and i thought, symone, you thought i was going to defend speaker ryan. far from it?nk that he and his ilk are part of the problem. and i'm not sad, quite frankly, to see him go. i'm very happy he got tax cuts done. wonderful. but we talked about the "access hollywood" tape earlier. he was one of the first republicans to jump ship when things really got hard in october of 2016. and i for one won't forget that, as somebody from the campaign. that was a searing mark against him. >> -- common decency. >> so now he's good? >> in that moment, in that moment -- >> all right, one at a time. maria? >> so, i agree, i believe that he is a committed family man and father. i think all of that rings true. but i almost guarantee you that if this president was sane, normal, and that you could count on him to make, you know, good, again, in any other era, normal decisions, even as a republican, and i'm saying this as a democrat, i can almost guarantee you that he would not be retiring. >> maria, are you on record saying the president is insane then? >> yes. >> okay. >> i want to put

back with me, matt lewis, symone sanders and rick wilson. so this is a case in point, rick, "the new york times" is reporting that nick mulvaney the interim director of the consumer protection bureau told banking executives and lobbyists that they should increase their campaign donations to influence lawmakers. mulvaney reported said alt a conference we had a hierarchy that my office in congress adding if you're a lobbyist who never gave us money i didn't talk to you. if he's a lobbyist who gave us money i might talk to you. did he say the quiet part out loud, due you think, here? >> he said the quiet parts out loud and unfortunately for mulvaney this isn't exactly a secret how washington works for both parties. mind you this is an equal opportunity swamp in this case. but we try to at least have sort of the polite manners. we don't talk about the uncle in the basement or how members of this crony capitalist hand washing group. mulvaney laid it out on the table, and he's frankly proposing to banking -- the targets of people he should be regu

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. >> symone. >> >> one point on this chris, one vet someing extremely important. when i left the sanders campaign and worked for a convention, they vetted me. the convention team before i could go to work as a consultant. clearly i had been vetted on the sanders campaign but they vetted me again because that's the work you did before bringing someone on. this is just a part of the political process and the trump folks aren't doing. that secondly in terms of -- i find it interesting that a lot of allies at the white house are saying that the confirmation process has to go forward. that could be really damaging to to the whout -- white house politically. i think these are unforced errors they don't need to invite. cut dr. jackson loose and go on with the day. i don't think folks are looking at the political calculations here. i think the white house doesn't like to lose. >> i think the president comes one a good idea. he thinks. because he wants people who are -- he comfortable with now in these cabinet jobs. you know he said i tried it once didn't like those other

he did not say, as symone said we're going the sash out and have a big press conference about it.t. at this point it was comey all about me. >> it would have been very simple for him to stick with practice. >> right. >> you served in the fbi. >> give me a break. i spent 4 1/2 years in the hoover building. two things you figure out within five days where. is the could have fee. and you don't talk about ongoing investigations. forget about ten days before the election. the mistake he made was in the summer time. a, he talked about the investigation, and b, he trashed an american citizen after he said the investigation is closed. i don't care if you're republican or democrat, you don't trash a citizen after the case is closed. when you go to close out, when you go to fall, after that initial mistake, he is in trouble. if he doesn't say anything, somebody is going to say well you said it was closed and ten days before the election it was open if he says something, the answer is simple. here is the coffee and don't acknowledge an open investigation. that's it. >> the thing you can't mi

home affairs correspondent tom symons reports.en feels real places. the result, a test fire which was 100 celsius hotter than the standard test with wood. another example, in this test, the panels installed from the bottom to top with no gaps in between. we fire barely gets started. but on real buildings, the facades do have gaps, either by design or poor workmanship. look what happened when that was tested, oxygen driving we fire upwards. we are shocked by the findings. they demonstrate just how out of date the current testing regime is, and how important it is to take account of how this building materials are used in practice, notjust how they perform in a lab condition. after the tragedy here, the government asked a senior engineer to review building regulations and testing. she will report soon. the insurance industry wants one of her findings to bea industry wants one of her findings to be a rethink of the five test. —— fire test. in a moment, the business news. first, a look at the headlines on afternoon live. labour leader