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Julie, beginning with you, obviously the traveling white house from the boss down, no intention of backing down. in fact the huge effort to normalize the idea of meeting with a russian and gladly accepting their help in the campaign. >> right. i mean it's pretty clear what the white house strategy is on this meeting. it is to largely say that there was no problem with the meeting. you're in the going to see -- and this is part of a pattern with the white house. you're not going to see a lot of apologies for things that happened. they tend to double down and

>> cokie, how does washington absorb that? you've seen washington absorb a lot of shocks. how does it absorb this? >> i think the way it always does, that everybody kind of figures out what his or her place is and tries to make the most of it. but i do think that the hardest thing for people to absorb is that they thought or many people thought that the actual conferring of the presidency on donald trump would bring in a more sober sided citizen and that is not going to be the case. and i think his supporters don't want it to be the case. >> i agree with that. cokie roberts, thank you so much....

That's not in fact why she used it this time. >> shannon: julie. >> lois lerner doesn't have a lot of defenders right now. the question is what happens to her job? she was asked to resign and said no. so, i think she is on administrative leave right now. >> shannon: with pay. >> with pay. the longer she stays in this situation of limbo the harder it's going to be for the white house and for the irs to try to move forward to try to show that they are taking steps to correct this problem when you have this woman who is so central to this issue still being paid. >> shannon: apparently going to ap...

Something that has turned out to be false. he did this with fast and furious they later this to retract and recant some of his testimony there and recast it i think he is in real trouble. >> shannon: julie, how much trouble is he in. the president has said just days ago i have full confidence in him. he is standing by him publicly. >> he is not surprising. he has done it in the past with fast and furious. these are two men that have personal relationship. they are friends. the other thing is that the white house goes to great lengths to try to show that there is a division between the white ho...

Potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material, that is not something that owe have ever been involved or heard of or would think would be a wise policy. the focus should be on those people who break their oath and put the american people at risk not reporters who gather this information. that should not be the focus of these -- of these investigations. thats would the attorney general eric holder testifying on capitol hill. tonight what we are hearing from the justice department is that it took great care in deciding that a search warrant was necessary in the case involving...