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And not one republican in washington stood up today and said that's not true. that's not the donald trump i know. the donald trump i know is not an idiot, not a dope and not dumb as -- not one republican stepped forward to defend donald trump against the labels all of which applied to donald trump in the book by members of donald trump's own staff. michael wolff book "fire and fury" says this about how the trump staff views the president. for steve mnuchin and reince priebus, he was an idiot. for gary cohn, he was dumb as -- for h.r. mcmaster, he was a dope. the list went on. and an e-mail tha...

It's worse than you can imagine. an idiot surrounded by clowns. trump won't read anything. not one-page memos not the brief policy papers. nothing. he gets up half way through the meetings with world leaders because he's bored and goes on pretty much in that vein. the thing about reading as much as i could in an hour through this book and looking at the highlights that we so painstakingly went through, there is almost no one you have heard of are and people frankly you have not heard of who haven't either complained about the president or someone within his inner circle and whom even the presi...

Challenge american values and wealth. we will attempt to build a great partnership with those and other countries, but in a manner that always protects our national interests. >> reporter: now speaking of foreign policy, of course, the president today is expected to meet with the defense secretary. that's going to be off camera. and we don't expect to see the president today in any public events. however, the white house will certainly be watching the activity on capitol hill as the president's tax plan makes its way through the congress. chris and alisyn, back to you. >> joe, thank you. >> le...

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>> but when people have worked on campaigns, i've worked on a couple campaigns, the foreign policy advisory committee doesn't necessarily sit down with the candidate. this is a committee that's putting down the policy papers, their work ends up in the speeches. they don't have to be in day-to-day contact. in the case of papadopoulos, the e-mails he sent to steven miller who i don't think they would argue is a trump figure. mr. papadopoulos e-mailed mr. miller, then a senior policy adviser to the campaign, saying mr. trump had an open invitation from mr. putin to visit russia. he had some inter...