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Know, throw hay makers weapon, left and right, and loved it. and then the election. and it looks worse, and it looks worse. and now hes got to sit in the white house and wonder, you know, what is paul manafort telling mueller? what is michael cohen telling mueller? and so its kind of a very steep path downward. >> yeah, i think its like hes eating sugary cereal and do you agree with eugene that probably the prudent move for mueller would be to drop that right at the very end? >> very much. excep...

Psychological journey the president was on. he was doing these rallies, two and three a day, his favorite thing to do, the adulation of the crowds. you know, he got to just, you know, throw hay makers weapon, right, and loved and then the election and it looks worst and looks worst. and now hes got to sit in the white house and wonder, you know, what is paul manafort telling mueller? what is michael cohen telling mueller? and so its kind of a very steep path downward. >> yeah, i think its like e...

And just imagine the sort of psychological journey the president was on. he was doing these rallies, two and three a day, his favorite thing to do, the adulation of the crowds. you know, he got to just, you know, throw hay makers weapon, right, and loved and then the election and it looks worst and looks worst. and now hes got to sit in the white house and wonder, you know, what is paul manafort telling mueller? what is michael cohen telling mueller? and so its kind of a very steep path downward...

You rapid-fire answers, i mean the hardest thing is to get him to stop to slow down talking. >> thats true. >> because he never -- we always ask him a question and he goes three things hes always got three things instead of one. >> eight things. >> which is fine. but the question is you know, because he is so smart and he does have a decent record why is he not catching on? >> because hes not talking about it. hes not playing to his strengths. look heres what happened with bobby jindal he came o...

Decisions this term were liberal decisions and i think most telling of all the 5-4 decisions justice kennedy voted with the conservatives only about 20% of the time whereas he voted with the liberals almost half the time. also tellingly justice roberts went over and voted with the liberals on some key cases including the williams eulie case on florida judicial elections. so conserveativeconservative no. >> what kind of a court is it then is it a court basically that whatever john roberts and ant...

Time now for our hits and misses of the week. dan? >> well paul i was in charleston south carolina this past weekend, the site of the racial killings and i went over to the church on saturday and sunday to watch the funerals. and i have to say the air of peace that one felt so unlike ferguson or new york or baltimore was striking. and you have to ask yourself why. i think it has a lot to do with people i talked to the habits of religion and practice of religion that you find among the black pari...

Republican voters going to be open to somebody who says i want to raise the retirement age a couple more years and im willing to means test benefits -- entitlement benefits based on income is that going to play? >> look i think that this election this primary, thats going to be more of a possibility that republicans are open to that than ever before. they want a debate on reform and forward-looking policies so theyre going to be open to it. the bigger question for christie is are they going to b...

Chris christie going to be? >> hes got a very steep path to climb here paul hes not got much by way of approval ratings, a lot of voters view him with skepticism hes running as smart a campaign as he can run. >> really? >> he knows hes going to be running against a lot of other governors who come from conservative states theyre going to be able to say that they accomplished a lot more than he did in new jersey which is a tougher place to be so instead of talking about his record hes going to do ...