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Let's jack up the debt ceiling. let's keep spending. let's keep borrowing money and let's not provide meaningful relief to obamacare. >> why didn't you try block the final deal? >> i could have delayed it a day or two. that would have had no impact on the outcome. i'm interested in fighting fights where you can make a meaningful difference for the american people. >> real problem with what mr. cruz did was he turned to decent, devoted, conservative americans and said, i got a short cut. there aren't any short cuts. it was an act of supreme irrelevant responsibility to arouse the republican bas...

Angry public for shutting down the government. >> you had leadership in both parties come together and say, let's jack up the debt ceiling, let's keep spending. let's keep borrowing money and let's not provide meaningful relief to obamacare. >> why didn't you try to block the final deal? >> i could have delayed it a day or two. that would have had no impact on the outcome. i'm interested in fighting fights where you can make a meaningful difference for the american people. >> the real problem with what mr. cruz did was he turned to decent, devoted, conservative americans, and said, i got a sho...

The marshland, and i think you've got an emergency situation like this always listen to local officials. instead they've been basically spit on by bp over the past few weeks. >> reporter: and i want to ask you, kevin, about this. you're still feeling 95 days into this you're getting the brushoff from bp? they didn't show up for this meeting? >> i was insulted, completely. >> reporter: tell me what the situation was. >> we had a private meeting set up. the governor was there. the mayor of new orleans. all private. going to sit down like gentlemen and talk about the future and the recovery. >> r...

About hmueller's relationship with comey. there really isn't much of a relationship there. they've said, oh, mueller can't do this because him and comey are best friends and comey did this to get him appointed. well, indeed they have worked together in the past. mueller and comey did. they aren't really that close. they aren't really buddy buddy. there are folks that comey has been very close with over the years that he worked with as a prosecutor or that he took with him to the fbi, but there really isn't a relationship there. they've searsed ized on that as of undermining mueller. there's pr...

Gone beyond u.s. borders. how big of a problem is that for this white house? >> it's a big concern. look, this started out from the very beginning, when the first tweet came out, it was a credibility problem. there was no evidence to back this up. as more and more members of the house and senate intel committees have come out and say they don't see any evidence to back this up, it goes against his credibility. then it came into the phase of a political problem. as jeremy pointed out, now that it's across the pond, it's a diplomatic problem, and that's a concern. the comments repeated by sean s...