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>> is he renewing his marriage vows with nancy pelosi here? is he making up for what gibbs said the other day about how the democrats may lose the house? >> well, i think the democrats are disillusioned. they're dis-spirited. there's a sense on one hand they need to be realistic and let democrats know, hey, we're in danger of losing everything. on the other hand, they do need to fire him up. you and clarence both talked to republican members of congress off the record all the time. if you ask them where did the republican party go wrong in the last decade, and most of the republicans would say...

>> charlie, is he renew is his marriage vows with nancy pelosi here? is he making up for what gibbs said the other day about how the democrats may lose the house? >> well, i think the democrats are disillusioned. they're dis-spirited. there's a sense on one hand they need to be realistic and let democrats know, hey, we're in danger of losing everything. on the other hand, they do need to fire him up. you and clarence both talked to republican members of congress off the record all the time. if you ask them where did the republican party go wrong in the last decade, and most of the republicans ...

House speaking paul ryan yesterday said he does not view the memo having a broad impact. >> let me tell you what this memo is and what this memo is not. what this memo is congress doing its job in congress doing its job in conducting legitimate oversight over a unique law fisa. fisa involves american civil liberties. if american civil liberties he were abused, then that needs to come to light so that that doesn't happen again. what this is not is an indictment on our institutions, of our justice systems. this the memo is not an indictment of the fbi, of the department of justice. it does not i...

Fbi. he went out of his way to say that the product of this memo is not designed to impugn either special counsel robert mueller's work or the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who oversees bob mueller. he was pressed on this point because it comes in direct contrast to what a number of republican house members have been saying for days about what a bombshell report this memo can and will be when it comes out. here was katie hunt pressing him on the point at the end of the news conference. >> do you really believe that this memo has nothing at all to do and no impact on the special counse...

Where reporters were there for an event that was supposed to be about and was sort of organized as being jobs related, knowing the president would be in a mood to perhaps expand on his thinking and peter alexander our colleague who was a member of the pool today wanted to press him on specifically that language. you saw that the president wanted to remain in the same lane of tone, but not giving us new buzz phrases. not giving us new incendiary language, but not backing off in his sort of drawing lines with kim jong un. also talking about our allies. and in many ways speaking a bit more like a...