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Paul Begala

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Paul Begala is a prominent American political consultant, strategist, and television personality, best known for his role as a senior advisor to President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. A member of the Democratic Party, he has been influential in shaping political discourse and strategy in the United States. Begala has also made a name for himself as a commentator on various news networks, where he provides insights on political issues and campaigns.

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May 9, 2018

You can never imagine Ronald Reagan saying this. You could never imagine Barack Obama or Bill Clinton or George Bush. We have never seen a president so loathsome in conducting himself in the public discourse.

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May 9, 2018

If you fire this woman, which any decent White House would. If she publicly apologizes, which she must, it puts the presidents in the horn of a dilemma because Donald Trump doesn't apologize for these lies and personal insults.

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May 9, 2018

It is as Zeleny points out, because the president sets the tone.

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May 9, 2018

He wants exactly the tableau that he saw last night. President of the United States praising him for releasing people he should have never incarcerated.

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May 9, 2018

The most important thing Kim wants is recognition and respect on the global stage.

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May 9, 2018

If he's nothing to hide, if he's so innocent, he'll testify, and he'll cooperate.

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May 8, 2018

He has attacked his own attorney general more than he attacked Putin he is in Putin's pocket.

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Apr 30, 2018

He's attacking Mueller and the investigation every day, to no avail, by the way, and the ABC poll a few weeks ago, 69 percent of Americans said they had confidence of Mueller looking into the collusion issues.

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Apr 30, 2018

One day he will walk outside, one glorious day he will walk outside of those 16 acres at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and he will could be then charged with a crime.

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Apr 30, 2018

This is a high breed problem that he has. It's both political and constitutional and personal and criminal.

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Apr 29, 2018

The President has the executive privilege, we agree on that. Can't he waive that privilege, for example in the firing of Jim Comey?

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Apr 18, 2018

It seems like he is a guy obsessed about the Russians. Why? Because he is obsessed about the Russians.

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Apr 18, 2018

I'm sure President Trump is very upset that Andy McCabe allegedly leaked a negative story about Hillary in the closing days of the election.

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Apr 17, 2018

I think it's good. Sean has problems and I don't support Donald Trump. You don't want the President to be a prisoner of the bubble, right?

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Apr 17, 2018

He used to say I'm not firing them. Now he is saying they're still there, which we already knew that, sir, we didn't need breaking news to tell us that they're there.

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Apr 13, 2018

Yes, that was really unfortunate. And I say this as somebody who thinks it was the right thing to punish Assad for using chemical weapons.

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Apr 13, 2018

I think it's admirable that just like Barack Obama, President Trump does not want to invade, conquer, and occupy huge countries that are really no direct threat to the United States.

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Apr 13, 2018

Donald Trump was bitter in his denunciation of that war and remains bitter in his denunciation of it.

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Apr 8, 2018

I think Mr. Trump is going to provoke a constitutional crisis because he doesn't care about normalcy.

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Apr 8, 2018

The check and the balance that our framers gave us in the constitution is Article 1, the President's in Article 2. Article 1 is supposed to check and balance him.

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Apr 8, 2018

He called the search warrant, while dramatic, perfectly legal. He called it, 'an attack on our country.'

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