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Aggressive one. kasowitz is aggressive, a street fighter, someone who represented the president in lawsuits before. there may be a larger shift by the president here. hes changed his tone publicly about the special counsel for the first time in a tweet over the weekend. in many ways, this is the latest drama around the president, just on the legal side. >> call me naive, yes, they may have cooperated with robber mue -- mueller, giving the documents over, but because they give the documents over ...

Doing that, good for him. >> april, just a quick answer, if you will. i want your take on stephen miller one the presidents advisers being thrown into the role of communications director. hes being considered. how will that impact this white house relationship with the press? >> did you see that last press briefing? >> thats why im asking because you had a contentious back and forth with him and we saw that happen with our jim acosta. >> well, you know, mine, it wasnt contentious. i just wanted ...

Morning. you could see another high this morning, no question. but thats the landscape youre facing. >> christine, thank you. ahead on "starting point" this morning, not your usual dinner date. president obama and 12 gop senators break bread. the bigger question of course is did they make any progress? senator dan coats will join us to talk about that. and dechbfinitely not a sig you want to see if youre swimming in that water. a migration of sharks. well explain whats happening there. zñç...

Express exactly my deep concerns about how we fix this fiscal mess. >> if youre talking debt and deficit, fiscal mess, that sounds like it could be a very uncomfortable kind of dinner. how would you describe the back and forth with the president? was he accepting of some of the proposals? was it that specific? i mean did it get contentious? >> it did not get contentious but it was serious. and we had, i think, a very adult discussion. instead of being on the campaign trail, the president trying ...

Yeah, lets do lunch. >> im trying to figure out if we ever had lunch. >> trust me, if were having lunch its because i dont want to have dinner with you. wait, let me get to an update on the top stories. >> that winter storm were talking about, that monster storm thats dumped heavy wet snow and created serious problems on the roads and in the air is still hovering over the east coast and may stay here a while. theres a state of emergency declared in virginia where some parts saw 20 inches of snow...

Democrat is the ranking minority member on that committee. this is a bipartisan meal offensive that the president seems to be on. last night president obama taking a group of about 12 republican senators to dinner at a fancy washington restaurant. he picked up the tab. the president getting generally good reviews for reaching out to rank and file republicans. one of the dinner guests there, john hoeven said the table talk was candid. >> very positive, encouraging, candid. focused on how do we co...

It was a dinner date with republicans, and president obama picked up the tab. blocks from the white house at the swanky jefferson hotel, food and fiscal challenges, and an effort to find compromise less than a week after across-the-board cuts kicked in. >> how did the meeting go? >> just fine. >> reporter: 12 republican senators invited by the president broke bread for more than two hours. >> what was the tone in there like? >> very positive. encouraging, candid. focused on how do we come togeth...

Dinner was fairly friendly. i want to play what he said. looks like i dont have that, my apologies but he did say it wasnt contentious, i was kind of sort of joking with him it could have potential considering how nasty some of these discussions have gotten, it had the potential to be contentious and unpleasant and he said no it was very civil but of course as you point out, its the first step so whats the second step? what makes this go beyond a really nice, friendly dinner? >> the second step ...

Progress. the senator said ive been talking to him from the senate floor and that doesnt seem to be effective. so is it better that you have these sort of small dinners or should congress actually work in congress where they belong? >> i think that this is exactly the way washington should work. you know, this is the way it used to work in the old days. i mean -- the old days like even 20 years ago. no, no, no. i mean even when president clinton would do this. president clinton would have member...

At jpmorgan, $1.7 trillion, record amounts of cash, banks are not hiring as much but giving the money back to shareholders and making profits and keeping their cash and stocks at a fair value. you dont see stocks when you look at the price of the stock to the earnings of the company theyre not necessarily overvalued so the bulls are saying thats why stocks keep going up. here is the case against stocks quickly, europe is in a recession, washington is in the throes of debt drama, strapped america...