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Proposal as part of a genuine negotiation being a starting point, but not as a kind of a unilateral offer thrown at democrats not part of a conversation. again, this is nowhere close to where the ending point would have to be, but you can imagine sitting around a table with democrats and republicans and the white house and maybe having this as the starting point for the beginning of a negotiation over the course of several days, but i think, as i say, democrats were -- i was a little surprised b...

Unilateral after there on at democrats. this is not close to where the ending point needs to be. you can imagine having this as a starting point for the beginning of a negotiation but i was a little surprised at how forcibly and quickly the democrats rejected it out of hand. >> nick, what is most likely the next move? moving forward, who goes next? >> the president has offered to solve pro problems he created and in return hes asking for something the majority of the country is against. i think ...

Knowledge his former campaign chairman paul manafort shared internal polling data with his russian associate before the 2016 election, a potential example of coordination between the campaign and the russians. >> you know that paul manafort was sharing polling data from your campaign with the russians? >> no, i didnt know anything about it. nothing about it. >> acting as the go between, it was ultimately intended for two powerful russian oligarches who owed manafort million. >> one of the oligar...

He said "you know, we didnt really make clear what our mission was in syria. we still havent made clear what our mission is in syria. it may be involving isis now, but isiss and 34 countries now." the beginning is so important. we dont think about what the ending point is sometimes. >> melissa: i disagree on kennedy on both points, whichever happens. i think he should have kept both generous. there are people he brought into the beauty that he thought he agreed with, and he realized over time th...

What i hear him saying is if the attorney general upholds the rule of law and if rod rosenstein and robert mueller uphold the rule of law, it will be up to us in the congress to obstruct this investigation from coming to an ending point. >> and jonathan, there is much more that was said that rachel and i played last night in that meeting. but being able to hear the way republicans talk in private is a very special opportunity, as these tapes demonstrate. >> yeah. this is a situation where things...

To the visa lottery system, some of the other stepped up internal enforcement measures that are part of this framework are completely unacceptable. they feel like its the kind of thing where the dreamers are being held for ransom here. look, its important to point out, this is not a bill. this is a framework. there is that bipartisan senate group that is working on coming up with a piece of legislation. theres thegroups in the houseworking on coming up with pieces of legislation that wont look a...

>> joining me now is david cornyn and elise jordan. david, theres so much here, but just at that ending point. the reference to establishing a company to avoid campaign reporting is a reference to evading federal election law, which could be a federal felony, even without any more collusion. >> yes. weve seen this over the last few years, a number of groups that used to be pacs, political action committees, form as corporations or form as charities to avoid this. and its become very complicated....

Of vietnam, and just that ending point that we wanted to lean in and hear, because you heard from sean spicer say that he was he has not made up his mind whether to stay in on the paris climate deal, and you heard the president saying that he has been hearing from people both ways, so that decision is looming. a and so now what will go down in history and not what it says, but what it revealed. shortly after midnight, the president said despite the constant press covfefe, and then after the whit...

The white house. what are you watching in that budget? there are many cults including medicaid that have been discussed. >> all i remember of a presidtial budgets is just that. it is what the administration is looking to send a signal. but the appropriating is done by congress. you saw in the last budget the work done which was largely different than what the white house put forward. when we get to the end of this year, were still going to have to come -- accommodate the white house interests in...

Comey released that last fall -- the concern is that the letter was released more about the internal politics of the fbi. he was more focused on protecting their -- might leak to press the idea they were sitting on information that could be instrumental in the election. as a result they put the politics of the fbi above kind of the impact on the election and the country. you dont need -- the question really isnt if were making decisions based on who we think its going to help or hurt, you can st...