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The fact that they think how are we a national security threat. >> part of the story that i want to get your thoughts on, the president saying that perhaps the summit should be widened to the g-8 to include russia. we know they were taken out of the original g-8 because of the illegal annexation of crimea i can't. >> there goes your argument that he wants to be an isolationist. now he wants to bring in russia. look, i watched live as the president made those comments about russia. i was going -- as a republican -- >> you and me both. >> where is he going with this? what i think he's doing, he'...

No official mechanism for dispersing any funds either. so we don't have any idea what's going on there, despite that strange seemingly dead-end effort at setting up white house-based legal defense fund. a small group of trump adjacent figures who have been caught up in the russia scandal have also started setting up their own funds. you might remember rick gates had one before he decided to plead guilty. he got in trouble with the court at one point for making this weird hostage video skyped in statement to a fundraiser that had been called on his behavior. the fundraiser itself was weird. it ...

Fund-raiser itself was weird. it seemed to have been attended mostly by journalists there who wondered who would turn up. they realized they were all writing about each other. michael flynn has pled guilty. he's awaiting sentencing while he cooperates with prosecutors. he, too, has set up a public facing legal defense fund. now today there is a new one. a sort of, well, it just seems a little off kilter. a strange new legal defense fund for donald trump for president campaign chairman paul manafort. now, i need to tell you we don't know exactly who set this up. part of me thinks it might be a ...

Talking about, america not being an honest broker in the region anymore. one thing i've been hearing from skeptics about the peace process is there really is no peace process right now. there's nothing to throw off kilter or to stall. because it's dead essentially. so what i've heard from trump allies is we're moving the embassy. yes, it would have been nice to give something to the palestinians as well that has equal symbolic value to keep both parties at the table, but there's no peace process that they are interrupting right now by making this move and that's another reason why they thought...

Be best appears to be a really broad set of initiatives, and it doesn't appear to be targeted on something that the administration's working on. so the opioid crisis for example, would have been -- you know, that's pretty broad. that's pretty ambitious as is. but she appears to be really branching out from that, and that is a big deviation. >> i do think yeah that the white house would most certainly say that they have worked on opioid policy initiatives that that's been important for the president so i would imagine they would argue those two thing can fit together. the cyber bullying piece a...