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To congress to echo the speech's big points. military spending is this afternoon's big theme. this morning, the economy had the president's attention. look at this tweet here. since november 8th, the stock market has posted $3.2 trillion in gains. jobs. we expect the president to be celebrating the economy. he has every right to. we can debate the reasons for that. the stock market is booming. he has every reason to celebrate it. here's my question. this is a president, and this is a traditional approach what we're seeing today. you give a big speech. very well received. lay out your agenda an...

President and it puts the president in a really difficult position because he's so close with sessions, because sessions has been so loyal to him and he does feel like he has a message to talk about that could gain more attention. and so we've gone two days without major controversy. >> and we'll see what the president says. whether he addresses this. for me this is an interesting test for the president. he gave a very well received speech. you can disagree with him on policy, but he gave a very disciplined, well constructed speech about his agenda. something he hadn't done before. is he up to...

Certainly among republicans. even a lot of democrats. although the levels are going to end up being a problem when they get down to writing these bills. he wants to highlight his agenda and doesn't want to have to have his kind of distraction and it is a real distraction at a time he's trying to go from some very controversial unilateral moves that he made in the first few weeks of his presidency to a more cooperative, dynamic congress. i'm sure we're going to hear him make a lot of the same points he made in that speech where he talks about unifying the country and we'll have a big military b...

Fbi director or any other intelligence director to withhold information when talking with the intelligence committee or is that normal for them? is he just following routine procedure here? >> you know, i would say that certainly there is a cultural, as well as a policy framework for when individual members of congress approach the department and when committees do. what the department has to look at is, is this within the scope of the committee's responsibilities and clearly it is. is this in the public interest and, clearly it is. in this case, it's the subject of a bipartisan agreement. thi...

>> in this environment, if you give democrats recusal, which everyone believes is inevitable down the road if there's anything to this. which we don't know if there is anything. these are just allegations. and you are innocent until proven guilty in this environment. he could end this by getting out of the way now by saying, i recuse myself. that would be giving the democrats a victory and if they get one, i'd ask for more. >> democrats have been calling for recusal for a while. that's not enough. he has to resign. even chuck schumer said, people talk to ambassadors all the time. what's differ...