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Deja vu all over again. government shutdown. to be awarded when this time? >> i think so but youre right. huge is an understatement. this is the second-largest discretionary spending increase in the last decade. second only to the obama stimulus package. i dont think the american people elected republicans in 2016 to preside over a spending increase of this magnitude. while it is good thing for national defense, it spends a boatload of money on the rest of the government which is not with the pe...

The bottom of some other things as well. >> laura: firing, john brennan, i think, showed in his tweet this weekend just how much animosity has built up, like chuck schumer warned, against the president. samantha powers also has a response. not a good idea to piss off john brennan, that some lovely language coming from samantha powers. >> its an incredible understatement. go back to the transition. donald trump has been elected. intelligence chiefs are working on the reports about russian meddlin...

Hes an unmanageable client. and then the potential for some kind of debacle representing him is very high as well as when trump will lurch or the next time and do another blood letting and fire whoever he hires. its not the kind of problem even though its high profile that the average white-shoe lawyer in a big firm wants to have any part of. >> michael, let me ask you, if i can for a second here, we have heard private musings now from john dowd among others basically saying the president is a m...

>> it was agonizing. he didnt sleep. he was very distraught. this was a complete surprise. when john skipper woke up friday morning, he had been at disney for 27 years and president of espn for six years and he had no reason to believe that day was going to be unlike any other. howie: so skipper said he used poor judgment kind of an understatement. he kept repeating and you picked up on this, this had no impact on his job, he kept everything compartmentalized and he was careful. but what level o...

There is a new piece or detente between the chief of staff and the president. they had a clarity meeting thursday night and kelly is staying. plus, h.r. mcmaster is still the national security adviser. there was a big buzz friday morning he would be the next security administration officials to be shown the door. the west wing remains on edge, because the president is openly discussing his desire for more big changes. so where are we? the mood in the building is one of anxiety, and thats a great...

>> it was agonizing. he didnt sleep. he was very distraught. this was a complete surprise. when john skipper woke up friday morning, he had been at disney for 27 years and president of espn for six years and he had no reason to believe that day was going to be unlike any other. howie: so skipper said he used poor judgment kind of an understatement. he kept repeating and you picked up on this, this had no impact on his job, he kept everything compartmentalized and he was careful. but what level o...

The beginning. but we start with a restive weekend in the white house. that is an understatement. andrew mccabe fired hours short of his retirement, and he kept his receipts. reportedly handing over notes on the president to the special counsel. the special counsel subpoenaed the trump organization as the presidents lawyer wondered aloud whether isnt it time for the special counsel to be ended? and now the president is fuming on twitter. why does the mueller team have 13 hardened democrats, croo...

President. he quickly backtracked, no, no, im speaking for myself, not for the president. donald trump has done this before where hell have surrogates, his spokespeople, his advisors to float bold ideas to test them in the market place. i have no doubt that trump had something to do with that statement. >> i cant imagine he would put the statement out trump wasnt okay with it. >> its what trump believes. ive talked to a number of senior white house officials over the weekend who said the preside...

Say. how broad could the implications be here. if mccabes word, his bond as an fbi agent is now called into question. this is a guy involved in a lot of cases. he was involved in a lot of fisa warrants and involved in a lot of high profile investigations do. those now all come into question if his integrity has been badly damaged? >> yeah, i think thats a fair question and i think thats right. they will be subject to more scrutiny. whether one applies to the other, we have to wait and see. i thi...

Website that published the fake news dossier. now, to call this huge is a massive understatement. now, steele will likely be forced to try and verify the dossier that he and fusion gps and the fbi never verified, never corroborated. so, in other words, steele will under oath have to admit whether or not he knew the dossier was full of lies from his phony russian sources. but gave it to the fbi anyway. and according to that you book, steele told friends that it was kind of 50/50 about the most sa...