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Mcmaster told reporters during an off camera briefing last night his feeling about whether this is true, it's not really a big deal. >> we have back channel communications in a number -- with a number of countries. so generally speaking about back channel communicationing what that allows you to do is to communicate in a discreet manner. so it doesn't predispose you toward any content of the conversation or anything. so, no i would not be concerned about it. >> sir, do you think that's intellectually honest? because mcmaster got his job because they fired flynn for secret back channel conversa...

Cancelled the trip to iowa to talk about his infrastructure and budget. when you look at the capitol hill calendar it gets compressed because at the end of august that's when -- because the reconciliation, the vehicle they're using for what would be health care and tax reform, that closes. that window closes in august. so you'll potentially have a lot of capitol hill conversations, you have some debt ceiling conversations there as well. normally, on a friday night at a white house you get what's called the week ahead. they read out what's going to happen next week. we didn't get that week. i w...

Prosecutor. >> sure, a good point though. but i have een some reporting -- i have seen some reporting with "the new york times," with comey seeking more resources and that was pretty damning, except it was false. the attorney general said that he has no knowledge of that whatsoever taking place and neither does anybody else. i haven't seen any retractions or statements to the contrary that's false. i think we have to be careful out here. these are serious charges being thrown around and serious investigations so let them take place. >> sir, you have big work to do. work for the american people...

I think they'd rather see this country fail than see him succeed. >> the russian thing is a total -- >> it's made up. >> but there were some interesting sound bites from eric. meanwhile, defense secretary-general mattis on whether it was appropriate for trump to tell the nato leaders to increase their financial contributions. here's a clip from an interview airing later this morning. >> this is a consistent message that we have be given the nato nations. they get the best defense in the world, the nato countries. we have all got to be willing to deal with it like a bank. if you want to take so...