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But distract so i think you're seeing republicans start to move away from him. i mean, look, one of the things that i don't think has been reported in great detail over the last couple of days is that these business councils disbanded, yes, because you had these ceos deciding that they couldn't support donald trump after the comments that he made, but they probably also made some kind of calculation that some of the things president trump has promised, like tax reform, like infrastructure, are not going to get done, and so why do they need to associate with the white house at all. >> paul sing...

Has had for some of the things that rod wheeler has said. on the other hand, rod wheeler strongly feels and has material strongly supporting the idea that he did not want to be saying publicly a lot of these things that were cut against what he knew he couldn't support. >> i want to play a little bit of rod wheeler when he was on sean hannity making the case about seth rich. take a listen. >> what did you discover in terms of the contacts with wikileaks? >> right. well that's an excellent question. let me clear that up right now exactly what it was that i found. now, i have never seen the e-ma...

>> i think rod wheeler decided to go along with this. he had to make a conscious decision in the beginning that he was comfortable with this fox figure, this clear trump supporter being the benefactor there. i do think rod wheeler did not fully accept or appears from his public statements to have not been fully comfortable with the conclusion of metropolitan police that it was clearly a botched armed robbery or the assertions by democrats and by the rich family that there's no links. on the other hand -- and you've seen that from some of the responses that the rich family has had for some of t...

So joining me right now, cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson, so boy, this is complicated, isn't it? how potentially damaging is this to the relationship between the u.s. and the uk? >> it is potentially damaging and there are two reasons. one is that it's a simple political reason. this reflects badly on teresa may who invested little capital. the first leader to come and visit donald trump at the white house, the united states and britain have a special relationship. she's traded on that politically a lot at home but this reflects badly on her and certainly, here in britain, pe...

Clearly the reaction to this bill has been very harsh and critical. there haven't been many clear opponents of it, proponents of it aside from leadership and the white house. with that said, you know, i'm sure you remember during 2009 and 2010 how many liberal democrats said they couldn't support anything that didn't have a public option or various other measures and things got done. so ultimately, it's going to come down to are republicans so dead set on doing something that doing nothing isn't an option and eventually that propels them to come to an agreement? >> we heard the president there...