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Well, and how much that happens. when an advocate is arguing before the supreme court, how much he or she is targeting his argument toward a specific justice, and how thats likely to change in light of this. >> i think there were a lot of advocates who argued specifically to justice kennedy over the last couple of years. just like a few years ago, advocates would tend to address their arguments to justice oconnor and justice kennedy. but to some extent, thats just tea leaf reading. when you are ...

As we get ready to see these two leaders no matter what happens inside that room? >> a lot of it is a mystery even to senior officials because donald trump is entering that room himself for the first conversation with kim.oing to bf them and their translators and that fits with how donald trump views foreign affairs and diplomacy. its a man to man contest. he sees it as any kind of dealmaking, he wants to understand his opposite number in his briefings hes been asking for lots and lots of inform...

But the most interesting place to see the reaction is the presidents twitter feed. this has been a favorite topic of his and it is very likely that he will take whatever comes out of this and opine about it at the very least. >> it is his birthday the 14th. the president says he is expecting a gift too. well shall see. ill close with this, they admit it is tea leaf reading, not inside information, but people long familiar with robert mueller and how he works see a message in police latehis lates...

Bureaucrats who worked so hard to make the summit happen. this morning, all the american bureaucrats who worked hard. >> but is it a grenade? look at the markets. its not necessarily that the markets believe in the president. >> do we have the dow to put up? >> its like his rhetoric has become impotent in the beginning of this administration, if you were a ceo, you were panicked. you were panicked if the president said anything about your company, the industry. you would see your stock plummet o...

Knew about throughout the campaign. >> that he didnt fess up to initially. >> and that muellers team will want to talk to the president, presumably the next big news event here. how will that happen? when will it unfold? the president wants to do this over writing. prosecutors say mueller would never go for that. when and how that happens would obviously be of great interest and also a signal that this could be wrapping up as the presidents lawyer said. >> what do we know about that, david chali...

Hill. garret hake is live. give us the latest. i know weve seen democrats start filing out of their meeting. what have you heard? >> reporter: stephanie, democrats and republicans are leaving their meeting, and theyre going to the floor. heres what i can tell you definitively at this point. there will be a noon vote. republicans are saying this vote will happen. its a little bit of tea leaf reading. you dont generally bring big things like this to the floor unless you know the way its going to g...

Wall, but particularly lets take another look at that. the president talked about egypt. egypt is not one of the eight countries, as you know, that was included in the third version of the trump travel ban. it simply wasnt included. and we also dont know who was responsible for that deadly terror attack in egypt. nevertheless, jim, the president still using that to promote his own agenda in that tweet. >> no question that travel ban still working its way through the courts. jeff zeleny, thanks v...

Women voters and why so many women across the country rejected her because she had said previously that victims of things like this, they deserve to be hurt, they deserve to be, then her husband was out there is a top surrogate for her campaign. she takes five days after this to say something and says it instead of saying the route directly >> harris: there is so much tea leaf reading that we can go here so i dont want to go down that conjecture road. just logistically why you would let your pub...

I just say one last thing. the supreme court has a busy stockket, some really important cases. and i think at the end of the year, were all going to owe mitch mcconnell a huge thank you for getting neil gorsuch on there instead of merrick garland. >> that something, interesting, alicia, i think gorsuch, i think mcconnell is doing his best to get all of these nominees through. the democrats are throwing up every possible roadblock, taking every delay they can, but in the end, i have talked to rep...

Stockket, some really important cases. and i think at the end of the year, were all going to owe mitch mcconnell a huge thank you for getting neil gorsuch on there instead of merrick garland. >> that something, interesting, alicia, i think gorsuch, i think mcconnell is doing his best to get all of these nominees through. the democrats are throwing up every possible roadblock, taking every delay they can, but in the end, i have talked to republican senators, theyre saying everyone of these people...