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Welcome back. it seemed today like attorney general jeff sessions service holding a press conference for an audience of one, president trump. this nation must end this culture of leaks. we will investigate and seek to bring criminals to justice. we will not allow rogue anonymous sources with security clearances to sell out our country. these cases to investigate and prosecute are never easy, but cases will be made and leakers will be held accountable. attorney general sessions and director of national intelligence dan coates said they re taking new steps to plug leaks of classified information and they say the administration has tripled the nn of investigations involving illegal disclosure. the truth is the leaks that bother the president the most aren t the ones of the classified information. frankly, they re the water ....
Let s see what they do if a line is crossed. if they wanted to stand up to trump, they couldn t, because again, these trends that predated trump and are continuing through his presidency, the dysfunction of congress is one of them. right. is it a trump problem? yes, partly. but it s also a congressional problem. and the fact of the lack of the power of the committee system, lack of the power of the leadership, all of these predated trump. his unique political identity make them all worse. we have three parties, the democrats, the republicans and the party of trump. and figuring out how the republican party relates to the party of trump is kind of the defining issue of our time. we may get a stress test on that in the arizona republican senate primary that i think could be the single most important election of 2018, oddly enough. let s pause here. stay with us frm coming up, special counsel bob mueller may be accelerating his russia investigation. i ll going to ask had i see for ....
Under oath, before their peers in front of the grand jury and at the end of the day the second core function of the grand jury is to determine whether or not you ve met your burden of probable cause. right. and whether indictment is returned. is it fair to say i feel like in this news, oh, my god, robert mueller it would be news if it wasn t using a grand jury, right. absolutely right. people should take a breath that someone who has been assigned expolice ill and openly one of the most complex type of investigation, is there any contact or collusion between russians and anyone involved in the trump campaign, as natural as breathing that a trained prosecutor would use a grand jury to aid them in that investigation. all right. i m not well, we haven t confirmed the idea of impaneling your own. i was told there s sort rf two potential reasons why he might want his own. one is just simply volume of work that needs to be done, whether it s interviews, subpoenas, et cetera. th ....
Transition, and he exploited it. the two narratives, it is i mean, you look in trump world and they say, hey, look at all this. you guys are obsessed on russia. you go on the other side, ruth, and you re like wait a minute, nothing is working here in washington. it s on fire. and everybody is like, you know, we are living two realities. and both realities have some truth to them, right. the dow is where the dow is. bubble or not. unemployment is where unemployment is. fake numbers or not. i will tell you, it s the same economy we ve had for the last two years. it is what it is. so one of the things that i think is amazing is that donald trump s poll numbers, fake poll news numbers are so low, given the good state of the the positive side of the ledger has a lot of positives in it. a president in an economy like this should be doing better than donald trump is. and i think all of that goes to the realities on the other side of the ledger. ....
To punish you no matter what the issue is. i would say prior to donald trump becoming the nominee the litmus test was the battle against the pureists verse the pragmatists and now that donald trump is the president the issue is different. it comes down to how loyal are you to the president and that s how you re being judged. the other side, i ll tell you if you agree with the president on an issue or two they ll say you ve sold out. so that s the challenge a lot of us are facing. and by the way, jeff flake is i very good friend. he s my paddle ball partner. we used to talk quite a bit when he was in the house. can you say definitively now that the republican party is a big ten party? well, i want it to be a big tent party if it hopes to success long-term. clearly in my view we have to do a better job reaching out to asian voters, hispanic voters. ....