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Call 811. keep yourself safe. welcome back to "hardball" president trump is getting serious criticism now from some key voices on the right. on the need to come clean, finally. he hasn't done it at all, on his dealings with russia. in an op-ed today titled trumps and the truth, the best defense is radical transparency. don't you guys get it? special counsel robert mueller and the house and senate intelligence committees are investigating the russian story. everything that is potentially damaging to the trumps will come out one way or another. everything denouncing leaks as fake news won't wa...

Them, these nine that will come up for a confirmation hearing the -- during the rest of the week, it appears democrats won't block them and republicans will get them moved in? >> yeah, that's the safe bet. the democrats will rail at the nominees, particularly education, betsy devos. obviously she will get some tough questions from bernie sanders. there will be fireworks but we'll see confirmation. >> chuck schumer has been vocal about his concerns. can you give us any specifics that you said might be coming from him regarding first, senator sessions? >> yeah, again, it goes back to the civil r...

Is everyone on board with this? >> well, if you read my story, there are two unnamed advisers describing bannon's interactions or describing his instructions in private meetings. you can take that as you would like to. certainly if you look at trump's inner circle of bannon, dave bosse, kellyanne conway and reince priebus, they all seem to be pretty much on board with this. i would say that chris christie seems to have drifted out of the inner orbit a little bit. there doesn't seem to be a lot of conflict within trump's inner circle or within his bunker, maybe a better term for it, that this i...

The failed pr eed policies that work and the bush days with a tanked economy. so this is constantly reminding us to move for ward and we can ill afterford to move back to the policies of the past. >> and give the republicans a voice here by showing the hype and blame which is the counter and saying hope and change, no, it is hype and blame. take a look at what this counter strategy is. >> the real question is, will this country be better off four years from now? if you have health care, the only thing that will change under my plan is that we will lower your premiums. as presidentially go thro...

They took the wrong hostage, so they are taking the eu and medicare hostage instead. if democrats come back to the table, they no longer have the leverage of the payroll tax cut because republicans are on record saying they want to extend it. i asked brad, the communication director whether the answer was a or b. he wouldn't say. the republican position, he said, is that, quote, unless there is a deal, we'll move forward to ensure no worker faces a tax hike. make of that what you will. so on the one hand, maybe republicans caved on the payroll tax cut. on the other hand maybe republicans have ...