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Yourself. i think your broader point is the one that's concerning, and that is i think across the board for a variety of reasons, public officials are less willing than they have been almost year by year. we've seen this, to engage with the public, to engage with the press in ways they once felt comfortable with. public officials are not as comfortable with those interactions as they once were and i think that does create a barrier and it creates a gap. and i think it's one reason why there is more cynicism about politics generally. >> yeah, and of course, more distrust generally speaking. dan...

>> that was a jaw-dropping story. if they were fine with it they didn't read the story carefully. it made clear don mcgahn sees himself as the white house counselor lawyer protecting office of the presidency and not donald trump. he thought he was trying to set him up. he made the decision to cooperate with robert mueller. went in there three times, 30 hours of interviews, and the white house does not know what he said. the story suggested that he talked about those episodes where trump was pressuring him to fire mueller and he was resisting because he knew it was improper. that could be damag...

Potentially being set up. >> that was a jaw-dropping story. if they were fine with it they didn't read the story carefully. it made clear don mcgahn sees himself as the white house counselor lawyer protecting t office of the presidency and not donald trump. he thought he was trying to set him up. he made the decision to cooperate with robert mueller. went in there three times, 30 hours of interviews, and the white house does not know what he said. the story suggested that he talked about those episodes where trump was pressuring him to fire mueller and he was resisting because he knew it was i...

Barrier and it creates a gap. and i think it's one reason why there is more cynicism about politics generally. >> yeah, and of course, more distrust generally speaking. dan balls, congresswoman karen bass, thank you for your perspective tonight. when we continue, president trump is in search of his wartime consigliary with no roy cohn to turn to. dr. kelli ward joins me from arizona live. up next. let someone else do the heavy lifting. tripadvisor compares prices from over 200 booking sites

They can show you the way. when i read about this -- i don't know her, i haven't met her yet. i thought she said it wasn't going to be open to the press and maybe she wasn't clear about that. but i think that a sitting member could have advised her about that. i certainly know that i had a couple of town halls -- and i do town halls all the time where i had to make them private because of the immigrant community being terrified about coming. and so we had to do it where it was quiet. and i thought maybe that might have been where she was coming from. but the chief advice to her, though, is the...