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I'll sure senator mccain must know what he's talking about. when you say the alt right, define it for me. you define it. >> what we do know after today's bizarre press conference, donald trump doesn't really need bright b.a.r.t. or bannon or anyone else to recite by heart the talking points of the alt right including on monuments and culture. >> how about thomas jefferson? what do you think about thomas jefferson? do you like him? are we going to take down statue? he was a major slave owner. are we taking that down? it's fine. you're changing history. you're changing culture. >> joining me now...

Top story on a full day of breaking news. remarkable interview with "the new york times" in which donald trump told about the conditions of which robert mueller might in his view go too far. asked if mueller's investigation would cross a red line if it expands to look at his family finances beyond any relationship to russia, mr. trump said, i would say yes. he would not say what he would do about it. i think that's a violation. look, this is about russia. joining me, charlie pierce for "esquire," and leon wolf at the blaze. welcome both of you. leon, what did you make with this? it sure sounds...

Distinction anymore between russian government officials and russian organized crime, but if i were working in that nether world, and, you know, i was looking for somebody who wanted -- who needed a lot of money, and i had some rubbles i needed cleaned, i know where i'd look. >> leon, at what point does the sort of com la tiff effect of these pronouncements start to penetrate the right? at what point do conservatives, republicans start to care? >> you know, it's difficult for me to say. i think most of the people that i talked to on the right have mostly totally tuned this issue out, to be a h...

"esquire," and leon wolf at the blaze. welcome both of you. leon, what did you make with this? it sure sounds like a threat to robert mueller. >> well, you know, it's interesting. it's not something that an ordinary president would do. of course, trump does things very differently from any other president before him. it certainly is something that sends up a lot of red flags. look, i don't know what the end result of all this russia investigation is going to be. i tend to think that the russians were more interested in sowing chaos than tipping the election one way or the other. but he sure do...

Concerned that russia is making you look bad, is there some innocent explanation i haven't thought of why he would take a side meeting without your interpreter, leon? >> again, donald trump just doesn't seem to have that little trigger in the back of his brain that says, you know, regardless of whether this is bad, it might look bad so i'm not going to do it. the thing that most politicians have, it doesn't seem to be present at all with him. i definitely don't know what the explanation is. i think that's likely we'll probably never know. >> charlie, if he doesn't have the little trigger in hi...