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Money necessary to have that force. yes, absolutely i would be committed to article 5. >> reporter: jim acosta, cnn, the white house. you saw the president there be a little coy or maybe a lot when asked whether tapes of his conversations with james comey even exist. he offered a vague time line for releasing them if theres anything to release. in this case he said, very shortly. if that all sounds familiar, theres good reason, whether as a citizen or candidate or now as president, donald trum...

Investigations, were talking about a long span of time and a huge country with a lot of different moving parts. its hard to read directly into and it frankly it should not be read directly into. theyll talk to a lot of beam a lot of things and none of it necessarily means anything. >> this is your wheel house. the fact this is slowly moving out of the political realm into the judicial realm suggests that time lines may slow down. >> if the president thought he would make the russian thing go awa...

Of fear should be as high as that in england. teresa may made her statement -- >> all of the stepped up security in the united states is out of an abundance of caution? >> absolutely. and we should exercise an abundance of caution after incidents like this. in many circumstances you have people who do the copy cat attacks on the heightened publicity that the terrorist overseas has. teresa may is right, england may have a potential imminent threat. as we learned in belgium and france, when you pu...

Fbi. >> and judge michael garcia on the appeals court is another name. when the president says vetted over their lifetime, these are individuals who have a history of public service and the vetting at other levels in their career are part of what will make them perhaps easier to confirm in the senate, if they get to that point. so, the president is trying to make a decision soon he says. one of the, sort of time lines to consider, as he leaves for his first foreign trip at the end of the next we...

Right now. but i think the president has made it clear, as secretary tillerson said the other day, if the circumstances present themselves, we would be prepared to. but they are clearly not at this time. >> picking up on health care, it is believes you may be a handful of votes away. here we are at 2:00 on monday afternoon. is the closest that you think you have gotten b. i know you dont want to talk about time lines, but is this as close to the magic number that you have talked about? >> sure, ...

To attempt to get some democrats onboard. it would be hard for democrats to vote against that kind of funding. so those are types of issues i would be pushing if i were the president right now. >> you think thats still on the table given the back and forth theyve had now for three months and were starting with health care and talking about tax reform? can he still get through infrastructure with democrats help? >> sure we can. one of the challenges we had over the first few months is too much di...

Attacked the wall. he says first we dont need it. the flow of mexicans, have gone back home. in other words were losing mexico. theyre going back home, mr. trumps wall will only slow down their departure. 60% of americans opposed it in the quinnipiac poll, every single member of congress, republican, democrat alike whose district that wall would go through opposes it. and finally, hes got a higher priority, yeah, he said that on the campaign trail, but his higher priority which hes already outli...

Sensitivities, obviously, and the bureau will be looking at a whole host of evidence. we talked about the reported fisa the "washington post" talked about. i havent seen anybody from the government claim that thats actually occurred. something that that would mean the burrow eau is putting a lot resources into this and recognizes it as a significant event obviously. i dont think theyll be driven by false time lines. as joyce described, if some of the violations related to foreign registration, s...

Afghanistan and we diverted our attention to iraq. we really as a nation have the ability to prosecute what i would say two separate campaigns within a war and we simply were moving resources around and we lost sight of the ball. if you will allow me that expression. this is real, you know, general nicoleson is the longest serving commander in country. this is an issue that he has embraced that the united states must get its arms around. the afghan military has to increase its professionalism. a...

Financially. if we are guided by the well-being of american citizens, then i believe republicans and democrats can work together to achieve an outcome that has eluded our country for decades. >> yesterday he has these cosmopolitan reporters in and says oh, maybe well do something on immigration. at night, he gives an anti immigration speech. >> he mentioned repeal and replace obama care, tax reform. well need a lot of heavy lifting from republicans. the congressional leadership was over at the w...