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Was hit bay mine. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. lets talk further now. aaron, david miller is with me from washington. he spent two decades at the u.s. state department as an adviser and negotiator under democratic and republican administrations. good to see you. so the u.s. says it has proof of a major spro occasiprovocation iran is denying involvement. what are your concerns about happened? >> based on the video, i was an intel analyst in the state department for a decade. intelligence i...

Briefing they havent had one in weeks and weeks. as a former white house correspondent they should have the briefing. we can talk about this on the other side. sean spicer former white house press secretary says they dont have the media makes it all about themselves, watch. >> the job that people see on television about 5% of what happens. there is a facilitation of access and interviews to other government officials to information thats coming in and out of the white house. whether its personne...

Strike. and secondly, theres not enough of a, of an evidentiary face to allow them to bring allies into anything that would happen. and we cant make any strike against iran unilaterally. we have to have the brits, the french -- leland: the brits came out and said that they believed the iranians were behind the attack on the tankers. this is an interesting question, were seeing a split in the former obama administration folks who are now questioning the u.s. militarys assessment. and im putting t...

Pete buttigieg, kamala harris and bernie sanders. joining me peter emerson, whos worked in three democratic administrations, republican consultant shermichael singleton, host of "consider it" and conservative strategist lauren zelt. always good to have you. who do you think will be the winners and losers of these sze baits? >> i have done a lot of these over the decades and the winners are those with authenticity, sense of humor and most importantly given the number of people on stage. both of t...

Podium in the white house, and i think, you know, hopefully not for all future administrations, for this administration at least twitter is the official vehicle for learning about what the president thinks. but its always subject to change. so this week, when the president in the abc report got into a little bit of trouble, seeming to acknowledge intent, the piece that bob mueller was missing when he went looking for collusion and conspiracy, the president simply changes his story a couple hours...

That would be a new basis for impeachment. why is that? >> look, this is a willful disregard of a law that was passed 80 years ago and thats been followed by democratic and republican administrations. ultimately, the tone is set by the top. kellyanne conway wont be fired because her view of ethics is the same view as donald trumps view of ethics whats so interesting here is nobody can find a single example where this office has ever called for the removal of any official. that shows that she is ...

Dont be fooled. hell be a vote against tax cuts. >> so vote roy moore? >> im telling you we want the votes in the senate to get this tax bill through. he doesnt want a liberal democrat in the senate. nobody was even talking about doug jones until the president started talking about him. >> pretty stark. this morning, here is the presidents take. >> it looks to me like theyre trying to take away her right of free speech. and thats just not fair. you ask a person a question, and every time youre s...

Memoir. it is not about ash carter. i use the experiences of my life to illustrate the largest enterprise on earth and really the most consequential. it turns out that i first walked in there in 1981. i worked for casper wineburger, ronald reagans secretary of defense. i have been in and out for administrations of both parties until i walked out in 2017. i had the number one, two, three, job and i have seen all corners. citizens are curious about how $750 billion is spent. how is the largest wor...

Illegal? >> so the hatch act does not actually prevent kellyanne conway from saying whatever she wants to say about amy klobuchar or joe biden or any other candidate. what it prevents her from going is using her white house position, her government employment and the authority of her office, to try to influence an election. and -- and so the concern here is that shes speaking not as a private citizen, say, at her house, but that shes speaking at the presidents counselor and these are, you know, ...

Is that this is the most polarizing of president sees. you didnt see this happening, might have been a player or two somewhere along the line but you didnt see this happening in past administrations and i imagine it will continue to happen. >> bob costas, it is always a pleasure to speak with you, you have made the pain a little bit less for me this morning knowing how meaningful this victory is to st. louis. we winnow case nael in boston, so we will get over it. >> the patriots and the red sox ...