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Campaign. >> this strategy of being so outspoken carries risks and you hit upon one of them, that he is opening up the idea that other women may come forward, that i may be emboldened. he is setting up -- he almost could have sidelined -- scuttled a nuclear summit on the korean peninsula for his undisciplined and not well thought out remarks about that. but to the -- this is what the president wanted. my piece and what shannon wrote are nicely dove tailed because giuliani is not part of the lega...

Of you and it will become part of the story. and also in the dinesh dsouza thing you get the ability to pardon somebody who is kind of a rock star in some cirque zwrls and in other circles is looked upon with disdain for things that he said. >> i think theres another issue. i think what he could be setting up is pardons for his family and ultimately himself. and if he pardons himself, that may end up in the supreme court because nobody has ever done that. but he could be making it as if, well, i...

Petition. our correspondents are standing by with full coverage, but right to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. the president is taking on his own justice department. >> reporter: he certainly is and the president just wrapped up a meeting with the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and chris wray. rod rosenstein called for an internal justice department investigation into the presidents suspicion he was spied on during the 2016 campaign and coming out of the meeting, we should...

The president deadline for that is less than three weeks away. then there is this summit between president trump and kim jong-un in which mike pompeo is involved with setting up, but wants to do so as the confirmed secretary of state. sandra? >> sandra: rich edson, a lot going on. thank you. lets bring in michael meehan, former chief of staff for senator maria cantwell and alex koenig, partner at firehouse strategie strategies. sort of unprecedented what we may see happen here as we await this k...

If youre going to play in texas, you have to have a fiddle in the band. alabama. >> bill: well done. yes, sir. you have skills. >> sandra: you quote movies, ill stick to quoting songs. >> bill: listen, this is all setting up for a very interesting six or seven months as we go to the midterms in november. viewers, get ready. good job on the lyrics. >> sandra: thank you, bill. a top senator said he has a bill that could give americans an escape hatch from obama care and dash cam showing a suspecte...

The answer to that is unknown. there are a variety of possibilities. and the first possibility is he was setting up -- oligarchs and he likes them and what was good for them was good for him in his mind. but it doesnt understand even after this investigation started that president has continued to tow that line and it is perhaps a desire to fight isis and russia and syria on isis. he is a fascinating question. he thats hinned up to this moment to not impose the sanctions congress asked for. >> w...

In an internal review of an organization created and controlled facebook group called secure boarders, the account specialist was criticized for having a quote low number of posts dedicated to criticizing hillary clinton. specialist was told quote its imperative to intensify criticizing hillary clinton in future posts. how did the mueller team get that -- those direct quotes from an internal review about one of these russian created facebook groups? how did they get that? they quote from interna...

Members out. >> politics but also very strategic. they are taking this up for 2018 and 2020, they want to say we took care of all our perverts, we got rid of them. the republican still have a bunch of perverts and we are going to run a woman, harris out of california for president, michelle obama for president. they are setting up -- >> michelle obama for president. >> they are going to run a minority woman. you heard it here first. california senator harris or michelle obama and they are teamin...

News sites, you will find that all of those things are false. and casey, and yet, you have republicans that are still kowtowing to donald trump. how much longer does this last? how long do they kowtow? >> what donald trump said about tax reform tells me somebody is telling him behind is scenes this is not something that they can accomplish inside the first year which is telling and starting to be the way people are talking about this on capitol hill. i think for mitch mcconnell, he delivered the...

Actually keep the policy promises he made. so what hes doing is sloganeering, attacking obama care by promising americans still to have access to health care, and pre-existing conditions to be covered. and americans to not have -- not be 25 million americans without health care. how do you do that? the republican congress never came up with a plan to do that. the president cant do it either, so hes trying to force -- by playing chicken with the democrats, hes trying to force congress to solve a ...