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Hes made comments about the assassination of journalists and hes joked, his Administration Says it was a joke about murdering somebody whether he he was younger. This is somebody who is not a traditional leader ally like you might see in other parts of the region. Yet, the president and white house have talked about this friendly relationship between the two. I think you saw that here in manila. The two toasting. At one point duterte singing a love song in honor of the president , getting up on stage and delivering this duet with lyrics like you are the light of my life, the half of my heart. ...

Mark mazzeti mazzeti. i gave him his first job, i think in government in the first reagan term when i suggested that he find a spot in the white house counsel's office. he was very effective for us. he was effective in the -- in the first bush administration. controversial in the second bush administration. john has some very deeply held views, many of which i disagree with fundamentally, but he's a -- i think he's -- i know he's a patriot and he's an extraordinarily able and capable public servant. >> that was james baker who served as chief of staff and secretary -- treasury secretary under ...

National interest or their own interests. >> mark, it's steve, an impression one has up here is that john dowd wanted to get off of this train to preserve whatever is left of his reputation and get out of washington more or less intact. with that said why would john dowd so flatly deny your report in the "times" today. there was know kwification, no nothing and he's on his way south there's no need to protect the president at this point. >> i'm not sure. i'm not sure why he would deny it. you say there's no equivocation. i thought some of the wording of the statement was interesting but i'll t...

Heads to florida to get his legislative agenda jump started but mika at this point most legislators, republicans i'm talking to on capitol hill say they're bunkering down preparing for the midterm elections. . they don't mention major legislation to roll through this year. >> and mark ma saidty, on the big pardon talk story, what's day two of the questions you'll be looking at. >> the obvious question is the extent that dowd consulted with trump or trump ordered dowd to make these calls. i time what the president knew and when did he know it is still the operative question here because that ge...

And fat it is incendiary language that frankly the president avoided when he was in seoul. remember that speech at the national assembly earlier on on this trip? he won praise for the tone of that delivery, sort of that sober assessment of the threat from north koreaing that very direct message to both kim jong-un and the north korean people laying out the contrast what is and what could be if the world were to confront the threat of north korea and take more action against pyongyang. you had that in the beginning half of the trip. the latter half of the trip, you saw the tweets that took some...