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Alternative facts, truth isnt truth. whats your reaction? >> well, as a former ambassador to the holy sea, im a big believer in the objective truth. if you dont have objective truth, you have relativism. im sure that the mayor meant something about the advantage a prosecutor has over a testifying person in a deposition, but what he said is a little hard to understand. >> it was hard to understand. let me get your reaction to the president revoking the former cia director john brennans security c...

Because of what don mcgahn told muellers team is not exactly accurate because they still believe theres executive privilege thats been asserted over that information. >> amidst all of this, jim, theres a lot more fallout emerging right now over the presidents decision to revoke the former cia director john brennans security clearance. 175 former u.s. officials spanning several agencies, administrations going back to the reagan administration have added their names to a list of intelligence offic...

Heading south. retail sales, business sales collapsing. industrial production fallen and plateauing at a low level. people are selling currency. there may be manipulation but mostly investors are moving out of china. they dont like the economy and they are coming to the usa because they like our economy. >> the trump administration hearing from the u.s. businesses warning that the tariffs will force american consumers to pay more for effort items. what do you think? >> i think the tariffs are wo...

Media inquiry of his appearance in 2016 at the club conference where he spoke on the panel alongside white premise. he is a white nationalist and regularly publishes works by white supremacists and others on the radical right. >> so just saying >> your classic case of the white national sending up on a white house jobs. they all happen in this case, i guess. >> where is the vetting? administrations and of this type of stuff never would have occurred because people, their applicants and they woul...

Served democratic and republican administrations alike. they have decades worth of service. president versus come and gone. they have never been so outspoken in their criticism of anyone. the idea that they are being partisan, ignored. >> whats the bottom line these people that serve the country have a problem with trump? >> they do. they have been fairly opened they think there is a unique threat he poses to this democracy and our institutions and they have been outpane about the question of ru...

Welcome back. 15 former top intelligence officials who served in democratic and republican administrations reviewed president trump this past week. as did some 60 former lower level intelligence officers plus the four star admiral who led the operation that killed osama bin laden. but the president despite all that criticism clearly pleased with himself. >> i know that ive gotten tremendous response from having done that because security clearances are very important to me. very, very important....

Any old job. she had a senior most title and a top salary. a whauping $179,000 a year. same as press secretary sarah sanders. and remember what trump promised about who he would hire stpwhrp were going to make america great again. were were going to use our best peep. we dont want people who are b lev, d-level. we want our absolute best. >> were not using political hacks anymore. >> i have the best people lined up. >> well, heres how that panned out. 57% of trumps top staffers have hre left in j...

People at the highest levels of the u.s. government pretending that this problem doesnt exist, and pretending that we dont know the science, when really, kids who go to -- anyone who takes a high school class in basic earth science understands how climate change works. >> nathaniel, your terrific article, which i really commend, is at some level a little disspiriting. it seems like youre saying we had our chance. in the 80s, as you say, there wasnt in denialism, people understood the problem, re...

Global problem that we keep adding to every single day, and were seeing very serious effects. its surreal, really, to have people at the highest levels of the u.s. government pretending that this problem doesnt exist, and pretending that we dont know the science, when really, kids who go to -- anyone who takes a high school class in basic earth science understands how climate change works. >> nathaniel, your terrific article, which i really commend, is at some level a little dispiriting. it seem...

To these department of justice and fbi officials during the obama administration color me convinced that there was misconduct here and its been reflected in those firings and demotions and criminal referrals that you just referenced maria. maria: should the president be revoking more security clearance of course john brennan is out this morning trashing the president saying hes going to sue and he doesnt want anybody elses security clearance to be revoked your thoughts on john brennan losing his...