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>> thanks for having me on. >> let me start very quickly with what youre seeing in the white house. do you have faith in john kelly as chief of staff right now this morning, sir? >> i think the white house said they could have handled the situation better. thats a bit of an understatement, yes. they could have done a lot better particularly with the rob porter situation. >> it seems -- do you worry that this is a pattern here, that it seems as if, particularly with the president, that, number on...

Policy. and i will reiterate that this is a terrible bill substantively and symbolically for the united states of america. it rushes us in the direction of bankruptcy on a string of trillion dollars a year deficit that goes down until we become insolvent. symbolically its telling the american people that not only can you counted on democrats to spend on money we dont have, but by golly, you have republicans who want to outbid them on ow how badly we can perform. i think thats a horrible symbolic...

Democratic side and the house is still very much in play. nancy pelosi and company will have to come up with an agenda for 2018.the kansas run on donald trump is a bad guy we want to get rid of him. >>chris: let me ask you about that. if on the one hand you have the anti-trump ferber. substantive disagreements on things like emigration and healthcare. on the other hand, if people feel better off in their pocketbooks. how do you assess those two? >> usually the economy is the most important thing...

Substantively, the two sides are not that far apart. when chuck schumer walked out of the white house a few weeks ago, he thought he had a deal. he offered a path to citizenship. is trump willing to take the heat as he said from his base making a deal with the democrats and are the democrats willing to have the issue in 2018 or protect the dreamers and move on to other issues? >>chris: they may not be so far apart on the issues but they are rhetorically. if you want a sense of how far apart they...

>> shannon: this is a fox news alert. a lot of late breaking developments on the memo at the house intelligence committee. republicans are responding to the democrats claim a little over an hour ago that they did not get the chance to review the latest memo sent to the white house, that it was tweaked and substantively change before it went to the white house. weve been talking about the memo reportedly involving surveillance of the term campaign. heres what we are hearing. "the committee minori...

>> shannon: this is a fox news alert. a lot of late breaking developments on the memo at the house intelligence committee. republicans are responding to the democrats claim a little over an hour ago that they did not get the chance to review the latest memo sent to the white house, that it was tweaked and substantively change before it went to the white house. weve been talking about the memo reportedly involving surveillance of the term campaign. heres what we are hearing. "the committee minori...

Joining our conversation is bill crystal, founder and editor of the weekly standard. what do you make of all of it, of the loyalty test, of chris wray making the case that if you release the memo, its extraordinarily reckless, they have grave concerns, and the white house full steam ahead? >> i think chris wray made his case and i think people in the fbi are grateful that he did. i kind of doubt hell resign. i have no knowledge on this, no reporting, but i just feel like he will think to himself...

Law enforcement and prosecution and with the fbi so hes certainly capable of participating substantively. but i think the bulk of the questioning will be handled by his top lieutenants. but i dont think this would prohibit him at all from asking questions. >> greg craig, if you were representing this president, in anticipation of some kind of an exchange with mueller or muellers staff, whats on your agenda right now? what are you looking for? what do you want this process to look like? >> well, ...

Theres only one person in the courtroom who is not to be an advocate for either side. one person who is cloaked in neutrality and that is the judge. and for the judge to make herself an advocate for the victims in the midst of a sentencing hearing is inappropriate. and calls into question our entire justice system. it poses a threat to the fairness of our institutions. >> do you take issue with the way in which she conducted this sentencing process in addition to the comments that we have just p...

The budget director, he said yes, authorize but not appropriate. that means the actual money. >> the wall has been authorized since 2006 when they came together and said well build the wall. they just never put the money up and democrats see it as colossal waste of money. >> not just democrats. >> and it is something thats taking away from their core priorities. so it is a symbolic thing, as you pointed out, to say youll authorize it or support the wall. it gives trump a rallying call. it could ...