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James, what was obama who this solicitor general worked for, the guy who set a red line, never kept it, the guy who was played by vladimir putin like somebody playing a very cheap fiddle out of tune. i dont understand these people. where do they come up with this stuff? >> thats one of the challenges of a republic. weve got administrations with divergent views, this administration dealing with the illusion of collusion as well as the previous administrations soft pedaling of russia. now theyre a...

Accomplishments of judge kavanaugh and the importance of the nonpartisanship of the judiciary. rachel: emily, i want you to hear this treat from former democratic aid brian sal alan. progressives should keep a list of names of the sellouts at yale and elsewhere who are right now trying to smooth a path for overturning roe and getting of the new deal. they should be unwelcomed in future democratic administrations. whats your reaction to that? >> i think, unfortunately, this is really indicative o...

Nominee to head the justice departments criminal division who has no prosecutal experience, who chose to represent a russian bank with deep ties to vladimir putin. do you agree with that statement? >> look, i had the chance to get to know brian a little bit when he ran the transition for the outgoing bush justice department. now he has no prosecutal experience. while its true, as he said in his hearing, thats largely a management job, it does require judgment that only comes with experience when...

Past administrations where with all due respect people in public lifelike to get sound bite on their local news and oftentimes its about them being seen asking a question than necessarily an answer. was that today different? >> were passionate, though. 12 months ago we may not have seen a hearing that was intense as it was today. but i think theres frustration among americans, among democrats that we have an adversary that attacked us and were not doing enough to stand up to them and our priorit...

Under past as administrations, with all due respect people in public life like to get sound bites on the evening news and local news broadcast and oftentimes its more about them wanting to be seen as asking a question than necessarily the answer. was today really that much different than what weve seen in the past sometimes? >> the best hearings, anderson, elicit questions that allow the witness to do more talking than the people asking them. were passionate. 12 months ago we may not have seen a...

I dont think he cares about the damage he does. he is trying to remake the republican party in his own image. they have been very prointernationalist. profree trade, proimmigrant. the r r reghan free trade, in doing that, this is all part of explaining themselves of recasting the republican party. what is striking to me is you have all of these senior republican internationalists that populated remember administrations from the reagan administration, they are all

Donald trump already. so why do they need bob mueller to finish his investigation? theyve already made up their mind. >> sandra: as far as the president on the world stage, as you just referenced it, you referenced the success you see the president having here at home. what about on the world stage? this has been a huge week for this presidency, congressman. >> it has been a huge week but it follows other huge weeks. lets not lose sight of the fact that there was just a meeting with the north ko...

No official word on what to expect. but we understand there could be some significant announcements from the justice department. nick burns, as you watch this with me, former ambassador to nato, as someone who is in administrations as a veteran diplomat, republican and democratic, we are now hearing that 12 russians have been indicted by the justice department, russian intelligence officers charged with hacking. now, we know how difficult it would be to ever pursue them in terms of getting them ...

Hes deserving of a fresh start with vladimir putin. it would appear based on his public comments that many of the same things that fueled his decision to sit down with kim jong-un, a long-time u.s. adversary and international pariah, that those same things are fueling his decision to sit down with putin. he believes that based on the strength of his mythical negotiating skills, based on the sheer force of his personality that hes going to be able to bring about a result different from past admin...

We heard today as opposed to those meetings last night is that when he went into the emergency session was the secretary general honchoed and threatened the do his own thing. the president threatened to do his own thing were not other nato nations to step up. thats not normal and the type of thing youve seen before. >> if thats in fact, what happened well have to see and get real reporting of what happened in the meeting but what we do know is that at the wales summit, the nations pledged to inc...