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Department of justice. jack sharman is with us tonight, a criminal defense attorney who served as special counsel to the house banking committee for the white water investigation. matt, because you were the won who soonest ago was a federal employee, i thought you would want the chance to speak up on their behalf. 755 people, some of them russian nationals, but a good many americans trying to rush back to get their kids in school, find a place to live because they've been uprooted from russia. our government said nothing about their hardship or this news until the president thanking vladamir p...

Character. i can tell you this, the people in the state department, the men and women of the state department don't feel they have the respect of their president. and he needs them, he needs them in north korea and russia. he ought to show more respect. >> rolf, i know you served in moscow, these 755 people whose positions were cut by putin, how important a role did they serve? the president says it doesn't matter if they come back, there's no reason to go back. is that true? >> no, it's not, anderson. what's shocking about the president's comments is it reflects or betrays a lack of understan...

But in the time when lives of millions of people in south korea, north korea, japan, guam, chinese, all depend on kim jong-un taking the president seriously and literally, is now the time for the president to be less than straightforward about everything he says. just to come full-circle about the sarcastic remarks about vladimir putin. the president vagued in again. and reopened the door that maybe he wasn't kidding after all. >> were you being sarcastic when you thanked vladimir putin for expelling 755 diplomats from russia? >> in order to reduce our payroll, absolutely. i think you know tha...

Which is very important. >> he carries himself like a general. i don't even know what that means. according to "the washington post," general kelly apparently could not control what trump would say next or how long he would keep talking. that was about the questions that trump took thursday. one anonymous trump confidant told the post, this is what general kelly will learn very quickly, which is when you put this guy in a cage and think you're controlling him, things like this happen. today the white house tried to do some damage control on another trump controversy, his statement thanking rus...

Expelling hundreds of u.s. embassy workers in retaliation for new u.s. sanctions because it cuts down our payroll. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said, quote, he was being sarcastic. but here is how her boss, the president, responded when asked about it today. >> were you being sarcastic when you thanked vladimir putin for expelling 755 diplomats from russia? >> in order to reduce our payroll, absolutely. i think you knew that. we'll see. in fact, i was just speaking to the secretary, and we're talking about coming up with an answer when, rex? tell me. >> by september 1st. ...