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Censure the president, a public admonishment but very public slap on the wrist. has this happened to presidents past? >> president jackson was censured in 1834 and there were discussions of censuring other presidents, including bill clinton as an alternative to impeachment. it would still be a very notable moment if congress went ahead with doing this but as you said, this is the weakest of all kinds of punishment. if they are willing to go along with the censure, in some ways it's a mechanism to give cover. this is an embarrassment to the president, for a president not really embarrassed but ...

>> that's what i want to get to, daniel. the reports are that several dozen of the protesters, several dozens of them, have been hauled away for reportedly chanting, quote, harsh slogans. if the u.s., if the white house is unhappy with how some of these protesters have been treated, is there any indication this will go beyond just a rhetorical admonishment of what they see? >> i think trump has his hands full with north korea, and so he doesn't want to get in a new middle eastern war. remember, he ran against the iraq war. he doesn't like the u.s. intervening abroad, but he has to walk a fine ...

Look at the statements put out by russia and the united states, the tone of the russian readout of this call certainly seems to be the admonishment of secretary of state rex tillerson. what do you make of the discrepancy in the readout and the tone coming out of the russia statement. >> first of all, the tone of the russia statement with regard to a phone call with the u.s. secretary of state i find pretty much unacceptable. but i think the problem is we have a secretary of state who seems to be on borrowed time, and frankly, no one is particularly afraid of them. so they do with him what they...

Begin a dialogue where the candidate continues to tell you i think something suspicious has happened. i have had contact or my staff had contact with foreign nationals. in my experience and the past with other candidates you see that contact end if it's happening when you provide that admonishment or that briefing. it goes toward the mind set of the candidate that they are not sharing with you anything that's already happened or that is happening in the future moving forward. >> we've heard from congressman, concerns there are efforts now to undermine not only mueller's credibility but during ...

The past. but again, it's coming from an attorney and it's incredibly disappointing. it takes a lot more for the state of california attorney to come forward. it's a subsequent betrayal and again, it's another unraveling and revealing of someone who's a hypocrite. >> tucker: why wouldn't the bar take action question mike you have a person who is lying and is caught. at one point, she said this of harvey weinstein. i was never aware there were allegations of sexual assault. of course she was.re she briefed the board. her job was to protect harvey weinstein against these allegations. that is not...