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The administration -- how many peegts were there who said what let's get it out on the table. until they can do that and level on the russia issues it's carrying on being an issue. >> and i easha you were briefed on the plans for the ongoing agenda which are as strong as the president's weakest tweet going into the next business day. >> the white house right now they're trying to get a focus on legislative accomplishments. they are complaint noy one is focusing on what they're trying to get done. they haven't had a major legislative accomplishments other than passing health care reform through...

Publicly against russia in this period was that they were more concerned about tampering with election machineries, tampering with election day processes themselves and that was sort of the first priority at that point. which haven't seen evidence up until now that that actually succeeded in any way. and you know i haven't done any reporting on this particular report so i can't vouch one way or the other but obviously it raises important questions. >> catty, a piece of work phillip rucker filed for the "washington post" came over the weekend came to the headline to your point trump reacts to l...

Expressing any note of sympathy or condolences to the british people. it was a very unusual way for a president to react we're used to presidents sort of urging calm and speaking in these sort of terms of coming together and reaching out to allies. and instead trump went straight for the jugular and tried to fan this for the base. we see him continuing that today. his campaign actually issued an aappeal to list serve to the email addresses of many millions of trump voters around the country urging to help him fight to defend the travel ban with the courts. trump and advisers see this as an iss...

Is reporting for your newspaper i'll read the headline as trump lashes out republicans grow uneasy. that may be the understatement of the century, is it not? >> yeah and it's something you could have had that headline every week of this presidency. it's an ongoing problem for president trump in dealing with this congress and on capitol hill. the republicans have the majority there. there is a substantive agenda of legislative items the republican party would like to advance in the majority. it's something president trump would like to do too and nothing is getting done because we have controve...

White house correspondent tor i iesh hereby of an with us round out our very own subcommittee of white house press. white house bureau chief for are the "washington post" phillip rucker. peter i'm beginning with you because you were the last to file of this group. you filed a story tonight that says among other things what appears to be the president's simering anger, a lot of it goes back to attorney general jeff sessions. please explain how that is. >> well if you look at today's twitter storm, there are lots of things you can take out. one of the things you can take is the president's seemi...