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Way. all of the people in line outside of the airport walls urk would like to bring them in and shelter them and sort through them and who are you, some people are not going to be our friends. and if you go out with the taliban and say look you have to help us right now, we have people all over this country, you could help us get these americans and say what is it worth to you? we want our money released. we want this, we want that. so now you're in a diplomatic bargaining position with your opponents. the people you tried to kill for 20 years. so there are many different wrinkles of this bein...

It was on protecting voting rights. he was clear. he says we're facing the most significant test for democracy since the civil war. what we didn't hear is any mention of changing the filibuster. if democracy is on the line, how can the president avoid that? >> well, don, thanks for having me. as you know, you and i have had this conversation for well over a month where i talked about it being a most perilous point since the civil war, and i'm glad to see the president has come to that position, the real reality position of where we are. this is the way i see the president right now, and much o...

There really isn't any guiding principle that i was able to discern other than what's good for donald trump's re-election. >> reporter: you say that you were astonished by what you saw. president for whom getting re-elected was the only thing that mattered, even if it meant endangering or weakening the nation? >> well, i think he was so focused on the re-election that longer term considerations fell by the wayside. so, if he thought he could get a photo opportunity with kim jong-un at the demilitarized zone in korea, there was considerable emphasis on the photo opportunity and the press reacti...

Electing, reelecting this president. >> the president told us that the tax cuts on the d-ring shortcuts were going to lead to a jobs boom. a lot of naysayers not only among the democratic left but among wall street said no, that's wishing too much. companies are just going to do stock buybacks. the congressional budget office in january 2017 right after the president took office said we will probably have 2 million more jobs by now. in fact, we have 7 million jobs. 7 million new jobs created since the election in 2016. this is an enormous job growth and what it does is not only it's a good num...

Then and now, very different rules of the road for the upcoming trial. >> we're in new territory, we haven't had a whole lot of experience with trials of presidents to begin with but this is the first time we're looking at one where the house and senate aren't in control of either party. and what you see is nancy pelosi trying to use whatever leverage she has left before setting off this trial that will then be in the hands of mitch mcconnell, the republican leader. the last thing she seems to have at her disposal, that she feels she does, anyway, is whether to transmit these articles, trigger...