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House republicans -- fail to comply with their subpoenas. what was so startling today is that job that the january six committee did in documenting how many republicans, right in the aftermath of january six, of especially kevin mccarthy. spoke so aggressively and authoritatively, and certainly, about donald trumps role in instigating the violence on january six. only to have done a complete about face. and you highlighted, state calais, quotes, at the top of this show, about how they were tryin...

Responsibility is to protect the embassy. to protect the embassy with 650 troops, you cant protect this sprawling complex as bagram, so they decided to concentrate or hamed karzai in kabul. >> martha: that reveals what weve heard, which is that the military leadership at the pentagon felt they didnt have enough people to do both as you said. so the fact that they say well, we can give up bagram, theyre dealing with the number of people theyre given. so they had to make a choice. that was an admi...

How the u.s. is going to respond? >> well, the saudis are a very sophisticated in their understanding of the way the u.s. system works, who has the ear of the president, who can speak authoritatively for the united states. obviously, the presidents words directly are going to carry the most weight. if they know that the secretary is speaking directly on behalf of the president, thats important. but if it comes down to a distinction between the two, they are going to listen most carefully to what...

Consulate, which is considered saudi soil, and they hacked him to death as far as we can tell. so if, again, its important to point out its not verified. but if its true, it is a gruesome reminder of this duality of saudi reform. >> i have two more questions for you. at least two more questions, i should say. so theres this big conference, right? its an investment conference. cnn, other news organizations, companies have pulled out of this. but the treasury secretary is still going to go. what k...

Companies have pulled out of this. but the treasure secretary is still going to go. what kind of signal does that send, at least now, because the conference is in like a week or so, or is it two weeks? >> i think the trump administration at the very highest level, president trump should ask for a very specific, detailed account of what happened. if he and the administration are not satisfied, i dont think secretary mnuchin should go. in other words, it seems very difficult to understand why you ...

Happening? why the focus from pompeo, from this tweet on iran? nothing really has changed on the ground in iran. iran is still trying to abide by the nuclear deal. it still wants to maintain its trade relations with europe. it almost seems like this government, which is full of iran hawks, is trying to lay the groundwork for some sort of increased confrontation with ir iran. >> exactly right. and admiral, as richards point and yours as well, iran is not isolated. iran has relationships in france...

Colluding with the russians, thats unlikely from being based on walking in on carter page on ham radio talking with russians. >> you cant rule it out. >> thats not the kind of experience you can trust that sam nunberg has. you have to take it with a grain of salt because he had extensive credibility issues, but what he can talk about more authoritatively is his own experience dealing with investigators and his own experience dealing with other key people in the trump orb. whatever people may say...

This is not long-term like you mentioned. everyone else who doesnt get a government paycheck, they are showing up to work today. why cant congress get this right. you are correct when you say all of the pointing fingers. thats been going on over the weekend. and now the rubber finally meets the road because people arent going to be going to work today if theyre federal employees. and the branding battle, whether this is the schumer shutdown or the trump shutdown, whoever wins this, whoever final...

President retaining control over a nuclear hyper power. i dont think we have an emotional pitch that is appropriate to this. but this cannot happen. this is not something our civilization can unleash just because we elected the wrong man. >> ezra, you have written about -- aught authoritatively about the impeachment process and a reconsideration of considering it. much more of a relatively routine step under certain circumstances, as it is with federal judges and others who face it from time to ...

Positive -- the possible positive opening here. >> i dont even know i would call what donald trump did here decided to react. this is not a reasonable form of reaction no matter what part of kim jong uns statement he wanted to respond to. ive said this before. i dont think this kind of thing can possibly be overestimated. we are not used to thinking in terms of risk as bad as nuclear war. and one of the thoughts i keep coming back to under the trump administration is in this country, we have beg...