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The first session is half over, and it s a republican congress. and the only major things it s done are pass bipartisan sanctions on russia to defy donald trump and his policy and to go into, yesterday, a pro forma senate session to defy donald trump from even thinking about trying to ram through a new attorney general since he s so openly mused about it. where congress is acting, it is acting to defy trump. whether or not we are of the same party, we are not the president s subordinates. we are his equal. there s any number of things that we ll work on to try and wrestle back power and assert congressional authority over things we should have never allowed to go downstream. with the midterms around the corner, what will be the state of the republican party when they get back from this recess? that is up next. there s a denture adhesive that holds strong until evening. ....
With impunity. we must balance the press role with protecting our national security and the lives of those who serve in the intelligence community, the armed forces, and all law-abiding americans. sessions also announced the trump doj leading more than three times as many leak investigations as were open at the end of the obama administration. there have been as many criminal leak referrals in the first six months of the trump administration as there were over the past three years combined. in response to the increased number of investigations, the fbi has working to expand a counterintelligence unit for the cases. four people have also been charged with unlawfully disclosing classified material. that we did know about. this is a plan to do more. walter dellinger and michael isikoff back with us. walter, nothing new about ....
Advisers mid-sentence. he s booted lingering staff members out of high-level meetings and ordered the doors of the oval office closed to discourage strays and has demanded that even mr. trump s family, including daughter ivanka trump and son-in-law jared kushner check with him if they want face to face time with the president. as the old saying goes, the proof is in the tweets. trump s 16 tweets today covered many topics other than his own grievances. he even touted those new job numbers, and when he did bring up hillary clinton or russia, it was usually through re-tweets. now, that seeming digital restraint did not carry over into the rally last night. this was pitched as a celebration of a governor who was switching parties to back trump, which is the kind of political grassroots story that people push out in both parties. but he couldn t stick to the message, bringing it back to russia. the russia story is a total ....
He s booted lingering staff members out of high-level meetings and ordered the doors of the oval office closed to discourage strays and has demanded that even mr. trump s family, including daughter ivanka trump and son-in-law jared kushner check with him if they want face to face time with the president. as the old saying goes, the proof is in the tweets. trump s 16 tweets today covered many topics other than his own grievances. he even touted those new job numbers, and when he did bring up hillary clinton or russia, it was usually through re-tweets. now, that seeming digital restraint did not carry over into the rally last night. this was pitched as a celebration of a governor who was switching parties to back trump, which is the kind of political grassroots story that people push out in both parties. but he couldn t stick to the message, bringing it back to russia. the russia story is a total fabrication. it s just an excuse for the ....
Let s not forget something else, ari. those tweets are considered official statements. yeah. so they re not just willy-nilly, you know, missives that he used to send out when he was private citizen trump. now that he is president trump, they have the imprimatur and effect of being official white house policy. yeah, and it really goes when we talk about the general reining him in, tom, two things. i want to flag something about this whole adult issue and then read from your piece. politico also noting that trump has a proclivity for rattling aides with those unexpected tweets. so they say the generals with tillerson as kind of a junior partner are nicknamed the axis of adults. it s sort of like we re back into one of those, you know, amusement rides, and you have to be this tall to ride, which means you either have to be an adult or a tall adolescent. i don t know that that is the ....