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Campaign. mitt romney today tweeted, quote, innocent until proven guilty is for criminal convictions, not elections. i believe leigh corfman, the woman alleging the sexual contact when she was 14. moore is unfit for office and should step aside. you and mitt romney disagree on this issue. he doesn't seem troubled by the timing. >> well, i think that everyone that is in an establishment position with the republican party are going to say those sort of things. it's referred to as covering your backside. but think the truth is you've just got to watch the timing on this. roy has been scrubbed up ...

Control for the time being. >> trump during the campaign was very anti-war in afghanistan, but once he's in office, he's reversed himself. the politics would have been better if he had called for a full withdrawal, that would have helped with his base who are worried about more wars abroad. but he opted not to do that and took the establishment position here. >> the left and right, many people i speak to on both sides would be in favor of a full withdrawal, but the more establishment argument from the military is that he's ignoring the sacrifice of all those who have served. >> and there's als...

Players all that well. and understandably if you're coming from an establishment position, you know, the establishment position is you spend your initial days as you're coming in as a new government getting to know your allies first, not your adversaries. so that kind of contact with kislyak in those early days considering the lack of contact with u.s. partners such as the british, the french, those ambassadors, the disparity of attention that the trump team was showing towards the russians and the chinese for that matter and not to traditional allies from europe. it was a source of apprehensi...

Bring in david nakamora and jane newton small. thank you for being with us today. >> good morning. >> so, david, let me start with you, will trump's meeting with romney end up being more than a photo-op? could romney end up in trump's cabinet after their intense rivalry? >> it is hard to say. mitt romney criticized donald trump harshly last spring, became the face of the never trump movement, even polls that suggest trump could lose utah where romney lives. didn't happen. trump carried the state. you're seeing the gop establishment getting in line, falling behind the trump administration and t...

Experts say that cruz is probably fine. his mother is an american citizen and gave birth to him in canada, he is eligible to be president and as trump said if a democrat or anyone everyone else wants to bring a suit, we don't know what might happen. >> not to get technical but i read it comes down to natural born citizen. right? >> nobody really knows what the framers meant by that. maybe we'll find out if cruz is the nominee. >> talk about rubio and christie. chris christie seeing more mojo it feels like this week and rubio going after the pac that likes rubio going after him with ads and we ...