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Been a destructive force in the mid east. he embargoed qua tar without telling anybody and yemen war has gotten completely not under control, and put the prime minister of lebanon under house arrest and this guy is a wrecking ball when it comes to the relationship with the middle east and the united states and i hate to say that because i had a lot of hope for him to be the reformer that saudi arabia needs but that ship has sailed as far as lindsey graham is concerned. >> why do you think the president and jared kushner, his son-in-law, became quite close to mbs, why are they so insistent on t...

Will be a perfectly able secretary of state. i think he will be judged by his performance in office above all. fundamentally i think the pressure this will create. if he gets an unfavorable recommendation from the committee it will be very difficult for these red state democrats in competitive races to vote against the president's otherwise qualified nominee. >> i will tell you that is exactly the line that i heard from senior administrative officials on the executive branch side that i have been in conversation with. you teed this up very nicely. gina would be replacing mike pompeo. i heard r...

Companies are being enriched. they've been enriched by obamacare like nothing anybody's ever seen before. i am not going to do anything to enrich the insurance companies. >> all right. let's bring in our congressional correspondent phil mattingly and chief political correspondent dana bash. phil, where exactly does the president stand on this bipartisan deal? what's the reaction to his latest statements which seem to contradict his earlier statements. >> no question. it's been a bit of a whiplash the last 24 hours. it appears by all accounts that the president is opposed. what the president ...

The legislative side, but i'm not certain what the limits are for him when it comes to the executive branch side. but i know people have been looking it at legislatively. i think the bigger deal here if we want to make the some changes to help people, would be fixing the fokt by bringing the rates down to fix those exchanges. and that's what senmerry has been working together to do. i think that would be a positive development instead of just continuing the mantra of repealing obamacare when that, in fact, has failed over and over again. and 20% of the american people were with them on the thi...

Do now to restore any kind of confidence? that's why i suggest a special prosecutor. >> shepard: do you believe there will be any republican support for that? >> i hope there will be. i hope as people really look at this and examine the situation and conclude that in the interest of justice and impartiality, it's important to have somebody conducting this investigation on the executive branch side that does it without being encumbered by the fear of being fired, by the fear of having the axe come down when they seem to be picking up steam in the investigation. that is clearly a conflict of int...