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Do that. you have the ukrainians who want help recovering what they believe are stolen assets, and also just general influence in the u.s.. and they think trump has that. rudy has that. and then you have rudy who is trying to make money kind of in between the middle of them. its just a very interesting, as i say, confluence of various competing and parallel interests. >> the words money and influence come up a whole lot in that last paragraph of yours right there, matt. just final bely, what doe...

Lutsenko. there are no details of the draft. maybe he will get a $200,000 consulting fee, $300,000 consulting fee. they contemplate involving some other allies of the president, lawyers here in town. joe degenova. it never comes to pass. it was contemplated rudy would do some work for this guy particularly with some asset kind of recovery mission he wanted. it seems clear the implication this guy was trying to buy some good will with a person close to the president. ultimately never comes to pas...

Capitol hill has ceded a lot of authority to the administration going back many years. >> then why would chuck grassley pipe in at all? >> because i think there are republicans who believe they need to speak out. what weve seen in this administration since the beginning of 2017 is congress speaks out and doesnt do much on the other end. lindsey graham, for example, is supportive of this after being against tariffs for a long time. its funny, i was on the phone with people from the white house la...

That makes great rock stars great rock stars. >> used to be chalk lines on the football field. theres a weird confluence of events, synergy, i dont know what it was. i spend most of the weekend when i was in the car listening to the tom petty channel on sirius xm radio. it reminded me once again that millions of artists that are out there. millions of rock and rollers and singers, tom petty, you listened to everything -- you listened to the whole song. you wouldnt change -- you just listened to ...

Makes her daughter thinks shes cool, but i dont know. i may have pushed it. >> its a weird confluence, valerie jarrett, rahm emmanuel and roger ailes all sitting together. >> it was not the washington correspondents one but the d-list one, tv and radio one. it was a crazy combo. i will say im amazed at how these washington people sit around and next to each other. >> what do you think his legacy -- ailes legacy is going to be? >> i think truthfully his legacy is going to be the way he treated wo...