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Wants to do is take off the market a drug called opana. its a synthetic opioid that has a high risk for abuse. a lot of people crush it and inject it. >> shepard: and president trump brushing inside the infighting among republicans. the president tweeted today, do not underestimate the unity within the republican party. that tweet came after "the washington post" reported a super pact tied to the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, plans to take on steve bannon. part of a push to help more ...

Is beyond my knowledge. >> she may have known. in other words, she knew. she kept it secret a year. brad is here with us. thanks for coming. >> how are you doing? >> im baffled as always. living here in washington. she not only kept this from herself, but it was not disclosed publicly. so here you have a campaign paying a foreign national some of the money probably going to who knows where but other foreign nationals, maybe a foreign government and not disclosing it publicly. i dont think its le...

Talked about donald trump as though he were a normal republican. steve bannon, on the other hand, was not that. really not. despite their very distinct differences, both of them came from the same place. both had made a very good living off of one reclusive conservative hedge fund billionaire. before becoming donald trumps manager, kellyanne conway ran a super pact. a super pact that supported ted cruz in the republican presidential primary. that pact was almost entirely funded by new york city ...

Send them all a message. >> at the same time allies of president trump, theyre stepping up to take on senators who have been critical or waivered in their support for the white house. political reporting that robert mercer, a reclusive hedge fund billionaire who helped bank roll trumps 2016 campaign and pushed him to hire steve bannon is contributing $300,000 to a super pact supporting republican senator jeff flakes primary op independent. flake, who did not endorse trump in 2016, recently publi...

Reporters have laid out this case. but i think its very plausible. but i think the vice president took it a little bit too far, if you will, in protesting. but i understand why he did. in my discussions with people close to the vice president, what they have said, is that given the fact that the president really is not of the republican party despite the fact that he was nominated and elected as a republican president, what theyve started to do is lay out an architecture for raising money, and s...

>> well, if i were in the white house right now, i would simply say less is more, and, you know, the president has a good lawyer in don mcgann. he has his outside counsel and former director mueller who is the special counsel. he is a reputable man. now its in his hands. theres really not much to say until robert mueller completes his work. if i were the white house, i would get on with the business of the day. this was supposed to be infrastructure week, and until a few minutes ago we didnt hea...

And everything theyre trying to do in the new trump administration and to get it organized quickly. >> any names of who is involved? >> we have a couple of staffers both from hillary clintons communications shop and her campaign and from correct the record, hillary clintons super pact have joined as well as some people from the dnc, a lot of democratic strategists that have experience with opposition research and have experience with trying to create a media narrative against someone. obviously ...

Trail, thank you. lets get more on ted cruz keeping the gloves on when it comes to donald trump but not for his next closest rival senator marco rubio while cruz focused again on iowa, super pact supporting him is focussing in on the junior senator from florida. part of the campaign coverage on that part of the story tonight. the battle between these two clearly heating up. >> reporter: thats right, wolf. it is and senator ted cruz today suggesting that hes being targeted so much by his rivals b...

>> it doesnt look good. this latest move to cancel ad buys in iowa and a little by in new hampshire to move his staff from miami to the early states and mostly new hampshire, it shows a campaign that is on life support and the problem for jeb bush is no matter how much money he spent, no matter how many resources and he himself has been there, it hasnt made a difference and in many cases has gone done in the polls and sara is right, it comes down to the candidate himself. >> his super pact has a...

Bush is a guy so far the resent numbers you head up. 80% of the political adds youve seen on television so far have come from the super pacts. many of those candidates supported by super pacts as we point out doing not so well in the polls. jeb bush, for example, since were using him, he has the biggest super pact and spent almost $26 million airing 15,000 adds. hes still polling in the single digits. the other piece, scott walker and rick perry. they both had millions of dollars. neither man wa...