

Not far-fetched. >> a lot of it could be scathing and to the legal point, which maybe the biggest jump that rudy giuliani makes here, if you think a president cant be indicted, that means hes not subject to any subpoena. >> exactly. the fact is its like giulianis coming out, hes coming out with the statement saying believe me, this is the way this is going to be. there wont be an indictment and they can write a report like what i it on my summer vacation. subpoenas can issue and a subpoena can b...

2016, and decided that they needed to look further and do this investigation. another important thing that this memo reveals is that beyond the october 2016 first application that was approved by the judge, there were three additional approvals for extension of that surveillance. these are every 90 days they have to go back. and the fbi would have show show this judge that during the previous 90 days they collected important information, important intelligence to warrant for them to continue to ...

Hes done a fantastic job in a very difficult situation. we are very much behind egypt and the people of egypt. well fight terrorism and other things and were going to be friends for a long, long period of time. >> lets go to our white house correspondent sara murray. this is an important meeting. in fact, there are a series of important forum policy meetings the president is having this week not only with the leader of egypt, the king of jordan will be coming to the white house on wednesday. thu...

About between president obama and castro the only the second time leaders of the united states and cuba have spoken in more than 50 years. first back in december when they talked about normalizing relations. setting stage for somethis face to face meeting. last time the two spoke was in december, just before announcing that they were going to normalize relations between the two countries. joining me now, former deputy assistant of state under hillary clinton and former ambassador to uruguay. thi...

Opportunity, your again system i do think it is political. conservatives celebrated finding rightfully so, hobley lobby, 5-4 split decision. what democrats see a political opportunity. who is cosponsoring. mark out dahl, democrat in colorado, up for election. harry reid. by the way i checked, clarence thomas not a white guy. theyre talking about, setting stage for continued war on women. lets face it, republican candidates still not figured out how to very well articulate these cultural issues, ...

Do you think unemployment benefits should be extebledded for the un-- extended for the unemployed? tweet me your answers. we will share some of your thoughts later in the show. turning now to the data collection program that continues to make headlines, last week a washington, d.c. judge ruling the program unconstitutional. fast-forward to friday and the news that a new york federal judge is ruling the bulk collection of telephone data is legal. the aclu is challenging the nsa saying it is not g...

Jenna: we have to go to d.c. first. thats where a lot is happening today. there is a high-stakes budget battle gripping washington. house lawmakers are getting set to vote on a short-term spending bill to keep the guest running gutting obamacare, setting stage for a partial government shutdown. well see what happens today. hi, everybody, im jenna lee. gregg: im gregg jarrett in for jon scott. the feds are set to run out of money at end of the month. that gives congress 10 days, not long, to vo...

>> this strain of libertarianism going through both parties right now and making big headlines i think is a very dangerous thought, but i dougt he would because most washington polit s politicses only care about bringing home the bacon. >> it continued on "the situation room." >> attacking me isnt helping the party. hes hurting the party. >> beyond the jab, some republicans say its pauls noninterventionist views on foreign policy that are setting stage for a fight of the heart and soul of their ...