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Both sides and the president s side, the Special Counsel side had a facetoface meeting last week. A rare facetoface meeting after weeks of informal discussions and were told by a source familiar myself, my colleague that Robert Muellers Team Provided more granularity on the topics they would like to discuss with the president in a possible interview under the umbrella of the firing of james comey as well as the firing of the former National Security adviser Michael Flynn. The specifics include the Attorney General Jeff Sessions role in the firing of james comey as well as what the president kn...

Do you fear that there will be this kind of internal fight in the democratic party that they could blow it against president trump and if so, how do we avoid tha that? will you welcome debate, because i certainly think there needs to be debate. but how do you have debate where it does not become so hostile that when the debate is over and you choose a nominee, that you can't bring the party back together again? >> you know, what i've seen in the senate with so many people thinking about running, it has been a very decent and gracious between those pondering running, so sharing different ideas,...

And actually, lawrence, only an authoritative figure would think that collaboration and god forbid republicans and democrats sorting out border security would be a waste of time. you know, i know in washington oftentimes governance is about theater than policy. and there has been an obsession over donald trump getting schooled in the art of the deal, and that probably happened. but the truth is governance is about testing ideas. and the idea of a wall was tested and it failed because it's just a bad ineffective idea. the idea of using a shutdown to get around the legislative process was tested...

He called the wall talks a waste of time. and actually, lawrence, only an authoritative figure would think that collaboration and god forbid republicans and democrats sorting out border security would be a waste of time. you know, i know in washington oftentimes governance is about theater than policy. and there has been an obsession over donald trump getting schooled in the art of the deal, and that probably happened. but the truth is governance is about testing ideas. and the idea of a wall was tested and it failed because it's just a bad ineffective idea. the idea of using a shutdown to get...

Go ahead. >> so we were testing messages and all kinds of imagery that included, you know, images of walls, people scaling walls, you know, we tested draining the swamp. testing ideas of the deep state and the nsa watching you and the government is, you know, conspiring against you. and a lot of these narratives which at the time would have seemed, you know, crazy for a mainstream candidate to run on. those were the things that we were finding that there were pockets of americans who this really appealed to. and steve bannon knew that. we were doing the research on it. and i was surprised when...