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President awarding himself a no-bid federal contract to host the g7 summit of world leaders. welcome to friday. it's "meet the press" daily and good evening. yes, this was one of those weeks. i am chuck todd. how many more weeks like this one can elected republicans in capitol hill stomach? the president has lost control of the impeachment inquiry. he's copped to asking foreign governments to investigate his political rivals. his top diplomats are testifying to how he enlisted the state department in that effort. then his acting chief of staff admitted to a quid pro quo with ukraine and then...

Self-dealing? how can they defend denials of a quid pro quo after mulvaney's performance yesterday? how can they credibly claim he's not trying to interfere in the 2020 election after he's publicly admitted he's done it? and how can the republicans credibly -- including those who worked with this president are calling it a major failure. how can they do it? look. we know that if charlottesville, helsinki, mueller, family separations, you name it, weren't breaking points for the gop then, syria and ukraine might not be either. but while the president may have a group of fiercely loyal republica...

Blowing right through snthem? >> the president over the past several years has destroyed the different norms that applied historically in the united states. the question is whether he's abusing his power. look, this issue with the doral country club is part of a pattern of corruption. there is no other way to say it, and self-dealing as i think gloria was saying, that goes back several years. the mueller report is replete with examples of a pattern of corruption that should be unacceptable in this country, and the question is whether the congress of the united states and ultimately the voters ...

Country as sort of a beacon? you know what his answer was? no. next question. >> they don't care. self-dealing is not in the vocabulary, and what mulvaney was saying was, look, if we do it, it's just fine. thls the best place in the entire united states, and the president suggested it and thought it was a great idea. and, again, it goes back to what dana was saying, which is, yes, we're doing it, so what? >> to that point, jim baker, we have this so what, i don't care element as dana and gloria just put it, how much is what a president does, what a white house does normally governed by norms r...

Other leaders there anyway. for example i met with scott morris on the prime minister and even though they are not there i assume he came in to invite the president emmanuel macron. but the question i got originally turning it from the g7 into the g8. okay. >> could he simply invite president putin? >> mick: yes, kenny physically do that, yeah, he can. >> and he's president. would he consider doing that? >> mick: knock him up. i think the conversation with her the g7 to the g8, that could be an intermediate step, yes, sir. >> you mentioned the president is willing to take the criticism, but wh...