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Why shouldn't new jersey's governor enjoy new jersey's beaches all by himself? it looks like he's having a whale of a time. i don't understand why, what's the fuss, ruth? >> i'm not even going to point out that you said whale. >> all right, he says, now in the meantime after he said if you want -- i'm not going to touch that. if you're governor you can have a beach house. his spokesperson's response, ruth, and this is a little bit of jersey chutzpah, was to say he wasn't sunbathing because he has a baseball cap on. >> okay, it's really good to wear sun protection when you're on the beach in ne...

The president has been criticizing the russians investigation for weeks for it has been making it known that he is not happy with it. it's a lob off the head of the fbi director after that long of criticism creates a real appearance problem, and appearance matters in a political system. the white house is making it very, very difficult for republicans in congress. >> martha: what about the suggestion in the president's letter that jim, he had told him on three occasions that he was not under investigation? >> it was sort of an odd thing that was parachuted in there. it seemed a bit forced. i w...

The time he was advising and getting paid and working for somebody else. he was hiding. >> that would have been fatal. >> to whom? >> the ability or appointment to have assumed the national security adviser post. what flynn would say is, hey, listen, i have severed my relationship with this client before i was appointed. >> why not tell everybody he is working for a foreign government. isn't this draining the swamp and getting paid for play? it's third world crap. you don't have people paid by governments or working for us. he's on the payroll. >> yeah, well, no. i think it gives -- >> 430,000...

He was working for a foreign government. isn't the whole thing with draining the swamp and we don't have people getting paid by other interests. that's third world crap. you don't have people being paid by other governments working for us or working for a presidential candidate. he's on the payroll. >> i think it definitely gives -- >> $430,000 is a lot of money to be getting paid and not tell anyone you noticed it. did you notice that. i think you knew it. >> yes. i think there was a definite appearance problem. that probably contributed a lot. >> i would call it a reality problem. >>. you're...

>> it's everything. >> dana: if you find out wait, there was one more meeting, even if it's totally innocent, then it becomes an appearance problem. >> look at these news organizations that have doubled or tripled the amount of correspondents covering this president. there is more hunger for coverage. fine. this president embraces that kind of coverage. he loves the attention. he loves mixing it up. think back to that news conference a week or two ago. however, given the hunger, you're going to get what the facts are. >> dana: i remember right before 2009, we couldn't get anyone to cover that ...