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Disputes. if melania's unhappy, we know she's off to france with the president tonight, how's that going to stir things up? >> well, we were also hearing that she doesn't really want to involve herself so much in the west wing staffing disputes that she perhaps sees that as really not her role and is focused more on her east wing responsibilities. but what we do know over the course of this time is that melania trump, if not weighing in on staff issues in the west wing, certainly weighs in with her president on sort of his broader positioning and is careful with his brand and makes it known wh...

Day-to-day, working in the white house. and so the fact that he was forwarded this e-mail, the fact that, therefore, he, very likely knew what donald trump jr. knew, that this was part of the russian government effort to help his father-in-law's campaign and hurt hillary clinton, therefore meddling in the election, the fact that that's -- the fact that we've learned he's had to update his security clearance form several times now reveal these contacts, this is much more acute for the president because jared kushner is still there as a senior adviser, and that's, therefore, puts the president e...

>> he's a sharp guy, right? >> i'm not inside of his head. it seems like the sort of thing i would remember, an encounter that might be memorable, especially in the context of running a political campaign. but i mean, i think that the deeper issue is, whether it's true or not that he forgot it or what the circumstances of the disclosure are, the fact that these continual kind of forgetful incidents, to be generous, continue to happen is problematic for the administration because they're constantly having to rewrite their story of what happened, and for gosh sakes, i mean, you know, if there is...

Ranging from furious to frustrated but also defiant. in fact, just a few moments this morning, after my cnn colleague, jeff zeleny reported that the president had been watching the news, consuming this news coverage about his son's e-mails, the president did take to twitter just after 9:30 this morning, putting out this tweet saying, "the white house is functioning perfectly, focused on health care, tax cuts, and reform and many other things. i have very little time for watching tv." despite that, however, we've seen the president's twitter feed. he does often retweet those news segments that ...