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Think it's also just emblematic of how loose this entire operation ran up to inauguration and how it still runs today. i'm not sure anyone in the team knows on a daily basis what they're getting themselves into, and collectively, i'm not sure any one part of the trump team knows what somebody else on the team is doing. >> david, looking at this statement and remembering the questions about russia that were raised in the campaign and early in this administration, is it possible that he just sort of didn't know what was going on? >> well, russia was a big issue at the time that these meetings we...

Guchafer 400. he said that e-mail existed and he also said he showed it to a secret service agent who told him he shouldn't do anything about it. he should just ignore it. so that tells me that perhaps the committee is asking questions around this and the reason i took no action upon being con fronted with this at the time, he was very much in the news as being an agent of the russian government potentially meddling in the election. and he essentially offers an explanation and says i asked law enforcement about it. they told me to do nothing, so i d these are the key points poinlly that you ca...

Known spicer for years. that's not true of scaramucci, and the same can be said for members of congress. sean spicer was somebody that a lot of members of congress knew. reince priebus is somebody they talked to all the time. that was very little unit in the white house. that is under siege, and david was talking about the difficulty in trying to figure out what to do about reince priebus if they want to take him out of the white house. if they were to break that link, then it would further emphasize this split that bob costa has been reporting this. this distance between congressional republi...

Ignacious, and christopher hill joining us this morning. great to have you. >> a lot of smart people on the set. i want to go to smart person number one, not in any particular order. david, you have george w. bush making that mistake in 2001, a mistake that he recognized soon after. barack obama whispering in 2012, hey, after i win i'll have a little more space to be able to work with russia. and it seems like putin has been playing our presidents for quite some time, and would invade a country in each administration's eight years. so how do we avoid making a mistake the third time? >> underra...

Society. >> crystalize what richard just said. the bottom line here is -- >> well, david ignacious, as we go to break really quickly, this not only emboldens our enemies and autocrats across the globe, but at the same time, it damages donald trump. it is what we call a 36, 37, 38% solution for donald trump. you can look at polls over the past week. he got savaged for attacks against people in the mead where a. it does not help his poll numbers. while he's providing comfort to our enemies, he's depressing his own base. >> joe, i think you put your finger on something important. donald trump, ov...