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Listen, I think that this is one more step in understanding how handcuffed the government was. We are not prepared for this. That's why the president is saying, who cares? It's not real. It's all fake. It's so dangerous.

He was speaking about violent gangs. And I was -- I initially read this and it hit me frankly wrong.

I think this speaks to the possible need here to segregate the communications channels.

I think the tension between the police and the citizenry in this country is one of the most worrisome civil problems we have.

I have long stated and believed we're going to find out the Russians absolutely, 100 percent meddled in the election. That doesn't mean they needed a colluding partner to do it.

This law and order issue was a core driver of Trump in 2016.

I also think that -- to agree with the tension between police and the citizenry that exists is one of the most worrisome civil problems we have.

If they're more comfortable, then we may see a more discipline and more strategy.

The job of the chief of staff is to run the White House in a way that most efficiently implements the president's agenda.

Well, I think, ultimately, the president has to feel comfortable with the staff that's around him. And he had gotten to a point where he didn't feel comfortable with the chief of staff, he obviously didn't feel comfortable with the…

This is a huge win for the president. It is exactly why the people in the Midwest that had previously voted for Obama and other Democratic presidential candidates rolled the dice on Donald Trump, because he appeared to be the most…

I hope Jeff Sessions and the president do clear the air, because I think Sessions was one of the best cabinet choices he made, conservatives love Jeff Sessions, they love what he's doing in office.

If you were trying to replace Jeff Sessions as a political matter with one who was as popular with the nationalists sort of conservative base that Trump has cultivated, I don't think you could get that person confirmed right now.

I think what the president is frustrated about if he's going to be put through the investigatory wringer over things that came in the campaign, why is he being held to a standard over campaign stuff that Hillary is not being held to?

I think Jeff Sessions could clearly call up the White House and ask for a meeting and they could either clear the air or they won't.

What I think is not worthy here is Kushner is going to answer questions, which to me shows a willingness to be more transparent than some other administrations have held you have to be.

All we know tonight is that it's Jeff Sessions' integrity versus some Russian's word on a cable we haven't seen. And until somebody tells me that this Russian is somehow more credible than Jeff Sessions, I'm inclined to believe Jeff…

The technical political jargon for this is not good. What happened this week is not good. OK. But it can get better. And there's a clear answer for them now and that is to stop commenting publicly about this, because public comments this…

I want them to do what they said they were going to do, which is cooperate with the investigation.

I think he probably thought he was giving a polite answer there. I certainly think Republicans don't want him to have a change of heart on that.

The president of the United States is not in France to spit in the face of the French president, to make fun of the French people, to make fun of Paris. He's over there to continue to build our alliance with France.

This is treason. We have impeachment. We've gone well over the line here, I think, in how we're describing this meeting.

He could bring it up. What good would it do to say, hey, stop doing that. Vladimir Putin will deny it and we'll go on about our business and the Russians will go on and do what they do which is meddle in elections around the world.

What I worry about in this whole episode is we're now 48 hours of punching down. You know, when you're the president most everything you do to attack someone is punching down because one is as famous or has the same stature as you.