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A new column in the west suggests it's time to buckle up, the stage is being set for a more tumultuous white house. writer dan balls says we are seeing the re-emergence of the prepresidential trump who plays by his own rules and tries to rewrite the old ones he doesn't like. it comes after a wild week that included the call to vladimir putin, trump's attorney john dowd's resignation, wall street's drop in the light of the tariffs, mcmasters replacement with john bolton and the leadup to the spending bill signing. let's bringing in former governor of vermont, howard dean, former dnc chairman an...

Whatever it was, and this is all of these tentacles we talk about. what's going on here, what's going on in the white house. the big issues that are on his desk are giant for the country. >> bob woodward, thank you. >> hold a second. thank you so much, bob woodward. bob costa, willie and i got the three carton cigarettes. >> chesterfields. >> we're heading down to the holiday in off of 57th, and did you text beckham? >> beckham is coming. >> victoria is coming. >> all right. a little spice added. we do it every friday night, in case you guys don't know. what do you got on tonight? >> we got my...

The reality, as we heard the sound there from a variety of members of congress on both sides in the opening of the show here, this gives a new opening, a new sort of window to look into. so i would find it very difficult to believe that the president's oldest son would now not be answering a question from congressional committees, and this takes us into a whole new realm. the question, of course, is, did the president know about the meeting? his lawyer spokesman said he did not before the meeting but will be asking those questions to see if he knew about it after, and in the year since that me...

He is doing this to some degree. the other thing that i think is important to note, this is a great piece by dan. but it is, i would say, however, a washington story. out here, people are not paying attention to this kind of thing. what will happen is at the end of the trump presidency, whenever that may be, history will judge him on his accomplishments as they do with every other president. not necessarily and really at all on how he got there. >> to say that people aren't paying attention to it doesn't mean that it doesn't play a role in what ends up being the accomplishment. >> i understand...

Weeks for president trump. it's fascinating compared to your peach whiiece which lays o things went off the rails quickly. a lot seemed to be about donald trump's management style. >> i think that's right. the interesting thing is that there was a transition process that was operating. according to outsiders, pretty effectively until the week of the election. the curiosity is that donald trump i think for --'s put it, bad karma reasons did not want to engage at all with the transition team prior to the election. he thought it was -- he thought it would jinx him. so he didn't have any involveme...