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Quick fact check here. mueller brought criminal charges against 33 people. what do you make of the strategy? is it smart? >> mueller never backs down from a twitter challenge. giuliani is full blown tv lawyer pr person for the president. he's not acting as the president's personal lawyer here, at least in his best interest as his lawyer. why go on twitter and antagonize mueller as he's been doing if he's trying, in good faith to strike a deal with the team. >> this is an important point. this is a pr strategy. he is the lawyer, but this is about pr. >> completely. everything the president says...

Ran. he had this big splashy announcement in springfield, illinois. people forget, he raised $25 million in the first quarter of 2007. more than any other candidate. that's really the key to this, raising money. >> okay, so alice, what do you think about the roll-out, to chris's point, is it smart for her to get out ahead of some of the big democrats we expect to jump in the field? >> from the logistical boring aspect of presidential campaigns, it is. chris was exactly right. knowing there are more than a dozen people that are looking at throwing their hat in the ring, now is a good time to ge...

Hours before and after his death. is it smart? is it accurate? is it wight for secretary pompeo and secretary matic and the president and other senior officials to say there is no direct evidence linking the crown prince to the murder? >> this is just ridiculous, wolf. pompeo and mattis and trump are turning the united states into a laughingstock by denying what is so obvious. this hit team of saudi operatives, many of them members of the crown prince's own security detail, they could not have walked into a saudi consulate and killed a high profile journalist without a sign off from the crown ...

We are giving him no break, he should be sentenced to the full extent of his multiple convictions and guilty pleas. that is their play with mueller -- with manafort. i think they don't have a lot of options in terms of using manafort against other people. >> because he's unreliable? >> because he's unreliable. they could in a further proceeding down the line even if manafort didn't want to cooperate they could give him immunity since he will have been sentenced to force him to testify but since they have said he is not reliable it's hard to imagine -- so maybe i'm off base by saying he's frigg...

Judges on the circuit courts of appeal. now, there are a lot of vacancies on the district courts. i think there is 111 the last time i looked. really vital to fill those. as long as you have divided congress, the one thing they can get done is to get these judges confirmed. ed: he has a bigger majority in the senate to fill those judicial vacancies. real quick, is it smart for the president politically to take on chief justice roberts. you need him on other issues. >> you know, ed, i don't want to blame president trump here because i think it was unseemly for the chief justifiable to go after ...