thank you so much, tim carney. the bombshells dropping right before comey's testimony, the "new york times" reporting the comey asked jeff sessions to never be left alone with president trump again. the wall street journal said sessions offered to resign as attorney general just in the last few weeks. can the president escape this week unscathed and keep his administration intact? let's bring in the party panel. kat timpf and author of the brand-new book "mean dads for a better america," tom shillue. and chart hurt. welcome -- charles hurt. charles, i officially accept jeff sessions resignation. charles: that's pretty interesting there. it makes sense he would have offered it given the fact that president trump has to be very upset with him with his decision to recuse himself. but the reason jeff sessions recused himself -- and i always those should not have recused himself. the reason he recused himself is because he wasr was part of the -- he was part of the trump campaign. and that's an entirely different things

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it's something that has kept him well served so far. >> so, tim carney, a lot of conservatives i knoware nonplused by everything that's happened. they still stand by donald trump. they still stand by their man, so to speak. we want to float mark halperin's theory out that they will continue standing by donald trump until they turn around and look back a year or two later and see that legislation hasn't been passed. these executive orders haven't been implemented. do you believe that if there is going to be a separation of some of these supporters, it will be if he gets nothing done? >> in part, yes. i've been all around the country. i went to the trump rallies everywhere from, you know, iowa to new hampshire, down across to the west coast. and a lot of just the regular supporters, not the people here inside the beltway. not the people up there in new york. they wanted somebody who was going to fight against the insider elites. an tru is dng that. even when he's losing, when he's going to the courts, he's fighting for them. they see a rigged system where the insiders are getting rich a

joining me, tim carney. >> thank you for having me back, kennedy. those people that i any the president is deeply flawed. i think he has impulsivity issues and he has serious quirks and he gets in his own way. but i think some of his policies, especially the anti-regulation kind are pretty brilliant. and i think as weird as it may sound, he's the one guy who could bring peace to the middle east. >> i'm sceptical of this. i appreciate your contrary hot take. when i would follow trump on the campaign, he would say again and again, the only reason this problem isn't getting involved is because we have stupid people in charge. kennedy: he was talking about government officials and legislators. >> i would say to some extent we are all stupid people when it comes to trying to solve these massive problems. one of the things that makes us libertarians is we think putting smarter people in charge, giving them lots of power doesn't mean they will get the answer right. lots of deep problems are tied up with human nature and the fallen nature of man. and i thin

tim carney is joining me, good to have both of you, nick, do the off camera briefings help the administration? >> no, i think it is more damage control. it is a pattern where for weeks and weeks the press briefing was being spent answering questions about his tweets and off-hand remarks and his anger. and it kind of impeded the ability, i think, of the press staff to use the press conferen conference. they would rather keep those answers off video and off cable tv. >> tim, news max ceo said that the strategy may be working against this administration because they're missing out on an opportunity to speak directly to americans. do you agree with that assessment? >> i do think that sean spicer and sanders did a good job trying to talk directly to voters in these briefings. a lot of what i think that were on corrections is they thought the media was using these as opportunities for grand standing. a promo for a cable network, and they said that is all they're trying to get out of it. they saw it as getting their message out and their critics getting their fire works out. and maybe the daily batt

mark carlson, a columnist for "the daily beast," and tim carney.at saturday of -- you know, "the washington post" breaking the news, but what is most peculiar to me is the responsible by the personal lawyer for president trump. he says, the fbi leak of information regarding the president is outrageous, inexcusable, and illegal, which to me confirms the fact that this investigation is going on. >> yeah. well, it does do that, and there's nothing that the trump administration doesn't like to do more than talk about leaks. this is not really a leak exactly. by the way -- it's not a surprise that he's under investigation. from the very moment he fired comey and said to the russians visiting his office, i did it because i wanted to relieve the pressure of this russia investigation and told lester holt more or less the same thing, it seems to me that he would be under investigation. >> and i think we can get more precise. it seems like it's about mike flynn. for some reason, trump seems to have this loyalty to his former national security adviser whom he

let's bring in bob costa, along with tim carney and the senior editor at national review.k you for your patience. we've been talking about the frtration among top republicans. it seems a though they're a little more comfortable getting vocal about it. is that your sense? >> you know, i think we have seen these expressions of discontent and concern from republicans before, but trump is behaving exactly the way he behaved during the campaign, as well as how he did for most of his previous 70 years on this earth. there's no real grounds for surprise. if the president is incapable of self-discipline on twitter, the fundamental problem is not twitter. the fundamental problem is the president's character. that is not going to change. >> tim, what's your preview of what we might see later on this week, specifically, strategy surrounding the comey testimony? >> i think trump has, on occasion, remained scripted. the beginning of his foreign trip and some other occasions. there's going to be an effort to make that happen in the white house. as ramesh is pointing out, it'll be to ove

tim wallace of "the daily telegraph." are banks gaming the system? francine: that was mark carney the indebted households. when you look at fixed income, i want to concentrate on the yield curve and a great chart showing the treasury market volatility index is at the lowest since may 2013. what do bond market investors see that the fed does not want to admit? neal: i think the bond market flattening of the yield curve is because of this need for duration. when you look around the economy flows back, nominal cash in a lot of sectors are simply not adequate to deal with some of the nominal obligations that some people have. we saw taylor riggs before and we have been talking a lot about state and local governments and their revenue problems. federal revenues are not red-hot considering the economy as well. it is pretty clear that what the bond market is saying is that there is not enough nominal cash flow to satisfy obligation and therefore the safety of treasuries is a some value. in reality we are not creating a lot of securities. the mortgage market is not having a red-hot housin