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>> nick, what do you think the stakes are for the white house in this fuller picture being painted? two schools of thought emerging. one, the damage has been done to the fbi, some polls showing republicans now distrust the fbi more than they did before this whole episode. another school of thought being that this was such a that the president's moved on to smearing the fbi agents who were one of his favorite targets. where do you come down? >> look, i don't think he has much to lose by allowing it to come out. i think the damage is done. he does most of the damage to the fbi on twitter and by ...

Worried about russia. i laughed out loud. it was a laugh-cry when i got to that section. he had to get this into the hands of a republican because they used to care about russia. >> i have to say i love reading this piece. and when the liam neeson movie comes out, escaping cybers, i can't wait to see it. exactly, from jared and ivanka on a ski slope. i look at this as a larger problem. it's not just the u.k. it's also andrea merkel in germany. >> israel. >> israel. we have had relationships with you for years and not only are you saying we're incompetent and not good leaders, you're not trusti...

I was your guest at bastille day and it was one of the greatest parades i've ever seen. we may do something like that on july 4 in washington down pennsylvania avenue. i don't know, we're going to have to try and top it. >> they laughed, it sounded so farfetched people in the room laughed when he said it. but here we are five months later talking about president trump's desire for an official military parade. the white house is insisting it's all still in the early preliminary stages, but if this does happen, here's the club the united states would join. north korea, china, and russia regularl...

Doesn't, it puts the fbi director and quite frankly department of justice in a trap. do they come out publicly and start rebutting the republican memo line by line and therefore appear to be politicized, which is the worst thing you can do if you're the director of the fbi. or do they hopefully allow this to come out and let it speak for itself. >> let's speculate. i've been led to believe one of the things that's inaccurate in that memo is the idea that the fisa court wasn't aware of christopher steele's feelings about the president. or as you have said, other people have said, i think you sa...

But, nicolle, back to your point about the role rob porter played, we can't underscore enough how important he was to the operation of this white house. in particular, to john kelly's mission to bring order and some discipline to what had been a very chaotic west wing. rob porter is one of the few people there who has any past government experience, who is a professional in terms of working in the government, working in politics, and working with policy. and i think it's one of the reasons why last night and again this morning john kelly was trying so hard to help save his job and keep him the...