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Stephanopoulos' memoir, it's eerily similar. he had a bad -- he had a bad chief of staff. he had to -- his best friend from when he was 5 years old, he had to replace him. as steve mentioned, you know, he put his wife in charge of health care care. that was a mistake. there's all sorts of stuff going on. what happened? they were shellacked, massacred in the midterm elections. >> all right. hit pause. we got to hit pause. no one's going anywhere. steph, thank you for coming down. we drag you down after double duty. when we come back, what could be an ugly legal fight brewing over obstruction ...

Lavrov. >> if you're a republican on the hill, a senator up for re-election in 2018 or one of the 242 republican congressmen who's up for election in 2018, maybe you might have a challenger. you don't want to be on the wrong side of this story, on the one hand, and don't want to be on the wrong side of the story of your leader -- >> there's only one right way. >> hit pause. we'll come right back. still ahead, dinner at the white house. the "time" magazine reporter who spent 100 minutes with president trump including a rare look inside the president's private quarters. he joins us next. what'...

Conversation. so let's hit pause on that. let me pivot to some sound from president trump. he talks about how he got to the magic number of 270. here's the president on his life in the oval office. >> there's a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with north korea. absolutely. this is more work than in my previous life. i thought it would be easier. i thought it was more of a -- i'm a details-oriented person, i think you would say that, but i do miss my old life. i like to work, so that's not a problem. but this is actually more work. >> david urban, this is a man who you...

>> we've hit pause because everybody has vacated this building for the weekend. they've basically punted the question of the budget until next week. they passed a one-week government funding bill to keep things running while they still negotiate behind the scenes. that does seem to be one of the things that has frustrated president in his first 100 days. and he is not the first president to be frustrated dealing with congress. president obama all but gave up on it in his final years in office. president trump has sold himself as the great negotiator. in theory, this is where the most important...

Was a breach too far. >> what about speaking attorney general, we know manu just reported the confirmation hearings for jeff sessions ha h -- has hit pause or hold. when you have orrin hatch calling democrats idiots. what's going on? >> what the democratic party is going through is a crisis how to function and how to make its anger make its opposition heard when they don't have the votes to do it. and i think what became crystallizing for democrats particularly in the senate dealing with these trump nominees is they're hearing from their liberal constituencies when i say crystallizing we heard...