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Today, about jim comey, about the fbi, that to me is an indicator that we are getting close to that end game. >> david jolly, frank montoya, gentlemen, thank you so very much, both of you, for coming on tonight. and coming up for us, president trump tours the ravaged areas of north and south carolina. and per usual for all the meals and support he handed out, it's the side comments, the little moments that got much of the coverage today. more on that when we come back. (vo hand) can we talk?

May get some acquittals. but if i could, i think the defense is relying on two things. one is they eviscerated rick gates. they ran what you might have -- what amounts to a negative campaign against him, hoping to catch a juror to saying well, yeah, there's all this paper evidence, but can you believe this guy gates? it's almost classic trump campaign, don't look at me, look at the guy who is against me. the other is that judge lewis made a lot of side comments. he was almost like an opinion columnist at times that were not very kind to the prosecution. >> aren't you an opinion columnist, e.j....

Mispronouncing bashar al assad, which i think he did as well yesterday. at what point does he cease being a messenger for the white house -- he apologized for the hitler comments -- and become a distraction for the white house? >> anderson, as you know, as chief of staff i used to have a very close relationship with our press secretary mike mccurry. and my advice to mike was when you are doing these briefings, just answer the questions. don't embellish. don't go off and try to do more than you have to do in responding to the questions. because you always wind up getting in trouble when you do ...

She mentioned republicans get blamed for everything. what were you thinking? >> well, i mean, i -- i think sometimes maybe deservedly so. here's the thing. i don't think that a wayward comment from arnie duncan is going to have much of an impact on the president's bargaining position. here's where the president has to be worried. it's not the stuff leading up to the deal. it's the deal himself he keeps talking about. he keeps saying he's willing to cut medicaid, medicare, social security. these are wildly popular programs. on both sides of the aisle. in fact, most americans would rather raise ...

Parties. he's now a republican and will be doing some speaking at the gop convention. >> brian: give the president credit. he always stands up for the vice president. there was a few times he could make side comments, but he do is. >> gretchen: but why? he has to stand up for him examine many people would say this is the master plan of accusing the romney camp of certain things, then they're stick to go strategy. >> steve: apparently the strategy may be backfiring because the hill newspaper this morning talks about what's one thing the president had going for him all along? that's likeability....