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>> look, i think the health care thing actually raises the question of whether you are eroding the base. historically republicans have held together a coalition that aims its economic policy primarily at people at the top, has cultural and racial policy for lower, middle income and poorer whites. it so starkly divides the costs and benefits of the legislation. one of the things that made president trump a different kind of republican to use the old phrase that bill clinton used, a different kind of democrat, was he promised he would protect social security and medicare and medicaid. this is so...

Taken to the congress, the special counsel cannot take the president to work on a charge of obstruction of justice. that's not where we presidents are held accountable. they're held accountsable through impeach ment proceedings. then it becomes a political question as well as a legal question for the house representatives. but there is no doubt. boeb both in the clinton cause and nixon case, one the charges that came out in the clinton case and the house was getting ready to pass in nixon is obstruction of justice charge. so there is no question the president can be held accountable for obstru...

People. that statement again was in response to "the washington post." so let me be clear. "the washington post" story was based on five anonymous sources, doesn't even identify the agency. so that's it. simple explanation. >> okay, i mean, i don't think it's simple but i don't think we're getting anywhere. let me move on. former house speaker newt gingrich a close trump ally spoke on friday at the national press club. let's run a clip of what he said. >> the president of the united states cannot obstruct justice. the president of the united states is the chief executive office of the you stun...

By gingrich to try to question the special counsel's integrity. from watergate on forward, the first strategy is try to fire the special prosecutor. as he knows with regard to the firing of archibald coxs and continue to investigation. so if that doesn't work, we're now in a special counsel environment. rod rosenstein made it very clear he's not firing anybody without cause, which i think is the appropriate poster and curagice and important because that's the insulation of independence that a special counsel needs in order to do the special counsel's work. that was the clinton strategy

Executive commission to air out everything that happened. it really was also an effort to fill in his memory, which was imperfect but that tower commission was the first out of the box and gave a lot of facts to the public and on parallel tracks a congressional select committee and an independent counsel each pursued their respective roles. gathered facts and president regan invoked no executive privilege. indeed he told everyone to cooperate and the criminal investigation was handled by my boss, the independence counsel, which did federal criminal investigation parallel to what mueller is now...