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>> no, there are not. it's absurd. there's no basis to it. >> i'm not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign, and i did not have communications with the russians. >> of course not. why would there be any contacts between the campaign? chris, this is all a distraction. >> and by the way, folks, in case you are curious. no, russia did not help me, okay? russia. i call it the russian hoax. one of the great hoaxes. >> we'll see about that. what you just listened to is a series of mistruths, falsehoods and inaccuracies. whatever you want t...

A real detailed accounting of the russia investigation. to hear him talk about and just come out and call all of these things lies was even, to me, and i feel like we ride the president pretty hard in a minute by minute fact-checking manner but to see him lay out the whole case was stunning. >> gersten is not the kind of guy that is known to be mean-spirited, even though i clearly was on the other side politically. and to hear him go through it categorically is frightening. when we see now that we are accepting as normal these kind of lies and half truths, we've gone from being outraged to alm...

What do you say to your critics, even some in your own party, who say it was the wrong thing to do? >> well, i let people think it was the right thing to do. sheriff joe is a patriot, loves our country. sheriff joe protected our borders. and sheriff joe was unfairly treated by the obama administration. >> in "the washington post" today michael gersten said, "the arpaio pardon constitutes the most forthright racist incitement of the trump era. complacency is permission. resistance is required. any party that swallows the trump/arpaio ethic will be poisoned." still, most congressional republican...

Party, who say it was the wrong thing to do? >> well, i let people think it was the right thing to do. sheriff joe is a patriot, loves our country. sheriff joe protected our borders. and sheriff joe was unfairly treated by the obama administration. >> in "the washington post" today michael gersten said, "the arpaio pardon constitutes the most forthright racist incitement of the trump era. complacency is permission. resistance is required. any party that swallows the trump/arpaio ethic will be poisoned." still, most congressional republicans remain silent on the arpaio pardon. senator dean hell...

Tweet, democratic strategist mike feldman, who served as senior adviser to vice president al gore, also as vice president gore's traveling chief of staff during the 2000 election. and michael gersten, former lead speechwriter for george w. bush. thank you both. what's wrong with the president's tweet, mike gersten? >> it makes sense from a certain perspective. he wants to keep running against hillary clinton and the media and it's because he's pursuing a base strategy. lock at the recent polling. strong support amongst republicans. if that were to collapse, he would have no support and so i th...