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United states and now we're hearing about it again. back in january trump threatened to impose a hefty fee on toyota if it builds corollas in mexico or they would pay a border wall tax. it would appear, i should say, on the surface that the president's pressure tactics may have worked in this case. is that fair to say? >> well, jacob, i think it's important to look at this in context. we have seen this president doing announcements with carrier and boeing and ford and harley-davidson and many of those job announcements didn't pan out. i want to wait and see if this factory ever gets built. i w...

What was wrong with this meeting with donald trump jr. >> are those two examples the same? >> no. i don't think they are. i mean, clearly, there's an attempt to put a moral equivalency here, which i don't think is going to pan out. taking a little bit of a turn here, let's focus for a second on what the russian intent was. i think that's an important part of this. it's clear to me someone who's worked with the russians that there was clearly a desire to try to make contact with the trump circle, trump orbit, but also a second thing. the types of people they are using. we've heard a lot of thes...

Where they think it should be, which is on the agenda, and kind of makes sure that the same message is getting out and there's some consistency there. i think the absence that we have in the kushner story is a lot of context around these meetings. why would he want to have a back channel of communications? is there an appropriate reason for doing so? what's the rest of the story between donald trump and the russians? are there details there, financial or otherwise that the public would want to know about that could potentially affect his ability to do the job? these are the questions that we'v...

Participation may have been? >> well, from an intelligence collection perspective, the russian -- it's consistent with the russian's modus operandi, they would cast a wide net looking at people inside of the trump campaign and frankly the other target they might be interested in, but they would be looking at guys like page, flynn, the rest of them. at the end of the day they might sit back and survey their catch and say, okay, who do we have contact with and what role are they going to play and i would agree, i think it's probably, you know, if i were a russian intelligence officer i would loo...

It's going to pan out. are you at all concerned? >> we haven't seen the cbo score and like to make a point, the original score was wholly defective. based on a static model that whole 24 million loss coverage is a myth and hopefully they're going to get a realistic score this time. no, i've been selling this thing and explaining to people, giving out handouts of the key bullet points and i think it's the best option we'll see. elizabeth: thank you for joining us and we appreciate your time and see how the future pans out. leland has the other side. leland: indeed, every democrat in the house v...