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Now we have three or four weeks to get real work done. we believe the dream act, we can put together a bipartisan coalition to pass it and make that part of the end of the year effort. >> senator graham, your fellow republican senator tom cotton said that republicans have definitely ruled out attaching d daca to the spending bill, period, end of story. you and senator durbin do have bipartisan legislation to protect dreamers. what is the hold up? >> the way i look at the end of the year bill is ...

Puerto rico. the fact that today people are drinking water, contaminated water, tells you the dress operation t -- tess operation people are finding themselves. >> or water they dont know is contaminated, or could be contaminated. if one thing could change this moment and make lives a lot better there, to make it easier, to speed up the progress what would that one thing be, from the federal government? >> we need to restore the energy grid, and we need to restore the water. drinkable water, but...

Interesting points here. you say its the political decision is on kim jong-un on as to when he does this and possibly its because of things going on in houston and politics are looking a different way than north korea. but why would kim jong-un suddenly make this decision to ratchet up to such a degree here? why now? >> i think its largely because he looks a it the united states and believes it is in chaos and therefore he is trying to take advantage of what he believes is a time when the united...

Underreaction, but is there any risk of overreaction, of deploying too much, as weve been watching all of this live coming into our satellite center here in new york city, and then beaming it out from london, is there ever a point where you go, well, thats too much, or you shouldnt be applying that amount of force there? >> well, you know, in the city, the experience and the facts, when theres multiple attacks, i dont think the response could be too large, to get enough officers and investigator...

Think thats fair. for the july press conference, we were very critical of how he handled that in the congress and not only his judgment but also why he did what he did. but the october 1, i sit at the time, its not fair but i thought he had to do it because he had two bad options. inevitably, that made him even more political and i think that the fbi needs a fresh start. >> tucker: thanks for joining us tonight. joining us now is a former deputy attorney general. thanks for coming on. >> how are...

For the july press conference, we were very critical of how he handled that in the congress and not only his judgment but also why he did what he did. but the october 1, i sit at the time, its not fair but i thought he had to do it because he had two bad options. inevitably, that made him even more political and i think that the fbi needs a fresh start. >> tucker: thanks for joining us tonight. joining us now is a former deputy attorney general. thanks for coming on. >> how are you connect >> tu...

Mean or anything but i remember an awful lot of elected republicans heaping praise upon jim coming for sticking a wheel in the spokes of the hillary campaign. i wanted for hillary, but it seems unfair at the time and much more publicans have said that.bu >> for the october letter, i think thats fair. for the july press conference,t we were very critical of how he handled that in the congress and not only his judgment but also why he did what he did. but the october 1, i sit at the time, its not ...

Credit for getting personally involved in delivering some last-minute votes. white house aides are saying the president has been working the phones seriously and he was able to get four key moderates on board after meeting with them at the white house yesterday. heres one of those former holdouts. really long on how his note turned into a "yes." >> one they made what i considered the change to pre-existing conditions, thats when i said, i may know. the president said billy, we need you. i said y...

Told him i was a no because of the provision on pre-existing illnesses. yesterday i read him back his statement where he said this bill would be just as strong on pre-existing illnesses as obamacare. i want him to keep that pledge. >> when they made what i consider the change, the pre-existing conditions, thats when i said im a no. the president said, billy, we really need you, we need you, man. i said you dont have me. we went through that for0 minutes. he called back yesterday. we need you, we...

An executive order on travel, the new travel ban is going to get a lot of attention. we have seen this when trump thinks he is not being represented adequately, so he goes out and does it himself. sometimes it works. sometimes it helps to muddy the water and gets journalists and others talking about something disconnected from what every struggles he was having the days before, and this time what he has done is manage to put pressure on republican lawmakers to say they are going to do something ...