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Conversation with the president? >> yeah. >> -- in which he asked you to see your way through to clearing something. >> in the memo, part of the memo according to to the new york times, he said i hope you can see yourself clear to letting this go. he said hes a good guy i hope you can let this go. mr. comey did not say anything to mr. trump about curtailing the investigation. he said, i agree, he is a good guy. what do you hear when you hear that. jim comey acquiescing? is that jim comey making ...

Spending. it is steady as she goes. big fights over health care and tax reform. you dont want to get mixed up in going to the mattresses over a stop-gap spending measure. >> michael, lets look at what is out. what is not in there. chris talked about it. there are no funding cuts for planned parenthood. things you heard from so many republicans on our air here and beyond. it didnt materialize. planned parenthood will be funded. theres no money for president trumps deportation force. theres no fed...

The ap is reporting that enrique pena nieto is under some steep pressure at home and they are saying, we dont like the way our we are being treated, you ought to consider canceling this. how does that go down on in the west wing? >> im think that goes as a possible disappointment in the west wing. you cant blame the mexican president. the steps of the president outlined today, although they are preliminary, they certainly point to a direction, are not going to go to down well with the mexican vo...

The ap is reporting that enrique pena nieto is under some steep pressure at home and they are saying, we dont like the way our we are being treated, you ought to consider canceling this. how does that go down on in the west wing? >> im think that goes as a possible disappointment in the west wing. you cant blame the mexican president. the steps of the president outlined today, although they are preliminary, they certainly point to a direction, are not going to go to down well with the mexican vo...

The republicans will be with donald trump and sometimes they wont. the leaders are going to be interesting to watch. >> dana, there will be some moderate democrats, conservative democrats that were up for re-election in two years. >> there are ten senate democrats up in states where donald trump won. thats kind of remarkable when you think about it. that is why when you were talking earlier about chuck schumer the new democratic leader between challenging donald trump and holding him accountable...

Including the f.b.i. all conclude the same thing, the russians hacked it, we have seen the evidence, why the reluctance on the part of the president-elect? >> this could be couched in a broader kind of joe omi -- a brr kind of geopolitical deal. . president-elect trump has made it clear we have to get tougher with isis and china, and they may believe they need russia to take those other serious goes on. a deal could look something like acquiescing or acknowledging the russian annex of crimea in ...

What hes done over the past five years. >> no. and thats the central question. i agree that was -- thats huge news if theyre going to be -- the u.s. administered or created safe zones in syria, how is that going to work. one presumes that this evolves, number one, some sort of accord or agreement or working together with russia, and that -- that, to me, presumes an acceptance of assad. assads continuance as president of whats left of his part of syria at the very least because i dont think you g...

Stake is just the death penalty. i think what the defense is doing by admitting or acquiescing to the guilt early is trying to diminish as much as possible many of the horrific details of this incident and trying to diminish some of the evidence coming in that will obviously be used and come in anyway at the penalty phase, but the defense attorneys want to try and diminish that impact on this jury as much as possible, which is why i think youre hearing them making these statements now about expe...

Justify the means. >> look at how boeing ceo responded. you cant always take his tweets as policy. doesnt that overtime weaken? >> now on the glowing part of the phase. he is testing a lot of these boundaries. what ends up happening. and do people end up acquiescing. >> dont take it all as policy. >> he uses twitter for grand proclamations. he gets on and said hey, im saving 1100 jo. days later, it takes a while and

Strategies. this is a one-on-one nation communique that is just not good for that part of the world. >> admiral williams, same question. do you worry about the contested south china sea, for example? >> i do, theres $5 trillion of trade that flow through the straits in the south china sea area. i guess some time ago, president obama has been a little bit -- i guess more acquiescing to chinas demands. it happened in the -- its happened in a couple of different areas. and i think that donald trump...