jennifer ruben, i want to get your take on it. let's start with lindsey graham who gets credit in the media as being a trump critic but he's been a staunch defender and ruling out the idea there was any obstruction of justice on trump's part. take a listen, on cbs. >> unless mueller is complete idiot, which he is no, he's concluded there's no obstruction of justice case because if he concluded otherwise, comey wouldn't be testifying. you wouldn't let your chief and only witness go through this process if you really believed you had a case to prosecute and mr. mueller is a good prosecutor. >> now let's listen to jim jordan, congressman from ohio, on fox news on friday essentially also exonerating donald trump. >> i think what happened the last 24, 48 hours cleared lot of things up and confirmed what president trump's been saying all along, he wasn't under investigation. i think when this, you know, after what we saw, it looks good for the president, frankly, not so good for former fbi director, james comey. >> jennifer ruben, it's

jennifer ruben writes on the "washington post" page on their website. in her column yesterday, she writes our president acted like a clawed, heartless and thug in sending out a series of tweets after the london attack. he commander in chief and leader of the free world retweeted unverified, unofficial drudge headline about the terrorist attack. he aimed to bolster his muslim travel ban, which he did again this morning. he decided to slam the mayor who warned fellow londoners that london will see police presence. impulsive and cruel without a ounce of class and decency. his behavior no longer surprises us. the london attacks brought out the best in britain of the european continent and the worst in trump and his followers. jennifer ruben's college from "washington post." jerry, mount vernon, illinois, good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for c-span. i was just going to say that, donald trump does not speak for me. he does not speak for lot of people. he's totally destroying our country. period. host: in what way? what's an example? caller: he's

us now are politico reporter daniel lipman along with opinion writer for "the washington post" jennifer rubenmer senior cia officer and writer, john cipher. why would the president bring on additional counsel, john dowd, regarding russia? >> so with the initial hire of marc kasowitz, he doesn't have any washington investigative experience. he really is a real estate lawyer and trump was getting flack from his allies saying you need someone with d.c. experience to handle mueller and his 13 attorneys and the whole fbi which is looking at you. so that's kind of his -- he needs more people in his corner. >> jennifer, the president's tweets, kelly and i were just talking about this, they are official presidential statements but you still need the white house to interpret them for you. are they going to come back to haunt the president? >> i think they are. i think this is the problem with president trump which is he's his own worst enemy. the tweets are going to be evidence if they pursue an obstruction of justice decision. i think his statements show that he's really at this point losing control

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. >> jennifer ruben, you've observed your political party for a long time.e democrats are dead determined. the freedom caucus saved them by killing the bill. why are they bringing it back? >> this is bizarre. listen, it's very, very unpopular. it's also a crummy bill. it was thrown together because this group had to be appeased and that group had to be appeased. it's totally incoherent. so why are they doing it? they come back with the answer, because we promised. we promised to do something and it's stupid. maybe it's better not to keep your promise. i think they feel like their base will kill them if they don't do it. the base is already going to kill them because it's not doing what they wanted them to do. so i think you have deep red state republicans in the senate and the house who think that it's a great idea to take away health care, and they have sworn up and down they're going to take it away. and then you have reality, which is it's a cruddy bill. it is a big giveaway to the rich. it's like a simon lagrese health care bill. you take away 23 million

here's what conservative jennifer ruben wrote about this today.his is vintage trump, impulsive and cruel without an ounce of class or human decency. his behavior no longer surprised us but it should offend us and disturb us first and he remains the voice of america in the world and his fans see this as inconsequential or acceptable conduct. el snichlt. >> there is no defending the tweet at this point. i mean it's wrong for three reasons. it's wrong on the facts. it took the mayor's words out of context. it's wrong in terms of the human approach of, you know this is the moment when we need the leader of our country to show sympathy and not to try to score points. it's also wrong on the substance. we like democratic leaders to be like winston churchill which is to advise steady calmness and perseverance at a moment of terror, not why aren't you freaking out? so this is, you know, an example of trump at his lowest. and i do think that some of these tweets are being baked into the cake. i think that at a certain point question no longer continue to be

jennifer carlson explained, wy ck is deep in history. rubenwith people like thomas jefferson and famous architect william strict land redesigned the house in 1824, including a fancy coal fireplace, very innovative for the time. >> ruben haines, the third was very interested in natural science and horticulture. he had a whole room of curiosities on the second floor, shells, fossils and urns, flowers, look at how cool this stuff is. >> yes. >> cool, delicate. >> yes. >> but the biggest draw was created by ruben's wife jane, right outside, the wyck rose garden. martha keen is horticulture expert keeping it growing. >> immediately, walk out of that home, it just hits you as if it is perfume. >> rose garden is basically a living row pos try of old garden variety of roses that you are not actually seeing anywhere else. basically one of the oldest rose gardens in the united states. it dates back to 1824. >> in this garden they have over 50 cultures, many of which are totally extinct. >> oh, really. >> yes. >> two of the most special roses elegant, an