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Against, i.e., the war in iraq. >> are you referring to john bolton when you say welcoming back into the administration? >> yeah, bolton's just one of them. bolton, by the way, was intimately involved in the vetting of my wife's identity to the community. >> do you think there is more at play here? i think that's certainly one take. i was talking to somebody who said another take is that this is a man who was convicted of lying by a special counsel. that special counsel was appointed by james comey. the president is facing his own special counsel. his advicers are being interviewed by the spec...

Felt jammed. shouch strain have these deliberations put on donald trump and the relationship he has with his advicers. >> they created a lot of strain, and the way the deal worked it had to be recertified every 90 days that wasn't an issue they had to broach with him just one, but every three months. and that was a problem, as soon as they got him to agree, it felt like it was popping up again and that's why they realize the final time, they couldn't present him with a binary choice to recertify or not and that's when they came up with this creative solution to he may not recertify it but kick...

Can't stay down there forever, but is that the message you want to send to americans? again, americans in a u.s. territory, about how the federal government cares? >> it's quite extraordinary, america is supposed to be the place where we take care of american citizens. in fact, some people argue we take too much time worrying about the raes of the world and we need to take care of ourselves. >> is this the president saying this is the rest of the world. >> i think the president is trying to get give a sense that puerto ricans are not americans, when, in fact, they are americans and how we take...

Really explain that. i understand that some advicers have been frustrated by that style that president trump has used but that really is his style. whether or not it's strategic or trying to upset the international community or perhaps kim jong-un that's -- it's just hard to answer that but it will -- it certainly keeps people guessing and it raises the possibility of military action which president trump even when he's not being cagey like that has been pretty clear on the table. >> yeah. i want to look at poll numbers with you. new numbers here show that 23% would describe the president as h...

The bill. and just the cbo has played this role before. if you go back and look at the history of major health care reforms, the nonpartisan analysis is everything. you know, lyndon johnson didn't have a cbo. he basically just made up all the numbers and the estimates and that's one of the reasons it was a lot easier to pass medicare back in the '60s. in the '70s they changed the budgeting rules. they added the cbo as this nonpartisan institution and it has bedeviled presidents ever since. quick story, fred, in the obamacare debate, i remember one of obama's senior advicers telling me that bar...