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neonazi there's bipartisan outrage and this. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. plus, fire, fury and more. >> he will truly regret it and he will regret it fast. >> an escalating war of words
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with north korea and a big gop family feud. the president blames the top senate republican for his stalled agenda. >> i'm very disappointed in mitch. "inside politics" the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thanks for sharing your sunday. a sad morning after in charlottesville, virginia. a federal civil rights investigation is opening now and an ohio man faces a state murder charge. president trump is under fire for his response to the violence, adding to the pot slig light he faces this week. he grows frustrated that beijing won't or do more to rein in north korea's missile or nuclear programs. it's a gamble of escalating trump rhetoric at that times caught his own national security team off guard.
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>> north korea best not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen. plus, no summer break for republican dysfunction. still without even one big legislative win. the president side steps any blame and lashes out at the senate majority leader. >> i'm very disapointed in mitch. but if he gets these bills passed, i will be happy with him, i will be the first to admit it. honestly, repeal and replace of obamacare should have taken place. we begin with that state of emergency and the political fallout after saturday's deadly violence. >> i have a message to all the white supremest and our message is plain and simple. go home. you are not wanted in this great
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commonwealth. shame on you. you pretend you are a patriot, but you are anything but a patriot. >> with us to share their reporting and insights, manu raju and karen demersion of "washington post." what presidents say in big moments matter. sometimes what they don't say matters just as much. make no mistake, president trump did condemn the deadly charlottesville violence. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. on many sides. it's been going on for a long time in our country. not donald trump, not barack obama. it's been going on for a long, long time. >> but that many sides failed the presidential test and the
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source of remarkable condemination this morning across the political spectrum. no, president trump cannot be held responsible for the trump campaign signs held by some of the white nationalist marchers nor held responsible for these words. >> this represents a turning point for the people of this country. we are determined to take our country back. we're going to fulfill the promises of donald trump. that's what we believed in. that's why we voted for donald trump. he said he is going to take our country back. >> but it should not be too much to expect the president of the united states to specifically condemn neo-nazis and white nationalists especially when they claim some affinity with him. by failing to do so the president as much of an issue as the marchers in their reprean reprehensible view. one of many republicans who say the president came up way short. mr. president, we must call evil
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by its name. this was domestic terrorism. white supremacists are the ant hst. >> why this could be a very different morning. the president understands his history and he had access to the video and if he added one sentence to what he said. there are strong words on what the president said. he added one sentence saying, i do not stand with you. i do not stand for you. you do not represent me. go away, you have no place. something to that effect. anything to that effect and we're having a different conversation this morning. but he didn't when he spoke. he didn't in his tweets and he's had hours since and he hasn't cleaned it up. why? >> he chose a different sentence. actually, if you want to be perfectly honest about it. that on all sides is what he chose to word a strongly worded
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speech. not the suggestion that you are suggesting that many republicans want him to say. name white nationalism by name and that's a very different choice on all sides. >> this was a slam dunk. i mean, this was very easy for him to do. condemn white supremacists. that's something that virtually everybody who is in politics they do. they condemn white supremacists and that's what we saw last night from republican after republican. i thought corey gardner's statement was remarkable. he's someone who has been careful in his criticism of the president unlike a lot of other republicans. and he represents, of course, purple state, swing state in something that could, you know, a state that could easily flip. a seat that he could potentially lose when he runs again for re-election. but the larger question that i think a lot of republicans have, is why the president show no nuance in dealing with north korea and mitch mcconnell and
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dealing with other people he is concerned with. when it comes to white supremacists or even vladimir putin, he does not go out and condemn them. that's a lot of questions -- >> we could be having a very different conversation this morning about a president who seven months in, a lot of people say he's drifting change the conversation if you just looked straight into the camera and say i didn't represent you, you don't represent me. go home. >> part of being president is finding opportunities. right. if there has been a lot of criticism over the months and over the years that donald trump hasn't denounced sort of the white nationalist. you know, he brings bannon into the white house. but, so, but here's a moment, right? here's the opportunity for him to fix some of that. you've got white national, you have white nationalists and it's not a generic question. they're marching in an american city and somebody dies.
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that's the opportunity, if you want, you can take and sort of put this to rest and he didn't. >> when i -- as yesterday's events were unfolding, i interpreted the president's initial caution with his words wanting to get it right, wanting to understand who was driving the car. what they were a part of. the big picture. but as the hours have gone on and the story has become clearer, i think the problem for the president is that the absence of a more decisive statement creates a vacuum where everyone is going to interpret what he's doing and not doing. so, even now if he doesn'tant -- even if he didn't want to insert himself and make a pointed statement, the expectation now is very high. it's sunday morning. he has an entire day to figure out how to handle this. but at this point, we have no, no word from the white house on the plan. >> plenty of time to clean this up and change this. he should have got it right the first time. just the president by himself should have understood the
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moment. the hateful propaganda of the marchers, the neo-nazi and the white supremacist said this. trump's comments were good. he didn't attack us. he just said the nation should come together. nothing specific against us. we need to study why people are so angry and imply there was hate on both sides. no condemnation at all. that may not be fair to the president. however, he has to know that. he has to -- if he had just simply looked them in the eye and said i don't speak for you. you don't speak for me. they can't do that. >> also, words have meanings to different people, unfortunately. we don't have absolute definitions of words until white supremacist bigotry doesn't mean, oh, you're talking about white supremacist. maybe that means anti-white bigotry. in the world view that these people have. and the president, i mean, this is not happening in a vacuum. at this point the president or his advisors should understand this and understand he is criticized when he's not
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absolutely -- and even that, the white nationalism reaction don't exist. there are people who have questions of where the moral barometer of this administration is. not remembering jews on holocaust memorial day and tillerson saying human rights can get in the way -- minnesota mosque. exactly. it's thing after thing after thing and this is the most serious or egregious thing that we've seen because of what michael was saying. it results -- it's so blatant. >> the death of a woman who was hit by that car. two virginia state police officers dead in a helicopter that crashed that was down there for that reason. to that point, is it a breaking point is the question for me in the sense that you see republicans coming out. a lot of criticism from democrats and we'll get to that throughout the hour. if you look, we mentioned more moderate republicans, you might
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say. ted cruz a former primary rival to the president. the nazi and repulsive and evil and all of us have an obligation to speak out against the hatred that they propagate. i urge the department of justice to immediately investigate and prosecute this domestic terrorism. senator orrin hatch, we should call evil by its name. my brother didn't give his name fighting hitler for nazi challenges to go unchallenged here at home. >> if you won't say it, we will. by the way, you should say it. i mean, two things going on. one are the political ramifications of what is happening. this a moment of national tragedy. a moment of national discussion. it is august, it was a saturday. i think a lot of people were doing other things when it happened. this is a terrible thing that happened and a moment of crisis and requires presidential --
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>> look, one of the things that happened. president and white houses sometimes get things wrong. i remember when president obama announced the beheading of the journalist in isis in 2014 when he was on martha's vineyard and then went to play golf. it was a moment that they sort of misjudged and misunderstood the sort of feeling in the country. but they came back and quickly, you know, canceled the rest of his golf for the rest of the trip and kind of changed it up. and it's 8:00, 8:12 now. i mean, the question is, does he go and play golf today in bedminister before he fixes this? does he come out and make a statement? does he at least tweet. i mean, usually by now he would have been up and fired off a couple of tweets. >> we know who he is. we know he followed the coverage yesterday. we know he's up early on a sunday morning reviewing the newspapers and the news program. why? why? let's assume. we're all human.
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human beings make mistakes. if they were being coshes and didn't have the full information or wanted to wait yesterday. fine. but, why? why are we still sitting here with the president saying many sides, not white supremacy is evil and neo nazi have no place in america. >> you have to remember sebastian gorka one of the president's advisors in the white house was suggested in a radio interview that white supremacy may not be as big of a problem as some people in the media believe. that, of course, is crazy considering that white supremacists have been responsible for a significant amount of debt since 9/11. actually more than islamic terrorists here in this country. so, there is a concern that some people in this white house may not be taking the threat of white supremacists serious enough and the president by not denouncing that. >> i would add ratings. he seems concerned about alien
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alienating any part of his base. if gorka is right about what he said, he shouldn't be concerned. a few hundred people in the streets not a few million people movement thing. it is small numbers, but with a very, very large -- >> no job in the world worth having if that's the way to get it. the president escalating rhetoric now comes an escalating trade stare down with china. ♪ ♪ i'm living that yacht life, life, life ♪ ♪ top speed fifty knots life on the caribbean seas ♪ ♪ it's a champagne and models potpourri ♪ ♪ on my yacht made of cuban mahogany, ♪ ♪ gany, gany, gany, gany ♪ watch this don't get mad (bell mnemonic) get e*trade and get invested finally partner. our own hmmhmmmmmm.
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welcome back. locked and loaded. fire and fury. and more. >> if he does anything with respect to guam or any place else that's an american territory or an american ally, he will truly regret it. and he will regret it fast. >> unorthodox to say the least. the president of the united states in a daily, sometimes hourly rhetorical escalation with north korea.
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maybe you think it's long past time to stand up to bully dictators. maybe you see such talk as reckless. so, help me explain this. from a call designed to reassure guam's governor after north korea threatened to show its missiles to reach a u.s. territory. >> have become extremely famous all over the world they're talking about guam and they're talking about you and, i can say this. you're going to go up like ten fold with the expenditure -- >> is that funny? i try, you try to give like, okay, people are different. this president has a different style and trying to put the governor at ease and get him to relax after these north korean threats. when you're talking about locked and loaded and building the american people up for pay attention here. >> come watch our lovely sunsets
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bombs falling from the sky in guam. not the greatest selling point. if it is, in fact, a tourism pitch. good for the president feeling better himself, but i don't know how it would put the presidents of guam -- >> it's dissident when you're talking about a subject as deadly serious as not only potential war on the korean peninsula, but nuclear war. so, it came across as a kind of particularly insensitive moment when, you know, there's people worried about what could come from his rhetoric. >> in the president's defense, he inherits a nightmare scenario. the clinton administration didn't get this right. the bush administration didn't get this right. the obama administration didn gt this right. at times china helps and at times china pulls back. the president inherits a cumulative mess, if you will. is this the right way out including this from the president this past week? >> the people that were
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questioning that statement was too tough, maybe it wasn't tough enough. they have been doing this for our country for a long time, many years. it's about time somebody stuck up for the people of this country and the people of other countries. if anything, maybe that statement wasn't tough enough. >> what would be tougher than fire and fury? >> you'll see. you'll see. >> you'll see, you'll see. from the president there on thursday and on friday here's part of what he said you'll see. military solutions are in place locked and loaded and hopefully kim jong-un will find another path. if you talk to folks that pentagon, they haven't been told to evacuate americans or told to put ships or missiles on high alert. the white house would say, well, we mean all these contingency plans in place. again, some people say, good. get in kim jong-un's face and make clear you're ready to act. other people say, wait a minute, that's drawing a line. what if we're having this conversation two months from now. is the president's credibility
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at risk? >> so, in this past week we're really seeing the president be tested in that sort of what is going to happen when the phone rings at 3:00 in the morning. on issues that are not created by him. on issues that are not kind of created by politicians, right? what you see in charlottesville is a domestic example of that. you have to respond. no control over it. then what you see happening in north korea, you have to respond. you have some control over it. but not that much control over it. we're really seeing him. this is one of the early times of his administration. what is his instinct tell him to do when he decides to go off script and decide to push a little stronger. obviously, by making that joke to the leader of guam, you know, the president is saying, don't worry. nothing imminent is happening. that's, obviously, what he's saying. but he is, his statements, which are meant to prod china and north korea have impacts on guam, south korea, japan. and that is --
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>> also other allies all around the world. you're right. mostly to start when the president of the united states says something like this, what are we supposed to think about it? >> remarkable to see the president go further than his advisors or his advisors trying to clean up what he has been saying afterward. which is why i think we saw one reason the president answer questions at length from pool reporters at his golf club because he realizes that things that he says may be with what his advisors say and the world needs to know exactly what the president is thinking. when his adviser explains what he's thinking, doesn't go in line with what the president is tweeting or suggesting publicly. >> we can laugh at the comedy of the conversation with the governor of guam but this is serious business. north korea has made remarkable faster than anticipated progress in developing an icbm. the length of its ballistic missiles to reach the united states or guam or hawaii. they're shrinking, miniaturizing
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a nuclear weapon. listen to senator lindsey graham here if you don't think this is serious about this. >> we have two bad options. one is to let them get a missile to hit america or go to war to stop them. china should have two bad options. deal with a nut job in your backyard or realize there will be a war in your backyard. >> that's -- that's -- is that common on capitol hill? do they think it's at that point? >> it's all up to china. it's been all up to china for a long time. china is the one that has the most leverage over north korea and the idea of using sharper terms to call the north korean leader a nut job versus somebody who is the leader of a rogue state is all well and good. but the basic chess game of this has not changed. except for the fact that we're now talking in bigger and bolder terms about military options and leading open the question of, would there be a strike. >> the president comes back tomorrow and says we're going to have another investigation of
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what he views is unfair chinese trade practices, is that enough to push china? >> again, this is something he has been kicking around for a long time as a discussion point on capitol hill that nobody passed a bill to sanction china. very, very big step. >> capitol hill doesn't know what the president is going to do. some leaders of the key committees have been briefed on the plans of going forward. i think they're just as much in the dark as a lot of the country. a lot of the rest of the world. >> we'll see the president interrupting his vacation and come back to washington to deliver his statement on the chinese aspect of this and see if he'll take some questions. up next, did the president fail a key leadership test in his response yesterday for that virginia violence? ♪ ♪ award winning interface. award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90. the most awarded luxury suv of the century.
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welcome back. the day after story from charlottesville, virginia, should be about concerns for those killed and hurt and about condemning hatred and bigotry. led by our leaders, including our president. >> we must remember this truth. no matter our color, creed, religion or political party, we are all americans first. >> there should be no argument there. whatever your politics. but specificity matters at times of testing. and here the president fell far short of condemning the white supremacist neo-nazi stirring the weekend hatred. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. on many sides.
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it's been going on for a long time in our country. not donald trump. not barack obama. it's been going on for a long, long time. >> it's interesting when you watch that and you watch it repeatedly. a lot of people noted the president was reading from a script and he waves his hand, not donald trump, not barack obama, was clearly an ad lib. that is where a lot of people, you know, people close to the president won't attest their name to it. on days like this, moments like this we needed him to keep his head on that script and instead we have this. >> also, it wasn't about the president before he said that. it was about the country. now it's about the president because he said that. >> his daughter this morning, ivanka trump tweeting at 8:09 this morning. no place in society for racism. we must all come together. good for her. good for her. i'll say it, again. good for her. but she's not the president.
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where is the president? >> we don't know whether the president will retweet his daughter now. in a lot of ways you measure what he's reading. what is getting his attention. he has been retweeting already concerned about the law enforcement officers. sort of killed as part of their response yesterday. so, look, i think the next few hours really are important in terms of the white house and this president understanding the implications of that vacuum. what the reaction has been in deciding to step in. >> john, rhetoric is important. we have been talking a lot about what he says and so is policy. not that long ago before this incident that it was reported that the department of homeland security as it sort of renews some grants on combatting extremi extremism. they are refocusing towards extremism and dropping programs that were aimed at white
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nationalists and neo-nazis and the like. so, part of what they have -- the white house has to look at is not just what he says, but what this white house does in pursuing this kind of thing and what that says about where, kind of where this white house is. >> to that point before you jump in, i want to note the attorney general of the united states got out ahead of the president late last night approaching the 11:00 hour. strike at the american law and justice and went on to say the fbi is involved and the u.s. attorney is starting investigations down there to potentially look into hate crimes and civil rights issues. so, the attorney general out ahead of the president. before you jump in, i just want to say we talked a lot about so many republicans. so many republicans are worried, frankly, about the direction of their party saying, mr. president, you fell far short. call evil, evil, name names, if you will. nancy pelosi tweeting directly at the president repeat after me, white suprem is an afront to
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american values. not quite clear on your politics. you can't argue with that. why does the president not embrace it? >> this reminds me a lot of the whole david duke flap during the campaign season when he was asked by jake tapper whether or not he would disavow white supremacists and he said i don't know david duke initially and that led to days of negative coverage, republican after republican at that point came out and criticized trump to criticize david duke. and then the president said later when he was asked belat belatedly, of course, i disavow david duke. but almost in a flippant way not as direct as a lot of people would like. the question is, how would he deal with it now? he said on friday is he is prepared to have a press conference on monday. we'll see if they still do that. that is a question that comes up then. today, what does he say? no public events on his schedule at the moment. >> you asked in the last segment. this is this a breaking point, basically, for republicans. the question that needs to be
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answered. maybe, but a breaking point of what? where will the breaking point be? where our moral stance is on twitter or breaking point where it matters in terms of backing the president in various other things that he does and policy measures places that it would matter in a day-to-day way. this matters, but we're not in election season right now where there are people going to the polls. >> we're getting closer by the day. >> the first year. we're talking about tax reform and health care and what is the end of the russia probe. des this affect any of that? what affects the president's safety and his tenure in a day-to-day way. >> you make a point, this is a character test, a morality test. you failed the character test, you failed the morality test and they recently broke him from policy issues. they think he tweets and does other things to undermine negotiations. there is a history. manu brought up the jake tapper
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conversation. this goes way back in the campaign just to refresh your memory. >> will you unequivocally condemn david duke and say you don't want his vote or that of other white supremacists in this election? >> just so you understand, i don't know anything about david duke. i don't know anything about anything you're talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. i don't know what group you're talking about. >> we would want you to condemn. david duke is very well known. you don't have to meet him. we know what he stands for and what he says. easy to say, there is no place. and the remember the mexican american judge that was overseeing the trump university case and, again, the history that bothars lers a lot of republicans. >> he's a mexican. we're building a wall between here and mexico. the answer is, he is giving us very unfair rulings. rulings that people can't even believe. this is a case that should have
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e ended. this judge is giving us unfair rulings. now i say why. i'm building a wall, okay. and it's a wall between mexico, not another country. >> he's not from mexico. he's from indiana. >> he's mexican heritage and he's very proud of it. >> you try to step back. let trump supporters out there watching are saying, how dare you go back and pull all that up. let's start from today. all that happened. whether you agree with the president. whether you think he was misunderstood and whether you think that was taken out of context. why hasn't he learned the lesson? understanding the world he lived in and he is the president of the united states. >> the reason it is interesting and helpful to go back and play all of those is it reminds you the pattern is always the same. manu said it before. he gets caught saying something that gets a bad reaction and then it goes days and days and days and he sort of resists correcting it. because he, you know, he sees it as, you know, an attack on him and admission of failure. this is not a guy that admits
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failure or says i'm sorry very easily. i don't know if we should be surprised if this goes for days. >> when he looked up yesterday and said not donald trump, not barack obama. to your point, that's when he made it about him. he gets sensitive or defensive about these issues. a special counsel investigation turns a corner. a raid at the campaign chief and now key west wing are being asked for records and interviews.
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welcome back. the russia investigation is hitting closer and closer to home. that bold tactic clearly got the president's attention. >> i thought it was a very, very strong signal or whatever. i know mr. manafort. haven't spoken to him in a long time, but i know him. he was with the campaign, as you
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know, relatively short period of time. but i have always known him to be a good mant. i thought that was pretty tough stuff. to wake him up, perhaps his family was there. i think that's pretty tough stuff. >> now, we knew manafort and the president's eldest son is under investigation and now the "new york times" is reporting that robert mueller's investigation of possible collusion or interference includes interest in talking to current and top west wing staffers including reince priebus. that's the stuff that gets under the president's skin. >> there is no collusion. you know why? i don't speak to russians. look, i won because i suppose i was a much better candidate than her. i won because i went to wisconsin. i went to michigan. i won pennsylvania. i fought a smart battle. i didn't win because of russia. russia had nothing to do with me
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winning. we had a great team and i guess i did a good job. >> we don't know where this goes. the president knows a lot more about it than we do and his legal team does. when you raid paul manafort's home and saying you want to talk to white house officials about the firing of james comey, who was in the meeting. what did the president say beforehand and after and who was involved in the decision? that is about obstruction more than the collusion. the president always says never happened. we don't know where it is going but we know from those two developments that we were at this for a while. >> we do know this will become -- continue to be major distraction for this white house. i mean these white house officials a s ars are lawyering. they need attorneys to deal with a lot of these questions that will come from bob mueller and the president can dismiss this all he wants and this is incredibly serious. bob mueller has a significant team of lawyers who are digging into this and they have a budget where they're going to go at this pretty aggressively.
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talking a lot about the issue of possible coordination and collusion and other meetings that have not been reported yet that clearly mueller is looking into, as well. they have leads, of course, exploring these things and the issue of obstruction. another separate issue from the whole idea of possible collusion. so, the president can dismiss it all he wants. but this is very serious. >> and in a white house that has recurring chaos and recurring disruption and where is the chief of staff in this whole charlottesville response. he was supposed to be focus and response. has to go before a grand jury or gets investigated it just starts a conversation across the building that has nothing with what you're trying to accomplish that day. >> we're in a phase where everyone who doesn't have a lawyer is getting a lawyer or looking for a lawyer. guess what, that is no surprise. this is the least surprising development. we have always known that this was coming. as you begin to see, major and key staff turnovers, which you
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would at any white house. but usually after the one-year mark and two-year mark things are sped up. you'll see a couple like reince priebus and sean spicer. that makes them a different kind of target or subject for investigators to want to talk to because when they become detached from the white house, their knowledge of the day-to-day receives a little bit but their knowledge of what they knew when they were there perhaps becomes easier to talk about. even if some of these aides still feel loyalty to the president and even if they didn't think the president did anything wrong. they still have information about basic facts. were you in the room during that meeting? what happened? what didn't happen? what memos were there and that helps the investigators to build timelines or kind of fact sheets for whatever it is they're going toward. >> the truth is, regardless of john kelly coming in, an investigation like this is not like regular politics. it can't be controlled. that's what the developments of the week remind us is that that investigation marches forward
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and no amount of political spin or whatever that's going to stop. >> to your point earlier about republican cracks. republicans on capitol hill support bob mueller and support their own investigation 1,000%. >> they do. they have said a long time, they think mueller is pretty much beyond repoach. they support jeff sessions staying in place. if he stays in place, a way for trump to get rid of muller and they also think the investigation will exonerate him. the more steps trump takes to dissway things the more difficult he makes it for himself. an endorsement that has the gop base labeling the president a "back stabber." one thing. more than one flavor, or texture, or color. a good clean salad is so much more than green. and with panera catering, more for your event. panera. food as it should be. you could start your search at the all-new carfax.com
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let's close this busy hour as we always do head around the "inside politics" table. >> you know, it's with north korea and what happened it's so easy to forget there is other stuff going on. vice president mike pence heading out for latin american trip and this is something i'm watching in the coming days. some big, important countries here. argentina, panama, they all make a ring around venezuela and with the tensions and real concerns giving muaduro's behavior and te
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vice president's conversations in colombia are going to be very important. >> manu? >> john, jared kushner the president's son-in-law is under focus from the senate judiciary committee which sent a letter to the fbi and white house security clearance form by july 6th. now kushner's outside attorney did respond about the security clearance but i was told by a chuck grassley representative on friday that they want the white house to respond in full through a series of questions including whether or not the president of the white house intervened in any way during the background check process. and questions about his lack of disclosure of these foreign contacts, as well as that russian ambassador meterieting the banker. whether he can be trusted with sensitive security information. grassley has told me in the past that he's willing to subpoena if
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he does not get information for this. so jared kushner came to capitol hill late july and the senate intelligence committee and senators do want to talk to him and senate judiciary committee wants more answers, as well. >> michael? >> so, planning has begun for in the next few weeks the u.n. general assembly. president trump's first really big moment on the world stage to the entire global audience. it was already going to be an interesting moment with everything involving russia. when you add the north crea and t venezuela moment over the last few days, it is shaping up to be a blockbuster u.n. general assembly and not only watching what president trump says in his address to the general assembly, but even more interesting maybe what some of these other world leaders say with him in the audience. >> all right. on his home turf. >> president trump spoke about a lot of different things that caught members of the gop off
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guard. locked and loaded and potential trade wars with china and military option for venezuela and now this little cherry on top. a lot of republicans want to know, what do you mean, mr. president? we need details and explanations. many months excusing many things on fast twitter fingers and that's what he's saying off the cuff and there's frustration building as they have to decide this recess. do they stick by the president or start to criticize him. and really the russia probe, as we get back to d.c. next month. >> you see that divide starting to close. i'll close with this. the president's repeated attacks of late on senator mitch mcconnell do have a most receptive audience who long viewed the majority leader as a poster chi eer child for inside washington. mark levine called a "stab in the back to every conservative in this country." by that he means the president's gop primary and that endorsement
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over two more conservative anti-establishment republicans. now many trump allies see the president's decision rightly so as a big win for mcconnell and a big win for the pro-business establishment groups like the chamber of commerce and they see it as proof the populous chief white house strategist steven bannon who makes no for those establishment groups does not pack the inside punch those trump supporters had hoped for heading into the 2018 mid-term cycle. that's it for "inside politics." again, thanks for sharing your sunday. we're here week days at noon eastern. have a great one. no splashing! wait so you got rid of verizon, just like that? uh-huh. i switched to t-mobile, kept my phone-everything on it- -oh, they even paid it off! wow! yeah. it's nice that every bad decision doesn't have to be permenant!
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