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President's repeated assertion that there was no quid pro quo as it related to ukraine, kristen. >> and susan, pick up on peter's point, which is the strategy writ large. our first read team called it running on empty. house republicans are basically looking for a clear strategy out of the white house. what they heard this week from the president was, get tougher, you need to fight harder. but our sense is, they want to have a better way to kind of combat some of the headlines, some of the testimony, frankly, that we're learning about every day. >> you know, if they could argue that the presid...

Where 53,000 voter registration, many of them african-american folks were frozen by the attorney general himself, a candidate for governor against the democrats there astay abrams. kemp, he ordered the registrations held because of slight problems with their paperwork. what is going on here, do you think? >> well, look, this is a country where we make it exceedingly hard to vote. we do that because historically the country of the united states of america has not wanted black people or poor people to vote. so they've thrown up obstacles. no other country in the world does this. no other country...

Republicans have been in the majority in the house in this administration, the house has passed a budget -- both times. the senate -- the majority leader won't even bring it up. and the republicans bring up obama's budget to -- as an amendment to force the democrats' hand. but if the president leads, i happen to believe the president must be telling the democrat leader, don't do it. if the president starts telling him now, we are going to try to really get something done, i assume the democratic leader will do what the president says. >> caller: i am not here to defend why the president didn't...

Blackberry right now. >> it's on all the time. i hear you. >> thanks so much. good to talk to you. we want to talk more about this. joining me now in los angeles, a political analyst and author of how obama governed the year of crisis and challenge. and here with me is karen hunter, an msnbc contributor, as well as a journalist. and a publisher. i want to start with you and get your reaction to what you think we just learned from this briefing. is the biggest message here that everybody was wrong about this and that everyone didn't dot all the eyes and cross the ts properly? '. >> we also lear...

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