i think we are going through a period of fevered insanity. first of all, somebody suggested the russians have a technique of setting you up so that they co-opt you. if that was true in this meeting, i have written three novels about about terrorists among international spies. if they were setting him up, where were they? bill: newt gingrich teeing off on the media saying the firestorm over donald trump donald trump, jr., is much ado about nothing. is it or not? juan williams and mercedes schlapp here today. mercy, mercy me. juan a milling, happy friday to both of you. mercedes, it s fevered insanity. it s a gross exaggeration. is that what we have reached? i have to tell you that the mainstream media is just giddy these days with the information of this meeting between donald trump, jr., and this russian lawyer. i find that also then you see
frequent criticisms of then president obama centered on two things, the false claim that president obama wasn t born in the united states and the opinion that he spent too much time golfing. it s creating a problem for his aides who don t want to admit when the president is teeing off. he played more golf last year than tiger woods. think of it. we don t have time for this. we don t have time for this. we have to work. reporter: then candidate donald trump taking a few shots at president obama for playing golf. and i won t be playing golf instead of going to see the people in louisiana, who have been devastated by floods. reporter: but that was then. this is now. look at that. look at that. reporter: as president, donald trump s visited two golf courses he owns near mara l-a-l.
before he was elected, president trump, one of his frequent criticisms of then president obama centered on two things, the false claim that president obama wasn t born in the united states and the opinion that he spent too much time golfing. now that president trump has visited the golf course six times during his presidency, it s creating a problem for his aides who don t want to admit when the president is teeing off. he played more golf last year than tiger woods. think of it. we don t have time for this. we don t have time for this. we have to work. reporter: then candidate donald trump taking a few shots at president obama for playing golf. and i won t be playing golf instead of going to see the people in louisiana, who have been devastated by floods. reporter: but that was then. this is now. look at that.
there she was teeing off on republican plans on the economic. what she said about donald trump. he was appalled and should have spoken out and all of this was in the words of hillary clinton way out of bounds and he is have stepped up and repudiated it and the interesting though hillary clinton did not mention if you remember back in the 2008 campaign supporters against senator obama circ outed an anonymous e-mail that raised questions about obama s citizenship. and she didn t address it then. she is teeing off. thanks for the trip down memory lane. ed henry, joining us from clinton campaign. five people have died in the wildfires raging across california. authorities found two more
interest state. progressives have become the party of wall street, k straight and pennsylvania avenue. we must become the party of main street, everywhere. that s utah tea party republican senator mike lee. keeping him honest, though. when he s not publicly crusading against lobbyists, he s been privately asking them for money. drew giffen reports. reporter: it s 8:00 a.m. in snowbird, utah, and that gond la letting up the mountain an hour before the slopes of this luxury resort even opened, is filled with lobbyists. but not just lobbyists. utah senator, mike lee, is here too. in fact, it s his political action committee hosting a fund-raising ski get-away. cold weather not your thing? tee off at san diego s torrey pines golf course. it s a fund-raiser for california democrat congressman juan vargas, teeing off at the