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Prosperity and values and strengthed by the solidarity of our alliances. he brings up russia and china talking about how these are two countries that want to pull the puppet strings. the united states, our role as leader of the free world is to stop that from happening. are we not doing that? >> well, the russia thing in particular was a reference to syria where the president's critics are saying that by withdrawing from syria the united states is leaving syria to russia and the iranians. but in general russia and china are our two biggest adversaries in the world. we're not at war with them b...

Saying top trump officials should resign. mike pompeo should resign. >> harris: why should they resign? >> howard: the idea is that if you don't like donald trump's national security policies, his handling of the mueller investigation or his handling of vladimir putin, you should resign as a matter of conscious. the idea is people that work for him are trying to push him in the government and a good direction. i think it's a cheap shot. >> harris: if you look at the polling, their supportive of the president. the polling numbers. >> elizabeth: even before the helsinki summit. >> harris: his ap...

Blaming -- the president keeps blaming china for the trade deficit, but the u.s. consumer and our command has as much to do with the deficit as the chinese government. >> of course. china is telling a lot of people we want to buy and improves the standard of living of ordinary americans. they can get inexpensive goods. it does and can harm individual american workers, but in the main, it's been beneficial to the united states. you know, larry kudlow in the clip from face the nation over the weekend said, while i may have gotten ahead of the curve, i think it's increasingly clear that there is ...

That the president did wrong when it was -- there was no coercion there in the way the stories were told. but it looked bad in terms of the likes. >> and don't forget the public relations part of this. jay sekulow and joe degenova very effective on television. they are the kinds of people, unlike john dowd, who will make the case for the president in the court of public opinion. and i think -- >> great point, yeah. >> the president wants somebody that's a little more go get 'em, take it to mueller. >> that's the point i was making in saying that president trump perhaps feels there needs to be ...

Bumping up against republican lawmakers who don't really like this bill and think this actually would be more damaging to the party long-term than to simply be able to point to a success on a long-term promise that they've made. they are doing this all against the backdrop of their relationship with president trump. and privately it is a relationship that is tense, that is weakening by the day, but publicly as long as republicans stand by him, i think that's all the white house needs to hear. >> i've got to say also, if you look at the health care process, we republicans attack barack obama fo...