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News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Several other top campaign officials, and with russians who had ties to the kremlin. On sunday, this tweet describing in the clearest terms yet what this meeting was about. This was a meeting, the president tweeted, to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics and it went nowhere. Adding lastly, i did not know about it. Now remember, when the New York Times was first breaking news of this meeting,...

Decouple joe manchin and kirstin sinema. on manchin, progressives and others on the other side of the table know what they want. they dont agree, but they at least know what they want. kirstin sinema is not negotiating with anyone. she is communicating her desires only with the white house and that makes it very difficult to legislate when the white house is trying to leave the process into the hands of the majority leader and the speaker of the house. yesterday there was a conference call where...

He did that. he found ways to empower people because he knew -- or at least had some sense of what those difficult walks could be like. in those difficult walks, particularly in this town, as all the folks a this table know, its hard to find friends. when jeff is breaking a story on you, it is hard to find a friend sometimes. you know, to come and give you a pat on the back and say, okay, it is just one story. when the fifth and sixth story comes, thats when you really need the friends. john mcc...

Changing. its the clients story that seems to be changing. the president does have this tenden tendency to try to get ahead of it. tweeted publicly, it seems less nefarious. of course, tweets are public statements that can be used in court. >> to that point, thats why im so curious about the president over this weekend, a, after seeing hope hicks and b, knowing more than any of us at the table know. thats why you get curious, what does the president know? what is he worried about when he does th...

An over abundance in that particular market. because of that we cant get those 2800 jobs back. those have been there. that group of people there -- >> where did it go. korea? >> theyre coming from korea. unless we use the power under 232, because if something goes south, now all of a sudden while were trying to become energy independent these plants dont turn up overnight and we have to work for a long term goal. >> the korean agreement and most of the people at this table know was done by the l...

Them to rest. second part of that john kelly lost his own son: the impact of losing your own family member, i have friends that have had somebody show up at that door. i was severely wounded. it could have possibly been me. its just -- you cannot exrensd it unless you have been there. can i see why john kelly was so stunned at representative wilsons comments. >> to your point, i have made calls to family members and notified them when they have lost loved ones. it is a sacred process. and for a ...

Welcome back. the president of the united states today defending his decision last night to fire the fbi director, james comey, and on capitol hill, republicans brushing aside democratic calls for a special prosecutor, or for a special congressional committee to investigate and take over the investigation of russia election meddling, including the question of whether associates of then candidate donald trump were in some sort of coordination or collusion with the kremlin back in 2016, when all t...

The rap six. >> i would love to see that! you guys have a big piece up right now. the man credited as the architect of president obamas re-election campaign is now being called the democratic partys version of karl rove. a guy a lot of people around this table know and have dealt with quite a bit. tell our viewers about jim messina. >> here is the fascinating part he is following. very similar to karl rove in that they are finding the power and the money in politics is outside the traditional ...

>> very true. >> all right. colonel jacobs, i want to thank you. before i let you go, i should let everybody here at the table know, we just learned according to a senior official in the senate, david petraeus will testify tomorrow. he will come on capitol hill. so there is your potential -- it may be offsite. it may not happen on capitol hill but he will testify at least in private with members of the intelligence committee. colonel jacobs, thank you much. the rest of the panel stick around. i ...

Mcauliffe might be the right fit. its people and the moment. if unemployment comes down, democrats will find themselves a little more advantaged. >> its a pretty simple formula for success forç democrats in e south. if theyre allowed to be moderate to conservative, theyre going to win. all of us around this table know, i come from a conservative district. theres still a lot of people in the south that all things being equal, would prefer to vote democratic. >> yes. >> and what happened this ye...