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I don't think any rational person can look at what is going on. i don't just mean russia. i also mean trump undermining the eu and nato and others. there's no reason except for i think a bad one for the president to lean so clearly towards putin and then from someone from the home land security perspective, the elections in 2018 are literally a heartbeat away at this stage. the fact that the president cannot see the vulnerabilities as related by the secretary of home land security herself is, i think, is a dangerous zone we're entering. >> jim? >> i think the president in a tweet is con flatin...

Week was, but most trump supporters understand it. the president will say things that just are not necessarily consistent with what his administration is advocating and is going off script for someone that is unpredictable in that way. >> i think what most members of congress do is they look at the situation and say what the president is troubled with, is con flating this idea that his election is illegitimate -- >> i get all of that, so why blame the u.s.? >> i just don't think the president has done a very good job in his own mind. they are separating out the issue as to whether or not russi...

Used. the words should not have been aired. it was our mistake to. wanda, what is your reaction to this? >> i agree, the comments were shocking and offensive and inappropriate. they shouldn't have been said. it comes at a moment where we are having comments about the comments roseanne barr made about valley jarrett, a former obama adviser. do not put the two together. what roseanne barr said about valerie jarrett was racist. what was said about ivanka trump was hateful. there's space between the two. we are talking two different things here. neither one of them should have been said, they are ...

Now it's in cleanup mode. sometimes when you clean up you don't have a lot of good options. >> melissa: that would be the best option at this point, do you think, just totally shut up and move on? >> i think there's two separate things of the congressman before, i think, is con flated. the cohen investigation is separate from the mueller investigation. cohen is southern district of new york, it's run out of that office. the white house approach to that should be, look, we're not indicted, we're not involved, michael cohen was doing things. sure there may have been payments but we did everythin...

We have yet to reach an agreement on the path forward that would be acceptable to both sides. >> still after the announcement, john cornyn, the second highest ranking republican, telling reporters he was optimistic about the vote. >> let's bring in garrett and jeff. now a little vision on what might happen, who might jump on the democratic side to support this idea coming from mitch mcconnell? >> reporter: just the more i listen to the mitch mcconnell sound bite, the more i think republicans think they have a chance to win this here without giving up that much. they say the outline of the agre...