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Weigh the effectiveness of pruitt versus the optics of this. no one ha has been found to be doing anything illegal or unethical. richard accused him. there iss unfolding the investigation. but nobody has ultimately concluded he has done anything wrong no matter how bat bad the optics. >> hold on aichld. scott do you have a maren -- amanda's mouth was just hit the floor when you said that. go ahead, amanda. >> well, like, here i worked in government probably under the rules that rich helped craft. ethics rules are not hard to follow. basically you can't accept gifts or favors can't misuse taxpa...

The matter more you are against n urgent now that the spk appeared to use a trip wire to set offer the latest explosion. >> a t. can be a filament wire, fishing line, a metal wire. so people need to pay attention to see if there iss is a devicet is seeded somewhere near because the trip wire would be attached to this device and it would pull on to activate. so that is what we need, people paying attention for suspicious objects, bags, boxes, backpacks, anything that looks out of place. >> the mayor of austin is joining us now live. mayor steve, i'm sorry for what your city is experiencing. giv...

And that is for a host of reasons, including the way he handled the charlottesville incident and a whole bunch of other reasons that people are just frustrated and disappointed in this president. >> but the question is what does that do for him in 2018. can he as you artfully phrase it stop being a legislative loser? >> well, he is hoping that he can get into next year and that this will push him into firmer political ground and also that he will be able to get momentum for infrastructure and for some other agenda items like welfare, changing the women fair program. i don't know that that will...

Next year because he got a tax cut. it's not going to happen. >> it is a stunning contradiction, because if you look back historically, how the economy is doing is so important to how people vote. it's so important to people's perceptions of the president. this is the kind of thing, i'm sure, kellyanne conway is feeling more positive than we are right now because -- right, but this contradiction that the president can't seem to overcome, while we constantly see him tweeting about the stock market, tweeting about the jobs numbers, because he feels like people should like him more because the ec...

Ways? i strongly disagree with the administration's actions here. if the president and my colleagues want to continue the war in afghanistan, then at the very least, congress should vott on it, i'll insist they do it this fall and i'll be leading the charge for know."fo your reaction to that? >> i'll be leading the charge for yes. i trust general mattis, dunford, and kelly more than i trust general paul. i think he is a worse general than general obama, believe it or not. general paul has been wrong about everything in this war. it is that kind of thinking that got us into 9/11. you may be tir...