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Testimony and whatever mueller is able to use, it will be sort of, you know, not believed by the public or not believed by some of the republicans who would be deciding, in a hypothetical world whether or not to start calling for more scrutiny of this president as they head into the next congress. >> julia, a question about the staff members in the white house right now. they see that michael flynn is potentially going to be thrown under the bus. someone who the president likes this much and cares for this much is willing to conform to that strategy. what is it doing to inside the white house ...

The budge through and we're tackling tax reform as early as this next week or two, i think that indicates we can multitask. rick: i know you're in the first year of your first term in congress. is this what you expected? >> heavens, no. [laughter] no, you know, this has been a wild ride. it's very busy, very intense, and the division that's in the country today is so vitriolic that i'm surprised by that. but we still have to keep doing our job as members of congress, and that's what i'm committed to do. rick: and you're saying despite the an animosity and the divisi, you are getting things don...

People close to the white house, that there is a bigger picture here. they've achieved something strategic with these meetings that are still going on now. again, you're close to the white house. what do you think it is they're going to point to this week as having been a success? >> i think at the surface level, we need to recognize the leadership that president trump is showing on the world stage. i think there is a three dimensional chess game going on that many folks might not realize. obviously, we've seen the president reach out to allies. we saw the speech in poland. the will of the wes...

And matt miller former justice department spokesperson made an interesting point. he may be trying to set up senators tomorrow to ask better questions to get beyond some of the surface level stuff and really get to it tomorrow. >> i wondered all day why james comey agreed to have his testimony released today. in effect it seemed upstaging his testimony tomorrow. i think, my guess on this is he wanted to get it out there, that opening statement so he can hear what the critics say, so he can read some of the op-ed pieces that he might see early tomorrow morning so he can go into the testimony ca...

>> here's what he said on "new day" this morning. >> i call it political chemo their peechlt one of my friends who i always thought was really smart, he had a different viewpoint on president trump. he said, mark, i've voted for politicians my entire life. he's in his 50s. doing the same thing over and over expecting different results and so i voted for donald trump. is he poisonous in a lot of respects? yeah. this is our chemotherapy. we hope he's going to change the political system. >> so mark cuban is saying basically he's poison to the political system but you hope he kills the bad cells ...