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Tell him something and tweeting about it without verifying it. and thats just a bad habit. i agree with alice to a point that re-enforcing the idea that you should get out was important. but he was sending mixed messages the whole time on a number of levels. for every text about getting out, he was sending a text saying, not a lot of people died in puerto rico. its a hoax. its a democratic -- so if im sitting in north carolina, im like, well, what am i supposed to believe that democrats are just...

Investigation. really, mr. vice president? just as new avenues of possible collusion are starting to emerge. that sounds like richard nixon saying a year of watergate is enough. and john mccain says gina haspels refusal to denounce torture is disqualifying. can mccain still have influence on a party thats drifted so far to the right? and can trump use his breakthrough on the international stage to get a fresh face on his presidency? size ph thats the question for the "hardball" roundtable to...

Inaccurate? when someones 95% right or 99% right, they call it inaccurate. what do you make of that? was avenatti talking about that difference of a couple percentage points rather than the heart of the thing which is russia money came into his bank account? >> well, you mean michael cohen. >> yeah. >> but i think thats exactly what he was referring to there. theyre talking about how its got all these inaccuracies in it, and the best they can point to is 25 grand. they havent pointed to a single...

Pillar of america first was getting us out of these conflicts, these never-ending cycle of war in the middle east. so that is where i think it really hurt him with his base, if we march into yet another armed conflict in the middle east. >> sure, i think its working in the short-term. theyre really banking and counting on all the theatrics of yesterday. but its two days in a row now. there are a lot of people who are concerned about getting out of the iran nuclear deal, but his supporters are ha...

Said to become clear what we were doing. cheney, unrepentant, i did the right thing, id do it again. mccain saying, this is not who we are as a people. right to the finish, 17 years later. >> what do you make of cheney while hes at it? i think i know the answer, because ive watched him for decades. is it just a killer instinct, he just destroy his opponents, whether domestic or foreign? they must be destroyed, killed? >> cheney is a guy -- cheney will go to his grave saying he did the right thin...

Political question. how does the american public, how do the congress feel about the fact that you may have had a president who committed potential crimes that are being investigated, versus a guy who has eliminated a grave threat to the united states in the form of a nuclear armed hostile power. i dont think you can predict how that will play out. but you cannot deny the accolades this president will get if he strikes a real deal with kim. but one last point, chris, they could walk away from th...

Documents related to the surveillance warrants of trump campaign associates a couple years ago and trying to find out more about what happened. the data behind it. and the fbi, the doj are wary of giving up too much information on that because they could put sources at risk. thats what ive reported this week with my colleagues. >> sounds like theyre focusing on getting rid of rosenstein. thank you, eddie and robert. up next, senator john mccain urges his colleagues now to reject trumps pick to...

An enemy, certainly not a military combatant foe, but it is a political foe. the worlds worst actors, whether its north korea, cuba, venezue venezuela, syria, iran, are all supported and protected to some degree by russia. >> are you skeptical of this u.n. security council resolution? or do you think theres potential there that it could work? >> oh, i think theres real potential that syria will eliminate their chemical weapons, catalog them. that i think is a positive outcome from this -- you kn...

From boston. we want to bring in tom fuentes from new york city. a former fbi assistant director and cnn law enforcement analyst. welcome, tom. >> good morning, carol. >> according to many sources, these two suspects, finished building their bombs quickly some of quickly they actually drove around boston trying to find a target. cased police department eed eee finally settled on the boston marathon. does this sound like a well organized plot? >> not really. but this is what dzhokhar told the fbi...