molly ball? we remember governing by deadline, the constant crisis in the house that seemed to drive so much of the agenda in recent years. and it may be no different in the trump era. just next week is coming up the first debt ceiling deadline. >> oh, goodness. >> i know, it's so exciting. brings back such good memories. >> i'll put it in my pto request right now for that date. >> next wednesday the 15th. there are extraordinary measures the treasury can take to put the offer several months. republicans didn't like those measures under obama. this makes a hypocrite of everybody. we'll see -- >> these are real things the president -- >> real things they have to take care of, like the debt ceiling. ron brownstein? >> president trump was talking about a blood bath if republicans don't repeal the affordable care act. you have more republicans i think beginning to focus on the question of whether they're lighting a fuse if they do. a majority of donald trump's votes came from whites over 45. 60% of t

the panel is molly ball. that was president trump. interview with tucker carlson at fox earlier this afternoon while in michigan. that was the wiretap question. interesting way that he worded it. president trump sounded like jeremy bash. saying, like, i think you're going, there is something interesting going on here. okay. what do you think the president was implying? >> well, i still think he doesn't know. i still think he is relying on the congress to find something to support a claim that he made based on unstanted reports and that's based on, you know -- >> based on a report -- >> reporting. >> written by somebody who was watching -- >> alluded to on this show. >> yeah. >> but you know, so it feels like a fishes expedition, may find something. the president's tendency to shoot first and ask questions lat later. if you're going to make the add g allegation as the president, you should have the evidence to back it up. he did not at least at the time he made it. >> that's an important moment, though, that interview, that is the begi

>> discuss with michael bender and molly ball, political writer for the atlantic tlt who interviewedanne conway. >> michael you interviewed steve bannon for piece in the "wall street journal." do you think brietbart is helping push agenda? >> of course. it's built in steve bannon's image. i don't know how much he's involved in the coverage anymore, he says he's not. reports of stories after -- but people he hired for a reason and still doing the job he hired them to do. so largely helping push trump agenda. i do think that their attacks on paul ryan and reince priebus are not necessarily helpful to steve. i think steve likes having reince priebus as chief of staff in the white house. i think he does have a lot of respect for him. and what reince brings to the table. >> what did you learn about bannon though? >> my reporting on the story was focused on his upbringing and his father. and i joked on twitter that i the story essentially confirmed that steve bannon was born of human parents. right? this is the guy characterized as angel of death on "saturday night live," in new yorker car

jonathan martin, emily cook, molly ball, and our own manu raju. it's an incredibly busy day. we talked about merkel arriving at the white house, the healthcare situation going on. but there is something that also happened. many people thought was really impossible. an apology. an apology from the white house. this one was to britain for a claim of fox news analyst that british intelligence might have spied on trump at the behest of president obama. the west wing continues to stick by the accusations that president obama had him surveilled, evidence-free claims. i want to talk about the white house and angela merkel being there. you've got nato, the refugee crisis, and a host of other problems with russia and asia and so forth. john, let me start with you. >> yeah. >> what do you think is the most critical part of this meeting right now? >> well, it establishes some kind of a base line relationship with one of our key allies in europe, a country that you know, really sustains the eu economically at least. and hopefully some damage control from the comments you played from the

let's discuss michael bender, and also molly ball, political writer for "the atlantic" who interviewed kellyanne conway. you just interviewed steve bannon. do you think breitbart is helping steve bannon push his white house agenda? >> sure. breitbart is built in steve bannon's image. i don't know how much steve is involved in the coverage any more. he says he's not. there have been reports, talking to reporters after stories, but listen, these are people that steve bannon hired for a specific reason, and they're still in maplace doing the job hired them to do. so sure, i think largely, they're helping push the trump agenda. i do think that they're, they're sort of attacks on paul ryan and reince priebus aren't helpful to steve. i think steve likes having reince priebus as chief of staff in the white house. i think he does have a lot of respect for him and what, and what reince brings to the table. >> what did you learn about bannon though? >> my reporting on the story is focussed on his upbringing and his father, and, you know, i joked on twitter today that the story essentially confir

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balls. what's wrong? >> he's nervous about his speech. >> oh, hey, molly.>> so good to see you too. >> yeah, you too. where's your box of doughnuts? >> careful or i'll bust you for that crack in your pocket? >> what crack in my -- how in the hell did you do that? [ laughter ] >> seth: please welcome to the show sam richardson and tim robinson. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> seth: welcome, guys. >> thank you. >> seth: so happy to have you here. tim this is a return though, to the set. >> it is a return, yes. >> seth: because you were actually -- it was a different set you were on the show so early. you were on the fifth episode of "late night" where you played my emergency sidekick, dale. >> yep. >> seth: and there you are. and like everybody -- go ahead. >> that was back when you had the show completely figured out. [ laughter ] >> seth: right out of the gate. >> i don't know what you're doing now. >> seth: you don't like it as [ laughter ] >> seth: it's like everybody who ever left "snl," you look so much better now. everybody leaves "snl" and life gets ba