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Obstru obstructing, you not only don't have to pay a price but get rewarded for it. that only means the playbook for the opposition the next time around is to do the same thing. watch, rinse and repeat and you have exact same thing, watch, rinse and repeat and almost all of the norms are taken off. >> but really quickly, mark, is mitch mcconnell a guy who wants to be known as somebody who threw all that tradition out the window? >> yeah. and chris, there is -- he does not want to have to do this and eliminate the filibuster, but he's made it pretty clear that he will if he needs to get there. ...

Government regulations and the president's agenda. and those are just structural barriers to legislative breakthroughs. we're not even going to revisit the pledges of mitch mcconnell or ted cruz to oppose anything obama proposes because, you know, obama proposed it. but you don't beat these kind of barriers with tee time. you can beat them with public pressure. that's what ultimately made this do-nothing house pass the violence against women act six months ago. and the president promptly signed it. you can beat these barriers with aggressive parliamentary tactics, not taking shots together dow...

Has to continue on your confessional, he has his good angel and bad and he's still wrestling right now at least publicly with whether he did the right thing or somebody else would have done something differently and the question is whether he's saying that as a way to try to not seem like he is as people are accusing him of being holier than now and the moral compass he whether that's a genuine internal discussion. >> the thing is about it, the idea of him wrestling with it is right but the justice department is structured in a way he would never have to. if the prosecutor who decides whether ...

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What always struck me and still strikes me as unlikely but i would have been able to say that with high confidence about any other president i dealt with but i can't, not with this president. so when you want to look at his credibility, he's got ego, his book is full of criticism so the president perhaps shouldn't have made the size of his hands, the color of his hair, his tan, et cetera, et cetera, put that ego aside and the arguments he makes here about the man he is dealing with is persuasive. >> he was a witness in the room for some of these conversations. >> i want to bring in evan perez ...