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Anyone in the senate republican leadership, any key republican members of the house they say this is a really bad idea. >> well, the fact of the matter is if you change the filly buster rule, if president obama and harry reed and nancy pelosi had changed it for legislation the country would look dramatically different because president obama would have been able to do everything he wanted to achieve and i think that would have been bad for the country. so i think the rule does play an important role. to go back to the debt ceiling tweet, i think the most important thing we should see in that i...

But anyhow that's how we stand with the wall. then he's trying to make an enemy out of mcconnell and ryan, trying to distance himself from them. if things go south this fall if either there's a debt ceiling problem or the budget doesn't pass, or the wall funding is not there, or tax reform blows up, all of these potential failures trump wants to be as far away from that bomb as he can and be able to go around the country and say, it's your fault, paul ryan, it's your fault mitch mcconnell, you weren't able to get my agenda passed. >> robert costa, you're as well sourced as anybody inside the h...

Trump and leader mcconnell are vacationing in new jersey, or hanging out at mar-a-lago. what really matters is that these two men agree on 95% of the republican agenda. i don't think the fact that tweets or tactics or timing, none of that changes the fact that at the core, these two men are trying to achieve the same object ifs and i think the whole notion of this conflict threatening that agenda is overblown. >> well, you knowing but i'm not making it up when i do a dramatic reading right now of a statement the president made to millions of people a short time ago. he says -- let me see. well...

Coming back to. i think when they come back in september, after labor day, they certainly have a very busy a plate, only 12 legislative days. but the fact that they agree on what the core objectives of that period should include, i think is the most important point. >> ryan, one of the things, bones of contention appears to be russian. broad pli speaking and specially the russia investigation. we understand the president had a phone call with mitch mcconnell, that phone call dealt with the russian sanctions. also, the russia investigation which the president doesn't approve of. and we know he ...

He doesn't reach for his glasses, he starts tweeting. gene, weigh in on this for us. >> well, he was long a reputa e reputable, a highly respected journalist as bret says. so it's probably the -- you know, what he testified to, what he reported is probably pretty good. now again we don't know, we haven't seen the testimony. it's probably in much greater detail than what's in the dossier. maybe some of the backing up -- some of the backup information was discussed. and again it may not be true. but he's a good reporter. >> and then i cut you off, but philip bump what i want to know from you, pu...