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Dont stop now, its easy to add to the routine. join energy upgrade california and do your thing. t a statement earlier today putting the news into some much needed context. quote, the latest attacks on the fbi and department of justice serve no american interests -- no partys, no presidents, only putins. the american people deserve to know all the facts surrounding russias ongoing efforts to subvert our democracy, which is why special counsel muellers investigation must proceed unimpeded. our na...

Warped lens of politics and manufacturing partisan side shows. if we continue to undermine our own rule of law, we are doing putins job for him. and nick, john mccain is sort of saying, look this is black and white to him. this is using intelligence for partisan purposes. but he does seem to be alone or not -- he doesnt have a lot of friends in the republican party on this position. >> quite surprising. he is 100% right. this is a job that is being done for putin. it really -- ironically confirm...

I dont think you can -- >> all we loss was, we got lost, all the presidents great accomplishments. closing the border by staging the immigration laws. the most successful stock market weve had in history. nobody talks about this, because were getting into these side shows, a lot of it comes out of the breitbart agenda. steve is an isolationist, hes a slow back on a lot of issues, where the president needs to go forward in a bipartisan approach if he wants to bring those approval numbers up in th...

Hugely when they can least afford to have that happen. >> mark, you wrote the book quite literally about that town. can you put sort of the size and scope of this scandal in washington terms and talk about the side shows. i have no reason to believe that jeff sessions has any desire to return to the senate but ive heard from sources, as im sure plenty folks at your paper have reported that donald trump remain remains majorly peeved at jeff sessions for recusing himself from the russia investigat...

And how much he talked about tax reform. senator corker said it barely came up. is he accurate? >> well, it came up in the context of a lot of things that the president is interested in in terms of his agenda. he talked about the opioid crisis and what he wants to do combat that. a little bit about healthcare and judges. it was a wide ranging discussion. clearly the presidents emphasis now and i think has been ever since he took office is doing things -- putting policies in place that will grow ...

Created $5.42 trillion since taking office preyed on tax cuts, thats where he continues to make news. trying to summarize the overall plan on the table right now with jobs, jobs, jobs. he said if we get this done, which he said i think we will, itll bring $4 trillion back into this country. itll be quick and easy. we went the president making news as hes making news because he is getting ready to go into that luncheon with senators and dont you wonder what those lawmakers on the hill are going t...

>> you seem to have conversations privately. what sort of things do you say to each other and what sort of things really concern you? >> well, for me, i guess its not just the -- its just the insults and the mocking statements that bother me quite a bit. through the campaign, we went through the whole issue with john mccain. mexicans being rapists. the kahn family. the discussions about miss universe about her weight. we got into decisions that arent important. we are asked to respond and becaus...

President fires jeff sessions. what does it mean for the trump agenda? how do they turn the page and show moment sum? >> lets stop -- momentum? >> lets talk about how brilliant the white house is from distracting from health care with side shows. this hurts. republicans on the hill, members of the senate are looking at the white house and thinking to themselves, this whole ship is going down. if obamacare repeal doesnt work out, im in deep troubleme. i saw what happened to the democrats. they th...

Were going to stop going off on side shows, asking about susan rice and unmasking or stop asking about what loretta lynch did in the middle of the campaign and support real investigations to get to the bottom of that. it is the right thing to do. you have to think it is the politically smart thing to do. every day we see a new shoe that drops in the investigation. and it seems we are nowhere near seeing the final shoe. >> matt miller and, of course, rick stengel and bob bower, thank you for join...

The side shows are really not helpful. >> i love it. sweet home allentown. thank you very much. coming up, a meltdown in the trump camp. catch this. secretary of state rex tillerson explodes at a white house meaning for undermining. and they say the people around him are screwing him. a far cry from that love feast a few weeks ago. with all the people bowing to the president. apparently all is not well in paradise. how much of a distraction is this for the party? and trumps travel ban goes into ...