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You know, its just the cascading of these things that is making it very lard for hhar to get out. it would be good for the president to think about how much jet fuel he has added to turn this into a runaway rocket. theres so much instances in the last one that we though about is this strange conversation with the russians. kislyak, who was in the room, is a russian spy master at the center of this whole story. he was the guy who flynn was con sorting with according to some. trump is bragging to ...

How he fired this nut job comey to get the russian -- take the heat off of the russia investigation. unthinkable. the first rule of politics is if you want to get out of a hole, stop digging. the president has been digging furiously for some time here. >> admiral, as someone who worked in administrations, what do you do to turn the corner on something like this? as senator santorum and others say, this could be an opportunity. this special counsel could be an opportunity for the president to say...

Tweets so he says things that are appropriate to the moment. let me get back to the central question, what do they do now that theyre in here? one of the oldest adages in politics, of course, is when you are in a hole, stop digging. i think sending out those tweets is a form of still digging. theresy thi sis precedent for h deal with emergency or crisis like this. to go back to the republicans favored ronald reagan when he had the iran contra controversy. he was mired in it. there were impeachme...

Are in a hole, stop digging. i think sending out those tweets is a form of still digging. there is precedent for how to deal with emergency or crisis like this. to go back to the republicans favored ronald reagan when he had the iran contra controversy. he was mired in it. there were impeachment proceedings starting on capitol hill. it was very serious. what did reagan do? first of all, he ordered all of his aides to be willing to testify on capitol hill. he said were not going to invoke executi...

When you are in a hole, stop digging. the fact of the matter is thats not what the public wants. the public would be a lot more in favor of is something that president trump has suggested an openness to, which is taking a one off step to address prescription drug costs. there are democrats in congress that would work with the president on that. it would be an opportunity for him to put points on the board on the health care issue. it would be popular. he would be able to move on and pivot -- we ...

Could do in business or hes done as a candidate. you cant do that as president of the united states. we have the intelligence community. and i was happy to see, again, both democrats and republicans come out. you had fbi director comey who from the very first said this was a spurious claim, and, again, the white house, you know, when youre in a hole, stop digging. but this white house doesnt seem to get that message. >> were you at all surprised to hear how far the fbi director went, to confirm ...

President obama, we see the administration continue to kind of be in this hole and dig a deeper hole when theyve now had some of them attack our most loyal ally, great britain. and youve seen the amount of outrage that created in the uk. >> do you think they should apologize to great britain and president obama? >> i absolutely do. it is, i think this president needs to understand that words or tweets for that matter. they matter when youre president of the united states. you cant go about and m...

Infrastructure and getting money to build the wall. they cant waste time and cant waste effort and support on issues like this that seem to be questionable at best. >> shepard: yet on tucker carlson, he gave this story two more weeks of life at least. >> yeah. you know, he said not only that he stands by it, but he have information to give to one of the intelligence committees that is supposedly going to be new information that none of us know about. if that is not forthcoming, then thats only g...

White house have i seen a press secretary at the briefing be appointment viewing. in particular, he had a long list of where the president was getting information to come up with the claims about surveillance. listen. >> the new york times reported the following, sean hannity. andy mccarthy. >> he was trying to really show where the president got all of this information and show it was out there. people were reporting and writing about this. what does it say to you about the president of the uni...

You shouldnt be talking to me. talk to fox. >> okay. what hes saying is, this information was out in the public domain. we at the white house dont make a specific claim to its voracity. i think that was a point hammered home here today. it was a very interesting news conference nonetheless. >> shepard: the words came from sean spicer. we have not reported on that on this program or any fox news program. it was on the morning show, not fox news. to wrap things up, kevin, thanks to you. fox news k...