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Comparisons? >> well, you know, i think that the job of fact-checking in realtime, which is what the fact-checking for the state of the union was, you know, is difficult. and some of it may seem, you know, too exacting or nitpicking but, you know, he did make several errors in the speech, including his claim that there are more women in the workforce than at any point in history. so, you know, i think some of it. >> martha: but that moment when he was talking about the more women in the workforce who are members of congress and he sort of and said good for you and then the instant reaction is,...

Mitt romney is going to bring in a whole new dose of reality for this president. mitt's run for president himself and he didn't win. you know what he decided to do? serve anyway. and i think trump is going to regret not talking him out of this. there was some possibility he could have done that. mitt romney is making it very clear he's going to be much more than a thorn in president trump's side. what's your gut on how that dynamic plays out? >> a couple of different things occurred to me after reading the piece last night, mika. one was that there was an immediate round of nitpicking on twitt...

Mueller investigation are sort of nitpicking the problem is there seems to be a pattern of illegal activity from the very beginning. it appears to many people, why do they keep going after him. it's just 50,000 here, and just 50,000 there. >> we haven't seen the mueller report. this is just like the acorns around it. >> exactly, and so we know that this is, you know, any new yorker will tell you, this is one of the most corrupt americans we have ever seen in the history of any business, to be quite honest, and now he holds the highest, most respected office in our nation. so for the people aro...

With what happened with the russia investigation which the president questioned the conclusion of for many months and hasn'tm bra embraced totall until today. they see an intelligence community that feels like it's, you know, solutions, its assessments are not being taken seriously and being acted upon. what is the worst thing you can say about the intelligence community. it's that their work is not being regarded by the person who is responsible for making these decisions. and now we have a second very high-profile example of the president basically disregarding an assessment of high confiden...

Where is all of this heading? >> dana: i think that what the president is doing is saying -- this is an issue that we should talk about. it's an issue that we talked about on the campaign and we should do something about it. i don't know if he specifically is saying that -- well, he said he could do it by executive order. i don't know who told him that maybe there is a piece of it that he could do. there is no doubt this has been a debate within legal circles for a long time. john hugh who worked with the bush administration teaches at berkeley thinks there is no way can you do this without an...