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The first is that, you know, the other day i was speaking to a white house official actually well before this report came out about why it is that this president seems so willing to instruct aides, because he has done it before on other projects to do what needs to be done regardless of whether it's legal. and this person told me, you know, donald trump is a businessman. he ran his companies by just knowing you get sued over things. and it's another example -- take jared kushner's office of americanization or whatever they're calling it these days, that being a businessman, an outsider doesn't...

Differently because he's an outsider. in my experience, working in government, political leaders are indiscreet with each others and people they shouldn't be revealing things to all the time. you should hear the way diplomats and civil servants talk about their political principles. they literally talk about going around with a poop scoop to clean up the messes they make. this is normal. it happens. they are human beings. because it is president trump and because he's an outsider, the system, to use lindsey graham's term, is rejecting him. ethic we've got to get back some sense of proportion o...

It is still intimidation but why didn't he tell the ranking member of that committee mark warner? >> bret: or mccabe or rosenstein. >> everyone should have been informed of this. that's a very good question. talking about what's happened to republicans in the last seven days, i spoke with him until thursday. he went on national television. he did the tweet about the tapes the next morning. they spoke to me today. crickets. i couldn't get them to talk to me about the leaking in the oval office of the highly sensitive information to the russians. this is too much to take at this point. you will ...

Has a history of threatening to resign. he did not in this case. >> bret: why i asked for congressman -- >> it's an apt point. lastly, president trump is mistaken if he thinks he can go on that foreign trip, his first foreign trip, a very important one, to saudi arabia, israel, the vatican, and not be asked about this when he wants to focus on grander issues. if you just send out sean spicer or sarah huckabee sanders or other people to do his talking for him over the next couple of days, he has a chance to address this had on himself and we have already seen that history tells us that in many ...

Those moments for you. >> let's go back further than that. we could go, james comey was fired and the president got very upset about the fact that his communications shop didn't seem to have an instantaneous plan in place. we were left to run around and collect as much information as we got at that point. last night, we had h.r. mcmaster, the national security advisor, come out about two hours after the news broke about the russian story. tonight we have a background statement from the white house. apparently they are now, at least the medications staff, in a meeting with the white house corre...