if they exist. and they want them by june 23rd, if they exist. now he s being compelled, carl, quickly, because i want to get to some of the other people here. yeah. if he has some tapes, he s being compelled. and as you say, he s playing coy, maybe he has a tape that he taped something on his cell phone. i don t know. i want to i want to ask david before we go, david swerdlick, i want to ask you because we had this conversation last night after the show that james comey s awe, shucks, factor was off the charts. it was. are they i think this administration may be underestimating, you know, this man, considering how he got a special prosecutor involved and didn t even realize it. he s i mean, that s a total long game right there. it is a long game. look, nothing that comey said yesterday proves that president trump did anything criminal and that is why i think the president has gone and taken this sort of faux victory lap today. he s laying the groundwork. he s layin
i want to i want to ask david before we go, david swerdlick, i want to ask you because we had this conversation last night after the show that james comey s awe, shucks, factor was off the charts. it was. are they i think this administration may be underestimating, you know, this man, considering how he got a special prosecutor involved and didn t even realize it. he s i mean, that s a total long game right there. it is a long game. look, nothing that comey said yesterday proves that president trump did anything criminal and that is why i think the president has gone and taken this sort of faux victory lap today. he s laying the groundwork. he s laying the groundwork. but at the same time, nothing that was said yesterday vindicates the president either as he claimed, and this idea of teasing it out, don, as you said, right, everything with the president is a big reveal. the most dramatic rose ceremony ever. and as maeve said, he was the one who brought up tapes. now c
morning. this president s speeches mean less than just about any others because what he says and what he does, how he talks and how he walks are totally different. you know, we ve heard a lot of talk about infrastructure in the campaign, when he was president elect. we democrats put together a plan, we ve showed it to the white house. we haven t heard a peep out of them. but the white house is trying to take a victory lap today. they think they have some momentum here to move forward on his agenda. vice president mike pence has 11 interviews on television and radio, just today. and then tomorrow, president himself will hit the road. he will give a speech at uss jared ford in virginia. the big dwhae looms over all of this though, a new tone, a new style from trump last night. will it last or be a flash in the pan? kelly o donnell at the white house that s where the president spent the day. kelly he is getting some reviews here in the media. he is not accustomed to getting. clearly s
significant kill, the u.s. thinks, in terms of the direct links to paris attacks. one in ten of what the coalition are calling high-value targets, right? we don t know how high value they are. they ve been described as middle to upper echelon. today the collision tried to make a direct link to killings and effect it s having. you ve seen recent successes on the battlefield on the coalition and iraqi forces against isis. the coalition is saying they re hampering their ability to be have command and control, launch attacks, having direct effect on the ground. you talk about one of the successes obviously that would be ramadi, where you have iraqi forces who have pushed out right now, i think, 75% of the city they ve been able to clear. any sense, as the prime minister takes a victory lap today, is there a sense that the iraqi forces will be able to hold that? you could say it s 75% of the city or you could say isis is still in control of 25 percent
off the water, just like keeping flights from going into this area and puerto vallarta is taking a lot of steps to get people away from the water areas. we know some people are taking the step of driving to guadalajara, about a six-hour drive, far more inland, still going to see a lot of water. but for some people that feel safer and there s also an airport there that s still functioning. people want to use guadalajara to get into other parts of mexico. joe fryer on the phone from ixtapa, mexico. thanks, joe. coming up, you re looking at the dnc women s forum where president obama is set to speak. we ll take you there live and then we ll turn to politics. hillary clinton taking somewhat of a victory lap today in virginia following her marathon testimony on capitol hill. meanwhile, we re learning the democrats who are on the benghazi committee that she testified in front of yesterday, they plan to stay put, at least for now. and in just a few hours,