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Resignation s? >> it must be significant. a guy like dan coates has to find himself in a difficult position. on the one hand you want to stay there to try to keep the course and to make sure your intelligence collection works and that whole system functions. but at some point you also become complicit in it. and i think really there is a time for people like coates and others to say, look, we cant abide by this any more. we really have to make a statement and leave. >> all right. thank you all v...

Jail. thats the essence of the rule of law. the presidents legal team i think has to be cringing seeing this basic failure by the president to grasp how our legal system functions which really colors then all of these comments he makes. there wasnt collusion. if there was its not illegal. this is a president who just doesnt understand how the law works. >> its glaring that michael flynn didnt come up in the interview and his legal team was thinking about participating michael flynn the former na...

Dictatorship and while the president can direct justice department policy he doesnt get to decide who goes to law. the presidents legal team i think has to be cringing tonight seeing this basic failure by the president to grasp how our legal system functions which really colors then all of the comments he makes. there wasnt collusion. if there was collusion its not illegal. this is a president who just doesnt understand how the law works. >> and, joyce, it is glaring that michael flynn did not c...

Its one of the reasons that hes president today. >> what is he alleging would happen behind closed doors with her? >> hes not alleging anything. hes talking about the way our system functions as it is, that politicians repeatedly beg for money, that itself not something new and that comment frankly isnt something new, if you look back at past comments this president has made, hes used that same terminology many times in reference to men. there is no way this is sexist at all. >> is jill brand ow...

Hes talking about the way that our system functions as it is. that politicians repeatedly beg for money, thats not something new, and that comments frankly isnt something new. if you look back at past comments this president has made hes used that same terminology many times in reference to men. there is no way that this is sexist at all. this is simply talking about a system that we have that is broken in which special interests control our government. and i dont think that there is probably ma...

Remember, in massachusetts, after they passed their bill, they had six more subsequent legislative revisions and they dont think theyre finished with it. so there are things that everyone agrees, and, again, here the funny thing is if you talk to a policymakers on the right, conservatives, they agree with me about 70% of the time about things that we ought to be doing to improve the american health care system. changing off the fee for service payment system, getting more competitive on governme...

Think it will, a huge number of people who didnt have insurance will have it and at a better price. i think thats the proof in the pudding. so i think its all dependent on how well this system functions. not all the screaming and yelling going on in washington. its going to be peoples experience and their neighbors experiences. >> this is really feeds into the presidents competence. thats really the question people have. is the president competent to do his job. and obama care is front and cente...

If you chose someone with mitt romneys net worth at random and looked at their tax returns, they would look crazy. you wouldnt be able to understand them. they would have all sort of bizarrely constituted corporations incorporated in the cayman islands. whats so remarkable to me about the story is the embarrassment here isnt personal. the embarrassment is about what this says about how the entire system functions. this is how the system functions. we no longer have the ability in this kouj tcoun...

Corporations incorporated in the cayman islands. whats so remarkable to me about the story is the embarrassment here isnt personal. the embarrassment is about what this says about how the entire system functions. this is how the system functions. we no longer have the ability in this country to really tax people at the top. thats the existential statement about the strength of the american state. can you actually tax the wealthiest people in your society? if you cant, like greece couldnt, we see...

That is not true. although it might seem logical to people who have never worked inside of the department, that the president is the head of the executive branch gets to control what employees do, what separates the united states from a banana republic, from a dictatorship and while the president can direct justice department policy he doesnt get to decide who goes to law. the presidents legal team i think has to be cringing tonight seeing this basic failure by the president to grasp how our leg...