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When congress really protected its status as a separate and co-equal branch. you had someone like robert byrd who fought more with the president of his own party because he was protecting his role as a senator and the body of the u.s. senate and their role in governance. now senators believe they're working -- if the president of their party, that they're working for the leader of their party. it is all a tribal team game. and john mccain remembers that time when it was about weighing in as a separate co-equal and valuable branch. >> as we wait the family and friends filing into the rotunda. l...

These indictments. there's that much pressure for the president to unambiguously condemn russia on election meddling here. there's an argument that the meeting should be cancelled and putin shouldn't be rewarded for election meddling with meeting with the leader of the free world, but the argument, you know, for going ahead with the summit is that this is the time to confront him on this issue. >> a lot of -- there's been a lot of press about the fact that observers say there's more in this for putin than there is for president trump, that by, you know, being seen on the world stage as sort of...

He wants to wave a pen and make it move forward. that's a big part of this as well. >> right. it will be interesting to see what the reaction is to his call against any due process for the migrants. we know incident after incident that the president is frustrated by his lack of ability to command more expansive power in his job. he finds the other co equal branches pesky and in his way. that's not a surprise. there are two political tensions here. one is that there is a strong majority in this country that does not want families to be separated. the second one is, though, that they don't want ...

It will probably be in the dmz. you were very aggressive as part of the administration's efforts to try to do more with the north. so it makes me assume that you think the possibility of a meeting like this could have upside? >> i do. chris, i think this is a great opportunity here to profoundly change the seven decade long paradigm on the peninsula of abject animosity. now, that said, i get it about skepticism. we have been through this movie before. but it is a huge opportunity. i would counsel, for what it's worth, that the objectives for this meeting, be fairly modest. i think nicholas kri...

Let's talk about what the speaker and chairman nunes are doing. they are not only facilitating the suppression of this investigation. by doing that, they're putting the president above the law. we are a co-equal, separate branch of government. in effect, what they're really doing is they're advocating and allowing the president to rise to an autocracy. >> president trump tweeted today, "new fbi texts are bomb shells." a bombshell, really? . >> look, the president is in somewhat of a desperation mode. the mueller investigation is getting closer and closer. it's found its way inside the white ho...