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Piece of evidence where, you know, a year and a half in and at this point the fact that the president has shown no interest at getting to the bottom of russian efforts to influence his campaign, russian efforts to have an impact on the american vote, really speaks for itself. >> but, joyce, i guess what im asking is are we participating in something that were going to look back and deeply regret? because the tweets started, you know, im innocent of collusion and people around him said he could b...

Vote. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was president trump saying hed rather have the popular vote decide presidential elections instead of the electoral vote even though hillary clinton won the popular vote in 2016 by almost 3 million votes. well, earlier this month, connecticut voted to become the 12th state, including d.c., to join the national popular vote interstate compact, which would require state electors to vote for the candidate who wins the national popular vote instead of the sys...

Here. paul: yeah, mary, the threshold for me is has -- have the north koreans made a strategic effort to get rid of program, if they havent, theres nothing talk about. >> the president is having doubts about that which is why we got to this point this week but i will give him credit, he never changed, you know, everybody explained this as the extreme pressure and he said nothing in that category has changed even as theyve arranged this meeting. paul: u.s. pressure, sanctions? >> exactly. if i wa...

Vote. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was president trump saying he would rather have the popular vote decide presidential elections instead of the electoral vote even though hillary clinton won the popular vote in 2016 by almost 3 million votes. earlier this month, connecticut voted to become the 12th state including d.c. to join the national popular vote interstate cop packet which would require state electors to vote for the candidate who wins the national popular vote instead of the elec...

To meet with donald trump jr. the meeting was convened primarily to offer help to the trump team. what that help was, you know, its not fully -- is it about the campaign itself? was it a quid pro quo for the iran nuclear deal? there is a lot of speculation about the avenues where this could go. how likely would it have been that a meeting like this would have suddenly hit the radar of the intelligence community before the election? >> unclear. i actually think the fact that the intelligence comm...

They know bad things are coming. >> and thats what donald trump admitted to leslie stahl off-camera. im trying to trash the press so when you guys say bad things about me, nobody will believe it. >> raising the threshold for public outrage. so when the charges whatever they are come out, not only will the public not believe it, but members of congress, who dont want to act on it will have a pass. what is the ultimate solution here? it falls to congress to look at muellers recommendations and dec...

To infiltrate his campaign. but now its really the linchpin piece of evidence where, you know, a year and a half in and at this point the fact that the president has shown no interest at getting to the bottom of russian efforts to influence his campaign, russian efforts to have an impact on the american vote really speaks for itself. >> but, joyce, i guess what im asking is are we participating in something that were going to look back and deeply regret? because the tweets started, you know, im ...

These are animals. and we have to be very, very tough. >> so hes into this fight. trump did briefly touch on policy, though it was basically foreign aid fan fiction. >> were going to work out something where every time somebody comes in from a certain country were going to deduct a large amount of money from what we give them in aid, if we give them aid at all. >> house republicans divided about giving dreamers a path to citizenship, paul ryan asked to put aside differences. ryans call to unity ...

Republicans want to force a vote as early as june that could protect dreamers. those moderates would be about four signatures away from reaching a threshold to bring up the vote. conservative republicans said they dont want any vote even if its bipartisan for dreamers. the infight may have contributed to a loss last week. when the house freedom caucus defied paul ryan on a farm bill which touches on these issues as well. paul ryan also in the news tonight as i reported because he said this hour ...

And yesterday congress vote to roll back rules adopted in its wake. the house voting in favor of a bipartisan senate bill that eases rules on community banks. for example, bb&t and suntrust. republicans and moderate democrats say dodd-frank hurts the banks. regulations stifle lending, so the bill raises the threshold for federal oversight from $50 billion to $250 billion, leaving only the biggest, jpmorgan chase, wells fargo, bank of america, to face the toughest scrutiny like annual stress test...