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We call them our team. congress and the president going their separate ways for the august recess. before the exodus, our kasie hunt caught up with lawmakers to ask one simple question. >> reporter: do you think that president trump is honest? there have been questions about his phone calls with the boy scouts and with others. >> you know, i don't -- i know you all like talking about whether or not he actually received the phone call. i'm not going down that road. most people don't think he's honest, if you believe this poll. he's gotten an image problem he needs to deal with. >> reporter: d...

>> i think it is fair to say that the outside intervention, the combination of the comey letter on october 28th, wikileaks, which played a much bigger role than i think many people understand yet, had the determinative effect. >> do you -- perhaps the text still of a sense of denial there? >> a little bit. i don't want to -- it was a factor. i think comey and russia did play a factor. i don't want to say it didn't. there were so many other things and you're kind of blind if you don't accept these other factors. there was a message problem. there was an image problem. her likability. all these ...

Tax payer. >> stuart: whomever leaked that tax return, that person is culpable and liable. whom so ever it may be. >> unless it's a theory of the colleague, it's the president. you can reveal your own tax returns. so any other person who had custody of that did not have the right to leak it. that person committed the crime. >> stuart: it's not likely on the grounds that the president just said to tucker today, he called these leaks disgraceful. it's a big problem and he's going to find out who did it. >> he's right. it's a big problem. it's happening in his own branch of government, which over...

>> i think we went from gentle to really aggressive. how about that? i think the went from a really gentle nonprofit to let me bulldoze through these doors and just introduce myself sort of thing. >> in this situation, beating around the bush wasn't going to work. downtown brookings had an image problem. and someone had to nip that in the bud. >> when i said i was hired as the director of downtown, they would say, we have -- the director of downtown? i don't know what that means. oh, there's a downtown brookings. they didn't know. >> he also needed to get past all the questions about his age. ...

Just introduce myself sort of thing. >> in this situation, beating around the bush wasn't going to work. downtown brookings had an image problem. and someone had to nip that in the bud. >> when i said i was hired as the director of downtown, they would say, we have -- the director of downtown? i don't know what that means. oh, there's a downtown brookings. they didn't know. >> he also needed to get past all the questions about his age. which distracted from his mission. >> when i introduced myself, it's wait, you're in college? you're a full-time student? yes, i have a paper to write tonight, ...