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Admit that the majority of american voters may not know the rich history that both of these individuals know. so you have to look at a lot of people are probably going to be doing a lot of fact checking. >> but whether americans know it, the fact is that when a republican president -- i mean, you saw john dickerson there cite it, in the 1950s, republican, dwight eisenhower, democratically controlled congress, he was able to nominate and got in fact a great supreme court justice through. so what point is mitch mcconnell making here? >> well, i think mitch mcconnell is sticking to his guns. we j...

The position he's in of criticizing president trump and his so-called collusion with russia unless he did use classified information. >> but brennan isn't backing down, even threatening to take his concerns to court. >> i have been contacted by a number of lawyers. they have already given me their thoughts about the basis for a complaint, an injunction, to try to prevent him from doing this in the future. if my clearances and my reputation as i'm being pulled through the mud now, if that's the price we're going to pay to prevent donald trump from doing this against other people, to me it's a s...

In terms of president putin saying he, jokingly seemingly saying he knows a thing twor about what a dossier is and literally tossing a soccer ball to president trump saying the ball is in your court. all of that coupled with the president extending that invitation to president putin to come to washington in the fall would suggest that this is a president, which is an administration trying to forecast they are not going to be backing down, despite the onslaught of criticism from democrats and republicans. and, quite frankly, from having to tweak some of their comments and walk back some of thei...

Richard haass, says, predicting anything from this administration is exceedingly difficult. i think trade is even nor difficult because apart from the president's own peculiar yarts you have two warring factions within the administration, the globalist as he tries to dem katingly call them and the protestists. right now the protectionists are winning. there is enormous pressure from the hill including and especially from republicans on the hill, there is enormous pressure from the "wall street journal," normally positive about the administration, to dial this back. so far there's no sign of th...

Justice. he reminds me of the movies, the old world war ii movies, where you hear take the wheel. i don't see him as backing down, however, the flip side is, i don't see him trying to hit a home run with the bases loaded unless he's really got the goods, and i don't know if he's got the goods right now. >> wade in here, you're fbi veteran. how do you see the balance of this legal argument that the president's team is making versus the mandate that bob mueller has? >> yeah, who cares. that's my take on it. that memo is great. the president's lawyers can write that up. but i think ultimately, th...