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And its paid for by the clinton s and then also the dnc. you have the clinton campaign, the dnc paying for the dossier and the dossier goes to the fbi and the fbi repackages the dossier, classifies it and puts it forward for a five application. the five application comes through they start monitoring people in trump world and then they take down mike flynn. its a dangerous thing to weapon nize an agency of the united states government and its even more dangerous if it goes unaccounted for o this...

Sarah murray, billy bush will be on colbert tonight. he is clearly trying to use this moment for some rehab to get himself back in. what is this due to people you talked to in the white house. not only is the president bringing this up in private, you have the guy who was on the tape doing something. >> on the one hand, you understand where billy bush is coming from because he paid a steeper price and the president of the united states did for the comments on the tape. he lost his job and candid...

Exposed to sort of the big world, city ways or something. thats not actually true and i think the average viewer of "law & order" probably knows that youre not supposed to do this. this is not a complicated issue. when youre being investigated, youre not supposed to try to sway the people that are investigating you. i just dont think that its something that donald trump doesnt know. he knows it. he has to know it. and if for some reason he didnt know it in the beginning, surely he knows it by no...

The senate republican tax bill hits a snag. they have to win over deficit hawks who cant stomach adding that much to the nations debt. what is clear to a number of republicans is this, this tax plan is not going to pay for itself. it would not, therefore, reduce the deficit, as the trump administration promisepromised. on the other side, the president and the gop hoping for a win. the president repeatedly urged several senior senate republicans, including the chairman of the senate intel committ...

Youre not supposed to try to sway the people that are investigating you. i just dont think that its something that donald trump doesnt know. he knows it. he has to know it. and if for some reason he didnt know it in the beginning, surely he knows it by now. >> so cnn sara murray says that the president has been stewing, still annoyed with jeff sessions saying only reason that the white house has to do with the messy alabama race is because sessions took the job of attorney general, only to recus...

Investigation. he was stewing over the fact that he would assigned a major russia sanctions bill at a time he didnt have any other accomplishments, had to come down hard on moscow. and all of this time, more and more stories are leaking about the russia investigation, the mueller probe, questions about jared kushners involvement, don juniors involvement. the russia cloud over his head. so what happens, chris, he will call senators -- he works the phones quite a lot. we will call senators and sta...

Paying guests. that likely to have an effect after a prolonged visit there? are we likely to see what were seeing now? >> i think so. and my colleague ashley parker and i both talked to a number of am presidents advisers and friends today and you have to remember, look, he just spent a last week at mar-a-lago. this is sort of a free-for-all environment for him. hes at the clubhouse, at the golf course, at the dining room having dinner and club members and friends of his can come and go, can appr...

Presidents mind. and when hes down at mar-a-lago, has a tradition of sort of stewing over this stuff. he wanted to try to find ways to sort of regain control of the narrative, if you will, this week when he was back in washington. and so his advisers said, look, being at mar-a-lago for extended periods of time can sometimes lead him to be a bit more pugnacious on twitter. >> jonathan, to prove i do see everything you guys write and say, you guys have also written about the political act in the w...

Pointed out, and last night on the broadcast we described it as an echo terrarium of friends and paying guests. that likely to have an effect after a prolonged visit there? are we likely to see what were seeing now? >> i think so. and my colleague ashley parker and i both talked to a number of am presidents advisers and friends today and you have to remember, look, he just spent a last week at mar-a-lago. this is sort of a free-for-all environment for him. hes at the clubhouse, at the golf cours...

Korea? >> look, think he needs to look presidential. i think he needs to make sense. i think he needs to stick to script. weve seen when donald trump sticks to script, he can have presidential moments. i wonder if were not overthinking this. how about if the guy is just tired and jet lagged and not watching cable news and stewing about it hours and hours a day. >> i dont think thats the case. >> and tweeting, you know -- >> he is stewing. >> the president doesnt get jet lagged or tired, ill tell...