the fact that this is the first major legislative action while he s been president, most executive in nature. we really see donald trump the negotiator and the decision-maker, the dealmaker, the great listener, sending senators into the oval office and the white house, working the phones with them, vice president pans on the help you much every day, secretary price, it s been a full court press, also really a house and senate bill. we know it is going to, three-pronged, we want people to know it will be a much improved, getting rid of this mandate, penalty, et cetera. eric: i think the big question is, is he willing to negotiate with the freedom caucus? need the freedom caucus to get that bill through the house and onto the senate. will he negotiate? paul ryan seems to be fairly rigid on, this is it, take it or leave it. the president is a great negotiator and leader.
campaign in russia. eric: the democrats aside, there is proof that the russians coordinated with donald trump. i haven t seen proof of that either and i am hearing a lot of that accusation as well. that is why you need the investigation. if you want an investigation of both charges, fine. let a special counsel to investigate both trump s charge the thing is, in real life, when you see somebody benefit from a theft, they usually had something to do with the thief. there is a reason to do the investigation pick let s have an investigation. eric: i think that is what donald trump, president trump, is calling for. an investigation on both of these charges. it has got to be independent, got to be a special counsel. eric: leave it there, thank you for being with us tonight. president trump versus the deep state bureaucracy in washington. by the president believes stay tuned.
obama administration? i don t want to answer hypotheticals and i don t want to get people s names involved in hypotheticals. let me just say, kevin lewis is a spokesman for president obama, said last saturday that it was a cardinal rule that the president and people in the white house never interfered in the department of justice investigations. okay. let s take that as fact for the moment. but what about the rest of the government? even when director clapper said nothing under my purview. he couldn t close the door on everything. director comey almost a week ago it said what he said almost a week ago now to make a statement announcing this, if he has something to say, we re willing to hear it. we just haven t seen it. we have seen reports of it. eric: a little bit of a controversy the last couple of weeks. president trump gave the communications department a c- .
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