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Armed with nuclear weapons. he can go into a rage and enter the nuclear launch codes. how bad does it have to get before congress does something? he s here in person, he s here in studio. joining us is michael beschloss, nbc news presidential historian. great to see you. great to be here. i almost missed you there. i m used to high fiving you through the satellite. it s a pleasure to do it here. we broke this story a little bit in terms of the president setting up what appears to be a russia scandal legal defense fund and we were first to break the story that the legal document setting this thing up had been posted online with the office government ethics. we ve started to figure out the sticky wickets including the question of whether the president s inaugural committee ....
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Joining us is michael beschloss, nbc news presidential historian. great to see you. great to be here. i almost missed you there. i m used to high fiving you through the satellite. it s a pleasure to do it here. we broke this story a little bit in terms of the president setting up what appears to be a russia scandal legal defense fund, and we were first to break the story that the legal document setting this thing up had been posted online with the office of government ethics. we ve started to figure out the sticky wickets including the question of whether the president s inaugural committee left over money, of which there appears to be a giant pile, whether that could be shuttled in that direction. the reason i want to talk to you about this is it is my general sense that when there are presidential scandals, legal defense funds around those scandals are like a magnet for trouble. is that true? ....
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Can and you re going to lose. bannon was making the argument we can win this way. trump telling those voters no, this isn t working as he did in that burn letter yesterday, that is the thing that might change their minds and might change those primary seasons. why republicans were high fiving each other or close to it on capitol hill yesterday when all this was happening. paul, to you, for americans watching this morning and looking at this and some of them saying, i can see some folks saying, this is just more gossip inside the beltway, doesn t affect my life or matter to me at all, talk about why you think it does or doesn t? well, mary katherine makes a point the politicians in the republican party can we follow trumpism without trump? foreign leaders are watching this. our adversaries around the world are looking i want my president to succeed. the north koreans are evil, the iranians are evil, we have enemies in this world. and this will embolden our adversaries and fright ....
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Because they get their money from the individual mandate. so the individual mandate is being repealed. so in this bill, not only do we have massive tax cuts and tax reform, we have essentially repealed obamacare. and we ll come up with something that will be much better. we have phil mattingly who is inside the capitol for us. but let s start with you just outside where all the members of the congress are boarding the buses. and sunlen, as they have been passing you, has there been high-fiving? what s the sense after this big victory lap at the white house? reporter: certainly the mood is way up on capitol hill among republicans. and this is the start of the republican victory lap, the buses behind me. there is it a long line of buses, ready and waiting to take republican members from the ....
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United states. again should we have the most rebust defense against that, absolutely. they did so to help one candidate and not another. they tried to meddle in our election and tried to disrupt democracy, not elect donald trump. even if they were, that s not donald trump s fault. that may be the problem, that he thinks those two things are related. i think the problem here that frustrates any mutual effort to try to solve this issue is that trump and trump supporters conflate two things. the reason that, as you were explaining t counter intelligence officers and homeland securitys on election night for high fiving is because there is no evidence of tampering with the totals. there was probably an attempt by the russians to meddle with that and no evidence that that happened. that is something to be proud of. however, the obama ....
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