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Swerdlich and joe walsh. david, i will start with you. this was an impromptu interview. the president said 16 times there was no collusion. he did this entire interview without any advisors or aids near by. in some ways it is reminisce sant of the campaign trail. don't you think? >> yeah. i think the president wanted to do two things at once. saying in collusion 16 times to make clear that he was still pushing his narrative that there is nothing to see here, nothing was done wrong, the investigation is about nothing. and at the same time, having -- doing an interview at lunch in florida withou...

New staff changes coming at the white house. what are you hearing? >> yeah. and these are not high profile staff positions by any stretch but it does give us insight into the white house thinking going into 2018 and perhaps their concern about what could happen in the upcoming mid-term elections. they are bringing in a political expert to kind of run the white house political shop. this comes after some pretty harsh criticism from the current political director there who has been criticized by a lot of former trump allies. now he will stay in place, but it will be destef know in charge of the ...

Impression that the president thinks he could do whatever he wants with the justice department. when we look at what happens in other countries with regard to their ability to abide by democratic principals, we look at the ability for justice systems to operate independent of politicians. and so in this country i think we need to uphold that principal and i think the president has struggled to do that with some of his interference with the justice department. >> one word that has been used a lot is loyalty. he said it is too bad jeff sessions recused himself from the russia investigation. when...