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I think after it comes to pass the democrats take control of the house. that calculus will shift dramatically. >> eli, the part of this we may not see meaning the three of us is the rich folks who write checks and provide the financial underpinning to the republican party across the country. they might get wobbly and pull back. >> they might. or they might say we got tax reform. we got conservative justice. thats when mcconnell is going to say. thats what trump will try to say. >> immigration. >...

With him or apan don -- abandoning him? i think after it comes to pass the democrats take control of the house. that calculus will shift dramatically in the house and senate. >> eli, the part of this we may not see meaning the three of us is the rich folks who write checks and provide the financial underpinning to the republican party in races across the country, they might get wobbly and pull back. >> they might. or they might say we got tax reform. we got conservative justice. thats when mccon...

The upcoming elections. theres elections in latvia and sweden happening soon. what best practices are you seeing among our european allies? what tools do you think the state department can and should be using and how should we be doing as you put it everything we can to push back on likely election interference by russia to our vital allies as well as to our upcoming midterm elections? >> its a good question. we, the united states government, ill -- my previous organization, intelligence world, ...

Putin is down since 2015. the number of republicans who approve of vladimir putin has more than doubled. but hes winning his way towards transforming the foreign policy of the party to what it used to be in the 1930s, cause quasi isolationist. and whether the explanation is a conspiracy theory or the fact that he simply is in love with strong men or that hes always liked russian, at the end of the day thats less interesting than what thele result is for u.s. foreign policy. >> well its what i wr...

And the way we do that, the underpinning of what we are in america, the election, is the process by which we do that. so the idea that not only a foreign nation but an advanced hostile foreign nation would be inserting themselves clandestinely in that process to undermine the will of the united states is terrible. >> thank you. is that why you thought it was important to prioritize, i think it was in october of 2016, the russia investigation, and leave mr. weiners laptop to someone else, you ask...

As pruitt. >> pruitt is skeptical on climate change being due to us. >> hes not going to be as vocal about it. he said in his confirmation hearing to be deputy administrator of the administration. he has no intention of reviewing a 2009 scientific find thag confirms the mainstream climate science and the underpinning of the climate regulations. i anticipate that debate will fall to the background, even though he has similar skepticism as pruitt. >> we listed things secretary pruitt did or wanted...

Vladimir putin, concerns mount to the potential moves of those significant events. we bring in max booten. the president has been privately suggesting he wants the u.s. to lead the world trade organization. what would happen if the u.s. were to pull out? >> i think that would be international trade chaos, wolf, because the wto is really the underpinning of the entire global trade system, and it has been for decades going back to the days it was the general agreement on tariffs and trade. the goo...

Able to construct a legal architecture to buttress what he wanted dodd all the time. it would have been different if it was travel ban 1.0. >> versus 3.0. >> which was motivated by animus. they hadnt consulted anyone in the cabinet and justified it well. in the interim between then and september they went around and put together justifications from national security officials for this. but just because it was legally -- just because the court found it was legally justified doesnt mean the admini...

Due process rights of folks once theyre in the united states in american detention. they do have due process rights. thats decided by courts under our constitution, not by president trump. >> sarah sanders said earlier that just because you dont see a judge, that doesnt mean you are not receiving due process. do you buy that? >> i dont buy that. i frankly think this is where having an independent judiciary that defends the rule of law is an important underpinning of our constitutional order. pre...

Am speaking as the presidents lawyer and as the presidents lawyer i am authorized to make the following statements. i think that would be a better tact for him to follow and i suspect hell hear that from some of the other lawyers on the team, but, you know, rudy is rudy. you hire him, you hire the whole package and theres a lot of positives that you get as well. he gets a tremendous amount of media attention. and its not easy to get that kind of media attention and then just limit yourself to co...